Pear tree (stone meadows)

pear tree Steinwiesen market
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	594 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	366  (Jun 30, 2013)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	96349
Area code :	09260
pear tree

Birnbaum is a district of the Steinwiesen market in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria .

location

The parish village is located 13 km northeast of Kronach on a ridge of the Franconian Forest at an altitude of 594  m above sea level. NN . The character of a Rundanger village is still clearly recognizable. The originally existing ponds no longer exist. This type of settlement can often be found on the cleared plateaus of the former Nortwald, u. a. in the neighboring villages of Neufang , Lahm and Effelter . To the west, the terrain slopes down to the Grümpel valley , to the east to that of the Kleiner Leitsch , and a valley further east, the Nurner Ködel is dammed up to the Mauthaus drinking water dam. The state border with Thuringia runs ten kilometers to the west, north and east .

history

The emergence of pear tree goes back to the time of the high medieval clearing movement . The first mention was in the year 1323. Birnbaum, which belonged to the bishopric of Bamberg , passed through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 together with the remaining areas of the bishopric of Bamberg into the possession of the electorate of Bavaria . The Bavarian original cadastre shows Birnbaum in the 1810s with 54 courtyards grouped around the church with the church and the anger as well as three ponds . In the mid-1850s, the community had 391 residents, 122 houses and 2 mills.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community with its district Hubertushöhe was incorporated into the Steinwiesen market.

Attractions

St. Stephan

The parish church of St. Stephan , which dates back to the 15th century, is worth seeing . The Birnbaum parish was founded in 1623. The hall church has a nave with a recessed polygonal choir . The outer walls are studded with struts. Next to the nave there is a three-storey choir tower with a pointed helmet. Original paintings by the Hof artist Leo Götz were in the church until the restoration in 1998 . In addition to the church, around a dozen historical buildings, chapels and wayside shrines have been preserved in the village and are protected as architectural monuments. See also: List of architectural monuments in Birnbaum

About 300 m northeast of the village there is a 32 m high water and observation tower , which was built between 1987 and 1989 by the water supply association for the Franconian Forest Group. The occasion was a fire caused by lightning, in which several farms were destroyed in 1982. The tower improves the pressure conditions in the water supply and offers a roofed viewing platform at a height of 29 m , which can be reached through an outside roofed staircase. From there you have a view of the heights of the Franconian Forest , the Fichtel Mountains and the Thuringian Forest .

traffic

• The district roads KC 21 and KC 28 lead to the state roads St 2200 and St 2207 , which connect with the federal roads B 85 and B 173 near Kronach .
• The place is in the public transport with the OVF supplied -Buslinie 8341 that the tariff association of VGN belongs.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Max Spindler (1894–1986), historian, born in Birnbaum
• Balthasar Gareis (1929–2000), professor of psychology and pastoral theology

Web links

Commons : Birnbaum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The districts on the Steinwiesen website (> about Steinwiesen> the districts)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : pear tree . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 395 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} The history of the parish Birnbaum
3. ↑ Birnbaum on BayernAtlas Klassik
4. ^ Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Birnbaum . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 618 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 690 .
6. ↑ Current list for stone meadows (.pdf)
7. ↑ Lookout tower in the Birnbaum district, Steinwiesen on frankenwald-tourismus.de
8. ↑ Bus route 8341
9. ↑ [1]
10. ↑ - ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )