Hessellohe

Hessellohe Large district town of Neuburg on the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 48 ″  E
Residents :	373  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	86633
Area code :	08431

Until January 1, 1976, Hessellohe was part of the then independent municipality of Ried . Since the regional reform it has been a district of Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria . The place name comes from the Hasel-Loch, presumably there were many hazelnut trees there when the place was founded. The last mayor was Leonhard Pfaller. The place is now part of the Ried district.

history

A view from Hessellohe to Neuburg

Hessellohe is about two kilometers from Neuburg. Until the regional reform, the place belonged to the municipality of Ried. Nevertheless, the village is likely to be older than the town of Ried. For a long time there was talk of the Church of St. Georgen auf dem Berg. Ried was never mentioned. The Widumshof was also in Hessellohe, not in Ried.

However, the first settlement was much earlier, because finds from the Bronze Age and Urnfield Age came to light during the excavations, including in 1833. The oldest references to the village can be found in the Pappenheimer Urbar from 1214. Likewise, in the Salbuch Ludwig des Strengen Hessellohe is listed. On April 13, 1318, some goods belonged to the Templars of Morizbrunn at Adelschlag. This means that Hessellohe should be an old farming village from the early Middle Ages , which consisted of numerous large farms and estates as well as fields.

The Hesselloher Schlösschen

The little castle

The history of the castle goes back to the year 1327 and is known as the court of Hessenloch. From 1808 to 1822, Hessellohe and the little castle were in the public eye. Johann Baptist Freiherr von Flachslanden was Privy Councilor and Grand Balli of Aquilla. He resided in Neuburg and chose the Hesselloher Schlösschen as his country residence.

Flachslanden drove almost every day in a four-in-hand truck from Neuburg to Hessellohe to the castle. Here he also provided the population with work and bread. His principle was to give work and bread rather than distribute money. He enlarged the Hesselloher Schlösschen significantly, bought land, planted French fruit trees and created a pond in which white and black swans romped about. He built summer houses, arcades and a bowling alley, as well as a greenhouse with rare flowers. There was a Chinese tower on an artificially created hill and a tube (telescope) on the top floor. With it you could even see the clock tower of Ingolstadt.

Flachslanden died on March 19, 1822. He was buried in the Ried cemetery. Today the Flachslandenstraße in Neuburg still reminds of this personality.

The son of his valet Johann Buxbaum bought the building for 9326 guilders on August 19, 1829. He let the facilities go down and sold several properties and reduced the size of the pond. The area was used again for agriculture.

The castle changed hands several times, some spatial changes were made and dismantled. On Palm Sunday 1871, the Rieder Church had to be closed due to dilapidation. Until 1875 the rooms of the castle served as a church, school, teacher's apartment and tavern.

A fire broke out in May 1998 and destroyed the building to a considerable extent. A necessary renovation was completed in 2002, the cost is 2.8 million euros. Funding from the city, the Free State and the European Union have provided significant help. Now the little castle shines in a fresh shine. The three-wing building houses six apartments. The showpiece is the Flachslandensaal with 100 seats. It is intended for concerts and exhibitions.

The pond legend

A beautiful young woman is said to have drowned in the pond behind the castle. Her body was found floating in the water next to a boat. In 1818 an obelisk was placed in her memory. However, it is not known who it was, and no death has been recorded.

economy

The village of Hessellohe

The place used to be very agricultural, but this has changed in the past. Out of 21 farmers, only four are full-time farms left. The restaurant "Zum Weißen Rößl", which has now been closed, was known. The Niedermeier quarrying company also used to exist. The quarry on the outskirts towards Bittenbrunn is closed and is used privately. At the edge of the forest, Neuburg Siliceous Earth was mined underground by Hoffmann Mineral GmbH & Co. KG, Neuburg , until around 1965 .

Apprentice chapel

The chapel is a joint project of the vocational school students

The neat chapel altar

Easter fountain at the St. Josef Chapel

Hessellohe is not a separate parish and does not have its own church. But on the outskirts there is the St. Joseph's Chapel. It is noteworthy that the builders were trainees in structural engineering at the Neuburg State Vocational School. This is unique in all of Bavaria and beyond. St. Joseph is considered the patron saint of bricklayers and carpenters, which is why he is allowed to hold his protective hand over this object. For the people of Hesselloher it is their gem.

The nationwide competition “Building Has a Future” gave teachers and students this idea. From 1989 to 1991 the trainees planned and toiled on the implementation. This project was supported by the active help of the craft, the population and the city of Neuburg. 29 companies were generous and supplied material worth 20,000 DM. The Ried horticultural association took over the sponsorship and was responsible for the interior decoration.

The patron saint , St Joseph , is enthroned on the altar . This is a gift from the parish church of St. Georg in Ried. The other inventory includes a neat group of Nazarenes with Christ on the Mount of Olives and an angel. They stood for a long time in the grotto under the Neuburger Arcoschlösschen, were completely weathered and had to be renovated with considerable effort. The owner was Sigmund Völk from Neuburg. He donated the group to the Catholic parish church foundation St. Georg in Ried and made it a condition that the group be set up in the St. Josef's Chapel in Hessellohe. A Saumweber Madonna also sits enthroned on the front of the chapel. It comes from the Maria Ward sisters from Neuburg, it first had to be renovated.

This created a work that received full recognition. The jury of an evaluation committee awarded first place in the Upper Bavaria district and teacher Walter Wörle and his students took second place for Bavaria. An ecumenical consecration and a corresponding celebration crowned the work. Praise was paid from all sides. For its tenth anniversary, the building trade students gave the building a fresh look with one coat of paint.

The chapel is now integrated into the religious life of the parish. The faithful meet here for prayer at Easter, for Thanksgiving and in Advent. Loving Easter fountains and Thanksgiving decorations are often a magnet for many visitors.

literature

• Historic Heimatverein Neuburg (Ed.): Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt. 19 (1853), pp. 25-26.
• Markus Nadler: Neuburg an der Donau: the district court Neuburg and the nursing courts Burgheim and Reichertshofen. In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Swabia: Series 1, Issue 16. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7696-6852-9 .
• A. Horn, W. Meyer: The art monuments of the city and district of Neuburg on the Danube. Commission publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958, p. 501.
• Neuburger Rundschau. June 27, 1990, June 10, 1991.
• Ludwig Wagner: Time travel through Neuburg and the city districts. Pro Business, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-939533-78-5 , pp. 139-141.

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 .