Litzendorf
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 Litzendorf
Location of Litzendorf within Bamberg district
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| Coordinates: 49°54′N 11°0′E / 49.900°N 11.000°ECoordinates: 49°54′N 11°0′E / 49.900°N 11.000°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Bavaria | |
| Admin. region | Oberfranken | |
| District | Bamberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Wolfgang Möhrlein (CSU) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 25.85 km2 (9.98 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 311 m (1,020 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 6,055 | |
| • Density | 230/km2 (610/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 96123 | |
| Dialling codes | 09505 | |
| Vehicle registration | BA | |
| Website | www.litzendorf.de | |
Litzendorf is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg. Owing to administrative reform it has been a unified community since 1 May 1978.
Litzendorf and most of its outlying centres lie in the Ellern Valley, which is surrounded by wooded heights with the Bamberg district's two highest elevations, the Geisberg (585 m) and the Stammberg (560 m).
Litzendorf's namesake centre is not the biggest of its Ortsteile. Pödeldorf is somewhat bigger. The community has these centres, each given here with its own population figure:
The derivation of the name Litzendorf is unclear. It could have come from the Slavic word lyko ("bast") or from the Germanic word litzel ("little").
In Merovingian and Carolingian times, when the villages, which were likely of Frankish and Slavic origin, arose, the Ellern Valley was still heavily wooded.
The name Litzendorf first cropped up in 1129 in a document from Bishop of Bamberg Otto, which mentions an Otgoz von Licindorf. Otgoz belonged to the lower subservient nobility and was a court and administrative official to Saint Otto.
Litzendorf later belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg, but since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community has belonged to Bavaria.
Within municipal limits, 3,507 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 4,825 in 1987 and 5,907 in 2000. In 2005 it was 6,179, and in 2007 6,106.
In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €2,279,000 of which business taxes (net) amounted to €206,000.
The community council is made up of 21 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds:
(as of election on 3 March 2002)
Litzendorf's arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per pale Or and azure, Or a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules, thereover a bendlet argent, azure a helm argent with nasal dexter.
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