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 Graefenberg
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 Until the end of the Middle Ages the city of Graefenberg was in the possession of a local noble family which called itself "von Gravenberc” or "von Grefenberg”. The ancient poet Wirnt von Grafenberg (around 1200) comes from this affluent family. After the last male scion of this family had joined the patrician class of the nearby free city of Nuernberg the claim of power over Graefenberg by marriage turned to the patrician family Haller. In the now following years the free city of Nuernberg came into possession of Graefenberg. But although patrician families of Nuernberg – called Haller, Geuder, Loeffelholz, Imhof, Behaim or Kress – took over administrative supervision for a long time the city of Graefenberg remained independent at all until that day when the city was integrated into the Kingdom of Bavaria by Emperor Napoleon in the year 1806. With this Napoleonic administrative act the close interconnection between the city of Graefenberg and Nuernberg suddenly was interrupted.
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Graefenberg was assigned to the administrative region of Upper Franconia and the rural district of the city of Forchheim.
Nevertheless the close contact between Graefenberg and the Erlangen Nuernberg area last until today. One reason for that is the so-called Graefenberg railway built in 1908. Every day thousands of commuters take the Graefenberg train to reach their jobs in the conurbation Erlangen Nuernberg. In the other direction the Graefenberg railway is often used by day-trippers to go to the popular destinations in the Fraenkische Schweiz region. |
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