Asten (Tittmoning)

Branches City of Tittmoning Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 51 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 25 ″ E
Height :	547 m
Incorporation :	January 1, 1976
Postal code :	84529
Area code :	08683

Asten is a village in the northeast of the Upper Bavarian district of Traunstein . About 550 inhabitants live in it. Since January 1, 1976, the formerly independent municipality has been part of the city of Tittmoning . The village is in an exposed position on a moraine hill (547 meters above sea level) above the Salzach Valley , right on the German-Austrian border. Asten is the northernmost village of the so-called " Rupertiwinkel ".

The economic structure of the place is strongly influenced by agriculture. Due to the proximity to Leitgeringer See , tourism also gained in importance, especially in summer.

church

Asten used to be a branch of the parish church St. Laurentius in Tittmoning. The parish also included the inhabitants of Dorfen in neighboring Bavaria, on the other side of the state border (which fell away in 1810).

The parish church of the Assumption of Mary is one of the most remarkable late Gothic country churches in the entire Rupertiwinkel. The architect Michael Sallinger, a student of the famous Stephan Krumenauer, is accepted . Sallinger was also involved as an expert in the construction of the Frauenkirche in Munich. Apparently there was a pilgrimage to St. Mary in the 14th century. By building the stately church, the archbishop might want to promote or revive this pilgrimage, but this did not succeed. Inside is the most important altar by the Tittmoningen baroque sculptor Johann Georg Itzlfeldner (1704–1790).

history

Around 715, Duke Theodebert, the son of Duke Theodo, gave property in the area to the Salzburg Church. Above all, the monastery Nonnberg was wealthy here, in the "lower Salzburggau". The name of the district Nonnreit ("clearing of the nuns") reminds of this. The place name Asten probably goes back to the Old High German awist "sheepfold". In the Breves Notitiae from around 800, the place Asten appears as an endowment of the Otting monastery near Waging, which was founded in 749 and only existed for a very short time. The counts of Lebenau held the county rights in the lower Salzburggau .

When the last Count of Lebenau died in 1229, Archbishop Eberhard II received the county. In 1275 the Duke of Bavaria largely recognized the boundaries of the secular domain of the Salzburg archbishops. In 1328 Archbishop Friedrich III. its own "regional order" and thus finally separated itself and its possessions from Bavaria. Since then, Salzburg has been a largely independent state within the Holy Roman Empire. Asten was in the so-called "Flat Land" of the Archbishopric of Salzburg. In 1810 the Salzburger Land fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1816 the flat land was divided: Salzburg fell to Austria, Asten stayed with Bavaria together with the so-called "Rupertiwinkel".

On January 1, 1976, the community lost its independence and was incorporated into the city of Tittmoning.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Tittmoning

literature

Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 , p. 761-765 .

Individual evidence

^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 593 .

[1] 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 593 .