Altencreußen
Altencreußen
community Prebitz
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 52 ″ N , 11 ° 40 ′ 6 ″ E
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Height : | 495 m above sea level NHN |
Postal code : | 95473 |
Area code : | 09270 |
Town center with source area of the Creußen, fire brigade and fire ladder house and shepherd's house
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Altencreußen is a village in the Prebitz municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth .
description
Altencreußen consists of around fifty buildings, including smaller agricultural outbuildings. It lies at heights between about 490 and 505 m above sea level. NHN on the district road BT 20 between Engelmannsreuth in the west and Funkendorf in the east. There is also a direct connection to the neighboring town of Preußling in the north. The place can be reached from Creußen via the state road St 2120 , which leads via Engelmannsreuth, or via the St 2184 via Neuhof .
The left upper course of the 21 km long Creußen rises in the Hofweiher on the western edge of Altencreußen , which drains the village and its immediate surroundings southeast to the Haidenaab , Naab and thus to the Danube , while the catchment area of the river is less than a kilometer further to the west, north and east Red Main , which flows into the Main and then into the Rhine . The place is so embraced by a northern arch of the European main watershed between the Black Sea on this side and the North Sea on the other side, which is only on the east side in the form of the ridge on the up to 560 m above sea level. NHN high Funkenberg emerges more clearly in nature.
In Altencreußen, traces of the terrain point to Altencreußen Castle . The only architectural monument is a medieval cross stone . Since the land consolidation, a fire station and a fire escape house next to the source of the Creußen are technical monuments.
literature
- Alfred Schädler : The art monuments of Upper Franconia - II. Pegnitz district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1961. ISBN 3-486-41881-5 . P. 57.