Courtyards (Oberhöfen)

Courtyards (Oberhöfen) Ettringen municipality Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 16 ″  E
Residents :	42  (1987)
Postal code :	86833
Area code :	08249
Entrance to Höfen

The village of Höfen , officially Höfen (Oberhöfen) , is a district of the Upper Swabian municipality of Ettringen in the Unterallgäu district in Swabia . It consists of the village of Höfen and the hamlet of Oberhöfen.

geography

Höfen and Oberhöfen are about seven kilometers north of the main town of Ettringen.

history

Höfen is first mentioned in a document on September 14, 1313, in a donation from Johann dem Fronhofer to the Dominican convent of St. Margaret in Augsburg for the acceptance of his sister Agnes into the convent. At that time the single farm was still called "Velbach" and soon went temporarily to the Steingaden monastery , whose provost surrendered the farm to Rüdiger the carver and his two sons in 1336, on the condition that the monastery subjects in neighboring Siebnach would not be offended. The Oberhöfener Hof was named “St. Margaretenhof "called.

In 1461, middle and lower courtyards are documented as belonging to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Augsburg , the Salbuch mentions Conrat Sibenaich and Ulrich Sibenaich, farmers from Siebnach, as owners. In 1830 there was only one farm in upper and lower courtyards and half a farm in central courtyards.

The Augsburg hospital sold middle and lower courts in 1692 for 3500 guilders with lower jurisdiction to the municipal St. Martin Foundation in Augsburg, which, as the successor to the Margaret monastery, was already in the possession of upper courts. The places were initially deserted after the Thirty Years' War before agriculture was resumed. In 1818 courtyards with 3 properties and 25 residents belonged to the Augsburg St. Martin Foundation, and the hamlets belonged to the municipality of Traunried.

Unterhöfen experienced an upswing around 1880 when Xaver Altstetter built a mill on the Scharlach there , which is still preserved today. Today there is a pig fattening operation on the large property, which has been slaughtering itself since 1990 and has been selling its own meat and sausage products there since 1992 with “Altstetters Hofladen”.

In Oberhöfen there was only one farm until 1902, which mainly ran sheep and had a cheese kitchen in which the farmers from the neighboring farms and Aletshofen processed the milk. In 1902 another property was built next door, which burned down in 1923 and 1940 by lightning. The Höfen-Siebnach connecting road was tarred for the first time in the 1960s.

literature

• Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 999 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Höfen (Oberhöfen) in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 17, 2018.