Tragelhöchstädt
Tragelhöchstädt is a village in the municipality of Uehlfeld in the district of Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim in Bavaria in Germany. Geography and geology. The village is located in the southeastern Steigerwald between Uehlfeld and Schornweisach. To the south of the village is the Weisach, a left tributary of the Aisch. The forest area borders Steinlohe to the west, to the north is the Kuckuck forest area. Approximately The Vogelberg rises 0.5 km southwest (313 m above sea level). The village was founded in a clearing island in the area of the sandstone Keuper. The landscape relief was modeled out  in the Neogene and especially in the Pleistocene. The valley filling sedimented by the creeks Weisach and Egelsbach comes from the Holocene. The river system of that time was directed south. As the main river, the prehistoric Main drained into the Danube region. History. The place was first documented in 1303/17 in the fief book of the Würzburg monastery. The place name has changed in the course of time from Drachenhofstet to Drachaltshöststaten, Tracholstösteten, Drachenhofstet and Tregelhöchstädt to the current place name. The village was burned down in the Thirty Years' War (1634) by wandering hordes of Forchheim, so that  in 1639 only two families lived in Tragelhochstädt. Eleven years later it was a Tragelhochstadt man who burned the village down again: he caused a conflagration because he wanted to clear his wild pasture and thereby lost control of the fire. In 1678, the village again housed 178 inhabitants. Towards the end of the 18th century, there were 21 households in Tragelhöchstädt. In 1810 Tragelhöchstädt came to the new Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1813 it was assigned to the rural community of Oberhöchstädt. With the second community edict (1818) the rural community Tragelhöchstädt was formed, to which the places Egelsbach  and Nonnenmühle belonged. In administration and jurisdiction, it was subordinate to the district court of Neustadt an der Aisch and in financial administration to the "Rentamt Neustadt an der Aisch" (renamed in 1920 to "Finanzamt Neustadt an der Aisch"). From 1862, Tragelhöchstädt was administered by the district office of Neustadt an der Aisch. The jurisdiction remained with the district court of Neustadt an der Aisch. The municipality had an area of 2.017 km². On July 1, 1971 Tragelhöchstädt was incorporated in the course of the regional reform to Uehlfeld. Culinary specialties. The "Aischgründer Spiegelkarpfen" (a species of carp) is bred  in the ponds north of Tragelhöchstädt.