Graefensteinberg

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Graefensteinberg
Haundorf municipality
Coat of arms of Graefensteinberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 5 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 502  (461-513)  m
Residents : 875
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91729
Area code : 09837
Draw well in Graefensteinberg
Draw well in Graefensteinberg
Graefensteinberg aerial photo (2020)

Graefensteinberg is part of the Haundorf community in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The place has 875 inhabitants and is at an average altitude of 508  m above sea level. NN . Until the regional reform in Bavaria , which came into force on July 1, 1972, Gräfensteinberg was an independent municipality together with Brand , Brombach , Geiselsberg , Geislohe and Röthenhof . Located in the Franconian Lake District, the place with its former districts has been a state-approved resort since 1997.

Geographical location and traffic

Graefensteinberg lies on a hill in west central Franconia in the northwest of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district. Neighboring towns are (clockwise, starting with the north) Seitersdorf , Stixenhof , Igelsbach , Geiselsberg , Brombach , Geislohe , Brand and Eichenberg . Haundorf is about four kilometers to the north-west as the crow flies , Absberg is about five kilometers to the east as the crow flies.

The Igelsbachsee is a few kilometers away in the east, the Kleine Brombachsee in the southeast, the Altmühlsee in the southwest. The Laubenzedeler Mühlbach rises north of Gräfensteinberg and feeds the Branderweiher , Speckweiher , Eichenberger Weiher and Schnackenweiher with water to the west of the village . The Koppenweiher and the Kästleinsweiher are also in the vicinity , both also in the west. Southwest is the source of the Brombach , a tributary of the Swabian Rezat and namesake of the nearby Brombach . To the northeast is the source of the Schafweihergraben , a tributary of the Igelsbach . The Erlbach , a tributary of the Franconian Rezat, rises to the northeast . The European main watershed runs right through the town and thus separates the drainage area of ​​the Altmühl and the Danube , with the drainage area of ​​the Rezat and the Main . South is the large, named after the place Gräfenstein Wald , north of the Mönchwald belonging Haundorfer forest .

To the northeast, district road WUG 21 leads to district road WUG 1 . This in turn runs directly on the northern side of Graefensteinberg and leads not far to the east to federal highway 466 . Several local roads connect the place with the surrounding villages.

history

A first church in the village is consecrated in the 11th century by Bishop Gundekar II . From 1146 Gräfensteinberg pays the tithing to Heilsbronn Monastery . In 1286 Rudolph gave the Eichstätter Bishop the ban on forest and game over the nearby Graefensteinberg Forest. In 1375 Ulrich and Conrad von Muhr sold their goods in the village to the Eichstätter bishop. In 1378 Heinrich von Buckersheim gave his fief to the Oettingern . In 1480 the Hochstift Eichstätt had the big and small ten in the place. Until 1565 Graefensteinberg belonged to the parish Laubenzedel . The Reformation was introduced in 1592. In the Salbuch of the Spalter Kollegiatstiftes from 1619 3 goods are listed for Gräfensteinberg, all of which were exchanged in 1598 by the Nuremberg owner Hans Rieter.

Due to the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , the parish of Graefensteinberg was provided from Dornhausen until 1654 . In 1598 the Rieter von Kornburg exchanged their goods in the village with the Eichstätter bishop. The state rulership was exercised by the Margraves of Ansbach , and church power by the Hochstift Eichstätt. After Karl Alexander's abdication , Graefensteinberg came to Prussia in 1791/1792 . With the Rhine Confederation Act , the place fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 through an exchange . In 1871/1873 371 people, five horses and 244 cattle live in the village. On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Gräfensteinberg was incorporated into the municipality of Haundorf.

Population development

Gräfensteinberg community (including all parts of the village at that time)

  • 1875: 731 inhabitants
  • 1885: 773 inhabitants
  • 1900: 702 inhabitants
  • 1910: 676 inhabitants
  • 1925: 683 inhabitants
  • 1933: 679 inhabitants
  • 1939: 616 inhabitants
  • 1950: 797 inhabitants
  • 1961: 631 inhabitants
  • 1970: 664 inhabitants

Graefensteinberg district

  • 1829: 280 inhabitants
  • 1846: 334 inhabitants with 64 houses
  • 1871: 371 inhabitants with 173 buildings
  • 1885: 388 inhabitants with 70 buildings
  • 1900: 348 inhabitants with 70 residential buildings
  • 1925: 320 inhabitants with 64 residential buildings
  • 1950: 379 inhabitants with 66 residential buildings
  • 1961: 290 inhabitants with 68 residential buildings
  • 1970: 321 inhabitants
  • 1987: 403 inhabitants with 125 residential buildings

Buildings

The choir tower of today's Protestant Church of St. Martin dates from 1449, but was badly damaged by fire in the Thirty Years War and later renovated in several stages. The nave was restored in 1653 and 1681. The interior of the church is in the neo-Gothic style; the altar dates from 1897. Three epitaphs from the 16th and 17th centuries are on the outside of the south side of the church.

The Graefensteinberg water tower was built in 1977. It is over 30 meters high and has two ring-shaped water chambers that together hold 900 cubic meters of water, as well as a viewing platform.

To the east of Graefensteinberg is a stone cross called Wolfskreuz , which dates from the Middle Ages . In the village there is a draw well from the Middle Ages, which was renewed in 1949.

For the architectural monuments of Graefensteinberg see list of architectural monuments in Haundorf # Graefensteinberg .

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Haundorf

Infrastructure

The school management of the Haundorf community and the Absberg-Haundorf school association are based in Graefensteinberg. There is a library, a kindergarten with a group and a middle school . There is a branch of the Raiffeisenbank in the village .

Personalities

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d topographic maps , Bavarian survey administration
  2. ↑ European main watershed - course in the WUG district, western section , accessed on February 21, 2015
  3. ^ A b c Karl Friedrich Hohn: The Retzatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria described geographically, statistically and historically . Riegel and Wießner, Nuremberg 1829, p. 138 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Graefensteinberg , in: Franz Xaver Buchner : The diocese of Eichstätt. Historical-statistical description, based on the literature, the registry of the Episcopal Ordinariate Eichstätt and the parish reports, Volume II ; Eichstätt 1938, p. 835
  5. ↑ a b Gräfensteinberg , in: Matthias Simon: Book 1: The Protestant Church , Bd. 1; Munich 1960, from the series: Commission for Bavarian State History (Hrsg.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern ; ISBN 3 7696 9852 5 (description), p. 315
  6. ↑ Friedrich Eigler : Schwabach (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part Franconia . I, 28). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1990, ISBN 3-7696-9941-6 , p. 114 .
  7. ^ Wilhelm Lux: Dornhausen. In: Landkreis Gunzenhausen , Munich / Assling 1966, p. 206
  8. ↑ a b c Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1199 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).
  9. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 477 .
  10. ↑ a b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Localities directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to government districts, administrative districts, ... then with an alphabetical register of locations, including the property and the responsible administrative district for each location. LIV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1888, Section III, Sp. 1130 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ a b K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1198–1199 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 , accessed on February 21, 2015
  13. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1236 ( digitized version ).
  14. ^ Gunzenhausen district , accessed on February 21, 2015
  15. ↑ a b Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 1068 ( digitized version ).
  16. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): 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 , p. 715 .
  17. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria Ansbach, 1846
  18. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 784 ( digitized version ).
  19. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 181 ( digitized version ).
  20. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 351 ( digitized version ).
  21. ↑ Description of the church on pointoo.de
  22. ↑ Description of the responsible association ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reckenberg-gruppe.de
  23. ↑ Description of the place
  24. ↑ rb-wug.de ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2012 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. , Raiffeisenbank Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rb-wug.de