Mittelhof (Offenhausen)

Central courtyard Community Offenhausen Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 50 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 16 ″  E
Postal code :	91238
Area code :	09158

The hamlet Mittelhof is a district of the community Offenhausen in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

The Mittelhof is located on the western edge of Kucha at the foot of the Asselberg (554 m) on the road to Oberndorf .

history

At the eastern end of Mittelhof there is the now defunct Turmhügelburg in Sauanger , immediately south of the local road to Dippersricht . It was a tower hill castle , of which in 1959 the hill with a plateau diameter of about eight meters and traces of a moat had been preserved. After 1959, the tower hill was severely damaged during the construction of a street and a house, so that it is hardly recognizable today.

The tower hill castle was probably the seat of the local nobility, at the end of the 13th century there are five ministerials in Kucha. Who these families of the lower nobility once served is unknown, possibly the Reicheneck taverns on their Reicheneck Castle of the same name , today located above Lake Happurg. The service men of this sex are z. B. often found in the villages of Birkensee , Egensbach or Offenhausen near Engelthal in the Hammerbachtal. The facility, now known as the Burgstall im Sauanger , may also have served as a forward control point for the nearby Hohenkuchen Castle ; it was about 650 meters away in an easterly direction on the Schlossberg. It has also completely disappeared today, only a moat with an outer wall is still visible.

literature

• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Individual evidence

1. ^ Source history: Robert Giersch, Andreas Schlunk, Berthold Frhr. von Haller: Castles and mansions in the Nuremberg countryside . Published by the Altnürnberger Landschaft eV, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020677-1 , p. 239ff.