Egweil

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Eichstatt
Management Community :	Nassenfels
Height :	392 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.39 km 2
Residents:	1178 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	85116
Area code :	08424
License plate :	EGG
Community key :	09 1 76 122
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulweg 5 85116 Egweil
Website :	www.egweil.de
Mayor :	Johannes Schneider (CSU)
Location of the municipality of Egweil in the district of Eichstätt

Egweil ( Bavarian Öwe ) is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and a member of the Nassenfels administrative community .

geography

The town of Egweil is about 15 kilometers west of Ingolstadt , 13 kilometers from Eichstätt and nine kilometers from Neuburg an der Donau in the Altmühltal Nature Park .

Community structure

The municipality has three officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

• Egweil ( Kirchdorf )
• Oberhaidmühle ( wasteland )
• Unterhaidmühle (wasteland)

Neighboring communities

	Nassenfels
		Ingolstadt
	Bergheim

history

Finds from Stone Age devices indicate an early settlement of the corridor. The Roman gravestone embedded in the church wall and found iron slag from the Celtic era still remind us of the Roman-Celtic settlement of this area.

Written documents from Egweil begin with the year 847. Bishop Gundekar II consecrated the church in Egweil in 1073. A local nobility as ministerial of the Eichstätter bishop can be proven from 1068 to 1297. Around 1214 Egweil belonged to a knight named Count Heinricht von Kallentheim, but then came into the possession of the Cistercian Abbey of Kaisheim. The bishop of Eichstätt granted the monastery the right of patronage over the parish of Egweil in 1219 , and from 1239 the monastery had been entitled to tithe . Egweiler's close ties to the Kaisheim monastery remained in place until secularization . The church was rebuilt in the 16th century. During the Thirty Years' War in 1634 the village was destroyed; the damaged rectory was renovated a year later. In 1646 the school house was rebuilt.

During the territorial reform in 1972, the municipality was able to maintain its independence.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 918 to 1,201 by 283 inhabitants or by 30.8%.

politics

Municipal council

The parish council has twelve members; an additional member is the mayor. In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the CSU (51.1%) and the new Egweiler Citizens List (ELB) (48.9%) each achieved six seats. The turnout was 75.13%. In the 2014 election, all twelve seats went to the CSU, which had submitted the only election proposal.

mayor

Mayor has been Johannes Schneider from the CSU since May 1, 2014; he was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 50.51% of the vote. The second mayor in the 2020–2026 term of office is Thomas Heinrich, who was narrowly defeated (49.49%) in the mayoral election.

badges and flags

Blazon : "In blue a silver harrow, above a golden crown." The white, blue and yellow municipal flag, which was approved at the same time, is not used.

Culture and sights

On September 21, 2011, the eight municipalities of Dollnstein , Wellheim , Nassenfels , Egweil, Oberhausen , Burgheim , Rennertshofen and Neuburg an der Donau formed the ARGE Urdonautal , a working group whose purpose is to promote and coordinate tourism in the Urdonautal .

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Martin

View into the parish church

• Roman gravestone , set into the outer wall of the church, 48 × 70 cm, remnants of Latin inscriptions (translated): “Den Manen. T. Flavius ​​Paternius, veteran of Ala 1 Flavia S., Bataver, has the… Pom. (Vere) cunda, the most loyal wife, who lived 45 years, had (the stone) made for himself and his wife while she was alive. Here she is buried. "
• Catholic parish church of St. Martin , rebuilt from 1947 to 1950 with parts of the previous Gothic building. Baroque and Rococo furnishings; 4 bells from 1961 from the FW Schilling foundry.
• Old rectory (Kirchweg 7), late Gothic; Steep gable building with corner bay window; expanded 1624–26, renewed 1635; rebuilt repeatedly; even after the Thirty Years War. Coat of arms of Kaisheim 1499.
• Modern wayside cross , in Egweil, a 3.8 m high sculpture by the Eichstätt sculptor Alois Wünsche-Mitterecker , erected in 1969.
• Unterhaidmühle (also called Gougamüh ) in family ownership since 1448, on the west side of the mill there is a bridge from Roman times over the Schutter. In 2011, the neo-baroque facade of the listed Jura house was restored true to the original.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Egweil

Mardi Gras

In Egweil there has been a successful guard known far beyond the district called "Eggspatzen" since 1986. This carnival society organizes a large parade every year, which many people visit from far away.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

• Schiele & Hirsch GmbH shoe factory
• Construction company building construction and civil engineering Hirsch
• Insurance broker office Neumeier & Bröhl

traffic

To the federal highway 16 , which leads from Ulm via Donauwörth to Ingolstadt, it is about 10 km south.

Airfield

One kilometer west of Egweil is the Neuburg-Egweil airfield , a special civil airfield , which u. a. used by the Fliegergruppe Neuburg.

Personalities

• Nicolaus Appel or Apel , * 1482 or 83 in Egweil, from 1522 doctor of theology and professor at the University of Ingolstadt, later preacher in Moosburg an der Isar, an opponent of Martin Luther , † 1545.
• Christoph “Cico” Beck (* 1984), also known as a musician under the project name “Joasihno”, grew up in Egweil.
• Hans Hopfinger (* 1951), cultural geographer, born here
• Joseph Renker (1933-2018), theologian, religious educator and Catholic clergyman (honorary citizen)

literature

• Joseph Renker: Egweil - On the history of the parish and the place. With contributions by Ernst Krach and Karl Heinz Rieder. Published by the municipality of Egweil. MSB-Verlag, Eichstätt 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811086-2-0 .

Web links

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

• Local government
• Egweil: Information, dates, appointments on behalf of VG Nassenfels - Egweil community.
• Egweil: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Local councils. Egweil community, accessed on June 14, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Egweil in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 14, 2019.
4. ^ Entry on Egweil's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
5. ↑ Entry on Egweil on the Kommunalflaggen.eu page
6. ^ Rudolf Hager: The Roman tombstone in Egweil . In: Histor. Sheets for the city and district of Eichstätt, 32 vol. (1983), No. 3, p. 10.
7. ↑ New construction of the parish church in Egweil. In: St. Willibaldsbote of the Diocese of Eichstätt from January 2, 1949, p. 8; Church consecration in Egweil. In: That. of December 10, 1950, p. 306.
8. ↑ Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt , 32nd volume (1969), No. 45 of November 9, 1969, p. 6.
9. ^ Karl Röttel: An opponent of Luther from Egweil . In: Histor. Leaves f. Stadt und Landkreis Eichstätt 32 (1984), No. 3, p. 12; also in: Ingolstädter Heimatblätter 49 (1986), p. 32.