Horsdorf

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View from Staffelberg to Horsdorf, 2010

Horsdorf is a district of Bad Staffelstein in Upper Franconia . The village has about 200 inhabitants and is located in the Lautertal . At the national competition Our village should be more beautiful , it received the gold plaque in 1995. In 1997, the European competition Entente Florale Europe won the Gold Award. In Horsdorf, vines were grown on an area of ​​5.08 hectares in 1887, and viticulture became unprofitable due to the phylloxera attack . Today there is again a cultivated vineyard parcel where white wine is grown. Horsdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1272. In 1950 the community Horsdorf consisted of the villages Horsdorf with 242 inhabitants and Loffeld with 274 inhabitants as well as the wasteland Eichelsee with 10 inhabitants.

Nickname

The Horsdorf residents have been referred to as feather blowers for centuries . The exact origin of the name is unknown, but it goes back to the technique of feather slitting, with which one could produce a type of false down . To this end, the women of the village met until the middle of the 20th century and cut off the hard keels from the feathers. Since the remains of the feather were then blown off the table, the name could come from this.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothea Fastnacht: Staffelstein. Former district of Staffelstein. Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 5: Staffelstein. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7696-6861-2 . P. 164
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 999 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b CHS: What is it with the "feather blosers"? In: Obermaintagblatt. No. 197, Volume 155, Obermaintagblatt Verlag, Lichtenfels, August 26, 2011, p. 23.

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E