Schneckenweiler
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Schneckenweiler
City of Vellberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 54 ′ 41 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 375 m above sea level NHN |
| Postal code : | 74541 |
| Area code : | 07907 |
 View from Hammerberg to the north-northeast diagonally up the Lanzenbach valley with Merkelbach in the middle of the valley and Schneckenweiler slightly to the right and a little behind, above the Hackenberg
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Schneckenweiler is a hamlet in the eponymous district of the small town of Vellberg in the Schwäbisch Hall district in northeast Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Schneckenweiler lies on the right bank of the Lanzenbach partly on a terrain wave at about 375 m above sea level. NHN at the foot of the ridge from the Hackenberg ( 511.2 m above sea level ) in the northeast and its foothills Schlegelsberg (about 460– 459 m above sea level ) in the northwest. Towards the southeast, the terrain rises on the left side of the valley over the Lindenbühl platform (approx. 430 m above sea level ) to the Hahnenberg 505.9 m above sea level. NHN . Both mountains are forested from the middle slope. The agricultural hamlet with only eight house numbers and a few outbuildings is partially surrounded by a soft patch of orchards.
The place is on the L 1064, which connects the town of Vellberg in the west with the main town of Gründelhardt in the neighboring community of Frankenhardt . It is the upper of only two valley towns, the other hamlet of Merkelbach , which is also part of Vellberg, is located on the other side of the stream just under half a kilometer in the southwest. Above the Talendes belonging to the neighboring community Frankenhardt Weiler are closest Spaichbühl about eight kilometers east of the main road after their rise through the upper reaches sword and Steinehaig about two kilometers northeast near the head of a now abandoned older Talsteige a side blade from Hackenberg ago. (All distances as the crow flies .)
history
In 1541, the imperial city of Hall ceded a farm and an estate to the Limpurgers , who both returned in 1563 in exchange with the Vellbergers . With Eschenau , whose community and other circumstances it subsequently shared, these goods came back to Hall after they died out in 1595. In 1847 the place had 34 inhabitants.
From 1802/03 Merkelbach belonged to what was then the community of Unter-Sontheim. As an annex to their sub-community Eschenau , it came to Vellberg in 1875. Sewage treatment plant connection only in 1997. The hamlet now has 24 residents. There is a restaurant open every Sunday.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eschenau and Schneckenweiler in the chapter on Unter-Sontheim of the description of the Hall Oberamt from 1847, pp. 290 and 292.
- ↑ History of Schneckenweiler. Retrieved August 26, 2016 . on the site of the city of Vellberg.
