Ammerndorf is a market in the district of Fürth (Middle Franconia, Bavaria).
The last private brewery in the Fürth district is located here.
The place was first mentioned in 1246 as "Amelradorf". The defining word of the place name is probably the feminine personal name Amelrad. A person of this name can be assumed to be the founder of the settlement. [8] In 1414 the place was called "Ammerdorff", and in 1438 it was called "Ammerndorf" for the first time in its current form. [9]
After a long dispute with the Heilsbronn monastery, the Nuremberg burgrave Konrad I renounced the goods and people. Pope Innocent IV confirmed the ownership of the monastery in 1249. In Ammerndorf the grain trade of the surrounding villages took place. During the First Margrave War (1449–1450), the city was attacked by the imperial city of Nuremberg because of the large stocks of grain. [10]
At the end of the 18th century there were 47 properties in Ammerndorf. The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach Oberamt Cadolzburg. The Brandenburg-Ansbach monastery administrator in Heilsbronn was in charge of the village and community. The landlords were the Heilsbronn monastery administration office (two farms, 25 estates, 17 houses) and the Cadolzburg caste office (one estate, two semi-estates). [11]
Ammerndorf belonged to the Hohenzollern principality of Ansbach, which was acquired by Prussia in 1791 and was part of the Franconian Empire from 1500, and had market rights with extensive proprietary rights. As part of the Prussian Principality of Ansbach, Ammerndorf fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Treaty of Paris (February 1806) by swap.