Massenbach (Ellingen)

Massenbach City of Ellingen Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	435 m above sea level NN
Residents :	272
Incorporation :	July 1, 1971
Postal code :	91792
Area code :	09141
Massenbach Chapel

Massenbach is a district of the town of Ellingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen with just under 300 inhabitants.

location

Massenbach is located directly north of the federal highway 13 , between Ellingen and Stopfenheim . The town of Ellingen is around two kilometers to the east. Just to the west in the Kreutfeld corridor is the source of the Riedgraben , which flows through the town largely through pipes and flows into the Swabian Rezat in Ellingen . The Hörleinsgraben runs some distance to the north and the Mittelbühlgraben to the south . To the south-east of Massenbach is the forest area Dürre Lohe , which belongs to the Ellingen Forest .

history

Until the municipal reform , Massenbach and its district of Hörlbach were an independent municipality. On July 1, 1971, both places were incorporated into the city of Ellingen.

Attractions

In the vicinity of Massenbach there are several old settlements, Celtic burial mounds and the remains of a Roman road. At the house of Massenbach 2 there is a baroque statue of the Madonna from the 18th century. In addition to this statue, the only architectural monuments in Massenbach are the single- storey saddle roof building Massenbach 12 from the 18th century and the single-storey, gabled farmhouse Massenbach 8 with a pitched roof from the mid-19th century. The town's ecumenical chapel was built in 1970 as a memorial to the completed land consolidation. The predecessor Chapel Lady Chapel was built by a local man out of gratitude that it during the Russian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte was nothing happening in the 1812th

See also : List of architectural monuments in Massenbach

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
2. ^ History of the Massenbach Chapel