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Leinburg
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Leinburg
Total population
6,695
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Overview
Leinburg is a municipality in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria in Germany.
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History
The name of the place could refer to the local linen production and the associated flax cultivation, which was carried out in the past on the slopes of the Moritzberg mountain. There are no reliable historical records about the origin of the place. Leinburg was first mentioned in a document in an imperial decree issued by Louis the Bavarian in 1299 Leinburg's subdivision of Gersdorf was first mentioned in a document of the Burgraves of Nuremberg in the year 1265. In 1299, Leinburg was pledged to the Count of Nassau, who in 1360 sold Leinburg, along with the manor of Altdorf, to Burgrave Albrecht the Fair of Nuremberg. Through inheritance or sale, other noble families became lords of Leinburg. In 1504, Leinburg came under the control of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Nuremberg became the patron of the Leinburg church in 1526, and in the same year, the town received its first Protestant pastor. World War II also left its mark on the village, resulting in 40 destroyed buildings and many homeless people. In the post-war years, the village's population increased due to the influx of refugees. A Catholic parish was founded, which today serves the entire municipality of Leinburg and the municipality of Engelthal. A steady increase in the population was recorded in the following decades as well. The following six municipalities, which were independent until the territorial reform in Bavaria, merged with their respective constituent villages into the new unified municipality on May 1, 1978: * Leinburg, including the constituent villages of Heiligenmühle, Fuchsmühle, Krämersweiher, and Forsthaus. * Diepersdorf is the largest constituent village of the municipality. The hamlet of Scheerau was part of the former municipality of Diepersdorf. * Entenberg * Gersdorf. The…
Geography
Leinburg lies approximately 20 kilometers east of Nuremberg, directly on the Moritzberg mountain, an offshoot of the Franconian Jura. At 603 meters, the Moritzberg is the highest elevation in the surrounding area. The Haidelbach stream, which flows through almost the entire municipality from east to west, originates south of the village of Entenberg — a municipal subdivision of Leinburg — on the northern slope of the 588-meter-high Balcher hill in the Langes Ried forest. The municipality has 17 municipal subdivisions (the settlement type is indicated in parentheses): * Diepersdorf (village) * Entenberg (parish village) * Ernhofen (village) * Fuchsmühle (hamlet) * Gersberg (village) * Gersdorf (village) * Heiligenmühle (hamlet) * Leinburg (parish village) * Oberhaidelbach (village) * Pötzling (village) * Pühlhof (hamlet) * Reuth (hamlet) * Scheerau (hamlet) * Unterhaidelbach (village) * Weihersberg (village) * Weißenbrunn (village) * Winn (village)
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Official Identifiers
Destatis — German Federal Statistical Office
- AGS
- 09574139
- Population (Wikidata)
- 6,858
- Wikidata
- Q542878
Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • Destatis — German federal statistics, Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel (AGS) via Wikidata P439 (state prefix, municipality key)