Forkendorf

Forkendorf Gesees municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 28 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	418  (398-426)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	220  (Jan. 1, 2019)
Postal code :	95494
Area code :	09201
The Geseeser district of Forkendorf

Forkendorf is a Franconian village that belongs to the municipality of Gesees .

geography

The northeast entrance to the town with the BT 5 district road in the foreground

That in the northeastern Franconian Switzerland located village is one of seven officially designated parts of the community in the southeastern part of Upper Franconia lying community Gesees. The center of Forkendorf is about one kilometer north-northeast of the center of Gesees at an altitude of 418  m above sea level. NHN .

history

Until the end of the 18th century, Forkendorf was under the sovereignty of the Principality of Bayreuth . The village and township domination exercised while the Stadtvogtei Office Bayreuth in his capacity as Bailiwick Office of. The high jurisdiction in the place was also perceived by this office in its role as Fraischamt .

In 1791/1792, Karl Alexander, the last margrave of the Franconian Zollern line, renounced his domains in return for an annuity and handed them over to the main royal line of Hohenzollern rulers in Berlin . These incorporated these areas into the Prussian Kingdom and summarized them as Ansbach-Bayreuth . The administration of this territory was transferred to the governor Karl August von Hardenberg , who resided in Ansbach . After the Prussian defeat in the Fourth Coalition War , Forkendorf and the entire Principality of Bayreuth were placed under a military administration set up by the French Empire in 1807 . With the purchase of the principality in 1810 by the Kingdom of Bavaria , Forkendorf became Bavarian.

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , Forkendorf became a rural community with the Second Community Edict in 1818 , to which the wasteland Forstmühle also belonged. With the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, the municipality of Forkendorf was incorporated into Gesees. In 2019 the village had 220 inhabitants.

traffic

The district road BT 5 coming from Bayreuth crosses the town and continues in an east-northeast direction to Gesees. The public transport serving the village at a stop of the bus lines 372 and 397 of the VGN . The closest train station is Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof .

literature

• Richard Winkler: Bayreuth - City and Altlandkreis (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 30). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7696-9696-4 .
• Herbert Popp , Klaus Bitzer, Halk Thomas Porada: Franconian Switzerland . Ed .: Sebastian Lentz , Bernhard Müller (=  Landscapes in Germany ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51535-5 .
• Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Forkendorf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 159 ( digitized version ).
• Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (Ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .
• 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 : Forkendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Forkendorf in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on May 1, 2020.
• Forkendorf in the Bavarian Authority Guide , accessed on May 1, 2020
• Forkendorf in the BayernAtlas , accessed on May 1, 2020
• Forkendorf on a historical map , accessed on May 1, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population of Forkendorf on the website of the municipality of Gesees , accessed on May 1, 2020
2. ↑ Forkendorf in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on May 1, 2020.
3. ↑ Geographical location of Forkendorf in the BayernAtlas , accessed on May 23, 2020
4. ↑ Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . S. 66 .
5. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
6. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
7. ↑ Bayreuth. City and Altlandkreis. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . "Village and community rule and Vogteirechte 1792" card supplement .
8. ↑ Bayreuth. City and Altlandkreis. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 356 .
9. ↑ Bayreuth. City and Altlandkreis. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Supplement to the “Hochgerichtsbezirke 1792” map .
10. ↑ Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Forkendorf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 159 ( digitized version ).
11. ^ Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 529 .
12. ^ Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 530 .
13. ↑ Bayreuth. City and Altlandkreis. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . S. 471 .
14. ^ 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. 716 .