Ziegelhütte (Absberg)
Ziegelhütte is an abandoned district of the Absberg market in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The place emerged from a brick factory . It was demolished during the construction of the Franconian Lake District to make way for the Kleiner Brombachsee . Despite the lack of buildings today, Ziegelhütte is an official district of Absberg.
The place was south of Absberg and north of the also demolished Scheermühle on a tributary of the Brombach .
In 1875, six people lived in a building with four head of cattle in Ziegelhütte. In 1964 the place had five residents. The last owner of the brickworks was Michael Groß, a presumed descendant of Hans Thomas von Absberg , a robber baron from the 16th century. In 1973 the brickworks was acquired by the Free State of Bavaria and demolished.
There are two other places within the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district with the same name: Ziegelhütte , part of the nearby municipality of Heidenheim and Ziegelhütte , part of the nearby municipality of Treuchtlingen .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Library Online
- ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
- ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. [...] with an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Munich, 1877, column 1197
- ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territory as of October 1, 1964 with statistics from the 1961 census . Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 783
- ↑ Ziegelhütte on fraenkisches-seenland.de , accessed on July 31, 2015
