Autenhausen

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Autenhausen
City of Sesslach
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 280 m above sea level NN
Residents : 312  (Jul 2, 2015)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 96145
Area code : 09567

Autenhausen is a district of the city Sesslach in Coburg in the district of Upper Franconia of the Free State of Bavaria .

Autenhausen in 1974
Parish hall
Vicarage, former hunting lodge of the Langheim monastery
Autenhausen with church tower, half-timbered and half-hipped roof buildings
Memorial stone on the former inner-German border on the Autenhausen-Lindenau road

location

The place is located in the north of Bavaria on the state road 2204. After the Second World War, the border to the Soviet-occupied zone and later to the GDR ran in a north-easterly direction near the place . Today another road, the L 1135, leads to the neighboring town of Lindenau in Thuringia , which belongs to the city of Heldburg .

history

Autenhausen was first mentioned in a document before 956 as part of an exchange of goods between the Würzburg bishop Poppo and the Fulda abbot Hadamar. The place, together with its Gleismuthhausen branch, was donated to the Fulda Abbey . From the 13th century it came into the possession of the Cistercians of the Langheim monastery in the bishopric of Bamberg and various noble families, most recently the barons of Lichtenstein-Lahm and von Stein zu Altenstein , administered by the monastery office in Tambach . In the course of history, various place names of the Autenhausen, known as “Mönchsdorf” because of its connection to the monastery, can be made out: “Atinhuson”, “Altenhusyn”, “Altungehuson” and “Alterhuson”, after 1450 and from the 17th century onwards consistently “Autenhausen”.

As a branch of the parish of Seßlach in the diocese of Würzburg , Autenhausen became its own parish in 1590. It formed a bone of contention between the dioceses of Würzburg and Bamberg, in whose territory the Langheim monastery was located, until the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer ruled in April 1617 that the Tambach monastery with all its villages (in addition to Autenhausen, the monastic villages of Neundorf, Altenhof, Witzmannsberg , Krumbach , Oberelldorf and Rothenberg ) and subjects "henceforth detached from Würzburg" and belong to Bamberg. Autenhausen was no longer subordinate to the Würzburg Vogt von Seßlach in secular territory, but remained a Würzburg parish. It was not until August 26, 1828 that the parish of Autenhausen with Gleismuthhausen was finally assigned to the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

After the secularization , in which the Tambach monastery was also dissolved, Autenhausen belonged to Bavaria for a short time and then to the newly formed county of Ortenburg-Tambach (with its seat at Tambach Castle ). From 1806 this belonged to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg , which became Bavarian again in 1814 , while the counts remained landlords until 1848. In 1845 Count Franz Carl Ortenburg-Tambach paid a visit with his wife Autenhausen.

In 1828 the Jewish community of Autenhausen had a synagogue and a mikveh (now in ruins) and opened a Jewish primary school . In 1839 the Jewish cemetery was laid out on a hill to the right of the road in the direction of today's Seßlach district of Gemünda . At that time, the proportion of the Jewish population in Autenhausen was around a quarter. The last two Jewish families left their homeland in 1923 after a brutal attack by the National Socialists. The synagogue was sold and demolished.

In 1933 Autenhausen had 294 inhabitants. After the Second World War , refugees and displaced persons, especially from the eastern regions, were admitted to the village, and the majority of them emigrated again in the following period. The then Catholic parish priest Josef Fußeder, who worked in Autenhausen from 1944 to 1964, was very committed to the billeted people.

Due to the close inner-German border , the place was cut off from its Thuringian hinterland during the Cold War and the Iron Curtain until 1989 . On the road between Autenhausen and Lindenau, a border stone reminds of the former border with the GDR.

On July 1, 1972, the Staffelstein district was dissolved. Since then Autenhausen has been in the Coburg district. In the course of the Bavarian territorial reform , Autenhausen lost its independence as a municipality on May 1, 1978 and became a district of the city of Seßlach.

Attractions

Infrastructure

  • outdoor pool
  • campsite

Personalities

  • Heinrich Eckstein (born May 19, 1907 in Autenhausen; † August 6, 1992 in Aschaffenburg), farmer and politician
  • Abraham Friedmann (born July 11, 1873 in Autenhausen, † May 6, 1938 in Paris), businessman

societies

  • Autenhausen settlement community
  • VfB Autenhausen
  • Sports shooting club Autenhausen
  • Autenhausen Hunting Association
  • Autenhaus'ner musicians
  • Autenhausen volunteer fire department

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.sesslach.de ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sesslach.de
  2. ^ Dorothea Fastnacht: Staffelstein. Former district of Staffelstein. Historical book of place names of Bavaria. Upper Franconia. Volume 5: Staffelstein. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2007, ISBN 978 3 7696 6861 2 . P. 16
  3. ^ 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. 680 .

Web links

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