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Collenberg Ruins of the Collenburg.
CollenbergLocation of Collenberg within Miltenberg district
Coordinates 49°46′N 9°20′E / 49.76667°N 9.33333°ECoordinates: 49°46′N 9°20′E / 49.76667°N 9.33333°E Administration Country Germany State Bavaria Admin. region Lower Franconia District Miltenberg Mayor Ludwig-Andreas Riedel Basic statistics Area 23.85 km2 (9.21 sq mi) Elevation 140 m (459 ft) Population 2,542 (31 December 2010)[1] - Density 107 /km2 (276 /sq mi) Other information Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Licence plate MIL Postal codes 97896, 97903 Area codes 09376 (Kirschfurt: 09375) Website www.collenberg-main.de Collenberg is a community in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.
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Geography
Location
Collenberg lies on the Main, 13 km away from Miltenberg and 18 km from Wertheim. Along the Main between Collenberg and Freudenberg runs the boundary between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Constituent communities
Collenberg’s Ortsteile are Fechenbach, Reistenhausen and Kirschfurt.
History
The community came into being in 1971 in the framework of municipal reform in Bavaria with the merger of the former communities of Fechenbach, Kirschfurt and Reistenhausen.
Politics
Community council
The council is made up of 14 council members, with the seats apportioned thus:
Coat of arms
The community’s arms might be described thus: A fess wavy argent, in chief gules, dexter a wheel spoked of six and sinister a dog’s head erased gorged sable with studs of the first, in base azure three maces, two and one, issuant palewise from the base.
The three maces come from the arms once borne by the Schenken of Klingenberg, former overlords who gave the castle its name after the founder of their line, whose name was Kolbo (and in German, the word for “mace” is Streitkolbe, or simply Kolbe), and are thus a canting charge. The wheel in the escutcheon’s upper half on the dexter (armsbearer’s right, viewer’s left) side is the Wheel of Mainz, and refers to the area’s long rule by Electoral Mainz, lasting until the Holy Roman Empire was at last dissolved in 1803. The dog’s head on the sinister (armsbearer’s left, viewer’s right) side is another canting charge. Although the usual word for “dog” in German is Hund, there is also the word Rüde, and thus this dog’s head refers to the noble family of Rüdt von Collenberg. The wavy fesse symbolizes the local river, the Main.
The arms have been borne since 1973[2].
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
On the other side of the Main runs Staatsstraße (State Road) 2310, which is linked in Kirschfurt with Collenberg’s main road. This road leads along the Collenberg bank of the Main to Hasloch.
Education
- Kindergarten St. Martin with roughly 85 children
- Primary school
Culture and sightseeing
About 1250 the noble family of Rüdt von Collenberg settled about 1 km east of Fechenbach. It was this family who built the Collenburg (castle), which nowadays is only a ruin.
Fechenbacher Schloss after restoration work in 2007
Buildings
- Collenburg, built by the noble family of Rüdt von Collenberg in 1250.
- Fechenbacher Schloss (palace), built in 1750 by the Count of Reigersberg.
- Fechenbach’s former synagogue belonging to the Jewish community, Kleine Gasse 12, which was destroyed on Kristallnacht (9 November 1938)[3].
Culinary specialities
- Himmel und Erde, or “Heaven and Earth” (“Heaven” is apple sauce, “Earth” is mashed potato); there are also small baked blood and liver sausages; on top are roasted onions.
- Öpfelwei – home-pressed Apfelwein. Because of the colour and taste, quinces are often pressed along with the apples. A song has been specially composed for the Apfelwein.
References
- ^ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes" (in German). Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung. 31 December 2010. https://www.statistikdaten.bayern.de/genesis/online?language=de&sequenz=tabelleErgebnis&selectionname=12411-009r&sachmerkmal=QUASTI&sachschluessel=SQUART04&startjahr=2010&endjahr=2010.
- ^ Description and explanation of Collenberg’s arms
- ^ Gedenkstätten für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Eine Dokumentation, Band 1. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0, S. 121
External links
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
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