Kattenhochstatt

Kattenhochstatt Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	425 m above sea level NN
Residents :	150
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	91781
Area code :	09141
Location of Kattenhochstatt in Bavaria

Kattenhochstatt is a district of Weißenburg in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The place has around 150 inhabitants and is located at an altitude of 425 m above sea level.

location

Aerial view of Kattenhochstatt (2020). In the background the Flüglinger Berg .

The east-west-facing street village lies in the center of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district and is the westernmost part of the municipality of Weißenburg. It is five kilometers from Weißenburg, between Trommetsheim and Holzingen . In the south of Kattenhochstatt is the source of the Hammerstadtgraben , here still called Wöhrbach, in the west the source of the Lüßgraben , and southeast of the Trommetsheimer Berg . Kattenhochstatt is located directly on the European main watershed and is therefore “divided in two” from a hydrological point of view. Due to its location on the watershed, water flows away very quickly, which is why Kattenhochstatt used to suffer from water shortages.

history

The place, first mentioned in 1214 as Katzenhohstat , was probably founded in the 4th century. Kattenhochstatt came to the Benedictine monastery of Wülzburg and after its dissolution to the Principality of Ansbach . On March 11, 1663, a fire destroyed the village and killed four people. On July 1, 1972, as part of the municipal reform, the formerly independent municipality of Kattenhochstatt was incorporated into Weißenburg. Before that, the two wastelands Metzenhof and Schertnershof had belonged to the municipality. On 13 October 1973, a US fighter plane grazed the type F-4 Phantom II in low-level flight one armored personnel carrier type M113 and crashed between Trommetsheim and Katte Hochstatt. The two pilots and two soldiers of the tank were killed.

The origin of the place name Kattenhochstatt is controversial. The historian Johann Alexander Döderlein (17th / 18th century) suspected that the place name comes from the Katten people , but there is no evidence for this. The Zwingel Royal Council had the theory that the place was a farm called Kazenhof . Another theory says that the place name comes from the Middle High German "kath, kot, quat", which means "damp, swampy, swampy".

Worth seeing

→ Main article : "Kattenhochstatt" in the article List of architectural monuments in Weißenburg in Bavaria / districts

The Protestant village church of St. Magnus was converted into a neo-Gothic choir tower church in 1875 . The neo-Gothic altar was replaced by a simple table altar after the Second World War . In 1993 the pulpit, gallery, stalls and organ were restored. In the sacristy there is an epitaph from 1581 and a gravestone of a pastor from Kattenhochstätter who died in 1857.

The former parsonage Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus in the Protestant deanery in Weißenburg, built in 1806 and rebuilt in the 1980s, forms a recreational home with a sports field together with the listed neighboring barn.

See also: Ensemble town center Kattenhochstatt

Others

• In 1967, Kattenhochstatt won first place in the competition Our village should become more beautiful .
• The Kattenhochstatt volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1897, although there was a compulsory fire brigade before that.
• The SpVgg Eintracht Emetzheim-Kattenhochstatt-Holzingen-Weimersheim 1949 with the divisions football , running , gymnastics and table tennis was created in 2000 through the merger of the sports clubs of Emetzheim , Holzingen , Weimersheim and Kattenhochstatt.
• About one kilometer southeast of Kattenhochstatt is a model airfield.

Personalities

• Johann Heinrich Witschel (1769–1847) was pastor and dean of Kattenhochstatt from 1819 until his death.

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Katzenhochstatt . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 3 : I-Ne . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753092 , Sp. 68-69 ( digitized version ).
• Gottfried Stieber: Katzenhochstätt . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 519-520 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Private website for Kattenhochstatt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the location of Kattenhochstatt
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
3. ^ Municipalities in the former district of Weißenburg
4. ↑ Description of the church on Pointoo.de
5. ↑ Description of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House ( memento of the original from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Internet site of the SpVgg Eintracht ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.