Echenzell

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Echenzell
Wettstetten municipality
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 37 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 42"  E
Height : 454  (441-460)  m
Residents : 147  (1983)
Postal code : 85139
Area code : 08406

Echenzell is a part of the municipality of Wettstetten in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

Echenzell, Church of St. Giles
Echenzell, St. Agidius Church, interior view

location

Echenzell is located south of the Altmühl on the Franconian Alb plateau, which runs out towards the Danube , three kilometers north-west of the municipality of Wettstetten. There are road connections to Wettstetten, Schelldorf , Böhmfeld and Lippertshofen .

history

A Keltenschanze was found in the forest northeast of Echenzell . A Roman road passed north of today's Echenzell .

Echenzell should mean something like "field part of an Emicho". Until the beginning of the 14th century the village belonged to the domain of the Counts of Grögling-Hirschberg . As this 1305 with Gebhard VII. Extinct, "Emich Celle" came through the Gaimersheimer arbitration in the dispute of Eichstätter bishop with Bayern for Bishopric of Eichstätt . This remained so until the beginning of the 19th century; Echenzell was subordinate to the court box office Eichstätt of the middle bishopric with the high estates. However, there were two other landowners in Echenzell in the Old Kingdom, namely the Eichstätt hospital, which owned a courtyard, and the Ingolstadt court box office , which had a half courtyard .

The Office of the High pin Eichstätt fell Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 with most of the hochstiftischen area, including Wettstetten and Echenzell, to the Principality of Eichstätt of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany . Since the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg of 1805, the place belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria and in it to the district court of Eichstätt . In 1808 the tax district Wettstetten (from 1818 municipality) was formed, to which Wettstetten, Echenzell and Adlmannsberg belonged. With the consolidation of the Leuchtenberg property, Echenzell and Wettstetten came to the district court (later district) of Ingolstadt on December 3, 1817. This remained so until the regional reform in Bavaria in 1972. Since then, Echenzell and the municipality of Wettstetten have been part of the Eichstätt district.

In 1835 87 people lived in the village, in 1885 151. In 1963 a land consolidation was carried out. In 1983, Echenzell had six full-time farms and ten part-time businesses and an inn with 147 inhabitants. Today there is a riding stables in the village .

Catholic branch church of St. Giles

The church is a late medieval complex with a walled cemetery. Since 1679 it has been a branch church of the Wettstetten parish. In 1697 the church was repaired by the Eichstätter court architect Jakob Engel ; in Engels' receipt for the repair wages the place is called "Höcherzöhl". In 1700 a sculptor from Eichstatt delivered a new altar stone. The choir is baroque . A crowned figure of Mary to the right of the choir, accompanied by two angels with candlesticks, is a wooden statue from the 17th century, to the left of the choir hangs a Pietà . The heavily weathered stone relief to the left of the portal, a crucifixion scene, dates from 1615. The organ was built in 1884 and was restored in 1977.

societies

literature

  • Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 6: Eichstätt. Munich 1959
  • Theodor Neuhofer: Echenzell . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 61 (1965/66), p. 69
  • Consecration of the flag of the volunteer fire department. 14/15. July 1979 . Echenzell 1979
  • Gustav von Bezold and Berthold Riehl (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria / 1.1. The art monuments of Upper Bavaria. City and district office Ingolstadt, district offices Pfaffenhofen, Schrobenhausen, Aichach, Friedberg, Dachau . Munich: Oldenbourg-Verlag 1895; Unchanged reprint Munich: Oldenbourg-Verlag 1982 ( ISBN 3-486-50421-5 ), p. 77
  • The Eichstätter area past and present . Eichstätt: Sparkasse 1984, p. 184