Schmölz (Küps)

Schmölz Küps municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 50 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	446 m
Residents :	982  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Schmölz Castle (2012)

Schmölz is part of the municipality of the Küps market in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria .

geography

Schmölz lies on the edge of the Franconian Forest Nature Park , approx. 2.5 km north of the Küps market . The parish village has 982 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2007) and is at an altitude of 446  m above sea level. NN .

Former parts of the community

Oberberg Sheep house Unterberg Juniper

history

The place Schmölz was mentioned for the first time in 1194 and, like Schmölz Castle, remained in the possession of the Lords of Redwitz until 1861 .

Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. Laurentius

St. Laurentius parish church in Schmölz

A church in Schmölz is first recorded for 1302. Around 1500 the patronage of Laurentius of Rome was mentioned in a document and in 1500 the parish of Graitz was detached . In 1545 Christoph von Redwitz introduced the Reformation . The current shape of the church as a sandstone block construction with a single-nave hall and a three-sided end as well as a four-storey tower with a pointed helmet and watch tower dates back to 1690. It is 22 meters long and 9 meters wide. The church tower is 45 meters high. In autumn 2003 the exterior facade at the main entrance was renovated.

The villages of Beikheim , Trainau , Mannsgereuth , Schneckenlohe and Theisenort belong to the parish of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Schmölz . 1 November 2003 under the decision of church administration places nail and were in Munich Tüschnitz in the parish Kups incorporated.

Attractions

• Schmölz Castle
• Ecological-botanical nature trail
• Schmölz herb garden
• Old rectory Schmölz
• Luitpolds four linden trees
• Hallbrünnla

Regular events

Threshing Festival

• Schmölz shooting festival
• Parish fair
• Summer night party of TSV Schmölz
• Johannifeuer of TV Schmölz
• Schmölzer Blues Days, annual international blues party
• Historical agricultural demonstrations by the Schmölz tractor friends (historical threshing show, potato harvest, etc.)

traffic

The federal highway 303 leads past the village to the east to the B 173 about three kilometers away . The next train connection with the Frankenwaldbahn is in Küps, approx. 2.5 km away .

Personalities

• Ludwig von Redwitz (1779–1848), chief customs inspector in Speyer , * at Schmölz Castle
• Johann Georg Herzog (born August 5, 1822 in Hummendorf , grew up in Schmölz; † February 3, 1909 in Munich ): organist , composer and first director of the Institute for Church Music at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg ; also teacher of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
• Oskar von Redwitz (1823-1891), poet and playwright, last Redwitz on Schmölz
• Marie von Redwitz (1856–1933), writer, born in Schmölz
• Walter Wolfrum (born May 23, 1923 in Schmölz; † August 26, 2010 in Schwabach ), fighter pilot , officer in the German Air Force and aerobatic pilot
• Oswald Marr (* 1947 in Schmölz), District Administrator a. D. of the district of Kronach

Web links

Commons : Schmölz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage market town Küps. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; Retrieved August 25, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Ecumenical church portal in the district of Kronach
3. ↑ Sunday newspaper: Article on the 100th anniversary of Johann Georg Herzog's death ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )