Forsthof (Neuburg an der Donau)

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The remains of a building from the former forester's farm
The Forsthofweiher

Forsthof is a district / district of Neuburg an der Donau in Upper Bavaria in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen . These are also the last remaining remains of the abandoned village of Forst and the farm . Today it belongs to the district of Bergen.

location

It is located in the Altmühltal Nature Park, about 2 km south of Bergen in a forest clearing 5 km northwest of Neuburg. To the west of the Forsthof is the about 250 meter long Forsthofweiher .

history

Up to the middle of the 15th century there were 48 feudal farms here. The land was awarded in exchange for goods and services. Ritter Püttrich from Reichertshausen was the owner at that time. A document shows that he sold the Forsthof to the Benedictine convent in Bergen near Neuburg in 1405 .

The nuns managed the area successfully with their own sheep farm and over a thousand sheep, whose products were used to support the monastery. In 1449 a document mentions a deserted village. The reasons for the decline are unknown. It is believed that in the tangle of war between Ludwig the Bearded of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and his son Ludwig the Hunchback, much was destroyed in 1443. Only the Forsthof is said to have been preserved. The Jesuits lived here during the Thirty Years' War . They turned the Forsthof into an educational establishment and hosted seminarians. The Swedes robbed and looted the yard several times and set the building on fire. In 1674 there were disputes over the forester's farm. The Benedictine monastery claimed the area as their property, the Jesuits demanded 4,000 guilders in exchange. There was an 18-year argument. Pope Innocent XII. was turned on and had to negotiate. Only after a decision by the Pope in 1692 could Pfennigmeister Nikolaus Müller hand over the Forsthof to the Jesuits. The Jesuits built a tusculum in 1711 , enlarged and embellished the courtyard and built a refectory with a chapel. The forester's farm became a place of recreation and convalescence for the priests and a vacation stay for seminarians.

In the following period the owner changed several times. Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Jesuit order and the Maltese took over the property. In 1827 the Mennonite Christian Oesch bought the Forsthof and made it the headquarters of 19 Mennonite families who lived in Neuburg, Ingolstadt, Eichstätt and Rain. In 1889 the Forsthof was auctioned because it was over-indebted. The Royal College of Studies bought it for 11,300 marks. After the last world war, the refugees were the last residents here. In 1969 the building was in a dilapidated condition and was demolished. Today it is a huge forest area that is managed by the study seminar in Neuburg. Only a small wing of the building that serves the forest workers, as well as the old Mennonite cemetery, which is now overgrown by the forest and only known to local people, is reminiscent of the former forestry yard.

literature

  • Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt 1860, pages 32–48, editor of the Historischer Verein Neuburg / Donau
  • Ludwig Wagner, time travel through Neuburg and the districts
  • A. Horn and W. Meyer: The art monuments of the city and district of Neuburg on the Danube
  • Josef Heider: Forst, a sunken village in the Bergen forests and the Forsthof (an example of a two-time desertification process in the district of Neuburg ad Donau) , in: Schwäbische Blätter für Heimatpflege und Volksbildung 17 Heft 2 (1966), 33-40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.neuburg-donau.de/media-web-stadt-neuburg/daten-neu/wirtschaft/bp/rv-bp-oer-v/uebersicht-der-gemarkungen.pdf
  2. ↑ Markus Nadler: Neuburg an der Donau: the district court Neuburg and the nursing courts Burgheim and Reichertshofen . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Commission for Bavarian State History, 2004, ISBN 3-7696-6852-9 , p. 220 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 14, 2017]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 50.2 ″  E