Grafenreuth (Thiersheim)

Grafenreuth Thiersheim market
	Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 22 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ E
Residents :	65
Postal code :	95707
Area code :	09233
Location of Grafenreuth in Bavaria

Grafenreuth is a district of the Thiersheim market in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel i.Fichtelgebirge .

location

Grafenreuth is located on the district road WUN 17 , which leads to the neighboring towns of Leutenberg and Röthenbach .

history

Grafenreuth was created as a clearing by the Counts of Sulzbach around 1170. The place was first mentioned in 1180. It is the ancestral home of the von Gravenreuth family , who lived on the manor until 1739 . The Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich V acquired the place from the von Brandt family and the Rorern . The owners of the goods were the country Assen part of Vogtländische knighthood . The small town is still recognizable today as a radial forest hoof settlement , it originally consisted of the manor and eight farms, to which the tub was attached. The Grafenreuth Castle was a successor to the knight's seat. It passed to the related von Schirnding family in 1739 and remained in the possession of the Röthenbach branch until the end of the 18th century . The castle was described as defective as early as 1710 and demolished before 1817. The only architectural monument in the district is a door frame from 1784.

On the Wartberg in the direction of the main town of Thiersheim, there has been a lookout tower since 1969, in the place of which there was verifiably a watch tower from 1499 to 1787 . He is not listed by name in the margravial maintenance order of 1498 . The local researcher Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht drew the tower in 1800 in an orographic map of the Fichtelgebirge he created . As early as 1839 there was only a rowan tree in its place and no remains of the wall can be seen.

The former municipal coat of arms alludes to the historically significant noble families Gravenreuth and Schirnding . For Gravenreuth there is a silver unicorn on a blue background. For Schirnding in the base of the coat of arms stands a mutilated black tree branch on a golden background. It is a talking coat of arms, which points to the slash and burn , which was carried out during the settlement of the region. When the community was dissolved on January 1, 1978, the districts of Grafenreuth, Kleehof, Leutenberg, Putzenmühle and Wampen were incorporated into Thiersheim, and part of the community grounds (Garmersreuth) went to the city of Arzberg .

literature

Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1 . Munich 1954. ISBN 3-486-41941-2 . Pp. 114-116,354.

Web links

Official website of the district on the homepage of the municipality of Thiersheim

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Hennig: Warthen on the mountains . In: Local supplement to the official school gazette of the administrative district of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth. No. 256, November 1998. pp. 36-38.

[1] Helmut Hennig: Warthen on the mountains . In: Local supplement to the official school gazette of the administrative district of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth. No. 256, November 1998. pp. 36-38.