Maroldsweisach
Maroldsweisach is a municipality in the district of Haßberge in Bavaria in Germany.
Maroldsweisach | |
|---|---|
 Maroldsweisach Castle | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Maroldsweisach within Haßberge district  | |
  Maroldsweisach  Maroldsweisach | |
| Coordinates: 50°11′51″N 10°39′49″E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Unterfranken |
| District | Haßberge |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Wolfram Thein (SPD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 71.87 km2 (27.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 334 m (1,096 ft) |
| Population (2018-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 3,270 |
| • Density | 45/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | 96126 |
| Dialling codes | 09532 |
| Vehicle registration | HAS |
| Website | www.maroldsweisach.de |
Culture and sights
- Alte Burg (Altenstein), the "Old Castle"
- Altenstein Castle
- Ditterswind Palace
- Hafenpreppach Palace
- Maroldsweisach Palace
- Pfaffendorf Palace
- Pfaffendorf Village Church
- Birkenfeld Palace
- Jewish Cemetery with memorial tablets to persecuted and murdered Jews
Local Citizens of Note
- Joseph Brunner (November 26, 1706 –– November 19, 1827) was born in Trappstadt and died in Altenstein. Once considered to have been the oldest proven person, information has recently surfaced which suggests he may have only been born in 1739, making him 88 years old at the time of his death
- Rudolf Berthold, the World War I flying ace and Pour le Merite winner, was born in Ditterswind.[2]
Endnotes
- "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2019.
- Franks et al 1993, p. 71.
gollark: It doesn't write everything to the disk, so it can handle files bigger than disk (admittedly with awful memory use) and can even download bigger-than-maximum-request-size files using HTTP range stuff.
gollark: https://pastebin.com/LW9RFpmY
gollark: For future tape downloading, consider my web2tape program!
gollark: Which is shipped in potatOS, thus bee.
gollark: Exciting news: PotatOS includes a built-in high-performance* prime factorization program now.
References
- Franks, Norman; Bailey, Frank W.; Guest, Russell. Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918. Grub Street, 1993. ISBN 0-948817-73-9, ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1.
Towns and municipalities in Haßberge (district) | ||
|---|---|---|
 Coat of Arms of Haßberge district | ||
Authority control  |
|
|---|
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.