Pensenberg

Pensenberg
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height	562 m above sea level NHN
location	Bavaria , Germany
Mountains	Fichtel Mountains
Coordinates	49 ° 55 '56 " N , 11 ° 40' 31" E Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '56 " N , 11 ° 40' 31" E

The Pensenberg or Pensen is a mountain in the southwestern foothills of the Fichtelgebirge (northeast Bavaria). It is the highest point of a wooded mountain ridge that runs just under three kilometers from northwest to southeast.

Surname

The name of the pen could not yet be interpreted convincingly. What is certain is that the name originally referred to a forest . The presumption of a Slavic origin could not be confirmed in the end. Recent research points to the Middle High German the person's name Benz (s) or Penz (s) and the derived forms Flurnamen out.

The vernacular says that a witch who was a miracle healer lived in a wooden hut on the Pensen. She lived there with numerous, terrifying cats (dialect: cat = Penz).

Geographical location

The Pensen is located between Markt Weidenberg and Seulbitz, a district of the city of Bayreuth in the Bayreuth district (Upper Franconia). The BT 6 district road and the city limits of Bayreuth and Markt Weidenberg run through the forest.

Soil monuments

On the ridge and on its edges there are over ten burial mounds from prehistoric times that are protected soil monuments.

literature

Siegfried Pokorny: The name of the pen. In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia. Volume 81, 2001, pp. 101-112
Klaus Schwarz: The prehistoric and early historical monuments in Upper Franconia. Issue 5 of the material booklets for Bavarian prehistory, 1955, pp. 63–64
Adrian Roßner: Legends and stories from Weidenberg and the surrounding area. Markt Weidenberg 2015, pp. 21–22

Web links

description
Soil monuments (PDF)
Maps (BayernAtlas)

Individual evidence

↑ Glotzdorf ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of Markt Weidenberg, accessed on July 22, 2015 @1@ 2

^ ^A ^b Siegfried Pokorny: The name of the pen . In: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, 81st volume . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2001, p. 101 ff .

[1] Glotzdorf ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of Markt Weidenberg, accessed on July 22, 2015 @1@ 2

[SF-2] A ^b Siegfried Pokorny: The name of the pen . In: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, 81st volume . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2001, p. 101 ff .