Höfen (Freystadt)

Yards City of Freystadt Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  E
Height :	403 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	60  (1987)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	92342
Area code :	08469
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Höfen is a district of Freystadt in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

location

The village is 403  m above sea level. NHN east of the Schwarzach . The state road 2388 leads through the village, which crosses the district road NM 5 at the southern exit of the village. Neighboring towns are the Freystädter districts Schmellnricht , Fuchsmühle and Obernricht .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1323, when Thomas von Höfen near (Burg-) Griesbach compared himself to the Plankstetten monastery after he had caused the monastery and its subjects "many feuds and complaints". In 1508 four valid farmers in Höfen belonged to the rule of Burggriesbach Castle . Before 1519 these possessions passed to the Nuremberg patrician Georg Holzschuher . In 1530 they were sold to the Reich Almosen in Nuremberg. In 1837 there is talk of a fifth Nuremberg property in Höfen; it was probably formed at the end of the 18th century.

The Jettenhofen rulers of the Lords of Geyern also owned property in Höfen: at the end of the 15th century these were two landholders and the Löhelmühle outside the village (today Fuchsmühle). These three goods came to the aristocratic families Rosenberg and Hirnheim with the Jettenhofen Castle following the Schenk von Geyern family until they fell to the Eichstätter Prince-Bishop in 1586. As a result of the Thirty Years War , the two Jettenhof properties were still desolate in 1644.

Another landowner in Höfen was the Plankstetten monastery. In the early 17th century the monastery owned three, then four Grundholden , which were subordinate to the mayor's office in Neumarkt. The Seligenporten monastery also owned courtyards, namely a courtyard that was owned by Taferne in the 17th century .

The Berching hospital had owned real estate in the village corridor since the early 15th century, and individual items were lent to farmers in Höfen. Other landowners in Höfen were the Berching parish, the Reiche Almosen zu Berching and Pfalz-Neuburg with regard to the corridor of the former Espenlohe court of the Hilpoltstein choir, which died out in 1530, in the northeast of Höfen . A meadow in the Höfener Flur belonged to the imperial rule Sulzbuerg .

In the dispute over the high judiciary , the Hochstift Eichstätt concluded a state treaty on January 30, 1767 with the canton of Bavaria , which invoked the earlier bailiwick rights of Count Gebhard von Hirschberg, who died out in 1305, over the office of Jettenhofen , in which the Hochstift the high jurisdiction among other things through the village of Höfen Kurbayern and thus to the Neumarkt mayor office. The manorial rights and the lower jurisdiction remained with the caste office Jettenhofen. According to a stock book from 1786 of the Eichstättischen Hofmark Thannhausen had two Eichstätter Grundholden in Höfen at that time, namely a 1/9 yard and a 1/16 yard. The imperial city of Nuremberg was also wealthy in courts; The Neumarkt Mayor's Office also exercised high jurisdiction over this property.

At the end of the Old Kingdom , around 1800, the local community of Höfen consisted of 13 subjects who sat on properties of different sizes. The imperial city of Nuremberg had five, the Eichstätter caste office in Jettenhofen three, the monastery judge's office in Plankstetten also three, the Obere Hofmark Berngau and the monastery judge's office Seligenporten each had one landholder. The largest properties, namely 1/4 courtyards, were owned by Seligenporten and Plankstetten. The shepherd's house belonged to the community .

When the tax districts were formed in 1808/09, the local community of Höfen was added to the Großberghausen tax district, which in 1811 became the Großberghausen rural community . It did not last long: The community edict of 1818 formed the political community Schmellnricht in the Neumarkt district court from Höfen with the towns of Schmellnricht and Obernricht and the desert of Fuchsmühle . On October 9, 1827, Schmellnricht was taken out of the Neumarkt district court and subordinated to the Beilngries district court and rent office (later district office, then district). Finally, on June 23, 1827, there was another municipal change: Höfen was separated from Schmellnricht with Obernricht and Fuchsmühle and declared an independent municipality in the Beilngries regional court and rent office.

In 1875 the 65 inhabitants of the village kept nine horses and 77 head of cattle. At that time the municipality of Höfen with its three villages had a total of 131 inhabitants who kept 14 horses, 155 heads of cattle, 117 sheep, 45 pigs and one goat.

With the regional reform in Bavaria, the municipality of Höfen was dissolved and its districts were incorporated into the town of Freystadt in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt on July 1, 1972.

Population development

• 1875: 65 (38 buildings)
• 1900: 83 (14 residential buildings)
• 1937: 81
• 1961: 50 (13 residential buildings)
• 1978: 62
• 1987: 60 (16 residential buildings, 17 apartments)

Catholic chapel

Local chapel

The chapel with roof turret was built by the local community in 1869 instead of a smaller previous building. The wooden figure of St. Willibald on the altar dates from the early 15th century, the wooden figure of St. Margareta is late Gothic (around 1500). The Marienkapelle is a monument.

See list of architectural monuments in Freystadt # Höfen

Ecclesiastically, Höfen belonged to the Sulzkirchen parish, which had been incorporated into the Plankstetten monastery since 1183, until the 16th century . In 1580 Höfen came to the Calvin parish of Forchheim , where the Reformation had been introduced in 1540 by the Electoral Palatinate Mayor's Office in Neumarkt . After the Counter-Reformation (1625/28), Höfen, together with Schmellnricht and Lauterbach, was assigned to the Catholic parish of Burggriesbach in 1705/06 and again to the Catholic parish of Forchheim, which had been a Catholic parish since the Counter-Reformation. In 1925 Höfen was incorporated into the parish of Burggriesbach, where the children also went to school.

literature

• Franz Xaver Buchner: The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, Volume II: Eichstätt 1938
• Bernhard Heinloth (editor): Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Old Bavaria, Issue 16: Neumarkt , Munich 1967
• Gerhard Hirschmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Franconia. Row I, Issue 6. Eichstätt. Beilngries-Eichstätt-Greding. Munich 1959
• Yards . In: Felix Mader : History of the southern Seglau. (Former Eichstättisches Amt Jettenhofen) (Burggriesbach parish) , special print from the collection sheet of the Eichstätt Historical Association 1937, pp. 102–111

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mader, pp. 102-109
2. ↑ Hirschmann, pp. 36-38; Heinloth, pp. 201, 239
3. ↑ Heinloth, p. 201
4. ↑ Heinloth, p. 249
5. ↑ Heinloth, p. 264
6. ↑ Hirschmann, p. 214
7. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich 1876, column 1158
8. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich 1876, column 1158
9. ^ Locations directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical register of locations , Munich 1904, column 808
10. ↑ Buchner I, p. 336
11. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census , Munich 1964, column 518
12. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 1, 1978 , Munich 1978, p. 121
13. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 258
14. ↑ Buchner I, p. 335; Mader, p. 111
15. ↑ Buchner I, pp. 123, 334