Mandlau

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Mandlau
City of Pottenstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 26 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 459 m above sea level NN
Residents : 35
Postal code : 91278
Area code : 09243

Mandlau is a district of the town of Pottenstein in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in northern Bavaria .

location

The hamlet is in the Franconian Switzerland on the open ground, just under 3 km northeast of Pottenstein on the district road BT 26 .

history

The place name comes from the Middle High German word coat for pine and roughly means pine forest . During the Thirty Years' War in 1631 Protestant horsemen wreaked havoc.

The district of the former municipality of Haßlach was incorporated into Pottenstein together with its main town in 1972 as part of the municipal reform.

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