Igelsbach (Absberg)

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Igelsbach
Absberg market
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 440  (427-465)  m
Residents : 186  (December 28, 2005)
Postal code : 91720
Area code : 09175
Igelsbach (Bavaria)
Igelsbach

Location of Igelsbach in Bavaria
Igelsbach No. 86
Igelsbach No. 86
Aerial photograph Igelsbach (2020). In the right background Igelsbachsee and Großer Brombachsee

Igelsbach is a district of the Absberg market in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place has almost 200 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of between 427 meters and 465 meters above sea level.

Geography and traffic

The village is located in the hilly landscape of the Spalter hill country near the Igelsbachsee in the middle of the Franconian Lake District . The Schafweihergraben , the Klingenbach , the Hopfstattgraben and the Eilenbach , all tributaries of the Igelsbach flowing through the village, have their source in the vicinity of the village . This flows into the Igelsbachsee about two kilometers southeast. The sheep pond is on the outskirts . Absberg is about two kilometers as the crow flies. To the south-east lies the nature reserve " Stauwurzel" of the Igelsbachsee, which has been designated since 1989 . Neighboring towns are (clockwise, starting with the north) Kalbensteinberg , Fünfbronn , Keilberg , Stockheim , Absberg, Geiselsberg , Graefensteinberg , Seitersdorf and Obererlbach . The municipal boundary to the town of Spalt in the Roth district runs not far to the east. The federal highway 466 , from Gunzenhausen to Schwabach runs three kilometers west of the village. There is a bus connection to the nearby Gunzenhausen. Local roads connect Ort with the surrounding villages as well as with the district roads WUG 1 and WUG 21 as well as with the district roads RH 6 and RH 18 .

history

Igelsbach was first mentioned in 1326. In 1846 there are 35 houses, 38 families and 180  souls registered there. In 1875, 199 people with seven horses and 159 cattle lived in 61 buildings in the village. Until the municipality reform , which came into force on May 1, 1978, the place belonged to the independent municipality of Kalbensteinberg .

Listed house Igelsbach No. 62

To the northwest of the village there is a Celtic square hill . The buildings Igelsbach 20 and Igelsbach 62 are under monument protection. See the list of architectural monuments in Absberg # Igelsbach .

Architectural monuments

See: List of architectural monuments in Igelsbach

Personalities

The Austrian writer Hans Heinrich Formann (* 1939) lived in Igelsbach from 1980 to 2016.

Web links

Commons : Igelsbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Nigelsbach , in Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  2. ↑ Nature reserve 54 - Reservoir root of Igelsbachsee, districts Roth and Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , government of Middle Franconia , accessed on February 23, 2015
  3. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 130
  4. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. […] With an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875. Munich, 1877, column 120 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 730 .
  6. ↑ List of monuments for Absberg , Bavarian List of Monuments , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf)