Grösdorf

Grösdorf Kipfenberg market Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	380  (376-404)  m
Residents :	360  (March 7, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st January 1971
Postal code :	85110
Area code :	08465

Grösdorf is a district of the Kipfenberg market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

location

The place is located on the southern Franconian Jura in the Altmühltal northwest of the Kipfenberg municipality. The Altmühl divides Grösdorf into two clearly separated settlements, one to the west and one to the east; the western one is popularly called "Engelgrösdorf" - probably because of the sacred buildings there. The Altmühl flows through Grösdorf to the Quellbach from the Grüntopf .

history

At Kemathen , belonging to Grösdorf, there is evidence of a burial mound field.

The place was first mentioned in 910 during an exchange of goods between Erchanbald , Bishop of Eichstätt, and a certain Dioker from "Gredestorf". In 1270, the Kipfenberg castle lady Bertha Kropf von Flüglingen donated a courtyard and two gardens in Grösdorf to the Teutonic Order in Ellingen . In 1305, Bishop Konrad II von Pfeffenhausen sold, among other things, the "Prunnenmul zu Grestorf", a mill operated here, to the Spalter provost Ulrich. Also in 1305 Grösdorf was awarded to the Eichstätt Monastery in the course of the dispute over the Hirschberg inheritance . The Eichstätter cathedral chapter also owned a court here until secularization .

Since 1458 its own parish, the place belonged for a time to the parish of Kinding . In 1602 it is said that Grösdorf is - as it is today - a branch of Kipfenberg.

Until the secularization , Grösdorf belonged with its 16 properties, including three mill properties, namely the upper, the water and the middle mill, to the lower bishopric of Eichstätt and therein (with 15 properties) to the Kipfenberg care and caste office.

During the secularization, the lower bishopric and with it Grösdorf came to Grand Duke Archduke Ferdinand III in 1802/03 . from Tuscany and 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . There the village belonged to the Kipfenberg district court .

1808 from Kipfenberg, Grösdorf with Kemathen, Böhming and Regelmann Brunn the control district Kipfenberg formed. In 1818 it became independent communities again. In 1830 he came to a renewed union of Grösdorf with Kipfenberg; At that time Grösdorf had 97 inhabitants in 17 properties. In 1950, the number of inhabitants had risen to 353 in 31 properties, mainly due to the glass industry in the town since 1871.

To the district office, later belonging to the Middle Franconian district of Eichstätt, Grösdorf joined the Kipfenberg market during the municipal reform on January 1, 1971. One and a half years later, the move from Middle Franconia to Upper Bavaria took place . In 1983 there were 432 people living in Grösdorf who, among other things, worked in one full-time and eight part-time farms. The glassworks factory now belongs to the French group Saint Gobain; Pharmaceutical glass is manufactured here by 210 employees (as of 2003).

Catholic branch church St. Martin

The Kipfenberg branch church in Grösdorf was built under the Eichstatter Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau (1464-1496) or earlier. It stands elevated on the western outskirts in the middle of a walled cemetery. The late Gothic, towerless sacral building was given a square roof turret with a helmet on the west gable in the 17th or 18th century . The retracted choir consists of five octagonal sides and has three two-part Gothic pointed arch windows. 1630 is reported of a consecration with three altars. In 1861 new altars were erected again under the Kipfenberg pastor Anton Freiherr von Berchem, in a neo-Gothic style, whereby the late Gothic figures were reused: on the high altar the church patron Martin von Tours , on the right side altar the diocesan saint Willibald (statue around 1460) and on the left a Madonna and Child (around 1470). On the main altar there are also two figures from the beginning of the 16th century, St. Sebastian and St. Performing Wolfgang . The church patron is also the subject of the ceiling fresco. The pictures of the side altars were painted in 1861 by the Eichstatt artist Alois Süßmeier . A baroque rosary Madonna dates from the end of the 17th century.

In 2007, 231 Catholics lived in Grösdorf.

Catholic Chapel of St. Salvator

The St. Salvator chapel belonging to the Meierhof was first mentioned in 1539 and was damaged in 1602. It was thoroughly renovated in 1614; the choir probably dates from this time. Left to decay for a long time, the hexagonal turret with dome fell down in 1960 and has not been raised since then. A thorough renovation began in 1996.

The three-part altar with two winding columns dates from 1710, but (according to Mader) has a small late Gothic figure of Salvator in the central niche (mid-15th century). On the side there are figures of St. Francis and St. Anthony of Padua . The stucco ceiling was created around 1730 by Franz Xaver Horneis and the ceiling fresco (Christ as St. Salvator with angels and passion scenes) in 1741 by Hugo Ernst Murmann.

A legend reports that in 1601 the wife of the prince-bishop Kastner was cured of an eye disease in the little church and that the Kastner donated 100 guilders for renovation as well as one anniversary out of gratitude .

Pillars of torture

A column of torture in the village in the form of a wayside shrine (showing a scene of the crucifixion, among other things) dates from 1622. Another column of torture, the Melchior Jobst column from 1613, is today near the Kipfenberg cemetery.

societies

• "Martinschützen" shooting club, founded in 1923, shooting range from 1993

Personalities

• Carl Otto Müller , painter, died here in 1970

Individual evidence

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

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II Eichstätt District Office. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1928 (reprint 1982, ISBN 3-486-50505-X ), pp. 110–113, photos also on p. 114f.
• Christian Pecheck: A burial mound field from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Altmühltal. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 60 (1962/64), Eichstätt 1965, pp. 13-17
• Grösdorf branch . In: Elmar Ettle (text): 550 years of the Kipfenberg parish. 350 years of consecration of the parish church. Kipfenberg (1977), pp. 44f.
• Grösdorf, municipality of Kipfenberg . In: The Eichstätter area in the past and present. 2nd Edition. Eichstätt: Sparkasse Eichstätt 1984, p. 200 (with bibliography)
• Elmar Ettle: The Kipfenberg-Grösdorf glassworks. From the beginning to the takeover by St. Gobain. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 96 (2003), pp. 7–77
• Grösdorf . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 6: Eichstätt. In: Digital Library of the Bavarian State Library , pp. 78f., 107, 206f., 210, 248