Großengsee

Großengsee Community Simmelsdorf Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	477 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	191  (2016)
Postal code :	91245
Area code :	09155
The Simmelsdorf district of Großengsee

The village of Großengsee is one of 24 districts in the municipality of Simmelsdorf in Middle Franconia .

geography

The village is located about five kilometers north-northeast of Simmelsdorf at an altitude of 477  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The first mention of Großengsee was in 1342. Since 1574, the place was owned by the Nuremberg patrician family Tucher and thus belonged to the land area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg .

By the administrative reforms at the beginning of the 19th century in the Kingdom of Bavaria the Place was second Gemeindeedikt a rural municipality, which includes the parish of St. Helena , the villages Strahlenfels and Winterstein , the hamlets of Upper eighth and Unternaifermühle and the wastelands Mittelnaifermühle and Obernaifermühle belonged. In the course of the local government reform in Bavaria , the community of Großengsee was incorporated into the community of Simmelsdorf in 1972. In 2016, Großengsee had 191 inhabitants.

traffic

The connection to the public road network is mainly made by the district road LAU 3 , it runs through the town coming from Winterstein in the southwest and continues in a southeast direction to Ittling .

Attractions

The Herrengsee manor

There are two architectural monuments in Großengsee. The former Herrengsee manor was built by the Dr. Lorenz Tucher Foundation under its administrator Georg V. Tucher (1579–1644) in 1630 to accommodate the Tucher Vogts, probably on the site of an older castle stable . Christoph Bonaventura I. Tucher, who as patron saint needed accommodation for the new pastor of St. Helena, had the manor house converted into a parsonage in 1672.

See: List of architectural monuments in Großengsee

literature

• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Web links

Commons : Großengsee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Großengsee in the BayernAtlas (accessed on October 18, 2017)
• Großengsee on a historical map (accessed on October 18, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Großengsee on the website of the municipality of Simmelsdorf (accessed on October 18, 2017)
2. ↑ Großengsee in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (accessed on October 18, 2017)
3. ↑ Geographical location of Großengsee (accessed on October 18, 2017)
4. ↑ Brief description of Großengsee on the website of the municipality of Simmelsdorf (accessed on October 18, 2017)
5. ↑ Political composition of the rural community of Großengsee (accessed on October 18, 2017)
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 718 .