Gietlhausen

Gietlhausen Large district town of Neuburg on the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	425 m
Residents :	149  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	86633
Area code :	08431

Gietlhausen is a district of Neuburg an der Donau in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen . The village is 5 km north of Neuburg an der Donau, on the southern edge of the Altmühltal Nature Park .

Gietlhausen had been part of the municipality of Ried since the 1820s and merged with it on January 1, 1976 in the city of Neuburg an der Donau . In the first 150 years of its existence, Gietlhausen hardly had more than 100 inhabitants (1989: 137 inhabitants). The population has grown since then and as of December 31, 2008, 145 residents were registered.

history

View of the Neuburg Land at the Catholic cemetery

The place name is derived from a Neuburg citizen Gietl. The "Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt" speaks of a Bräuer Gietl. An administrative act from 1903 on Gietlhausen defines this man with the title "Elector's Secret Landscape Councilor Johann Mathias von Gietl". On the Gietlhausen site, he owned a 29 to 30 day work (about 10 hectare) large piece of forest, called Gietlholz. The files report that he sold this area, which consisted of an oak forest, to the Electress Maria Leopoldina von Baiern on September 3, 1807 in order to make it available for cultural purposes. What was meant by this was a new settlement, as it was also carried out in the Donaumoos at that time .

A legal dispute over the assumption of costs for the Gietlhausen local fountain, which lasted from 1895 to 1903, gives a further insight into the history. In 1903, the Royal District Office carried out investigations into the origins of Gietlhausen and wrote an 18-page report. It comes to the realization that in the year 1814 the original local area Gietlhausen was still wooded. A map served as evidence.

The first settlers were sold plots between 25 and 12 days' work. They were barren forest areas that were acquired by the Donaumoos colonists . According to the sales contract, they still had to tolerate the storage of the felled wood. The first sales contracts are dated May 14, 1818 and the first settlers were Sebastian Frey from Gromet, now Marienheim , Christoph opponent, also Marienheim, and Konrad Hofstetter from Untermaxfeld . On May 16, 1818, Johann Michael Hofbauer, Obermaxfeld , Johann Weingärtner, Neuschwetzingen and Jeremias Hofstetter, Untermaxfeld signed the purchase . On February 12, 1820, Dietrich Hofstetter joined them. This laid the foundation for Gietlhausen.

The settlement emerged in the form of a street village , along a road that slopes steeply from the edge of the forest in the north to the south. Characteristic for the village of Gietlhausen was a majority of Protestant residents, which was very atypical for old Bavaria . The first colonists came from Marienheim, a settlement east of Neuburg that was also newly established at the same time. So they came from the Electoral Palatinate territories of Elector Karl Theodor as well as many of the colonists in the Donaumoos. Most of the people from Gietlhausen were not well-off, mostly in a religious diaspora situation. In 1854 20 houses are counted, of which 18 were Catholics and 46 Protestants. In the linguistic usage of the Catholic neighboring villages, the derogatory term "Gripsloch" was common for Gietlhausen.

After 1945 - at that time displaced people also moved in.

Catholic chapel in ecumenism

The little church as a landmark

The neat interior of the church

There was no sacred building in Gietlhausen for around a hundred years. On October 13, 1929, the "Maria-Hilf-Kapelle" was opened to the public in a ceremonial act. Pastor Karl Kotter from Ried paved the way. Architect Eberle from Munich made the plans. Craftsmen from Neuburg, Ried and Unterstall carried out the construction work.

The chapel is furnished with a cross and the radiant Madonna, pews and a popular altar. It has two electrically operated bells. The Catholic chapel, which is incorporated into the parish of St. Peter in Neuburg, is open to everyone and is used ecumenically. With the construction of the chapel, the Catholics also got their own cemetery, which is grouped around the building.

graveyards

Grave for the German soldier Robert Bilang, who fell near Gietlhausen at the end of April 1945

The evangelical cemetery

There are two cemeteries in Gietlhausen, one for the Protestants and one for the Catholics.

Around 1824 the new colony consisted of 4 Catholic and 5 Protestant families. Electress Maria Leopoldine gave them a piece of land. A cemetery could be created south of the Roman road, close to the forest. An operating association turned it into a Protestant cemetery. Only the Protestants who lived or were born here are buried in this cemetery. A specialty is the fallen grave of Robert Bilang, which is still maintained today. He was born in Altona adElbe and died shortly before the end of the Second World War at the age of 25 near Gietlhausen. The cemetery also houses a Douglas fir, which is around a hundred years old .

Until 1929 the Catholics were buried in the Ried cemetery. When the chapel was built, a Catholic cemetery was created around the chapel.

Another special feature is that not far from the forester's yard (which is a separate area of ​​the large district town of Neuburg, but is counted as part of Gietlhausen by the locals) there are still remains of an old Mennonite cemetery. This comes from the time the Forsthof was settled in the 19th century.

Attractions

Gietlhausen is known for its cherry orchards, the blooming of which turns the sweeping south-west slopes white in spring. This was already mentioned in the Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt of 1854. Settlers from the Rhine Palatinate may have brought the cherry trees with them.

literature

• Ludwig Wagner: Time travel through Neuburg and the city districts. Pro Business, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-939533-78-5 , pp. 120-125.
• Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt , 20, 1854 p. 105.
• Administrative files Gielhausen 1878–1903. City Archives Neuburg / Danube.
• Festschrift 100 Years of the Gietlhausen Volunteer Fire Brigade 1986.
• Neuburger advertising paper , August 27, 1929, and October 9 and 14, 1929.
• Neuburger Rundschau , March 28, 1991.

Web links

• Homepage of Gietlhausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population figures in the city of Neuburg an der Donau
2. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 601 .
3. ^ Entries on the journal / collection of the Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt. In: Bavarian Bibliography.