Grünsberg (Altdorf near Nuremberg)

Grünsberg City of Altdorf near Nuremberg Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 23 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	394 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	251  (Jan. 2, 2017)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	90518
Area code :	09187
The center of Grünsberg

Grünsberg is a district of the town of Altdorf near Nuremberg in the district of Nürnberger Land , Middle Franconia in Bavaria .

geography

The place is just under three kilometers southwest of the historic Altdorf town center at an altitude of 394  m above sea level. NHN . The neighboring towns are Burgthann in the south, Winkelhaid and Ludersheim in the north . To the east, the terrain slopes steeply to a creek bed, which flows into the freely meandering Schwarzach about 500 m south . In terms of natural surroundings, Grünsberg is located on the eastern edge of the southern Lorenz Reich Forest , which has numerous sandstone gorges such as the Devil's Church and the Wolf's Gorge . To the southeast of the Schwarzach, the terrain rises towards the Dillberg .

Spread of Germanic tribes around 50 AD.

The Altdorf nursing office in Nuremberg

history

Early history

The Schwarzachtal was already regularly walked by people in the Stone Age , but not permanently settled, as several ground monuments from outdoor stations show. The first traces of early settlement and some Bronze Age graves are only a few kilometers downstream and date from around 1600 to 1300 BC. So far eight ground monuments from the Mesolithic period, the Urnfield period and the Latène period have been qualified around Grünsberg .

At the turn of the times, the entire Regnitz river system was considered to be the area where the Narisker spread out (see map 1). Around the year 650 Boirian settlers advanced into the Schwarzachtal from the south-east, but they were pushed back by the Franks coming from the west around 725 . The earliest written mention comes from the year 1231.

Modern times

From 1504 to 1806 the place belonged to the imperial city of Nuremberg , Altdorf care office and along the Schwarzach ran the border to the principality of Ansbach (see map 2). The development of the district can always be seen together with Grünsberg Castle .

With the community edict in 1808, Grünsberg became a politically independent community to which the towns of Prackenfels , Stürzelhof and Weinhof belonged. The Bavarian original cadastre shows Grünsberg in the 1810s as a village with twenty hearths, two ponds and the castle garden.

present

On January 1, 1972, Grünsberg was incorporated into Altdorf as part of the Bavarian regional reform .

Buildings

Grünsberg Castle

The village is divided into an old town center around the castle and a new building area that emerged from the 1950s. The old town center is characterized by sandstone buildings. In addition to the castle, three stables , an inn and other historical buildings have been preserved as architectural monuments . The baroque source of the Sophienquelle is located about 500 meters south of the castle . See: Monuments in Grünsberg

Population development

local community year 1910 1933 1939 population 235 243 222

place year 1987 2013 2016 population 158 226 251

Protected areas

• The Teufelsschlucht near Grünsberg is part of the 147 hectare European FFH area NSG 'Schwarzach-Durchbruch' and Rhätschluchten near Burgthann.
• With the exception of the settlement area of ​​Grünsberg, the surrounding landscape is designated as the Schwarzachtal landscape protection area with side valleys (3,992 hectares).

traffic

• The village is located on the district road LAU 22 and on the state road St 2239 , which offers access to the federal motorway 3 to the northeast .
• The public transport services the place with the VGN -Buslinie 553 wich in Altdorf to the train M3.

literature

• Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .

Web links

Commons : Grünsberg (Altdorf near Nuremberg)  - Collection of images

• Grünsberg on the website of the city of Altdorf
• Grünsberg in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} City of Altdorf b. Nuremberg, population statistics 2016 (accessed on November 3, 2017)
2. ↑ Location of the district in the Bavaria Atlas (accessed on November 3, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b List of} monuments for Altdorf (.pdf)
4. ↑ Grünsberg on BayernAtlas Klassik
5. ^ Community directory , District Office Nuremberg
6. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Nuremberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy e. V.  ( 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. , Grünsberg  
8. ↑ Profiles of the Natura 2000 areas: 6633-371 NSG 'Schwarzach-Durchbruch' and Rhätschluchten near Burgthann (FFH area). Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), April 14, 2015, accessed on August 20, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Green list of landscape protection areas in Middle Franconia. Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU), July 15, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Bus route 553 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2018 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.