Forehead (Pleinfeld)

forehead Market Pleinfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 41 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ E
Height :	432 m
Residents :	450
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	91785
Area code :	09144
	The center of forehead

Forehead is part of the Pleinfeld market in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen with around 450 inhabitants.

location

The parish village is located in the Franconian Lake District in a wooded area, surrounded by hops and orchards at an altitude of 432 m above sea level. NHN . It is built on the southeast slope of a Keuperhöhe, about one kilometer northeast of the Großer Brombachsee and four kilometers north of Pleinfeld. Neighboring towns are Allmannsdorf , Hohenweiler and Erlingsdorf . The main streets of the village are the district streets WUG 18 and WUG 19 . The forehead is bordered by the forest meadows of fir and oak wood.

history

The place was first mentioned in the 11th century. During the witch hunt in the Eichstätt monastery , Elisabeth Bißwangerin and Margaretha Schandin, both from Stirn near Pleinfeld, were executed as supposed witches on August 29, 1532. After the destruction of the Thirty Years War and a fire in 1687, the place was rebuilt.

Before the municipality reform , Stirn formed the independent municipality of Stirn together with Hohenweiler , Mackenmühle and Prexelmühle. On July 1, 1972, this was incorporated into the Pleinfeld market.

Attractions

Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The entire center of Stirn is a listed building. There is also the Catholic parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in the parish of the same name.

Personalities

Joachim Koch (* 1949), visual artist

literature

Joseph Georg Ainmüller: Forehead according to his topographical condition, his age and political change. In: 21st annual report of the historical association in Middle Franconia, Ansbach 1852, Appendix III, pp. 9–55
Hans Wolfram Lübbeke, Otto Braasch: Middle Franconia: Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments , Munich: R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1986

Web links

Forehead with plan and pictures

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Wolfram Lübbeke, Otto Braasch: Middle Franconia: Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological land monuments , Munich: R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1986, page 527
↑ Stürzl, On the persecution of witches in the upper pen of the Hochstift Eichstätt. Addendum to: Executions for witchcraft in Eichstätt. In: Leaflets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies. Self-published, Munich. 2016 p. 128.
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .

[1] Hans Wolfram Lübbeke, Otto Braasch: Middle Franconia: Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological land monuments , Munich: R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1986, page 527

[2] Stürzl, On the persecution of witches in the upper pen of the Hochstift Eichstätt. Addendum to: Executions for witchcraft in Eichstätt. In: Leaflets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies. Self-published, Munich. 2016 p. 128.

[3] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .