Töpen

Töpen is a community in the Upper Franconian district court and a member of the administrative community Feilitzsch. The municipality is located in the northern district on the border with Saxony and Thuringia. The municipality also includes the Bavarian part of the known for its division at the German - German border had become local Mödlareuth.

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Geography

Töpen lies in the valley of copper Bach in close proximity to the former German - German border. The districts are:

• Fattigsmühle
• Hohendorf
• Isaar
• Royal Court
• Mödlareuth ( Bavarian part )
• Moosanger
• Upper and lower Tiefendorf
• Töpen

Through the village the main road 2, which separates the Altort of the settlement incurred only in the last decades runs. A few kilometers away is the A 72 at exit Hof / Töpen.

History

The date of the first settlement Töpens is unknown, the first recorded mention of the town was 1310. Töpen The name probably comes from the Main Wendish and means about moist lowland. At about the time in 1200 came in the wake of the reeves of Weida, the Lords of Tepen in the area who chose their name after the settlement already existing. This family died out about 200 years later, so that the possessions went over about family relationships to other families.

Since 1390 the present parish churches are precursors Töpen, a St. Martin's Church, testified. She was initially a branch church of Thuringia Gefell. Its present form was given by a number of extensions and conversions. Since 1528, the church is Protestant.

The Lords of Beulwitz were located from the 16th to the 18th century in Töpen. Sovereign was the Margrave of Brandenburg- Bayreuth. By forgoing the childless Margrave Karl Alexander on the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth both 1792 came under Prussian rule. After the Prussian defeat in 1806 a French military governor was installed in Bayreuth. This was followed by Austria's war against France with a brief Austrian occupation (1809 ). On June 30, 1810 Töpen came to the Kingdom of Bavaria.

A border exchange of 1524 between Brandenburg -Bayreuth and Saxony had in the 20th century in particular for the community part Mödlareuth serious impact. Töpen was in 1945 at the Iron Curtain, in Mödlareuth the border ran along the brook through the town, so that part of the Federal Republic and the other belonged to the GDR. Was finally closed the border in the municipality with the task of border crossing Töpen - Juchhöh on the main road 2 on 16 December 1966. He had served to restore the Saalebrücke Rudolph stone as a workaround for the broken transit highway A9 (Munich - Berlin). The remoteness of the place ended with the opening of the German - German border in 1989.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Isaar was incorporated.

Policy

Mayor

First Mayor Klaus Grünzner (CSU ).

Parish council

The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following distributions seat in the municipal council:

Culture and sights

The carnival company Töpen held every two years, a carnival of High village after Töpen. The designed in volunteer work train is one of the most famous in the region; were counted repeatedly over 10,000 visitors.

→ List of monuments in Töpen

Economy and infrastructure

The village with the church has retained its village character. For several years, the center will be fully renovated and transformed by measures of village renewal. On the outskirts dominate in the commercial area, the large warehouses of food trade (company Lidl and Dennree ). In the environment, multiple trails to be found, among other things along the former death strip and the valley of the Saxon Saale.

Personalities

The best known resident Töpens was Jean Paul, who taught as a private tutor in the still existing Lower Castle from 1786 to 1789. In "The Rector Florian Fälbels and his schoolboy trip to the Fichtelbergbahn " comes Fälbel past in Töpen.