Inertia
Inertia
City of Pottenstein
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 29 ″ N , 11 ° 22 ′ 28 ″ E
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Height : | 497 m above sea level NN |
Postal code : | 91278 |
Area code : | 09243 |
Tragweis is a district of the town of Pottenstein in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth in northern Bavaria .
location
The village is in the Franconian Switzerland on the open ground, about 4 km southwest of Pottenstein.
history
The place name means something like "Dragwins Hof". In 1323 Trägerweis is mentioned for the first time, in 1348 the Bamberg bishop owned the fiefdom of 13 farms in the place belonging to the Tüchersfeld office . At the beginning of the 19th century, the once quite large town had shrunk to six houses and a community shepherd's house with 40 residents.
The district of the former municipality of Kirchenbirkig was incorporated into Pottenstein together with its main town in 1972 as part of the municipal area reform.