What is Mechlenreuth?
[[Image:Schulhaus Mechlenreuth.JPG|thumb|right|270px|old school and municipal office of Mechlenreuth]] '''Mechlenreuth''' is a village in Upper [[Franconia]] in [[Hof (district)|Hof]] in [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]]. In 1978 the village was included into [[Münchberg]]. The earliest known mention of the village was in 1185. From 1837 to 1978 Mechlenreuth was an independent municipality. <ref>Karl Dietel: From the history of the village Mechlenreuth. Münchberg Helmbrechtser Newspapers 1954</ref> Today it is a village of 200 residents and a part of the city [[Münchberg]]. ==Geography== The village is on the edge of the natural park [[Fichtelgebirge]]. Their bordering villages are (clockwise) [[Münchberg]] [[Weißdorf]] [[Stockenroth]]- Germersreuth, Großlosnitz, Kleinlosnitz and Mussen.<ref>Information from the program [http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/BayernViewer/index.cgi?rw=4486120&hw=5559730&layer=TK&step=8 Bayern Viewer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716052456/http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/BayernViewer/index.cgi?rw=4486120&hw=5559730&layer=TK&step=8 |date=2011-07-16 }} of the Bavarian Surveying Authority</ref> The village is at a height of 545 meters two kilometers south of the city Münchberg. In the south and east is Mechlenreuth in large parts surrounded by forests. In the north-west rises the chapel mountain, the highest point of the village area. It is also a natural border, to the rest of the city Münchberg. The center of the [[village]] grouped around a village pond surrounded by trees. Today the [[village]] Mechlenreuth also includes the single buildings Upper Eiben, Lower Eiben, Umspannwerk Mechlenreuth, Rußhut, Lohbrickworks and Dietelsmill. ==Literature== *Karl Dietel: Münchberg. Story of an official and industrial city, Volume. 1., Until the transition to Bayern 1810. City Administration Münchberg, Münchberg 1963. *Karl Dietel: Between Waldstein and Döbraberg - The historical development of the council Münchberg. Former district school, Münchberg 1964. ==References== {{reflist}} ==