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Ruddy
Shrinkage Ruddy Shrinkage (before 1840) Municipality of Fladungen
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 49 ″ E
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| Height : | 512 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 3.33 km² |
| Residents : | 128 (2015) |
| Population density : | 38 inhabitants / km² |
| Postal code : | 97650 |
| Area code : | 09778 |
Rüdenschiessen is a district of the municipality of Fladungen in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld .
geography
Geographical location
Rüdenschiessen is about 2 km west of Fladungen not far from the Bavarian - Thuringian border and is connected to the main town via the NES 27 district road and the 2288 state road . The community of Hausen is about 1.5 km to the southwest .
The place is located on the southwestern slope of the Hochrhön and is part of the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve .
history
Rüdenschiessen was first mentioned in 907 as the property of the abbot of Fulda with the name Rudolswinden . According to a legend, gypsies passing through had lost a wheel of their car and then settled in the present-day location.
The name probably refers to the clearing of a Rudolf by Schwenden . The place later belonged to the Fladungen office .
The Catholic parish church was built in 1781 and expanded in 1926. During the expansion, it was equipped with pictures by the Rhön painter Anton Rausch . The Pfeusthof was located near Rüdenschrecken . In its place there is now a car rest area with a good view of the Streutal valley .
The youth center, the fire station and the community bakery and slaughterhouse are public facilities in the district .
Culture and sights
Attractions
- The local inn is an eaves half-timbered building from the 17th / 19th centuries. Century: Hall building with west tower, tower basement post-Gothic, nave 1781; with equipment
- The Catholic parish church of St. Wendelin , a hall building (nave 1781) with west tower (post-Gothic tower basement and baroque dome)
- The rectory: monument and two-storey hipped roof building with polygonal bay window and arbor in the style of reduced historicism , walled in the relief of the Good Shepherd
Architectural monuments
societies
There are two associations in the small town, the volunteer fire brigade and the Catholic Church Foundation.