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Buttenheim
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Franconia
District	Bamberg
Mayor	Johann Kalb (CSU/NWG/ZWdG)
Basic statistics
Area	30. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 A Regierungsbezirk is a type of government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states ( ''Bundesländer'') Upper Franconia (German Oberfranken) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Bamberg Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the town of Bamberg. Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 03 km² (11. 6 sq mi)
Elevation	273 m (896 ft)
Population	3,338 (30/06/2007)
- Density	111 /km² (288 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	BA
Postal code	96155
Area code	09545
Website	www.buttenheim.de Coordinates: 49°47′00″N 11°1′00″E / 49.783333, 11.016667

Buttenheim is a community with market rights in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies in the Regnitz Valley between Bamberg and Nuremberg. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time German car number plates ( Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered __FORCETOC__ Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen abbreviated to PLZ consist of five digits which indicate the wider area (first two digits and the see also Telephone numbering in Germany for further codes including service numbers cell phones etc A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Upper Franconia (German Oberfranken) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany Bamberg Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It surrounds but does not include the town of Bamberg. The Regnitz is a river in Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Main and is 58 km in length Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz, close to its confluence with the river Main

Buttenheim is Levi Strauss’s birthplace; the later inventor of blue jeans, along with his mother, emigrated from here to the United States. Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß, ( February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902) was a German - Jewish immigrant Jeans are Trousers made from Denim. Mainly designed for work, they became popular among Teenagers starting in the 1950s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Constituent communities

Along with the namesake community of Buttenheim, the market community also has the outlying centres of Dreuschendorf, Frankendorf, Gunzendorf, Hochstall, Kälberberg, Ketschendorf bei Buttenheim, Senftenberg, Stackendorf and Tiefenhöchstadt.

History

Buttenheim – “Botho’s Home” – had its first documentary mention in 1017. The place lies on the north-south Regnitz Valley transport axis and was likely founded about 550. During a river journey from Forchheim to Würzburg in 793, Charlemagne ordered churches to be built in the Regnitz area to convert the Slavs. For other places called Forchheim, see Forchheim (disambiguation Forchheim is a large town in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken Würzburg (ˈvʏɐ̯ʦbʊɐ̯k is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his It is assumed that one of Charlemagne’s 14 “Slavic Churches”, which were built about 800 in the Radenzgau (a county roughly corresponding to today’s Upper Franconia), stood in Buttenheim.

Until the mid-17th century, Buttenheim was the most important place between Bamberg and Forchheim. Through Buttenheim ran the old trade road from Regensburg to Bamberg/Hallstadt and on to Magdeburg. Regensburg ( also Ratisbon, Ratisbona Řezno originally Castra Regina) is a City (population 131000 in 2007 in Bavaria, Germany Hallstadt is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg on the left bank of the Main 4 km north of Bamberg. Magdeburg ( Low Saxon: Meideborg ˈmaˑɪdebɔɐx the Capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Furthermore, the Saxon Road, another old connection, this one east-west, ran from the Steigerwald (forest) by way of Hirschaid to the “Franconian Switzerland”. Hirschaid is a community with market rights in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies roughly twelve kilometres south of Bamberg on the Regnitz The Franconian Switzerland (German Fränkische Schweiz) is an upland in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria and a popular tourist retreat Parts of that road are still used, having been incorporated into the modern road Staatsstraße 2260.

The Lords of Schlüsselberg, who had their first documentary mention in 1304, were resident in Buttenheim and until 1762 held an estate, the court and lordship over the village. These, however, later belonged to the Barons of Seefried. By the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, the community passed to Bavaria. The Confederation of the Rhine or Rhine Confederation (Rheinbund États confédérés du Rhin officially and Confédération du Rhin in practice) lasted Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12

Population development

Within municipal limits, 2,619 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 2,786 in 1987 and 3,092 in 2000. In early 2005 it was 3,442.

Politics

The community’s politics is dominated by a coalition that calls itself the CSU /Zum Wohl der Gemeinde/Neue Wählergemeinschaft and furnishes the mayor. A coalition is an alliance among individuals during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own Self-interest. The SPD, FDP and Greens are not represented on municipal council, but instead various other voter communities are, such as Bürgerblock Gunzendorf, WG Dreuschendorf, WG Ketschendorf or WG Frankendorf. The Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei, FDP is a liberal Political party in Germany. The Alliance '90/The Greens ( Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) the German Green party, is a Political party in Germany whose regional

In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €1,896,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €789,000. Please update other articles as well to avoid contradiction within Wikipedia e

Coat of arms

Buttenheim’s arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale, dexter party per fess argent and sable, in argent a boar spear gules per pale, sinister in argent the chief gules, thereunder a knife azure per pale. A boar spear is a special type of Spear that was invented and widely used in Germany and Scandinavia during the Roman

The black and silver half of the shield is a reduced form of the arms borne by the old Lords of Stiebar, who were resident in Buttenheim. Their arms were parted and out of the parting line sprouted a Schweinsfeder (“swine’s feather” – a spearlike war weapon somewhat similar to the boar spear mentioned in the blazon, which itself in German has a similar name: Saufeder, or “sow’s feather”) with a golden bend. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.

The tinctures gules and argent (red and silver) are the old Bamberg High Monastery’s colours. In Heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to Emblazon a Coat of arms. This monastery had holdings in the community. The blue knife is an attribute of Saint Bartholomew, the patron saint of the Buttenheim church. Saint Bartholomew was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. Bartholomew (Βαρθολομαίος transliterated "Bartholomaios" comes from

Culture and sightseeing

Breweries

In Buttenheim there are currently two bigger breweries, the St-Georgen-Bräu and the Löwenbräu. A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of Beer, though beer can be made in the home and has been for much of beer's history Moreover, the outlying centres of Gunzendorf and Dreuschendorf each have one brewery.

St. Bartholomew’s Parish Church in Buttenheim

Parish church in Buttenheim

The Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus in Buttenheim was likely among the 14 “Slavic Churches” built in the Radenzgau by the Bishop of Würzburg at Charlemagne’s behest.

Schloss Buttenheim

In Buttenheim, two castles were once to be found: the Oberes Schloss (“Upper Castle”, also called Deichselburg) and the Unteres Schloss (“Lower Castle”). Both were owned by the Imperial Barons of Stiebar, who further owned three others in Aisch, Pretzfeld and Ermreuth. Pretzfeld is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. The Stiebar noble family can be traced back to 1253 and belonged to the former knighthood of the canton of Gebürg, which was under direct Imperial authority, and which stretched among Kronach, Nuremberg, Buttenheim and Kulmbach. Kronach is a town in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany, located in the Frankenwald area Kulmbach is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. This noble family put many abbesses, Teutonic Knights and capitulars in the High Monasteries of Bamberg and Würzburg. The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Between 1377 and 1560, at least fourteen members of this family were capitulars in the High Monasteries of Bamberg and Würzburg.

The Oberes Schloss (square with wall and four corner towers) was burnt down during the Peasants' War in 1525 and never built again. For other conflicts referred to as peasant wars or revolts see Peasant revolt (disambiguation.

The castle that still stands today in Buttenheim is the so-called Unteres Schloss, which originally served the von Lichtenstein family as a bower, was taken over by the Stiebars, along with other pieces of real estate in Buttenheim in 1438.

The Stiebars had at their disposal in Buttenheim at that time jurisdiction over life and death, having inherited this from the von Schlüsselbergs. Under the Stiebars’ ownership, the Lower Castle was burnt down several times: in 1492 in “bloody feud between Albrecht Stiebar the Younger and Prince-Bishop Heinrich III of Bamberg”, in 1525 by “rebellious people from out of town” and once again in 1561 through a castle servant’s carelessness when he went to bed, forgetting to put the light in his room out. Hans Joachim von Stiebar, who in 1574 was elected to the First Knightly Council (Erster Ritterrat) of the canton of Gebürg for the Bamberg and Forchheim area, thereby enjoying great prestige, repaired the damage.

The Stiebars embraced the Lutheran faith quite early on, as witnessed by, among other things, the appointment of an Evangelical preacher at Schloss Buttenheim, which was mentioned in a document as early as 1591. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther

In 1630, the Stiebars were stripped of their holdings at Imperial behest for having taken part in the Protestant Union’s struggles, putting Buttenheim, and thereby the Lower Castle, under Prince Georg Ludwig von Schwarzenberg’s ownership. The Protestant Union or League of Evangelical Union (also known as the Evangelical Union or Union of Auhausen) was a coalition of Protestant The Stiebars, however, got their belongings back in 1648 under the Peace of Westphalia. The term Peace of Westphalia refers to the two peace treaties of Osnabrück and Münster, signed on May 15 and October 24 of

In 1741, the chapel, which still stands today, was built next to the rubble of the castle, which had been destroyed by war. A chapel is a holy place or area of Worship for Christians, which may be attached to an institution such as a large church, a College, a The castle lords, however, had to live in a side building.

In 1762, with Imperial Baron Johann Georg Christoph Wilhelm von Stiebar’s death, this noble family’s main Franconian line died out. Their fiefdom went to the High Monasteries of Bamberg and Würzburg, and also partly back to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. Under the system of Feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing Ownership stayed with the heirs, the widow and the daughters.

In 1761 the Kammerjunker (variously translated as “page” or “chamberlain”) Wilhelm Christian Friedrich von Seefried wed Elisabeth Sofie von Stiebar, whom he had come to know while he was a student of jurisprudence in Erlangen. Jurisprudence is the Theory and Philosophy of Law. Scholars of jurisprudence or legal philosophers hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature Erlangen is a Middle Franconian City in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary A few years later, they moved to Buttenheim. Since the Lower Castle “. . . had been destroyed or wiped out by fire (down to) the mediaeval, massive, square tower topped with a mansard roof. A Mansard or Mansard roof in Architecture refers to a style of Hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope being . . ”, Wilhelm Christian Friedrich von Seefried built the current Baroque castle in 1774 onto the one tower that still stood, and in which is still found the Evangelical castle chapel. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc

Wilhelm Christian saw to it that the Evangelical castle parish was newly confirmed. In 1790, Wilhelm Christian, who had set himself all his life to strengthening the Evangelical faith, was raised to the Imperial Barony. In 1814, a “Protestant castle parish” from the “Castle Chaplaincy” was consecrated, and on 27 August 1826, the castle chapel was consecrated as a communal House of God. Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display

Even today, the castle chapel still serves the Buttenheim Evangelical parish, which since that time has been put in the care of the parish of Hirschaid, as a House of God.

Since Wilhelm Christian’s time, the castle has been occupied almost uninterruptedly by his descendants.

Curacy Church in Gunzendorf

From the Baroque Kuratie-Kirche St. Nikolaus begins the Georgiritt (roughly “George’s Ride”) to the Senftenberg, a nearby mountain. Saint Nicholas (Άγιος Νικόλαος, Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people" is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a Christian Saint

Senftenberg with St. George’s Chapel

The Baroque community chapel of St. George on the Senftenberg is the destination of the Georgiritt.

“Golden Village” of Frankendorf with climbing park

Frankendorf, a village of timber-frame houses became the winner of the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden (“Our village ought to become lovelier”) in 1981. Timber framing (Fachwerk or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged Mortise and tenon joints The district evaluation jury came to this conclusion in 1980:

“The almost fully preserved timber-frame ensemble with its 31 one-floor farmers’ houses under memorial protection is without peer in Upper Franconia. ”

It goes on to say:

“The townsfolk’s community spirit and readiness to sacrifice were always exemplary for the district. ”

About the landscape, this was stated:

“Orchards green the place in exemplary fashion; the valley is covered with groves of trees. An orchard is an intentional planting of Trees or Shrubs maintained for Food production. The transition to free landscape is fluid. ”

Levi-Strauss-Museum

Levi Strauss, the inventor of blue jeans was born on 26 February 1829 in Buttenheim under the name Löb Strauß. Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß, ( February 26, 1829 - September 26, 1902) was a German - Jewish immigrant Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display The house where he was born has been converted into a museum. A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the The timber-frame house built in 1687 was expanded in 1733 and housed two families. Among the museum’s permanent exhibits, the Strauss family’s emigration documents and the publication of their emigration in the official journal can be viewed. "Emigrant" redirects here For the Butterflies, see Catopsilia.

Museums

The Kleines Haus der Kunst (“Little House of Art”) shows paintings, graphics, sculptures and photographs by East European artists. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Graphics (from Greek grc [[wiktγραφικός γραφικός]] see -graphy) are Visual presentations on some surface such as a wall A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an Image created by Light falling on a light-sensitive surface usually Photographic film or an electronic Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating

Regular events

The tradition-rich Georgiritt takes place on 23 April – Saint George's Day – and leads from Gunzendorf up onto the Senftenberg. St George's Day is celebrated by several nations kingdoms countries and cities of which Saint George is the Patron saint, including England, the This is a kind of pilgrimage to Saint George traditionally done on horseback. In Religion and Spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or Search of great Moral significance In Christian hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox For the Roman class see Equestrian (Roman Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving Horses This broad description

Economy and infrastructure

According to official statistics, there were 334 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998, and in trade and transport 267. Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another In other areas, 104 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls were employed, and 1,139 such workers worked from home. In processing businesses there were no businesses, and in construction three. Furthermore, in 1999, there were 75 agricultural operations with a working area of 1 661 ha, of which 1 226 ha was cropland and 429 ha was meadowland.

Transport

Buttenheim lies right on Bundesautobahn 73 with its own interchange. is an Autobahn in Germany It connects Suhl to Nuremberg.The part between Bamberg and Nuremberg is also known as the Frankenschnellweg. It further lies on the Bamberg–Nuremberg railway line with its own station. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains

Telecommunications

The 142-m tall Deutsche Telekom AG transmission tower built in 1973 (coördinates: 49°51'10"N, 11°3'37"E) stands on the Sommeranger Berg. Deutsche Telekom AG (,) ( English translation German Telecom) (abbreviated DTAG) is a Telecommunications company headquartered in

Education

In 1999, the following institutions existed in Buttenheim:

150 kindergarten places with 135 children
Primary school with 15 teachers and 322 pupils

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

Levi Strauss (1829–1902), German-American industrialist, company founder and inventor of blue jeans

External links

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