Goldkronach
{{Infobox German location
|type = Stadt
|image_coa = DEU Goldkronach COA.svg
|image_photo = Goldkronach.jpg
|image_caption = Goldkronach
|coordinates = {{coord|50|0|41.40|N|11|41|14.33|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Goldkronach in BT.svg
|state = Bayern
|region = Oberfranken
|district = Bayreuth
|elevation = 443
|area = 30.68
|postal_code = 95497
|area_code = 09273
|licence = BT
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 09 4 72 143
|divisions = 26 Ortsteile
|website = [https://www.goldkronach.de/ www.goldkronach.de]
|mayor = Holger Bär[https://www.statistik.bayern.de/wahlen/kommunalwahlen/bgm/ Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden], Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
|leader_term = 2020–26
|party =
}}
Goldkronach (East Franconian: Gronich) is a town in the district of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.{{cite web |url=http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.landkreis-bayreuth.de/orgdata.asp%3FNAVIID%3D%257B9F283DE2-EA2F-44DD-A798-112E8B81548E%257D&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBayreuth%2BGoldkronach%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENCA263%26sa%3DG |title=Translation of Goldkronach Info |accessdate=2008-05-29 |archive-date=2011-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519090934/http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.landkreis-bayreuth.de%2Forgdata.asp%3FNAVIID%3D%7B9F283DE2-EA2F-44DD-A798-112E8B81548E%7D&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DBayreuth+Goldkronach&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENCA263&sa=G |url-status=dead }} It is situated near the Fichtel Mountains, 12 km northeast of Bayreuth.
History
On 25 June 1836, at 22:15, residents awoke to a man yelling "Fire! Fire!". In almost 2 hours, almost half of the eastern part of the town burned down, including the parish church, all two schools, the City Hall, 55 houses, and 16 other buildings. 127 families were rendered homeless. Three years later, on 18 June 1839 midnight, another fire broke out in the market. Within two hours, 29 houses and 17 buildings in the south side of town became the victims of the fire.{{cite web |url=http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.goldkronach.de/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGoldkronach%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENCA263 |title=Translation of Goldkronach's History |accessdate=2008-05-29}}
Population development
- 1961: 2945
- 1970: 2935
- 1987: 2903
- 2000: 3598
- 2010: 3606
Notable people
- Sigismund von Reitzenstein (1766-1847), politician and diplomat of Baden
=Lived and worked in Goldkronach=
- Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), scholar of the Renaissance and the father of the mineralogy. For Goldkronach in his writings, Agricola called a weekly gold transfer of 1500 Gulden.{{clarify|date=February 2017|reason=This makes no sense}}{{cn|date=February 2017}}
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), natural scientist, from 1792 to 1796 Oberbergmeister and Oberbergrat in the Prussian Goldkronach. Humboldt revolutionized mining from a technical point of view, but also introduced measures for the education and social protection of miners.{{ cite book | last=Daum | first=Andreas W.|author-link=Andreas Daum | year=2024 | title=Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography | location=Trans. Robert Savage. Princeton, N.J. | publisher=Princeton University Press |pages=31‒33 | isbn=978-0-691-24736-6 }}
References
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