Burggriesbach

Burggriesbach City of Freystadt Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	427 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	501  (2020)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	92342
Area code :	08469
Burggriesbach

Parish Church of St. Gangolf

Rococo furnishings

Wendelini Chapel

Former village mill

Snow mill

Burggriesbach is a district of Freystadt in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

location

The village lies at 411 (snow mill) to 435  m above sea level. NHN east of the Schwarzach at its tributary Griesbach . Neighboring towns from the north are Obernricht , Rübling , Stierbaum , Jettenhofen , Schmellnricht , Fuchsmühle and Höfen . State road 2388 runs through the village.

Place name interpretation

“Griesbach / Griezbach”, the older name still popular today, means “brook in the sand”. The addition "castle" was made to distinguish it from Sollngriesbach , which was also called Griesbach in earlier times.

history

"Griesbach" is mentioned for the first time in 1080 in the document with which King Heinrich IV. Awarded the Eichstätter Bishop Udalrich I the wild ban in the Gau "Rodmaresperch" and in Sulzgau . About ten minutes below Griesbach was the Weiherheim settlement , which at an unknown point in time was given up in favor of Griesbach. The independent local nobility, the Lords of Griesbach, mentioned for the first time in 1088 with Odelrich von Griesbach and last mentioned in 1244 with “Konrad Truchseß dictus de Griezbach”, sat at the Uttenhofen Castle (= Jettenhofen) until the town was founded or until it was relocated.

Obviously the local nobility left Griesbach again and moved back to Uttenhofen and named themselves again afterwards; for 1280 this is certain. The noble seat Burggriesbach remained, albeit with fewer possessions; it was probably held by a branch of the Griesbach family. Their extinction must be expected in 1340 or shortly before, because Heinrich der Hauzze (= Hauzahn) zu Griesbach appears as a documentary witness in 1340, 1346 and 1352. From the Hauzahn, who were of lower service nobility, the castle passed to the Lords of Reichenau and then to Erst von Seckendorf , who sold it to the Schenk von Geyern zu Jettenhofen in 1375 . In 1414 Fritz Schenk von Geyern entrusted the Burggriesbach Castle to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg against the settlement of debts from the Nuremberg patrician Hansen Ritter and received it again as a man's fief .

Outside of Burggriesbach, the Grundherr Castle was in Stipheim (= Stierbaum) and Rübling, each with the local "courtyard" and in courtyards with four valid properties. In 1491 Wilhelm Schenk von Geyern sold the castle and his 28 subjects in Burggriesbach to the Eichstätter Hofmeister Hieronymus von Rosenberg , who was enfeoffed with it by the margrave. Rosenberg's heirs sold the castle at an unknown date to the Nuremberg patrician Georg Holzschuher , who smashed the property in 1519. Hermann Wichtner, Rat zu Hilpoltstein , bought the empty castle . Rudolf von Hirnheim zu Jettenhofen acquired it from his heirs in 1544 . The Jettenhof subjects to Burggriesbach and the three other places Höfen, Rübling and Stierbaum came to the Reich Almosen in Nuremberg through Holzschuher in 1530 . He sold the building yard of the palace to Umsassen. The property feast in Burggriesbach around the middle of the 16th century was as follows: “One fifth of the residents of Burggriesbach has been Nuremberg since 1530, the little castle as such with little land since 1544, four fifths of the residents Jettenhof as Brandenburg Fief. "

In 1567, the size of Burggriesbach, two four-mans stood in front of the village. The villagers were mostly farmers, there were at least two millers, a blacksmith and a bath worker. There was also a fall house (= covering shop ) and a brickworks at the latest in 1542.

In 1585 the Hirnheimers died out, and a large part of Burggriesbach fell as a settled fiefdom to Margrave Georg Friedrich von Ansbach, who assigned the property to his office in Stauf . The castle itself was sold by the daughters of the last Hirnheimer on November 10th, 1586 to the Eichstätt Bishop Martin von Schaumberg . In 1610 the margrave sold his Burggriesbach subjects to the Staufer bailiff Karl von Birkholz , who sold his new property to the Eichstätt prince-bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen in 1612 . From then on, the manorial conditions remained stable until the end of the Old Kingdom : 4/5 of the village were owned by Eichstatt, 1/5 by Nuremberg. Among the eight households in Nuremberg were the upper landlord (the lower landlord was calibrated) and the snow mill, named after the Schneeberger family, first mentioned in 1660.

In 1613, 60 people from Burggriesbach died of the plague. As a result of the Thirty Years' War , the 28 Eichstätter subjects had merged into 14 in 1644, with several farmers cultivating two estates. The village recovered and became larger through the division of property: in 1786 the bishopric had 42 subjects in Burggriesbach without the parish shepherd's house, including 13 Köblers, 15 mercenaries and eleven empty houses , i.e. properties that had no real estate apart from a small garden. They were subordinate to the Hochstiftischen Vogt, who resided in the box office Jettenhofen. The episcopal curate of Obermässing exercised the jurisdiction . Economically, the Burggriesbachers were able to enjoy "solid prosperity", not including wartime. Soon after 1612 an episcopal forest administration was set up in Burggriesbach, and the forester lived in the former palace area. There was also a school in the palace area from the 17th century; in 1670 there was a teacher named Leberth for the first time. The schoolmaster was also a sacristan . The schoolhouse, which was last built on the castle grounds in 1852, was enlarged in 1895.

There had been repeated disputes between the spa Bavaria and the Eichstätt monastery about the southern border of the electoral mayor's office in Neumarkt. It was not until January 30, 1767, that the state treaty made clear matters relating to sovereign law and fiscal matters. As before, Burggriesbach was among the places allocated to the bishopric.

In 1937, only "inaccessible cellars" were left of the castle, which was directly to the east of the church. The castle ring was originally surrounded by a moat, with the farm yard outside this moat. In 1709 the residential building of the castle no longer stood. Immediate castle ownership was 24 days of working meadows, a sheep farm and forests, plus the fields of the building yard. The village adjoins the oval castle ring to the east in the form of a row village .

At the end of the Old Kingdom , around 1800, there were 47 properties in Burggriesbach. Of these, 13 Köbler, 14 Selden and eleven empty houses were subordinate to the Episcopal Caste Office in Jettenhofen, while the Landalmosenamt in Nuremberg had eight properties and one inn. After the secularization of the Eichstätt Monastery, Burggriesbach came to the Electorate of Bavaria in 1802 and to Grand Duke Ferdinand III in 1803 . of Tuscany . In 1806 Burggriesbach fell to the new Kingdom of Bavaria and was merged with the hamlet of Jettenhofen, with the village of Lauterbach and with the snow mill in 1809 to form the tax district and in 1811 to form the rural community of Burggriesbach in the Beilngries regional court and rent office . As a result of the municipal edict of 1818, Burggriesbach once again formed its own real municipality with the snow mill.

Around 1875 the community of Burggriesbach consisted of Burggriesbach itself and the brickworks one kilometer away. While 16 horses and 191 head of cattle were kept in the village of 271 inhabitants, the 14 residents of the brickworks kept five head of cattle. Three sheep, 53 pigs and five goats were also counted in the parish. In 1900 the 329 inhabitants of Burggriesbach kept 14 horses, 218 head of cattle, 173 pigs and 16 goats. The place was also the "seat of an exposed forest office assessor."

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , Burggriesbach was incorporated into the town of Freystadt in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt on May 1, 1978.

Population development

• 1830: 246 (57 properties)
• 1840: 262 (54 houses; two distilleries, two mills)
• 1875: 271 (28 buildings)
• 1900: 329 (66 residential buildings)
• 1937: 304 (including the wastes and mills)
• 1950: 356 (65 properties)
• 1961: 315 (76 residential buildings)
• 1978: 363
• 1987: 400 (112 residential buildings, 124 apartments)
• 2012: 380
• 2020: 500 (as of March 30, 2020, Freystadt newsletter)

Catholic parish church of St. Gangolf

Until it was established as a separate parish before 1323, Burggriesbach belonged to the original Sulzkirchen parish of the Plankstetten monastery. Between 1182 and 1195, Bishop Otto von Eichstätt consecrated a St. Gangolf church in Burggriesbach, which the Lords of Griesbach had built on the Schlossbering. In 1323 a certain Steinhauser was named as the first pastor. A visitation report from 1602 states that the church used to be a much-visited place of pilgrimage. This medieval sacred building stood until 1770. In 1771 the new building was raised, including the medieval church tower, and equipped with rococo altars and an organ until 1779 ; The latter was replaced in 1922/23 by a Bittner organ from Eichstätt. The church tower received a truncated pyramid and lantern. In 1932 the parish church was expanded to 17 by 12 meters by the architect R. Behringer. In 1937 there were two bells from 1762 and one from 1796 in the tower. Today there are four bells in the tower.

To the east of the village there is a Wendelin Chapel ("Wendelinikapelle"), first mentioned around 1680, a small structure built in its present form at the end of the 18th century with an open vestibule on two baluster columns, equipped with a classicistic altar. A Wendelinbund was established in the parish in 1751.

Architectural monuments

In addition to the two sacred buildings, the former village mill from the end of the 18th century, a poor house from the 1st half of the 19th century, the forestry office from the 17th century, a residential building around 1900, the rectory built before 1601, an inn from the In the middle of the 19th century, a shrine to the Virgin Mary at the parish church (erected in 1893) and a medieval stone cross north of the village as monuments.

See also the list of monuments in Freystadt # Burggriesbach

societies

• German youth force (DJK) Burggriesbach
• Burggriesbach volunteer fire department
• Soldiers and reservists comradeship (SRK) Burggriesbach
• Rifle Club 1860 Burggriesbach
• Fruit and horticultural association (OGV) Burggriesbach
• Caritas care association

literature

• Franz Xaver Buchner : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, Volume II: Eichstätt 1938
• Bernhard Heinloth (editor): Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Old Bavaria, Issue 16: Neumarkt , Munich 1967
• Gerhard Hirschmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Franconia. Row I, Issue 6. Eichstätt. Beilngries-Eichstätt-Greding. Munich 1959
• Felix Mader : History of the southern Seglau. (Former Eichstättisches Amt Jettenhofen) (Parish Burggriesbach) . In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Eichstätt 53 (1937), especially pp. 34–84

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mader, p. 34
2. ↑ Hirschmann, p. 22; Buchner I, p. 123
3. ↑ Mader, pp. 34-36
4. ↑ Buchner I, p. 123
5. ↑ Mader, pp. 34-46; Buchner I, p. 123
6. ↑ Mader, p. 41 f.
7. ↑ Mader, pp. 46-48
8. ↑ Mader, p. 45
9. ↑ Mader, p. 48
10. ↑ Mader, p. 114; Buchner I, p. 334
11. ↑ Mader, pp. 48-50
12. ↑ Mader, p. 51
13. ↑ Mader, p. 52
14. ↑ Mader, p. 61
15. ↑ Mader, pp. 80 f., 83 f .; Buchner I, p. 123
16. ↑ Heinloth, p. 239; Hirschmann, p. 38
17. ↑ Mader, pp. 39–42, 46
18. ↑ Hirschmann, p. 96
19. ↑ Hirschmann, pp. 161 f., 212, 216
20. ↑ ^{a b} Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich 1876, column 1157
21. ↑ ^{a b} List of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria with alphabetical register of places , Munich 1904, column 807
22. ↑ ^{a b} Hirschmann, p. 212
23. ↑ Max Siebert: The Kingdom of Bavaria topographically and statistically presented in lexicographical and tabular form , Munich 1840, p. 323
24. ↑ Buchner I, p. 125
25. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census , Munich 1964, column 517
26. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 1, 1978 , Munich 1978, p. 121
27. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 258
28. ^ Müller's Großes Deutsches Ortsbuch 2012 , Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 225
29. ↑ Mader, pp. 64-69; Buchner I, pp. 123-125
30. ↑ Mader, pp. 70 f .; Buchner I, pp. 123 f., 126
31. ↑ Buchner I, p. 124

Web links

Commons : Burggriesbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• [1] Burggriesbach. Editing, content: Andreas Hiemer
• [2] Bells in the parish church