Hirnstetten

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E

Hirnstetten, coming from Pfahldorf

The church with the characteristic stepped gable

Baroque interior of the church in Hirnstetten

Stucco pulpit by Franz Xaver Horneis

Hirnstetten is a part of the municipality of the Kipfenberg market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

geography

The church village in the Altmühltal nature park is located in the middle of a cleared island on the Jura plateau northwest of Kipfenberg at approx. 530 meters above sea level .

Transport links

From the Jura high road Eichstätt - Kinding , turn off at Pfahldorf into the village three kilometers away, which can be reached on the state road 2336. This continues via Altdorf and Emsing to Greding . In Hirnstetten, a road branches off to the Götzelshard part of the community in Pollenfeld . Other roads lead from the village to the Kindingen districts of Furthof with the Furthöhle on the slope of the Anlautertal and Schafhausen in the Anlautertal.

history

Burial mounds from the Bronze Age have been found southwest of Hirnstetten. When a well was excavated in the village, an ice age hammer head made of granite was found. The village lies on the Römerstraße Erkertshofen - Böhming . To the north, the former Roman border wall " Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes " runs past, which lasted until the 3rd century AD and is still visible in the corridor and forest with the guard post 14/70 northwest of Hirnstetten.

Hirnstetten is mentioned for the first time around 1150, when a local nobleman named Odelrich von Herswinesteten (= place on the Hirschweide) is mentioned in the tradition book of the prince- provost of Berchtesgaden . The Augustinian Canons Monastery Rebdorf had owned Hirnstetten since the end of the 12th century . In the dispute over the “ Hirschberg Inheritance ”, “Hirweinsteten” was awarded to the Eichstätt Monastery in 1305 . It remained there until secularization at the beginning of the 19th century.

During the witch hunt in the Eichstätt monastery , at least one woman from Hirnstetten was accused of being an alleged witch and sentenced to death in 1629.

The area around Hirnstetten was important for the prince-bishop's iron smelting works in Obereichstätt because of its rich ore deposits .

The land consolidation from 1956 should be mentioned more recently. On January 1, 1972, the place came to market Kipfenberg as part of the regional reform . Half a year later the Eichstätt district moved from Middle Franconia to Upper Bavaria . The population was 176 in 2007.

Economy and Infrastructure

The agriculturally oriented Hirnstetten has a restaurant at the church.

Filial church St. Leonhard

The local Catholic church is a branch church of Altdorf, but has been supplied by the pastor of Pfahldorf since 1969. In 2007 there were 168 Catholics in the village. While the square church tower, enclosed by a saddle roof with stepped gables , dates back to the late Gothic period, the nave is, as an inscription above the portal shows, a building from the Baroque period, built in 1743 by the pollen field mason Joseph Leitner according to plans by the prince-bishop of Eichstätt, Gabriel de Gabrieli and on June 6, 1746 by the auxiliary bishop of Eichstatt Johann Gotfried United consecrated . The stucco work and the polygonal stucco pulpit with a curved body with images of the evangelists are probably by Franz Xaver Horneis , the ceiling paintings, which were whitewashed until 1955, were probably created in the 19th century. The four-column high altar with a curved elevator adorned with an angelic glory is early Rococo from the time of the new building; the altarpiece shows the church patron as the liberator of prisoners, painted by the Eichstatt painter Dominikus Murmann . Late Gothic sculptures of a Madonna with an apple-holding baby Jesus and a saint abbot with a book can be found above the side doors . The Way of the Cross was painted around 1766. The two two-column baroque side altars were built in the second half of the 18th century. The altarpiece on the left side altar shows Joachim and Anna with a youthful Jesus, the one on the right shows St. Stefanus, carrying stones in his robe, painted by a certain Gerhäuser in 1838. Around 1870 a Steinmayer organ came into the church. The nave ceiling fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary can be attributed to the Munich neo-baroque painter Josef Wittmann , according to the art historian Hans Christian Ries . In the 1970s, the gallery bulge was removed. In 1996 a new font was erected.

From 2011 to 2014 the church was thoroughly renovated inside and out. A ceiling painting with the Emmaus disciples, which was broken off in the choir room in the 1920s, was restored.

societies

In Hirnstetten, the voluntary fire brigade has been active since 1895 (the fire station was rebuilt in 2005/06 ), the fruit and horticultural association since 1934 and the girls and boys association since 1974.

Others

According to legend, King Etzel des Nibelungenlied ( Hun king Attila , 434–453 AD) is buried in a golden coffin in one of the Bronze Age hills of Hirnstetten .

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

The Limes hiking trail touches the northern outskirts of Hirnstetten.

Personalities

Dr. Dr. Johann Baptist Stufler , Jesuit and neo-scholastic , was born on February 3, 1865 in Hirnstetten († August 28, 1952 in St. Andrä im Lavanttal / Carinthia).

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office , Munich 1928, reprint 1982, pp. 124–127, see [1]
• Hans Baier and others (editor): The Eichstätter space in the past and present . Eichstätt 1973: Stadt- und Kreissparkasse, p. 188f. (with bibliography)
• Karl Hausberger :  STUFLER, Johann Baptist. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 119-120.
• Celebrated the 250th church anniversary . In: Eichstätter Kurier of June 26, 1996
• Hirnstetten a village and its houses. OO [1995]
• Festschrift 250 years of St. Leonhard Hirnstetten 1746 [-] 1996 . OOoJ

Web links

• Hirnstetten on the Kipfenberg website
• Website about Hirnstetten
• Von Hirnstetten killed in the war
• Photos from Hirnstetten

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. 456 .
2. ↑ Eichstätter Kurier of November 6, 2014, p. 27
3. ↑ A tree for every new citizen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Donaukurier , July 8, 2009