Gammersfeld

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Gammersfeld
Wellheim Market
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 535 m
Incorporation : 1st January 1971
Postal code : 91809
Area code : 08427
Gammersfeld. Watercolor by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt

Gammersfeld is a market Wellheim belonging hamlet in the district of Eichstatt in the Altmühltal Nature Park . The place, surrounded by fields, is two kilometers southwest of Wellheim on the plateau of the Southern Franconian Jura and on the southwestern edge of the Eichstätt district .

history

Gammersfeld church, baroque furnishings
Gammersfeld Church, baroque stucco pulpit

In “Gamsvelt” in 1239, the Augustinian Canons Rebdorf owned. In 1330 Adelheid von Altesheim gave a subject to the Kaisheim monastery . Also Konstein (at Wellheim) had a subject here. There was an ore deposit in the community forest that was smelted in Obereichstätt . Belonging to the Principality of Eichstätt of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg from 1817 to 1833 , 31 families with a total of 144 people lived in 30 houses in the town in 1821. In 1900 the place belonged as a municipality to the Eichstätt district office.

The local volunteer fire department was founded in 1880 . In 1938 a trigonometric measuring tower was built at the site , which was blown up in 1950 because of the risk of collapse.

The place with 680 hectares is predominantly agricultural oriented. A land consolidation was carried out in 1970/1971 . On January 1, 1971, Gammersfeld was incorporated into Wellheim as part of the regional reform . The place had 188 inhabitants in 1973 and 173 inhabitants in 2005. In 1984 there were six full-time agricultural and 20 part-time farms in Gammersfeld.

church

The Catholic Church of St. Leonhard, a branch church of Wellheim in the Diocese of Augsburg , can be traced back to the 16th century and was rebuilt as a three-axis hall church in the Baroque period from 1721 to 1722. On the west facade are two shell figures of St. Wendelin and a holy abbot (baroque; 1722). The tower with a two-storey sacristy is on the south side of the choir; Above two square basement floors stand two octagonal floors, crowned by an onion dome . Pastor Johann Baptist Kürner († 1789) had the tower built at his expense in the third quarter of the 18th century.

Inside the church there is a very rich early Rococo stucco by the Eichstätter plasterer Jakob Egg . The rococo high altar by Thaddäus Kronenbitter from Neuburg an der Donau (around 1750) shows the figure of the church patron instead of an altar sheet. The side altars are baroque around 1700 with more recent elements. The stucco pulpit dates from 1722. Carved baroque stalls. On the walls there are late Gothic and Baroque figures. At the end of the 19th century, the furnishings in the Nazarene style were modified (altar leaves on the side altars, pulpit paintings, stations of the cross), but partially reversed (overpainting of the frescoes was removed).

The pilgrimage to St. Leonhard flourished in Gammersfeld until around the middle of the 19th century . After that, the custom was forgotten, but was revived a few years ago. The ruined church "To Our Lady in the Spindeltal" belongs to the parish of Gammersfeld .

Others

  • There are sand sediments in the hallway .
  • From the slightly elevated place you have a good view .
  • A saddlery in Gammersfeld produces high- quality saddles by hand.
  • Between Gammersfeld and the Giglberg to the east lies the Zigeunerloch , a mighty bizarre rock formation where gypsies lived towards the end of the 17th century. When the leader was caught breaking into the Palatinate-Neuburg Palace in 1699 and hanged, the gypsy clan disappeared from the area.

societies

  • Gammersfeld volunteer fire department
  • Nursing Association of the Cath. Wellheim-Konstein-Gammersfeld Church Foundation
  • Schützengesellschaft Edelweiß Gammersfeld e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 456 .

literature

  • H. Gall and D. Müller: The Riesgries near Wellheim - a scraped up clod in colorful debris . In: N. Jb.Geol.Paleont. Mh. 5, 1971, pp. 271-284.
  • Jakob Hopp: Benefice statistics of the diocese of Augsburg . Augsburg 1893, p. 133.
  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office . Munich 1924. Reprint 1982. pp. 106-108.
  • Heinz Mittel: Hikes in the Wellheim Valley . Ingolstadt 1981, p. 102.
  • B. Braun: Chronicle of the market community Wellheim with the districts Konstein, Biesenhard, Gammersfeld and Hard . Spardorf 1981.
  • Gypsy hole near Wellheim . In: Karl Zecherle and Toni Murböck: Nature worth seeing in the Eichstätt district . Eichstätt 1982, pp. 70f.
  • The Eichstätter area past and present . 2nd Edition. Eichstätt 1984, p. 197.
  • Edmund Hausfelder and Dietmar Schröter: Wellheim Market. Konstein - Biesenhard - Gammersfeld - Hard. Memories in Pictures - A Bridge to the Past . Geiger, 2000, ISBN 3-895706892 .
  • Catholic branch church St. Leonhard in Gammersfeld . In: The churches of the parish of Wellheim . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2002, ISBN 3-89870-062-3 , pp. 18-23.
  • Peter Hampp: Commemorative publication for the 125th anniversary of the Gammersfeld volunteer fire brigade's celebration (from June 25th to 26th, 2005) . Gammersfeld 2005.

Web links

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