Hirschaid

Geschichte

Hirschaid is a german market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies roughly twelve kilometres south of Bamberg on the Regnitz and the Main-Danube Canal.GeographyLocationThe community’s main centre lies southsoutheast of Bamberg where the Reiche Ebrach empties into the Regnitz.For various reasons, among them the community’s favourable location on the A 73 and its close proximity to Bamberg (12 km), Forchheim (13 km), Erlangen (about 30 km), Fürth (about 40 km) and Nuremberg (about 50 km), Hirschaid has grown markedly since the 1960s.Constituent communitiesHirschaid’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with a population of 5,747. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: Erlach 417Friesen bei Hirschaid 323Großbuchfeld 105 Juliushof 27Kleinbuchfeld 124Köttmannsdorf bei Hirschaid 684Ortsteil Regnitzau (population included with main centre’s)Röbersdorf 786Rothensand 306Sassanfahrt 2118Seigendorf 789(as of 1 January 2005)