Schupf
Schupf
community Happurg
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 55 ″ E
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Height : | 544 m above sea level NHN |
Residents : | 209 (2017) |
Postal code : | 91230 |
Area code : | 09157 |
The Happurg district of Schupf
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The village of Schupf is part of the municipality of Happurg in Middle Franconia .
geography
The village , located on the high plateau of the Franconian Alb , is about six kilometers south-southeast of Happurg and is at an altitude of 544 m above sea level. NHN . The border with the nearby Upper Palatinate runs about two kilometers south of the village.
history
As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , the place became part of the independent rural community of Kainsbach , which also included the two hamlets Mosenhof and Reicheneck .
In the course of the municipal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , Schupf was incorporated into the municipality of Happurg together with the entire municipality of Kainsbach in 1971. In 2017 Schupf had 209 inhabitants.
The concentration camp memorial
About a kilometer northeast of Schupf is the concentration camp memorial near Schupf , which commemorates the location of a corpse cremation site for victims of the Nazi regime. The memorial is located in a small forest clearing a little east of the LAU 25 district road leading from Schupf to Happurg . In the last months of the Second World War , the corpses of presumably more than 1000 inmates of the Hersbruck subcamp, who had succumbed to the rigors of detention and the forced labor imposed on them, were cremated here.
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literature
- Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Schupf . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 204 ( digitized version ).
- Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3rd edition, Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
Web links
- Location of Schupf in the BayernAtlas (accessed on September 17, 2017)
- Schupf on a historical map (Retrieved September 17, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of Schupf (2017)
- ^ Schupf in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 4, 2020.
- ^ Composition of the Kainsbach community, which existed until 1971
- ^ Historical register of municipalities for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 715