Memmelsdorf

Memmelsdorf
Coat of arms
Memmelsdorf
Location of Memmelsdorf within Bamberg district
Coordinates: 49°55′58″N 10°57′12″E / 49.93278°N 10.95333°E / 49.93278; 10.95333Coordinates: 49°55′58″N 10°57′12″E / 49.93278°N 10.95333°E / 49.93278; 10.95333
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Bamberg
Government
• Mayor	Johann Bäuerlein (WLW)
Area
• Total	26.16 km2 (10.10 sq mi)
Elevation	262 m (860 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	8,831
• Density	340/km2 (870/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	96117
Dialling codes	0951, 09505, 09542
Vehicle registration	BA
Website	www.memmelsdorf.de

Memmelsdorf is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg bordering in the west directly on the city of Bamberg.

As with most places in the Bamberg district, this community’s exact founding time cannot be established. However, looking back through the properties of the royal chamber estate in Memmelsdorf yields a founding time sometime about 900. Since there were no local monasteries at that time, there is today a lack of historical accounts about settlement here.

About 1120, evidence crops up of Mam’s, Mamo’s or Memo’s village (Dorf in German). A Frank by the name of Mamo is the namesake of Memenstorf, Memistorf, Mamestorf or Mamenestorf – the place now known as Memmelsdorf. From road names that have been handed down it is assumed that this founding, lying between two brooks, safeguarded old traffic routes.

Memmelsdorf belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg and was the seat of a princely Vogt (reeve). Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community has belonged to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today’s community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt (“Community Edict”) of 1818.

Until 1953, the community of Memmelsdorf consisted only of the centre named Memmelsdorf and the nearby Schloss Seehof (castle).

Great changes came to the community through administrative reform. Since the voluntary merger with five formerly autonomous communities in 1972, the community of Memmelsdorf has consisted of the following centres, each given here with its own population figure:

(as of 31 May 2005)

Memmelsdorf is the seat of the Catholic parish of Maria Himmelfahrt, whose area includes Memmelsdorf and the outlying centres of Drosendorf, Kremmeldorf, Meedensdorf, Schloss Seehof, Schmerldorf and Weichendorf. Since 1974, the parish priest has been Lothar Güthlein. Working with him since September 2006 has been the Pastoralreferent Andreas Lößlein. (A Pastoralreferent is roughly a “lay pastor” who assists a clergyman; this is a profession only found in German-speaking Europe and the Netherlands).