Kleinkötz
Kleinkötz is a village in the municipality of Kötz in the Swabian district of Günzburg ( Bavaria ). The place is on the river Günz . Kleinkötz has about 1000 inhabitants.
Origin of name
So far there are two possible explanations for the origin of the place name Kötz: Reinhard H. Seitz derives the origin of the river name Kötz in the local chronicle from the pre-German word "* Cattja" with the meaning "wild cat waters". The place would have been named after the river.
The second attempt at an explanation comes from Wolf-Armin Freiherr von Reitzenstein - he traces the place name back to a Roman villa rustica called Catianum (country estate of Catius). Accordingly, the water body name would be derived from the place name. North of Großkötz in the corridor Im Rußbaum actually existed a Roman estate - given the proximity to the Guntia fort, more such farmsteads could be expected, including on Kleinkötzer Corridor.
First written mentions
The first written mentions were made:
- around 1130 (?) Dietricus and Hermannus von Baumburg donate a court to Kezzi to the Ursberg monastery ;
- 1146 in the tradition book of Ortisei and Afra an Orthlieb de Kezzen is mentioned four times as a witness of donations (in the documents different spellings appear: "de Kezzen", "de Kezze", "de Chezze");
- around 1150/60, according to the tradition book of the Wettenhausen monastery, Hartmannus and his sons Rudolphus and Siboto de Köz donate a farm in Prementhal to the monastery; a few years later the two sons handed over a farm in Arbenhouen to the abbey;
- In 1298 Pope Boniface VIII confirmed that the Neresheim monastery owned Kezze maiore et Kezze minore - the first documented distinction between Groß- and Kleinkötz.
history
As early as the Bronze Age , around 1800 BC. BC, there is archaeological evidence of a settlement in the Kleinkötzer Flur. The Hallstatt culture has also left its mark. There are several dozen burial mounds . Further traces of settlement and a four-cornered hill of the Celtic Vindelikers point to the Latène period . The continuity of the settlement in Roman times (15 BC to approx. 500 AD) has not been archaeologically proven. In the time of the Great Migration , the trace of human settlement is lost except for individual finds such as B. an Ostrogoth gold coin. Terrain conditions and old cadastres indicate a Franconian military road. The patronage of the Kleinkötzer Church, St. Nicholas (the patron saint of merchants, carters and travelers), speaks for the acceptance of an important road connection. This road remained the main route between Ulm and Augsburg until Empress Maria Theresia had the road moved to Günzburg in the 18th century . A Widumhof indicates an early local parish.
The village grew together from several settlements in the early Middle Ages, one of the parts was previously mentioned under the name "Horbach" in documents as the property of the Fulda monastery . Another - the part that ultimately gave it its name - could have been named accordingly to distinguish the various possessions of the noble family de Kezze.
It was first mentioned in a document in the 12th century. Kleinkötz shared the fate of many villages in the Middle Ages . Often the owners changed, several times the place was divided among different liege lords , times were restless. In cities war , the village was burned down by Bavarian troops, as it at the time of the war from participating imperial city of Ulm coming patrician family belonged Ehinger. During the Peasants' War , the castle was destroyed by marauding peasants, over 100 farmers from Klein- and Grosskötz took part in the failed uprising. The Thirty Years War brought heavy losses to the place. If up to 3 people died in normal years, 28 people died in the war in 1633 and 59 people in 1634. In 1635 the place burned down completely. In 1638 most of the village came into the fiefdom of the Augsburg patrician family Holzapfel (a smaller part was acquired by the Wettenhausen monastery , but the sovereignty of the entire village lay with the Margraves of Burgau and thus with the House of Habsburg ). Upon arrival of the Dr. Johann Jacob von Holzapfel in Kleinkötz he wrote: “Arrived in Kleinkötz and found the place almost deserted; the only resident of the castle was an old woman named Barbara Stählin ”.
Reconstruction began under the rule of the Holzapfel, whose members were, among other things, city keepers in Augsburg and governors of the King of Spain in Apulia and Calabria . Immigrant families came to the village, especially from South Tyrol. The church was rebuilt from 1692 to 1711. In the War of Spanish Succession , however, the construction stopped, because the builder was hostage of Bavaria in Munich held. In 1711 the medieval moated castle was converted into a baroque palace . In 1803 Kleinkötz came to Bavaria as part of the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss and has shared its fate ever since.
In 1892 Kleinkötz received a railway connection ( Mittelschwabenbahn ).
On July 1, 1972, the communities of Großkötz and Kleinkötz merged to form the new community of Kötz.
Personalities
Around 1470 the Reformation preacher and author Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was born in Kleinkötz .
Attractions
The Roman Catholic church "Sankt Nikolaus" , built by Valerian Brenner from 1692 to 1711, with its original baroque furnishings and the moated castle built in 1711 are worth seeing . Legoland Germany is located directly north of Kleinkötz, on the site of the former MUNA Kleinkötz .
Architectural monuments
Three objects in Kleinkötz are protected as architectural monuments: The “Adler” inn, the “St. Nikolaus ”and the moated castle.
See also: List of architectural monuments in Kleinkötz
Angels at the high altar of the Church of St. Nicholas
literature
- Bruno Merk and the Kötz community (ed.): Chronicle of the Kötz community, Kötz community self-published, Munich 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bruno Merk and the Kötz community (eds.): Chronicle of the Kötz community, Kötz community self-published, Munich 1997.
- ↑ a b Wolf-Armin Frhr. v. Reitzenstein: Lexicon of Swabian Place Names , Verlag CHBeck, Munich 2013.
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 476 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ' N , 10 ° 18' E
