Kemathen (Kipfenberg)

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Kemathen
Kipfenberg market
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 17 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 42"  E
Height : 374–385 m above sea level NN
Residents : 37  (March 7, 2016)
Postal code : 85110
Area code : 08465
Kemathen, seen from the Altmühltal cycle path

Kemathen is a district of the Kipfenberg market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

location

The place is located on the southern Franconian Jura in the Altmühltal north of the Kipfenberg municipality. It is touched by State Road 2230.

history

The reconstructed grave of the Germanic warrior von Kemathen in the Roman and Bavarian Museum at Kipfenberg Castle

A grave mound field from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages was found near a sand pit on the eastern slope of the valley and was partially excavated in 1961. There was a settlement north of Kemathen in the early La Tène period . A bronze sewing needle 9 cm long and 1 mm thin was found in a waste pit.

In the hallway Kemathens the grave was a 1990 Germanic found warrior from the first half of the 5th century, a Roman equipped officer belt and whose grave Friedenhain-Přešťovice - ceramic showed. He is referred to as the warrior of Kemathen .

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1412, when Seitz Erlacher confirmed that he owned a fish pond. From 1472 the fish water is called Heidecker Lehen . A Catholic Herz-Jesu chapel built towards the end of the 17th century, which had a wooden turret with a brick helmet and a baroque altar with winding columns (around 1700), was demolished in 1966 and replaced a year later by the local chapel of the Holy Family. In the 18th century the Säckler / Söckler family lived in Kemathen, a clan of bricklayers from Graubünden ( Misox ).

Until secularization , Kemathen belonged to the lower bishopric of Eichstätt . Six properties were under the Pfleg- and box office Kipfenberg, a Fischgut belonged to the box office Sulzbürg the Wolfsteiner , another for Hofmark Hexenagger .

During the secularization, the lower bishopric and with it Kemathen came to Grand Duke Archduke Ferdinand III in 1802/03 . from Tuscany and 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . There the village belonged to the Kipfenberg district court .

In 1808, Kemathen and Grösdorf were incorporated into the Kipfenberg tax district . In 1818 Kemathen was again an independent municipality, but in 1830 it was reunited with Grösdorf.

In 1983, Kemathen had 42 residents who worked in two full-time and three part-time farms.

Others

  • Kemathen Cave: In 1966 a small cave with several layers of Pleistocene fauna was discovered in the eastern slope of the Altmühltal of Kemathen .

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literature

  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II Eichstätt District Office. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1928 (reprint 1982, ISBN 3-486-50505-X ), pp. 110–113, photos also on p. 156
  • Christian Pecheck: A burial mound field from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Altmühltal. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 60 (1962/64), Eichstätt 1965, pp. 13-17
  • Wighart von Königswald, Wighart: The mammal fauna of the Mittel-Würm from the Kemathen cave in the Altmühltal (Bavaria) . IN: Communications from Bayer. State Collection of Palaeontology Hist. Geol., 18: 117-130 (1978)
  • Brigitte Kaulich: The Middle Palaeolithic of the Kemathen Cave north of Kipfenberg, district of Eichstätt. In: Stone Age Cultures on the Danube and Altmühl, No. 617, pp. 63–70
  • Kemathen, municipality of Kipfenberg . In: The Eichstätter area in the past and present. 2nd Edition. Eichstätt: Sparkasse Eichstätt 1984, p. 220 (with bibliography)
  • Karl Heinz Rieder: A bronze sewing needle from the early La Tène period by Kemathen. In: The Archaeological Year in Bavaria 1990, p. 67f. on-line
  • Karl Heinz Rieder: Archaeological aspects of the settlement history of Eichstätts. In: Eichstätt. Ten years of city center archeology. Kipfenberg: Hercynia 1992, pp. 127-139, especially pp. 132f.
  • Kemathen . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Franken series I issue 6: Eichstätt. In: Digital Library of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , pp. 83f., 117, 206f., 250

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rieder 1990, The Archaeological Year in Bavaria