Thannhausen (Pfofeld)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thannhausen
community Pfofeld
Coat of arms of Thannhausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 434  (419–457)  m above sea level NN
Residents : 186  (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 91738
Area code : 09834
Thannhausen (Bavaria)
Thannhausen

Location of Thannhausen in Bavaria
St. Bartholomew Church
St. Bartholomew Church

Thannhausen is a district of the Pfofeld community in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The place has almost 200 inhabitants and is at an altitude of 434  m above sea level. NN . Located in the Franconian Lake District, it is accessible to tourists by hiking trails.

Geographical location and traffic

The cluster village Thannhausen is located in the West Central Franconia region , on a northern slope between Pleinfeld in the east and Gunzenhausen in the west. Pfofeld lies to the southwest. Neighboring towns are (clockwise) Regelsberg , Veitserlbach , Dorsbrunn , Rittern , Pfofeld, Langlau and Sorghof . The Banzerbach and the Bachwiesengraben rise to the northwest of the village, and the Walkerszeller Bach to the southeast . On the south side Thannhausen borders on a forest area, the other sides are surrounded by meadows and fields. About 2 km to the north is the Great Brombachsee . The 422.7 meter high Bühl mountain and the 485.4 meter high Weißenberg lie in between. The Romans built the Raetian Limes on the ridge south of Thannhausen . The remains of Roman watchtowers can be found about one kilometer southwest and 1.5 kilometers southeast of the village . The border to the municipality of Theilenhofen runs in the southwest, that to Pleinfeld in the southeast and east. The district road WUG 2 crosses the place and leads to the east-west running state road St 2222 , which touches the place in the north. Some local roads connect Thannhausen with Dorsbrunn and Langlau. The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . South of Thannhausen extending Limes trail , a section of the German Limes trail .

history

The foundation of the Franconian settlement is likely to fall between the 6th and 8th centuries. The first documentary mention of Thannhausen took place in 1075, when the Church of St. Bartholomew was consecrated by the Eichstatt Bishop Gundekar II . At that time, most of the farms in the village belonged to the Teutonic Order in Ellingen , the rest of the free imperial city of Weißenburg . The right of patronage in Thannhausen was granted in 1450 by the Bishop of Eichstätt to the Knights of Absberg . After the Absberg family died out around 1650, the place was transferred to the Margraves of Ansbach . In 1846 there are 36 houses, 43 families and 193 souls in Thannhausen  . In 1875, 208 inhabitants lived in 106 buildings and owned "five horses and 203 cattle".

Until the municipal reform , Thannhausen was an independent municipality with the districts Furthmühle , Hühnermühle , Neuherberg , Regelsberg , Sorghof and Veitserlbach, as well as the mills Beutelmühle , Grafenmühle , Neumühle and Scheermühle , which were removed by the Brombachsee . It was dissolved on May 1, 1978; Regelsberg and Veitserlbach came to the market Pleinfeld, Thannhausen and the remaining districts were incorporated into Pfofeld.

Noble family

In the Middle Ages there was the Thannhauser noble family in Thannhausen . This family of imperial ministers, who lived in a castle that has now disappeared around 1200, was mentioned from the 12th to the 16th century. The minstrel Thannhäuser probably also belonged to this sex. That is why the community has had the right since 1955 to use the minstrel's coat of arms as a seal as shown in the Manessian manuscript .

Worth seeing

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Bartholomew is located in the western part of the village . It was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style in 1896 , only the basement of the church tower with the dome is from the 16th century. The previous building of the village church was consecrated in 1075 and reformed in the middle of the 16th century .

Most of the buildings in Thannhausen date from the 19th century and are mostly ground-floor plastered gable roof buildings . Only the local inn (17th / 18th century), the rectory (1710) and the former smithy (1846) are hipped , half-hipped and mansard roof buildings . The place is criss-crossed by an irregular ring of streets with forks and dead ends, creating the impression of a random arrangement of the houses. Despite some modern buildings such as the new schoolhouse from 1963/64 instead of an old schoolhouse, the village image has been preserved with a great uniform effect. The entire center of Thannhausen is a listed building . To the north of Thannhausen lies the Burgstall Altes Schloss, which is a listed building .

See the list of architectural monuments in Pfofeld # Thannhausen and the list of ground monuments in Pfofeld # Thannhausen .

literature

Web links

Commons : Thannhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfofeld: Dates and Numbers ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pfofeld.de
  2. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 133
  3. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. [...] with an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Munich, 1877, column 1202 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 731 .
  5. ^ Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  6. ^ Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation