Riegelstein (Betzenstein)

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Latch block
City of Betzenstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 529 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 79  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 91282
Area code : 09152
The Betzenstein district of Riegelstein
The Betzenstein district of Riegelstein
Area map of Riegelstein

Riegelstein is one of 23 officially named districts of the Upper Franconian town of Betzenstein .

geography

The church village is located about five kilometers south of Betzenstein and is at an altitude of 529  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The original name of Riegelstein was Raupersdorf. Hans I. der Türrigel initiated the construction of Riegelstein Castle (see sights ). His sons called themselves “Tyrrigel zum Riegelstein” for the first time in 1403, also known as Türriegel or Dürriegel. This gave the village the name: "Riegelstein". The Türriegel were Ministeriale der Schenken von Reicheneck and broke away from the Schenken with extensive holdings around Riegelstein. From 1403 they were allodial . Around 1500 Heinrich VI. (also Heinz or Haintz) not only tournament knights in Ingolstadt , Bamberg and Würzburg , but also full-time caretakers at the Stierberg and Betzenstein castles .

His brother Hans III. was executed in Kufstein in the Landshut War of Succession in 1504 and the youngest brother Contz, actually Konrad III. was also forced to sell Simmelsdorf in the course of the lost war . He ended up as a councilor in Hersbruck . He was the father of the brothers Balthasar and Burkhard who were carers in Mitterfels . The Riegelsteiner line died out in 1619. Only the Mitterfels branch still exists and after 1665 was only called Thürrigl, Dirrigl or similar spellings.

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the village became part of the independent rural community of Spies , which also included the villages of Eichenstruth and Illafeld , as well as the wasteland of Eibenthal . The hamlet of Schermshöhe , created in the second half of the 19th century, was added later. The seat of the rural community Spies was not the eponymous place itself, but Riegelstein. In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , Riegelstein was incorporated into the city of Betzenstein together with the entire municipality of Spies on January 1, 1972. In 1987 Riegelstein had 79 inhabitants.

traffic

The connection to the public road network is established by the district road BT 28 , which leads directly past the southern outskirts. The Federal Motorway 9 runs immediately to the east of the village; it can be accessed at the Hormersdorf junction about two kilometers to the southwest. Riegelstein is reached by public transport during the day with the VGN regional bus route 386 .

Attractions

The Riegelstein castle ruins

About 350 meters north-northeast of the center of locking block is located on the 589 meter high bar Steiner Schlossberg the castle ruins locking block . In the Bavarian monument list this is from the 12./13. System from the 19th century listed with the number D-4-72-118-47. In addition, about 700 meters west-northwest, on the summit plateau of the Hohen Reut , is the Riegelstein telecommunications tower . This can be reached from the neighboring hamlet of Schermshöhe via a hiking trail leading to Spies, and from there a narrow access road leads up to the summit area.

literature

  • Josef Pfanner: District of Pegnitz . In: Historical book of place names of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1965, ISBN 3-7696-9864-9 .
  • Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 293 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Riegelstein in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (accessed on January 23, 2018)
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Riegelstein in the BayernAtlas (accessed on January 22, 2018)
  4. ↑ See also: Türriegel von Riegelstein (accessed on January 22, 2018)
  5. ↑ Werner Wittig: The door bolt to the locking stone. The family history as a reader . Nuremberg 2005 , PDF file (5 MB), (accessed on January 22, 2018)
  6. ↑ Political composition of the rural community Spies (accessed January 22, 2018)
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .