Priesendorf

Priesendorf is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Lisberg.GeographyThe community lies in the Steigerwald on the small river Aurach on the boundary between Upper and Lower Franconia.Constituent communitiesPriesendorf’s main and namesake centre is by far the bigger of its Gemeindeteile with a population of 1,237. The community furthermore has the outlying centre of Neuhausen with a population of 264.The community also has two traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, also named Priesendorf and Neuhausen (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).HistoryPriesendorf belonged to the Barons Münster at Lisberg and was part of the knightly estate of Lisberg. With the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, the community passed to Bavaria.Population developmentWithin municipal limits, 1,056 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 1,240 in 1987 and 1,456 in 2000. On 30 June 2007 it was 1,532.PoliticsThe mayor is Maria Beck .The community council is made up of 12 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the number of seats that each holds: CSU 7 seatsFreie Wähler 2 seatsSPD 2 seatsChristliche Wählergemeinschaft 1 seat In 1999, municipal tax revenue, converted to euros, amounted to €508,000 of which business taxes amounted to €29,000.