Neudorf (Weismain)

Neudorf City of Weismain Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	488 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	114  (Jan. 1, 2013)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	96260
Area code :	09575
St. Clement

Neudorf is a village with 114 inhabitants and belongs to the town of Weismain in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Neudorf is located at 488  m above sea level. NN on a plateau, about 500 meters east of the Bärental . The plateau belongs to the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . The city center of Weismain is about 3.2 kilometers to the northwest. The nearest villages are Krassacher Mühle , Krassach , Niesten , Görau , Wunkendorf , Herbstmühle and Wohnsig .

history

The immediate vicinity of Neudorf was inhabited as a clearing settlement from the 13th century at the latest. This is indicated by the discovery of a coin hoard from the late 13th century. It was a total of 1331 silver pennies that were found in 1952 by a farmer working in the fields. The coins were buried in an approximately twelve centimeter high clay pot in 1291, probably as a result of a disaster. The first documentary mention was in 1330 as "Nwendorf".

The previous building of the present church of St. Clement , a small, Saints Clement and Wendelin consecrated wooden chapel was first mentioned 1520th 1734 has become too small chapel was a church from sandstone in the Baroque style replaced. Up until the 19th century it was a popular place of pilgrimage , where pilgrims prayed to St. Wendelin in the stable when the cattle were sick or accidents occurred.

On January 1, 1978, the municipality of Neudorf, which had been independent since 1818, was dissolved and incorporated into Weismain together with the districts of Görau, Herbstmühle, Krassach, Niesten and Seubersdorf . The Zultenberg district was added to the Kasendorf market in the Kulmbach district.

Population development

The table shows the recent population development in Neudorf.

year	Residents	source
2012	113
2013	114
2015	104

societies

• Neudorf volunteer fire brigade
• Kapellenbauverein Neudorf
• OGV Neudorf (Horticultural Association)

literature

• Neudorf volunteer fire brigade: Neudorf volunteer fire brigade - 100 years , Neudorf 1988
• Dirk Steinhilber: The coin find from Neudorf . In: 700 Years City of Schweinfurt , Schöningh Verlag, Würzburg 1954

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Neudorf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 735 ( digitized version ).
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Neudorf . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 651-652 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Neudorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The coin find from Neudorf (Landschaftsmuseum.de)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Topographic map of Neudorf , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Neudorf , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
3. ↑ Elsbeth Düthorn; Erika Münch: What grandmother tells - memories from Görau , Weismain 2004, p. 5
4. ^ Dieter George: Lichtenfels; The old circle . Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 6: Lichtenfels. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-6862-9 , p. 101.
5. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )