Pommersfelden

Pommersfelden
Coat of arms
Pommersfelden
Location of Pommersfelden within Bamberg district
Coordinates: 49°46′N 10°49′E / 49.767°N 10.817°E / 49.767; 10.817Coordinates: 49°46′N 10°49′E / 49.767°N 10.817°E / 49.767; 10.817
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Bamberg
Government
• Mayor	Hans Beck
Area
• Total	35.71 km2 (13.79 sq mi)
Elevation	270 m (890 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	2,933
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	96178
Dialling codes	09548, 09502
Vehicle registration	BA
Website	www.pommersfelden.de

Pommersfelden is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in Germany.

The community lies north of Höchstadt an der Aisch on the river Reiche Ebrach.

The community of Pommersfelden is subdivided into four Gemarkungen (traditional rural land units) with a total of ten settled centres, each given here with its own population figure:

The Gemarkungen have the same names as 4 of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby, or in Pommersfelden’s case, within it).

As of the 14th century, Pommersfelden was owned by the Truchseß von Nainsdorf und Pommersfelden family. After the family had died out in 1710, ownership passed to Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg. With the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, the Counts of Schönborn saw their overlordship pass to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today’s community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt (“Community Edict”) of 1818. Until 1972, Pommersfelden belonged to the district of Höchstadt an der Aisch.

Within municipal limits, 2,009 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 2,253 in 1987 and 2,653 in 2000. On 30 June 2007 it was 2,936.

The mayor is Hans Beck from the Wählerblock Sambach. The community council is made up of 14 members, listed here by voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds:

Pommersfelden’s arms might heraldically be described thus: Party per fess argent and gules, argent a pale azure, thereon an uppercase T argent and flanked by two embattled towers gules, gules a lion passant Or with two tails armed, langued and crowned azure on a mount of three.

In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €990,000 of which business taxes amounted to €174,000.

Through the municipal area runs the Strullendorf–Schlüsselfeld railway line, although nowadays only goods are transported on it to and from Schlüsselfeld.