- Litzendorf
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen von Litzendorf.png
lat_deg = 49 |lat_min = 54
lon_deg = 11 |lon_min = 0
Lageplan = Litzendorf im Landkreis Bamberg.png
Bundesland = Bayern
Regierungsbezirk = Oberfranken
Landkreis = Bamberg
Höhe = 311
Fläche = 25.85
Einwohner = 6106
Stand = 2007-06-30
PLZ = 96123
Vorwahl = 09505
Kfz = BA
Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 4 71 155
Gliederung = 8Ortsteil e
Straße = Am Knock 6
Website = [http://www.litzendorf.de/ www.litzendorf.de]
Bürgermeister = Wolfgang Möhrlein
Partei = CSULitzendorf is a community in the
Upper Franconia n district of Bamberg. Owing to administrative reform it has been a unified community since1 May 1978 .Geography
Litzendorf and most of its outlying centres lie in the Ellern Valley, which is surrounded by wooded heights with the Bamberg district’s two highest elevations, the Geisberg (585 m) and the Stammberg (560 m).
Constituent communities
Litzendorf’s namesake centre is not the biggest of its "
Ortsteil e". Pödeldorf is somewhat bigger. The community has these centres, each given here with its own population figure:
* Kunigundenruh im Hauptsmoorwald 2
* Litzendorf im Ellerntal 1492
* Lohndorf im Ellerntal 385
* Melkendorf 757
* Naisa im Ellerntal 747
* Pödeldorf am Hauptsmoorwald 1753
* Schammelsdorf 784
* Tiefenellern am Anstieg zur Fränkischen Schweiz 210History
The derivation of the name "Litzendorf" is unclear. It could have come from the Slavic word "lyko" (“
bast ”) or from the Germanic word "litzel" (“little”).In
Merovingian andCarolingian times, when the villages, which were likely of Frankish and Slavic origin, arose, the Ellern Valley was still heavily wooded.The name Litzendorf first cropped up in 1129 in a document from Bishop of Bamberg Otto, which mentions an "Otgoz von Licindorf". Otgoz belonged to the lower subservient nobility and was a court and administrative official to Saint Otto.
Litzendorf later belonged to the High
Monastery at Bamberg, but since the "Reichsdeputationshauptschluss " of 1803, the community has belonged toBavaria .Population development
Within municipal limits, 3,507 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 4,825 in 1987 and 5,907 in 2000. In 2005 it was 6,179, and in 2007 6,106.
Politics
In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to
euro s, amounted to €2,279,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €206,000.Municipal council
The community council is made up of 21 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds:(as of election on
3 March 2002 )Coat of arms
Litzendorf’s arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale Or and azure, Or a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules, thereover a bendlet argent, azure a helm argent with nasal dexter.
The Bamberg lion stands for the High Monastery’s former overlordship in Litzendorf. The helmet stands for the ministeriales of Litzendorf, who were active in the 12th century, at a time when they bore no arms.
Sightseeing
"Fränkische Straße der Skulpturen"
The “Franconian Road of Scultptures” between the villages of Tiefenellern, Lohndorf and Litzendorf came into being in 1994 and is a
sculpture exhibit in the middle of the Ellern Valley countryside.ingers’ memorial near Melkendorf
The "Sängerehrenmal" for the dead and fallen of the
Franconia n "Sängerbund" (“Singers’ League”) was built in 1963 on a plot of higher ground above Melkendorf. The memorial consists of twelvelimestone columns set in a circle and analtar likesarcophagus . In the memorial stone are memorial books with the names of the dead from the originally 12, now 13, singing circles. Thewrought iron altar wing bears theLatin inscription "Mortui vivimus" – “We, the dead, live”."Jungfernhöhle" near Tiefenellern
The "Jungfernhöhle" (“Maids’ Cave”) near Tiefenellern is a Neolithic archaeological site. Digs here brought to light use of the cave by four cultures in the
New Stone Age and by almost all subsequent ones. The name "Jungfernhöhle" refers to the human remains found here, which were overwhelmingly female.Barrows near Litzendorf
On the road from Litzendorf to Geisfeld are found early Celtic barrows. The group of mounds is completely surrounded by forest. The barrows’ diameters range from 8 to 25 metres. During digs in the 19th century, material from the
Bronze Age and the earlyIron Age was unearthed.Parish church of St. Wenceslas
The
Baroque "Pfarrkirche St. Wenzeslaus" in Litzendorf was built between 1715 and 1718 by master builderJohann Dientzenhofer . It is built from shiny, gold-coloured iron-bearingsandstone blocks and can be seen far from the community.The choice of the
Bohemia n duke and national Saint Wenceslas as the church’s patron likely goes back to Prince-Bishop Lambrecht von Brun, who was a close adviser to Emperor Karl IV, who lived inPrague , and also chancellor to his son Wenceslas (Wenzel). After Litzendorf was raised to parish in 1406, there arose a new building whose four-storey choir tower still stands today.When damage to the building began to show in the late 17th century, there was hesitation about repairing it. Only in 1702, after Johann Christoph Reinhard had been made the parish priest and set himself to the business at hand was something done about it. He wanted something special, and therefore he had the Bamberg court master builder Johann Dientzenhofer add a suitable nave onto the choir tower.
Gallery
External links
* [http://www.litzendorf.de Official site] de icon
* [http://www.litzendorf.de/showobject.phtml?La=1&object=tx|369.125.1 View over of Litzendorf] de icon
* [http://www.fraenkische-schweiz.com/gemeinden/litzendorf.html “Franconian Switzerland”] de icon
* [http://www.datenmatrix.de/projekte/hdbg/gemeinden/pdf/9471155.pdf Heraldic blazon] de icon
* [http://www.fsb-online.de/geschichte/melkendorf/melkendorf.html Singers’ memorial near Melkendorf] de icon
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