Wolkenstein (Ebermannstadt)

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Selva
City of Ebermannstadt
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 22 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 32"  E
Height : 482  (460–492)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 65  (1987)
Postal code : 91320
Area code : 09194
The Ebermannstadt district of Wolkenstein
The Ebermannstadt district of Wolkenstein

Wolkenstein is a Franconian village that belongs to Ebermannstadt .

geography

The in Wiesentalb located village is one of 17 officially designated districts in Upper Franconia town of Ebermannstadt. It is located about five kilometers southeast of the center of Ebermannstadt and is at an altitude of 482  m above sea level. NHN .

history

Until the beginning of the 19th century Selva had the rule rich immediate subordinate to nobleman, located in the the Frankish knights circle belonging Ritter Canton Gebürg had organized. The place was owned by the von Seckendorff family and was therefore subject to their sovereignty . When the imperial knighthood territories in Franconian Switzerland were mediated in 1805 , the village was annexed by the Electorate of Palatinate-Baiern in breach of the imperial constitution . With this violent takeover, Selva also became part of the New Bavarian territories that were taken over during the Napoleonic land consolidation , which was only subsequently legalized in July 1806 with the Rhenish Federal Act .

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , with the second municipal edict in 1818 , Wolkenstein became part of the independent rural community of Moggast , to which the wasteland Thosmühle had also belonged. In the course of the communal territorial reform carried out in Bavaria in the 1970s , Wolkenstein and the municipality of Moggast were incorporated into the city of Ebermannstadt on July 1, 1976. In 1987 Selva had 65 inhabitants.

traffic

Selva is only connected to the public stream traffic network by a spur road that ends in town. This branches off about one kilometer northeast of the village from a communal road that leads from Moggast to the Pretzfeld district of Urspring . The public transport serving the village at a bus stop of bus number 234 of the VGN . The closest train station is in Pretzfeld and is on the Wiesent Valley Railway .

Attractions

On the south-western outskirts of the village are the ruins of Selva Castle , of which only a few remains of the wall exist today.

The sparse wall remains of the former Selva Castle

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolkenstein  - 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. 301 ( digitized version ). Retrieved September 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Wolkenstein in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Geographical location of Selva in the Bavaria Atlas , accessed on September 17, 2019
  4. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 31 .
  5. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 97-103 .
  6. ^ Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Wolkenstein . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 289 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 35 .
  8. ↑ Gertrud Diepolder : Bavarian History Atlas . Ed .: Max Spindler . Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag, Munich 1969, ISBN 3-7627-0723-5 , p. 106-107 .
  9. ^ 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. 683 .