Walting

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Walting
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Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '  N , 11 ° 18'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Bavaria
County : Eichstatt
Management Community : Eichstatt
Height : 395 m above sea level NHN
Area : 39.75 km 2
Residents: 2327 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 85137
Area code : 08426
License plate : EGG
Community key : 09 1 76 165
Community structure: 13 parts of the community
Association administration address: VG Eichstätt
Gundekarstr. 7a
85072 Eichstätt
Website : www.walting.com
Mayor : Roland Schermer ( CSU / CFW)
Location of the community Walting in the district of Eichstätt
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Walting is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and, together with the municipalities of Pollenfeld and Schernfeld, forms the Eichstätt administrative community .

geography

Walting is located in the Eichstätt district and therefore in the Altmühltal nature park.

Community structure

The parish has 13 officially named parish parts: The parish villages Gungolding and Walting; the church villages of Inching , Pfalzpaint , Pfünz , Rapperszell and Rieshofen ; the hamlets of Brunnmühle , Isenbrunn and Ziegelhof ; the deserts Almosmühle and Forster mill and the forestry house monkeys valley .

Parish seat

The place is the seat of a Catholic parish (branches: Rieshofen, Inching and Rapperszell).

history

Until the church is planted

Until 1803 Walting was an office of the Hochstift Eichstätt and from 1500 it was part of the Franconian Empire . It then belonged to the Principality of Eichstätt of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany . Since the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg in 1805, the place has belonged to Bavaria. The community was founded in 1818 .

In the 1861 census, the following numbers of residents and buildings were determined:

  • Gungolding: 208 inhabitants and 62 buildings
  • Pfalzpaint: 258 inhabitants and 61 buildings
  • Pfünz: 191 inhabitants and 31 buildings
  • Rapperszell: 121 inhabitants and 41 buildings
  • Rieshofen: 181 inhabitants and 52 buildings
  • Walting: 226 residents and 63 buildings
  • Total: 1185 inhabitants and 310 buildings

Incorporations

On the occasion of the municipal reform , Gungolding, Pfalzpaint , Pfünz, Rapperszell, Rieshofen and Walting merged to form the new municipality of Walting on January 1, 1972 . Inching was added on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,905 to 2,377 by 472 inhabitants or 24.8%.

  • 1961: 1477 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1595 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1888 inhabitants
  • 1991: 2057 inhabitants
  • 1995: 2234 inhabitants
  • 2000: 2363 inhabitants
  • 2005: 2373 inhabitants
  • 2010: 2366 inhabitants
  • 2015: 2328 inhabitants

politics

Municipal council

The council consists of the first mayor and the council members. Since May 1, 2020, the 14 seats of the municipal council members are distributed as follows:

mayor

Roland Schermer from the CSU has been mayor since 2014.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on December 14, 1984 by the government of Upper Bavaria.

Blazon : "Argent, a left red wave edge , is a growing silver crosier two questions to one six-pointed red, front three, stars a black bucket helmet with bull horns and bull ears as crest ."

The crosier refers to the affiliation of the municipality to the former prince-bishopric of Eichstätt from the Eichstätter Hochstift coat of arms. The helmet in the front part of the coat of arms comes from the seal of the Lords von Walting, which can be traced in the municipality up to the 14th century. The three stars are taken from the coat of arms of the lords of Pfalzpaint, mentioned since 1194, who owned the village and palace Pfalzpaint as fiefdoms of the Hirschberg counts and later the dukes of Bavaria until 1452. Heinrich von Pfalzpaint, who wrote a book about wound medicine in 1460, is considered one of the most important surgeons of the German Middle Ages. The location of the community in the Altmühltal is symbolized by the wave flank.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Theodor Goerge from Freising.

Culture and sights

Walting
Walting, parish church of St. Johannes
Walting, St. Leonhard
Fort Pfünz, north gate reconstruction
Pfünz with the Church of St. Nicholas
Pfünz, look inside St. Nicholas
The church tower of Pfalzpaint with remains of the former manor house

In the Walting part of the parish, the originally fortified parish church of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, situated elevated, houses a high altar from the end of the 17th century and several Gothic sculptures. The medieval chapel of St. Leonhard in the town center has a ceiling painting from 1732 and a baroque altar with three statues; the stone figure of St. Leonhard above the entrance is from 1598. In the forecourt there is a medieval font . Southwest of Walting, near the Affenthal, a Roman villa rustica was cut in September 2007 under the direction of the archaeologist Michael Jandejsek, which was about to be completely destroyed by the plow. However, the property owner prevented a purchase of the property with his financial demands above the market price. Therefore, the excavations had to be filled in on December 19, 2007. This destroyed the community's hopes of building up another valuable tourist pillar.

In the municipality of Pfünz you can find the remains of the Roman fort Vetoniana, which were excavated by Friedrich Winkelmann between 1884 and 1900 . The fort was built under Emperor Domitian and formed part of the rear fortifications of the Limes . First in wood, built in stone under Emperor Antoninus Pius , destroyed in 166 and rebuilt, it was most likely finally destroyed by the Alemanni in 233 . Conserved parts of the foundation walls and the double-pointed trench carved into the rock are visible. Based on Roman military buildings, a free reconstruction attempt of the north gate and north-west tower with the battlements in between was made between 1992 and 1994 without any specialist scientific assistance. A model of the camp and finds can be found in the early historical collection at Willibaldsburg in Eichstätt . Pfünz himself is first mentioned in a document in 889 as "Phuncina". Not far from the village there is a picturesque stone arch bridge, the Altmühlbrücke Pfünz , built in 1486 . The former prince-bishop's summer palace of Pfünz, built in 1710, has been used as a youth center by the diocese of Eichstätt since 1956 - with extensions . Another attraction is the St. Nikolaus branch church . The Inching part of the municipality - a small village with around 100 inhabitants - was mentioned in a document as early as 1055. At that time, Emperor Heinrich III. the Eichstätter Church the viticulture right between Rebdorf and Inching. A noble Adalbert von Inchingen was named in 1166. Inching has a historical ensemble with the Martinskirche and Inching Castle directly on the Altmühl.

The part of the community of Gungolding, located on the Römerstrasse Pfünz-Böhming, was already Christianized pre- Willibaldin . The once fortified parish church of the Assumption of Mary ( fortified church Gungolding ), which stands on a hill outside the village, is baroque. It contains late Gothic and Baroque furnishings. 14 brick Stations of the Cross from 1751 with panels by the Eichstatt artist Franz Maurer from 1992 lead to it. The neighboring old school was redesigned as a parish hall in 2004. The historic tower house in the center of the village was demolished and rebuilt in 2004. The Gungoldinger Wacholderheide is one of the oldest nature reserves in Bavaria.

In the Pfalzpaint part of the municipality there was an aristocratic seat, the Pfalzpaint Castle , which was connected to the St. Andreas Church, which was newly built by Jakob Engel in 1707 . The church furnishings are from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century, mainly in the Baroque style .

Since 1997, the Bavarian Telescope Meeting has been held annually on the Osterberg near Pfünz, with hundreds of visitors from Germany and neighboring countries. It is an important event in the German astronomy scene. Due to the elevated location, largely spared from direct light pollution , the Osterberg offers good conditions for sky observers and astrophotographers .

The largest spruce in Bavaria once grew in the forest near Affenthal , 40 m long and 280 years old. It was felled in 1910.

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 232 employees at the place of work in the manufacturing sector and 17 in the trade and transport sector. In other economic areas, 59 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 766 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and two in the construction sector. In addition, there were 61 farms in 1999 with an agricultural area of ​​1051 ha, of which 771 ha were arable land and 279 ha were permanent green space.

The municipal tax receipts in 1999 amounted to the equivalent of 824,000 euros, of which the equivalent of 78,000 euros was trade tax income (net).

education

The following institutions exist (as of 2008):

  • Kindergartens: 73 kindergarten places with 90 children
  • Elementary schools: one with six teachers and 124 students

Sons and daughters

Web links

Commons : Walting  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ VG in a new building. Eichstätter Kurier , November 16, 2016, accessed on January 2, 2017 .
  3. ^ Community Walting in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on October 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 1010-1014 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 456 .
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. a b On the election portal of Donaukurier and PNP you will find results and reports about the local elections in 2020. Passauer Neue Presse and Donaukurier , accessed on July 17, 2020 .
  8. ^ Villa Rustica Walting at Archeology online. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  9. The Roman villa is being filled in ( memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in the archive of the Walting community.
  10. Hartwig Schmidt : Archaeological Monuments in Germany - Reconstructed and rebuilt , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1395-X , p. 109
  11. Thomas Fischer, Erika Riedmeier-Fischer: The Roman Limes in Bavaria. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-7917-2120-0 . P. 140
  12. Bavarian Telescope Meeting. In: Astronomy Ingolstadt. Retrieved November 6, 2016 .