Nankendorf (Waischenfeld)

Nankendorf City of Waischenfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 52 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 14 ″ E
Height :	358 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	345 (1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	91344
Area code :	09204
	Nankendorfer Mühle and Wiesent

The parish village of Nankendorf is part of the town of Waischenfeld in Upper Franconia .

geography

Nankendorf is located about three kilometers north-northeast of Waischenfeld and is at an altitude of 358 meters. The place is in Franconian Switzerland , about 25 kilometers south of Bayreuth and is traversed by the Wiesent .

history

The place name (formerly "Anckenhoff", possibly containing the Latin word agnus (sheep)), could indicate the earlier sheep farming.

The church in Nankendorf was mentioned in various documents in 850. The parish appeared in writings around the year 987. In 1748, the Waischenfeld master builder Wenzel Schwesner replaced the former fortified church with the new construction of the Catholic parish church of St. Jakob and Martin .

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the place became an independent rural community to which the two hamlets of Aalkorb and Kaupersberg also belonged. In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, most of the community Nankendorf was incorporated into Waischendorf, only Kaupersberg, located about one and a half kilometers north of Nankendorf, came to Plankenfels . In 1987 Nankendorf had 345 inhabitants.

Attractions

The church of Nankendorf

There are several listed buildings in Nankendorf, including the Catholic Church of St. Jakob and Martin and a former flour mill. In the Middle Ages, there was a castle complex of the one- storey residence type on the Nankendorfer district . The Burgstall is located on a mountain spur immediately northeast of the old town center.

traffic

The state road 2191 connects Nankendorf mainly to the public road network, it runs through the place from Plankenfels in the north coming in a south direction to Waischenfeld. The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

Light processions

Fire on the slopes

Every year on New Year's Eve , the light processions have taken place in Nankendorf since 1927 . The surrounding slopes are illuminated by thousands of fires. The drama is part of Eternal Adoration and extends over a total of four locations, starting on December 20th in Oberailsfeld , via Nankendorf on December 31st, Obertrubach on January 3rd and ends on January 6th with the mountain fires in Pottenstein .

Breweries

What used to be two breweries, the Schroll brewery still exists today, related to the Schroll family of breweries of the same name from Reckendorf north of Bamberg.