Holzschwang

Holzschwang Large district town of Neu-Ulm Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 46 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	514 m
Residents :	945  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	June 1, 1977
Postal code :	89233
Area code :	07307

Holzschwang is a parish village and part of the large district town of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria . The district of Holzschwang includes Weiler, Tiefenbach and Neubronn. In the center of the village is a castle built by Ulm patricians in the second half of the 16th century.

Geography and transport links

Holzschwang is located on the eastern edge of the ridge between Iller and Roth at an altitude between 490 and 510 m above sea level. NN and forms the south-eastern part of Neu-Ulms. The distance to the city center is around 10 km via the state road St 2029, which runs directly on the western edge of the town . The NU 3 district road, which crosses here and runs through Holzschwang , provides a connection to the neighboring town of Senden and to the east of the Pfaffenhofen market . The federal motorway 7 also runs only about 500 m west of the town , but without its own junction in the immediate vicinity. The closest access to this motorway is 9 km south with junction 123 in Vöhringen (Iller) and 9 km north with junction 121 near Nersingen .
The only connection to the local public transport network is the bus route 77, which connects Holzschwang with the neighboring districts of Hausen , Jedelhausen , Reutti , as well as with Schwaighofen , the city center of Neu-Ulm and the central bus station in the neighboring city of Ulm .

history

St. George's Church in Holzschwang

Findings of tools from the Stone Age suggest that the area was settled very early. The clearing settlement that emerged on the eastern slope of the approx. 2 km wide and fertile ridge between the Illertal and the Roth-Leibital in a north-south direction, about ten kilometers southeast of Neu-Ulm, is referred to in 1129 as "Holzeswank".

The Count of Kirchberg, Ulmer patrician families like von Halle in 1352, von Karg from 1390 and from 1458 von Roth until 1735 gave fiefdoms. In 1436 the church set for Holzschwang is an accessory for the Ellerbach Festival Brandenburg (Iller). The tithing and fiefdom of the church was sold by Hans von Stein zu Ronsberg to the Ulm hospital in 1447 and incorporated into it in 1464. The Reformation was carried out by the imperial city of Ulm in 1531, and various attempts to return to the Catholic Church finally failed in the 17th century.

The castle in the town center, historically owned by the patricians of the imperial city of Ulm

In 1506, the lordship of the castle owned six farms, seven fiefs and 14 Sölden , while the Wiblingen Monastery had already acquired one farm and 2 Sölden in 1370. The renaissance building with corner towers, built by the Roth in 1561 in the middle of the village, was provided with a portal in the Baroque style in 1762 and has belonged to the old Ulm patrician von Neubronner family for generations . As a Kunkellehen it is still family-owned.

In Neubronn, about 2.5 km north of Holzschwang (documented as an Austrian fief in 1403), a castle with four corner towers was built around 1559. The three-storey gable roof building served the Gienger merchant family from Ulm until the 17th century and is now a protected monument.

Tiefenbach, 1.5 km north of Holzschwang, with its farms, had been a fiefdom of the Augsburg diocese since the 14th century and was owned by the Ulm patricians Geßler, Frafft and von Besserer from 1424. Here, too, you can still find a castle from the 16th century that was once used as a patrician seat, but is now used as part of a farm.

About one kilometer south of Holzschwang is a hamlet with farms. It originally belonged to the Count of Kirchberg and from 1424 was owned by the Karg patrician family from Ulm as a fief of the Bishop of Augsburg.

Parts of the current church were probably built in the 14th century and were therefore also the prerequisite for founding a separate parish.

• In 1352 Hainricus is recorded as the first acting pastor.
• In 1464 the church was incorporated into the Ulm hospital.
• 1513 Choir, sacristy and tower are built
• 1513 the apostle bell in the tower stamped this year.
• 1525 35 peasants are punished with an additional tax who took part in the Peasants' War with the so-called Leipheimer Haufen in the storming of the city of Weißenhorn .
• 1531 Last Catholic priest Michael Grawb is persuaded to leave with 100 guilders annuity.
• 1532 In April the Ulm City Council orders that Mr. Konrad Roth should remove the pictures from the church.
• 1627 The bishop Heinrich von Knöringen tries Holzschwang the cath. To regain faith, as we did in the neighboring Holzheim .
• 1631 Pastor Sing is shot by plundering Croats.
• 1635 The hardship and misery of the Thirty Years' War reach their climax through looting and epidemics. In August alone, 19 people die of the plague.
• 1638 Pastor Rommel is shot by soldiers.
• 1770 canvas pictures are attached to the parapet of the gallery and a stuccoed cove ceiling in the nave of the church.
• 1800 General Moreau is in the area with his French troops and makes few friends.
• 1805 Prince Murat sets up his headquarters in the rectory, while Napoleon resides in Reutti Castle.
• 1812 In the Napoleonic campaign in Russia , 7 sons of the community are victims of the war.
• 1849 Compulsory labor and tithe are abolished.
• 1870–1871 Of 16 young men who took part in this war against France , 4 died.

Entrance

• 1876 ​​The registry office is transferred to the municipality.
• 1908 The municipal water supply is built.
• 1909 A cooperative dairy is founded.
• 1911 Renovation of the altar and pulpit in baroque form .
• 1912–1914 14 community citizens died or went missing on the battlefields of the First World War .
• 1935 The crooked church spire is renewed.
• 1945 On April 25th, 6 community citizens are killed by the action of the war, 5 agricultural buildings go up in flames in a few minutes. 77 pregnant women and relatives of the refugees who were interned here fell, died or went missing in the Second World War .

On June 1, 1977, the municipality of Holzschwang became independent. It was incorporated into the district town of Neu-Ulm as part of the municipal reform.

Culture

societies

Numerous clubs are active in Holzschwang , including the Holzschwanger Sportverein HSV , the Musikfreunde Holzschwang , the Holzschwang choir , the shooting club "Tell" Holzschwang , the warrior and soldier comradeship (dissolved in 2011), the Protestant rural youth Holzschwang , the Holzschwang stage enthusiasts , the fire brigade Support association and the association for horticulture and land maintenance .

education

The only public educational institution in Holzschwang is currently a kindergarten . A previously existing primary and secondary school was closed in 2002. Primary school students living in Holzschwang have been attending elementary school in the neighboring Reutti district since then. A secondary school and secondary schools, such as a Realschule and Gymnasium, are located in the city center of Neu-Ulm, around 10 km away.

Right next to the church (in St. Georgs-Str.) There has been Christian Bühler's "Farmer Museum" for about 10 years, in which old sights from the peasant life of Holzschwang and the surrounding area are shown.

Historical and worth seeing

• Evangelical Luth. Parish church of St. George from the 14th / 15th centuries century
• Parish barn from the 18th century, some with half-timbered buildings ; today modernized, expanded and used as a community center
• 16th century castle
• two late medieval stone crosses at the foot of a water reservoir in the north of the village

literature

• Thomas Pfundner: Auf dr Gass ond in front of a house: Holzschwang / Hausen in old photos 1860-1960 , AH Konrad Verlag 2007, ISBN 3874375315
• Local chronicle of Holzschwang and Hausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the city of Neu-Ulm: residents
2. ^ 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. 790 .