Zwiefelhof

Zwiefelhof City of Roth Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 43 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	390  (383–395)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	40  (Jan. 2, 2014)
Postal code :	91154
Area code :	09171
Location of Zwiefelhof in Bavaria
Zwiefelhof from Rothseedamm

Zwiefelhof is a district of the town of Roth in the Middle Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .

The hamlet is located on the northern edge of the Franconian Lake District , on the south-east slope of the Fäßleinsberg and directly on the north-west bank of the Rothsee . It is about 7.5 km away from Roth. A road connects Zwiefelhof with the 400 meters northerly Birkach . The nature reserve north-west bank of the Rothsee main dam begins a few hundred meters to the southwest .

In 1807 Zwiefelhof was tithe from Spital Allersberg . The Bavarian original cadastre from 1808 recorded three farmsteads under the name Oberbürckach . A barn from the 17th century is still preserved and is protected as a monument with the number D-5-76-143-185 . → List of architectural monuments in Zwiefelhof
Around 1820 the place had five residential buildings and 20 residents; In 1973 there were 25 residents.

Until the municipal reform , Zwiefelhof was a district of Birkach, on January 1, 1975 it was incorporated into Roth.

In the past, Zwiefelhof was purely agricultural; Since the flooding of the Rothsee main dam in 1992/3, tourism has also played an important role in the local economy.

Zwiefelhof on aerial photo of Rothsee in
front of Heuberg, Zwiefelhof on the top right

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Zwifelhof . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 6 : V-Z . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1804, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753116 , Sp. 542 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Zwiefelhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Zwiefelhof on the website stadt-Roth.de
• Zwiefelhof in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 23, 2019.
• Zwiefelhof in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on September 23, 2019.
• Zwiefelhof in the historical directory of the Verein für Computergenealogie , accessed on September 23, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historical map on BayernAtlas
2. ^ Entry in the wiki of genealogy.net