Hohenstadt (Pommelsbrunn)

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Hohenstadt
municipality Pommelsbrunn
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 28 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 345–392 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1456  (Jul. 1, 2019)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 91224
Area code : 09154
Town view from the south
Town view from the south

The parish village Hohenstadt is located in the district of Nürnberger Land in Middle Franconia in the state of Bavaria and is one of 22 districts of the municipality of Pommelsbrunn . The place is on the road from Hersbruck to Vorra .

Geographical location

Hohenstadt lies at the foot of the Hohenstadter Fels ridge and is bordered south by the Pegnitz valley floor as a natural border and by the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line . The Högenbach flows into the Pegnitz to the south of the town center .

history

Hohenstadt was first mentioned in a document on February 21, 1307, as documented by two copy books in the Bamberg State Archives . At that time it was about a dispute over the tithe of Hohenstadt between the provost Friedrich von Truhendingen and the dean Friedrich of the St. Gangolf Monastery, in which Bishop Wülfing of Bamberg stated that "the tithe of Hohenstadt was the dean and chapter of St. Gangolf - Bamberg belongs ”. In 2007, the Hohenstädter celebrated their 700th anniversary. However, there are much older traces of settlement on the Hohenstädter Fels. On the rear side, the approx. 55 m long wall of a weir system leads around the summit. The layers and finds excavated by archaeologists were dated to the end of the earlier Iron Age (550–450 BC). The purpose of the fortification was also the namesake for the community: the basic word "stat" means "place, place, also dwelling" ( Zillinger). The settlement was a "high-instead of" or high-altitude site.

Hohenstadt was originally owned by Bamberg. Sold in 1326 to the Burgrave of Nuremberg , the Hohenzollern Friedrich IV. , Hohenstadt and Kleinviehberg formed a castle-count and later a margrave-enclave in the Hersbrucker Land for 477 years. In 1791 Hohenstadt became Prussian, in 1803 it fell to Bavaria .

For a long time, life in Hohenstadt was shaped by agriculture . Hop gardens, arable farming and dairy farming formed the mainstays of the livelihood of a rural population. Railway construction and industrialization then led to major changes. Ore was also mined and processed in ancient times; This dismantling was intensified in the middle of the 19th century, later abandoned and got a new boost in the time of National Socialism as a result of the armament. In 1953 the Hohenstadt mine was finally closed.

Since 1960, smaller companies began to settle on the former hutanger in the valley. When the building contractor Walter Maisel began to settle service companies a little later, today's PEZ (Pegnitztal shopping center) with a Markgrafensaal and Schützenhaus as well as a health center with clinic and practices was built in several stages. Since the middle of the last century, new building areas have been gradually developed: Weinberg, Rehbühlstrasse, Mittelweg, Buchäckergebiet and Kalter Brunnen.

Since the regional reform, which came into force on January 1, 1972, the place with Kleinviehberg belongs to the municipality of Pommelsbrunn.

Culture and townscape

Numerous associations and initiatives ensure a lively club life with many events in the village. The Markgrafensaal deserves special mention here, for whose operation the culture and support association Markgrafensaal Hohenstadt e. V. ensures: the spectrum ranges from opera and theater performances to art exhibitions and folk dance evenings. In addition to the church, Hohenstadt has numerous beautiful older buildings such as the half-timbered barns by Rosi Meyer or those by Schwemmer and Habermann. The mill (Happurger Straße 7) in the valley floor near the PEZ is one of them. There are monuments of rural culture that give the place its special character.

See also: List of architectural monuments in Hohenstadt

  • Mühle Happurger Strasse 7 D-5-74-147-69

  • Högenbach shortly before the confluence with the Pegnitz

  • Högenbach estuary into the Pegnitz (in the background)

Personalities

literature

  • Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenstadt district. Pommelsbrunn municipality, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .