Goat Castle (Marktschorgast)

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Goat castle
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 8 ″  E
Height : 486 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 37  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : April 1, 1971
Postal code : 95509
Area code : 09227

Ziegenburg is a district of the Marktschorgast market , district of Kulmbach , administrative district of Upper Franconia in Bavaria .

location

The village is located two kilometers north of Marktschorgast on a community road to Gundlitz .

history

In the 17th century there were 17 houses in the village and it had about 100 inhabitants. The formerly independent municipality, consisting of the main town of Ziegenburg and the towns of Pulst , Mittel- , Ober- and Unterpöllitz and Rohrersreuth , had an area of ​​669 hectares and was incorporated into Marktschorgast on April 1, 1971. At the 1987 census there were 37 inhabitants in the district of Ziegenburg, at the 1970 census there were 49 inhabitants.

The village hit the headlines in 2012 with the murder of Hannelore von Luxburg (also known as Susi Cartun), who lived in Ziegenburg. Ziegenburg is characterized, among other things, with a view of the landscape and hiking trails.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 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. 315 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Geographical description of the Archdiocese of Bamberg with a short overview of the suffragan dioceses of Würzburg, Eichstätt and Speyer. P. 439, Fr. Humann, 1833, online at Google Books .
  3. Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 702 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official place directory for Bavaria . Issue 335 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1973, DNB  740801384 , p. 162 ( digitized version ).
  5. nordbayerischer-kurier.de .
  6. infranken.de .