Heuberg (Oettingen)

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Heuberg
Heuberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 422 m
Residents : 231  (1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1973
Postal code : 86732
Area code : 09082
Heuberg (Oettingen), aerial photo (2016)

Heuberg is a district of the city of Oettingen in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

geography

The church village is about four kilometers from Oettingen and is traversed by the Grimmgraben, a right tributary of the Wörnitz . The Lachgraben rises southwest of the village and flows east into the Grimmgraben.

Local roads connect the place with the surrounding villages and the federal highway 466 running 2 km to the east . The Nördlingen – Gunzenhausen railway line, now operated as a museum railway , runs between Heuberg and Mörsbrunn .

history

Heuberg was first mentioned in a document in 1223. Most of the manorial rule was with the Counts of Oettingen. In 1539 the place was reformed. The church dedicated to the Apostle Bartholomew was built in the 14th century. During the renovation in 1954, freshly colored frescoes from the time it was built were discovered. The church is entered in the list of monuments.

In the west of Heuberg, a first-order deployment port ( military airfield ) was established in 1934 , which was the target of several aircraft attacks during World War II . A 750 mm narrow-gauge railway was built from the Dürrenzimmern station to transport the building material ; it existed until 1948/49. After the end of the war and brief use by the Allies, the "Heuberg camp" was used for displaced persons who could stay there for around a week and then "distributed" in the district. Around 34,000 people were smuggled through in this way. The camp existed until 1962, the last in Bavaria. The existing buildings are now used by the district building yard. In 2008 a memorial for victims of the Second World War was erected there.

Memorial at Heuberg airfield, "The victims of war, violence and displacement"

On July 1, 1973, the municipality of Heuberg was incorporated into Oettingen together with its district, the Mörsbrunn wasteland, as part of the municipal reform. The formerly independent municipality had a coat of arms.

literature

  • Heuberg airfield : a contribution to local history, 48 pages; Author: Werner Paa; Published by Selbstverlag, 2007

Web links

Commons : Heuberg (Oettingen in Bayern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the wiki of genealogy.net