Hardt (Neuburg on the Danube)

Hardt Large district town of Neuburg on the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 19 ″  E
Residents :	30  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	86633
Area code :	08431

Hardt is a district of the large district town of Neuburg an der Donau in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria. The place is on the edge of the Donaumooses and borders on the air base Neuburg . Hardt came to Neuburg on January 1, 1978 during the municipal reform. On January 1st, 2009 the hamlet had 37 inhabitants. It is three kilometers from Neuburg to Hardt and less than one and a half kilometers to the neighboring town of Altmannstetten. The hamlet is now part of the Feldkirchen district.

history

The village of Hardt near Neuburg

Today the hamlet is almost like a blank slate. Hardt is mentioned for the first time in 1214 in the Pappenheimer Urbar, an inventory of goods. At that time there were already four farms. Nothing changed until the 19th century. It was not until 1817 that Valentin Thalheimer and Adam Schwan from Palatinate bought two of the farms and later shared them. This was the first time that Protestants came to the purely Catholic Hardt. The Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt from 1853 writes of eight houses with 42 souls, of which 20 were Protestants. From 1850 to 1913 the hamlet belonged politically to the municipality of Wagenhofen , then to the municipality of Feldkirchen . Hardt has been part of Neuburg an der Donau since the regional reform. Until the regional reform, the children had to run to school in Wagenhofen every day . The Catholics find their final resting place in the cemetery in Wagenhofen and the Protestants are buried in the nearby Altmannstetten. Seven farms were once the peak in the hamlet. In 2006 three still existed and one of them was full-time.

A chapel as a sacred building

Hardt's Chapel

The interior of the chapel

Hardt was ecclesiastically assigned to the Catholic parish "Our Lady" in Neuburg. During the Reformation, the Wagenhofen parish was established and the hamlet was reclassified there. In 1905, the benefice statistics of the Diocese of Augsburg show 5 properties with 22 Catholics and 8 Old Catholics for Hardt . There is no church in the hamlet, the only sacred building is a chapel. Catholics meet there from time to time for prayer. A plaque commemorates the founders, the siblings Veronika and Martin Mayr. The parents actually wanted to build a chapel, but financially it wasn't enough. The children fulfilled this wish. A Madonna dominates the interior, but is surrounded by candles and pictures. The Madonna was a present from the mother of the donors to the Wagenhofen parish . Now she has returned to Hardt.

The chapel was built in 1984. On June 6, 1985, on Corpus Christi, Professor Albert Lidl consecrated the building and was also the preacher. For the citizens of Hardt this was a big feast day. The tower of the chapel was equipped with a bell in 1988. The Rudolf Perner company in Passau had cast the metal and an unnamed donor financed the bell. Pastor Alois Ott as the responsible local clergyman took over the church consecration privileges. A radio automatic sets the bell in motion three times a day and reminds the believers to pray.

literature

• Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt 019 (1853) . Ed .: Historischer Verein Neuburg , p. 22
• Festschrift of the volunteer fire brigade Feldkirchen . 1979, pp. 47-49
• Ludwig Wagner: Time travel through Neuburg and the city districts . 2006, ISBN

3-939533-78-5, pp. 126-129

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population figures in the city of Neuburg an der Donau
2. ^ 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. 601 .