Wolfsfelden

Mansion in Wolfsfelden (1843)

Wolfsfelden (colloquially: Wolfsfeldn ) is a desert in the municipality of Kalchreuth in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district in Middle Franconia .

geography

Wolfsfelden was in a clearing, the Wolfsfelder Wiese , in the Sebald Reichswald at the Teufelsgraben. Today a forest area is named after it, which is not far from the district road ERH 6 between Kalchreuth (2.5 km northeast) and Neunhof (4.75 km southwest).

history

In 1394 the “Wolfsueld located in Nurimberger Wald” was first mentioned in a document. It was a 14- day Wiesmahd with associated fields, which the Burgraviate of Nuremberg gave the Tennenloh customs officer Konz Lockeregen as a fief . 1413 was Franz Pfinzing d. J. Fief of the property. In 1432 the feudal claims of the burgraves / margraves passed to the imperial city of Nuremberg . In 1458 a property in "Wolfsfelt" was explicitly attested, on which Kunz Imhoff was sitting at that time . In 1497 the Nuremberg citizens of Starck were attested as fiefdoms, in 1642 the Leißner, who had bought the desolate farm after the Thirty Years War . In 1690 "Wolffsfeldt" was owned by Baron Johann Albrecht von Blomberg. During this time, four new houses were built in addition to the two farmhouses. In 1738 there were ten properties. In the following years the owners changed frequently.

As part of the community edict (early 19th century) Wolfsfelden was assigned to the tax district and the rural community of Kalchreuth .

In 1900 the place, which had been bought by the forest administration two years earlier, was razed to the ground by order of the authorities. The reason for this is likely to have been the fact that the inn was a popular loophole for poachers , bird catchers and illegal trappers as well as for students from nearby Erlangen who did their courses here. The landlord, a certain Johann Sperber, was mostly on the side of his guests when the local gendarmerie showed up. He is said to have denied police officers access to the pub until all suspicious circumstances were resolved.

In the 1980s, the forest was part of the military training area of the American armed forces. Military exercises were held on Wolfsfelder Wiese - often before Father's Day, which caused anger among the local population because the traditional festival could not then be held on Wolfsfelder Wiese.

Population development

year	001818	001840	001861	001871	001885
Residents	49	78	45	38	47
Houses	13	12			9
source

religion

The place had been Protestant since the Reformation and parish to St. Andreas (Kalchreuth) .

Today's appearance

Today only the foundations of the buildings and a pond on the Wolfsfelder Wiese remain, which used to be managed as a fish pond. At the edge of the forest, a stream flows into the Gründlach between the sandstone walls . At the entrance to the clearing there is a memorial stone for the hamlet of Wolfsfelden , which reminds of the district that has disappeared (from 1150 to 1900). Every year on Father's Day a beer is served on the Wolfsfelder Wiese.

Attractions

The region is also interesting from a geological point of view. From the Wolfsfelder Wiese up towards Kalchreuth, a sandstone gorge stretches out, popularly known as the Devil's Bathing Room . Here the water has slowly paved its way through the Keuper and in the process formed bizarre gorges from the Rhätsandstein , the top layer of the Keuper . In the past, this landscape was made accessible by a hiking trail, but today it has not been used due to animal and nature conservation. Rare animal species such as fire salamanders and kingfisher use the area of the stream with its mixed forest as a refuge. Today the Wolfsfelder Wiese is a popular excursion destination because it is the starting point and first station of the Kalchreuth Wolfsfelden soil educational trail .

literature

Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wolfsfeld . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB 790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 287 ( digitized version ).
Dorothea Fastnacht: Erlangen: former city and district (= historical book of place names of Bavaria, Middle Franconia . Volume 7 ). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7696-6869-8 , p. 319-322 .
Franz Krug (ed.): The district of Erlangen-Höchstadt . Publishing house for authorities a. Wirtschaft, Hof (Saale) 1979, ISBN 3-921603-00-5 , p. 147 .