The town was probably founded around 800. In a document that was written between 1132 and 1150, the sale of the goods of the Bamberg canon "Volmar in Tefersendorf" in Ketteldorf to the Heilsbronn monastery was confirmed. This is also the first documented mention of the place.[5] The defining word of the place name is the Slavic personal name Dobriš. In 1339, the brothers Conradt and Burkhard Pfefferbalg sold land in "Teferßdorf" to the Heilsbronn monastery, which they had received from Count Gottfried von Hohenlohe.[6] From 1566 to 1818, the Nuremberg patrician Scheurl had a seat in the town.
Towards the end of the 18th century, there were eleven properties in Defersdorf (castle, four farms, a half-farm, two estates, a small farm, a brickworks). The high court exercised the Brandenburg-Ansbach judgeship of Roßtal. The Scheurl von Defersdorf family had the village and community authority as well as the manorial authority over all properties.[7] In 1799 there were still eleven properties in the town.[8]
From 1797 to 1808 the town was under the jurisdiction of the Cadolzburg Justice and Chamber Office. As part of the municipal edict, Defersdorf was assigned to the tax district of Großweismannsdorf, which was formed in 1808, and to the rural community of Großweismannsdorf, which was founded in the same year. The entire town was under the voluntary jurisdiction of the Defersdorf Patrimonial Court until 1848.[9]
As part of the regional reform in Bavaria, Defersdorf was incorporated into Roßtal on May 1, 1978.
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