Stegaurach

Stegaurach is a community in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and the seat of the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Stegaurach.GeographyThe community of Stegaurach lies in the valley of the Aurach, about 4 km west of Bamberg. Stegaurach lies in the Upper Franconia-West region.Constituent communitiesStegaurach’s main and namesake centre is by far the biggest of its Ortsteile with a population of 4,033. The community furthermore has these outlying centres, each given here with its own population figure and dialectal name where there is one: Debring (village) 484Dellerhof (farm) 17Dellern (farm) 32Hartlanden (village) 410, locally “Hädländ”Höfen (village) 220, locally “Höfn”Kaifeck (hamlet) 12Knottenhof (small hamlet) 5, locally “Knonhof”Kreuzschuh (village) 210, locally “Kreutschi”Mühlendorf (village) 807, locally “Müllndäff”Mutzershof (hamlet) 67Seehöflein (village) 69Unteraurach (village) 256, locally “Ündäaurich”Waizendorf (village) 505, locally “Waizndäff” Stegaurach itself is known in the local speech as “Aurich”.The community also has 5 traditional rural land units, known in German as Gemarkungen, named Hartlanden, Höfen, Mühlendorf, Stegaurach and Birkacher Wald, four of which (all but the last, which is a woodland) 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).