Hubmersberg

Hubmersberg municipality Pommelsbrunn Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	463 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	53  (Jul 1, 2009)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	91224
Area code :	09154
Townscape

The village of Hubmersberg is a district of the Central Franconian community of Pommelsbrunn located on the high plateau of the Hersbrucker Alb . The place has 53 inhabitants and is located near the border with the Upper Palatinate .

history

The first written reference to the existence of Hubmersberg came around the year 1275, when it was mentioned in the Baierischen Salbuch as Hofmansperge . The Urbar the provost Hersbruck named the hamlet of about 1,300 as Haffmansperg , 1326 was then it Hofmansperg become. In the Bohemian Salbüchlein Emperor Charles IV. The place was finally called Hofmansperg or Hofmansberch in 1366/68 and in the 16th century it was called Hubmansperg .

Due to the barreness of the Alb plateau , the development of the place took place relatively slowly. In 1275 it consisted of only one courtyard and three Huben (i.e. half courtyards), all of which were owned by the Bergen monastery near Neuburg an der Donau . In 1499 the place comprised five lifts and in 1550 three full and four half lifts. In the following centuries, not much changed, so that the place still consists of a few houses and a few outbuildings.

It was only with the establishment of a hotel in the 20th century that a development set in which Hubmersberg gained a certain degree of awareness in the course of increasing near tourism. The place is still mainly characterized by agriculture.

Up until the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria , Hubmersberg was an independent rural community, to which the places Heuchling , Hegendorf and Fischbrunn also belonged. On January 1, 1972, Hubmersberg was incorporated into Pommelsbrunn.

Concentration camp memorial

The concentration camp memorial near Hubmersberg

About one and a half kilometers southwest of Hubmersberg is the concentration camp memorial , which commemorates the cremation site of victims of the Nazi regime. The memorial is located in a small forest clearing near the narrow country road that connects Hubmersberg with the Pegnitz valley. On a November night in 1944, the corpses of around 300 inmates of the Hersbruck subcamp, who had succumbed to the rigors of detention and forced labor, were cremated there.

literature

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

Web links

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

• Hubmersberg on a private website
• Location of Hubmersberg in the BayernAtlas (accessed on October 16, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Municipality of Pommelsbrunn, Hubmersberg district , accessed on March 9, 2016
2. ^ Karl Pfeiffer's printing and publishing house: Nürnberger Land . Page 343
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 481 .
4. ↑ Memorial sites in Hubmersberg ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.