Mittelhembach

Mittelhembach Schwanstetten market Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	217  (2014)
Postal code :	90596
Area code :	09170

Mittelhembach is a district of the Schwanstetten market in the Roth district of Central Franconia .

location

The cluster village is located one kilometer west of the Schwand district , about 18 kilometers south of Nuremberg and is largely surrounded by forest. The Hembach flows south past the place and crosses here in a stately 120 meter long and 9 meter deep culvert under the Main-Danube Canal , which borders the place to the west.

history

Mittelhembach was first mentioned in a document in 1363. The exact date of origin is unknown, but it can be presumed shortly after the neighboring communities in the early 12th century. The original four farmsteads belonged to the area of ​​influence of the Margraves of Ansbach in the 14th century. Nine courtyards are known from 1623. The memorials in Mittelhembach are an atonement cross from the 15th century and a wayside shrine, 17/18. Century. During the construction of the Main-Danube Canal, these were in danger of going off, so they were relocated and are now in the center of the village. In 1757 a widow who had poisoned her five-year-old child was charged at the Schwand judicial office and beheaded with the sword. In the course of the regional reform , the municipality of Leerstetten , to which Mittelhembach belonged, was incorporated into Schwanstetten on May 1, 1978 , which acquired the title of Markt from the Schwand district .

Population development

• 1623: 45 inhabitants
• 1987: 176 inhabitants
• 2008: 235 inhabitants
• 2014: 217 inhabitants

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today

The formerly existing historical building fabric is no longer preserved in Mittelhembach, except for two stone crosses, no architectural monuments are qualified. (see also: Monuments in Mittelhembach ) Today's buildings are entirely modern, although some of the buildings still show half-timbered construction . The inn in the village consists of massive sandstone blocks and has a small beer garden. A small riding stables with 32 boxes and its own club house, a breeding enclosure for red deer, pedigree dog breeding and other diverse agriculture and forestry are operated on site. The Motorsport Club Leerstetten has had its club house and grounds in Mittelhembach since 1983. a. Stock cars welded together. There is occasional fishing on the Hembach, but there is no extensive fish farming, as the water west of Schwand is considered to be critically polluted. Several solar-electric systems with a total output of 50 kWh are installed on the roofs of Mittelhembach. One kilometer south of the village is the Leerstetten lock, which, like the following in Eckersmühlen and Hilpoltstein, are each considered to be the three highest locks in Europe, each with a lifting height of almost 25 meters. There is a slipway on site for putting sports boats into the Main-Danube Canal. The attitude Eibach, is located on the Mittelhembach is temporarily used intensively free time, eg. For rowing regattas of the Rowing Club in 1880 Nuremberg, for bathing, barbecues but also for Hundeabrichtung.

traffic

The Brückenstraße crosses the Hembach in the south and after 300 meters leads to the district road RH 1 . This connects Mittelhembach at a distance of one kilometer each with Schwand, Rednitzhembach and the motorway-like federal highway 2 . Agricultural and forestry gravel roads lead to Harm in the north and to Schwand in the east. Local public transport does not go directly to Mittelhembach, but there is a stop with a turning loop at the junction of the RH 1 district road to Mittelhembach . This is served by the VGN and connects the town on weekdays and during the day as route 676 with Schwabach and Wendelstein . Line 604 is more like a school bus and connects with Roth and Röthenbach near St. Wolfgang . There is no public transport connection at night, on Saturday afternoons or on Sundays .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Mittelhembach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 623-624 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Eigler : Schwabach (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . I, 28). Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1990, ISBN 3-7696-9941-6 , p. 406, 477 .

Web links

• Mittelhembach in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 23, 2019.
• Mittelhembach in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 23, 2019.
• Mittelhembach in the historical directory of the Verein für Computergenealogie , accessed on September 23, 2019
• Website of the Mittelhembach Citizens' Association
• Mittelhembach in the Schwanstetten Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mittelhembach in the Bavaria Atlas
2. ^ Chronicle of Mittelhembach
3. ^ Atonement crosses in Mittelhembach
4. ^ Mittelhembach in the Schwanstetten Museum
5. ^ Judgment, poisoner from 1757
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 733 .
7. ^ Hembach on the river map of LKr Roth
8. ↑ Rowing Club Katzwang ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )