Schupf

Schupf community Happurg Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	544 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	209 (2017)
Postal code :	91230
Area code :	09157
	The Happurg district of Schupf

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

The concentration camp memorial near Schupf

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.

View from the southeast to Schupf (street LAU 26), in the background the Rotenberg near Hartenberg is visible

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

Commons : Schupf (Happurg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

[1] Population of Schupf (2017)

[2] Schupf in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 4, 2020.

[3] Composition of the Kainsbach community, which existed until 1971

[4] Historical register of municipalities for the Federal Republic of Germany (1970–1982), page 715