Holzkirchen (Ortenburg)
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Wooden churches
Ortenburg market
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 39 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 3 ″ E
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| Height : | 381 m | |
| Postal code : | 94496 | |
| Area code : | 08542 | |
Location of Holzkirchen in Bavaria |
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Holzkirchen is a district of the Ortenburg market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .
Name origin
The origin of the place name "Holzkirchen" can no longer be clearly determined. An attempt is made to explain the origins of the place name from two different points of view: One starting point is the church building made of wood, another is the location of the church in the wood (forest).
geography
Holzkirchen is located in the Klosterwinkel as well as in the woodland south of the Danube and north of the Rott in the typical Lower Bavarian hilly landscape . The place is 17 km west of Passau , 7 km southeast of Vilshofen , 15 km north of Bad Griesbach and 20 km north of Pocking . There is a connection to the Federal Motorway 3 via the Garham junction 20 km away .
history
The place Holzkirchen is historically verifiable for the first time in the 12th century. In 1160 a certain Cunradus de Holcenkirchen appeared as a witness in a donation to the Aldersbach monastery . For the first time in 1363, Eberhard dem Ortenberger was explicitly named a pastor of Holzkirchen, which suggests that Holzkirchen must have been an independent parish at that time. In 1376 Holzkirchen was mentioned in Heinrich Tuschl's will , one of the most important and extensive documents of the 14th century.
Like many Catholic villages, this one too was affected by the aftermath of the Reformation in the 16th century. Around 1500 this parish, which was united with that of Steinkirchen and Ortenberg, was placed under the patronage of the Lutheran Count of Ortenburg . Imperial Count Joachim officially introduced the Lutheran faith in June 1573 according to the motto: " Cuius regio, eius religio " . However, since the majority of the population did not convert to the Lutheran faith, there were numerous disputes between the two denominations in the period that followed. For this reason, Duke Wilhelm V had the church door walled up by 300 gunmen on the night of July 14th, 1583. On August 7th, 1583, the church was reopened on numerous petitions from him and the Catholic worship was reintroduced. Since then, Holzkirchen has been an independent Catholic parish . From a tradition from 1830 it is known that the Counter Reformation did not even stop at the dead:
After the Catholic worship service was reintroduced, the churchyard on the side where the Lutherans were buried was covered with soil 3 shoe deep, so that at the depth of the graves a Catholic would never again come to a Protestant.
Even today, steps lead down from the cemetery into the church. The late Gothic parish church of St. Andreas was changed in the neo-Gothic style in 1868. The tabernacle and figures are baroque; the rest of the furnishings date from 1958.
Holzkirchen itself never gave a municipality its name or was its central location , but it was the seat of the administration of the municipality of Söldenau until the municipal reform . On October 1, 1970, when the municipalities of Söldenau and Iglbach merged , Holzkirchen became part of the new municipality of Wolfachau , which in turn became part of the municipality of Ortenburg on May 1, 1978.
Candle pilgrimage to the Bogenberg
Holzkirchen is famous for its candle pilgrimage to the Bogenberg pilgrimage church , which takes place every year on the weekend of Pentecost . True to their promise, the residents of Holzkirchen bring a 13-meter-long candle to the Blessed Mother every year for their help against the harmful bark beetles.
literature
- Alfons Niederhofer (Hrsg.): Parish chronicle - Heimatbuch - Holzkirchen . Self-published, Holzkirchen 1999.
- Sabine Ragaller: The Holzkirchen candle pilgrimage to Bogenberg . Ed .: Freundeskreis Sandbach, Ndb. (= Sandbacher Geschichtsblätter . Issue 7). Sandbach 1995.
- Marktgemeinde Ortenburg (ed.): Citizenship publication . Ortenburg 1994, p. 58 f .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian Academy of Sciences (ed.): Monumenta Boica . tape 5 . Munich 1765, p. 331 f .
- ^ Johann Ferdinand von Huschberg : History of the ducal and counts' entire house of Ortenburg edited from the sources . Johann Esaias von Seidel art and bookshop, Sulzbach 1828, p. 207 .
- ↑ First mentioned 800 years ago wooden churches . In: Vilshofener Anzeiger . No. 280 , December 3, 1960, pp. 7 .
- ^ Brigitte Kaff: Volksreligion und Landeskirche - the evangelical movement in the Bavarian part of the diocese of Passau (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia . Volume 69 ). Wölfle, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-87913-069-8 , pp. 164 .
- ^ Karl Scheuer: From the past - story of Sandbach . Gogeißl, Passau 1978, p. 62 .
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 586 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 620 .