Maierhofen (Painten)

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Maierhofen
Market Painten
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 13 ″  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 511 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 257  (1987)
Postal code : 93351
Area code : 09499
The church village of Maierhofen
The church village of Maierhofen

The church village of Maierhofen is part of the Markt Painten in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim .

geography

Maierhofen is located about two and a half kilometers southwest of the center of Painten and is at an altitude of about 510  m above sea level. NHN in the eastern part of the southern Franconian Alb . The place is located in the south-eastern part of the historical Tangrintel area , a predominantly wooded plateau that lies between the rivers of the Altmühl and the Schwarzen Laber .

history

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the village became part of the independent rural community of Neulohe , which also included the three wastelands Falterhof , Prexlhof and Wieseneck . The seat of the rural community Neulohe was not the eponymous place itself, but Maierhofen. In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria carried out in the 1970s , Maierhofen was incorporated into Painten in 1972 together with the entire municipality of Neulohe. At the end of the 1980s Maierhofen had 257 inhabitants.

Attractions

With the Catholic Church of St. Sebastian, a castle and two small farmhouses, there are four architectural monuments in Maierhofen. List of architectural monuments in Maierhofen . The castle, built in the late 16th century, reached in 1591, together with the Hofmark Maierhofen even in the possession of Abbot Gregor IV. Of Prüfening . In the 18th century, the electoral architect Henrico Zuccalli from Munich owned the palace. The palace area is currently in private use

traffic

The district road KEH 16 connects Maierhofen to the public road network, it runs through the town of Painten in the northeast and southwest towards Baiersdorf .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maierhofen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online
  2. ^ Description of Tangrintel on a private website
  3. ↑ Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 654
  4. ↑ Population of Maierhofen (1987)
  5. ↑ List of monuments for painters (PDF) of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (LfD), page 1