Birkenhof (Absberg)

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The Birkenhof is an abandoned district of Enderndorf , today a district of the town of Spalt in the Middle Franconian district of Roth . The former site of the Birkenhof itself is today in the middle of the Igelsbachsee in the Franconian Lake District in the market town of Absberg in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district .

location

The farm was north of Absberg (1400 meters north-northwest of the church) on the edge of the forest between the waters of Igelsbach and Gänsbach , a tributary of the Igelsbach. The corridor of the Birkenhof was flooded with the construction of the Igelsbachsee.

history

The place name researcher Robert Schuh has two interpretations for the place name: “Hof bei den Birken ” or “Hof am Birkach” (the field name “Birkach” appears in two documents from the 14th century). The "Pirckenhoff" was first mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century; According to this document, copied at the end of the 17th century, Hans Gleich zu Igelsbach donated 14 acres of land to the Heilsbronn monastery , which were next to the road to the farm. The farm was operated as an Absberg sheep farm in 1515 at the latest; Pasture disputes were reflected in several documents. According to a document from 1608, the Birkenhof was vogt as "Schaffhof with all other uses and accessories" according to Absberg - and valid ; the Fraisch was at the Margravial Ansbach office of Gunzenhausen . A document from 1652 indicates that the farm belongs to the Absberg Order of the Teutonic Order . For 1732 we learn that the farm is parish to Absberg and has to pay the tithe for the parish there; the high Fraisch lies with the Margravial Oberamt Gunzenhausen. With this, the Birkenhof became Prussian in 1792 . It stayed that way until the end of the Holy Roman Empire .

The owners of the Absberg Birkenhof sheep farm changed several times over the centuries. As a result of Reichsdeputationshauptschluss losing the farm in 1806 went with the former Principality of Ansbach to the new Kingdom of Bavaria on where the remote area in a district court / Rentamt Gunzenhausen in 1808 to control district Absberg and from 1811 to the Rural Municipality belonged Absberg and by the municipality edict came in 1818 to the municipality Enderndorf. In 1925 Theobald Hengst sold the farm to the Absberg Regens-Wagner foundation "Ottilienheim". In 1932 the house was demolished; In 1962 there was only one barn in the Ottilienheim, which burned down in 1975 and was completely demolished. The Absberg district “Birkenhof” has been considered abandoned since 1979 at the latest and was finally flooded when the Igelsbach reservoir was built in the 1980s.

Population numbers

  • 1818: 8 inhabitants
  • 1831: 8 inhabitants
  • 1848: 8 inhabitants
  • 1867: 8 inhabitants, 2 buildings

literature

  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960.
  • Georg Paul Hönn : Birckenhf . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 318 ( digitized version ).
  • Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, esp. No. 24, p. 33f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ District map Gunzenhausen, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Cities-Verlag o. J.
  2. ↑ Schuh, p. 33f.
  3. ↑ This section after Schuh, p. 33
  4. ↑ Historical Atlas, pp. 230, 232
  5. ^ According to Fränkisches-Seenland.de
  6. ↑ Schuh, p. 33
  7. ↑ Historical Atlas, p. 232
  8. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann and Karl Friedrich Hohn: Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1st volume. Erlangen: Joh. Jac. Palm and Ernst Enke 1831, p. 166; see [1]
  9. ↑ Eugen Huhn: Topographical-statistical-historical Comptoir -... Lexicon of Germany. Hildburghausen: Bibliographisches Institut 1848, p. 508; see [2]
  10. ^ J. Heyberger and others (edit.): Topographical-statistical handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary. Munich 1867, column 1034

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 11 "  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 14.9"  E