Langlau

Langlau community Pfofeld Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	405-455 m
Residents :	337
Postal code :	91738
Area code :	09834
Location of Langlau in Bavaria
Langlau in town

Langlau is a district of the Pfofeld municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .

The village is located in the Franconian Lake District , just under a kilometer from the south bank of the Kleiner Brombachses and around 2.5 kilometers northeast of Pfofeld. Immediately adjacent to the west is the neighboring town of Rehenbühl . Larger places in the area are Pleinfeld and Gunzenhausen . The Espangraben rises in Langlau and flows into the Kleiner Brombachsee. The Altort is located south of the Gunzenhausen – Pleinfeld railway line , while the further north was built in the second half of the 20th century.

The formerly agriculturally structured village experienced a rapid transformation into a tourist destination with the construction of the Brombachsee in the 1970s / 80s. The Langlau campsite is located directly on the lakeshore . It was also created during this time and houses a campsite , a hotel, several restaurants and some other infrastructure. There is an extensive sandy beach, a variety of leisure activities and an extensive network of hiking and cycling trails.

North-east of the village on the south bank of the Kleiner Brombachsee is the peninsula nature reserve in the Kleiner Brombachsee .

The district road WUG 1 leads east past the place and connects it with Absberg , Pfofeld and the state road  2222 towards Gunzenhausen and Pleinfeld. The Gunzenhausen – Pleinfeld railway line, also known as the Seenland Railway, runs through the town in an east-west direction, with its own stopping point.

There is a military area with 60 bunkers in the municipality. In 1935 the construction of a main air ammunition plant for the production of ground-based anti-aircraft guns began. Up to 2000 men and women lived on the site until the end of the war, including prisoners of war, deportees and SS guards. From 1953 to 1993 a piano manufacturer used parts of the site with up to 300 employees. From 1960 to 1992 the site housed the US Army's Corps Depot, and until the end of 2007 it housed an ammunition facility (Muna) of the Bundeswehr ( Corps Depot 257). The over 100 hectare site can be viewed in many places and is still fenced with barbed wire today. The high costs of clearing up the old military contamination hinder plans for conversion . In August 2020, plans to build a holiday park became public.

Picture gallery

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  The old town

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  The station

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  Part of Langlau campsite

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  Peninsula nature reserve in the Kleiner Brombachsee

Web link

Langlau on the Pfofeld website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Langlau campsite
2. ↑ falk-report.de: What was the Muna? Friedrich Hetzner documented them , loaded on August 26, 2020
3. ↑ Donaukurier : Large holiday village planned on Brombachsee: Center Parcs is planning around 800 holiday homes , from August 16, 2020, loaded on August 26, 2020