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Hof
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Administrative region	Upper Franconia
District	urban district
Population	50,150 (January 2006)
Area	58.02 km²
Population density	852 /km²
Elevation	470-600 m
Coordinates	50°19′ N 11°55′ E
Postal code	95001-95032
Area code	09281
Licence plate code	HO
Mayor	Dr. Harald Fichtner (CSU)
Website	stadt-hof.de

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The city of Hof is enclosed by, but does not belong to the Bavarian district of Hof; it is nonetheless the district's administrative seat. Hof is a district in Bavaria, Germany. ...

City Hall

The city's most important work of art, the Hofer altar, dates from about 1465 and is exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich today. The Heidenreich organ in the parish church of St. Michaelis, completed in 1834, is considered one of Bavaria's finest. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 805 KB) Beschreibung Description: Rathaus in Hof (Germany) Source: Eigene Fotografie Date: 28. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (960x1280, 805 KB) Beschreibung Description: Rathaus in Hof (Germany) Source: Eigene Fotografie Date: 28. ... The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ... Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich: St. ...

Hof is known for two local "delicacies", namely Schnitz, a kind of hotpot, and sausages boiled in a portable, coal-fired brass cauldron, which are sold in the streets by the sausage man (Wärtschlamo in the local dialect). There is also a particularly strong beer (Schlappenbier), which is available only on the first Monday after Trinity Sunday (Schlappentag). This tradition dates back to the establishment of the town militia which forced all shooters to take part in a special shooting training each year. To avoid penalties, a lot of shooters rushed out to the training area in the morning of the very last possible day, without even enough time to get dressed and thus still wearing their clogs (Schlappen) . Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. ...

Geography

The city's structure

The city of Hof consists of the following districts in particular:

Surroundings

Hof is located in between the areas of the Frankenwald (Franconian Forest), the Fichtelgebirge and the Vogtland. The Frankenwald is a mid-altitude mountain range in Northern Bavaria, Germany. ... The Fichtelgebirge is a mountain range in northeastern Bavaria, Germany. ... The Vogtlandkreis is a Kreis (district) in the south-west of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic. ...

History

Hof was originally called Rekkenze and established around the year 1080. The settlement was first mentioned 1214 and became a town in 1319. After a rather uneventful history, the town became Prussian in 1792, French in 1806 and finally Bavarian in 1810. In 1823, the town was virtually destroyed by a fire. In 1945, it suffered minor destruction due to aerial attacks. From 1945 to 1990 Hof lay very close to the border between East Germany and West Germany. In 1989 thousands of East German citizens, who had demanded the right to travel or emigrate to West Germany and had been allowed to do so, first arrived on western soil at Hof's railroad station, having been placed on a special train and officially "expelled" by the East German government. Countries to the east of the Iron Curtain are shaded red; those to the west of it — blue. ... GDR redirects here. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ...

Population development

Politics

Mayors (First Mayors and Lord Mayors)

(since the introduction of the Bavarian Municipal Code in 1818)

Sister Cities

Hof has established connections to its following sister cities around the world

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Trivia

Hof is also known as Bavarian Siberia because temperatures are usually several degrees lower than in most other parts of Bavaria, particularly in winter, and because civil servants were often transferred to Hof as a punishment.

Wargamers might know Hof from the game Hof Gap published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980. The game, which simulates the early stages of WWIII in Germany, was not well received in Hof itself. Simulations Publications, Inc. ...

An interesting note about the city coat-of-arms of Hof is that it is a red shield with two white towers against which leans a black shield with a gold lion. 322 miles away the city of Heimbach where Hengebach castle is located (former seat of the dukes of Julich) the city coat-of-arms is almost the reverse: a black shield with a red roof on a white tower against which leans a gold shield with a black lion. Although Hof is 322 miles away from Heimbach, the two cities do have some interesting associations. The castle of Hengebach in Heimbach is actually located in the section that was the former village of Schmidt and there lived a branch of the baronial dynasty of von Schmidt auf Altenstadt until they emigrated in 1749 and the seat of the barons von Altenstadt was very near Hof, in a part of the municipality of Gattendorf known as Kirchgattendorf, where the ruins of the von Altenstadt castles can be seen today. But the coincidences do not stop there: the family arms of the von Schmidts auf Altenstadt were a swan and the city arms of Gattendorf are a swan.

External links

• Official homepage of the city (in German)
• A history of the Heidenreich organ (in German)
• Hof, described by a native franc resident (in English)

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