Rauhenberg (Wiesenttal)

Rauhenberg Wiesenttal market Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 44 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	447 m above sea level NN
Residents :	18  (May 4, 2016)
Postal code :	91346
Area code :	09196
Passage cave Fuchsloch

Rauhenberg is a district of Wiesenttal , a market in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in the center of Franconian Switzerland .

geography

The hamlet is located three kilometers southeast of Aufseß and ten kilometers northeast of Ebermannstadt on a plateau of the Franconian Alb at 447  m above sea level. NN . To the south and west, the terrain slopes steeply to the valley of the Aufseß , which is 70 meters lower , a right tributary of the Wiesent . The area is characterized by strongly calcareous soils, in the nearby rock there are numerous karst caves , one of which is called the Rauhenberger Höhle .

history

The area around the sunny south-west slope has been inhabited by people since ancient times, and the caves initially offered protection. 500 meters to the east there was an approximately 8,000 square meter open-air station from the Mesolithic , 400 meters to the north there was a 1.4 hectare settlement in the time of the linear ceramics at a weather-protected  area and 600 meters to the southeast there was a high medieval spur castle, which comprised around 9500 square meters. These are all protected as ground monuments.

The Spornburg, today's Burgstall Vestenberg , of which only the remains of the wall are preserved, fell during the Thirty Years War at the latest , the area remained under the influence of the Lords of Aufseß . In the late Middle Ages, the Rauhenberg, which is difficult to access from the valley, was initially built as an Aussiedlerhof . Through succession and land division, this grew into a hamlet. The Bavarian original cadastre recorded six farms there in 1808. With the Bavarian municipal edict, the place came to the municipality of Breitenlesau in 1818 .

With the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Breitenlesau was dissolved and Rauhenberg was incorporated into Wiesenttal on January 1, 1977 .

The place remained dominated by agriculture and practically unchanged in size; today there are seven properties. Historic buildings worthy of protection have not been preserved. The current population is 18 officially registered people.

Worth seeing

Sights include the founder's house and the nearby caves, for example the natural monuments Bauernhöhle , Fuchsloch (see picture). The Easter tree is traditionally decorated on the village square at Easter.

traffic

Rauhenberg is accessed via a steep, serpentine communal road that branches off from the FO 40 district road in the Aufseß valley . The municipal road continues east to Zochenreuth and into the Bayreuth district . Local public transport offers a morning trip to Ebermannstadt in the neighboring Draisendorf from Monday to Saturday , as well as several return trips during the day (line 231). However, it is more of a school bus route and it is operated by a private company on behalf of the VGN . There is no scheduled traffic on Sundays. If necessary, up to four journeys can be made with a shared call taxi .

Web links

Commons : Rauhenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LfD list for Wiesenttal, pages 7 ff (.pdf)
2. ^ Rauhenberg on a historical map