Langensendelbach

Langensendelbach
Langensendelbach
Coordinates
Administration
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Upper Franconia
District Forchheim
Local subdivisions 2 Ortsteile
Mayor Wolfgang Fees (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area 9.59 km2 (3.70 sq mi)
Elevation 296 m  (971 ft)
Population 2,955 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 308 /km2 (798 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate FO
Postal code 91094
Area code 09133
Website www.langensendelbach.de

Langensendelbach is a municipality in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. There live about 3500 inhabitats the village Bräuningshof is a part of Langensendelbach..

History: Langensendelbach was first named on the July 13th in the year 1062. After this Langensendelbach was a part of the bistum Bamberg. In the year 1400 St. Peter and Paul chapel was built, in the 14/15th century a small gothic church was built. In the year 1896 the priest named Wölfel found an old German bodygrave from the fifth century. In the World War I 22 men from Langensendelbach dieed. In World War II 88 men had to fight, nineteen of them died in the war or in prison. A few days before the War ended, SS troops were in the village, the US Army attacked them and three children and one man died.

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