Walkersbrunn

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Walkersbrunn
City of Graefenberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 14 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 381  (363-429)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 296  (Jan. 2019) 
Postal code : 91322
Area code : 09192
The Graefenberg district of Walkersbrunn
The Graefenberg district of Walkersbrunn

Walkersbrunn is a Franconian church village , which is located in the natural landscape unit of Erlanger Albvorland and belongs to the city of Graefenberg .

geography

The village is one of 15 officially named districts of the town of Graefenberg, located in the southwestern part of Upper Franconia . Walkersbrunn is located about three kilometers west-northwest of Graefenberg and is at an altitude of 437  m above sea level. NHN . The village is located in the upper valley of the Schwabach , at the southern foot of the Albtraufes of the Northern Franconian Alb .

history

The first written mention of the village took place in 1021, when it was named "Waltgeresbrunnun" in a document of the Roman-German Emperor Heinrich II . The first part of the place name goes back to the Germanic personal names "Waltger" or "Waltrich", where walt stands for "master" and ger for "spear", and rich for "mighty". The ending -brunn, on the other hand, is not due to the current meaning of the word fountain , but was derived from the terms “brunno” (Old High German) or “brunne” (Middle High German). These mean roughly as much as the bubbling spring water, as it was teeming with a fire, and thus refer to a spring located at this location .

The land area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg

In 1438 the Nuremberg patrician family Haller von Hallerstein sold the place they had owned until then to their hometown. The imperial city of Nuremberg thereupon assigned Walkersbrunn to its maintenance office Graefenberg , which subsequently exercised the village and community rule in Franconia, which was decisive for the sovereignty of the country . The high jurisdiction, on the other hand, was held by the Hiltpoltstein nursing office, also from Nuremberg , until the end of the Holy Roman Empire . In 1806, the place came into the possession of the Kingdom of Bavaria , when the imperial city of Nuremberg was annexed by the imperial constitution in breach of the imperial constitution. Together with the remaining imperial urban area, Walkersbrunn also became Bavarian.

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, Walkersbrunn became an independent rural community with the second municipal edict in 1818, to which the village of Kasberg and the two hamlets of Rangen and Schlichenreuth also belonged. In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria carried out in the 1970s , the entire municipality of Walkersbrunn was incorporated into the city of Graefenberg on July 1, 1976. At the beginning of 2019 the village had 296 inhabitants.

traffic

The connection to the public road network is mainly made by the state road St 2236 , which, coming from the north-west of Weingarts , continues in a south-south-east direction to Dachstadt after passing through the village . From this, near the center of the village, the district road FO 42 branches off towards the north to Kasberg . In the southern local area, the district road FO 28 branches off the state road , which leads east-south-east via Guttenburg to Graefenberg.

Attractions

Rectory from the 18th century

In Walkersbrunn there are nine listed buildings, including several stables and the local rectory. The later classical philologist and historian Martin Crusius was born there in 1526 under the name Martin Kraus (or Krauss ).

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population of Walkersbrunn on the Graefenberg website , accessed on July 3, 2019
  2. ^ Walkersbrunn in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Walkersbrunn in the BayernAtlas , accessed on July 3, 2019
  4. ^ History of Walkersbrunn on the Graefenberg website , accessed on July 3, 2019
  5. ^ Fritz Fink: Hike through the past of the Schwabach valley - the landscape between Erlangen and Graefenberg . Self-published, Eschenau 1999, ISBN 3-00-004988-6 , p. 133 .
  6. ↑ Herbert Maas: mouse Gesees and ox leg. Small north Bavarian place-name studies . S. 228 .
  7. ↑ Herbert Maas: mouse Gesees and ox leg. Small north Bavarian place-name studies . S. 42 .
  8. ^ Ingomar Bog: Forchheim . S. 87 .
  9. ^ Eckhardt Pfeiffer (Ed.): Nürnberger Land . 3. Edition. Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 , p. 118 .
  10. ^ Sigmund Benker, Andreas Kraus (ed.): History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 528 .
  11. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 35 .
  12. ^ Ingomar Bog: Forchheim . S. 125 .
  13. ^ 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. 683 .