Ludwag

Location of the city of Scheßlitz in the Bamberg district

Ludwag is an old village in the Bamberg district that has belonged to the city of Scheßlitz since the regional reform in 1978 . In March 2005 Ludwag had 145 inhabitants.

location

Ludwag is located on a hill on the road that leads from Scheßlitz to Heiligenstadt . Below the village is an extensive disused limestone quarry. The Gügel pilgrimage church is located on a mountain near Ludwag . The neighboring villages are Neudorf, Poxdorf, Kübelstein and Zeckendorf.

history

Surname

The name of the place is of Slavic origin (lud = 'people', wach = 'watch').

history

Presumably belonged Ludwag to the sites of Slavic churches , the Charlemagne in 793 as part of the Slavs Mission was founded by around 790 the Bishop of Wurzburg Berowulf commissioned, 14 mission churches for the Christianized Slavs of Main and Regnitz to build, but their position best can only be guessed.

The first documentary mention was only in the year 1061, when the place was given to the bishopric of Bamberg . In 1112 it was the manor of the Baron von Ludunbach.

On May 1, 1978, the place was incorporated into the city of Scheßlitz.

Others

A former quarry belongs to Ludwag, which is gradually being renatured . The nickname Staa-Beißer ( high German : Stein-Beißer ) comes from this quarry .

In the Sat 1 crime series Der König , episode Herz aus Gold, with Günter Strack , the quarry served as the backdrop for the final scene in 1994.

In August 2009, it served as the backdrop for guitarist Chris Mike's music video Zorro .

photos

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Parish church
Quarry

Web links

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

Silvio Janetz: Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Lower Kimmeridgian in the lower quarry of Ludwag (Frankenalb). (No longer available online.) In: geoberg.de. June 11, 2010, archived from the original on June 27, 2010 (private website of Lutz Geißler): "This text was published on November 20, 2004 on the old version of geoberg.de and was adopted."; accessed on October 26, 2018

Individual evidence

^ 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. 672 .

49.951388888889 11.0875Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ' N , 11 ° 5' E

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-1] 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. 672 .