Willenberg (Pegnitz)

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Willenberg
City of Pegnitz
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 4 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 479  (469-499)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 95  (1987)
Postal code : 91257
Area code : 09241
The Pegnitz district of Willenberg
The Pegnitz district of Willenberg

Willenberg is a Franconian village that belongs to the city of Pegnitz .

geography

View of Willenberg from the west

The village on the eastern edge of Franconian Switzerland is one of 49 officially named municipal parts of the city of Pegnitz in the south-eastern part of Upper Franconia . Willenberg is located about five kilometers west-southwest of the center of Pegnitz at an altitude of 479  m above sea level. NHN .

history

Until the end of the 18th century Willenberg was under the sovereignty of the Principality of Bayreuth . The village and community rulership, which is decisive for regional sovereignty in the Franconian region , was exercised by the Oberamt Pegnitz in its function as bailiwick .

In 1791/1792 the last margrave of the Franconian Zollern line , Karl Alexander , renounced his domains in exchange for a life annuity and handed them over to the main royal line of the Hohenzollern rulers in Berlin . These incorporated these areas into the Prussian Kingdom and summarized them as Ansbach-Bayreuth . The administration was transferred to the governor Karl August von Hardenberg , who resided in Ansbach . After the Prussian defeat in the Fourth Coalition War , Willenberg and the entire Principality of Bayreuth were placed under a military administration set up by the French Empire in 1807 . After the Kingdom of Bavaria had bought the principality in 1810 , Willenberg became Bavarian.

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, Willenberg became part of the rural community of Hainbronn with the Second Community Edict in 1818 , which also included the villages of Hammerbühl , Heroldsreuth , Horlach , Nemschenreuth , Neudorf , Stein , Weidelwangermühle and Weidmannshöhe . In the course of the municipal regional reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, Willenberg was incorporated into the city of Pegnitz together with the municipality of Hainbronn on May 1, 1978. In 1987 Willenberg had 95 inhabitants.

traffic

The district road BT 41 coming from the west of Willenreuth crosses the village and continues to Pegnitz. In addition, a community road connects the place with Neudorf. The public transport serving the village at a stop of the bus lines 389 and 392 of the VGN . The nearest train station is in Pegnitz on the Nuremberg – Cheb railway line .

literature

Web links

Commons : Willenberg  - collection of images, 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. 296 ( digitized version ). Accessed June 1, 2020
  2. ^ Willenberg in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on June 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Willenberg in the BayernAtlas , accessed on June 1, 2020
  4. ↑ Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . S. 66 , map "The territorial differentiation of Franconian Switzerland at the end of the Old Empire (1792)" .
  5. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
  6. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
  7. ^ Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Willenberg . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 250 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ 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. 529 .
  9. ^ 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. 530 .
  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 .