Leupoldstein

Leupoldstein City of Betzenstein Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 42 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 28" E
Height :	547 (543-553) m above sea level NHN
Residents :	160 (1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	91282
Area code :	09244
	The Leupoldstein district of Betzenstein

Leupoldstein is a Franconian village that belongs to Betzenstein .

geography

The north of Pegnitz-Kuppenalb located village is one of 23 officially designated districts in Upper Franconia town of Betzenstein. It is located about two and a half kilometers northwest of the center of Betzenstein and is at an altitude of 547 m above sea level. NHN .

history

Due to the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the village became an independent rural community to which the hamlet of Altenwiesen had also belonged. In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , the entire municipality of Leupoldstein was incorporated into the city of Betzenstein on January 1, 1972. In 1987 Leupoldstein had 160 inhabitants.

traffic

The federal road 2 runs through the place coming from the southwest of Hiltpoltstein and continues in a northeast direction to Weidensees . In the northeastern local area of Leupoldstein, the main road is crossed by the state road St 2163 , which connects Weidensees with Betzenstein. Access to the Federal Motorway 9 is possible at the Plech junction about seven kilometers to the south-east.

Sightseeing

There are two architectural monuments in Leupoldstein, namely two stables from the 18th and 19th centuries.

literature

Josef Pfanner: District of Pegnitz . In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1965, ISBN 3-7696-9864-9 .
Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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 .

Web links

Commons : Leupoldstein - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bavarian official guide for Leupoldstein , accessed on September 7, 2019
Leupoldstein in the BayernAtlas , accessed on September 7, 2019
Leupoldstein on a historical map , accessed on September 7, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 293 ( digitized version ). Retrieved September 7, 2019
^ Leupoldstein in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 7, 2019.
↑ Geographical location of Leupoldstein in the BayernAtlas , accessed on September 7, 2019
^ 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 .

[Einwohner-1] 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. 293 ( digitized version ). Retrieved September 7, 2019

[BLO-2] Leupoldstein in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 7, 2019.

[ByAtlas-3] Geographical location of Leupoldstein in the BayernAtlas , accessed on September 7, 2019

[HiGVZ_697-4] 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 .