Small emnat
Kleinkemnat is a district and a church village of the independent city of Kaufbeuren in the Bavarian Allgäu . The church village is located about four kilometers northwest of the city and has about 300 inhabitants, more than the neighboring large kemnat.
history
In the vicinity of Kleinkemnat stood the castle of the former medieval manor house Großkemnat, built around 1185 by the Lords of Apfeltrang (Afiltranc). The most important representative of this family was Volkmar II, called the Wise, married to Mechthild von Arbon . He was the city founder of Arbon, city bailiff of Konstanz, founder of the Cistercian convent Oberschönenfeld and educator of the last Staufer king Konradin von Hohenstaufen . Several minstrels were guests at the castle during his time.
The Lords of Ramschwag , a noble family from the canton of St. Gallen, held the castle from 1280 to 1373.
The Swabian family of Benzenau later took up residence at the castle. Simprecht von Benzenau finally sold the rule including jurisdiction to the Kempten monastery . In the course of the secularization of the monasteries, the castle was razed in 1805. A remnant of the keep has been preserved (it is mistakenly referred to as the "Roman Tower") and is a popular destination for the Kaufbeuren. In 1985 Kemnat celebrated the 800th anniversary of the castle.
Kleinkemnat was incorporated into Oberbeuren as part of the regional reform on June 30, 1972 and, together with the latter and the Hirschzell community, incorporated into the independent city of Kaufbeuren one day later.
Monuments
The following objects from small buildings are entered in the Bavarian list of monuments:
- the Catholic parish church of St. Stephan (the choir is from the 15th century, the nave and the sacristy from 1726, the church tower from 1883),
- the associated rectory and
- a boundary stone from 1598 (southeast of the former oil mill ).
Infrastructure
There is a water protection area for the water supply of Kaufbeuren in the district of Kleinkemnat .
Beekeeping school
Small Kemnat is through local particularly by since 1976 resident " beekeeper school Schwaben" known.
Volunteer firefighter
Since small Kemnat the farthest from the urban area base of the City Fire Brigade Association Kaufbeuren is that "remained Volunteer Fire small Kemnat" even after the incorporation as an independent fire department, with its own commander and fire brigade , fire engine, fire station and special equipment Heustockbrand -combat throughout the area Kaufbeuren.
Other clubs
- Horticultural Association
- In a wooded area between Kaufbeuren and Kleinkemnat there is a course run by the archery club “BSC Buronen” Kaufbeuren e. V.
- In 1924/25 a theater association was founded in Kemnat (today Theaterverein Burgspiele Kemnat eV), which has been staging larger open-air theater plays on the remains of the medieval Kemnat castle every few years since the mid-1980s and organizing a "day at the castle" every year .
- D 'Kemnater Musikanten e. V.
literature
- Meinrad Weikmann: 800 years of Kemnat 1185-1985. Festschrift for the 800th anniversary. Kemnat 1985.
- Egon Guggemos: The Kaufbeurer street names. Part 2. Districts: Hirschzell, Kleinkemnat, Oberbeuren. Kaufbeurer history sheets. Bulletin of the Heimatverein Kaufbeuren, Vol. 12, Issue 2, Kaufbeuren 1990, pp. 50–55.
- Markus Schindele: The Twelve Apostles Tree in Small Emnat. Kaufbeurer Geschichtsblätter, vol. 15, issue 9, Kaufbeuren 2001, pp. 329-332.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 492 and 601 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ' N , 10 ° 35' E