Steinberg am See

Steinberg am See is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district Schwandorf and a member of the administrative community Wacker village. The suffix on the lake leads the community since March 31, 2006.

  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical Location

Steinberg am See is centrally located in the central Upper Palatinate, about 10 kilometers east of the large circle city Schwandorf and about 5 kilometers south- east of Wacker village, which has become known by the formerly planned reprocessing plant - and thus in the middle of the Upper Palatinate Lake District, the has emerged since the mid-1980s by the closure of brown coal mining. The most famous and largest lake is the Steinberger lake.

Community structure

The municipality Steinberg am See has officially named six districts:

  • Haid
  • Hirmerhaus
  • Or
  • Spitalhaus
  • Steinberg am See
  • Waldheim

History

Steinberg has its name from the few hundred meters away from the village, in the flat stone broken loose terrain particularly striking rocky hill. The " parish Stainberg " is first mentioned in 1286 in the Dean's Office Schwandorf. Documented experience the Peilsteiner, 1315, than the first owner of the farm.

On July 1, 1961 Parts of the dissolved municipality Or were incorporated.

Attractions

  • List of monuments in Steinberg am See

Policy

Parish council

In the council two fractions are represented:

  • CSU / FW - Christian Social Union / CDU with 7 seats
  • SPD - Social Democratic Party of Germany with 5 seats

Coat of arms

Blazon: Azure, on an elevated three golden mountain, is diagonally crossed a black mallet and a black iron, floating a silver eagle with green branch in its beak.

The council Steinberg decided on 29 September 1967, the adoption of a coat of arms. It was carried out by heralds Max Reinhart in Passau. The State Ministry of the Interior issued under the January 8, 1968 its approval for the adoption of a coat of arms and lead a flag. The flag shows three stripes in the colors of follow- White-Blue - Yellow; it can also be conducted with the municipal coat of arms. The municipal coat of arms depicts the story by playing the Reisachschen crest leader ( eagle with branch in its beak ) symbolically represents, has through the three mountain on the place name to and commemorates the role of the mining industry by the miner characters hammer and chisel. Had it not been for the BBI, ploughshare and fishnet better symbols of the Steinberger Development 1200-1900 would probably have been. The coat of arms in its current form was executed by the graphic artist Stefan Josef Bittl.

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