Markertshofen

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Markertshofen
Community Frankenhardt
Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 6 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 411 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 170  (2008)
Postal code : 74586
Area code : 07959

Markertshofen is a suburb of the community of Frankenhardt , in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg .

Geography and geology

Reed sandstone. Abandoned quarry near Markertshofen

Markertshofen is located on a small valley spider in the floodplain and on both sides of the slopes of the meadow valley of the upper Nesselbach , which runs from north to south , at around 400 to 425  m above sea level. NHN height in the plaster keuper . The surrounding heights in the west and east, rarely much more than 1 km away, are forested at least in their highest positions, in the north throughout. In a south-westerly direction they reach up to 435  m above sea level. NHN , there are planed areas of the Corbulabank (former name "Engelhofer Platte") of the Gipskeupers, on which arable farming is carried out. From here to the north the immediately wooded terrain rises to over 500  m above sea level. NHN northwest of the village, here the flat plateau of the Hahnenberg begins in the silica sandstone , which lies in a large and wide semicircular arc north around Markertshofen. The heights immediately east of the village form larger arable plateaus here of the reed sandstone at up to almost 470  m above sea level. NHN , behind which in a further distance the forest humps of the silica sandstone 515  m above sea level. NHN reaching murderer raises. Between this and the village are two abandoned stone pits in the reed sandstone on a path. Southwest of it extends from east to west in initially steep Lehmschlucht ( killer blade ) an inflow of Nessel stream , the Schenkenbach which successively two pent small fish ponds flows, together Schenkensee mentioned. On the south bank of the upper of the two stands a worm-shaped mound of earth excavated from the foot of the slope, the location of a castle that has long since been abandoned . After a little more than 3 km over the Obersontheim district, almost from the start, below this tributary, this tributary just under one kilometer south of Markertshofen, the Nesselbach flows into the Bühler .

The natural boundary between the Vellberger Bay sub-area of the Hohenloher and Haller levels and the Burgberg-Vorhöhen sub -area and Speltach Bay of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains runs through the village.

history

In 1886, Markertshofen was given a number of 211 inhabitants who lived in 29 houses. Today (2019) the place has about five dozen house numbers.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Markertshofen is located on the provincial road 1066 Crailsheim-Löwenstein roughly in the middle between Crailsheim in the north-east and Gaildorf in the south-west, at the foot of a slope with a 70 m gradient from Crailsheim. The closest places are northeast Gründelhardt and southwest Obersontheim . In the direction of Crailsheim the A 6 is reached after about 20 km at Satteldorf, in the opposite direction the district town of Schwäbisch Hall after about 19 km.

education

Due to the insufficient number of pupils, Markertshofen does not have its own school. Most students attend first the primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule Schenk Friedrich School in Obersontheim, for the higher levels of secondary schools especially in Bühlertann , Schwäbisch Hall and Crailsheim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

literature

  • Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Markertshofen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 443-444 ( digitized version ).
  • Gottfried Stieber: Markertshofen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 579-580 ( digitized version ).
  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 6925 Obersontheim
  • Geological map of Baden-Württemberg 1: 25,000, published by the State Geological Office 1982, sheet no. 6925 Obersontheim with explanatory booklet.

Web links

Wikisource: Markertshofen  - in the chapter on Gründelhardt of the description of the Oberamt Crailsheim from 1884