Kautzenhof
The place Kautzenhof is in the municipality Pullenreuth in the district Tirschenreuth , administrative region Upper Palatinate , Bavaria . The stone forest surrounds the village.
geography
Kautzenhof is a scattered settlement with eleven houses and 45 inhabitants and is located at about 564-580 meters above sea level . The Kautzenschlag hill flanks the town to the north; in the west the terrain rises to the so-called forest house. The film Krambambuli was shot here in 1998 ; the forest house was the home of the forester and his wife. The forest house is 822 meters above sea level, was built in 1899 and was inhabited and managed until 1959. The elevation decreases towards the east, but increases again after a few hundred meters. In the south there is a road with a nine percent gradient down to the neighboring village of Trevesen . Neighboring villages to Kautzenhof are Haselbrunn , Lochau and Trevesen.
history
Kautzenhof was first mentioned in a document in 1596, and since 1818 it has belonged to the Trevesen community. During the regional reform, Trevesen came to the municipality of Pullenreuth on January 1, 1972.
Surname
The name Kautzenhof goes back to the dialect word Keitzahuaf and probably means something like court of the owl. Apparently there once lived a very strange hermit, a strange owl.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 495 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ' N , 11 ° 59' E