Tüchersfeld

Tüchersfeld is a church village in the Püttlach valley in Franconian Switzerland and belongs to the town of Pottenstein.

Geography
Due to the prominent rocks (sponge reefs in cone karst shapes) of a meander cutoff hill, which emerged as the result of the uplifting of the Franconian Jura in the Late Tertiary and the deposition of a thick bed of sand in the Upper Cretaceous, and its timber-framed-houses, which appear in places to be glued onto the rocks, Tüchersfeld is a symbol of Franconian Switzerland and has also been portrayed on postage stamps of the Deutsche Post. Until the Thirty Years' War there were two castles here, the Upper and Lower Castles, the latter was recorded in 1269 as a fortress that had already been in existence for a long time.

History
The Franconian Switzerland Museum is housed in the old Judenhof ("Jews Court"), a group of 17th- and 18th-century buildings built by Jews on the grounds of the Lower Castle and inhabited until 1860 by 18 Jewish families, and restored in 1978–1982. Of particular note is the synagogue from the second half of the 18th century (around 1763) with its simple Late Baroque stucco work on the ceiling; of the original decoration little can be seen after decades of alienation.

Literature

 * Franz X. Bogner: Die Fränkische Schweiz. Ein Luftbildportrait. Ellwanger Verlag, Bayreuth, 2007, pp. 78–82, ISBN 978-3-925361-62-3.
 * Franz X. Bogner: Die Fränkische Schweiz. Ein Luftbildportrait. Ellwanger Verlag, Bayreuth, 2007, pp. 78–82, ISBN 978-3-925361-62-3.