Henfenfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '  N , 11 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Middle Franconia
County :	Nuremberg country
Management Community :	Henfenfeld
Height :	345 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.64 km 2
Residents:	1822 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	274 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	91239
Area code :	09151
License plate :	LAU, ESB , HEB, N , PEG
Community key :	09 5 74 131
Community structure:	1 community part
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchenstrasse 10 91239 Henfenfeld
Website :	www.henfenfeld.de
First Mayor :	Markus Gleißenberg ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Henfenfeld in the district of Nürnberger Land

Henfenfeld is a municipality and a village in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land and the seat of the Henfenfeld administrative community .

geography

The community is located between the cities of Lauf an der Pegnitz and Hersbruck , about 25 km east of Nuremberg . It only consists of the town of Henfenfeld. The Hammerbach, crosses the place in a south-north direction and flows about a kilometer north into the Pegnitz . Neighboring communities are (starting in the north clockwise) Hersbruck , Engelthal , Ottensoos and Reichenschwand .

history

Henfenfeld from the northeast

The name Henfenfeld is probably derived from Hamfenfeld, a field on which hemp used to be grown.

Prehistoric grave finds indicate that the Henfenfeld district was already in the late Bronze Age around 1200 BC. Was settled. The Freiling settlement was established in the 7th century AD .

On April 13, 1059, Henfenfeld was first mentioned in a document in connection with the Vogt of the Bishop of Bamberg . This had his castle east of the Hammerbach. The noblemen of the 11th century were followed by the Ministeriale , who lived here as feudal men of the Bamberg bishop until the end of the 14th century. Hartung von Egloffstein acquired the castle in the 15th century and in 1530 the rule came to the Pfinzing patrician family from Nuremberg , who from then on called themselves "Pfinzing von Henfenfeld" and adopted the old Henfenfeld coat of arms as a heart shield.

On May 4, 1553, the castle was set on fire and burned down completely. In the years after 1557 it was repaired again for the Pfinzing family - probably by the Nuremberg builder Paulus Beheim .

After their male line (Johann Sigmund Pfinzing) died out in 1764, the Haller von Hallerstein family inherited the manor. In 1817 the Nuremberg merchant Benedikt von Schwarz bought the castle, who also owned the goods in Artelshofen and Hirschbach .

politics

Municipal council

The council consists of twelve councilors and the first mayor.

	CSU and FWG	SPD and FBB	total
2020	6th	6th	12 seats
2014	5	7th	12 seats

mayor

Markus Gleißenberg (CSU) has been First Mayor since September 24, 2017. His predecessor Gerhard Kubek (SPD) was in office from 1990 to 2017.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Square with a heart shield divided by gold, blue and silver; in black a golden hemp flower, in gold a red armed, black growing eagle, in gold three red balls placed one to two, in red a silver ring. "

Partner communities

Since July 1991 the community has been in partnership with the Taksony community in Hungary .

Attractions

Henfenfeld Castle

Henfenfeld Castle

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Geographical location: ^▼

Henfenfeld Castle, later also "Pfinzing Castle", was the seat of the Lords of Henfenfeld. It burned down in 1553 and was then rebuilt. Grouped around the inner courtyard: three-storey palace, a wing structure and a gatehouse, built after 1553 over remains of the 12th century, square stair tower from 1624; with remains of historical furnishings; Moat and surrounding walls of the fortifications, probably 16th century; former caretaker's house, two-storey hipped roof building, sandstone cuboid and half-timbering, marked 1833; former servants' house, two-storey wing construction, half-timbered, 18th / 19th century Century.

The lords of the castle were: 1405–1530 the lords of Egloffstein ; 1530 purchase of the castle by Martin I. Pfinzing, later Paul Pfinzing (1554–1599, cartographer). 1764 End of the Pfinzing dynasty, the castle goes to the Haller von Hallerstein family foundation .

Today privately owned: Opera Academy, weddings, medieval market.

More Attractions

• Nikolauskirche Henfenfeld
• Sacred Heart Church

See also : List of architectural monuments in Henfenfeld

sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Ziegler (1877–1957), socialist politician and trade unionist

traffic

• The town of Henfenfeld is 1 km southwest of the federal highway 14 , the A9 motorway ( Munich - Berlin ) is 9 km away.
• The Henfenfeld stop is on the Nuremberg – Schwandorf railway line . Since December 12, 2010 it has been part of the Nuremberg S-Bahn network , Nuremberg-Röthenbach-Lauf-Hersbruck-Hartmannshof branch with two S-Bahn trains every hour in each direction. Before that, regional trains ran here, mainly between Lauf and Hartmannshof . Additional S-Bahn trains reinforce the timetable during rush hour. In Hartmannshof there is a connection to the regional express to Weiden in the Upper Palatinate and to Schwandorf .
• A regional bus line to Hersbruck and Klingenhof stops in Henfenfeld .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Henfenfeld . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 571 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Henfenfeld
• Henfenfeld: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Municipality of Henfenfeld in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
3. ^ Result of the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020 - Henfenfeld. Retrieved on March 18, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ Municipal Council. Henfenfeld municipality, accessed on August 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ Entry on Henfenfeld's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
6. ^ Paul Pfinzing on Henfenfeld since 1530