Oberküps

Oberküps Ebensfeld market Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 33 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 37 ″ E
Height :	379 m above sea level NN
Residents :	119 (Jun. 30, 2019)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Incorporated into:	Kleukheim
Postal code :	96250
Area code :	09547
	Filial church St. Katharina in Oberküps

Oberküps is a district of the Upper Franconian market Ebensfeld in the Lichtenfels district .

geography

The church village lies in a narrow valley with wooded steep slopes east of the main valley . The place is arranged in an east-west direction and is traversed by the Aschbach, a left tributary of the Main. The district road LIF 11 from Frauendorf to Kleukheim leads through Oberküps.

history

1237 Oberküps was first mentioned when Duke Otto von Meranien the Klosterlangheim on suitable goods, including a Hube , a fief and a vineyard in "Cubz".

In 1801 the village belonged to the area of the bishopric of Bamberg , which, in addition to the sovereignty of the state, owned the center, village, community and land authority. In addition to the church, the place had a school house and a community pastor's house. There were also 33 fiefdoms, 15 of them from the Langheim monastery alone, with various fiefdoms.

In 1862 Oberküps was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian district office in Staffelstein . The rural community belonged to the Staffelstein District Court . A part of the municipality was the neighboring Unterküps . In 1871 the parish village of Oberküps had 188 inhabitants and 84 buildings. A Catholic school was in the village, the Catholic parish church in Kleukheim, three kilometers away. In 1900 the 663.71 hectare rural community had 311 inhabitants, the town had 182 inhabitants and 35 residential buildings, and in 1925 161 people, all of whom were Catholic, in 35 residential buildings. In 1950 Oberküps had 191 residents and 31 residential buildings. The responsible Protestant parish was in Staffelstein . In 1970 the parish had 149 inhabitants, and in 1987 a total of 124 inhabitants and 32 residential buildings with 32 apartments.

On July 1, 1972, the Staffelstein district was dissolved. The Oberküps community was incorporated into Kleukheim and became part of the Lichtenfels district . On May 1, 1978, the community of Kleukheim and Oberküps were incorporated into Ebensfeld.

Attractions

The Catholic branch church St. Katharina was built between 1798 and 1802 by the master builder Andreas Weber from Staffelstein according to plans by the Bamberg court architect Johann Lorenz Fink. The west- facing baroque church is located on a hillside high above the north-western edge of the village. The nave is a hall room to which a single-axis, retracted choir adjoins. The western gable side is designed as a single tower facade. The high altar comes from the workshop of the Bamberg sculptor Georg Hoffmann. The side altars were made by Franz Anton Schott from 1730 to 1733 for the Johanniskapelle near St. Stephan in Bamberg. Like the organ that the Würzburg court organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert had made as a winter organ for Banz Monastery in 1723, they were acquired by Oberküps in 1804.

In the list of architectural monuments in Oberküps , eight further sights are listed.