Stadelhofen
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Stadelhofen, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1... / CC BY SA 3.0 • #Municipalities_in_Bavaria • #Bamberg_(district) • Stadelhofen is a municipality in the Upper Franconian (German: Oberfranken) district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Steinfeld. • The community lies on the edge of the Franconian Switzerland on the Autobahn from Bamberg to Bayreuth. • Stadelhofen’s namesake centre is not the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with Steinfeld being more than twice its size. • The community has these centres, each given here with its own population figure: The community also has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Hohenhäusling, Schederndorf, • Stadelhofen, Steinfeld and Wölkendorf, four of which have the same names as four of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby). • The community had its first documentary mention in 1248. • The placename Stadelhofen is believed to mean at the farms furnished with a barn . • However, it could also have come from a corrupted personal name. • Stadelhofen lies at the spot where an old army road from Bamberg to Kulmbach once crossed the way from Weismain to Hollfeld. • Source of the Wiesent in Steinfeld Even if Stadelhofen had its first documentary mention rather late, it is clear that the area was already settled by the year 630. • On a map from 1595, the area around Stadelhofen bears the description Uf dem Gebürg. • In 1386, the Counts of Truhendingen sold the place at a price of 2,000 heller to the Bishop of Bamberg. • Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, before which the community had belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg, Stadelhofen has belonged to Bavaria. • In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today’s community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt ( Community Edict ) of 1818. • Since 1978, the community has consisted of the formerly autonomous communities ...
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