Pfraunfeld
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Pfraunfeld
Community Burgsalach
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 35 " N , 11 ° 5 ′ 33" E
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| Height : | 559 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 308 |
| Postal code : | 91790 |
| Area code : | 09147 |
Pfraunfeld is a district of Burgsalach in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The parish village has 308 inhabitants and is at an altitude of about 559 meters above sea level.
Geography, traffic
The village is surrounded by fields and meadows, in the Southern Frankenalb on the Jura , about 3 kilometers from Burgsalach removed. The Anlauter flows 800 meters to the west , into which the Aschbach , which rises on the outskirts, flows. The next larger city is Weißenburg, 9 kilometers to the west . To the south of the village is an industrial park that is mainly occupied by a large recycling company . The district road WUG 13, which runs from Oberhochstatt to Bergen , and some community roads lead to the surrounding villages.
history
The first historical data come from a Wicpert von Pfrumveld , who gave away an estate in Höbing to Berchtesgaden in 1179 . In the Thirty Years War the place was completely destroyed except for the church. Ore mining took place from 1693 to 1863. This floor ore was smelted in Obereichstätt . The entrance to the former ore mine can still be seen today. In 1910 the citizens built the new Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in the cemetery next to the demolished previous church . The ceiling frescoes in the nave: Glory of Nicholas with Mary, Joseph, Apostles and Trinity painted in 1940 by the Munich painter Josef Wittmann . Likewise the frescoes on the parapet Franziskus, Cäcilia, Elisabeth von Thüringen by Josef Wittmann, the drafts for these frescoes are preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Regensburg. On May 1, 1978, Pfraunfeld concluded in the course of municipal reform the community Burgsalach voluntarily.
