Dietersberg

The hamlet located in the southwest of the Wiesental valley is one of 16 officially named districts of the market town of Egloffstein in Upper Franconia. It is situated about half a kilometer southwest of the town center of Egloffstein at an elevation of 456 m above sea level. Dietersberg lies on the northeastern edge of a high plateau that belongs to the Northern Franconian Jura, which is bordered in the northeast by the Trubach creek and in the southwest by the upper reaches of the Schwabach river.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Dietersberg was under the rule of imperial immediate nobility who were organized in the knight canton of Gebürg, which belonged to the Franconian Knighthood. The village was part of the manor of Egloffstein, which was owned by the Barons of Egloffstein. They held the rights of patronage over the village and exercised village and community authority. The high jurisdiction was disputed; on one side, it was claimed by the Vogteiamt Thuisbrunn, which belonged to the Principality of Bayreuth as a Fraischamt, and on the other side by the office of Ebermannstadt, which belonged to the Bishopric of Bamberg as a Centamt. When the territories of the imperial knighthood in the Franconian Switzerland were mediatised in 1805, the hamlet was annexed by the Electorate of Bavaria in violation of the imperial constitution. With this takeover, Dietersberg became part of the "Napoleonic consolidation" of newly acquired Bavarian territories, which was later legalized in July 1806 with the Act of the Rhenish Confederation.

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