Dinkelshausen

Dinkelshausen Municipality Ehekirchen Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	397 m
Area :	5.59 km²
Residents :	116  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	21 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	86676
Area code :	08435

Panoramic view of Dinkelshausen

The place name sign Dinkelshausen

Dinkelshausen is part of the municipality Ehekirchen four kilometers away . The once independent, directly to the Donaumoos bordering Upper Bavarian place was slammed in the municipal reform on 1 May 1978, the Municipality Ehekirchen.

The Dinkelshausen district includes two districts:

• Dinkelshausen
• Kehrhof (wasteland)

Local history

On the trail of the place

According to the ending ... hausen, the town was founded between 650 and 700. Finds from the Bronze Age confirm that people lived here very early.

The first mention of Dinkelshausen's name from 1155 was discovered in the Neustift monastery near Brixen. The name Dinkelshausen appears for the first time in 1374 in the fief book of the Neuburg Benedictine monastery . In the 14th century there were 4 farms as well as 17 Sölden and Leerhäusler (house owners without land). The big farmers used communal pastures; the cottages wasteland and roadsides.

During the Thirty Years War , the Swedes burned down seven houses, three of which were no longer built. After looting, 18 oxen and 34 cows were left of the 150 cattle in 1648, plus 14 horses. The damage to the church was also considerable. In 1727 the undistributed parish land was divided into herb gardens for the individual farms.

In 1796 the French lived in this area. A French quarter maker was killed by farmhands while they were moss farmers. According to the plaque on the church wall, two men fell during the Napoleonic Wars between 1805 and 1815.

In 1848 the tithe was abolished, in 1859 there was a large parish land distribution, each house was allocated 8 days of land. At that time Dinkelshausen consisted of 21 houses with 26 families and 144 souls.

On June 17, 1944, an enemy aircraft dropped incendiary bombs and set Johann Baur's barn on fire.

The community flourished under the direction of Mayor Josef Förg (1952–1978). With government subsidies, it invested in road construction and renovated twelve kilometers of local roads. In 1962 the place got street lighting. From 1967 to 1968, the drainage with an underground clarifier was installed.

On May 1, 1978 the community of Dinkelshausen was dissolved. Most of it was allocated to the parish Ehekirchen. Some of them moved to Königsmoos .

Population movement

Dinkelshausen has barely grown beyond its original size. In 1500 110 inhabitants were registered. A hundred years later there were barely ten people left. The Thirty Years' War left its mark, in 1650 the parish register registered 98 people. By 1800 the number of inhabitants increased to 108 and then grew. In 1900, 199 residents were reached and in 1939 there were only 208.

The highest number of inhabitants was in Dinkelshausen in 1946. Many expellees had to be granted accommodation. Dinkelshausen now had 293 inhabitants. For many it was just a stopover. In 1962 the statistics report 218 and 1972 finally 191 inhabitants.

The school

The school was located in neighboring Hollenbach , which meant a 2.2 kilometer walk. Various plans for a school of their own failed. In 1969 Dinkelshausen and Hollenbach were added to the Ehekirchen school association; since then there has been school bus service.

Deep well with transmission drive

In 1920 three farmers from Dinkelshausen wanted to create a deep well together against the resistance of the local pastor . In 1921 you reached a rock at 47 meters. On March 20, 1922, water was reached at 57 meters. The water pumping mechanism was driven by a transmission of the forage cutting unit. It was later replaced by a gasoline engine.

After the Second World War, the local residents dug a deep well in every property.

A threshing machine for a backpack full of money

The wage threshers from the Donaumoos, Seiboldsdorf and Weidorf were originally used for harvesting . On March 10, 1922, an "Epple & Buxbaum threshing machine" was purchased from Augsburg.

It was inflationary time when this purchase was made. The threshing machine cost trillions and a whole backpack was required for the banknotes.

A new transformer was also invested in for the drive . But his strength was only sufficient for the threshing machine. The power station therefore made it a condition that all other motors must be switched off during the threshing period. A second threshing machine was added after the Second World War. Both were in operation until the combine harvester was used in 1958.

The shepherdess

Once upon a time, it has to be said today and it sounds like a fairy tale, namely the shepherdess. The keeper clicked through the village at 5 o'clock in the morning, then it was time to let the animals out of the barn to be lifted into the pasture. The horses were first in line. An hour later the cracking of the whip could be heard again, now the shepherd was gathering the cattle. At seven o'clock the shepherd also made his cracking round, because the pigs also needed their exercise. The sign of the geese changed, this time the chatterboxes were collected with the pipe. About 300 days of community land were available as pasture.

The shepherd had certain rituals. So he went to a different farmer in the village once a week and got Sunday bread from there, which was usually very plentiful.

The horns of the cattle were cut off before the annual budding, this was also the work of the shepherd, he received two marks as wages for each head of horned cattle.

The keeper also had his own piece of pasture available. He was also allowed to dig peat at every farmer's and plant and harvest a few bangles of potatoes.

The "Kirchweih" was a big feast day. The animals were herded in here as early as three in the afternoon. Then he went with the farmhand in turn to the farmers. There they were fed and given plenty of drinks. None of the guardians had to worry about the shelter. The community made the so-called hut available for him and his family. From 1945 to 1956 there was the last herdsman in Dinkelshausen. The Hirthaus has been demolished and the fire station stands in its place today.

The brick factory - a flourishing industry

Today nothing reminds of the former brickworks in Dinkelshausen, nine in number. There was also a brick barn. The tracks are all blurred today. The right brick clay could be found near the Geißberg in the direction of the Kehrhof. The clay was pricked, loaded onto the wagon, transported home and poured into a clay pit. "You take clay, pour in water and knead the whole thing into a dough," was the recipe. The material was cut into stone formats and then stored for pre-drying. Finally, the pre-dried stones were put into the brick oven. The fire was stoked with peat from the Donaumoos. The top of the stove was covered with clay so that the heat was retained. The fire blazed for three days and three nights until the stones could be taken out of the furnace. This burning ceremony was followed by a small feast. The bricks were sold all over the area. The Dinkelshauser also supplied stones for the fortress construction in Ingolstadt (1830–1849). But roof panels, such as beaver tails, were also made. The brick kilns were steaming and smoking until around 1938.

Church history

Parish Dinkelshausen and the repeated change of ownership

The parish church of St. Gertrud

Originally, Dinkelshausen formed its own parish. However, the original time is not known. In feudal book Benedictine in Neuburg already in 1374 mentioned a church. At that time the parish had 30 days of parish charter.

Today's church has been standing since around 1450, with only minor structural changes and has been renovated several times.

Elector Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation in Dinkelshausen in 1542 . But Elector Wolfgang Wilhelm returned to the Catholic faith, and Dinkelshausen became Catholic again. The Jesuits entrusted with the re-catholicization to Neuburg received the rights to Dinkelshausen, which once belonged to the dissolved Benedictine monastery . In 1773 the Jesuit order was abolished. The Maltese took over the property . This order was dissolved in 1808 and the King of Bavaria succeeded it. The respective owners also had the right of presentation, the right to propose a clergyman.

The small town of Dinkelshausen formed its own parish until 1925. In 1895 only the Kehrhof was added. An epitaph recalls the last pastor, Anselm Nötzli von Dinkelshausen, who was born in Switzerland. Today the parish church belongs to the parish community Ehekirchen and is located in the diocese of Augsburg .

The building church

The choir with the three altars

The Pieta in a side niche

The choir tower church is somewhat hidden in a valley, surrounded by houses. The sacred building is dedicated to Saint Gertrud von Helfta . The Swedes took the building seriously in the Thirty Years' War. The damage was only repaired in 1677 under Pastor Balthasar Bauer. Another renovation took place in 1715. The church windows and the sound opening in the tower were given their current shape. The ceiling was stuccoed and the choir arch was decorated with acanthus tendrils , flowers and leafy branches . Since then, a burning heart above the high altar indicates the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Saint Gertrude.

Under Pastor Wolf (1742–1773) the church and cemetery wall were repaired and beautified.

The choir includes the high altar with the depiction of St. Gertrude, the left side altar with the Virgin Mary and the right side altar with the image of St. Wendelin . Georg Kaiser, father of the Upper Bavarian landscape painter Ernst Kaiser , created the altarpiece of the latter in 1833. The gallery parapet shows Christ with the twelve apostles as a painting. In the nave is a ceiling fresco with the Holy Spirit in the shape of a dove. We also find emblems from the life of St. Gertrude. A Pietà is on one side wall of the church, a crucifixion group on the outer wall of the church.

The bells and the spoils of war

There were three bells in the church tower of Dinkelshausen. Two bells were melted down during World War I and replaced by two bronze bells in 1925.

In 1942 two bells were removed again. But on November 9, 1948, three steel bells were consecrated, to which another bell was added in 1983. The old remaining bell was bought by Fernmittenhausen.

renovation

The renovations not only made financial contributions, but manual and clamping services were also taken over. A lightning rod was installed in 1887 and the church clock was repaired with the help of public subsidies in 1896.

In 1910 there was an exterior renovation, in 1914 an interior renovation; the Kehrhofbauer donated the Way of the Cross. From 1951 to 1960 further renovations and modernizations took place, such as: external repairs and new roofing, renewal of the tower ascent, dehumidification of the nave, installation of an electric bells and installation of a new organ.

Shortly before the incorporation, the interior and exterior of the church were renovated again: the tower was plastered, the clock faces replaced, a new floor laid in the church and new benches and electric heating installed.

Consecration of the popular altar with Auxiliary Bishop Rudolf Schmid and Deacon Alfred Festl

In 1993, Auxiliary Bishop Rudolf Schmid consecrated the new popular altar with relics of St. Christina and St. Polycarp .

The church wall had partially collapsed in 1942 and was repaired in 1949 with gravel from the remains of the neighboring bombed-out Zeller airfield .

A year later the cemetery was embellished and the graves turned. A new morgue was built in the 1960s and a hearse was purchased. Shortly before the incorporation, the churchyard was newly laid out and enlarged.

literature

• Michael Leitenstern: Chronicle of the communities Ambach, Seiboldsdorf, Dinkelshausen. In: Historischer Verein Neuburg an der Donau (ed.): Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt. No. 128, 1975, pp. 181-201, ISSN  0302-5934 .
• Adam Horn, Werner Meyer : The art monuments of the city and district of Neuburg on the Danube. Pages 447-449. In: Heinrich Kreisel (Ed.): The art monuments of Swabia. Volume 5. Kommissionsverlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958.
• Festschrift Freiwillige Feuerwehr Dinkelshausen, flag consecration with 100th anniversary from June 26th to 28th, 1981

Web links

• Contribution to local history

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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 602 .