Fiegenstall

Fiegenstall community Höttingen Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 29 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	445 m
Residents :	230
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91798
Area code :	09148
Fiegenstall

Fiegenstall is the second largest town in the municipality of Höttingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Bavaria . The place consists of 27 houses with about 230 inhabitants. There is a church, a school and a branch chapel .

location

The village is on a hill above the Felchbach valley. Larger places in the area are Pleinfeld , Ellingen and Thalmässing . The districts of Göppersdorf and Reisach belonged to the former community of Fiegenstall . The main streets of the village are the state road St 2389 and the district road WUG 18 . The Felchbach flows past south of Fiegenstall , and the Rohrbach flows into it nearby . The source of the Ottmarsfeld trench is located between Fiegenstall and Ottmarsfeld . Göppersdorf is to the north , Ottmarsfeld and Oberndorf to the west, Kruglmühle to the south and Wöllmetzhofen to the east . Höttingen is about 1.3 km further south-west.

history

Fiegenstall was first mentioned as Foigelstal in 1070 . The place name comes from the Old High German fogal-stal = bird spot . In 1726 the place was called Fengstl . Until the municipal reform in Bavaria , which came into force on May 1, 1978, Fiegenstall was an independent municipality with the districts of Göppersdorf and Reisach . The last mayor of Fiegenstall was Johann Nass.

Architectural monuments

• The Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus is a choir tower church from the beginning of the 15th century. A renovation took place in 1598, alterations took place in 1662, 1705, 1736 and 1762. The four-storey choir tower is crowned by a pointed helmet.
• The Expositur-Kapelle Mariahilfkapelle is located on the outskirts of Fiegenstall on the Roßfeld and is a small hall building with a turret from 1722 and a porch from 1962.
• The rectory at Ringstrasse 3 is a two-storey gable-roof building from the second half of the 18th century. The outbuilding, the former parish barn, is a sandstone block building with a gable roof from the middle of the 19th century.
• A stable house at Ortsstraße 24 is, like the church, branch chapel, rectory and parish barn, a monument . It is a single-storey , half-timbered gable roof from the 17th century with an extension in the 18th or 19th century.

→ List of architectural monuments in Höttingen # Fiegenstall

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Höttingen

Others

There are four crosses in Fiegenstall, some of which are around 200 years old. In the area there were settlements from the Neolithic , Bronze , Latène and Migration Periods . The Rhaetian Limes and sentry post 14/34 were around 400 m southwest of Fiegenstall. A memorial stone pointing to the Limes was erected in 1933 at the intersection of Limes and State Road 2389.

Web links

• Fiegenstall on the side of the administrative community Ellingen
• The districts on the website of the municipality of Höttingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the place on vgem-ellingen.de
2. ^ GenWiki
3. ↑ Description of the place on höttingen.de
4. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 731 .