Egelsee (Lauf an der Pegnitz)

Egelsee City of Lauf an der Pegnitz Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 37 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 38 ″  E
Postal code :	91207
Area code :	09123

The remote area Egelsee is a district of the town of Lauf in Nuremberg County in Middle Franconia , Bavaria . It is located between the LAU8 district road and Dehnberg.

history

The successors of the ministerial family from Tennelberc and Tanneberg (old name for Dehnberg) had their seat in Egelsee, on a property ( tower hill Egelsee ) that was originally walled and secured with a moat. In 1915 a square rampart with sides of 20 meters each and a height of up to 2 meters was discovered. Remains of sandstone and brick wall were found in the wall. Residents reported of a "water castle" or "robbery castle" and of a drawbridge that had connected the building with the road leading directly past Dehnberg. The complex was therefore interpreted as a pond house .

In the 18th century there must have been a lake at the site, the Egelsee. It was replenished in the 19th century. In 1346 the Nuremberg merchant Konrad Groß bought "their Gesezze near Tenelberg, called the Egelsee with the lake darumb" from Heinrich Oedenberger and his wife Kunigunde. The castle is said to have been destroyed as early as 1486, rebuilt and destroyed again in the 30 Years War. After the last remnants of the wall were removed in 1957 and the site leveled in 1980, nothing today reminds of the former headquarters.

Egelsee belonged to the municipality of Dehnberg , which was incorporated into the district town of Lauf an der Pegnitz on January 1, 1977.

literature

• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 719 .