Mörnsheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Eichstatt
Height :	405 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.46 km 2
Residents:	1563 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	47 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	91804, 91807
Area code :	09145
License plate :	EGG
Community key :	09 1 76 148
Market structure:	15 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Kastnerplatz 1 91804 Mörnsheim
Website :	www.moernsheim.de
Mayor :	Richard Mittl
Location of the Mörnsheim market in the Eichstätt district

Mörnsheim ( Bavarian Menza ) is a market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

geography

location

View from the castle to Mörnsheim

The Mörnsheim market is located in the Gailach valley. The Gailach flows through the municipality from the source in Mühlheim via the actual Mörnsheim market to the confluence as a right tributary of the Altmühl .

Markt Mörnsheim borders on the administrative districts of Middle Franconia and Swabia . Thus it lies exactly at the intersection of the three ethnic groups that make up Bavaria today, namely Bavaria , Franconia and Swabia . However, these tribes also exist in other countries.

Community structure

The municipality has 15 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Altendorf ( Kirchdorf ) Apfelthal ( hamlet ) Ensfeld ( parish village ) Dark mill ( wasteland ) Gröblmühle (wasteland)

Hammer mill (hamlet) Haunsfeld ( village ) Cabbage mill (wasteland) Lichtenberg (hamlet) Market mill (wasteland)

Maxberg (hamlet) Mörnsheim (main town) Mühlheim (Kirchdorf) Sonderholzerhof (wasteland) Wildbad (wasteland)

Neighboring communities

Langenaltheim	Solnhofen Schernfeld
Rögling		Dollnstein
Tagmersheim	Rennertshofen	Wellheim

history

Based on the finds by H. Mayer, it can be assumed that the hills around Mörnsheim had been inhabited since the Bronze Age.

The Mühlheim part of the community is mentioned in writing for the first time in the will (donated to the Fulda monastery ) of St. Sola (around † 794), an Anglo-Saxon Christian missionary. In 918 today's district Altendorf was first mentioned in a document as the former Mörnsheim. Mörnsheim Castle above Mörnsheim was first mentioned under Bishop Heinrich I von Zipplingen (ruled 1225-1228). The Mörnsheim family lived in the castle and held the bailiwick until 1289. In 1354 the castle and the office of Charles IV were given neck jurisdiction . Bishop Friedrich IV of Oettingen (ruled 1383–1415) restored the castle and added a kennel. From 1500 Mörnsheim was part of the Hochstift in the Franconian Empire .

The official seat was relocated to the "box" in the market (today the town hall ) in 1612, with the castle abandoned. In 1630, the future Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, Johann Martin von Eyb , was born there as the son of the Mörnsheim nurse Heinrich Konrad von Eyb. In 1672, the Eichstätt prince-bishop issued a mountain code for the quarry . In 1760 the castle was partially demolished; the destruction continued. The Eichstätter office remained in Mörnsheim until 1802. With the secularization , the place came to Ferdinand von Toscana , 1805 to Bavaria and belonged to the ruling court of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg from 1817–1838 .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1971, part of the Haunsfeld community was incorporated. On April 1, 1971 the community Altendorf (with Kohlmühle) was incorporated, on July 1, 1972 Mühlheim (with Apfelthal and Finstermühle) and on May 1, 1978 Ensfeld.

Population development
Between 1988 and 2018, the population decreased from 1681 to 1537 by 144 inhabitants or 8.6%. Mörnsheim is the only municipality in the district whose population has decreased in the period mentioned.

politics

Market council

The market council of Mörnsheim consists of the first mayor and twelve members.

• Electoral Association Mörnsheim 6 seats
• Free electorate Mühlheim 3 seats
• Free voter group Ensfeld 2 seats
• Free voter block Altendorf / Haunsfeld 1 seat

(Status: municipal council election on March 15, 2020, voter turnout 69.88%)

mayor

The professional first mayor is Richard Mittl (Mörnsheim electoral association). He has been in office since May 1, 2002. In the mayoral election on March 15, 2020, he was confirmed with a voter turnout of 69.8% with a vote of 70.6%.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In red a silver tin tower, in front of whose gate a man dressed in blue is standing, holding a red flag at a golden lance; then the silver bend of the bishop's staff . "

Culture and sights

Buildings

Historic Kastenhof (town hall)

Mühlheimer Church

In Mörnsheim there are several important old buildings: On the Schlossberg above Mörnsheim you can find the ruins of the Mörnsheim Castle of the Eichstätt bishops. The Kastenhof in Mörnsheim now serves as the town hall.

The parish church has been attested since 1065. However, only the tower is from the 13th century; the nave is a new building from 1956, but with older figure decorations and some historical Jura marble grave slabs inside. The pilgrimage church of Maria End can be found in Altendorf. It was redesigned in Baroque style in 1710, but is of Gothic origin. The branch church of Saints Cyriacus , Largus and Smaragdus with a Carolingian core is located in the district of Mühlheim.

Fossils and fossils can be found in the Jura quarries . The Horstbergbruch (so called because the municipality sold it to the merchant Horst from Strasbourg in 1841 ) was the first, opened in 1668, whose blue-gray stones were characterized by great hardness and fine grain and were ideally suited for the lithography invented in 1798 . This was where dismantling took place until 1954.

There are also Jura houses in all parts of the community .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Mörnsheim

Natural monuments

• Gailach spring , Jura - karst spring with a strong spring flow in Mühlheim
• Rock formations worth seeing and experiencing, beech forests, meadows and juniper heaths

Regular events

Every year on the third Sunday in October the parish fair is celebrated. Every third weekend in May there is an Altmühltaler lamb lift with 1000 sheep, lambs and goats as well as a shepherd and craft market with regional specialties.

Economy and Infrastructure

With the neighboring town of Solnhofen , Mörnsheim is a center of the mining of Solnhofen stone (Juraplattenkalk). The quarries were the most important source of income for the population since the 16th century; in them an excellent lithographic slate was obtained in the 19th century . Cooperative dismantling has been taking place since 1889.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Martin von Eyb , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, born August 30, 1630 in Mörnsheim; † December 6, 1704 in Herrieden
• Dieter Langosch , biochemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich, born January 31, 1958

View from Kronenwirtsberg

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Mernsheim . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 581-585 ( digitized version ).
• Bernhard Eder: Dollnstein Mörnsheim hike, look, experience. Hercynia, Kipfenberg 1983.
• Victor Henle: 1100 years of Mörnsheim 918 - 2018. Chronicle of the market town of Mörnsheim, Mörnsheim 2018.
• Anton Heuberger: Brief local history of Mörnsheim. In: Historical sheets for the city and district of Eichstätt. 2, 1953, No. 17, pp. 25-27, No. 18, pp. 29 f.
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928 (reprint 1982), pp. 211-223.
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Mörnsheim . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 704-705 ( digitized version ).
• Mörnsheim. In: Handbook of the historical sites of Germany. Bavaria. Stuttgart: 3rd edition 1961, p. 462, ISBN 3-520-27703-4 .
• Horstbergbruch near Mörnsheim. In: Karl Zecherle and Toni Murböck: Nature worth seeing in the Eichstätt district. District of Eichstätt 1982, p. 12 f.
• Mörnsheim castle ruins. In: Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces (Eichstätt district). Hercynia, Kipfenberg (around 1982), p. 8 f.
• The Eichstätter area past and present. 2nd expanded edition, Eichstätt 1984, pp. 245–247 (with detailed bibliography).

Web links

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

Wikisource: Mörnsheim in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official homepage of the Mörnsheim market
• Entry on the coat of arms of Mörnsheim  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Mörnsheim: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Mörnsheim community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 14, 2019.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 456 .
4. ^ 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. 599 .
5. ↑ Candidates and results - District of Eichstätt, Mörnsheim. In: Wahl.info. Donaukurier / PNP, March 16, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Municipal Council. Marktgemeinde Mörnsheim, accessed on August 24, 2020 .