Reckendorf (Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia)

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Reckendorf's location in the Heiligenstadt market in Upper Franconia

Reckendorf (dialect: Reggndäf) is a Franconian village in Franconian Switzerland (district of the Markt Heiligenstadt in Upper Franconia ). The village has 80 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of 380 m above sea level. NN .

geography

Reckendorf is located in a north-south side valley of the Leinleiter , two kilometers north of Heiligenstadt.

  • View from Reckendorf to Greifenstein Castle

  • Townscape

  • Mural

  • barn

history

The place is already listed in the legal book of Bishop Friedrich von Hohenlohe in 1348 as a Bamberg fiefdom belonging to the Greifenstein manor and was therefore given to the bishop in 1339 with a share of Greifenstein. It can be assumed that the place is as old as Greifenstein Castle .

Before the regional reform, Reckendorf belonged to the municipality of Stücht .

Surname

Reckendorf is probably named after a previous landlord Recko.

Topographical description from 1752

In Biedermann's topographical description from 1752, Reckendorf is described as follows:

“Reckendorf; A small village with 13 households on the Reckenbächlein between Brunn, Greifenstein and Heiligenstadt, belongs only to the Baron von Stauffenberg in the Greifenstein Castle and the knightly canton of Gebürg. The same person owns the village and community rule, bailiff, high and low hunting, entire teams and the tithe and leaves the high justice to the office of Ebermannstadt.
In times past this place was a Streitbergian pertinence to Greifenstein Castle.
The inhabitants all profess the Protestant religion and parish to the church in Heiligenstadt. The Reckenbächlein comes down from Brunn. "

Quoted from Dieter Zöberlein: Community chronicle Markt Heiligenstadt i. OFr.

The Bamberg private scholar Joseph Heller described Reckendorf in his description of the Muggendorfer Mountains in 1829 as follows:

"Reckendorf, an insignificant village with 13 houses and 70 inhabitants, is located in the district court of Ebermannstadt , near Greifenstein."

Quoted from Dieter Zöberlein: Community chronicle Markt Heiligenstadt i. OFr.

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 11 ° 10'  E