Lettenreuth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lettenreuth
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 287 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 560  (Jul 31, 2017)
Incorporation : January 1, 1977
Postal code : 96247
Area code : 09574
Village linden
Village linden

Lettenreuth is part of the Upper Franconian municipality of Michelau in Upper Franconia in the Lichtenfels district .

geography

The parish village is about eight kilometers northeast of Lichtenfels . The place is traversed by the Brunnenbach, formerly called Nonnenbach, a right tributary of the Main . State road 2191 leads through Lettenreuth from Weidhausen near Coburg to Marktzeuln and the district road LIF 5 to Schwürbitz .

history

The first documentary mention was in 1285, when Dietrich von Kunstadt handed over the whole tithe in "Rvthelin" to the Sonnefeld monastery . However, the assignment to Lettenreuth instead of the neighboring town of Oberreuth is not clear. The first definite mention was made from 1326 to 1328 with the entry "Rewt at Marktzeuln has eight and a half fief" in the land register of the diocese of Bamberg . The place Lettenreuth mentions 1290 as the year of the first mention.

In 1754 there were 49 households with around 200 inhabitants in Letten- and Oberreuth. Many craftsmen, especially basket makers , lived in the place. In 1801 Lettenreuth, which formed a community with Oberreuth, belonged to the Bamberg monastery and bordered the Principality of Saxony-Hildburghausen . The diocesan ruler was the Würzburg bishop. The place was subject to all high and low jurisdictions of the bishopric. The gentlemen of Redwitz zu Melanger owned the tithe. In addition to the church, Lettenreuth had a community brewery and a community forge.

In 1818 Lettenreuth belonged to the Obermainkreis , which had 322 inhabitants in 1840. In 1862, the village was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian district office of Lichtenfels . In 1875 Lettenreuth had 345 residents and 126 buildings. The church village had its own Catholic school and belonged to the district of the Catholic parish in Graitz, three kilometers away . In 1900 the rural community of Lettenreuth comprised an area of ​​534.08 hectares, 467 inhabitants, of which 457 were Catholic and 10 were Protestant, and 73 residential buildings. 396 people lived in 63 residential buildings in Lettenreuth. The place belonged to the district of the Protestant parish Michelau. A power supply existed from 1902. Since 1921, Lettenreuth has been an independent parish. In 1925 492 people lived in 78 residential buildings in the village. The Protestants were parish in Schwürbitz. 1950 the place had 616 inhabitants and 85 residential buildings. In 1970 Lettenreuth had 612 inhabitants and in 1987 564 inhabitants as well as 161 residential buildings with 204 apartments.

On January 1, 1977 Lettenreuth was incorporated into the community of Michelau.

Lettenreuth has meanwhile become a residential village. The population works mainly in industry and the service sector in the neighboring towns.

Attractions

St. Laurence

On July 4, 1753, the foundation stone for the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius was laid. It was the replacement building for an old hall chapel probably from the 12th century. It was financed by a chapel foundation. The baroque country church was built according to plans by the Bamberg bishopric engineer Johann Jakob Michael Küchel with a central room. It is a two-axis exposed sandstone block building with a slated mansard roof and a ridge turret and is one of the most remarkable country churches on the Upper Main . The consecration was carried out on September 29, 1759 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Daniel von Gebsattel.

The Bavarian list of monuments lists eleven monuments for Lettenreuth .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gemeinde-michelau.de: For Lettenreuth and Oberreuth
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Directory of brook and river areas in Bavaria, Main river area, as of 2016, Brunnenbach area code number 241512, page 19
  3. ↑ Bavarian Environmental Atlas
  4. ↑ a b Dieter George: Lichtenfels; The old circle . Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 6: Lichtenfels. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2008, ISBN 978 3 7696 6862 9 . P. 119 f.
  5. ↑ a b c d gemeinde-michelau.de
  6. ↑ Bavaria 1840-1952: Historical municipality register . The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952. In: Contributions to the statistics of Bavaria . Issue 192. Munich 1953, p. 151 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1077 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized ).
  8. ↑ K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Directory of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with alphabetical register of places . LXV. Issue of the contributions to the statistics of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1904, Section II, Sp. 1073 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1108 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria - edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 . Issue 169 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1952, DNB  453660975 , Section II, Sp. 959 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 163 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ 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. 318 ( digitized version ).
  13. ↑ steinach-rodach-main.de