Steinwiesen

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Steinwiesen
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Upper Franconia
District	Kronach
Local subdivisions	5 Ortsteile
Mayor	Gerhard Wunder (CSU)
Basic statistics
Area	55.08 km² (21.3 sq mi)
Elevation	374 m  (1227 ft)
Population	3,778  (31/12/2006)
- Density	69 /km² (178 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	KC
Postal code	96349
Area codes	09262 in Teilen: 09260, 09267
Website	www.steinwiesen.de Coordinates: 50°17′39″N 11°27′43″E / 50.29417, 11.46194

Steinwiesen is a municipality in the district of Kronach in Bavaria, Germany about 100 km slightly east of due north of Nuremberg, and about 10 km northeast of Kronach.
The name Steinwiesen appears for the first time in the year 1323 authentic in history.
1386 first references of the rafters business in the franc forest.
The market concession sovereign attained Steinwiesen 1743 through Friedrich Karl, bishop to Bamberg and Würzburg.
With directive of April 1937, the governor of Bavaria, knight Franz of Epp lent the community of Steinwiesen the right to lead an own crest.
The community flag with three strips in the sequence red-white-green was approved 1968 by Bavarian Interior Ministry.

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