Stegaurach

Sister cities

• Onet-le-Château

History

Stegaurach belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg. Stegaurach was actually part of the hereditary estate administration, a great deal of which was nevertheless made up of the High Monastery’s property or its Mediaten. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community has belonged to Bavaria. Within municipal limits, 3,935 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 4,958 in 1987 and 6,382 in 2000. In 2005 it was 6,747. In the next year the population figure climbed sharply, giving Stegaurach a population of 6,841 on 31 December 2006.

Geography

The community lies in the valley of the Aurach, about 4 km west of Bamberg. Stegaurach lies in the Upper Franconia-West region. Stegaurach’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Ortsteile with a population of 7,134 (2023 projection). The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure and dialectal name where there is one: *Debring (village) 484 *Dellerhof (farm) 17 *Dellern (farm) 32 *Hartlanden (village) 410, locally “Hädländ” *Höfen (village) 220, locally “Höfn” *Kaifeck (hamlet) 12 *Knottenhof (small hamlet) 5, locally “Knonhof” *Kreuzschuh (village) 210, locally “Kreutschi” *Mühlendorf (village) 807, locally “Müllndäff” *Mutzershof (hamlet) 67 *Seehöflein (village) 69 *Unteraurach (village) 256, locally “Ündäaurich” *Waizendorf (village) 505, locally “Waizndäff” The village Stegaurach is known in the local speech as “Aurich”. The community also has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Hartlanden, Höfen, Mühlendorf, Stegaurach and Birkacher Wald, four of which (all but the last, which is a woodland) have the same names as four of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  913
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  816
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  811
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  742
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  734
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  696
• Gray/Purple Heron

  Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  639
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  587

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2001-07-02
  3 km E of Bad Bocklet, Germany