page_title: Erlangen-Höchstadt
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Erlangen-Höchstadt / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Möhrendorf Wasserschöpfräder. Im Vordergrund das Schmiedsrad, im Hintergrund das Rinig-Rad. Aufgenommen im Mai 2005.
context_page_description: Erlangen-Höchstadt is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Fürth, Neustadt-Bad Windsheim, Bamberg, Forchheim and Nürnberger Land, and by the cities of Nuremberg and Erlangen. The city of Erlangen is not part of the district, but nonetheless its administrative seat.
context_section_description: The earliest extant documents are drawings from 1413 which show water wheels along the Regnitz.  The first (1449–1450) and second (1552–1555) Margrave wars, Brandenburg versus Nuremberg,  devastated the countryside.
  In 1715 a lock was placed in the Regnitz river at Hemhofen.  The highpoint of waterwheel usage was in the early 19th century when more than 190 were in use between Fuerth and Forchheim.
  The district was established in 1972 by merging the former districts of Erlangen and Höchstadt.
caption: Waterwheel in the Regnitz near Möhrendorf.
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