Joditz

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Joditz
community Köditz
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 17 ″  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 459 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 345  (2010)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Joditz
Auensee

Joditz is a village in Upper Franconia that belongs to the municipality of Köditz in the district of Hof .

Location and dates

Joditz is located in the Saale valley , ten kilometers northwest of Hof . The place has 345 inhabitants (as of January 2010) and has a parish church and a cemetery. The districts of Joditz, Lamitz, Saalenstein, Scharten, Stöckaten and Siebenhitz belong to the area of ​​the parish.

History and culture

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. John is in the center of the village . It was first mentioned in a document in 1365 and has belonged to its own parish since 1561 . Today's church was built in 1704 on the foundations of an older building as the patronage church of Baron Erdmann von Stein in the style of a hall church. The pulpit , altar , organ case and baptismal angel (the latter is no longer there) were made by the Hofer sculptor Johann Knoll. The panel of the altar shows the birth of Christ ; It is flanked by the statues of Moses and John the Baptist . The altar is crowned by three putti with the coats of arms of the former patronage families. The pulpit is decorated with the figures of the four evangelists . Also noteworthy is the figure of the risen Christ above the sound cover of the pulpit; if you go around them you will notice that the back of the risen One is completely naked. The church was renovated in 2002/2003.

Joditz was the childhood home of the poet Jean Paul , born in 1763 in Wunsiedel , whose father was pastor there from 1765 to 1776. In his autobiographical work entitled Self-life description , the poet described the importance of the small place for his socialization and his later poetic work, reported on his childish joys, but also on the great fears, such as the fear of ghosts that haunted him there.

“Don't let a poet be born and raised in a capital city, but possibly in a village, at most in a town. The overabundance and the over-stimulation of a big city are for the excitable, weak child's soul eating at a dessert and drinking distilled water and bathing in mulled wine [...] But one gains and guesses not so much when one comes from the city to the village as vice versa from Joditz to Hof ”.

The village school teacher Maria Wutz in Auenthal in Jean Paul's idyll of the same name is also based on a figure from the poet's childhood.

The Jean-Paul-Museum in Joditz keeps memories of the poet and his childhood years in Upper Franconia. Manuscripts, early prints, first editions, engravings, drawings and other documents from the 18th and 19th centuries are located in an atmospheric rural ambience, which also includes the old parish garden. Century issued. The museum is based on a private initiative by Eberhard and Karin Schmidt.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the municipality of Köditz.

tourism

The idyllic location is mostly visited by lovers of the poet Jean Paul. The Jean-Paul-Weg with stations of memory of the poet's childhood begins in Joditz. There is also a campsite in the municipality of the Auensee .

literature

Web links

Commons : Joditz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 687 .