Hüll (Betzenstein)

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City of Betzenstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 57 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 43"  E
Height : 476 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 90  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 91282
Area code : 09244
The Betzensteiner district of Hüll
The Betzensteiner district of Hüll

Hüll is one of 23 officially named districts of the town of Betzenstein in Upper Franconia .

geography

The rural church village is located about two kilometers north-northeast of the center of Betzenstein and is at an altitude of 476  m above sea level. NHN . Neighboring towns clockwise are Weidensees , Mergners , Betzenstein, Kröttenhof and Höchstädt . The name Hüll is derived from a water reservoir, the so-called Hüle .

history

Due to the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the village became part of the independent rural community of Weidensees. In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , Hüll was incorporated into the city of Betzenstein together with the entire municipality of Weidensees on January 1, 1972. In 1987 Hüll had 90 inhabitants.

traffic

The connection to the public road network is established by the district road BT 30 , which runs past the eastern edge of the town and which , coming from the north-north-east of Weidensees, continues in a south-south-west direction to the state road St 2163 or to Betzenstein. Access to the Federal Motorway 9 is possible at the Plech junction located about five kilometers southeast of the town.

Attractions

The branch church Hüll

In the center of Hüll there are several listed buildings and a Protestant branch church from the 15th century.

See: List of architectural monuments in Hüll

The church belongs to the parish of Betzenstein as an independent parish and was once consecrated to St. Martin , the Franconian saint. The original church dates back to the 11th century. In the 14th century, Hüll became a place of pilgrimage as part of the veneration of Mary . The current building was probably built around 1400. In 1421, Hüll was first mentioned as an early measurement. The church used to have a high tower, but it was demolished in 1820 due to its disrepair.

literature

  • Josef Pfanner: District of Pegnitz . In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1965, ISBN 3-7696-9864-9 .
  • Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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 .

Web links

Commons : Hüll  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 293 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Hüll in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (accessed on December 1, 2017)
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Hüll in the BayernAtlas (accessed on December 1, 2017)
  4. ↑ Political composition of the rural community Weidensees (accessed on December 1, 2017)
  5. ↑ Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (Ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970-1982) . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .
  6. ^ History of the Church in Hüll (accessed on December 1, 2017)