Meyernberg

Meyernberg

Meyernberg Castle

Meyernberg is a district of the city of Bayreuth .

location

The district of Meyernberg is located in the west of the city on the southern slope of the Red Hill .

Meyernberg town center with an old inn

history

The nucleus of the town center was a single farm, which was first mentioned in 1398 under the name "Poxreuth". In 1753 the farm, which was transformed into a manor by Johann Gottlob von Meyern, was renamed Meyernberg. Around 1850, Duke Alexander von Württemberg was the owner of the redesigned building, which is therefore also known as the "Ducal Palace".

In the 18th century, von Meyern had several trump houses built below the castle in order to promote silkworm breeding . As a result, further houses were built downhill to represent the old town center. The place on the hillside was never a farming village, but a manorial manor.

Until it was incorporated into Bayreuth on April 1, 1939, Meyernberg remained a small village that only began to grow dynamically in the 1960s.

description

Today's Meyernberg consists predominantly of post-war buildings, the spectrum of which ranges from single-family houses to high-rise buildings. The oldest building is the castle, which is used as the municipal garden department and by the volunteer fire brigade. The restaurant at the beginning of Donndorfer Straße can be traced back to around 1750, the first small settlement houses on Sterntalerring were built during the Third Reich .

traffic

The main axis is Meyernberger Straße. The district is served by the bus routes 305 and 309 of the transport association Greater Nuremberg (VGN) .

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  Meyernberger Strasse with Protestant church

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  Old houses below the castle

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  Herrnholzweg

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  View over Meyernberger Strasse to Buchstein

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  Single-family houses and high-rise buildings on Sauerbruchstrasse

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  War memorial

literature

• Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - rediscovered . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-60-9 .

Web links

Commons : Meyernberg (Bayreuth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of Meyernberg from 1850 at bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 . Page 600
2. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered, p. 168
3. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered, p. 170

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 11.7 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 2.9 ″  E