Rödental

Rödental is a small town in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg and lies about seven kilometers northeast of Coburg. The municipality covers an area of ​​49.96 km ².

• 2.1 emergence Rödental
• 2.2 Amalgamations
• 2.3 Population development

• 3.1 Coat of Arms
• 3.2 Town twinning

• 4.1 monuments
• 4.2 Museums

• 5.1 Established businesses
• 5.2 traffic

Geography

Rödental located in the foothills of the Thuringian Forest and has a distinct a highland region ( 306-506 m above sea level. NN ). Up to cleared areas, the area is characterized by extensive deciduous forests; in recent centuries, larger spruce and pine plantations were created in the framework of intensified forestry. The settlements extend to a large extent on the river valleys of Itz and Röden.

Boroughs

The community Rödental arose when were merged on 1 January 1971 Einberg, Kipfendorf, Mönchröden, Oeslau, Rothenhof and sub ​​Wohlbach. Then Rödental has grown in several steps incorporations.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are clockwise: Schalkau Frankenblick, Neustadt bei Coburg, Ebersdorf, Coburg, Doerfles -Esbach and Lauter.

History

Emergence Rödental

Rödental created on 1 January 1971 by the merger of six municipalities in the Bavarian municipal reform. Some parts of the city can look back on 850 years of history.

In the following decades, the new center Rödental Center with various central institutions of the greater community was born. Among other things, an indoor swimming pool in 1972, 1973, a fire station, a town hall in 1977 and 1978, the Franz Goebel Hall was inaugurated.

On September 23, 1988 Rödental received city rights.

Incorporations

List of former municipalities, now up on Frog reason Lauter castle Rosenau and Steinrod districts of the city Rödental:

Population Development

Note

• The population figures refer to the municipality of 2011.
• Mönchröden doubled its population in the period 1950-2010 from 2200 to 4400th

Policy

The following parties are represented by Rödental since 2008 in the City Council:

• CSU: 8 seats
• SPD: 7 seats
• CDU: 6 seats
• GREEN: 3 seats

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the city Rödental combines the coat of arms of the three municipalities Oeslau, Mönchröden and Einberg, now form the center Rödental. In the front panel, the three red roses standing on a silver background of the Knights of Rosenau, their ownership Oeslau once belonged. The rear panel shows the crook on a golden background of the coat of arms of the monastery Mönchröden. The red wavy bar symbolizes the current flowing through the flow field Röden. In the inwardly wandered blue top is remembered by the three silver moons to Messrs. von Hanstein, was in possession Einberg.

Twinning

• Eaton / Ohio (United States), since 1981
• Schalkau ( Thuringia), since 1990

Culture and sights

• The domain Oeslau, first documented in 1162, is situated on the earlier ford across the Röden. Their restoration was carried out as a nationwide pilot project within the urban development program was established in 1988 and honored with the Konrad Adenauer Prize.
• Schloss Rosenau, the former summer residence of the dukes of Coburg was first documented in 1439. There was Prince Albert, the future husband of Queen Victoria, was born.
• The late Gothic St. John's church was built in 1517 and has the only cells vault in Coburg. 1601 was carried out by Duke Johann Casimir of the stucco ceiling, pulpit and galleries in forms of the late Renaissance. Queen Victoria had her Hofkirche 1863 renovate thoroughly with his own means, 1975 was the last restoration.
• Burggraf Hermann von Meissen founded in 1149 the Benedictine monastery Mönchröden.
• The Froschgrundsee, one in 1986 and equipped privy of Franz Josef Strauss, 23 -acre reservoir serves the flood control of the Itz and is a recreational area. A special feature of the lake frog reason is that it extended to the German unit with full back also on the territory of the GDR.

• The Viaduct Froschgrundsee, one completed in 2010, reinforced concrete arch bridge that spans the flood storage to almost 800 meters long and 60 meters high, it is like the Grümpentalbrücke in Thuringia with 270 meter arch span one of the largest bridges of its kind in Germany. It belongs to the new railway line between Nuremberg and Erfurt.
• The Loud Castle is a ruined castle in the upper Wohlbach district.
• The largest sports club is the sports community Rödental with more than 1100 members.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Rödental

Museums

• European Museum of Modern Glass at Rosenau Castle
• Heinrich Schaumberger Museum in Weissenbrunn vorm Wald

Economy and infrastructure

The center ( Oeslau, Einberg, Mönchröden ) is mainly dominated industry (porcelain / ceramic, toys / dolls, plastic processing ), but also the trade is well represented. Approximately 7,000 social insurance contributions there were 2011 in the city which were located among others in some 140 trade and craft shops as well as 170 stores.

The district Blumenrod has developed in recent years with the landfill of waste disposal association, recycling center and sorting, plastic reprocessing plant and other establishments for the Centre for Waste Management in Western Upper Franconia.

Established businesses

Nationally known business enterprises, established in Rödental are the Goebel porcelain factory, the listed dolls manufacturer Zapf Creation AG and electrical engineering company Wöhner. The Goebel porcelain factory now produces not more in Rödental. The production of the world-famous Hummel figurines made ​​by the newly-established company manufacture Rödental.

Built in 1857 Anna plant, which belongs to the Saint Gobain Group since 1998, manufactures refractory ceramics and, more recently, diesel particulate filters. For formerly disused factory buildings were repaired. Saint Gobain was in 2007 with 720 employees, the largest employer in the city. A large employer is also the K & S Cleaning services GmbH. It employed in 2009 more than 600 employees.

Traffic

The construction of the A73 was released on 31 October 2006 to the city limits of Rödental for traffic and, together with the national road 4, the new bypass road towards Neustadt, for better traffic conditions.

2005 Rödental was known by the construction of a railway bridge, the Itztalbrücke, as part of the new Nuremberg -Erfurt, which is expected to be available until the end of 2017 unused in the landscape and is thus referred to by the population as a soda - bridge.

Dialect

In Rödental is spoken Itzgründisch, a main Franconian dialect.

Others

On October 13, 2012, the ICE 2774 sailed the route of Werrabahn from Lichtenfels to Rödental. In an hour-long stay at Coburg station of the ICE in the presence of city and DB prominence has been given the name Rödental. Then the ICE in Rödental station was received.

The city Rödental is part of the tourism association Schaumberger country. This includes Schalkau and Frankenblick ( Sonneberg area ). By joining Rödental the catchment area of ​​the tourism network expands across countries to Upper Franconia. For years touristy Rödental works with Schalkau.