Kesselberg (Titting)

Kesselberg is a former municipality in what was then the district of Hilpoltstein (now in the district of Eichstätt ) in the Altmühltal nature park , which was opened on July 1, 1971 in the Titting market . The community parts of Oberkesselberg, Unterkesselberg, Aichmühle , Bürg , Hornmühle and Tafelmühle in the Anlautertal belonged to the community of Kesselberg .

location

Kesselberg, consisting of the merged hamlets of Ober-, Mittel- and Unterkesselberg, is located just under a kilometer from Bürg in the Anlautertal in a westerly direction on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura , below the 559-meter-high Kesselberg. The former district of Mittelkesselberg merged into Oberkesselberg a long time ago. The other districts are on the Anlauter, from north to south Aichmühle, Bürg, Hornmühle and Tafelmühle.

history

Kesselberg

In 1194, the Eichstätt Bishop Otto bought an estate in “Kezelperc” (= castle near a cauldron-like valley cut) from a canon named Regelo and transferred it to the Benedictine monastery of St. Walburg in Eichstätt with prayer requirements for himself and his family. Count Gebhard (VI.) Von Hirschberg , guardian of the Eichstätt bishop , donated his Kesselberg property to the German rulers - Kommende Ellingen in 1250 . A local nobility is proven from 1122 to 1313. In 1396 the lords of (Alten-) Berg (near Zirndorf) and von Breitenstein owned extensive land in Kesselberg. In 1473 several farms in Ober- and Mittelkesselberg came to the Hochstift Eichstätt , which were subordinate to the High Court of Titting, which in 1544 came into the hands of Prince-Bishop Moritz von Hutten . Other owners were the Eichstätter cathedral chapter and the lords of Heideck , fiefdoms of Bechthal . The lower courts , the village and township government who exercised the lords of Bechthal since unknown time, coincided with the purchase of Titting 1544 to the bishop in half, the other half acquired Bishop Eberhard II. 1557 of the thickeners Heide. After secularization , Kesselberg came to the Raitenbuch district court (moved to Greding from 1812 ), to the Beilngries district office in 1862 and to the Hilpoltstein district office (later district) in 1879 . With the territorial reform in 1972, the Hilpoltstein district was dissolved; Kesselberg was incorporated into Titting on July 1, 1971 and came with Titting to the enlarged Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt . As early as 1946, there had been efforts by Kesselberger to be incorporated into the Eichstätt district.

The agriculturally oriented place had 158 inhabitants in 1983.

Citizen

The name was originally given by the Lords of Kesselberg as Reichsministerialen , "Bürg" only later paid for the hamlet that had emerged from the castle's farm yard. Three bearers of the name are known: Friedrich I von Kesselberg († 1237), who owned property in the Rothenburg area, Friedrich II, who in 1255 renounced the courtyards in Stadelhofen and Oberkesselberg, which were in dispute with the Benedictine monastery in Wülzburg (near Weißenburg in Bavaria ), and Siegfried Kesselberger ("Sifrit der Chesselberger"), who probably gave up the castle in the Anlautertal and can be proven to be a citizen of Weißenburg in 1311/12. The castle, named in 1255, was located on the eastern tip of a mountain tongue that extends between the Anlautertal and the Kesselberger Tal. The outer and main castle had roughly the shape of a trapezoid. In the area of ​​the slightly higher former main castle, today's Catholic church, a branch of Titting, is picturesquely located. This "castle chapel" (of the imperial saint) St. Laurentius is mentioned for the first time in 1456 and is described as intact during a diocesan visit in 1601; it was probably also damaged in the Thirty Years' War in 1634 when Titting was destroyed. In any case, it was rebuilt in 1725 with a four-sided roof turret with a brick helmet. On its west side a sign is built on Tuscan columns. The altars are from 1739; the furnishings are late Gothic (figure of St. Mary with the blessing baby Jesus, around 1490; high relief of the death of the Virgin, late 15th century; crucifix, around 1520) and baroque (large crucifix, around 1700; passion cross, 1772; baroque procession poles ). The altar sheet of the high altar, showing the church patron, was painted in 1740 by Joseph Dietrich from Eichstatt . The stucco pulpit from 1742 with St. Michael on the cover was probably created by Franz Horneis .

The agriculturally oriented town carried out a land consolidation in 1958. In 1983, Bürg had 34 inhabitants.

Table mill

It used to be called Täffer-, Taffermühle or Tauffermühl and was first mentioned in a document in 1347. From 1544 it was an episcopal fief. In 1832 the name “Tafelmühl” appears. The mill no longer exists as such. The Anlauterbrücke was built in 1958.

Aichmühle and Hornmühle

The Aichmühle (1756, 1832; "Eychmühl / Eichmühle") and the Hornmühle were owned by the Eichstätter cathedral chapter until secularization .

literature

• JG Hierl: The castle ruins of the Anlautertal , in: Fränkische Alb 4 (1918), pp. 22–24
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia. III. District Office Hilpoltstein , Munich 1929 (Reprint Munich and Vienna 1983), p. 41f
• Kesselberg (Bürg) , in: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 61 (1965/66), p. 82
• The Eichstätter area in past and present , Eichstätt: Sparkasse Eichstätt, 2nd expanded edition 1984
• (Various authors): Titting, contributions to the natural and cultural history of the middle Anlautertal , Kipfenberg: Hercynia 1999, ISBN 3-925063-44-7

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 482 .

Web links

• Photos from Kesselberg / Bürg

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 52 ″  E