Mallersdorf (Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg)

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Mallersdorf
Mallersdorf coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 7 ″  E
Residents : 1929  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Mallersdorf (Bavaria)
Mallersdorf

Location of Mallersdorf in Bavaria
View of Mallersdorf Abbey
The parish church and former monastery church of St. John
The Marienbrunnen in Mallersdorf

Mallersdorf is a district of the Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg market in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen .

location

The village of Mallersdorf is located on the Kleine Laber in the Danube-Isar hill country .

history

The ninth abbess of Niedermünster, Mathilde von Lupburg, had a small summer palace on the Johannesberg in the valley of the Kleine Laber. She gave this castle to the Counts of Kirchberg with the request that they found a monastery. Counts Heinrich and Ernst built the monastery and in 1103 the first monks from Michelberg moved into Bamberg. The first abbot of the Benedictine monks was called Burkhart, whose name now also bears the grammar school in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg. The first certain news comes from the year 1129, in which King Lothar confirmed the construction of a monastery. In 1133 it was reoccupied with Benedictines by Bishop Otto von Bamberg .

The monastery Mallersdorf so greatly prospered and even had the title of "sedes sapientiae" Seat of Wisdom. When the monastery threatened to die out around 1600, the homeless Benedictines from Ebersberg brought new life to Mallersdorf. With the secularization in 1803, the Benedictine abbey was dissolved.

On August 9, 1805, the district court moved its seat from Pfaffenberg to Mallersdorf. The state offices district office, rent office, district court and prison were housed in part of the monastery rooms. On June 24, 1840, the Pfaffenberg court was renamed Mallersdorf court. In 1862, the Mallersdorf district office was set up as an administrative authority alongside the regional court. Mallersdorf formed a fully functional district seat with the district court , district office, rent office and notary's office.

This was the rare case in Lower Bavaria that a village, because Mallersdorf was still such a village, became a district seat after secularization. In 1840 there were 14 farms, 36 cottagers, four day laborers, eleven craftsmen, landlord and monastery brewery. The original use of the monastery was then given again from 1869, when the sisters of the poor Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family , who were founded in Pirmasens in 1855 , bought the monastery and moved into the mother house. They are therefore also called the Mallersdorfer Sisters. Although Mallersdorf was a district seat and now also a monastery town again, the neighboring market Pfaffenberg in 1895 with 806 inhabitants still exceeded the district center Mallersdorf, which had 718 inhabitants.

It was not until 1952 that Mallersdorf was elevated to a market. In 1970 it counted 1,740 people and was thus still one of the least populated seats in a district in Bavaria. At 69.6 percent, it had a relatively high proportion of those employed in the trade and services sector, which was primarily due to its function as a district seat and monastery. In the course of the regional reform , on July 1, 1972, the merger with the Pfaffenberg market and the surrounding towns to form the new Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg market. At the same time, the Mallersdorf district was dissolved, and Mallersdorf lost all offices and authorities. However, the notary's office, the police station and the general local health insurance company remained in place. In addition to the hospital, a grammar school and a secondary school were also retained as essential central location features.

Attractions

  • Mallersdorf Monastery . The extensive building complex rises on the left steep slope of the Kleine Laber.
  • Parish Church of St. John. The Romanesque pillar basilica, begun in 1109, was redesigned in Baroque style around 1750. The building has a double tower facade and inside a ceiling fresco by Johann Schöpf with a rich stucco frame from 1747. The high altar by Ignaz Günther, created between 1768 and 1770, is particularly important.
  • Marienbrunnen. It was inaugurated on May 29, 1904 and restored in 1999/2000.

education and parenting

  • Burkhart High School
  • Nardini secondary school for girls
  • St. Martin Primary School Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg (elementary and middle school)
  • St. Benedict School (school for individual learning support)
  • Specialized Academy for Social Pedagogy
  • Kindergarten to the Guardian Angel
  • Library of the parish of St. John

societies

  • Mallersdorf volunteer fire department
  • Catholic women's association Mallersdorf
  • Warrior and reservist fellowship Mallersdorf
  • Shooting Society Mallersdorf
  • Gymnastics Club Mallersdorf

literature

  • Donatus Moosauer, Günther Michler, Ulrich Pietrusky: Niederbayern - rediscovered in flight , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau, 2nd edition 1982, ISBN 3-87553-135-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 237 ( digitized version ).