Birkhof (Frankenhardt)

Birkhof Birklein Community Frankenhardt Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 55 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	approx. 473 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	74586
Area code :	07959
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Birkhof , also called Birklein , is a hamlet in the Gründelhardt district of the Frankenhardt community in the Schwäbisch Hall district in northeast Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The hamlet is just under two kilometers south of Gründelhardt, about a hundred meters west of the district road K 2637 from there to Vorderuhlberg , at an altitude of about 473  m above sea level. NHN . It stands on a reed sandstone surface ( Stuttgart formation ) in the lower area of ​​the Burgberg Vorhöhen and Speltach Bay of the natural area of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , close to the layer to the Ellwang Mountains in the south. By the place a larger watershed runs: Just southwest in the forest springs from Schenkenbach in the killer sword , the over Nesselbach , Buhler and kettle for Neckar drained. In the northwest, on the opposite side of the Zeugenberg Mörder (approx. 515  m above sea level ) of the Ellwang Mountains, the sources of the Stettbach are located , whose outflow reaches the Neckar via Speltach and Jagst .

history

In the absence of earlier mentions, it is assumed that the place was only built towards the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century. On a historical map from 1838, Birkhof is entered with two houses. In 1884 it had 22 residents. At the junction of the access road there is an atonement cross.

description

Birkhof consists of three properties with a few outbuildings. The houses are relatively far apart and are smaller than the typical regional farms. It opens up a spur road from the county road. Around the houses there are small meadows, which are connected to the fields in the northeast.

Transport and tourism

A cycle path from Gründelhardt runs parallel to the K 2637 towards the south. Another bike path branches off from here in the north of the village and leads westwards over the Mörderklinge and the Nesselbachtal into the Bühlertal. There is a parking lot for hikers at the near edge of the forest at the foot of the killer .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geology according to the geological map listed under →  Literature . The layer Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( Notes ) also provides a somewhat coarser overview.
2. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
3. ^ Ellwangen sheet (No. XXV according to historical census, No. 12 according to systematic state tiling) of the Topographical Atlas of the Kingdom of Württemberg from 1838 (PDF, 5.8 MByte)
4. ^ History after the chapter on Gründelhardt in the description of the Oberamt Crailsheim from 1884.

literature

• Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6925 Obersontheim
• Geological map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 25,000, published by the State Geological Office 1982, sheet no. 6925 Obersontheim with explanatory booklet

Web links

Wikisource: Birkhof  - in the chapter on Gründelhardt of the description of the Oberamt Crailsheim from 1884

• Map of Birkhof and the surrounding area on: State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( Notes )
• Map of Birkhof and the surrounding area on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )
• Measuring table sheet 6925 Obersontheim from 1936 in the Deutsche Fotothek