Rodersberg

Rodersberg City of Bayreuth Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 26 "  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 29"  E
Height :	354–395 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	95448
Area code :	0921
Rodersberg: place and street of the same name

Rodersberg is a district and at the same time a hill of the independent city of Bayreuth .

location

Rodersberg is located in the northeast of the city at the exit of the valley of the (warm) Steinach . The traffic axis is the street of the same name running through the town.

Name and story

Rodersberg on the Riediger map from 1745

Originally the approx. 400 m above sea level. NN. located hill only inhabited by farmers. The place was named after a family named Roder who had lived there since the 14th century.

Presumably already in the early Middle Ages there was a castle of the Lords of Laineck on an artificial plateau. The neck ditch and dry stone walls are still present . It is said to have been one of the largest fortifications of the early Middle Ages in Upper Franconia.

Until the regional reform , the village belonged to the former municipality of Laineck . On May 1, 1972, this was incorporated into Bayreuth.

description

In the last few decades the slope has been heavily built up. The development extends to that of the neighboring district of Laineck, from which Rodersberg is separated by the Steinach. The ASV Laineck sports field is located in the valley floor, and a golf course above the village.

literature

• Institute for Franconian State Research: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 1978 , p. 9.
• Endres, Rudolf: Bayreuth: from an 800-year history , 1994, p. 70.
• Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - newly discovered , 2007, p. 242

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosa and Volker carbon home: Bayreuth from AZ, p 99
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 600 .