Wunkendorf

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Wunkendorf
City of Weismain
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 15 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 455 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 121  (Jan 1, 2013)
Postal code : 96260
Area code : 09575
Catholic Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Catholic Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Wunkendorf is a village with 121 inhabitants and belongs to the town of Weismain in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels in the north of the Free State of Bavaria .

Geographical location

Wunkendorf is located at 455  m above sea level. NN on a plateau, about 500 meters west of the Bärental . The plateau belongs to the northern foothills of the Franconian Jura in the Franconian Switzerland-Veldenstein Forest Nature Park . The city center of Weismain is about four kilometers to the north. The next villages are Wohnsig , Neudorf , Seubersdorf (Weismain) , Modschiedel , Weiden , Wallersberg and Schammendorf .

history

Local plan of Wunkendorf from 1851

The first documentary mention was in 1137, when Wunkendorf came into the possession of the Bamberg Michelsberg Monastery .

After the First World War , the then exclusively Catholic village population built a small chapel in the center of the village to commemorate the war. She has received the patronage of the Sacred Heart on 11 June 1923 consecrated .

On January 1, 1976, Wunkendorf was incorporated into the city of Weismain as a former district of Modschiedel .

Population development

The table shows the population development of Wunkendorf in recent times.

year Residents source
1987 136
2012 121
2013 121
2015 118

societies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographic map of Wunkendorf , geodaten.bayern.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
  2. ^ Dieter George: Lichtenfels; The old circle . Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 6: Lichtenfels. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7696-6862-9 , p. 180.
  3. ↑ a b Wunkendorf , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on December 30, 2012
  4. ↑ Wunkendorf's genealogical place directory  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gov.genealogy.net, accessed February 13, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wiki-de.genealogy.net  
  5. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2012 ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Population distribution in the city of Weismain on January 1, 2013 ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Population distribution of the city of Weismain on January 1, 2015 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • Alois Dechant, Gerhard W. Peetz: hiking guide Weismain . Marie Link Verlag, Kronach 2010

Web links

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