Wohlmannsgesees

Wohlmannsgesees Wiesenttal market Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '25 "  N , 11 ° 15' 49"  E
Height :	425 m above sea level NN
Residents :	64  (1987)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91346
Area code :	09196

Wohlmannsgesees is a district of Wiesenttal , a market in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in the center of Franconian Switzerland .

Geography and transport links

The village is located in the southern area of ​​the Wiesenttal market on the FO 34 district road . The B 470 runs to the east and flows the Wiesent , the valley of which is followed by the museum- quality Franconian Switzerland steam train on the former Forchheim – Behringersmühle line . The area is rich in karst caves .

history

The cave-rich area was already regularly visited by people in the Stone Age , as individual finds show. 250 m south of the town center there is a burial site from the Urnfield period , 800 m west a stately cemetery of at least two hectares from the Hallstatt period , both of which are protected as ground monuments. Find horizons from the Roman Empire and the Great Migration are completely absent and only begin again with a high medieval church desert, the "Molderleskirch" southwest of the so-called Druid Grove . All buildings of the late Middle Ages went down together with the church , but after the Thirty Years' War the area was repopulated, possibly by Austrian exiles . It was not until the 17th century that the name of the corridor, Morteleskirch, appeared. The whole village of Wohlmannsgesees belonged to the Lords of Streitberg from at least the 15th century , and from 1691 to the Stauffenberg taverns as an imperial fiefdom .

Economically, the place seems to have developed quite well, despite the harsh climate on the plateau, because the Bavarian original cadastre lists a neat clustered village there after 1800 , which consisted of a total of 13 farmsteads with partly respectable farm areas. The name Druidenhain did not appear yet, rather this parcel was called Steckenleithen at that time.

The village-like, agricultural structure of Wohlmannsgesees has been preserved, even if the former 13 farms have now been sprawled on over 30 plots through modern residential developments. The building boom of the 1950s and 1960s led to a renewal of the village, but no qualified architectural monuments were preserved. Together with Kanndorf to the southeast, the place formed the community of Wohlmannsgesees. This was dissolved in 1978 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . Wohlmann Gesees was in the newly formed Wiesenthal incorporated , Kanndorf came to Ebermannstadt .

Attractions

Druid Grove

Quack lock

• Southwest of Wohlmannsgesees is the so-called Druidenhain , a geotope and natural monument . The maze of moss-covered dolomite rocks lies in a spruce and beech forest. The individual boulders are two to five meters high and two to six meters long. They are lined up in long lines in a northwest-southeast orientation.
• The karst cave Quackenschloss is two kilometers east of the village .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Genealogy network
2. ↑ LfD list for Wiesenthal , p. 7-9 (PDF)
3. ^ Dieter Zöberlein: The von Streitberg, story of a Franconian noble family . Self-published, Burggrub 2018, part 2, pp. 489–490
4. ↑ Historical map with Wohlmannsgesees and Molderleskirch at Bayernatlas Klassik