Höfen (Neuhaus an der Pegnitz)

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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 36"  E
Residents : 128
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 91284
Area code : 09156

The village of Höfen is a district of the Neuhaus an der Pegnitz market in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

history

The place emerged as a clearing village in the second half of the 15th century. There is a document in the Munich State Archives with the following entry: “After that, however, a village was sustained and a place for the forest was chosen, called to the farms, as on twelve goods between the forest and Velden and Viehofen at their boating, traib, wünn and waid noticeably damage prevention coated ... “(Höfen, ma Hifm, D 23, kGem. Höfen, Catholic Pf. Neuhaus / Pegnitz evPf. Plech c 1480 ...) Archaeological
finds prove that people around the place much earlier have lived. During earthworks in 1934, a barrow from the 6th century BC was found next to property number 17 . The grave was carefully examined by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation and it was proven that it dates from the Bronze Age . It contained the bones of 3 or 4 people. It is believed that the dead were not buried at the same time because the skeletons were apparently disordered at the last funeral. Another burial site was discovered when excavation began in 1923 for the chapel . The earthworks were stopped immediately. The responsible district office reported the find to the State Office for Monument Preservation. During the excavations it was found that the skeleton in the third grave was particularly well preserved. There was a medal on his chest and a bronze ring with a raised cross on his right hand. These two finds suggest the grave of a nun. According to the oral tradition of the Höfener, there was a Benedictine convent dedicated to St. Nicholas in the adjacent state forest . The Sandknöcklein forest department, or St. Nicola in a map from 1824, confirms this tradition. Professor Hock, Würzburg , established that the graves date from the 8th century. The bones were temporarily stored in a museum in Forchheim . At the instigation of the courtiers, they came back and were buried next to the chapel. The village consisted of 12 farms. Four more properties were built in the 16th century. There were also two tenants and the village herdsman. Only after the Second World War were more houses built. In the 1988 census there were 33 houses with 130 residents. Agriculture has lost importance in farms. Most of the residents drive to work in Nuremberg .

Architectural monuments

  • House No. 20: Two-storey saddle roof building with half-timbered gable, in the core from 1784 (former residential stable)
  • House No. 23: Marter, square shaft (limestone), inscribed "1786", partly renovated in the 19th century; in the town center
  • House number 23: half-timbered barn from the 18th century
  • House No. 48: Former stable house, single-storey steep saddle roof building with half-timbered gable, from the 18th century
  • House No. 61: Barn (half-timbered building with a gable roof and front gate from the second half of the 18th century)
  • St. Johann Catholic Chapel, simple, solid structure, 1925/26; with equipment

literature

  • Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
  • Andreas Dimler: Neuhaus market town - yesterday and today . Animus Kunstverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-9806507-1-5 .

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