Engelthal

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Management Community :	Henfenfeld
Height :	371 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.62 km 2
Residents:	1085 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91238
Area code :	09158
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 120
Community structure:	6 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 41 ; 91238 Engelthal
Website :	www.engelthal.de
First Mayor :	Günther Rögner ( CSU )
Location of the community Engelthal in the district of Nürnberger Land

Engelthal is a municipality in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land and belongs to the Henfenfeld administrative community . The place is in the heart of the Franconian Alb .

Engelthal

The east gate of the Engelthaler monastery wall

The Engelthaler monastery church

geography

Community structure

The community has 6 districts :

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (starting clockwise in the north): Henfenfeld , Hersbruck , Happurg , Offenhausen , Leinburg , Ottensoos . Nuremberg is 34 kilometers away by car.

history

Early history

In 1243 the village of Swinach became the seat of the Dominican convent Engelthal . From 1289 to 1356 Christine Ebner lived in Engelthal Monastery , who processed her numerous visions and revelations and those of her fellow sisters in literature ( Life and Revelations , from 1317 and Engelthaler sister book , before 1346). Because of her life and work, she was one of the notable women of the first half of the 14th century. Engelthal is known for this monastery, which in the 14th century was a center of mystical spirituality and an almost unique production of German-language mystical literature. In the following years the monastery expanded only slightly in the local area and in 1504 came into the possession of the imperial city of Nuremberg . In the course of the Reformation , the monastery was abandoned in 1565, and Engelthal again became an insignificant place in the Nuremberg hinterland.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Sendelbach was incorporated. Kruppach followed on May 1, 1978 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipality of Engelthal is composed of twelve municipal councils and the first mayor:

	CSU	SPD	Free voters	total
2014	5	2	5	12 seats

(As of: local elections on March 16, 2014)

mayor

Günther Rögner of the CSU has been First Mayor of Engelthal since May 1, 2002 .

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the imperial city of Nuremberg and the Archangel Michael, who holds a sword and a scale.

Culture and sights

Parish church of St. John the Baptist: built around 1270, redesigned in Baroque style from 1747 to 1751
Chapel ruin St. Willibald: built in the 14th century, profaned in 1811, restored and reopened on July 7, 2005 as a communicative meeting point for the community
Engelthal Monastery : Only remnants of the complex are left. An association tries to restore the monastery wall.
On the northeast slope of the Buchenberg there is the remarkable stone channel on the Buchenberg .
The volunteer fire brigade has existed since 1883 .
The parish fair takes place annually on the last weekend in June, the weekend after St. John's Day.

To the west of the village on the LAU 7 district road there are two stone crosses . The stone cross at the Engelthal sports field and the cross stone near Peuerling are replicas of the originally badly damaged originals.

Local institutions

Frankenalb Clinic Engelthal

Frankenalb Clinic Engelthal , since 1973 a specialist clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics

Sons and daughters of the church

Christine Ebner (1277–1356), German Dominican and mystic
Friedrich Sunder (1254–1328), monastery chaplain in the Dominican convent Engelthal
Adelheid Langmann (1306–1375), nun and mystic
Konrad von Füssen , Dominican priest

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Engelthal . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB 790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 21-22 ( digitized version ).
Leonard Patrick Hindsley: The Mystics of Engelthal: Writings from a Medieval Monastery . Palgrave MacMillan, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0312162511
Eckhardt Pfeiffer: Nürnberger Land . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Engelthal . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 686 ( digitized version ).
Gustav Voit: Engelthal. History of a Dominican convent in the Nuremberg area. 2 vols. Korn & Berg, Nuremberg 1977/78 (series of publications of the Altnürnberger Landschaft XXVI)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
^ Greetings from the mayor of Engelthal. Engelthal parish, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
^ Community Engelthal in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .
^ Entry on the coat of arms of Engelthal in the database of the House of Bavarian History

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-1] "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).

[2] Greetings from the mayor of Engelthal. Engelthal parish, accessed on June 25, 2020 .

[3] Community Engelthal in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.

[4] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .

[5] Entry on the coat of arms of Engelthal in the database of the House of Bavarian History