Windischenhaig

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Windischenhaig
City of Kulmbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 417 m
Postal code : 95326
Area code : 09221

Windischenhaig is a district of Kulmbach . Together with the two neighboring, smaller suburbs, Hitzmain and Affalterhof, Windischenhaig has around 301 inhabitants (23 July 2013).

geography

Geographical location

The village lies on several sandstone ridges (Mittlerer Keuper) above the floodplain of the Red Main . The valley of the Hirtenbach, which flows to the left of the Red Main, separates the ridges from one another and leads to great differences in altitude within the village.

Townscape

Windischenhaig is a typical clustered village that consists of older agricultural properties, stately homesteads with a two- to three- story house usually made of quarry stone , a large barn, stable building and other smaller buildings as well as smaller farmhouses and, in particular, the outskirts of the village, of younger residential buildings for new residents.

The Hereth inn "Zum green Kranze" is located next to agricultural outbuildings and a large fish pond in the valley floor of the Hirtenbach and forms the center of the village. From there the main road climbs to the west and east and leads to further homesteads. The thoroughfare runs along the foot of the Keuper slopes above the Rotmaintal.

history

Windischenhaig was first mentioned in a document from 1223 as the property of the Andechs-Meranier noble family, who ruled large parts of Upper Franconia , and which also owned Kulmbach with the Plassenburg . In documents from this time, a village "Erkenbrechtsreuth" is also recorded, which fell in desolation. It is possible that this place was also a half of the village of Windischenhaig and has merged with the rest of the village over the centuries.

Windischenhaig has preserved many elements of traditional Upper Franconian village life: its basic structure as a grown, clustered village, agricultural activities (in addition to a large farm on the southern edge of the village, mainly in the form of part-time farming), the embedding in the fields of the area, the rock cellars on the street, which in the Keupersandstein were dug, as well as the fact that the village itself only has two street names and the houses are numbered (the order essentially follows the construction date). The recent expansion of the village with newer single-family houses, mainly in the course of suburbanization from the central town of Kulmbach, has changed little in the basic structure of the rural settlement; new residential buildings were built especially in the west of the village.

literature

traffic

Communal roads lead to Hitzmain , Lanzenreuth to KU 5 and to Kemeritz also to KU 5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kulmbach.de/xist4c/web/Kulmbach-Rathaus-Stadtteile_id_275_.htm