Oberklausen

Oberklausen Municipality Hirschbach Coordinates: 49 ° 33'53 "  N , 11 ° 34'29"  E
Height :	425 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	28  (2017)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	92275
Area code :	09665
The hamlet of Oberklausen

The hamlet of Oberklausen is part of the municipality of Hirschbach in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach .

Geographical location

Oberklausen is located about three kilometers northeast of Hirschbach and is at an altitude of about 425  m above sea level. NHN .

history

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the place became part of the independent rural community Achtel , which also includes the villages of Oberachtel (which was the seat of the municipality), Buchhof , Eggenberg , Munich and Unterklausen , as well as the both hamlets Obermühle and Ratzenhof belonged.

In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria carried out in the 1970s , Oberklausen was incorporated into Hirschbach together with the entire municipality of Achtel. Today Oberklausen has 28 inhabitants.

traffic

The district road AS 6 connects Oberklausen to the public road network, it leads directly past the northern edge of the village. In local public transport , the Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg (VGN) travels to Oberklausen during the day with regional bus routes 446 and 447.

monument

Albert Speer (3rd from left) and Adolf Hitler on a visit to the test stand. (March 1938)

Concrete foundations of the stadium model on the slope opposite Oberklausen

On Stockbühl , just north of Oberklausen , on the southern slope of the Hohe Berg, there are the preserved parts of a model structure for the German Stadium in Nuremberg with numerous concrete foundations . These were built between 1937 and 1939 as an experimental grandstand and are listed in the Bavarian monument list with the number D-3-71-128-30 .

literature

• Horst M. Auer (Ed.): Location history Franconia, excursions into the past - Volume 2 (.pdf) , ars vivendi Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86913-492-5 . Page 26: Traces of the man's addiction - the remains of the NS stadium model near Oberklausen.

Web links

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

• Oberklausen on the website of the municipality of Hirschbach (accessed on March 29, 2017)
• Location of Oberklausen in the Bayern Atlas (accessed on March 29, 2017)
• Oberklausen on a historical map (BayernAtlas Klassik) (Accessed March 29, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oberklausen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online
2. ↑ Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 661
3. ↑ Population of Oberklausen (2017)
4. ↑ LfD list for Hirschbach, page 2 (.pdf)