Sassenreuth

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Sassenreuth
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 32 "  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 57"  E
Height : 551 m
Residents : 100
Postal code : 91281
Area code : 09647
Sassenreuth, aerial photo (2016)

Sassenreuth is a district of the market Kirchenthumbach in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . Sassenreuth has around 100 inhabitants.

history

Around 1326 the place was called "Sachsenreuth" and until 1652 "Saxenreuth".

Sassenreuth was mentioned as early as 1366/68 as "Sahssenreut, belonging to the Thurndorf office". From a later time it can also be found as "Saxenreut" in documents. The first part of the place name may indicate a clearing by people from the Saxon tribe. It remains to be seen whether they were free Saxons or prisoners of war. The second part of the place name reveals a development in the second clearing period, in which mostly place names that end in -reuth were created .

As early as 1387, a Wolfart Erlböckh owned a hammer there , and around 1630 it came to Hans Kotz , son of Sebastian Kotz von Feilershammer , who then called himself Hans Kotz von Feilershammer and Sachsenreuth . He caused a certain stir because of the discovery of red and yellow earth near Sassenreuth.

In 1825 a secondary school is mentioned in Sassenreuth, which is run by Adam Buchfelder von Thurndorf . The school was held for six months in Sassenreuth and the other in Metzlasreuth. The school was attended by about 25 children who had to pay two cruisers per week and the teacher was fed alternately in the houses of the village, the lessons also took place in these changing places, as there was no school house.

After a long dispute with the authorities, the church of St. Georg zu Sassenreuth was inaugurated in 1942 , which is often the starting point for a Georgiritt .

literature

  • Paulinus Fröhlich: Kirchenthumbach: Contributions to the history and cultural history of the market in Kirchenthumbach , pp. 212–213. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1951.