Belzmühle

Belzmühle is a mill and desert that was abandoned in the 19th century . It was part of the rural community Allmannsdorf, which was created in 1811/1818 . Today the area belongs to the territory of the market Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

The Belzmühle was located in a wooded area on the Brombach , not far west of the Mandlesmühle and east of the Prexelmühle on the connecting path from Pleinfeld to Stirn at an altitude of 374  m above sea level. NHN .

The mill was built in 1572 as the "New Mandlesmühl". In the 17th century the name Pletzmühl has been handed down, 1787: Belz- or lower Mantles Mühl , 1818 Betzmühl . The name probably comes from the family name of an owner of the mill.

Web links

• Situation in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
• Historical map of the Belzmühle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hanns Hubert Hofmann : Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Franconia . Series I, Issue 8. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1960, DNB  452071089 , p. 211 ( digitized - and p. 244).
2. ↑ Topographic maps ( BayernAtlas ) of the Bavarian land surveying office .
3. ↑ Gottfried Mertens: Market Pleinfeld. A look into the past. Eichstätt 1984. p. 253.

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '24.4 "  N , 10 ° 58' 35.9"  E