Eichenstruth (Betzenstein)

Eichenstruth City of Betzenstein Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 4 " N , 11 ° 26 ′ 47" E
Height :	485 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	90 (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	91282
Area code :	09152
	The Betzenstein district of Eichenstruth, ; view from the south (2016)

Eichenstruth is one of 23 officially named districts of the town of Betzenstein in Upper Franconia .

geography

The cluster village is located about six kilometers south-southeast of Betzenstein. The place is at an altitude of 485 m above sea level. NHN and is embedded in a dry valley in the Franconian Alb . All around the terrain rises to heights of 530 to 570 m above sea level. NHN . Eichenstruth is about halfway between the cities of Nuremberg in the southwest and Bayreuth in the northeast, each about 35 km away.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1361 and was part of the political municipality of Spies from 1806 to 1972. The Bavarian original cadastre shows 17 farms in Eichenstruth in the 1810s. Furthermore, three village ponds can be seen, which were probably only fed by precipitation, as there are no flowing waters in the vicinity. The area, which is heavily influenced by agriculture, has only grown to include a larger courtyard in the north.

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the village became part of the independent rural community of Spies , to which the parish village of Riegelstein as the seat of the community, the village of Illafeld and the wasteland of Eibenthal belonged, later the one in the The hamlet of Schermshöhe created in the second half of the 19th century . The place was previously parish to Velden , but since the middle of the 19th century Plech has been the parish for Eichenstruth. The Eichenstruth volunteer fire brigade has been providing fire protection and general assistance since 1894.

In the post-war period , the place briefly reached a peak of 145 inhabitants through billeting . In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , Eichenstruth was incorporated into the town of Betzenstein on January 1, 1972, together with the entire municipality of Spies. At the end of the 1980s, 90 people were still resident in Eichenstruth, today the number of residents has leveled off at around 90. The children of the first and second grades attend the primary school in Plech, the third and fourth graders that in Betzenstein. From the fifth grade onwards, lessons take place at the secondary schools in Pegnitz .

traffic

The connection to the public road network takes place mainly through two communal roads that connect Eichenstruth with the BT 28 district road, which passes about a kilometer northwest of the town . Access to the Federal Motorway 9 is possible at the Hormersdorf junction, located about three and a half kilometers southwest of the village. Eichenstruth is served by two bus routes during the day from public transport .

Sightseeing

The only thing that has been preserved in terms of the historical structure is a two-storey saddle roof construction from around 1800. This is under monument protection with file number (D-4-72-118-36) .

See: List of architectural monuments in Eichenstruth

literature

Josef Pfanner: District of Pegnitz . In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1965, ISBN 3-7696-9864-9 .
Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 .

Web links

Commons : Eichenstruth - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Eichenstruth in BayernViewer (accessed on January 23, 2018)
Eichenstruth on a historical map (accessed on January 23, 2018)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 293 ( digitized version ).
^ Eichenstruth in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (accessed on January 23, 2018)
↑ Geographical location of Eichenstruth in the BayernAtlas (accessed on January 23, 2018)
↑ Eichenstruth on a historical map (accessed on January 23, 2018)
↑ Political composition of the rural community Spies (accessed on January 23, 2018)
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .

[Einwohner-1] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 293 ( digitized version ).

[BLO-2] Eichenstruth in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (accessed on January 23, 2018)

[ByAtlas-3] Geographical location of Eichenstruth in the BayernAtlas (accessed on January 23, 2018)

[ByHistAtlas-4] Eichenstruth on a historical map (accessed on January 23, 2018)

[WDeGen-5] Political composition of the rural community Spies (accessed on January 23, 2018)

[HiGVZ-6] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .