Ganacker
Ganacker is a district of the Pilsting market in the Lower Bavarian district of Dingolfing-Landau . Until 1972 it formed an independent municipality.
location
The parish village of Ganacker is located at the entrance of the Isar valley in the Gäuboden on the state road 2074 between Pilsting in the southwest and Wallersdorf in the northeast. The federal autobahn 92 and the federal highway 20 run nearby.
history
In the traditions of Ebersberg Monastery , a Routprecht de Gowinacheren first appears around 1040 . The place name means "field of the Gawo". The current spelling can only be found from 1819.
In the following centuries several monasteries acted as landlords, especially the Rohr monastery , but also some aristocratic lords like the Waller zu Wildthurn. Ganacker formed an office and a chairman of the Landau an der Isar regional court . At the beginning of the 19th century, the tax district and from it the municipality of Ganacker emerged.
Ganacker was a place of pilgrimage to the cattle patron St. Leonhard . Instead of riding Leonhard , the farmers used the ritual of the “horse sacrifice”: With iron horse and cow figures, which they took from a box provided in the church depending on the number of their real cattle, they walked around the altar and then threw money into the offering box.
The Ganacker subcamp was to the east of the village at Landau-Ganacker airfield, where the prisoners were used to build a new runway. From March 2, 1945 to April 23, 1945, 138 prisoners perished in the subcamp. Then the “evacuation” of the camp began, and the subsequent death march south cost the lives of numerous prisoners in the last days of the war. Today a memorial commemorates the former concentration camp subcamp.
The municipality of Ganacker belonged to the Landau district and was incorporated into Markt Pilsting on January 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform without the district of Moos.
Attractions
- Parish Church of St. Leonhard. The late Gothic building dates from the middle of the 15th century. The sacristy was built in 1679, the tower was given its current shape from 1750 to 1752. An iron chain surrounds the church over a length of almost 100 meters. The interior of the church is neo-Gothic, only the Leonhardi figure and the Leonhardi relief come from the earlier Gothic high altar from around 1480. The red marble tombstone of the chaplain Erasimus Heyndl from 1477 can be seen on the south wall in the south aisle.
- Cemetery chapel. It was built from 1700 to 1703 by the Landau church builder Dominik Magzin. The small rectangular complex has a flat ceiling, a pointed roof turret and a high altar from the period between 1720/1730.
societies
- CSU local association Ganacker
- Ganacker volunteer fire department. It was founded in 1876.
- Ganacker Hunting Association
- Catholic women's association Ganacker
- Warrior and soldier comradeship Ganacker
- Culture and Friends' Association
- Country women ganackers
- Country youth Ganacker
- Ganacker Fruit and Horticultural Association
- Sports club Ganacker
- Tennis Club Ganacker eV
- Wanderlust Ganacker cycling club. It was founded in 1904.
literature
- Susanne Hansen (ed.): The German places of pilgrimage , Pattloch Verlag, Augsburg, 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-629-00005-3
- Wolf-Armin Freiherr von Reitzenstein: Lexicon of Bavarian Place Names , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3 406 55206 4
Web links
- The story of Ganacker
- Ganacker in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ' N , 12 ° 41' E