Löhlitz

Löhlitz City of Waischenfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	394 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	209  (1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Incorporated into:	Plankenfels
Postal code :	91344
Area code :	09204
Aerial view of Löhlitz

The village of Löhlitz is a district of the town of Waischenfeld in Upper Franconia .

geography

Löhlitz is located in an old Kerbtal about two kilometers southwest of the source of the Schmierbach, which flows into the Wiesent at the end of the valley near Nankendorf . It is located about three kilometers north-northeast of Waischenfeld and is at an altitude of 394 meters.

location

The iron sandstone heights are mostly covered with pine forest. The Hüllberg is the southern extension of the darkly wooded Appenberg, the northern end of which is separated from the Plankenstein by the Truppach Valley . The Löhlitzer Wald has several districts, the names of which often refer to the local border between the districts of Ebermannstadt and Bayreuth , which is identical to the old Bamberg and Bayreuth border.

At the Löhlitzer Anger, east of Nankendorf, an area begins that bears the name Landsgemeinde , which still occurs several times in eastern Franconia , and extends over the forest mountains to Weiher, Eichig and Kirchahorn in the Ahorntal. The rural community in which only very specific legal villages had a share is a marrow forest with once cooperative use by the people who settled in the Centene or Forestis Waischenfeld and Nankendorf on the original Königsboden.

The Ansitz Vorstube (Forsthube) seems to have had a northern counterpart in Löhlitz itself, where the Löhlitz Tower Hill Castle stood near the Schmierbach and a walled castle on the western slope by today's inn. The tower hill complex in the floodplain is partly in a house that was later built on top of it with a farm building and oven. That it was a round tower can be seen from the remains. The ditch was fed by a trickle from the floodplain to the east . The lubricant stream flows close by. From the rampart remnants are still visible. The name Schlosshof , which is common among villagers, refers to the district on the west bank of the stream, while the tower hill complex in the floodplain is known as the moated castle .

history

The village of Löhlitz was first mentioned in documents as Lelaycz in 1380 . Around 1500 there were 20 taxable and interestable people, including a rear seat of the Bayreuth town church on a Selde.

The moated castle was still the residence of a Contz von Christanz in 1453 (a branch of the Groß von Trockau; in Christanz in the Ahorntal a tower hill with a moat and rampart in the middle of the village was still visible in remains). A fiefdom of the Egloffsteiners sat on the estate of the western slope , from whom the manor fell to the bishopric of Bamberg in 1682; Until the secularization (1803) the Bamberg hunter ( hunter's house ) was located in it . The Schafhof, located about one kilometer southwest, also belonged to the manor.

Due to the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the place became an independent rural community, to which the wasteland of Schafhof also belonged. In the course of the first phase of the communal territorial reform in Bavaria carried out in the 1970s , the municipality of Löhlitz was incorporated into Plankenfels on January 1, 1972 . On May 1, 1978, the reorganization to Waischenfeld took place. In 1987 Löhlitz had 209 inhabitants.

Surname

The place name was subject to constant change until 1692 and the interpretation is considered controversial. From 1380 Lelaycz, through 1398 Lelaz, 1422 Leleitz or Leletz, through 1452 Lelicz, the name, which was also documented as Löhlitz, has existed since 1692 until today. It is of Slavic origin and means people, members of the Lelek . It probably comes from Slavic clearing farmers who were settled there with their families in the Middle Ages.

Web links

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

• Löhlitz on the Waischenfeldseite ( Memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Löhlitz in the BayernAtlas (accessed June 1, 2017)
• Löhlitz on a historical map (BayernAtlas Klassik) (accessed June 1, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Löhlitz (1987)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Löhlitz in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online
3. ↑ Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 681
4. ↑ Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 677