Gelbelsee

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Parish Church of St. Hippolytus

Gelbelsee is a parish village near the geographical center of the Free State of Bavaria . It belongs to the community of Denkendorf . The place has about 500 inhabitants. The village's patron is St. Hippolytus . The village church is built in the baroque style.

geography

Gelbelsee is located in the Altmühltal Nature Park on the plateau of the Southern Franconian Alb 540 m above sea level. NN between Kipfenberg and Denkendorf.

history

Gelbelsee is called "Gouliubese" in the oldest documents, which is interpreted as the lake of Gouliub, a resident. In 1301 the place "Gelbelsee" was written.

Gelbelsee is located in an ancient settlement area, as shown by the hill graves from the Hallstatt period (1200 to 500 BC) in the woods all around . Historically, the Hallstatt people belonged to the Illyrian family of peoples. They were followed by the Germanic tribes and the Bavarians during the migration of the peoples in the fifth century . A pre-Roman road leads from the east through Gelbelsee and further through the Kristal and Kipfenberg mountains to the west. The Roman Limes ran nearby (remains: two observation towers, barracks and fountain).

Some data from the local history:

  • Bishop Gundekar II of Eichstätt consecrated a church of St. Hippolytus in 1058 at the earliest .

1075: patronage on August 13th. Hippolytus was the antipope to Kalixt I , he died around 235 as a martyr in Sardinia. - However, since time immemorial, the parish fair has been celebrated on the feast of St. Bartholomew (August 24th) or the following Sunday.

  • The place appeared in 1144 as "Gouliubesee" in a document from the Plankstetten monastery .
  • Konrad Kropf (or Struma) von Kipfenberg donated a farm in Gelbelsee to the Kaisheim monastery in 1279.
  • In 1301 Konrad Kropf von Kipfenberg sold custrum et oppidum (castle and market) with the inheritance, the patronage rights of the Gelbelsee Church and all accessories to Bishop Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen von Eichstätt. Gelbelsee, previously the mother church of Kipfenberg, became a branch. The right of occupation passed from Kropf to Kipfenberg to the Bishop of Eichstätt.
  • In 1426 Bishop Johann II von Heideck raised Gelbelsee again to a parish.
  • Around 1620 the pastor of Gelbelsee, Melchior Holl, protested against the "loop dance" of the villagers and the newly built dance house in the village.
  • In the early 17th century the wooden figure of St. Hippolytus (in knight costume with spear and shield) was created in the parish church.
  • In 1690 the church received a new nave.
  • The rectory burned down on November 12, 1678. It was rebuilt by the master mason Hans Biba from Eichstätt.
  • In 1745 the church tower had to be rebuilt on medieval foundations.
  • Around 1770 the church received the baroque altars with their altar leaves that are still present today . The church is stuccoed.
  • From 1829 to 1841 the learned pastor Dr. Franz Anton Mayer .
  • In 1910 Franz Hartmann painted the ceiling painting Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus in the parish church.
  • In 1914 a 40 meter high water tower was built.
  • In 1960 a warrior and comradeship association was founded.
  • On November 11, 1977, the Gelbelsee-Buch-Irlahüll branch of the Catholic German Women's Association was founded.
  • On May 1, 1978 Gelbeslsee was incorporated into the community of Denkendorf.
  • In 1981 Pastor Georg Pavelka consecrated a new Marienkapelle on parish property in the upper part of the village. The previous building in the lower part of the village, a 17th century plague chapel, had to give way to the expansion of the local road in 1976/78. The 17th century image of the Virgin has been restored and taken over into the new building.
  • Alfred Wenk has been the parish administrator of Gelbelsee and Irlahüll since 1982 (since 1990 also for Irfersdorf; his predecessor there was pastor in peace Josef März).
  • In 1996 a new fire station was opened.

Parish Church of St. Hippolytus

The parish church of St. Hippolyt was built in the baroque period. It stands a little higher in the village. Hippolytus of Rome , a Roman church father of the 3rd century, is venerated as patron in very few parishes in Germany (see list of Hippolytic churches ), although for a long time he was not portrayed as a priest and writer, but incorrectly as a Roman officer who was in the The prison was supposed to guard St. Lawrence , converted by him and therefore later torn to pieces as a martyr by four horses.

There are three beautiful altars in the renovated interior of the church. The church tower has three bells in the tone sequence a 1 -h 1 -cis 2 .

Gelbelsee transmitter

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traffic

Limes beech near Gelbelsee

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube . On the outskirts is the 32m high and 350 to 500 year old Limes beech.

literature

  • Konrad Held: Drei-Türme-Pfarrei Gelbelsee , in: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Eichstätt No. 41 of October 13, 2002, p. 18
  • Gelbelsee celebrated 950 years of St. Hippolyth , in: Eichstätter Kurier of July 24, 2007, p. 24

Web links

Commons : Gelbelsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 599 .
  2. ↑ How the church father could become a soldier in the course of the legend is still largely unclear. See the chapter on the creation of legends in Hippolytus of Rome .

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '  N , 11 ° 26'  E