Giechkröttendorf

Giechkröttendorf City of Weismain Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	348–370 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	60  (Jan. 1, 2013)
Postal code :	96260
Area code :	09575
Location of Giechkröttendorf in Bavaria

Giechkröttendorf is a district of Weismain in the Lichtenfels district with 60 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Giechkröttendorf is located in the western part of the Pfauengrund , a valley between the Kordigast and the Kröttenstein in the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . A small stream flows through the valley and flows into the Weismain . The center of Weismain is about one kilometer away.

history

The section shows the Giechkröttendorf Castle, as shown in the map around the shaft drive from 1672

In 1350, Chunrad von Giech received the possessions around the Kröttenstein from the Bamberg monastery as a fief . The current village name, which is made up of the name of the noble family and the name of the toad stone located southwest of the village, goes back to this time.

The Giechkröttendorf castle was first mentioned in the 1422nd Eight years later, a chapel was first mentioned in the village that no longer exists. The castle was partially destroyed and burned down during the Peasants' War in 1525. The final reconstruction did not take place until 1571/76. In 1607, the then landlord, Achaz von Giech zu Kröttenstein, had the castle pledged to the Langheim monastery . In 1618 the monastery purchased the property.

The probably oldest drawing of the Giechkröttendorfer Castle is contained in a map from 1672, which was created on the occasion of a disputed shaft drive on the Kordigast. In old records in 1689 sheep breeding was named as the most important industry in the village.

On January 24, 1991, the local chapel building association was founded, which initiated the construction of today's chapel. The laying of the foundation stone took place on May 23, 1992, the Benediction on May 28, 1994.

Population development

The table shows the population development of Giechkröttendorf.

year	Residents	source
1833	105
2011	61
2012	59
2013	60
2015	64

societies

• Kapellenbauverein Giechkröttendorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} History of Giechkröttendorf ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , giechkroettendorf.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Fiedler (1990), p. 41.
3. ↑ History of the Giechkröttendorfer Kapelle and the Kapellenbauverein ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 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. , giechkroettendorf.de, accessed on December 29, 2011  
4. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann: Geographical description of the Archdiocese of Bamberg: together with a short overview of the suffragan dioceses: Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer . Bamberg 1833, p. 511 ( full text in Google Book Search). , P. 497
5. ↑ Distribution of residents in the city of Weismain on January 1st, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 29, 2011 (offline)  
6. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Fiedler, Norbert: Weismain - views insights . HO Schulze, Lichtenfels, 1990

Web links

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

• Full steam ahead into the past - newspaper article about a German-German friendship story that took place in Giechkröttendorf