Pommersfelden

The community of Pommersfelden is subdivided into four Gemarkungen (traditional rural land units) with a total of ten settled centres, each given here with its own population figure: The Gemarkungen have the same names as 4 of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby, or in Pommersfelden’s case, within it).

After the family had died out in 1710, ownership passed to Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.

In the south of the constituent community of Pommersfelden stands Schloss Weißenstein (palace), built by Lothar Franz von Schönborn between 1711 and 1716, which is nowadays in private family ownership.

The Baroque palace houses an impressive stairway, an indoor grotto and a collection of paintings that is worth seeing.

The painter, restorer and gallery inspector Joseph Dorn was born on 12 August 1759 in Kratz-Sambach, today’s Sambach.

Haßberge (district) Schweinfurt (district) Kitzingen (district) Neustadt (Aisch)-Bad Windsheim Pommersfelden Erlangen-Höchstadt Coburg (district) Kulmbach (district) Bayreuth (district) Lichtenfels (district) Bamberg Forchheim (district) Zückshuter Forst Winkelhofer Forst Steinachsrangen Semberg Lindach (unincorporated area) Koppenwinder Forst Hauptsmoorwald Geisberger Forst Eichwald (unincorporated area) Ebracher Forst Ebracher Forst Walsdorf Rattelsdorf Baunach Reckendorf Lauter Gerach Gundelsheim Hallstadt Schlüsselfeld Zapfendorf Wattendorf Viereth-Trunstadt Strullendorf Stegaurach Stadelhofen Schönbrunn im Steigerwald Scheßlitz Priesendorf Pommersfelden Pommersfelden Pettstadt Oberhaid Litzendorf Lisberg Königsfeld Kemmern Hirschaid Frensdorf Ebrach Buttenheim Burgwindheim Burgebrach Breitengüßbach Bischberg Altendorf Memmelsdorf Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken
Truchseß von Pommersfelden family’s coat of arms
Schloss Weißenstein
Coat of Arms of Bamberg district
Coat of Arms of Bamberg district