Dittenheim

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Dittenheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '  N , 10 ° 48'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen
Management Community : Altmuehltal
Height : 437 m above sea level NHN
Area : 29.32 km 2
Residents: 1815 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91723
Area code : 09834
License plate : WUG, GUN
Community key : 09 5 77 122
Community structure: 6 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration:
Kirchenbühl 2
91723 Dittenheim
Website : www.dittenheim.de
Mayor : Günter Ströbel (CSU)
Location of the community of Dittenheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
Gunzenhausen Absberg Alesheim Muhr am See Bergen (Mittelfranken) Burgsalach Dittenheim Ettenstatt Haundorf Heidenheim (Mittelfranken) Höttingen Langenaltheim Markt Berolzheim Meinheim Nennslingen Pappenheim Pfofeld Polsingen Solnhofen Theilenhofen Treuchtlingen Weißenburg in Bayern Westheim Raitenbuch Pleinfeld Gnotzheim Ellingen Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Roth Landkreis Ansbach Landkreis Eichstättmap
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Dittenheim, aerial photo (2016)

Dittenheim is a municipality in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen and a member of the Altmühltal administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the West Central Franconia region in the Altmühltal at the foot of the Yellow Mountain , an elevation of the Hahnenkamm , a ridge of the Franconian Alb . Another elevation are the foothills of the Spielberg . Cities in the area are Gunzenhausen (nine kilometers), Treuchtlingen (16 km), and Weißenburg (15 km). The eastern border is the Altmühl , on which the districts of Windsfeld and Ehlheim are located. Other bodies of water in the municipality are the Dittenheimer Mühlbach , the Schlangenbach and the Pflaumfelder Graben . State road 2230 and several district roads lead through the municipality .

The neighboring communities are:

Gunzenhausen Gunzenhausen Theilenhofen
Gnotzheim Neighboring communities Alesheim
Heidenheim (Mfr) Heidenheim (Mfr) My home
View from the west of Dittenheim. In the left background the Yellow Mountain , in the right background the Hesselberg .

Community structure

The municipality has 6 officially named municipality parts (the type of location is given in brackets ):

There are the districts Dittenheim, Sammenheim, Sausenhofen and Windsfeld.

history

Until the church is planted

The area was already settled in the early Middle Ages during the time of the Frankish colonization. In 1937 an early medieval burial ground ( Dittenheim burial ground ) was found on the eastern edge of the village , which was used from the second half of the 6th century to the beginning of the 8th century. Most of the finds date from the 7th century. The dead, like those in the neighboring cemetery of Westheim, apparently belonged to a strongly Elbe-Germanic- Central German population that adopted Franconian burial customs in the 7th century. The burial ground comprises 250 individual graves, including some cremation graves and three horse burials . Direct relationships to the neighboring Gelben Bürg , where a hilltop settlement from the time of the Migration Period was located, have not yet been proven. In contrast to this, there are clear parallels with row graves in Main Franconia .

Later the place was also settled. The county of Oettingen- Spielberg and the principality of Ansbach claimed the place. In 1796, Dittenheim was ceded to Prussia as part of the Sammenheim office and was exchanged for the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Treaty of Paris (February 1806) with the Principality of Ansbach . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities Sammenheim, Sausenhofen and Windsfeld were incorporated.

Population development

  • 1961: 1738 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1622 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1643 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1683 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1772 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1798 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1770 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1718 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1770 inhabitants

politics

Sponsorship

In 1984 the sponsorship for the expelled Sudeten Germans from the municipality of Ober- and Niederwildgrub in the Freudenthal district ( Altvater ) was taken over.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In blue a golden table mountain, on top of it two silver conifers, between which a small plaque with a square of silver and black hovers."

Architectural monuments

Entrance area of ​​the Dittenheim Peter and Paul Church

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Peter and Paul was built by the court architect Gabriel de Gabrieli from Ansbach from 1699 to 1703, including the older tower and the late Gothic choir.

Soil monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 143 employees in the manufacturing sector and 58 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. There were a total of 583 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was one company in the manufacturing sector and four companies in the construction sector. In 1999 there were also 113 farms with an agricultural area of ​​2208 hectares, of which 1726 hectares were arable land and 479 hectares were permanent green space.

traffic

The state road St 2230 leads past Dittenheim from Gunzenhausen to Treuchtlingen.

Railroad:

Former Ehlheim stop

Between the villages of Dittenheim and Windsfeld, at an altitude of 415 m above sea level, is the Windsfeld-Dittenheim station, which opened on October 2, 1869, on the Treuchtlingen – Würzburg railway line (line 5321 at km 15.18 / RL100 code: NWD). It has two continuous main tracks and a passing track. Local passenger traffic ended in 1978: As part of a pilot project, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1978 at a total of 15 stops on the route and traffic was shifted to buses. For the Hahnenkamm barracks near Heidenheim (Mfr) of the Bundeswehr , which is about ten kilometers away, a large double-track loading ramp for military transports (here specially for tanks) was built, which was in operation until the barracks were closed (on March 31, 2004). It consists of a head and a head / side loading ramp. The agricultural warehouse was also serviced until 2004, when goods traffic was discontinued in the same year. The station's facilities are still relatively extensive, but as an operating station they are only used for overtaking.

A stop was also set up in Ehlheim in 1869, but when local traffic was shifted to buses in 1978, it was abandoned and largely dismantled. During the Länderbahn era, a small station building (it was originally built from additions to an existing station keeper's house and was located on the track towards Gunzenhausen) with an open crank interlocking was built.

education

In 2014 the following facilities existed: Kindergartens: 75 kindergarten places School: 1st – 4th grade

Personalities

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Dittenheim community> community council> members. Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Altmühltal, accessed on June 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Community Dittenheim in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
  4. ^ Frank Siegmund: Alemanni and Franks. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde Volume 23 (edited by Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich, Heiko Steuer). Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 367.
  5. ^ Andreas Kraus: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century. Vol. 3/1. Series: Handbook of Bavarian History Complete Works in 4 volumes: Handbook of Bavarian History, 4 volumes, CH Beck, 3rd, neubearb. Ed., Munich 1997, p. 58. online
  6. a b c 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 706 .
  7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Dittenheim  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  8. Schrenk / Zink: God's Houses. wek-Verlag, Treuchtlingen / Berlin 2008, pp. 35–38.
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