Windmill (maple valley)

Windmill Ahorntal municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 33 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 59"  E
Height :	420  (417-424)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	6  (1987)
Postal code :	95491
Area code :	09202
The Ahorntaler district of Windmühle

Windmill is a Franconian wasteland that belongs to the municipality of Ahorntal .

geography

View of the desert from the northeast

The wasteland in the north-eastern part of Franconian Switzerland is one of 27 officially designated parts of the municipality of Ahorntal in the south-eastern part of Upper Franconia . The at an altitude of 420  m above sea level. NHN located place is about half a kilometer from the south-southeast lying center of Kirchahorn , in which the Ahorntaler municipal administration is based.

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Windmühle had been located in the village markings of Kirchahorn, a territory that was under the sovereignty of imperial nobles. This had in the Frankish knights circle belonging Ritter Canton Gebürg organized, which is decisive for the country's sovereignty village and township government was supported by the Counts of Schönborn exercised. The high jurisdiction was to the Bishopric of Bamberg belonging Office Waischenfeld than cents Office to. When the imperial knighthood territories in Franconian Switzerland were mediated as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Windmühle was annexed by the Electorate Palatinate-Baiern on November 1, 1805, in breach of the Imperial Constitution . The former wasteland thus became part of the New Bavarian territories that were taken over by the "Napoleonic land consolidation" , which was only subsequently legalized in July 1806 with the Rhine Confederation Act.

As a result of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century, the windmill became part of the rural community of Kirchahorn with the second municipal edict in 1818 , to which the towns of Dentlein , Klausstein , Neumühle , Rabenstein , Schweinsmühle , Weiher , Wünschendorf and Zauppenberg also belonged. In the course of the municipal territorial reform in Bavaria in the 1970s, on April 1, 1971 the village of Christanz with the hamlet of Brünnberg was incorporated into the municipality of Kirchahorn. Together with the thus enlarged municipality of Kirchahorn, Windmühle became part of the newly formed municipality of Ahorntal on January 1, 1972. In 1987 the windmill had six residents.

traffic

A community connecting road coming from the St 2185 runs past the western edge of the village and continues to Eichig . The public transport operates the remote area at a station of the bus line 388 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 .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Windmill . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 99 ( digitized version ).
• Herbert Popp , Klaus Bitzer, Halk Thomas Porada: Franconian Switzerland . Ed .: Sebastian Lentz , Bernhard Müller (=  Landscapes in Germany ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51535-5 .
• Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 .
• Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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 .

Web links

Commons : Windmill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Windmill in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on July 3, 2020.
• Windmill in the Bavarian Authority Guide , accessed on July 3, 2020
• Windmill in the BayernAtlas , accessed on July 3, 2020
• Windmill on historical map , accessed July 3, 2020

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 July 3, 2020
2. ^ Windmill in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on July 3, 2020.
3. ↑ Geographical location of Windmühle in the Bavaria Atlas , accessed on July 3, 2020
4. ↑ Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . S. 66 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Kirchahorn . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 99 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
7. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
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 .