Emmenhausen (Waal)
Emmenhausen is a district of the Markt Waal in the Ostallgäu district .
history
The place name Emmenhausen is traced back to a personal name "Hemmo", ie "at the house / houses of Hemmo".
Emmenhausen is one of the few places that was already mentioned when King Heinrich IV was granted a ban on wild animals to Bishop Heinrich von Augsburg in 1059.
In the 12th century, a dynasty or Guelf family named itself after the place. Werimar de Emmenhausa, who witnessed a donation to the St. Ulrich monastery in Augsburg, and Wernherus de Emmenhusa in the second half of the 12th century are mentioned. He witnessed a donation to Polling Monastery in the vicinity of Welf ministerials .
In the 14th century the place was owned by the Knights of Nordholz, who had their headquarters near Illertissen . In 1360 the brothers Wigelais, Pilgrim and Eitel von Nordholz relocated their Emmenhausen Castle, including its authority, church records, customs and a Wiesmahd on the Lechfeld, to their sister Afra's husband, Otto Zwerger. Because the pledge was not redeemed, in 1386 the Afra sold the property as a widow to Eita von Lichtenau, widow of Johann Schönstetter. In 1402 she left the tower, castle stable and the village of Emmenhausen with kennel and bannen to her cousin Manz von Lichtenau, who, however, allowed her to use the property for life. In 1420 Manz finally sold the property as free, vogtable, non-taxable, inoperative and non-interest-bearing to the Kaufbeurer citizen Ulrich Honold (* around 1390; † 1466).
The patrician family Honold vom Luchs owned Emmenhausen for five generations. The last male descendant of the Emmenhausen line was Hans Honold (* around 1520, † 1592). He was ennobled in 1538 and now called himself Hans Honold von und zu Emmenhausen. It is reported from him that as a student in Wittenberg he was table companion of Martin Luther . It is certain that he joined the Reformation at an early stage and introduced and greatly encouraged the new faith in his rule. When the measures of the Counter Reformation also became noticeable in Emmenhausen, his daughter Felizitas admonished the subjects to remain true to their Protestant faith or to emigrate.
In 1609, the heirs of Hans Honold, presumably under pressure from Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria, sold their Emmenhausen reign to the Heilig Kreuz monastery in Augsburg, which was engaged in re-catholizing the population. Until the secularization in 1803 Emmenhausen remained in the monastery property and was administered by a Vogt .
Emmenhausen Castle , built in 1474, was demolished in 1826.
Independent municipality
After the monastery territory passed to the Electorate of Bavaria , Emmenhausen gradually developed into an independent municipality, which was initially headed by a municipality leader. In the centralized Bavarian state he only had administrative tasks. With increasing democratization and the shifting of tasks downwards, the office of mayor came into being. The following are known of them in Emmenhausen:
| Surname | time | House number |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Mayr | from 1850 | No. 5 |
| Xaver Dacher | from 1860 | No. 24 |
| Georg nonsense | from 1870 | No. 17th |
| Johann Settele | from 1876 | No. 18th |
| Leonhard Vogel | from 1894 | No. 10 |
| Martin Settele | from 1901 | No. 51 |
| Alois Brem | from 1933 | No. 1 |
| Hans Vögele | from 1937 | No. 40 |
| Joseph Spies | from 1945 | No. 38 |
| Thomas Miller | from | No. 28 |
In the course of the regional reform in Bavaria , the independent municipality of Emmenhausen was dissolved in 1971. It is now part of the municipality of Waal.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality of Emmenhausen by decision of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on October 13, 1950. It shows a six-spoke golden wheel in blue with a golden paw cross.
The wheel and cross are the landmarks in the coat of arms of the former landlords of the place:
- The Swabian nobility from Nordholz carried a silver wheel as a shield figure. For heraldic reasons it was tinged in gold in the municipal coat of arms.
- The golden cross goes back to the monastery coat of arms of the Augustinian canons in Augsburg .
Parish church
Emmenhausen has been its own parish since ancient times. The neighboring town of Bronnen with the church of St. Margaretha also belongs to it. Bronnen is also an old property of the Honold family and the Heilig Kreuz monastery. Meanwhile Waal, Emmenhausen and Waalhaupten form a parish community with the pastor's seat in Waal.
The church in Emmenhausen is dedicated to St. Ulrich. It was rebuilt by the Honolds in 1488 (on the site of an older church?). In 1832 it was extended in the choir and in the nave at the expense of the “bailiff” Nikolaus Frühholz. A plaque in the church still reminds of him today. The ceiling fresco was painted in 1833 by the Pfrontener artist Alois Keller (1788–1866).
From 1890 to 1901 Pastor Franz S. Ringmeier was a pastor in Emmenhausen. In 1890 he bought a hill not far from the church, on which the lords of Nordholz used to stand. Here the pastor had a way of the cross laid out. The parish celebrates the day of the patronage of St. Ulrich with a mass in front of a Lourdes grotto at the foot of the hill.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther E. Vock: The documents of the Hochstift Augsburg (769-1420) , p. 3
- ↑ Bertold Pölcher: The Kaufbeurer patrician family Honold vom Luchs . In: Kaufbeurer Geschichtsblätter Vol. 7 No. 8, pp. 233ff and No. 9, pp. 256ff
- ↑ Klemens Stadler / Friedrich Zollhoefer, coat of arms of the Swabian communities, Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten, 1952, p. 141
- ↑ son of Joseph Keller .
literature
- Johann von Raiser: Contributions for art a. Antiquity in the Upper Danube District , 1829, pp. 34 and 35
- Anton von Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg , Vol. 6, 1883
- Hofmark Emmenhausen . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Part of Old Bavaria, The Land Courts of Landsberg and Schongau, Commission for Bavarian State History 1971
- Anton Port: Chronicle of the community of Emmenhausen , Obermayer print shop, Buchloe, 1955
- Richard Dertsch: Historical book of place names of Bavaria , Stadt- und Landkreis Kaufbeuren (Vol. 3), Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1960, p. 18
- Anton Dürr: Emmenhausen . In: Aegidius Kolb / Ewald Kohler (eds.), Ostallgäu - once and now , Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag 1984, ISBN 3 88006 103 3 , vol. 1, p. 1265
- Bertold Pölcher: House Chronicle of Emmenhausen , Vol. 1 (1974) and Vol. 2 (1992), typescript
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 49.8 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 4.9" E