Buchau (Mainleus)

Buchau Mainleus Market Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 36 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E
Height :	381 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	266 (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	95336
Area code :	09229
Location of Buchau in Bavaria

Buchau is a district of the Mainleus market in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach .

Geographical location

The parish village is located 4.5 kilometers southeast of Mainleus, on the south side of the deeply cut valley of the Dörflesbach. The next larger city is Kulmbach, about 9 kilometers away .

history

Buchau is a Franconian settlement that was probably built between the 6th and 8th centuries. With a Bamberg Ministerial "Eberhart de Pouchahe" appearing as a witness in 1124 , the place name was first mentioned in a document. Around 1137, the aforementioned Eberhart sold his Allod Buchau to Bishop Otto I of Bamberg , who soon transferred it to the Bamberg Monastery of Michelsberg . Before 1395 Buchau came to the Förtsch von Thurnau ; 1423 Eberhard Förtsch was from Bishop Friedrich III. from Bamberg formally enfeoffed with Buchau. In 1437 Buchau passed into the hands of the von Giech family , who owned the place until the 19th century.

Buchau belonged to the district court of Thurnau until 1862, then to the district office or district office of Kulmbach. On January 1, 1972, the municipality of Buchau, almost 400 hectares in size, with the municipal parts of Buchau, Friedrichsberg , Steinsorg , Weihermühle and Witzmannsberg, was incorporated into the Mainleus market.

Attractions

View from the southern edge of the valley of the Dörflesbach to Buchau Castle

View into the interior of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Parish Church of St. Michael in Buchau

Buchau Castle

The core of the existing system will certainly extend into the 13th / 14th Century back. After the destruction in the Peasants' War , the castle was renovated in 1526 by Matthes von Giech. Until it died out in 1622, Buchau was the seat of a separate line of the Giech family . This was inherited by Carl Gottfried von Giech (1607–1652) from the Thurnau line of the family. In the 19th century, additions and redesigns were carried out in the neo-Gothic style .

Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. Michael

In 1139, Bishop Otto I von Bamberg granted the recently built church the right to baptize and burial. At the beginning of the 16th century, the church was rebuilt in late Gothic style. The nave was redesigned in baroque style in 1721 The interior of the church is in the style of the Franconian margrave churches with a three-sided, double-storey gallery and pulpit altar . In the side niches of this altar there are wooden figures from around 1490. The central niche is filled by an almost fully three-dimensional group of the Trinity, probably from the workshop of the Kulmbach sculptor Johann Georg Brenck. The baptismal font adorned with a coat of arms and built in the early 17th century originally comes from the church of Berndorf near Thurnau.