Nerreth

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Nerreth
Wendelstein market
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '8 "  N , 11 ° 11' 50"  E
Height : 337  (335-340)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 14  (2014)
Postal code : 90530
Area code : 09128
Entrance
Entrance

Nerreth is a district of the Wendelstein market in the Roth district in Central Franconia .

location

The hamlet is surrounded by forests about 14 kilometers southeast of Nuremberg and three kilometers southwest of Feucht on a municipal road that leads to State Road 2225 . It is the easternmost district of Wendelstein. The Schwarzach and the historic Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal flow a few 100 meters north . Immediately to the east, the Nuremberg / Feucht motorway triangle with the A 73 and A 9 motorways as well as the Nuremberg - Munich ICE high-speed train line complete the municipality.

history

Imperial urban area of ​​Nuremberg 1505–1806

The Schwarzachtal was already settled by people in the Stone Age, as individual finds show. Some Bronze Age graves are in the immediate vicinity. These date from around 1600 to 1300 BC. In the municipality of Wendelsteins around 20 ground monuments from the Mesolithic , Neolithic and Latène times have been qualified. Around the year 650, Boirian settlers advanced into the Schwarzachtal from the southeast, but were pushed back again by the Franks coming from the west around 725 . The first documentary mention of Nerreth as a clearing settlement dates back to 1250. This makes Nerreth one of the oldest documented districts of Wendelstein. Only the nearby stone quarries in Wernloch and the canonization of St. Wolfgang zu Röthenbach indicate in written evidence that the settlement was much earlier.

From 1505 to 1806 Nerreth was immediately south of the border between the Principality of Ansbach and the area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg (see historical map on the right). The forestry was soon abandoned due to the barren sandy soils . Instead, forestry and beekeeping were carried out, as well as charred and fished. Two versions of the name have been passed down in the vernacular. On the one hand, Nerreth, which was written Newenreuth in the 14th century, could mean the new clearing . However, the derivation of “foolish” is also likely. Even today the spoken Franconian knows the question: Bis'd nerrerd? , which means something like: are you foolish, crazy? A medieval use of the marginal exclave as a refuge for the mentally retarded, lepers, plague-infested or members of so-called impure or dishonest professions would be conceivable . They were not allowed to live within the local communities.

Former forest estate
Former Forest house, back

In the 18th century the place became a seat of the forest administration and was rebuilt. Towards the end of the Second World War , the MAN company wanted to build a secret tank factory in the forest near Nerreth. However, that did not happen. From 1948 onwards, due to the ever-present housing shortage, MAN began to produce small steel houses . These were not given any economic success, but one copy has been preserved in Nerreth. In 2012, this was moved to the Franconian Open Air Museum in Bad Windsheim , rebuilt and furnished in a contemporary way. Until the 1960s, large amounts of residual and household waste were deposited in the forests around Nerreth and covered with rubble. On May 1, 1978, in the course of regional reform in Bavaria, the municipality of Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang , to which Nerreth belonged, was incorporated into Wendelstein.

South of Nerreth the stone cross used to stand at the Feucht West motorway service station , which was moved there as part of the redesign of the service station.

Others

Since 2006 there has been an asphalt municipal road to Nerreth for the first time. Previously, the wasteland was only accessible via two gravel roads and a few forestry roads. Local public transport does not serve the place.

literature

Web links

Commons : Nerreth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nerreth in the BayernAtlas
  2. ↑ Wendelstein Monument List, pages 20–22.
  3. ^ Description and picture of the MAN steel house in Nerreth
  4. ↑ Press report on the relocation of the MAN steel house in 2012