Ensemble Meinheim
The Meinheim ensemble comprises the historically built-up area of Meinheim , a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The ensemble is a protected architectural monument .
description
The ensemble comprises the main street of the parish village , which was laid out on a brook entering the Altmühl and developed into a brook anger village in the late Middle Ages . The street village stretches on both sides of the open-flowing brook that was created in 1962.
The townscape rural character determine lined up on both sides of the creek farms in Dreiseit- and hook shape . The older farmhouses of the 18th and 19th centuries Century are mostly one-storey, the younger since the end of the 19th century two-storey, predominantly gable-oriented saddle roof buildings .
The parish church of St. Wunibald with its late Gothic pointed helm tower in the east is positioned on the east-west flowing stream that it dominates the townscape.
literature
- Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 , pp. 354-355 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 46.8 ″ N , 10 ° 48 ′ 50 ″ E