Degersheim (Heidenheim)

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Degersheim
Heidenheim market
Degersheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 592 m
Area : 10.17 km²
Residents : 175  (Jun 30, 2011)
Population density : 17 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91719
Area code : 09833
Degersheim
Degersheim

Degersheim is a district of the Markt Heidenheim in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ).

Geographical location

Degersheim is located in the Franconian Alb in a hollow of the flat undulating plateau of the Hahnenkamm at the source of the Rohrach . The Jura village can be reached via the district road WUG 34 and the state road St 2218 . From Gunzenhausen it is 18 kilometers away. Degersheim is located directly on the 49th parallel.

history

The place is probably named after a Frankish freeman named Degerich, who settled in the 6th century in the course of a Frankish settlement policy with his clan in the shallow hollow on the Hahnenkamm plateau on royal soil. Free people still lived here in the 12th century. In the 14th century the monastery Heidenheim had goods in the place; the monastery sage book from 1400 lists, among other things, five courtyards and two fiefs and two farmsteads. The rulership of the village was first exercised by the Truhendinger von Hohentrüdingen , then briefly by the Counts of Graisbach and from 1336 by the Berolzheimers . The Rechenberger von Ostheim also held the protectorate over an estate in Degersheim. In 1430 the burgraves of Nuremberg exercised the bailiwick over three courtyards . The fields were cultivated with the Egarten method . For centuries, the cattle were driven to the forest pasture at the "Bear Trap"; In the Berolzheim community forest, the Degersheim farmers were allowed to use 200 acres for this . The pasture dispute that arose over this in the 17th century only lost its significance in the 20th century with the establishment of stable feeding.

Degersheim suffered in the Thirty Years' War under both the imperial soldiers and the Swedes; the former shot the miller of the Fuchsmühle belonging to the village in 1632, the latter the pastor in 1634. On August 14, 1634, the Swedes destroyed the village; only two families in the "Long Hedge" survived. In 1670 almost all courtyards of the Heidenheim monastery administration office were intact again, which in Degersheim had 1 courtyard, 1 tavern, 1 smithy, 7 half courtyards, 4 quarter courtyards, 7 Selden , 9 small estates and the community shepherd's house. The place with a total of 47 subjects belonged to high court until the secularization of the Ansbach Oberamt Hohentrüdingen.

In 1828 the Bavarian village with 56 families had 272 inhabitants since 1806; 1 family with ten people lived in the Fuchsmühle. In the district court of Heidenheim Degersheim formed a tax district, from which the rural community grew in 1810, which also included the village of Schlittenhart , which was defeated in Auernheim in 1818 . 13 soldiers from Degersheim were killed in the First World War and 30 in the Second World War . In 1959/60 a new schoolhouse was built, which lost its purpose in 1968 when the town was attached to the primary school in Heidenheim. In 1961 the connection to the water supply of the Gnotzheimer group took place.

In the 19th and still in the middle of the 20th century, the community had a fairly constant 270 to 290 inhabitants. On July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into Heidenheim and thus came to the enlarged new district of Weißenburg in Bavaria, which on May 1, 1973 was given the name of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . The village of Rohrach with its 18 estates and the Fuchsmühle also belonged to the former municipality of Degersheim .

church

The rights to the church of Degersheim had always been with Heidenheim Monastery, as evidenced in 1480. At that time, the church patron was Saint Wunibald . In 1518, however, St. Martin was named as the church patron. The church was supplied by the Heidenheim monastery and later by the chaplain in the Heidenheim Propstei Mariabrunn ; the chaplain or provost was also pastor of Degersheim. In 1533 the place was evangelically supplied by the Reformation and as such continued to be supplied by the Mariabrunn provost until 1570. Today Degersheim belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office Heidenheim II (Degersheim / Ostheim) in the Heidenheim deanery.

The current church of St. Martin was rebuilt in 1767 according to plans by the Ansbach court architect Johann David Steingruber, using the older tower on the east side; the tower, which still houses the old choir, was given a polygonal upper floor, which is closed off by a tent roof. The west facade is designed as a show facade with a central projectile and rustic ironwork. Inside, the altar, pulpit and choir gallery are arranged vertically on the wall facing the old choir room, the nave has three galleries. Among other things, the church shows a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.

On the south side of the church, a tomb commemorates Margareta Barbara Schülerin, née Müllerin, who fell “at the unfortunate hand of her own spouse”, who on February 5, 1797, the 25-year-old and mother of five underage children “by a murderous shot” killed.

  • St. Martin Church

  • South side of the church

  • 18th century tombstone on the church

Soil monuments

See: List of soil monuments in Heidenheim (Middle Franconia)

Others

"Hahnenkamm" wind farm near Degersheim. Seen from a distance of 15 km from a hill near Oettingen
  • The “Hahnenkamm” wind farm has been around one kilometer west of Degersheim since 1996/98, and since 2011 has included twelve wind turbines.
  • The place receives 740 mm of precipitation on an annual average; the annual mean temperature is 6.5 degrees Celsius.
  • Between Degersheim and Hechlingen, the medieval "Ochsenhof" is gone. The lost place "Prunnon" was also located between the two places, the field name "Eschelbrunn" still reminds of it.
  • The former municipal coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the Heidenheim monastery on the right, three golden leopards in red, on the left that of the Counts of Graisbach, a coat of arms divided three times by blue and gold.
  • If you follow the road from Degersheim into the valley bay of Wolfsbronn , you get to the Lunkenburg castle stables and the stone channel near Wolfsbronn .

literature

  • 1250 years Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm. Heidenheim: Historical Association 2002.
  • Gunzenhausen district . Munich, Assling: Publishing house for authorities and economy R. Hoeppner 1966, esp. Pp. 196-198.
  • Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Deggersheim . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 1 : A-egg . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1799, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753073 , Sp. 580 ( digitized version ).
  • Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Franconia Series I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weissenburg , Munich 1960.
  • Karl Gröber and Felix Mader : Art monuments of Bavaria, administrative region Middle Franconia. VI. District Office Gunzenhausen , Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 57.
  • Karl Friedrich Hohn: The Rezatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria, geographically, statistically and historically described. Nuremberg: Riegel and Wießner 1829, p. 143.
  • Johann Schrenk / Karl Friedrich Zink : God's houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, p. 30f.
  • Gottfried Stieber: Degersheim . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 312-313 ( digitized version ).
  • Martin Winter: Hechlingen am See - Pictures from the landscape and early history. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen, Heft 48 (1993), pp. 28-90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 96
  2. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 231
  3. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 196f.
  4. ↑ a b c Gunzenhausen district, p. 197
  5. ↑ Information column at the church
  6. ↑ a b Historical Atlas, p. 112
  7. ^ MJK Bundschuh, 1st volume, column 580
  8. ^ Hohn, p. 143
  9. ↑ Historical Atlas, p. 200
  10. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 359
  11. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 198
  12. ↑ Historical Atlas, p. 231
  13. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 477 .
  14. ↑ Historical Atlas, p. 155
  15. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, pp. 92, 96
  16. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 230f.
  17. ↑ Kunstdenkmäler, p. 57
  18. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 30f.
  19. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 40
  20. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 142
  21. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 223
  22. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 149; Coat of arms fig. P. 150