Volsbach (Ahorntal)

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Volsbach
Ahorntal municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 15 ″  E
Height : 440  (422-457)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 159  (1987)
Incorporation : 1972
Postal code : 95491
Area code : 09279
The Ahorntaler district of Volsbach
The Ahorntaler district of Volsbach

Volsbach is a Franconian parish village that belongs to the municipality of Ahorntal .

geography

The parish village in the north-eastern part of Franconian Switzerland is one of 27 officially named parts of the municipality of Ahorntal in the south-eastern part of Upper Franconia . The at an altitude of 425  m above sea level. NHN located place is about four kilometers away from the south-southwest lying Kirchahorn , in which the Ahorntaler municipal administration has its seat.

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the village markings of Volsbach were under the sovereignty of the Bamberg Monastery . The dominant village and community rulership in the Franconian region was exercised by its Waischenfeld office in its function as bailiwick office . This office was also entitled to jurisdiction , in its role as a central office . When the Bamberg Monastery was secularized as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1802/03 and annexed by the Electorate of Palatinate-Baiern in breach of the Imperial Constitution , Volsbach also became part of the New Bavarian territories that were taken over during the "Napoleonic land consolidation" , which was not until July 1806 with the The Rhine Confederation Act was subsequently legalized.

The district road BT 15 with the town center in the background

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, Volsbach became a rural community with the second municipal edict in 1818 , to which the village of Eichig and the two wastes of Langweil and Schöchleinsmühle also belonged. As part of the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, the municipality of Volsbach became part of the newly formed municipality of Ahorntal on January 1, 1972. In 1987 Volsbach had 159 inhabitants.

traffic

The St 2185 coming from Glashütten crosses the village and continues to Hundshof . In the center of these branches on the Zeubach to Waischenfeld leading county road 15 BT from. The local public transport serves the village at a bus stop of the 396 bus of the VGN . The quickest train stations are in Creußen , Schnabelwaid and Pegnitz . The next long-distance train station is the main train station in Bayreuth .

Attractions

Grave slab in the church
The church of Volsbach

In and around Volsbach there are six listed buildings, including the church with the parsonage and two chapels.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 292 ( digitized version ). Retrieved June 28, 2020
  2. ^ Volsbach in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Volsbach in the BayernAtlas , accessed on June 28, 2020
  4. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
  5. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
  6. ↑ Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . S. 66 .
  7. ^ Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Volsbach . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 40 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 35 .
  9. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 106-107 .
  10. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 697 .