Oberhaid is a community in the Upper Franconia

Upper Franconia

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n district of Bamberg

Bamberg (district)

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Location

The community lies roughly seven kilometres northwest of Bamberg

Bamberg

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. The highest elevations are the Spitzelberg in the west at 325 m, and the Semberg in the east at 393 m. The location in the Main Valley in the Haßberge Nature Park area is ideal for hikers

Hiking

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 and cyclists

Cycling

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. The outlying centre of Unterhaid is the Bamberg district’s lowest place at 230 m above sea level

Sea level

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Neighbouring communities

Oberhaid borders on the municipal areas of Lauter

Lauter, Bavaria

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, Bischberg

Bischberg

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 and Viereth-Trunstadt

Viereth-Trunstadt

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, on the unincorporated area of Semberg and on the municipal areas of Baunach

Baunach

Baunach is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and the seat of the administrative community of Baunach. Until administrative reform in 1972, Baunach belonged to the Lower Franconian district of Ebern....

, Hallstadt

Hallstadt

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 and Bamberg. Oberhaid also borders on the community of Stettfeld

Stettfeld

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 and the town of Eltmann

Eltmann

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, which are both in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia

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Constituent communities

Oberhaid’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with a population of 3,432. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: Staffelbach with 843 inhabitants, Unterhaid with 421, Johannishof with 20 and Sandhof with 2.

History

The Fulda

Fulda

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 Monastery

Monastery

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 already had property in the municipal area as early as the 8th century. The Michelsberg Monastery the expanded its landholdings in Oberhaid in the 13th century. The place therefore belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg, and with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community passed to Bavaria

Bavaria

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Volunteer fire brigades

• Freiwillige Feuerwehr Oberhaid
• Freiwillige Feuerwehr Unterhaid
• Freiwillige Feuerwehr Staffelbach

Religion

Community’s denominational breakdown:

• Roman Catholic: 3,919
• Evangelical Lutheran
  Lutheranism
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  : 426
• other: 370

Amalgamations

In 1978, the formerly autonomous communities of Unterhaid and Staffelbach were amalgamated with Oberhaid.

Population development

Within municipal limits, 3,771 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 4,090 in 1987 and 4,775 in 2000. In January 2006 it was 4,718.

Community council

The community council is made up of 17 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds:

• SPD 7 seats
• CSU 7 seats
• UBV/FW 2 seats
• ÜL/CWG 1 seat

(as of municipal election in 2008)

Coat of arms

Oberhaid’s arms

Coat of arms

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 might heraldically be described thus: Gules a wing sinister palewise argent emerging dexter therefrom an arm clad argent, the hand holding a Latin cross Or palewise, below dexter an inescutcheon, argent a cross sable.

Transport

• There is an Autobahn interchange on the A 70, Viereth-Trunstadt exit, towards Oberhaid.
• The Oberhaid railway station lies on the Bamberg–Schweinfurt line.
• Local public transportation is by bus connection on the Bamberg–Schweinfurt route with stops in Oberhaid, Unterhaid and Staffelbach.

External links

• Community’s website