Ittelsburg

Ittelsburg Market Bad Groenenbach Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 29 "  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 8"  E
Height :	710 m
Residents :	275  (December 1, 2009)
Postal code :	87730
Area code :	08334
View from the southeast

The church village of Ittelsburg is a district of the Kneipp spa Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria .

geography

Ittelsburg is located in the Unterallgäu in the Iller region, about one kilometer east of Bad Grönenbach. The quite old place is at an altitude of 710 m above sea level. NN. and has 275 inhabitants (as of December 1, 2009).

history

The early owners of Ittelsburg are unknown. The Ottobeuren and Kempten monasteries already claimed ownership in the 12th century. A bull from Pope Eugene III spoke for Ottobeuren . from the year 1152. The village and its festivals were sold to the Ottobeuren monastery in the 15th century by the von Mauler family. The Ottobeuren monastery could not hold the property, after which it was taken over by Rothenstein . In the meantime, the citizens of Dobel, Riedmüller and Vogt von Kempten held Ittelsburg. Ittelsburg castle stables were returned to von Rothenstein from Vogt in 1492. From 1408 to 1496 the village and the court were given as fiefs to various citizens of Memmingen. Otto Zwicker sold this in 1496 for 2000  guilders to von Pappenheim / von Rothenstein.

After Johann Heinrich von Rothenstein died childless in 1562, his brother-in-law Christoph von Bollstatt took possession of Ittelsburg. In 1571 Heinrich von Stein was enfeoffed with the castle, which was bought back by the Kempten monastery in 1587.

Population development

Culture and sights

Historical buildings

Overview map of the castle stables near Ittelsburg

In the vicinity of Ittelsburg there are several castle stables, of which no other remains apart from ditches and wall remnants have survived.

Burgstall falcons

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A castle that dates back to the 10th century used to stand on the Falken northeast of Ittelsburg. It burned down in 1487 and was rebuilt in 1505. In 1821 it was canceled.

Burgstall Hahnentanz

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There were two castles on the site of the Hahnentanz castle stable. The first castle was owned by Gerold vom Bussen and was built over with a new castle by Hans Zwicker in 1450. This was stormed and burned down in April 1457.

Castle stump

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Approx. 500 m south-east of the village there used to be a castle that has completely disappeared. Only a sickle-shaped neck ditch and the tower hill, on which there is also a memorial stone, can still be seen. The castle, which was formerly owned by the knight Veit von Eisenburg, burned down in 1442.

Neuittelsburg

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The castle was owned by Rupert von Grönenbach from 1102 to 1145, later it was owned by the Lords of Ittelsburg and then by those of Rothenstein. It fell into disrepair around 1496 and was not rebuilt.

Branch chapel St. Leonhard

St. Leonhard's branch chapel, 1439

Entrance door of the St. Leonhard branch chapel, with the year 1439

St. Leonhard is a branch chapel of Bad Grönenbach. In 1213 Ittelsburg was probably added to the parish of Grönenbach by the Kempten Abbey. The tower of the church, which was built from local Nagelfluh , dates from the 12th century . The two bells in the tower were cast in Kempten in 1863. The two coats of arms of the builder Ludwig von Rothenstein and his wife Jutta von Hürnheim are carved at the entrance of the church together with the year 1439 .

The church was originally built in the Gothic style, then changed to Baroque style and then regothicized. The branch chapel in Ittelsburg suffered the same fate as the parish church in Bad Grönenbach and was cleared and modernized from 1967 to 1969.

The interior of the church consists of a neo-Gothic crucifixion group and a Gothic Madonna from around 1510/1520. On the altarpiece of St. Leonhard, painted in 1687, there is the coat of arms of Prince Rupert von Bodman . The Way of the Cross was built on the basis of a donation from Marianne Schindlerin, who died in 1779 .

Fliehburg

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On the hill of the Falken there is a refuge from the Hallstatt or La Tène period .

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  Monument stone of the Wallburg

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  1st wall

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  2nd wall

societies

Originally run as a department of the Volunteer Fire Brigade of Grönenbach, the Ittelsburg Volunteer Fire Brigade Association was founded on January 3, 1899 in Ittelsburg. At the time it was founded, it consisted of 44 members, the first in command was Georg Dorn. From January 1, 1936 to 1947, the volunteer fire brigade was incorporated into the association in Grönenbach. Financed by donations, a motorized sprayer was purchased in 1946. The Ittelsburg rifle club was founded in 1903 and banned by the occupying powers at the end of the war in 1945. With her permission, it was re-established in 1950 and a club flag was acquired for its 60th anniversary in 1963. In 1966, initially consisting only of a football department, the Ittelsburg sports club was founded. A ski department was added in 1969, a hiking department from 1974 to 1984 and a tug of war department in 1977. The latter reached the 3rd place in the German championships and 2nd place in the Bavarian championship.

traffic

The next motorway junction is junction no.131 Bad Grönenbach on the A 7, four kilometers away .

literature

• Heinrich Habel, Helga Himen: Monuments in Bavaria , Volume VII.Swabia , Munich 1985
• Church guide Stiftskirche Grönenbach, 1995
• Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1016-1017 .

Web links

Commons : Ittelsburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria after the Peace of Lüneville , 1803
2. ↑ Lorenz Boxler: Collection of the strange events in the former princely imperial monastery in Kempten , 1822
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurverwaltung Grönenbach (ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the market uprising by Emperor Friedrich III. and the 30th anniversary of the Kneipp spa . Grönenbach 1985, p. 29 .