Ruessenbach

This article deals with the district of Rüssenbach from Ebermannstadt. For places with a similar name, also in the same district, see Rüsselbach .

Ruessenbach City of Ebermannstadt Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	298 m
Area :	3.35 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1971
Postal code :	91320
Area code :	09194
Listed torture column in Rüssenbach

Rüssenbach is a district of Ebermannstadt in the Bavarian district of Forchheim . The place has 301 inhabitants (as of October 2008).

geography

The church village Rüssenbach is located in Franconian Switzerland about 2 km southwest of the town center of Ebermannstadt at the transition from the Neuseser Bach valley to the Wiesent floodplain at an altitude of 298  m above sea level. NHN and thus over 200 meters in altitude below the steeply rising left valley spur. The village, which stretches along the stream, is almost bordered by the lower edge of the B 470 which runs through the Wiesenttal from Ebermannstadt and from which a secondary road opens up the side valley. The Franconian Marienweg runs through the village .

history

The first documentary mention as "Russenbuch" is in a document from 1312. On January 1st, 1971, Rüssenbach was incorporated into Ebermannstadt. The small, abandoned tower hill castle of Rüssenbach was the ancestral seat of the von Rüssenbach family .

In July 2005, village renewal measures began to improve living, living and working conditions.

The former municipality had an area of ​​3.34 km².

Worth seeing

• Rüssenbach is known, among other things, for its Easter fountain .

Clubs and events

• Every year on the second weekend in May the parish fair takes place. A special custom is the so-called Betzenau dancing . To do this, an alarm clock is set to a certain time and placed on the table, concealed. Couples now dance around the table and pass on a bouquet of flowers. Whoever has this bouquet when the doorbell rings, receives the Betzen , a Franconian expression for sheep . Today, however, there are no more sheep, but there are many other donated prizes.
• The oven festival, which was introduced in 1984, takes place at the end of August.

Associations in Rüssenbach:

• Volunteer firefighter
• Catholic boys and men’s association in Rüssenbach
• Singing community Rüssenbach

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from d. 1961 census, Munich, 1964 , column 670
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 451 .
3. ^ Oven as a symbol for village renewal in Rüssenbach in nordbayern.de
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 154 ( digital copy [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
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