Aigen am Inn

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Aigen am Inn
Bad Füssing municipality
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 32 "  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 44"  E
Height : 327 m
Residents : 1360  (2018)
Gem. Bad Füssing
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 94072
Area code : 08537
Aigen am Inn (Bavaria)
Aigen am Inn

Location of Aigen am Inn in Bavaria

Aigen am Inn (officially: Aigen a.Inn ) is a district of the municipality of Bad Füssing in the Passau district and an important place of pilgrimage .

geology

The parish village lies in the glacial valley of the Inn , which has left numerous pebbles on the fields in the fertile loess soil . It is noteworthy that occasional floods are no longer caused by the Inn - which is certainly tamed by the dams - but by underwater currents from the Rott .

history

The soil at the Lower Inn has been "providing" new information about the prehistoric and early historical settlement of this area, which has lasted uninterruptedly for the past 7,000 years, for many decades. During emergency investigations in the new "Graswinkl" building area east of Aigen am Inn in July 1996, it was possible to secure important archaeological finds from the Urnfield , Hallstatt and Latène periods .

After the Celts , Romans and Bavarians, the first settlers in the Middle Ages were probably fishermen, the lords of this region at that time being the Counts of Katzenberg on what is now the Upper Austrian side of the Inn. The legend of the vow of the damsel of Katzenberg and the statue of Leonhardi washed ashore in the Inn, which led to the construction of the pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard and to a rapidly growing village, also falls during this period.

The place Aufhofen or Aufhoven came in 1010 (together with Irching , Hart and Aufhausen ) as a gift from Emperor Heinrich II to the monastery Niedernburg, which was part of the empire . In 1161 and finally in 1193 it was transferred to the bishopric of Passau by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and officially named " Aufhoven im (stephanischen) Aigen " (property of the bishopric). In 1470 the place was raised to Hofmark .

It was not until 1700 that the sole name Aigen (dialect "z'Oang") caught on. Together with some surrounding towns, Aigen formed a prince-bishop's enclave within the Electorate of Bavaria until secularization in Bavaria in 1803 as the rule of Riedenburg , after which it was added to the later Kingdom of Bavaria .

The independent municipality of Aign , founded with the municipal edict , was renamed Aigen in 1900 and Aigen am Inn in 1955 .

After Bad Füssing had developed into a prosperous tourist destination from the middle of the 20th century, the councils of the previously independent municipality of Aigen under the last mayor Ludwig Doppelhammer recognized the opportunities associated with cooperation. In the course of the regional reform , Aigen was therefore attached to the municipality of Bad Füssing on January 1, 1972.

Culture and sights

Pilgrimage and St. Leonhard Church

The pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard

According to reports, the pilgrimage to St. Leonhard goes back to a wooden Leonhard figure that was washed ashore by the Inn. In honor of the saint, who was venerated in Bavaria as the patron saint of cattle as early as the 9th and 10th centuries, a church in Romanesque style began to be built around 1180, which was consecrated in 1256. Around 1450 it was extended in Gothic style, followed by Baroque style in 1646. Most of the pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard , which was last renovated in 1988, dates from around 1500. A special feature is the organ by Johann Ignaz Egedacher .

The Leonhardi pilgrimage from Aigen is the oldest in Bavaria next to that of Inchenhofen . Numerous votive offerings in the basement of the south tower illustrate the importance of the pilgrimage. Mainly small iron sacrificial animals were donated. Particularly noticeable are the five, originally six, iron blocks from Würdingen , which are reminiscent of human figures. The largest figure is 78 centimeters high and 145 kilograms. Raising it was considered a special achievement to protect against illness. St. Conrad of Parzham made a pilgrimage to Aigen almost every week from 1840 to 1849. On the Sunday after the feast day of St. Leonhard (November 6th), a Leonhardiritt takes place every year , which was revived in the 1970s. The Leonhardi Church recently received a secondary patronage on the feast day of the Assumption Day (August 15) and thus also became a place of pilgrimage to Mary (Mariahilf pilgrimage church).

Parish Church of St. Stephan

The parish church of St. Stephan

The parish church of St. Stephan was built in 1161, the Aigen church leader states: “Soon afterwards a parish church was founded in Aigen, St. Stephan, which with its patronage declared that it belonged to the Passau bishop's church - sources for the process are missing, however, but acts It was a process typical of the time. ”It was given its current form between 1470 and 1518, largely designed by master builder Thomas von Braunau , who worked between 1461 and 1480 and is known in art history as“ Master of Aigen ”. After the fire in 1685, it was redesigned in Baroque style and changed several times. Aigen was the seat of the deanery until 1974 and has been part of the Catholic deanery of Passau-Süd ever since .

Zehentstadl

The care box

Aigen was the seat of a prince-bishop's keeper with a nursing court and an episcopal tavern , which is reminiscent of the box building made of tuff stone blocks, built in 1450 . The living and court rooms were on the lower floors, while the upper floors were granaries for the natural produce . In 1685, after a fire, the Passau court architect, Bartholomäus Panickh, added a fire jacket to the outer walls, which strengthened the cubic appearance of the block structure.

The historic inn is still in use.

Neuriedenburg Castle

The building at Klosterstrasse 2 was built in 1704/05 by Cardinal Johann Philipp von Lamberg ; in 1770 it was a two-story hunting lodge. The magnificent second floor burned down in 1810 and was no longer added. From 1860 the building served the English ladies as a monastery with a girls' school, in 1893 it became a "children's institution", today it houses the local kindergarten.

Leonhardi Museum

The Leonhardi Museum Aigen is a local museum with a permanent exhibition about Saint Leonhard as well as changing themed exhibitions by well-known artists from the Inn and Rott valleys.

Traditional farms and historic farmhouses

The stately buildings with their typical courtyard gates in the town center convey the feeling of a “rural atmosphere and Lower Bavarian hospitality”. The farmers still produce the fodder for their cattle and pigs on extensive corn and grain fields, mostly as a sideline today. Sheep graze on the orchards and free-range chickens peck. On some houses there are information boards about historical events and gender consequences. The farms are not named after the owners, but with traditional farm names, which are continued regardless of marriage or change of ownership. There is, for example, the Rahbauernhof, the Schwarzfärberhof, the Stoaningerhof; In Aufhausen, which previously belonged to the independent municipality of Aigen, the farm names can be found on uniform signs: Eckinger, Hackerhof, Hinterbauer, Mayerhofer, Schwarz, Stallbauer, Wallerhof.

Several apartment landlords take care of the accommodation of Füssing spa guests.

Nature, leisure and hobbies

Bird sanctuary Unterer Inn with floodplains

Over 300 proven species in the reserve Unterer Inn in the Innauen below the dam and on the dammed Inn are a special kind of experience, which can also be observed particularly well from the other side of the Inn near Katzenbergleithen .

Foot and bike trails

Craft art

  • Two ceramic workshops
  • Stone birds (iron models on Inn pebbles)
  • Wooden figures
  • beekeeping
  • Organic distillery
  • Organic bakery - tradition since 1730

Some of the products are also available at the Bad Füssing weekly market.

Sons and daughters of the place

Web links

Commons : Aigen am Inn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Hrsg.): The municipalities of Bavaria according to the territorial status May 25, 1987. The population of the municipalities of Bavaria and the changes in the acquisitions and territory from 1840 to 1987 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 451). Munich 1991, p. 22 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00070717-7 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 474 .