Stadelhofen

Stadelhofen
Coat of arms
Stadelhofen
Location of Stadelhofen within Bamberg district
Coordinates: 50°0′N 11°2′E / 50.000°N 11.033°E / 50.000; 11.033Coordinates: 50°0′N 11°2′E / 50.000°N 11.033°E / 50.000; 11.033
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Oberfranken
District	Bamberg
Municipal assoc.	Steinfeld
Government
• Mayor	Ludwig Göhl
Area
• Total	41.01 km2 (15.83 sq mi)
Elevation	478 m (1,568 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,227
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	96187
Dialling codes	09504
Vehicle registration	BA
Website	www.stadelhofen-oberfranken.de

Stadelhofen is a community in the Upper Franconian (German: Oberfranken) district of Bamberg and a member of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Steinfeld.

The community lies on the edge of the “Franconian Switzerland” on the Autobahn from Bamberg to Bayreuth.

Stadelhofen’s namesake centre is not the biggest of its Gemeindeteile with Steinfeld being more than twice its size. The community has these centres, each given here with its own population figure:

The community also has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Hohenhäusling, Schederndorf, Stadelhofen, Steinfeld and Wölkendorf, four of which have the same names as four of the constituent communities (it is traditional for a Gemarkung to be named after a town or village lying nearby).

The community had its first documentary mention in 1248. The placename Stadelhofen is believed to mean “at the farms furnished with a barn”. However, it could also have come from a corrupted personal name.

Stadelhofen lies at the spot where an old army road from Bamberg to Kulmbach once crossed the way from Weismain to Hollfeld.

Even if Stadelhofen had its first documentary mention rather late, it is clear that the area was already settled by the year 630. On a map from 1595, the area around Stadelhofen bears the description Uf dem Gebürg.

In 1386, the Counts of Truhendingen sold the place at a price of 2,000 heller to the Bishop of Bamberg. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, before which the community had belonged to the High Monastery at Bamberg, Stadelhofen has belonged to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, today’s community came into being under the Gemeindeedikt (“Community Edict”) of 1818. Since 1978, the community has consisted of the formerly autonomous communities of Stadelhofen, Wölkendorf, Schederndorf and Steinfeld.