Ammern (Tübingen)

The Ammerhof seen from the opposite Schönbuchhang

Building of the Hofgut Ammern in the center of the picture, in the foreground the landscape protection area Unteres Ammertal with a restricted level crossing of the Ammertalbahn . In the background the wooded northern slopes of the Spitzberg landscape protection area

Ammerhof, view of Luise von Martens from 1853

Ammern is a former hamlet on the Ammer, west of Tübingen , of which the Ammerhof with the Ammerhof chapel is still preserved today.

history

The hamlet, which was first named as villa ambra , was located directly on the old east-west connection through the Ammertal and already existed in the Middle Ages . When the Count Palatine of Tübingen founded the Obermarchtal Monastery in 1171 , this also included the estate with the Ammern court and the chapel that had been there since the Middle Ages .

In 1600 a new chapel was built under Abbot Riedgasser, but it was damaged during the Thirty Years War . From 1707 Ammern was a governor of the Obermarchtal Abbey . In 1708, an inn was added to the long-standing agriculture. The damaged chapel was replaced by a new building in 1733. Under Abbot Edmund II, in 1765, it was enlarged again by the builder Tiberius Moosbrugger. In 1749 a separate Catholic parish was set up in Ammern , which looked after the Catholics in the wide area of ​​the otherwise Protestant Tübingen. At the same time as the chapel became less important for the surrounding area, the village of Ammern gradually disappeared.

It was not until 1803 that Ammern came from the Marchtal lordship to the Prince of Thurn and Taxis in the course of secularization . In 1807 the parish was abolished and merged with the Catholic parish of Tübingen. From then on, the chapel served as a haystack. After further changes of ownership, the Ammern estate finally came to the royal Württemberg court chamber in 1852 ; administratively, the estate has since belonged to the Derendingen community, with which it was incorporated into Tübingen in 1934. In 1935 the municipality of Ammern was dissolved, and in 1978 the Ammern mark was dissolved. Ammern used to have a stop on the Ammertalbahn , which was also closed.

In the 1980s, the Ammerhof chapel was restored and, with the consecration of the altar by Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard Rieger , it was reopened as a church on June 17, 1991. The church is used today in summer for Saturday evening services as well as for prayers and weddings and is assigned to the parish of St. Johannes Tübingen .

literature

• Hubert Krins: From the sheepfold to the veterinary practice. An outbuilding of the Ammerhof near Tübingen . In: " Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg ", 27th year 1998, issue 3, p. 160f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Ammern  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Ammerhof
• The Ammerhof on TÜpedia

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '4.2 "  N , 9 ° 0' 2.5"  E