Stiff

Stiff City of Pottenstein Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 35 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 33" E
Height :	474 m above sea level NN
Residents :	25th
Postal code :	91278
Area code :	09243

Steifling is a district of Pottenstein in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in northern Bavaria .

Geography and transport links

Steifling is about 4 km north of the core town of Pottenstein. Connecting roads lead to the neighboring towns and east to the district road BT 27 and state road St 2163 .

history

In 1365 the place is mentioned for the first time as "Steifflinge". Subjects of the Pottenstein and Waischenfeld offices lived there . The place name is a form of the Middle High German word "stoufelin" (small Stauf, towering rock). Highly judicially, Steifling had belonged to Fraisch Pottenstein since the 15th century . In 1829 the place had 46 inhabitants.

The district of the former municipality of Hohenmirsberg in what was then the district of Pegnitz was incorporated into Pottenstein together with its main town in the course of the municipal reform in 1972.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Pottenstein (Upper Franconia) , two architectural monuments are listed for Steifling :

The well house (in the village) from the last quarter of the 18th century; it consists of a fountain socket and a hipped roof with a ridge turret and lantern over four limestone steles .

A wayside cross (high stone), inscribed "1861"; on a pedestal is a tapered shaft that carries a cast-iron cross.

The tooth hole (sand hole), an approximately 80 meter long passage cave, is a ground monument (see list of caves in the Franconian Alb , B 21).

The "Seven Brothers" mountain ranges

Web links

Steifling on the website of the city of Pottenstein

Individual evidence

^ Community website
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 675 to 677 .

[1] Community website

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 675 to 677 .