Gundelsheim (Treuchtlingen)

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Gundelsheim
City of Treuchtlingen
Coat of arms of Gundelsheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 35 "  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 37"  E
Height : 447 m
Residents : 472  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91757
Area code : 09142
Gundelsheim (Bavaria)
Gundelsheim

Location of Gundelsheim in Bavaria

Gundelsheim is a district of the town of Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

location

The church village is located in the southern Franconian Jura , about 7 km southwest of Treuchtlingen in an glacial valley of the Jura and is traversed by the Möhrenbach .

history

Finds of fragments from the Urnfield period indicate that the area was settled as early as 1300–800 BC. Chr. Three Roman manors ( Villae Rusticae ) were found in the area. Probably was already at the time of marble mined from local quarries, which one in the front wall of the Eichhofes eingamauertes Roman relief testified. A permanent settlement is assumed from the 4th century, the emergence as a village in the 5th / 6th century. Century. Around the year 750 King Pippin , the father of Charlemagne, took over the place under the control of the Franconian Empire . Gundelsheim was in the Sualafeldgau .

The first documentary mention dates from 1097 as Gundoltesch (a) : Count Palatine Rapoto V handed over property in Gundelsheim to the monastery of Sankt Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg . Later spellings of the place are Gundoldeshaim (1124/49) and Gundoltesheim (1175), which indicates the origin of the name "home of a Gundolt". Between 1182 and 1195, Bishop Otto von Eichstätt consecrated the village church of St. Ulrich. In the following centuries the place changed hands a few times. The Thirty Years War left devastating marks on the village.

In 1848 the landlord's era ended, and now taxes had to be paid to the Monheim Rent Office . Until about 1930 Gundelsheim was structured purely agriculturally. On the Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen railway line, which opened in 1906, a marble factory was established in 1926, which permanently changed the structure of the village. After the Second World War , the population rose sharply due to settlement activity. Gundelsheim was an independent municipality in the Swabian district of Donauwörth and was incorporated into the town of Treuchtlingen on July 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

today

The Catholic parish of Sankt Ulrich in Gundelsheim belongs to the Wemding Parish Association in the Weißenburg-Wemding dean's office in the Eichstätt diocese .
The Protestants from Gundelsheim belong to the Protestant parish of St. Laurentius in Rehlingen .

Gundelsheim (Schwab) was an abandoned stop on the Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen railway line . The district road WUG 6 crosses the village. With Gundelsheim an der Altmühl , a district of the municipality Theilenhofen , there is another place with the same name in the district.

literature

  • Gottfried Stieber: Gundelsheim . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 418-420 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An old settlement on the Möhrenbach . Weißenburger Tagblatt of July 2, 2015, p. 6
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 593 .