Hirschaid

Coat of arms

Hirschaid

Location of Hirschaid within Bamberg district

Coordinates: 49°49′N 10°59′E / 49.817°N 10.983°ECoordinates: 49°49′N 10°59′E / 49.817°N 10.983°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Klaus Homann (CSU)

Area

• Total

40.95 km² (15.81 sq mi)

Elevation

248 m (814 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

12,097

• Density

300/km² (770/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

96114

09543

Website

Hirschaid is a german market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies roughly twelve kilometres south of Bamberg on the Regnitz and the Main-Danube Canal.

The community’s main centre lies southsoutheast of Bamberg where the Reiche Ebrach empties into the Regnitz.

For various reasons, among them the community’s favourable location on the A 73 and its close proximity to Bamberg (12 km), Forchheim (13 km), Erlangen (about 30 km), Fürth (about 40 km) and Nuremberg (about 50 km), Hirschaid has grown markedly since the 1960s.

Hirschaid’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with a population of 5,747. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure:

(as of 1 January 2005)

Ironically, Großbuchfeld (“Great Beech Field”) is actually smaller than Kleinbuchfeld (“Little Beech Field”).

The community’s name goes back to the von Hirzheide noble family whose coat of arms were charged with a hart, still seen in the community’s arms today.

Hirschaid lies not far from the former via regia, an ancient road that since antiquity joined the north in the area around Lüneburg with the south all the way to Lower Austria. The name Hirschaid refers to the former landscape and wildlife (Hirsch is “hart” in German).

Finds dug up on the Regnitz Valley terraces bear witness to an early settlement beginning no later than the New Stone Age. Bearing witness to the later La Tène culture (Celtic) are above all the finds and wall remains on the nearby Friesener Warte

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