Höfen (Langenaltheim)

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Community Langenaltheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 509 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 19  (2020)
Postal code : 91799
Area code : 09142

Höfen is part of the municipality of Langenaltheim in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Central Franconia . The hamlet is around 509 meters above  sea ​​level and has 19 inhabitants (as of 2020).

The place is located in the south of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in the Altmühltal nature park , northwest of Langenaltheim on a meadow near the edge of a forest in the Weißenburger Alb , a ridge of the Franconian Alb . In the West, the place is Neuherberg to the north Rutzenhof . A road connects the place with the surrounding places and the state road 2217 and with the federal road 2 running south .

In 1846 there were six houses, five families and twenty souls in courtyards  . In 1875 the 27 residents lived in 13 buildings. They owned a total of 8 horses and 48 head of cattle. Before the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Höfen was a district of Haag near Treuchtlingen .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territory as of May 25, 1987 . Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 450), 1991, p. 351
  2. Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 282
  4. Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. [...] with an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875. Munich, 1877, column 1271
  5. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 834