Holzingen

Holzingen Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	421 m
Residents :	300
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	91781
Area code :	09141
Location of Holzingen in Bavaria
Town view from the southeast

Holzingen is a district of the city of Weißenburg in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen with around 300 inhabitants.

location

Holzingen aerial photo (2020). In the background Weißenburg and the Wülzburger Berg .

The Angerdorf is located four kilometers southwest of Weißenburg in a fertile valley of the Altmühl . Neighboring towns are Emetzheim and Kattenhochstatt . Larger places in the area are still Pleinfeld , Treuchtlingen and Ellingen . The Wöhrbach , also known as Hammerstadtgraben , flows through the village , a left tributary of the Swabian Rezat, which runs two kilometers to the east . To the south is the 466.6 m high Hungerberg . The main street of the village is the district street WUG 5 .

history

On the northern edge of Holzingen in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, the Roman military road led to Weißenburg. The founder of the place is unknown. It is a fact that from 900 to 1502 Holzingen belonged to the von Holzingen family. The first documentary mention was in 1197. In 1360, Holzingen is mentioned as a branch of Emetzheim under the rule of Eichstatt. From 1404 the village and church of the Wülzburg were annexed, according to the will and the order of the von Holzingen family. In 1502 the male line of the old Frankish family died out. In 1732 there were 21 Ansbach, 7 Weissenburg and one cardboard local subjects in Holzingen. Before that, the German Order was particularly wealthy. In 1791 Holzingen became Prussian, in 1806 Bavarian. On July 1, 1972, the former municipality was incorporated into the city of Weißenburg as part of the municipal reform in Bavaria .

Worth seeing

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Holzingen

Soil monuments

The underground components of the St. Margaret's Chapel are a registered soil monument . A road from Roman times ran through the town.

St. Margarethen Chapel

St. Margarethen Chapel

The St. Margarethen Chapel, first mentioned in a document in 1363 and consecrated in 1407, was initially provided by a Wülzburg priest. After his death, the church came to Emetzheim. The Reformation was introduced in Holzingen and Emetzheim around 1544 at the instigation of Brandenburg . In the 17th century the church tower received its upper floor; the basement of the tower is from the 14th century, the nave of the choir tower church from the 15th or 16th century. The pulpit dates from 1700, the font from 1689. The organ was renewed in 1981. The tower is crowned by a pointed helmet .

ensemble

The ensemble of the Holzinger Angers includes the triangular village green that extends north of the church and dates back to the Middle Ages . The extensive complex is loosely surrounded by farms, three-sided and hook-shaped systems.

Architectural monuments

At Seefeld near the house at Holzinger Hauptstrasse 10 there is a late medieval atonement stone with a cross relief. The former brewery and farmhouse at Holzinger Hauptstrasse 32 is a two-story saddle roof building from 1795. Its outbuilding is a two-story barn with a half-hipped roof. The listed three-sided courtyards in Holzingen include the large, single- storey stable house at Holzinger Hauptstrasse 12 with a steep pitched roof from 1889, its one-storey old seat and the single-storey residential stable at Bubenheimer Strasse 16 from 1829.

Clubs / life

The SpVgg Eintracht Emetzheim-Kattenhochstatt-Holzingen-Weimersheim 1949 with the divisions football , running , gymnastics and table tennis was created in 2000 through the merger of the sports clubs of Emetzheim , Holzingen, Weimersheim and Kattenhochstatt . There is also the Holzingen volunteer fire brigade founded in 1907 . V. On the second weekend in September, a parish fair is celebrated.

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Holzingen . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 2 : El-H . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1800, DNB  790364298 , OCLC 833753081 , Sp. 753-754 ( digitized version ).
• Gottfried Stieber: Holzingen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 503-506 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ weissenburg.de
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
3. ↑ Description on BayernViewer-denkmal
4. ↑ Description of the church on pointoo.de
5. ↑ Internet site of the SpVgg Eintracht ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ List of fire departments in the city of Weißenburg