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Ahorntal municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 2 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 393  (383-420)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 236  (1987)
Incorporation : 1972
Postal code : 95491
Area code : 09202
The Ahorntaler district of Kirchahorn
The Ahorntaler district of Kirchahorn

Kirchahorn is a Franconian parish village that belongs to the municipality of Ahorntal .

geography

View of the village of Kirchahorn, seen from the north-north-west

The parish village in the north-eastern part of Franconian Switzerland is one of 27 officially named parts of the municipality of Ahorntal in the south-eastern part of Upper Franconia . The 393  m above sea level. NHN located place is about 17 kilometers away from the northeast lying center of Bayreuth .

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the shelter village denunciation of Kirchahorn the sovereignty rich immediate nobleman, located in the the Frankish knights circle belonging Ritter Canton Gebürg had organized. The noble family von Schönborn exercised the village and community rule . The high jurisdiction was to the Bishopric of Bamberg belonging Office Waischenfeld than cents Office to. When the imperial knighthood territories in Franconian Switzerland were mediated as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Kirchahorn was annexed by the Electorate of Palatinate-Baiern on November 1, 1805, in breach of the imperial constitution . The village thus became part of the New Bavarian territories that were taken over by the "Napoleonic land consolidation" , which was only subsequently legalized in July 1806 with the Rhine Confederation Act.

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, Kirchahorn became a rural community with the Second Community Edict in 1818 , to which the towns of Dentlein , Klausstein , Neumühle , Rabenstein , Schweinsmühle , Weiher , Windmühle , Wünschendorf and Zauppenberg also belonged. In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, on April 1, 1971, the Christanz community was incorporated with the hamlet of Brünnberg . The thus enlarged municipality of Kirchahorn became at the beginning of 1972 part of the newly formed municipality of Ahorntal with the administrative seat in Kirchahorn. In 1987 Kirchahorn had 841 inhabitants.

traffic

The St 2185 coming from the northeast of Hundshof crosses the village and continues in a south-westerly direction to Oberailsfeld . Municipal roads connect Kirchahorn with Christanz, Dentlein, Weiher and Wünschendorf. The public transport serving the village at a stop of the bus lines 388 and 396 of the VGN . The quickest train stations are in Creußen , Schnabelwaid and Pegnitz . The next long-distance train station is the main train station in Bayreuth .

Attractions

In and around Kirchahorn there are seven listed buildings, including the local parish church, a chapel and two cross stones.

literature

Web links

Commons : Kirchahorn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 292 ( digitized version ). Retrieved June 26, 2020
  2. Kirchahorn in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 26, 2020.
  3. Geographical location of Kirchahorn in the Bayern Atlas , accessed on June 26, 2020
  4. Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
  5. Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
  6. Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . S. 66 .
  7. ^ A b Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kirchahorn . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 99 ( digitized version ).
  8. Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 35 .
  9. Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 106-107 .
  10. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .