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City gap
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 34 ″  E
Height : 486 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 71  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 91174
Area code : 09175
Entering the town, coming from Fünfbronn
The Schnittlinger oak

Schnittling is a district of the town of Spalt in the Central Franconian district of Roth .

geography

The village is located in the Spalter hill country , approx. 2.5 km north of Igelsbachsee . Somewhat southwest in the Schnittlinger Loch is a source of the Hatzelbach , which is a right tributary of the Franconian Rezat . The district road RH 6 leads to Fünfbronn (1.4 km southwest) or after Spalt to state road 2223 (1.8 km east).

history

The name is derived from a further development of the nickname Snego (snail) (Schnigling (documented in the 14th century) → Schnittling). Schnittling is predominantly Catholic.

Natural monument of the Schnittlinger Oak

It is about 400 m from the western end of the village at a forest playground named after it. It is a solitary sessileoakthat has the character of a millennial. According to various sources, the real age of the tree is likely to be between 300 and 450 years. With a trunk circumference of 6.40 m, it is the second thickest sessile oak in Bavaria. Even at a small height, its mighty trunk branches out into a multitude of individual branches that strive upwards at an angle like a brush and form an umbrella-shaped crown. The tree reaches a total height of 27 m (2017) with a crown diameter of 30 m.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy e. V. , cutling
  2. ^ Cut in the BayernAtlas
  3. "Schnittlinger Eiche at Schnittling" in "Monumentale Eichen" by Rainer Lippert, at www.monumentale-eichen.de