Illdorf

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Illdorf
Burgheim market
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 37 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 426 m
Area : 6.34 km²
Residents : 330  (Jan. 1, 2016)
Population density : 52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 86666
Area code : 08432
A view of the place from Leitenberg

Illdorf is a district of the Burgheim market in the Upper Bavarian district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen . It is four kilometers south-east of Burgheim. The place Illdorf formed a separate municipality with Längloh since 1818 and was incorporated into the Burgheim market during the regional reform on July 1, 1972. At the end of 2006 Illdorf had 292 residents, Längloh 38.

On the way to Illdorf there is a hilly area on one side, called the Leitenberg, which is now a nature reserve. The other side is marked by a broad plane. The Leitenbach runs almost straight through the village.

history

The Leitenbach belongs to the village landscape

Archaeological finds show traces of settlement in the Neolithic , Bronze and Roman times . In 826 Illdorf was first mentioned in a written source. A donation to the church of Freising speaks of six days of Illdorf's work . Duke Heinrich IV of Bavaria, who later became Emperor Heinrich II , gave a court to the newly founded Benedictine convent in Neuburg . The town's possessions were widely scattered; Many goods came to the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach , who lent numerous farms to the Knights of Straß who were in their service .

In 1240 the Cistercian convent Niederschönenfeld was founded. On February 14, 1315, knight Bertold von Straß donated the Illdorf church to the new monastery. It stayed there until the secularization in 1803. This meant that the monastery was entitled to the tithe . Around 1800 Illdorf had 17 properties.

In the years 1959/60 the road to Burgheim was asphalted first, later that to Holzkirchen. In 1962/63 the sewer system was built and in 1968 the local roads were paved. But at that time the people of Illdorf did not want to know anything about a central water supply. “We are so remote that we neither have a state road nor a county road, so the road loads hit us particularly hard,” commented the last mayor, Josef Jester. After six years as mayor, his place was incorporated into the Burgheim market on July 1, 1972.

The school in Illdorf was run as a single class and the school building was around a hundred years old in 1968. However, nothing more was invested, as the place was to be incorporated into the Burgheim school association.

church

The branch church of St. Maria in Längloh belongs to the parish of St. Elisabeth in Dezenacker, Sinning parish community.

A fighter plane crashes

The chapel altar, in the middle the Loretto Madonna of the pilot

On May 30, 2005, a single-seat Spanish military aircraft " Dassault Mirage F1 " crashed near Illdorf. It started at 8.30 a.m. from the Zell airfield near Neuburg as part of a NATO exercise. A few minutes after take-off, smoke rose from the plane, the 27-year-old pilot saved himself with the ejector seat and landed in the immediate vicinity of the Marienkapelle near Illdorf. The machine crashed between Illdorf and Eschling and bored 15 meters into the ground.

The pilot, Captain Teniente Ricardo Vidal Diaz, had broken three vertebrae and had to be taken to the hospital in Ingolstadt. There were no deaths or damage to buildings.

On September 9, 2005, the pilot came to a thanksgiving service at the Madonna Chapel in Illdorf. On behalf of the Spanish military, Pilot Diaz presented a statue of the Mother of God, which Pastor Werner Dippel blessed and brought to the chapel. The statue is an image of the famous Maria Loretto , the patron saint of the Spanish Air Force . In all Spanish military aircraft there is an image of the Holy Mother Mary in the cockpits. A peasant woman found the picture of the crash machine weeks later.

The last days of the war in 1945

Memorial in Illdorf for the victims of the two world wars

The last days of the war left their mark in a special way and in some places particularly hard. This also includes the town of Illdorf. Pastor Karl Nold, who looked after the parish of Illdorf from 1935 to 1946, made notes about it and thus left a particularly precise impression of the horrific events.

Prudent men, especially Albert Sturm, Hs. No. 8 and Anton Meier, Hs. No. 58, dug a bunker in the mountain behind Anton Meier's property over a period of three weeks. "If we hadn't had this, there would have been many deaths."

It was April 26, 1945. The Americans reached the Danube crossing. In Illdorf the " Eternal Adoration " had to be postponed indefinitely. The pastor built even further and buried the “ Most Holy Sacrament ” in the early morning hours one meter deep into the ground, because he was afraid of phosphorus incendiary bombs.

In the afternoon of April 26, 1945, the first artillery shells hit the village. Most of the impacts went into the mountain tendrils between "Jacklbauer" and "Dodlbauer". Five families had dug their bunkers right here. Now there was nothing left but to get the families out despite the dangerous shell fire and bring them to the large mountain bunker. This was much safer because it was surrounded by a ten meter thick earth.

The night of April 27th was a terrible one. The impacts were so numerous that one could think there would be no more houses. Fortunately, the damage was much less. Only the blacksmith opposite the rectory and the "Jacklbauer" Hs. No. 16 were very badly damaged. I used the break in the fight to quickly read Holy Mass.

The German artillery had holed up in the wasteland of Ziegler directly in front of the courtyard. An American scout team wanted to go from Burgheim to Illdorf because of the handover. But the German artillery fired again with all their might, so that the patrol had about 25 dead. The answer came back immediately, the Americans were shooting at the village with all kinds of cylinders. At the last moment there was again considerable damage in the village.

Due to the incendiary ammunition , the entire barn of the “house builder” was in flames in a few minutes. The pastor immediately wanted to fetch men from the mountain bunker to help, but no one dared come out of the hail of bullets. Only later did men come to at least save the cattle. The fire spread, the barn of the "Heiligenbauer" and the barn of the "Danna" Hs. No. 1 also went up in Flemings.

The Americans had meanwhile fooled themselves on Illdorf and the people came out of the bunkers. The Americans were fair and immediately allowed the fire to be extinguished, this is the only way to understand if the houses could be saved.

And again an irresponsible artillery officer gave Ziegler a shot near the wasteland that seriously injured an American soldier. And the reaction, the Americans shot at Ziegler’s building, which also caught fire, luckily the house was also saved here.

A direct hit landed in the Schmid estate as well as in the barn from the landlord and in the garden of the “Berglschuster”, which also severely shifted the roof of the rectory. Most of the windows were crushed and shrapnel were pounding through the closed shutters. The newly renovated church was hit in the right gable wall, two cubic meters of wall was torn down, 500 roof tiles were smashed from the church roof and the two glass windows in the chancel were smashed. One of the fatalities was Josef Würmseher, an innkeeper from Ludwigshafen, who stayed with relatives in the mill.

Deserved personalities

Honorary Citizen Dean Sebastian Fend

Memorial plaque to Pastor Fend in the church in Illdorf

Fend was born on January 19, 1850 in Niederschönenfeld . He was ordained a priest on August 9, 1874. Now a wandering began for the new priest. He took up the first chaplaincy on September 19, 1874 in Steingaden, and was appointed as an expat in Langenbruck , Fahlenbach parish on September 23, 1876. From March 3, 1877 he worked as a charity vicar in the Illdorf neighboring village of Wengen and from November 29, 1879 as a chaplain in Bernbach (Oberdorf). On October 14, 1880, he took over the parish of Illdorf. He had earned a great reputation among the clergy. The bishop appointed him Episcopal Spiritual Council and his confreres elected him Dean of the Rain Chapter. He belonged to the Grießmayerische Buchdruckerei as a partner. Pastor Fend resided in Illdorf for 38 years. During his term of office, the inauguration of the cemetery and the building of the chapel in the cemetery, but also a major renovation inside the church.

King Ludwig III drew him for his services. with the King Ludwig Cross . The communities of Illdorf and Dezenacker made him an honorary citizen.

Pastor Fend died of heart failure on November 6, 1918 at the age of 68. “As a person and as a pastor, he had secured the love and friendship not only of his parish, but of all who came into contact with him,” wrote the local newspaper at the time. The obituary stated: “He diligently and conscientiously took care of the salvation of his parishioners, and he put a lot of effort into the renovation of our church. He was also tirelessly active for the good of the community, always helpful in all things. "

Pastor Kaspar Schlicker

Only a few data are available on this clergyman. A plaque was placed for him because he was a great benefactor for poor school children in several communities.

  • Born in 1749 in Kühbach. He was pastor of Illdorf from 1801 to 1813. Since September 29, 1784 pastor in Feldheim , he probably went to Illdorf as early as 1786.

literature

  • Chronicle of the Burgheim market for the 650th anniversary in 1986, publisher of the Burgheim Local History Association and Burgheim Market
  • Adam Horn and Werner Meyer : The Art Monuments of Bavaria, Administrative Region of Swabia, Volume V., City and District of Neuburg a. d. Danube . Munich. 1958. ISBN 3-486-50516-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 532 .
  2. Niederschönenfeld and Feldheim - 750 years of eventful history . Rain 1990, p. 147.

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