Warmensteinach

Warmensteinach is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth. The health resort is located about 15 kilometers east of Bayreuth in the Fichtelgebirge.

• 2.1 Amalgamations
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Finance

• 4.1 Economics
• 4.2 traffic
• 4.3 Tourism

• 5.1 Music
• 5.2 Sports
• 5.3 Museums
• 5.4 churches 5.4.1 The Catholic St. Lawrence Church in Oberwarmensteinach
• 5.4.2 The Catholic St. Boniface Church in Warmensteinach
• 5.4.3 The Church of the Holy Trinity in Warmensteinach

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Warmensteinach lies at the confluence of warm Steinach and the moss creek (formerly Cold Steinach ). The 50th parallel runs through the district Warmensteinach.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Kirchenpingarten and pastures mountain.

Community structure

Warmensteinach consists of 18 districts:

• Pump room
• Fleckl
• Geiersberg
• Geiersberg (rear )
• Grassemann
• Grenzhammer
• Hempelsberg
• Mähring

• Neuwelt
• Neuwerk
• Oberwarmensteinach
• Pfeiferhaus
• Schmid Leithen
• Stinging mountain
• Cart Thal
• Warmensteinach
• Zainhammer

There are the following districts: Mähring, Oberwarmensteinach, Warmensteinach, hot Steinacher Forest South, Sophie Thaler forest.

Geotopes

• Höllfelsen at Oberwarmensteinach ( Geotop number 472A010 ).

History

The mention of " Zwissel ", the confluence of cold Steinach (now Moss Bach) and warm Steinach, in the feudal castle of the book Count Johann III. from 1402 is considered the first documented mention of the area around Warmensteinach. In the southeast of the Bavarian Zwissel Nordgau, the former Electoral Palatinate bordered to the confluence, in the West it was the territory of the viscount of Nuremberg and their successors, the Margrave of Bayreuth. 1536 this limit was set after centuries of disputes and marked by boundary stones. These boundaries corresponded for a long time the confession border between Catholic and Protestant religion and the language border between the Frankish and the Baierischen. The residents of Oberwarmensteinach and Fleckl were Catholic and the Protestant of Warmensteinsch. In Warmensteinach and Oberwarmensteinach there are different dialect expressions for the same word. From the east, the influence of Eger was noticeable. The Zwissel is documented in hot Steinach local coat of arms.

Along the Steinach used mills and hammer mills hydropower. On the Hellen Bell and Eisenberg mining was carried out.

As part of the Prussian Principality of Bayreuth Warmensteinach fell in the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 to France, and with the Treaty of Paris in 1810 Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

Incorporations

On 1 May 1978, until then independent municipality Oberwarmensteinach was incorporated.

Population Development

Source: Statistics municipal 2011

Policy

Parish council

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

Finances

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Glass making was for the place over many centuries an important economic factor. This tradition was renewed by expellees Gablonzer glass industry.

It was in 2010 according to official statistics in the manufacturing sector and 177 in the area of ​​trade and transport 80 persons work at the workplace. In the service sector employed social insurance contributions at the workplace 77 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 698 in the manufacturing sector, there were two, in the construction industry also two plants. There were also five farms which used an area of ​​86 hectares for agricultural purposes.

Traffic

Rail traffic on the section of mountain pastures Warmensteinach the railway Bayreuth Warmensteinach rests " for technical reasons " since 1 January 1993, the line was not shut down. Major axis is the leading from Bayreuth to Neusorg state road 2181st

Tourism

With the beginning of the 20th century and improved by the railway connection traffic conditions established in Warmensteinach a flourishing tourism. Numerous guest beds in hotels, pensions, apartments and private accommodation emerged. The state-approved climatic health resort Warmensteinach, with its hamlets Oberwarmensteinach and Fleckl, is 550-750 m above sea level on the southern slopes of the 1024 m high Ochsenkopfes. Around 2,000 beds in hotels, inns, B & Bs and apartments are available to the guest. Hot Steinach is located in the Fichtelgebirge Nature Park, which is characterized by a varied hilly landscape. A modern cable car takes visitors to the mountain ox head. When it comes to recreational fun of Devalkart train at breakneck ride in the summer on the ski slopes or the summer toboggan run on the ox-head down the mountain. There are in the village tennis courts, bowling alleys, Kneipp pool, an outdoor pool and an idyllic location in the forest Naturmoorbad Fleckl. Six ski lifts, two of which are equipped with floodlights and modern snowmaking equipment, as well as a two-seater cable car open up the ski resort. 80 km Skiwanderloipen developed in different degrees of difficulty are available for free. For the walkers, 30 km of cleared winter hiking trails are offered.

Culture and sights

Music

To kick off the Bayreuth Festival musical and literary performances in August in collaboration with the Young Artists Festival Bayreuth in churches, in the park and in the open-air museum instead. Admission to all events is free.

Sports

Hot Steinach is located in a hiking and mountain region. It has many well- marked trails, mostly hiking trails, also cross several long distance trails the area. For about two years there is a downhill track that is 2.3 km long and runs from the mountain station 1012 meters above about 250 m difference in altitude to the base station in South Warmensteinach / Fleckl. Driving Technical sections are created with a bypass option. In the freeride course numerous, typical of the Fichtelgebirge, rock, root and rock sections were integrated. Jumps, various drops and some North Shore elements built into the alternating steep and flat sections. The partially rocky and stony ground requires constant attention. Slower, technical sections, coupled with faster, more fluid passages offer the less experienced mountain bikers as well as the experienced freerider fun. A short practice track on the last section of the entire route in the valley station south is intended to get you started. There are some obstacles to overcome, which are reflected on the single - track trail on the mountain. From the valley station of the cable car at South ox head in Warmensteinach / Fleckl brings a comfortable chair with the bike mount bikers on the mountain. The Nordic Parc Fichtelgebirge Mountains, to designated routes of varying difficulty. The local football club is the SSV Warmensteinach, other important sport clubs are the WSV Warmensteinach and the WSV Oberwarmensteinach. The winter sports area is equipped with six ski lifts, some with floodlights and snow-making equipment, ski lifts and cross -country trails. In the district of Fleckl is the Naturmoorbad Fleckl.

Museums

The Museum of Glass opened in 1980 in Warmensteinach documents the development of glassmaking craft of the past centuries on the basis of the tools and products. One focus is the Glasperlenmacherei that certain production until the mid- 20th century. The second focus is the reconstruction of the glass production after the Second World War, which led to new methods of production due to the influence of the Sudeten German expellees. Using a number of unique pieces the manufacture of buttons from glass rod and pressed glass and hollow glass production are demonstrated. The glass production is documented since 1340 in the Fichtelgebirge and was an important source of income for the residents.

The Open Air Museum Grasse man is a Einfirsthof from 1698 with living quarters, stables and barn under one roof, and was once typical of the southern Fichtelgebirge. The property offers an insight into the home and everyday life on a small upland farm. Agriculture served mainly to self-sufficiency. The residents worked beside in mining, in the woods or as a hand-loom weavers. Another attraction are the traces of the construction and use history: the wood - block construction, the black kitchen and the breech - tiled stove. The museum is also information center of the Fichtelgebirge Nature Park and shows about people and forests change the importance of the forest for the people - from the earlier forest uses to this day. A trail of the historical development of the cultural landscape that is created above and beyond the museum grounds, invites you to a journey of discovery: A more detailed analysis of previous uses can be seen in the landscape remains. The annual program offers changing exhibitions, museum festivals and markets.

Churches

The Catholic St. Lawrence Church in Oberwarmensteinach

The Baroque church was built from 1755 to 1757. At the entrance of the tower you can see the beautiful Immaculata, which was made ​​by the artist 's daughter man. Upon entering the church is in the arch to the apse of the angel's greeting to Mary " and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us " visible. In the middle of the interior space is located on the north side of the Crucifixion. The crucified Christ is a work of Zwink from Oberammergau. Mary and John are from the monastery Himmelcron.

The two side altars are late - Classical. On the left side or Marie altar the image of the Holy Family is the Nazarene, painted it was by I. Elain. The picture on the right side altar with the holy Wendelin is a gift of the Bishop of Regensburg. The Black Madonna on the left side altar has been given in 1727 by a patron of the church. The Sacred Heart figure on the right side altar dates from Zwink, which was manufactured in 1904. The origin of the three figures above the sacristy door - right St. John the Baptist and left the holy Apostle John - in the middle of the Virgin Mary - is unknown. The high altar dates from the Franciscan monastery in Kemnath. He has a four-columned structure with curved wood beams. The Holy Spirit dove, between two angels, is surrounded by a halo. The altarpiece depicts St. Lawrence with the martyr's palm as he receives the ring as a sign of victory of the martyrdom. Was painted the image in 1867 by painter game from Kemnath. Not known is the origin of: the two figures at the high altar - St. Joseph and St. Bartholomew - and in the nave on the south side of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, and on the north side of St. Catherine.

On the south side is a figure of Christ with the globe in hand. On the gallery on the left and right of the organ against the back wall two saints with the initials MAH and the year 1810. The organ is an organ - grinder, it was purchased in 1878 and has two manuals.

The two ceiling paintings in the nave represent the scenes, such as the St. Lawrence to the governor, the treasures of the Church ( the poor) shows the second martyrdom of the saint. The rest of the images over the apse show excerpts from the saint's life. In the middle of Jesus as sower and reaper.

The Catholic St. Boniface Church in Warmensteinach

The St. Boniface Church in Warmensteinach, built in 1960, is a modern church in a simple, contemporary design with a nave nave. It was designed by architect Dr. Dagostin from Neusorg. The church is dedicated to St. Boniface. Scenes from his life are driven on to the portal in copper to see. Upon entering the church, the eye is immediately on the altar, the world disc, the candlestick and the tabernacle. Everything forms a harmonious unit. The copper disc presented the world with its hardships and troubles is indicated by the glass rocks in the disc and through the cross. The glass should remember that glassmaking was operated in this place. The cross in the middle is also a sign of the victory over suffering. The trumpets are intended to indicate that Christ comes once a winner under the sound of the trumpet about the suffering again.

The altar is a granite block on the front side is a dove and the inscription "pro mundi vita - for the life of the world " engraved. On the side altar is a figure of the Mother of God who crushes the serpent's head, a scene from the story of creation. All of this was created by the sculptor H. Rucker from Munich.

The Way of the Cross is the work of artist Baldur Geipel from Munich. For the design of stained glass windows Mahlke teacher of willow was awarded the contract. There are eight windows, seven of which each a symbol of a holy sacrament show. In the eighth all sacraments are summarized.

The Church of the Holy Trinity in Warmensteinach

" This church, called the House of the Holy Trinity, was built in the year Anno Christi 1705 " - This inscription can be read above the entrance of the hot Steinacher church. This simple construction, small and cozy, almost like a living room, talking to all the senses. Since 1798, the hot Steinacher celebrate the Lord's Supper to the baroque pulpit altar. The altar was one of the first pulpit altars in Margravate Bayreuth. The carpenter August Preiß Goldkronach made ​​him. Altar and pulpit are connected by two spiral, vine-covered columns. Also at the pulpit there are small columns; above the pulpit, on the bottom of the sound cover, you can see the Holy Spirit Dove in the aureole. Who closely approaches the altar of Trinity Church, stands in front of the cross with the golden crucified Christ. It is a serious Christ hanging on this plain black wooden cross. Behind the crucified one reads the inscription " Gloria in excelsis Deo ". The dove above the pulpit is the symbol of the Holy Spirit. The organ was installed in 1975 after a fire in the church.

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Warmensteinach

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Schrems (1815-1872), Director of Music
• Matthew Herrmann (1879-1959), politician ( SPD) and trade unionists
• Eva Wagner- Pasquier ( born April 14, 1945 in Oberwarmensteinach ), artistic director and managing director of the Bayreuth Festival