Aha (Gunzenhausen)

Aha City of Gunzenhausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	416 m above sea level NN
Residents :	450
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91710
Area code :	09831
Location of Aha in Bavaria
Aha

The Margrave Church in Aha

The inside of the church

Village well at the church

Aha (Franconian "Oh") is a district of Gunzenhausen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place has around 450 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of 416 meters above sea level.

location

Aha is about one kilometer as the crow flies south-southwest of Gunzenhausen. Neighboring towns are Edersfeld , Gunzenhausen, Pflaumfeld , Unterasbach , Lohmühle and Unterwurmbach . The Altmühl flows past east of Aha . The Pflaumfelder Graben opens out near the village . The main street of the village is the district road WUG 27 , from which the district road WUG 28 branches off south of Aha . North of the village is the federal highway 13 . To the south lies the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line .

history

In the year 1222 or 1223 Aha was first mentioned in the Codex Moedl . In 1528 the Reformation was introduced in the place . The Thirty Years' War and a subsequent wave of plagues hit the village hard. On May 1, 1978, Aha and its Edersfeld district were incorporated into Gunzenhausen.

Population development

Aha

• 1637: 9

Congregation Aha

• 1885: 641
• 1925: 722
• 1933: 802
• 1939: 765
• 1961: 402, of which Edersfeld 53 residents
• 1970: 467

District Aha

• 1987: 388

Sights and monuments

As ground monument more are grave mounds from the prehistory east of Aha, the torn-off from dilapidated previous building the village church and a tower hill from the Middle Ages .

The Evangelical Lutheran Margrave Church of the Holy Cross was built in 1721 by Carl Friedrich von Zocha according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli in the so-called margrave style. Only the basement of the tower remained from the previous building. In the second half of the 18th century there was probably a renovation. The tower tiles are colorfully glazed. The pilaster strips are rusticated. The coat of arms of the Margraves of Ansbach was attached to the west facade in a flat central projectile with a gable . The four-axis hall building with retracted choir and two-story gallery contains blind windows . The altar received the motif of Jesus Christ as an altarpiece in 1866 . The three-storey church tower by Johann David Steingruber is located by the church choir and is crowned by a dome with a point. The parish of Aha, which is part of the Gunzenhausen deanery , is also responsible for the St. Jodokus Church in Unterwurmbach and the St. Laurentius Church in Pflaumfeld.

West of Aha is the nine-arched Altmühl Viaduct of the former Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn and today's Würzburg-Treuchtlingen railway, which was built around 1845 and modernized with four arches. The subsequent embankment is 2.5 km long. The rectory of Aha is a two-storey hipped roof building with a bay window from 1910. The three-sided farms in Aha include the two-storey farmhouse Aha 163 with a gable roof from 1900 and the single-storey, gable-front farmhouse Aha 12 with a gable roof and corner pilasters from 1891.

See list of architectural monuments in Gunzenhausen # Aha

kindergarten

In Aha there is a kindergarten with 25 children and 4 teachers (2011). The carrier is the parish. The kindergarten building was rebuilt in 1992.

Personalities

• Hans-Georg von der Marwitz (* 1961), politician, spent his childhood in Aha
• Adolf von Stählin (1823–1897), Senior Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, was Vicar in Aha from 1849

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Aha . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 23 ( digitized version ).
• Gottfried Stieber: Aha . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 182 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Aha  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of the place on the Gunzenhausen website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 730 .
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. bay_gunzen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, 1964, with statistical information from the 1961 census, column 783
4. ↑ gov.genealogy.net
5. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
6. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
7. ↑ Description of the church on pointoo.de
8. ↑ Aha kindergarten