Mariabrunn (Heidenheim)

Mariabrunn Heidenheim market Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 35 ″  E
Height :	539 m above sea level NN
Residents :	10  (Jun 30, 2011)
Postal code :	91719
Area code :	09833

Mariabrunn am Schildberg

Mariabrunn is a district of the Heidenheim market in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district of Central Franconia ( Bavaria ).

Geographical location

Mariabrunn is located in the Franconian Alb about 1.5 kilometers south of Heidenheim and about 400 meters east of state road 2384 , from which the hamlet can be reached by a connecting road, at the foot of the wooded Schildberg .

history

In the immediate vicinity, in the “Mauerfeld” and “Zollnersbuck”, Roman masonry was uncovered, as well as Roman coins and “roof tiles and shards of strong, very well-burned Roman cooking pots”. Heinrich Eidam († 1934), route commissioner of the Imperial Limes Commission , suspects that a Roman manor stood here.

Gabriel Kellner / Kelner, monk priest of the nearby Heidenheim monastery , had a chapel built on the footpath from the monastery to Eggenthal in 1423 under Abbot Albert Pflant (r. 1417–1427) , with the intention of building one here Install pilgrimage . In the same year the chapel passed into the monastery property; Pope Martin V approved the incorporation . The name suggests that it was a Marian shrine, even if nothing of an original image of grace has survived and there are no miracle reports . In 1462, Utz Ottlein, son of the owner of the nearby Kreuthof , donated an “eternal cow” to his soul home for the benefit of the pilgrimage to Mariabrunn; Milk and calves could be used by the respective Kreutbauer where the cow stood, but had to replace the cow in the event of perishing and pay an annual allowance of one pound of wax to the pilgrimage.

(R. 1446-1482) under Abbot Eberhard von Mulfingen was probably built in 1450 a new sanctuary and 1472 Mariabrunn became the provost of the monastery by Pope Sixtus V raised. The provost's office was equipped with fields that had belonged to Eggenthal; In addition, several acquisitions and foundations for the Mariabrunn Chapel are documented for the period from 1448 to 1534. Successor Abbot Peter Hagen (ruled 1482–1500) oversaw the pilgrimage for many years. In 1510 there was talk that a “Master Gall von Hechling” under Abbot Christoph Mundscheller / Mutschiller / Modschiller (r. 1500–1528) had built a larger house “towards Mariabrunn”, certainly the provost office. A painted clay figure of the Mother of God, a work of the potter Vogel in Dietfurt (near Treuchtlingen ) , was now being venerated . It was probably made by master Hansen the old from Oettingen.

Under the titular abbot Balthasar Rößner / Rosner / Rösler (r. 1529–1537) appointed by Ansbach, the Reformation was introduced around 1535 , which meant the end of the pilgrimage. He died in 1550 as provost in Mariabrunn, where he was transferred by the government of Ansbach in 1537, three years after his (first) marriage. The church “made of ashlars and a high tower made of glazed bricks”, which was discarded of its intended use by the Reformation, fell into disrepair and was described as dilapidated as early as 1551.

The next and last provost of Mariabrunn, the former Heidenheim conventual Petrus Eck from Weißenburg , administered the Mariabrunn farm. According to a determination from 1535, the provost of Mariabrunn was allowed to keep a maximum of 14 cattle - with the associated forest from 73 acres until his death on February 25, 1570.

Today there is no trace of the former pilgrimage church. Two farms, which had developed as half-farms from the priory court and belonged to the Ansbach Oberamt Hohentrüdingen until secularization , came to Bavaria in 1806. They form today's Heidenheim district "Mariabrunn" (formerly also "Mergenbronn"). In 1824 there were eleven residents on the two farms, 16 in 1950 and ten in mid-2011.

Others

There are some historical types of fruit around Mariabrunn, such as B. the variety " Brown Matapfel " with three old specimens planted around 1870. These are currently (2019) the last known old trees in all of Franconia.

literature

• 1250 years Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm. Heidenheim 2002 (especially chapter History of the Mariabrunn Propstei , pp. 223–233)
• Martin Winter: Hechlingen am See - Pictures from the landscape and early history. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen, Heft 48 (1993), pp. 28-90, especially p. 73.
• Karl Dehm: The Propstei Mariabronn . In: Fränkische Heimat 12 (1933), pp. 415-417.
• Hanns Hubert Hofmann: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Franconia . Series I, Issue 8, Munich 1960 pp. 140, 235.
• Gerfried Arnold: The Romans in Franconia. Ansbacher Verlagsgesellschaft 1968, especially p. 94.
• Heinrich Eidam: Roman civil buildings in the Gunzenhausen district. In: Gunzenhäuser Heimatbote , Volume 3, 1929.
• Josef Braun: Twelve hundred years of Heidenheim. Gunzenhausen: J. Riedel 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winter, p. 73; Heinrich Eidam, quoted from Arnold, p. 94
2. ^ Arnold, p. 94
3. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, pp. 93, 224
4. ↑ Martin Winter: The "eternal cow" from the Kreuthof. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen 57 (2002), p. 78 f.
5. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 226 f.
6. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 40 f., P. 101
7. ↑ Braun, p. 31
8. ↑ Braun, p. 32
9. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 228
10. ↑ Braun, pp. 31, 35
11. ↑ Braun, p. 19
12. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 232
13. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, pp. 50, 214
14. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 231
15. ↑ Historical Atlas, p. 140
16. ↑ [1]
17. ↑ ^{a b} Historical Atlas, p. 235
18. ↑ [2]
19. ^ Website of the Heidenheim market
20. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• History of the Propstei Mariabrunn