Kehl (Weissenburg)

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Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 523 m
Residents : 120
Postal code : 91781
Area code : 09141
Kehl (Bavaria)
Throat

Location of Kehl in Bavaria
Kehler bell tower
Kehler bell tower

Kehl is a district of Weißenburg in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ). The village has 120 inhabitants.

Geographical location

Kehl located on the north edge of the Frankish Alb ( Frankenalb belonging) Weißenburger Alb , northeast from Wülzburger Berg ( 620  m , with the fortress Wülzburg ) and north-west of Laubbichel ( 635.7  m ; the airfield Weissenburg-Wülzburg ) to which the landscape each time rises steeply. It is located in the Altmühltal Nature Park around 3 km (as the crow flies ) east of the city center of Weißenburg at heights of 530 to 560  m above sea level. NHN . To the north of the Bösbach ( Rohrbach , Klingenbach ) are the villages of Gänswirthshaus and Rohrwalk , and beyond that the Rohrberg ( 603.4  m ) rises .

history

The name of the village comes from its location on the elongated, somewhat flat incision of the mountain, called the throat . Kehl was first mentioned in 1250. At that time it belonged to the nearby Benedictine monastery of Wülzburg. In the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) the village was destroyed, in 1655 the reconstruction took place. Together with Niederhofen , Kehl was part of the municipality of Oberhochstatt until May 1, 1978 , but was reclassified to Weißenburg during the municipal reform.

The Ramsau castle stables were probably located north of Kehl . To the south was a settlement from the Hallstatt period and several grave mounds that have been leveled today .

Fruit garden and bell tower

The three hectares large fruit teaching garden Kehl was once a deer park. In 1995 it was transformed into a fruit garden with 82 different types of fruit trees .

The Kehl bell tower was built in 1950 after Oberhochstatt had received a new bell for its church and a bell could no longer be accommodated.

Architectural monuments

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberhochstatt - the village on the Jura slope (description of the former municipality), on weissenburg.de
  2. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
  3. ↑ Kehl Fruit School, on weissenburg.info