Pettstadt
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#Municipalities_in_Bavaria
#Bamberg_(district)
Pettstadt is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg with about 1,900 inhabitants.
The community lies in the Regierungsbezirk of Oberfranken （Upper Franconia）, roughly 8 km south of Bamberg where the Rauhe Ebrach empties into the Regnitz.
Pettstadt’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with a population of 1,914.
The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: The community also has one of the traditional rural land units known in German as Gemarkungen,
named Pettstadt, the same name as the main centre （it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby）.
The community had its first documentary mention in 1070 as Betestat.
The placename goes back to a personal name, Petto, which around the year 1000 was quite common in the Frankish-Thuringian area.
In 1399 came the establishment of the parish of Pettstadt.
In 1754, the Baroque church was built under architect Johann Jakob Michael Küchel.
The community belonged to the Cathedral Chapter of Bamberg of the High Monastery at Bamberg, and with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the community passed to Bavaria.
In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today’s community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt （"Community Edict"） of 1818.
In 2002, the administrative community （Verwaltungsgemeinschaft） with Frensdorf, which had been instituted in the course of later administrative reform, was dissolved.
Within municipal limits, 1,041 inhabitants were counted in 1970, 1,411 in 1987 and 1,829 in 2000.
On 30 June 2007 it was 1,923.
The mayor is Jochen Hack （Freie Wählergemeinschaft）, first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020.
The community council is made up of 12 members, listed here by party or voter community affiliation, and also with the numb...