Herbertshofen (Meitingen)

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Herbertshofen
Meitingen market
Herbertshofen coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 435  (432-436)  m
Residents : 2377  (Jun. 30, 2015)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 86405
Area code : 08271
Coat of arms

Herbertshofen is a parish village and the largest district of the Meitingen market in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria ( Germany ). Herbertshofen is located on the Lech .

Herbertshofen is connected to Bundesstraße 2 with its own exit ( Langweid-Nord / Meitingen-Herbertshofen ) . The district road A 29 leads from Meitingen via Herbertshofen and then joins the B 2. Herbertshofen has its own train station on the Augsburg – Nördlingen railway line . Herbertshofen is one of the border towns of the Alemannic dialect area to Bavarian .

history

Parish Church of St. Clement

Herbertshofen is one of the earliest settlements in the Meitingen municipality. This is derived from its name. Herbertshofen belonged to the Urmark Erlingen. "To the Heribalt Courts" was already settled during the Alemannic conquest. Herbertshofen was first mentioned in a document in 1225, when Luitfried (Abbot of St. Ulrich in Augsburg) and a certain Ulricus Uebelinn got into a dispute about a farm in Herbolzhofen on the occasion of a transfer of ownership.

Around the middle of the 13th century, most of the farms were under the imperial monastery of St. Ulrich and St. Afra in Augsburg. Herbertshofen also found national interest in the expansion of the Habsburg Empire in the Bavarian-Swabian region. In 1270, the then Count von Habsburg , later the Roman-German King Rudolf von Habsburg , was enfeoffed with the Maierhof. The dispute over property rights continued in 1346. When Sebastian von Laber from Augsburg filed claims, Bishop Markward von Randegg withdrew from this claim in 1365 by owning goods, income, rights and bailiffs in Ehekirch, Herbertshofen, Erlingen and bequeathed to the cathedral chapter in other places. The consideration should be remembrance of the year and prayer for him.

The property disputes between the Augsburgers and the Bavarian dukes were particularly fierce. Around the middle of the 15th century, the Pappenheimer von Biberbach became the lords of Herbertshofen, but in 1477 Erasmus Erkinger von Biberbach sold almost the entire village for 415 gold guilders to the Augsburg cathedral chapter, which already had "ten fireplaces" (houses) here. The Ulrich monastery called five, the hospital two, the star monastery two and the St. Jakobspfründe one their property. The Fuggers were also wealthy here at times.

Herbertshofen acquired a special significance in terms of church and art history. In 1752 the cathedral chapter made the decision to build a new church in Herbertshofen. The master builder was Johann Adam Dossenberger (1716–1759) from Wollishausen, a talented student of Dominikus Zimmermann. The light building of Johann Adam Dossenberger received a special artistic note through the wall and ceiling paintings by the master Johann Baptist Enderle . The church of St. Clemens is known nationwide and is still the pride of the Herbertshofener today.

The development of the place proceeded steadily. The population had increased from 205 in 1823 to 342 in 1868. At the turn of the century, the parish already registered 1,100 souls, albeit with the residents of Meitingen. In 1941 the bishop removed the Meitinger from its mother church and installed the parish of St. Wolfgang .

Until 1803 Herbertshofen was under the local rule of the cathedral monastery Augsburg . Until the regional reform in Bavaria , the independent municipality of Herbertshofen belonged to the district of Wertingen . On July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into Meitingen in the Augsburg-West district (from May 1, 1973 Augsburg district ).

religion

The Catholic parish of Saint Clemens in Herbertshofen belongs to the Meitingen parish community in the dean's office in Augsburg-Land in the diocese of Augsburg .

economy

The Lech steel works , the only steel works in Bavaria, are located in Herbertshofen .

Web links

Commons : Herbertshofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 594 .