Trogen, Bavaria

Trogen is a municipality in the Upper Franconian part of Bavaria, close to the border with Saxony. The municipality is a member of the administrative community Feilitzsch. The nucleus is nestled between hills in a hollow and has a relatively closed local image. Since the 1990s, however, significant urban sprawl trends are emerging that are beginning to unravel the previously very compact village through zoning of building land.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 Mayor
• 3.2 municipal
• 3.3 Taxes

• 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
• 5.2 Education

Geography

Trogen is located about six kilometers northeast of the county town yard on motorways 72 ​​( Junction 3 yard / Töpen ), 93 ( Junction 2 yard -east) and on the main road 173 The municipality is located in the Bavarian Vogtland and belongs to the district court. She is a member of the administrative community Feilitzsch. The neighboring Feilitzsch is only a few hundred meters from Trogen.

Districts with populations of

Trogen consists of 7 districts:

• Föhrig 8
• Poured
• Kienberg 239
• Black Stone 10
• Trogen 1260
• Ullitz
• Ziegelhütten 15

History

The first mention of Trogen dated 21 December 1306. Later Margrave of Kulmbach -Bayreuth were in Trogen since 1373 sovereigns. In Trogen were three knights seats that were in the possession of the Counts of Reuss, the Margrave of Bayreuth and of course axes. As part of the Prussian Principality of Bayreuth since 1792 Trogen fell in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 to France and came to Bavaria in 1810. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. At the time the division of Germany after the Second World War Trogen came into close proximity to the so-called Inner German border.

Population Development

On the territory of the municipality were 1970 1.311, 1987 1.334 and in 2000 1.584 counted 2009 1.600 inhabitants.

Policy

Mayor

Mayor Klaus Strobel (SPD).

Parish council

The local elections of 2002 and 2008 led to the following distributions seat on the city council:

Taxation

Culture and sights

Townscape key feature is the increased lying Evangelical Lutheran Church with dominant Baroque onion dome in the center. Integrated in the ensemble are the town hall and church parish hall. In the environment, the community center is a place of social events. The church itself is a Protestant church hall with Baroque interior and regionally typical elements, such as the baptismal and the pulpit altar. More striking elements in the townscape are the two gutshausartigen castle and lying at the periphery of the village cemetery complex with two small but distinctive buildings ( Chapel and Mausoleum ) in comb position of a hill. The cultural and social life in the village is mainly supported by numerous clubs and churches. There are a number of services and activities that affect both Trogen as well as the neighboring Feilitzsch, such as school programs.

→ List of monuments in Trogen ( Upper Franconia )

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the manufacturing sector and 59 in the area of ​​trade and transport any social insurance contributions at the workplace. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 531 in the manufacturing sector, there were ten companies, three companies in the construction industry. In addition, in 1999, there were 16 farms with an agricultural area of 827 hectares, of which 687 hectares of arable land and 140 acres of meadowland.

Education

There was the following device 1999:

• A children's garden with 100 seats and 106 children

Sons and daughters of the town

• Dieter Mronz (1944 ), 1988-2006 Mayor of Bayreuth
• Maximilian of Feilitzsch (1834-1913), Dr. hc. , Royal Bavarian Minister of the Interior