Unterleiterbach

Unterleiterbach Zapfendorf market Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	254  (244-280)  m
Residents :	562  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	96199
Area code :	09547

Unterleiterbach Castle

Unterleiterbach is part of the municipality of the Zapfendorf market , located in the northern part of the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg in northern Bavaria . The village has about 600 inhabitants.

geography

The Main flows about 0.5 kilometers west of Unterleiterbach and the Bamberg – Hof railway line runs immediately west of the town . At the Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed railway has been operating the station Unterleiterbach built. Neighboring places are in the north Ebensfeld , in the northeast Kutzenberg (municipality Ebensfeld), in the east Oberleiterbach (municipality Zapfendorf ), in the south Zapfendorf and in the northwest Unterbrunn (municipality Ebensfeld).

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 796. At that time goods were given to the Fulda monastery . A church already existed in 1346. In 1501 the Valentin chapel was added. Between 1738 and 1740 a new chapel was built according to plans by Johann Jakob Michael Küchel .

Unterleiterbach was incorporated into Zapfendorf on January 1, 1978.

religion

The population is predominantly Roman Catholic. Until 2006 Unterleiterbach belonged to the parish Ebensfeld. With the establishment of the new pastoral care districts, the believers of the Unterleiterbach branch decided to re-parish to the Zapfendorf parish, as they also belong politically to the Zapfendorf community.

Catholic branch church St. Maria Magdalena

Catholic branch church St. Maria Magdalena

Attractions

• Unterleiterbach Castle

literature

• Dietmar Absch, Günter Dippold: Village life. Politics, belief and culture in transition. 1200 years of Unterleiterbach . Unterleiterbach 2000 ( content ; PDF; 134 kB); therein u. a:
  • Thomas Gunzelmann: A preserved section of a prince-bishop-Bamberg road near Unterleiterbach , pp. 176–178 ( PDF )
  • Thomas Gunzelmann: The Unterleiterbacher Main Bridge. A missing technical monument on the Obermain , pp. 179–186 ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Unterleiterbach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Local map at zapfendorf.de (PDF; 423 kB)
• Information about Unterleiterbach at zapfendorf.de
• Valentini Chapel in Unterleiterbach 360 ° picture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zapfendorf 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. 672 .