Frauenaurach

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Frauenaurach town center aerial photo (2019)

Frauenaurach is a district of the city of Erlangen and covers an area of ​​5.49 km². It is located seven kilometers southwest of the city center of Erlangen in the valley of the Middle Aurach .

history

Frauenaurach 1839

The name of the district goes back to the Aurach and a nunnery, donated by Herdegen von Gründlach in 1267 and occupied by the Dominican Order via Engelthal Monastery in 1271. (Women Plus ahd. Aue = meadow and Ache = river, stream)

In 1972 the community had a total of 3387 inhabitants. On July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into the city of Erlangen as part of the municipal reform.

Attractions

Frauenaurach 1915
  • The monastery church, the construction of which began in the high Middle Ages, exists in the Protestant community of Frauenaurach. It is dedicated to the evangelist Matthew. Originally it was in the area of ​​a nunnery that was built around 1267 ( Frauenaurach Monastery ).
  • The Hotel Schwarzer Adler is a 300 year old listed half-timbered house .
  • In the museum in the Amtshausschüpfla there are cultural and historical exhibitions.

Infrastructure and traffic

Frauenaurach has a primary school and two kindergartens. In addition to regular bus connections to Erlangen, Herzogenaurach and the surrounding towns, the Frauenaurach train station on the Erlangen-Bruck-Herzogenaurach railway line was served until passenger traffic was discontinued in 1984 . Frauenaurach is located on the Main-Danube Canal and has two trimodal freight traffic centers, the Erlangen port and the Frauenaurach site . A connection to passenger shipping is also possible at the Erlangen site .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive for Bavarian history and antiquity: Volumes 1–2, p. 227. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 601 .
  3. ↑ Ev. Church communities Frauenaurach and Kriegenbrunn ( Memento from August 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frauenaurach-evangelisch.de
  4. ^ Norbert Johannes: Hotel Schwarzer Adler - Frauenaurach. (No longer available online.) In: hotel-schwarzer-adler.de. July 31, 2002, archived from the original on December 19, 2014 ; accessed on December 29, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hotel-schwarzer-adler.de
  5. ↑ Jutta Triantafyllidis-Grimm: Museum in the Amtshausschüpfla Erlangen-Frauenaurach. In: http://museum.schuepfla.de . Retrieved December 23, 2016 .


Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 10 ° 58'  E