Schmerb

Schmerb Ebrach market Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	387 m above sea level NN
Residents :	4  (2012)
Postal code :	96157
Area code :	09553

Schmerb is a wasteland in the municipality of Markt Ebrach in Upper Franconia ( Bamberg district ). The only inhabited house is the forester's house of the responsible district forester.

location

The place is about 2.5 km northeast of Ebrach on a clearing in the Koppenwinder Forest, which is part of the Bavarian State Forests . It is connected to State Road 2258 by several corridors . The Schmerber Graben rises a little to the north and, after crossing the village, flows over the Schmerber Grund to the Middle Ebrach . There is a small pond to the east.

Stories and legends

Schmerb was once a larger town. In 1418 the manor was acquired by the Ebrach monastery . After the secularization, the Bavarian state began to buy up the rural property in Schmerb and reforested the Schmerber corridor. As a result, the place died out. Four remaining properties served as forest workers' residences and forest houses. Schmerb gained a certain fame through the "butcher of Schmerb" who killed his wife and children in a family drama in 1876 before he took his own life with a hatchet. According to records of the abbot of the parish of Ebrach from 1877, the man was afraid that his wife and children were possessed by the devil and that he had the task of redeeming them. Legend has it that the butcher of Schmerb walks through the Koppenwinder Forest at night in order to exchange the souls of his family for the souls of innocent people with the devil.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ebrach.de , accessed on January 8, 2012
2. ↑ https://www.pro-nationalpark-steigerwald.de/fileadmin/steigerwald/download/GLB/Kurzgutachten_Abbegrenzung_GLB_070615.pdf History of Schmerb in the report on the High Beech Forest