Scheßlitz

History

Scheßlitz had its first documentary mention about 805. Scheßlitz is among the area's oldest settlements and has held town rights since 1230. Linear Pottery remains in the Kohlstatt make clear that there were settlers here as long ago as 2500 BC. Concrete clues as to the town's history are yielded by the Codex Eberhardi in which it is documented that a Count Bernhard and his wife Ratbirg bequeathed their property on what is now Scheßlitz's abutting rural area to the Fulda Monastery about the year 800. The town has seized on this event as its historical beginnings and thus celebrated its 1,200-year jubilee in 2005. It is said that confirmation of the existence of a parish of Scheßlitz is the underwriting of a protocol about the Bamberg Synod in 1059 by Arnold de Sieslice. The town gained importance through the Andechs Meranians’ activities, who rose to dukes in 1178. In 1230, one of Duke Otto VIII's fortified Andechs Meranian castles in the civitas of Scheßlitz was mentioned, making Scheßlitz the Bamberg district's oldest town. The town of Scheßlitz was an Obervogtamt (“higher reeve’s office”) of the High Monastery of Bamberg, and with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, it became part of Bavaria. In his travel guide about Bamberg and the surrounding area from about 1912, the compiler Dietrich Amende also describes the town of Scheßlitz: :“Originally a Slavic settlement, Scheßlitz was already named in history in 805 and already styled an ‘oppidum’ (small town) in 1062. Today the picturesque small town with its admirable inns is a popular outing destination for people from Bamberg, Nuremberg and Coburg. Worth seeing are the parish church, a Gothic hall church with interesting gravestones from 1360, 1569 and 1570, the hospital church built in 1780 with the…

Geography

The town is surrounded by the following hills: :Stammberg (559 m) :Giechburg (530 m) :Gügel (515 m) :Kulm (553 m) :Heidenstein (577 m) :Rabenstein (572 m) :Würgauer Höhe (518 m) :Reisberg (554 m) :Roter Stein (518 m) :Wattendorfer Höhe (555 m) :Hohe Metze (577 m) This basin's sheltered setting with roads that come together from Heiligenstadt, Hollfeld, Weismain, Bad Staffelstein and Zapfendorf favoured settlement in prehistoric times. Scheßlitz's main town and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Ortsteile with a population of 2,548. The town furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure: (as of 31 March/4 April 2005) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !Constituent communities !Inhabitants !Other notes |- | Burgellern | 378 | amalgamated in 1972 |- | Burglesau | 203 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Demmelsdorf | 312 | |- | Dörnwasserlos | 82 | amalgamated in 1972 |- | Doschendorf | 24 | |- | Ehrl | 119 | |- | Giechburg | 2 | |- | Gügel | 0 | actually a pilgrimage church |- | Köttensdorf | 125 | |- | Kübelstein | 126 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Ludwag | 145 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Neudorf bei Scheßlitz | 115 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Pausdorf | 102 | amalgamated in 1972 |- | Peulendorf | 174 | |- | Pünzendorf | 72 | |- | Roschlaub | 73 | amalgamated in 1972 |- | Roßdach | 97 | |- | Schlappenreuth | 86 | |- | Schrautershof | 6 | |- | Schweisdorf | 187 | |- | Starkenschwind | 199 | |- | Straßgiech | 555 | |- | Stübig | 215 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Weichenwasserlos | 73 | amalgamated in 1978 |- | Weingarten | 21 | |- | Wiesengiech | 571 | |- | Windischletten | 224 | |- | Würgau | 329 | |- | Zeckendorf | 231 | |} The amalgamation of these Stadtteile into Scheßlitz on 1 May 1972 and 1 May 1978 made the town…

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  827
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  745
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  723
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  706
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  646
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  618
• Gray/Purple Heron

  Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  568
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  549

Most recent

• M 2.6 — 2008-10-12
  2 km ENE of Skalná, Czechia
• M 2.7 — 2008-10-08
  1 km SE of Skalná, Czechia
• M 3.6 — 2007-10-19
  2 km NNE of Syrau, Germany
• M 2.6 — 2002-09-28
  5 km SSW of Schwarzenbach, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2001-08-30
  2 km SW of Breitenbrunn, Germany
• M 3.4 — 2001-07-02
  3 km E of Bad Bocklet, Germany