Altenberg (Denkendorf)

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Altenberg
Municipality Denkendorf
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 498–504 m above sea level NN
Residents : 47  (2007)
Postal code : 85095
Area code : 08466
Altenberg
Altenberg

Altenberg ( pronunciation ? / I ) is part of the community of Denkendorf in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt . Audio file / audio sample

location

The village is located on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura, west of the town hall of Denkendorf and west of the A 9 and state road 2229. There are road connections to Denkendorf and Riedelshof.

history

The village came together with Kipfenberg Castle and Market in 1301 through the sale of Konrad Kropf (Struma) under Bishop Konrad von Pfeffenhausen to the Hochstift Eichstätt . In the following years it was subordinate to the episcopal care and caste office Kipfenberg .

In the course of the secularization of 1803, the church village with the caste office Kipfenberg in the lower monastery came to the Grand Duke Archduke Ferdinand III. from Salzburg-Tuscany and 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Here it initially belonged to the Denkendorf tax district , from 1817/18 in the Leuchtenberg period to the Kipfenberg tax district and from July 16, 1830 back to the community of Denkendorf. Nothing changed in this regard during the Bavarian regional reform in 1972, when the municipality of Denkendorf and the Eichstätt district changed from the Middle Franconia administrative region to the Upper Bavaria administrative region . In 1983 there were three full-time agricultural businesses and six part-time businesses as well as an inn.

Population development

In 1708 eight families formed the village. In 1818 ten families with a total of 55 people lived in the nine houses of the village, in 1830 with 43 inhabitants. In the period that followed, the population was always around 50. In 1950 there were 56 inhabitants, 53 in 1983 and 47 in 2007.

Church in Altenberg

Catholic branch church St. Gertraud

Altenberg has been a branch of the Catholic parish Kipfenberg since it was separated from the parish of Gelbelsee (together with Gut Riedelshof) in 1462. In 2007, 41 Catholics lived in the village. The small local church, which was rebuilt in the Baroque period (1765/66), has a square roof turret over the choir arch wall and a rooster "with a good silhouette" on the spire (Mader, p. 25).

The four-column high altar with a curved elevator from the late Rococo (around 1760–80) has an altar sheet by the Eichstatt painter Johann Chrysostomus Winck , which shows the church patroness. The rococo side altars (around 1720) and late Gothic sculptures (late 15th century) of St. Maria and the Eichstatt diocesan saint Walburga are further pieces of equipment. In 1915 the church, which has baptism and marriage rights, was thoroughly restored. The cemetery around the church is walled.

literature

  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II Eichstätt District Office. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1928 (reprint 1982), p. 25f.
  • 200 years of the Getrudiskirche in Altenberg. In: St. Willibaldsbote Eichstätt of November 6, 1966, p. 8
  • Altenberg branch . In: Elmar Ettle (text): 550 years of the Kipfenberg parish. 350 years of consecration of the parish church . Kipfenberg (1977), p. 41
  • The Eichstätter area past and present. 2nd Edition. Eichstätt: Sparkasse Eichstätt 1984, p. 151
  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 6: Eichstätt . In: Digital Library of the Bavarian State Library

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