Cups and blocks for the munnerstadt parish church

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From spring 2019, the city parish church in munnerstadt is to be extensively renovated. Although there is a high demand, the own contribution that the church foundation has to shoulder remains high. A special edition with cups and blocks is to help finance the company’s own contribution.

The cups as well as the blocks show different views of the city parish church in modern and partly stylized form. The cups are also available in different colors. In the youngest parish council meeting the individual models were presented. The articles can be purchased at the tourist information office in munnerstadt castle, at eisen krais and at the parish office. Beside cups and blicks, the art prints with munnerstadt motives by inge kirch are still available.

Next year, the parish and kindergarten festival will again be held on a sunday. The parish council and the board of the kindergarten parents’ council agreed on this during the meeting. In the past three years, the festival had been held on saturdays. According to ulrike jira, chairman of the parish council, many parishioners wanted the festival to be held on sundays again. This was also evident from the festive visit, said jira. For the kindergarten children the official part will begin – as in the last three years – in the early afternoon with a devotion. The date for the kindergarten party is 30 in 2019. June.

Well attended this year was the parish’s senior citizens’ day, organized for the first time in november. According to ulrike jira, the new venue, the old auditorium, met with a positive response. She proposed to use the old auditorium again for 2019.Town priest P. Markus announced that there had been requests from the branch parishes to invite older citizens from the entire parish to the seniors’ day in the future. The parish council can well imagine this. The topic will now be discussed in the joint committee of the parish. It was also decided to hold the seniors’ day in november again in 2019. Date will be the 10. November his.

The next dammerschoppen after the eve mass on saturday will take place on saturday, 1. December, in the parish hall. Above all, the old and new church council members are also addressed.

For this and the next issue, we have thought of inviting you to go on a discovery tour of the area around kulmbach. After the long winter months we are longing to go for a hike. To find our destination for today, we have to go a little further afield.

From motschenbach to dorfles we pass the kreutzsteinnest (more about this in the next issue). If we continue along the path, the forest ends shortly after the turnoff to geuthenreuth on the left side. Here, at the edge of the forest we catch sight of a yellow post of the gas pipeline. At this we go on a forest path into the forest and after a short distance we come to the herrenstein, a mighty rathsandstone rock.

History of the herrenstein

buchau is mentioned for the first time in documents in 1125 as the seat of a ruler. In 1139, the parish church of st. Michael from bishop otto of bamberg the right of baptism and burial. On the northern edge of the village, on a steep slope in the valley, hidden between old beech trees, lies the castle, which was owned by the fortsche family until 1437 and later by the von giech family. Northeast of buchau, on the other side of the valley, on the slope in the coniferous forest, lies the herrenstein.

Nine steps are carved out of the rock from the upper side of the slope. The whole upper part of the rock is hewn out rectangular 110 to 140 centimeters deep. Around it run stone benches 35 centimeters wide and 55 centimeters high, providing space for 12 to 15 people.

Here the counts of giech used to hold hunting dinners, tea parties and other festivities with their companies. For example, the officers of the garrison of kulmbach were gladly invited to the castle of plassenburg. In the past, there were only a few possibilities for a partnership between the two.

In the past there was a roof

the high seat was once roofed, around it square holes have been cut out for the posts of the roof. The existing round cavities were used as ice trays to cool the good drinks of the gentlemen.

Hans edelmann also describes an animal enclosure near buchau in his reports on hikes in the surrounding area. It was quite common to keep wild animals in a fenced enclosure in such a forest stucco, in order to "present" them to the guests as desired, that means: drivers drove the animals in front of the runners. Weidmannsheil!

Here from the hirschenstein/herrenstein, they could be shot then with small auand.
The high seat was probably built in the second half of the 18th century. Century.

Arc and smoke on the land of a network operator

According to the police, a small amount of oil ignited and continued to spread on the ground burned. After a short time, the fire went out on its own. Black smoke and the arc were visible from afar. How much property damage was caused, can be determined at the moment still do not say, reports the police further.

Employees of one on the land the contractor were shortly before 18.00 o’clock at the same time with employees of the nearby nuclear power plant grafenrheinfeld became aware of the arc and a bang. A responsible person of the network operator was immediately informed, which then also a few minutes later on site was. At this time the fire on the ground was almost completely extinguished.

As it turned out, the arc had originated above a switch, whereby there is still no information about the cause of the damage. The in the switch insulating oil ignited and led to more intense smoke development. The fire on the ground, which spreads over a flat of five to six square meters was quickly extinguished by itself. A danger that the fire may spread to the plant had been able to spread, did not exist at any time.

Employee of the the network operator will inspect the damage on thursday. This is a possible assessment of the damage and indications of what caused the fire could have drawn.

Because of the smoke and the fire visible from afar arc, the schweinfurt police also received a call from a concerned burger owner.

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