Niedernberg
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| Niedernberg | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Lower Franconia |
| District | Miltenberg |
| Mayor | Jürgen Reinhard (CSU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 15.61 km² (6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 117 m (384 ft) |
| Population | 4,901 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 314 /km² (813 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | MIL |
| Postal code | 63843 |
| Area code | 06028 |
| Website | www.niedernberg.de |
Niedernberg is a municipality in the district of Miltenberg in Bavaria in Germany.[1]
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[edit] Geology
Featured is the natural space through the slow leveling of Ortsgemarkung from west to east. Niedernberg belongs to the German central landscape of the lower level and Main hill zone of the Odenwald. This corresponds to the soil structure, which is composed of layers of sand and clay across the flat surface. In the West, there are also clay conditions, but shortly thereafter sandstone overrides.
Especially from the middle of the 20th Century, a large gravel mining operation has existed.
[edit] History
The oldest finds, based on human life indicated in the Niedernberg district, are from the Neolithic period. Changes in the landscape went with the Roman domination at the time accompanied turnaround: in the first century of our era, the Roman Empire extended to the Main. To safeguard its empire, Roman border troops were stationed in strategically important places castles.
The origin of Niedernberg goes to such an Imperial-Roman fort built between 83 and 150 AD-at the so-called wet limes, which is the eastern border of the Empire represented (see Obergermanisch-Raetischer limes). The fort, which is 144 to 135 meters tall, was to the east, toward Main. Although the fort was overbuilt, the layout of the town center today still on the road system back of the castle, Main Street and Kirchgasse coincide with the former camp roads. Niedernberg was the location of the approximately 300-strong cohort Cohors I Ligurum et Hispanorum, who in the north of Italy and Spain had been recruited.
A Roman fountain mask (the study) Interesting findings as Marcellus stone or a burial ground discovered in 1963 shed light on the lives of low-mining stationed Romans. In 1964, during construction work in the main street, a Roman bronze fountain mask was found that today is the only original north of the Alps. The mask is now the showpiece of the collegiate Museum in Aschaffenburg and is in Roman exhibitions often borrowed under the exhibits extremely rare to find.
The first written reference to Niedernberg is dated in the year 1095. At the time of Niderenburc Diemar bequeathed to the monastery Lorsch to the mountain road for the maintenance of his daughter monastery Steinbach in the Odenwald half Hube land owned by his Pfungstadt.
Already in 1340, the Neidernberger Chapel, which generally recognized today Parish Church St. Cyriakus emerged, with small bequests considered. Both the tower and the "Old Chorus" from 1461 still exist today. Extensive renovation and expansion operations were under Seubert priest in the years 1897 and 1931. On the south side of the bell tower will be around 1822 there recessed tombstone of the Landschöffen Michael Gross, who by legend, through his courage, rescued Niedernberg from destruction by Sweden in the Thirty Years' War.
North west of the village area at the so-called "Tannenwäldchen" - was in the late Middle Ages, a place of Bachgau cents. The court even met cents in Großostheim, from where the offenders their last walk over to the Galgenweg antraten classroom space.
Until the 19th Century, Niedernberg had a fortified wall surrounding the village, which until now tower along the street and the rear wall in some areas. This was not the inhabitants of the durchziehenden troops. During the Thirty Years' War the population declined to nearly one-tenth of its previous holdings.
Many citizens left in the 19th century due to housing restriction, several crop failures and social distress, their homeland and emigrated to the USA. Only when the end of the century in Aschaffenburg and the surrounding industrial production of men's outerwear incumbent, came a certain prosperity. In order to cope with emergencies, it also maintained agriculture. This state had until the 1970s livestock.
In terms of religion, Niedernberg belonged, from the early 8th Century, to the secularization in 1803 for the Archdiocese of Mainz. Then Niedernberg was to 1820 part of the diocese of Regensburg with its Archbishop Karl Theodor von Dalberg. Since 1821, Niedernberg has been in the Diocese of Würzburg.
For many centuries was far Niedernberg on major trade routes and introduced a more modest existence. The only link between the Spessart and Odenwald was abandoned in 1994 Main ferry. Meanwhile, Niedernberg but structurally and significantly changed: from the original rural idyll, hardly anything is left. Through direct motorway access to the Rhine-Main area, the provision of a large industrial and commercial area, and in 2001 completed Main bridge in the southern Gemarkungsbereich was the settlement of various favors employers. Currently, the electronics and computer industry, and the concrete processing hold top positions.
Niedernberg had been setback by the bankruptcy of listed and long-term showcase current M + S Elektronik AG in 2002. A total of 1,800 dismissed employees were lost at the site, and in Niedernberg 600 people lost their jobs. The decline of the company due to sudden termination of the business loans despite positive reports and good order situation attracted extensive media reports in question, it was also a consequence of WDR-Reihe the story with the title "bank secrets" and is still produced in several German television broadcasts.
Currently in Niedernberg the building "table fields" is being built in four sections. There will be building plots for 200 homes. The first phase of construction has been completed, with unexpectedly high demand.
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- This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 2007-10-26.
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