Sankt Helena (Simmelsdorf)

Saint Helena Community Simmelsdorf Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	481 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	51  (2016)
Postal code :	91245
Area code :	09155
The Simmelsdorf district of Sankt Helena

Sankt Helena is one of 24 districts of the municipality of Simmelsdorf , located in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land .

geography

The parish village is located four kilometers north-northeast of Simmelsdorf, just before the end of the Naifer valley on the high plateau of the Franconian Alb foreland.

history

The castle chair

West of the Mittelaifermühle rises up in the Naifertal, near St. Helena, a steep rocky reef that bears the name "Burgstuhl". This field name has sparked speculation about the location of a castle several times in the past. So far, however, neither traces of construction nor relevant finds have been observed. A scientific excavation has not yet taken place.

The first mention of Saint Helena was in 1421 in connection with an early measurement foundation. The original name is Naifer or Neuffer . Together with the neighboring village of Großengsee , Sankt Helena came into the possession of the Tucher family in 1574 . The church for the first time in 1529 called had until the introduction of Calvinism in Buehl the function of the daughter church held. There is the grave of Christof Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Freiherr Tucher von Simmelsdorf.

Due to the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , Sankt Helena became part of the independent rural community of Großengsee with the second municipal edict . In the course of the communal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , it was incorporated into the municipality of Simmelsdorf in 1977. In 2016 Sankt Helena had 51 inhabitants.

Worth seeing

In the corridor to the northwest is the St. Helena-Großengsee cemetery .

traffic

A municipal road connects the town to the nearby LAU 12 district road .

literature

• Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Web links

Commons : Sankt Helena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sankt Helena im BayernAtlas (accessed on October 21, 2017)
• Saint Helena on a historical map (accessed October 21, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of Sankt Helena on the website of the municipality of Simmelsdorf (accessed on October 21, 2017)
2. ↑ Sankt Helena in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (accessed on Oct. 21, 2017)
3. ↑ Geographical location of Sankt Helena (accessed on Oct. 21, 2017)
4. ↑ Herrensitze.com (Giersch / Schlunk / von Haller)
5. ↑ Brief description of Sankt Helena on the website of the municipality of Simmelsdorf (accessed on Oct. 21, 2017)
6. ↑ Political composition of the rural community of Großengsee (accessed on October 21, 2017)
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. 719 .