Letten (Lauf an der Pegnitz)

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Latvians
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 29 ″  N , 11 ° 16 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 340 m above sea level NN
Residents : 70  (Dec 31, 2008)
Postal code : 91207
Area code : 09123

The village of Letten is a district of the city of Lauf an der Pegnitz in the district of Nürnberger Land in Middle Franconia / Bavaria . It is located in the southeast of Lauf on this side and on the other side of the Federal Motorway 9 .

history

Latvian mansion

Originally, Letten and Wetzendorf were an imperial estate. In 1401 King Ruprecht enfeoffed Herdegen Valzner and Jobst Valzner with the court. In the period that followed, they created numerous ponds and built a seat to protect them. It was destroyed in the First Margrave War. The estate then passed to a number of Nuremberg patrician families , first the Rieter von Letten . By marriage, the estate came to Kaspar Kreß von Kressenstein in 1490 . His grandson Christoph II. Kreß had the “little manor house” renewed in 1544 by the Nuremberg master builder Paulus Behaim , which was destroyed again in 1552 during the Second Margrave War. Restored by 1558, the seat was passed on to her second husband Johann Pfinzing von Henfenfeld by the widow of Christoph II. Kreß in 1573 . In 1603 his son Karl Pfinzing had the seat extensively rebuilt, with a sandstone base and half-timbered upper floor with a gable roof. In 1622/29, through his marriage to Klara Magdalena Pfinzing, Christoph Jakob Muffel was owned , then he was given byakening wood and then again by Kreß in 1743, which acquired the seat and its accessories for 17,200 guilders. At the beginning of the 19th century, Georg Christoph Wilhelm Kreß sold the Letten estate to the hop farmer Georg Rögner, who converted the manor to meet the requirements of his agriculture. Presumably it was through him that the trenches, which were still filled with water in the 18th century, were closed and mostly backfilled, and the drawbridge at the front with the two flanking round towers was removed. On the ground floor, a round arch portal once led into a large threshing floor, which was converted into a stables while the portal was closed. In 1993 the half-timbered facade of the manor was exposed and restored.

There is also a larger country hotel in the village. You can reach the place from the state road St 2240 . In the east the place is bordered by forest, otherwise by meadows and fields. The hamlet has about 30 buildings. On January 1, 1972, the municipality of Wetzendorf, to which Letten belonged, was incorporated into Lauf an der Pegnitz.

literature

  • Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lauf.de: Population (accessed on 8 July 2015)
  2. ↑ History and quotations in the following from: Giersch / Schlunk / von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 509 .