Übermatzhofen

Übermatzhofen City of Pappenheim Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '59 "  N , 10 ° 57' 39"  E
Height :	524-536 m above sea level NN
Residents :	262  (2013)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1971
Postal code :	91788
Area code :	09143
Location of Übermatzhofen in Bavaria

Übermatzhofen is a district of the town of Pappenheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Middle Franconia .

location

The village lies in the open, on a plateau just under two kilometers southwest of Pappenheim.

history

The history of Übermatzhofen goes back a long way, possibly even to pre-Roman times. Presumably in the 12th century, the "nobles of Übermatzhofen" built a chapel for knights on the site of a Germanic sanctuary there . A druid stone is still preserved from the sanctuary .

The small village church of St. George was built in the 15th century on the foundation of the knight's chapel, and it was first mentioned in a document in 1560. Originally it was supplied by the nearby parish of Solnhofen , today it is a branch of the Evangelical Lutheran town church St. Marien in Pappenheim.

In the geographical, statistical-topographical lexicon of Franconia from 1802, the place is described as follows: “Uebermannshofen, Filialkirchdorf in the Fraisch district of the Solnhofen administration office with 10 subjects belonging to it; 11 are alien. "

With the community edict at the beginning of the 19th century, Übermatzhofen became a politically independent community. On April 1, 1971 it was incorporated into Pappenheim as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

Population development

year	1910	1933	1939	1987	2013
population	242	194	193	235	262

Architectural monuments

• St. Georg (Übermatzhofen) : Evang.-Luth. Branch church, hall building with saddle roof and polygonal roof turret with pointed helmet, choir dendro. dated 1466, alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries; with equipment; so-called druid stone, probably medieval, in front of the church.

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Pappenheim # Übermatzhofen

traffic

Lead communal roads

• via Niederpappenheim to the district road WUG 9 ,
• to state road 2217 near Langenaltheim ,
• according to rooms .

Life

As one of the first church consecrations in the district, the Goas-Kerwa takes place in April .

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Franconia . Volume 5. Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB  790364328 , Sp. 597 .
• Leonhard Schauer: On the history of the Pappenheimer districts Übermatzhofen and Zimmer . Solnhofen 2005, DNB  977099237 .

Web links

• Location description on the homepage of the city of Pappenheim
• Übermatzhofen on the website franconia-online of the University of Würzburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.pappenheim.de , Übermatzhofen
2. ↑ Article about Übermatzhofen in the Weißenburger Tagblatt from April 20, 2017
3. ↑ Bundschuh, Col. 597
4. ↑ Gemeindeververzeichnis.de , District Office Weißenburg i.Bay.
5. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. City and district of Weißenburg in Bavaria. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy e. V.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Übermatzhofen