Eschenfelden

Eschenfelden Municipality Hirschbach Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 36 ′ 57 ″ E
Height :	464 m above sea level NN
Residents :	293 (1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	92275
Area code :	09665

The parish village of Eschenfelden is part of the municipality of Hirschbach in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach , Bavaria.

geography

The place is located in a northern branch of the Franconian Alb , about 6.5 km northeast of Hirschbach. It is crossed by the district roads AS 6 and AS 40 . Two nameless brooks unite in the place to the wild brook, in its lower course called Hirschbach , a tributary of the Pegnitz .

history

The place name, which has been modified several times, comes from "ash trees by a stream or on a rock". Eschenfelden probably already existed in the 8th / 9th centuries. Century. Due to the field name, however, it is likely that the settlement was founded in the late Merovingian or Carolingian times. The first written mention comes from the year 1129, when a "Heberhardus de Eschenuelden" appears as a witness in a document from the Kastl monastery (HONB Oberpfalz 2, No. 60).

Pastor Karl Christoph Bauerreiß (1877–1888) founded the volunteer fire department in 1886 . In the First World War 43 soldiers were killed or missing, the Second World War claimed a total of 72 victims.

Until the municipal reform , Eschenfelden was an independent municipality, consisting of the main town and the districts of Pruppach and Riglashof . On January 1, 1972, it was dissolved and incorporated into Hirschbach.

A new school building was built in the 1960s and a kindergarten in 1976.

Facilities

In Eschenfelden there is the simultaneous church Corpus Christi , whose tower dates from the 14th century. A three-aisled Gothic basilica was built around the same time or a little later . This was demolished in 1861 because of dilapidation and replaced by the current nave in 1863.

There are five architectural monuments, see list of architectural monuments in Eschenfelden .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online, Eschenfelden , accessed on September 14, 2017
^ M. Hensch: Territory, Power and Settlement - Observations on the Origins of Settlement Around the Early Medieval Power Sites of Lauterhofen and Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate . In: Jiri Mahacek (Hrsg.): Practical function, social significance and symbolic meaning of the prehistoric central locations in Central Europe . Studies on the Archeology of Europe, Bonn 2011, p. 494 ff
^ History of Eschenfelden on the community homepage

[ByL-1] Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online, Eschenfelden , accessed on September 14, 2017

[2] M. Hensch: Territory, Power and Settlement - Observations on the Origins of Settlement Around the Early Medieval Power Sites of Lauterhofen and Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate . In: Jiri Mahacek (Hrsg.): Practical function, social significance and symbolic meaning of the prehistoric central locations in Central Europe . Studies on the Archeology of Europe, Bonn 2011, p. 494 ff

[3] History of Eschenfelden on the community homepage