Fruchtheim

Fruchtheim Karlskron municipality Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	372 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	85123
Area code :	08450

Fruchtheim is a settlement in the Donaumoos and a district of the municipality of Karlskron in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen .

location

Fruchtheim is located in the middle of the so-called Lower Donaumoos on the Donaumoos main canal and has a direct structural connection to the main town of Karlskron.

While Karlskron was laid out as a street village along Donaumoosstrasse (today the state road St 2049 and the main road from Karlskron), Fruchtheim extends along the canal in a west-southwest direction. The place begins shortly after the point where the canal and Donaumoosstraße cross and where the connecting road Pobenhausen  - Zuchering (St 2044) crosses the main road and crosses the canal.

history

The local area of ​​Fruchtheim was untouched moorland until 1790 in the undeveloped and inaccessible largest low moor in southern Germany, the Donaumoos. In the years that followed, the new ruler, Elector Karl Theodor , from Mannheim, had the Donaumoos drained and cultivated into arable land. The Donaumoos Commission set up by the Elector in 1789 , consisting of Stephan Freiherr von Stengel , Johann Georg von Aretin and Adrian von Riedl , took over the development of the marshland and vigorously promoted it.

Map of the Donaumoos , drawn by Adrian von Riedl in 1804/05

To drain the moor, starting at the natural overflow of the marshland in the east near Oberstimm , the so-called Brautlach , a dead straight, wide and deep ditch was driven in a south-westerly direction into the Donaumoos, today's main channel of the Donaumoos.

In order to open up the newly won cultural landscape in terms of traffic, the commission also had a dead straight road built across the canal through the moor, the Donaumoosstrasse from Reichertshofen to Lichtenau . This runs from Reichertshofen in a west-northwest direction. Both structures intersect in the middle of the lower moss at an acute angle.

The interface is also crossed by another road, which should also contribute to the development of the Moosgrund and create a fast connection through the Moos to Ingolstadt, it leads from Pobenhausen to Zuchering. The engraving to Zuchering was already created at that time in the course of the moss development and can be seen on the map of Riedl. The connection of the road running to the south as a connection to Pobenhausen took place at a later time. Initially this was the connection route to Adelshausen .

The road from Pobenhausen to Lichtenau was built as a direct connection through the moss of old Bavaria in the Palatinate-Neuburg area during the development of the moss. To get to Pobenhausen you had to drive along the main canal to this street.

The aim of all these construction measures was to reclaim the previously hardly usable moorland and to convert it into productive agricultural land. For this purpose, smallholders willing to settle were recruited, who settled there in order to cultivate the land and farm it. For this purpose, the commission planned the construction of a model settlement and the construction of small farms. Their commercial and residential buildings were built in advance to attract colonists. The plan began to be implemented in 1791 and was then carried forward rapidly.

In the area of ​​the aforementioned cross, the first buildings, workshops and accommodation for the workers who carried out the construction and their management staff were erected. The construction of the planned model settlement began, which was named Karlskron after him in honor of the sovereign.

The Pobenhäuser Strasse listed in the inventory , on which a colony was established according to this list, is the path along the main canal to the new Pobenhausen-Lichtenau street.

Originally, the whole of Karlskron was to be built along the main canal, as the colonist houses along the canal in the Karlskron district of Josephenburg testify . The construction of the first model properties, which form today's Fruchtheim, began from the crossroads up the canal in a west-southwest direction. Johann Georg von Aretin had suggested that all new settlements in Moos should be built as street villages so that every small farmer would have the shortest possible ways to his farmland. Each farm was allocated 9 days of land.

In the course of the construction work along the course of the canal, however, it was found that the excavated trench was unsuitable as a subsoil to provide a stable foundation for buildings. Therefore, the decision was made to build Karlskron instead, mostly along the newly built Donaumoosstrasse, since a more secure foundation of the structures to be built seemed feasible there. This is what was done.

The Fruchtheim, still built along the axis of the old plan, is the oldest part of Karlskron and the pioneer settlement in the Donaumoos.

Web links

• Photos of the place (PDF; 1.6 MB)
• Fruchtheim in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fruchtheim in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on March 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Donaumoos cultural history in files
3. ↑ Local history on the community website