Stepperg

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Stepperg
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 388 m
Area : 5.78 km²
Residents : 738  (Jul 31, 2020)
Population density : 128 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 86643
Area code : 08434
Parish Church of St. Michael

Stepperg is a parish village and part of the market Rennertshofen in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria . For district includes also the Antoni Berg and the two solitudes hundred dollars mill and Sprößlmühle .

geography

Robinienallee (Antonibergstrasse)

Stepperg is located southeast of the main town Rennertshofen on the southern edge of the southern Franconian Jura , which borders the Danube valley in the north.

South of Stepperg, near the Stepperger Castle , lies the confluence of the Ussel , which comes from the northwest, into the Danube .

Furthermore, the Friedberger Ach (into which the Kleine Paar empties only 300 m before ) flows into the Danube opposite Stepperg from the south, after it has accompanied it for a whole distance parallel in its floodplains.

In terms of transport, it is located directly on the State Road St 2214 from Rennertshofen to Neuburg an der Donau .

The neighboring towns of Stepperg are Hatzenhofen and the main town Rennertshofen in the north-west, Treidelheim and Siglohe in the north and Dittenfeld and Riedensheim in the east . In the south, the east-west flowing Danube borders, behind which the Burgheim district of Straß and the Oberhausen district of Unterhausen lie.

Stepperg was provided in a plan from 1903 as the starting point for a waterway connection from the Danube to Nuremberg to the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal (see Main-Danube Canal).

history

Model of the Roman bridge in Stepperg, Manching Celtic Museum

Neolithic individual finds near the country road indicate early human settlement in the area. The remains of settlements from the Bronze Age barrows were found there and Bronze Age barrows on the east side of the Hartl.
At the eastern foot of the Antoniberg, south of Stepperg, there was an important wooden Roman bridge over the Danube (a model can be seen in the Celtic Roman Museum in Manching ) - a Roman holy stone to Neptunus Danuvius was also found there. In the Hartl, Aufeld and near the Roman bridge there were also the remains of three Roman manors, as well as a late antique finger ring with the sign of the cross. The Roman road along the Ussel valley to Weißenburg began at the Danube bridge in Stepperg .

Stepperg, formerly Stettenberg (site on the mountain) has always been in the ducal, from 788 royal office of Neuburg an der Donau . The sovereigns were each royal feudal men, for example the Kalendine zu Neuburg from 1197 to 1214, the Pappenheimers from 1214 to 1247 and the Wittelsbachers from 1247 .

Even the Pappenheimers set up ministerials and founded a Hofmark in Stepperg. These ministerials founded the local noble family of the Lords of Stepperg , who had their seat in the still existing Stepperg Castle south of the village. The castle has had numerous owners over the centuries.

Antoniberg Chapel
Crypt chapel of the von Arco and von Moy on the Antoniberg

Until June 30, 1972, Stepperg and its districts were an independent municipality in the Swabian district of Neuburg an der Donau and, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria, became the now Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg an der Donau, which on May 1, 1973 was renamed the district of Neuburg- Schrobenhausen received, slammed. On January 1, 1978 it was incorporated into the Rennertshofen market .

Saint Michael

The parish Sankt Michael in Stepperg belongs to the parish community Rennertshofen in the deanery Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in the diocese of Augsburg . The parish also includes the Sankt Stephanus branch church in Riedensheim , Hatzenhofen as well as Hundertthalermühle and Sprößlmühle.

The parish church of St. Michael was built in 1907 by the Munich architect Gabriel von Seidl , although the tower from 1731 was retained. It is located at the southwest end of the village, surrounded by the cemetery, near the castle.

Originally the parish church in Stepperg was a royal own church belonging to the office of Neuburg an der Donau , which was directed by the imperial marshals . In 1323, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian gave his churches in Stettberg and Rüdensheim to the Niederschönenfeld Monastery to cover the expenses. From 1542 to 1616 Stepperg was Protestant. After the Catholic restitution in 1616, the Niederschönenfeld Monastery “forgot” its right to present Stepperg for a long time until 1700, when the parish was closed and the Barons von Servi insisted on their “exercised” right. The bishop actually agreed with the lord of the castle, which did not change after a court case.

Antoniberg

On the Antoniberg, south-east of Stepperg, the then lord of the castle, Baron von Servi, had a church built in 1676, which was consecrated to Saint Anthony . A hermit lived there until 1827 . Baron Josef von Staader had the right-angled extension, the St. Anna Church, built at the end of the 18th century.

The family crypt of the Counts of Arco-Stepperg was on the Antoniberg. In 1852 a crypt chapel was built next to it for the Bavarian Electress Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este under the direction of Professor von Volz from Munich.

Attractions

Stepperg Castle (middle wing)

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in Rennertshofen
  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. 601 .

Web links

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