Herzogenreuth

Town center

Herzogenreuth (dialect: Herzareud) is a parish village in Franconian Switzerland with 162 inhabitants and part of the Markt Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia .

geography

Geographical location

Herzogenreuth's location in the Heiligenstadt market in Upper Franconia

Herzogenreuth is at 556 m above sea level. NN the highest village in the Bamberg district and is located northeast of the Geisberg . Here on the plateaus of the Jura you have a view of the Fichtel Mountains in good weather .

Neighborhoods

Laibarös , Tiefenellern , Lindach , Heroldsmühle

Townscape

With its Romanesque choir tower and the cemetery wall, which is more than a meter thick, the church of St. Nicholas still looks like a village castle.

church
Townscape
Fire station
Road to Herzogenreuth

history

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1255, when the Bamberg bishop pledged the village of Herzogengeriuth to Chunemund von Giech for 150 silver marks .

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community was incorporated into the Heiligenstadt market in Upper Franconia.

Old descriptions

In Biedermann's topographical description from 1752, Herzogenreuth is described as follows:

“Herzogenreuth, a village with a Catholic church on the heights below the Scheßlitz office, 4 hours from the residence, whose teams are partly responsible for the bishopric and partly for the venerable cathedral chapter in Bamberg. The church, called St. Nikolai, is a branch of Tiefenbelz and is ordered the third Sunday at any time. "

literature

Dieter Zöberlein: Community chronicle Markt Heiligenstadt i. OFr. - Published on the occasion of the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the granting of market rights to Heiligenstadt i. OFr. Heiligenstadt 1995

Web links

Commons : Herzogenreuth - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Map services ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the BfN

^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 672 .

↑ Dieter Zöberlein: Community chronicle market Heiligenstadt i. OFr.

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[2] 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 672 .