Hirschbach (Wertingen)

Hirschbach City of Wertingen Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '53 "  N , 10 ° 45' 42"  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	86637

Hirschbach is a district of the town of Wertingen in the Swabian district of Dillingen on the Danube . Hirschbach was incorporated into Wertingen on July 1, 1972 with its suburbs Neuschenau and Possenried . The parish village is located six kilometers east of Wertingen on a right source river of the Hohenreich Mühlbach. This source river was formerly called Hirschbach and is now known as Viehweidbach.

history

Hirschbach is first mentioned in 1133. The Lords of Hirschbach, a lower noble family , had their seat in the village in the 13th century. The Kaisheim monastery was already wealthy here before 1216 and the Wertingen rule since the end of the 13th century. At the end of the Middle Ages , the Wertingen rule was able to enforce local rule .

religion

The place is the seat of an old parish , a pastor is already mentioned in Hirschbach in 1282. The Kirchsatz came to the Augsburg bishop in 1446 via the Ulrichskapelle in Dillingen on the Danube.

The current parish church of St. Peter was built in 1922 on the site of a church built around 1720/24. The tower was taken over from a previous church from the 14th century. In 1911 Possenried was repared from Bliensbach to Hirschbach.

literature

• Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 408–409.

Web links

• Hirschbach in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

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 .