Birch rock

Birch rock Flachslanden market Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	471 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	31  (Jan. 1, 2017)
Postal code :	91604
Area code :	09829

Birkenfels (colloquially: "Birg _ə Fels") is a district of the Flachslanden market in the Ansbach district in Middle Franconia .

geography

The Birkenfelser Graben rises northeast of the village, a right tributary of the Seebach, which flows into the Franconian Rezat on the left . The place is surrounded by the Birkenfels forest to the west, north and east. Approx. The forest area Birkenschlag is 0.5 km southwest. The district road AN 21 leads to Borsbach (1.7 km northwest) or Brünst (2 km southeast).

history

In 1275 a Birchenfels castle was mentioned by name, which belonged to Bruno von Birkenfels . In 1317 the Lords of Birkenfels lost the family castle to the Counts of Hohenlohe , and in 1399 it passed to the Lords of Seckendorff . In 1632 the castle was looted and destroyed by the imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War .

The Heilsbronn Monastery acquired an estate there.

The present-day village of Birkenfels was not created until 1745, when the manorial economic property was broken up into three farms, a small farm, a house, a tavern and a sheep farm. The place was now under the margravial Vogtamt Lehrberg .

Towards the end of the 18th century there were six properties in Birkenfels (Schafhof mit Gütlein, two one-and-a-half courtyards, a courtyard, an empty house , an inn ) and a crushing house belonging to the community. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach Hofkastenamt Ansbach . The Brandenburg-Ansbach Vogtamt Birkenfels held the village and community rulership and land lordship over all properties .

From 1797 to 1808 the place was under the judiciary and chamber office of Ansbach . In 1799 the place was described as follows: “Hamlet with the beautiful ruins of a Hohenlohe and Seckendorf castle, in the Ansbach Chamber of Commerce, two hours from residence. It was bought by Appel von Seckendorf. The residents parish to Flachslanden. "

As part of the municipal edict, Birkenfels was assigned to the Brünst tax district, which was formed in 1808 . It also belonged to the rural community of Brünst, founded in 1811 . In 1836 Birkenfels was reassigned to Kettenhöfstetten . In the course of the regional reform , the municipality of Kettenhöfstetten was incorporated into Flachslanden on January 1, 1972.

monument

• Remains of a former castle with a hill and a former moat, to the north then remains of rubble vaults, one with an arrow slit; in the adjoining houses No. 6 and 7 large barrel-vaulted cellars

See also: List of architectural monuments in Flachslanden # Birkenfels

Population development

year	001818	001840	001861	001871	001885	001900	001925	001950	001961	001970	001987	002011	002017
Residents	47	59	66	66	55	47	55	80	46	47	36	25th	31
Houses	7th	10			12	10	11	10	10		10
source

religion

The place has been Protestant since the Reformation. The residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination are parish to St. Laurentius (Flachslanden) , the residents of the Roman Catholic denomination to St. Dionysius (Virnsberg) .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Birkenfels . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 393 ( digitized version ).
• Elisabeth Fechter: The place names of the district of Ansbach . Inaugural dissertation. Erlangen 1955, DNB  480570132 , p. 50-51 .
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 83 .
• Georg Paul Hönn : Birckenfells . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 318 ( digitized version ).
• Manfred Jehle: Ansbach: the margravial chief offices Ansbach, Colmberg-Leutershausen, Windsbach, the Nuremberg nursing office Lichtenau and the Deutschordensamt (Wolframs-) Eschenbach (=  historical atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia . I, 35). tape 2 . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7696-6856-8 , p. 840 .
• Karl Heinrich von Lang , Heinrich Christoph Büttner , Julius W. Schulz: Landgericht Ansbach (=  historical and statistical description of the Rezatkreis . Issue 1). Johann Lorenz Schmidmer, Nuremberg 1809, p. 9-10 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 324 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
• Gottfried Stieber: Birckenfels . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 253-254 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Birkenfels , in: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

• Birkenfels on the website flachslanden.de
• Birkenfels in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
• Birkenfels in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 16, 2019.
• Birkenfels in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.flachslanden.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} E. Fechter, p. 50.
3. ↑ Birkenfels in the Bavaria Atlas
4. ↑ G. Muck, Vol. 2, p. 324.
5. ↑ M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 840.
6. ↑ JK Bundschuh, Vol. 1, Col. 393.
7. ↑ State Archives Nuremberg , Government of Middle Franconia, Chamber of the Interior, 1952, 3850: Formation of the municipal and rural communities in the district court of Ansbach 1808-17. Quoted from M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 961.
8. ↑ M. Jehle, Vol. 2, p. 948.
9. ↑ Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were known as hearths , in 1840 as houses and from 1885 to 1987 as residential buildings.
10. ↑ Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkkreis according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 10 ( digitized version ).
11. ↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 42 ( digitized version ).
12. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 985 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
13. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1149 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
14. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1089 ( digitized version ).
15. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1154 ( digitized version ).
16. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1191 ( digitized version ).
17. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1027 ( digitized version ).
18. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 755 ( digitized version ).
19. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 169 ( digitized version ).
20. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 327 ( digitized version ).