Falbenthal

Falbenthal City of Treuchtlingen Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	505  (491-518)  m
Residents :	45  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	91757
Area code :	09142

Falbenthal, seen from the south

Falbenthal is a district of the town of Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place has around 45 inhabitants and is at an altitude between 491 and 518  m above sea level. NHN

Geographical location

Falbenthal village

The place is located in the southern Franconian Jura about three kilometers west-northwest of the center of Wettelsheim on the southern edge of the Berolzheim forest . The Erlach brook rises at a cut into the slope a little to the south and then flows on the widening valley floor to Wettelsheim and Rohrach . Falbenthal is crossed by the district road WUG 5 , which comes from Wettelsheim in the valley floor, bends in the village to the south and then runs up the above-mentioned source blade over a ridge to Windischhausen into the valley of the upper Rohrach. After the western end of the village, a paved dirt road branches off to Großholz , a district of Markt Berolzheim .

history

The former castle

The place name is interpreted as “settlement in the pale valley”, whereby the adjective “pale” probably refers to the texture (color) of the soil. 1250, Pope Innocent IV. The monastery Wülzburg from a letter of protection, which is also owned to "Walwental", today Falbenthal included. The affiliation to the Benedictine monastery Wülzburg is also clear in a document from 1388, which speaks of two taxable farms in "Valbental". In 1493 (and 1537) Falbenthal only consisted of a courtyard that gave the Wülzburg monastery riches.

For 1535 one learns that "Falmthal" belongs to the margravial Brandenburg neck court Hohentrüdingen after the secularization of the Wülzburg monastery . In 1608, the aristocratic officer Hans von Buchholz zu Helfenberg confirmed that he had received the hamlet of Falbenthal, which had previously been loaned by hereditary interest, from the Margrave of Ansbach as a knightly loan; it consisted of a newly built aristocratic residence with affiliations to agricultural buildings, fields, meadows and forests. In the following year the estate passed to his son-in-law Christoph von Lichtenstein. He sold Falbenthal in 1613 to his brother-in-law Ludwig von Zocha , who sold it to Bernhard von Creutz in 1624. The "ganntz desolate vund ruinirte gut" caused by the Thirty Years' War passed to Johann von Leubelfing in 1642 . In 1643 the judges office in Wettelsheim protested in vain against the independence of the manor. In 1681, Falbenthal Castle was rebuilt or rebuilt as a three-storey eaves stone building with four corner towers on the front, as the year above the entrance attests. In 1708 Christoph Philipp Ludwig von Leubelfing received the margrave's permission to add a few houses to his estate and to settle farmers. In a document from 1732, for example, it is said that the castle has a brickworks (today the Falbenthal farmhouse no. 15) and eleven “Söldenhäuslein” that are pastured to Wettelsheim; the lower jurisdiction was in the hands of the castle rulers, the higher with the Brandenburg Oberamt Hohentrüdingen. In 1787 the knight man's fief in Falbenthal fell in the knight canton of Altmühl with the extinction of those of Leubelfing, the Brandenburg margrave. Thereupon the secret council and Oberhofmarschall Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Freiherr Eichler von Auritz received the property from the margrave as fief.

Towards the end of the Holy Roman Empire , around 1800, the hamlet of Falbenthal consisted of the Eichler knight seat and ten knightly subjects. In the Kingdom of Bavaria since 1806, Falbenthal fell to a peasant owner named C. Schmidt through the death of the squire Eichler on June 12, 1816 in the Gant process ; the provisional Bavarian patrimonial jurisdiction after Prussia (since 1796/97) from 1808 , which the non-aristocratic new owner was not allowed to take over, was acquired by the Counts of Pappenheim ; she was drafted in 1818 by the district court of Heidenheim . The hamlet of Falbenthal was assigned to the rural community Wettelsheim, which was incorporated into Treuchtlingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district on July 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

From 1996 to 2000 Falbenthal carried out a village renewal.

Population numbers

• 1818: 65 inhabitants
• 1824: 92 inhabitants, 18 residential buildings
• 1831: 70 inhabitants, 16 houses
• 1950: 105 inhabitants, 14 properties
• 1961: 73 inhabitants, 16 residential buildings
• January 1, 2011: 43 inhabitants
• December 31, 2013: 45 inhabitants

societies

• Wettelsheim-Falbenthal volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1865

Monuments

Coat of arms stone above the former castle portal

Falbenthal is a predominantly agricultural village. The castle, which is five window axes wide, from which the two western corner towers were completely removed in the 19th century and the upper floors and the entire upper floor of the castle from the eastern one, has only a residential function. The two-storey community tower crowned with a pointed helmet in the center of the village dates from 1878; the cultivation is more recent.

See also : "Falbenthal" in the article List of Architectural Monuments in Treuchtlingen

Others

• There are only a few old trees of the pear variety “Amanlis Butterbirne” in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, until around 2012 near Falbenthal. The variety was saved in the Spielberg orchard. There is also an old tree at Falbenthal from the now rare apple variety "Lütticher Ananaskalvill".

literature

• From Wettelsheim's past. Announcements of the "Verein von Altertumsfreunden Wettelsheim", 3rd issue (1933), p. 21
• Karl Gröber and Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. VI. District Office Gunzenhausen. Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 62
• Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Franconia. Series I, Issue 8; Munich 1960
• Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen. Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, especially No. 65, p. 78f
• Heimat- und Bäderverein Treuchtlingen e. V. (Ed.): Heimatbuch Treuchtlingen. Treuchtlingen [around 1984], especially p. 131

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schuh, p. 88
2. ^ Erich Strassner: rural and urban district Weißenburg i. Bay. Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 2 . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1966, p. 62; Schuh, p. 87
3. ↑ Hofmann, p. 47
4. ↑ List of monuments Treuchtlingen, district Falbenthal, as of February 25, 2012, p. 4; Gröber / Mader, p. 62
5. ↑ Schuh, p. 359
6. ↑ This section is essentially based on Schuh, pp. 87f.
7. ^ Johann Caspar Bundschuh : Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia. 2nd volume, Ulm 1800, column 117
8. ↑ Hofmann, pp. 202, 205, 260
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Hofmann, p. 243
10. ↑ Memorial plaque on the parish tower
11. ↑ Heimatbuch Treuchtlingen, p. 131; Hofmann, p. 243
12. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann and Karl Friedrich Hohn: Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1st volume. Erlangen: Joh. Jac. Palm and Ernst Enke 1831, p. 409
13. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich 1964, column 788
14. ↑ Treuchtlingen website ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ^ Website Treuchtlingen
16. ↑ [1]
17. ↑ List of monuments Treuchtlingen, district Falbenthal, as of February 25, 2012, p. 4; Gröber / Mader, p. 62
18. ↑ Heimatbuch Treuchtlingen, p. 131
19. ↑ List of monuments Treuchtlingen, district Falbenthal, as of February 25, 2012, p. 4
20. ↑ The pear on the Spielberger Obstarche website ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ The apple on the Spielberger Obstarche website ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.