Hofberg (Greding)

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Hofberg
City of Greding
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 4 ″  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 500 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 15  (9 Dec 2019)
Postal code : 91171
Area code : 08463
Gate to the former outer bailey
Gate to the former outer bailey

Hofberg is a district of the town of Greding in the Central Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .

location

The hamlet is 500  m above sea level. NHN on a Inselberg of the Southern Frankenalb , namely on the eastern slope of up to 552.8 meters NHN rising Hofberges west of Obermässing .

Place name interpretation

The relatively late name "Hofberg" means "mountain with the prince-bishop's court". In the 16th century this name was not in use, but "Udelsberg" (so 1358; for the personal name Udal) or only the name "Obermässinger Schloß".

history

In 1465, the Eichstatt Bishop Wilhelm von Reichenau acquired the village and castle Obermässing from the Teutonic Order and built a new castle on what later became known as the Hofberg, in which he died on November 18, 1496. In 1499 the St. George's chapel was consecrated with three altars; In 1602 it was considered "already badly neglected". In the Peasants' War looted and partially destroyed, Prince Bishop presented Marquard II. Schenk von Castell castle newly ago. This is where the high esteem nurse had his official residence.

At the end of the Old Kingdom , around 1800, Hofberg consisted of the two castle building yards (economic property) of the outer bailey and the - lower lying - maintenance castle. There was also a shepherd's house. The village and township government exercised the hochstiftische of box office Obermässing while the high jurisdiction between the episcopal Pflegamt Obermässing and kurbaierischen Pflegamt Hilpoltstein was moot.

As a result of the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss , the Eichstätt bishopric and thus also Hofberg with the two palace building yards came to the Grand Duke Archduke Ferdinand III in 1802 . from Tuscany and 1805/06 to the new Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1803/04 the castle was auctioned off for demolition for 1,800 guilders , and the building yards were also given to private individuals. These Hofberg farms were assigned to the Obermässing tax district in 1809, which became a rural community in 1811, which underwent no change with the municipal edict of 1818: apart from the hamlet of Hofberg and the parish village of Obermässing, it also included the two wastelands Rotheichenmühle and Wirtsmühle. First in the district court of Beilngries , the municipality of Obermässing and with it the hamlet of Hofberg, which in 1831 still consisted of two farms but in 1846 of six houses, came to the nearby district court of Greding on October 1, 1857 .

In 1875 the 46 residents of Hofberg kept eight horses and 45 head of cattle.

In 1900, apart from the partially inhabited castle ruins, the hamlet comprised a total of seven residential buildings with 42 inhabitants. Five decades later, apart from the castle ruins, only six properties with 39 inhabitants were officially counted. In 1961 35 people lived in the six properties. In the period that followed, the population continued to decline. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Obermässing and its districts were incorporated into the city of Greding on January 1, 1972. 1997 Obermässing and Hofberg joined the water association of the Jura-Schwarzach-Thalach group.

Population development

  • 1846: 43 (6 houses, 9 families)
  • 1875: 46 (22 buildings)
  • 1900: 42 (7 residential buildings)
  • 1937: 30 (25 Catholics, 5 Protestants)
  • 1950: 39 (6 properties)
  • 1961: 35 (6 residential buildings)
  • 1987: 25 (6 residential buildings, 7 apartments)
  • 2014: 19
  • 2016: 16

Architectural monuments

Hofberg has eight architectural monuments mainly in the former main castle and outer bailey.

→ List of architectural monuments in Hofberg

traffic

A local connecting road, the Hofbbergstrasse, leads uphill from Obermässing to the hamlet.

The Gredinger circular hiking trail no.6 leads from Obermässing to Hofberg and back to Obermässing. There is also the Hofberg Castle Hiking Trail.

literature

  • Franz Xaver Buchner: The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, Volume II: Eichstätt 1938
  • Gerhard Hirschmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Franconia. Row I, Issue 6. Eichstätt. Beilngries-Eichstätt-Greding. Munich 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collection sheet of the Histor. Eichstätt Association 45 (1930), pp. 110, 118; 52 (1937), p. 20
  2. ↑ Buchner II, pp. 288-290; Collecting sheet of the Histor. Eichstätt Association 39 (1924), p. 30
  3. ↑ Hirschmann, p. 113
  4. ↑ Buchner II, p. 290
  5. ↑ Hirschmann, p. 229; Joseph Anton Eisenmann and Karl Friedrich Hohn: Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon from the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1st volume, Erlangen 1831, p. 787; Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ansbach 1846, p. 54
  6. ↑ a b Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich 1876, column 1163
  7. ^ Locations directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical register of locations , Munich 1904, column 1224
  8. ↑ a b Hirschmann, p. 229
  9. ↑ a b Official directory for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census , Munich 1964, column 797
  10. ↑ [1] Website of the water association
  11. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Ansbach 1846, p. 54
  12. ^ Locations directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical register of locations , Munich 1904, column 1224
  13. ↑ Buchner II, p. 291
  14. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 347
  15. ↑ [2] greding.de
  16. ↑ [3] Directions
  17. ↑ [4] Prospectus for the Hofberg Castle Path

Web links

Commons : Hofberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files