Eichstock

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Eichstock is a district of the Markt Indersdorf market . The place is located about 42 kilometers northwest of Munich in the Upper Bavarian district of Dachau .

history

The field name Aychstoechinne occurs as early as 1305 . The hamlet of Eichstock (called Aychstok or Aychstock = Eichwald in 1345 ) belonged to the district court of Kranzberg as part of the Harreszell manor and to the Indersdorf monastery until the monastery was dissolved in 1783 . Until the regional reform in Bavaria , which came into force on January 1, 1972, Eichstock was part of the municipality of Langenpettenbach . The place was mainly settled by Mennonites in the 19th century . In 1802 the Bavarian Elector and later King Maximilian IV. Joseph called to settle in Bavaria . A year later, the Bavarian religious edict was issued, which granted citizens of every Christian denomination the same civil rights. Several Mennonite families came from the Palatinate from 1818 and settled in places such as Wagenried , Stachusried (Hammerhof), Lanzenried , Riedhof, Rettenbach, Harreszell , Goppertshof, Tafern , Fränking and Kleinschwabhausen ; Some of these places were, like Eichstock, pure Mennonite settlements. A large part of the Mennonite families emigrated from 1844 to Halstead in Kansas , and Iowa in North America , because they saw better living conditions and development opportunities there. Even later there were repeated emigration.

Mennonite prayer house

House of prayer in Eichstock

In 1841 the Mennonite settlers were granted royal permission to build a house of prayer on a hill in Eichstock . Before that, the worship meetings took place privately in apartments in Stachusried and Eichstock. A burial place was also created next to the new prayer house. A first Mennonite cemetery had already been established in Wagenried . The construction of the new prayer house took about five and a half months. As is customary in Mennonite churches, the interior of the church is designed simply and without any graphic decorations. The royal permit is mentioned on a stylish sign above the entrance.

Due to the emigration of many families, the church hardly had any visitors around 1920. Only with the arrival of young families after the Second World War could an active community develop again. The community, which has experienced different phases of community life, has also had a leisure home since 1967, which also hosts weddings and other events.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jakob Fischhaber, Josef Kröner: Langenpettenbach then and now in words and pictures. Geiger Verlag Horb am Neckar, 1987. ISBN 3-89264-135-8 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 443 f .

literature

  • Hermann Dettweiler: Art. Eichstock , in: Mennonitisches Lexikon Vol. 1 (1913/24), p. 534f.
  • Otto Hefele, Gerhard Becker: Chronicle Ainhofen . Reichertshausen, Neuried, 2006; unpublished.
  • Church of the Mennonite Congregation Eichstock: In the name of the king. 150 years 1841-1991 . Eichstock 1991
  • Wilhelm Liebhardt, Günther Pölsterl: The communities of the district of Dachau . Dachau 1992. ISBN 3-89251-053-9 .
  • Richard Ringenberg: Family book of the Mennonite community Eichstock , Munich 1942

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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '  N , 11 ° 22'  E