Maxweiler

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Maxweiler
Large district town of Neuburg on the Danube
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 375 m above sea level NN
Residents : 175  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 86633
Area code : 08431

Maxweiler is a district of the large district town of Neuburg an der Donau in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria . The place was part of the municipality of Bruck and was reclassified to Neuburg on January 1, 1976. Maxweiler is ten kilometers from Neuburg. Today Maxweiler still belongs to the Bruck district.

The village is in Upper Bavaria . The Ingolstadt – Neuoffingen railway line and Bundesstrasse 16 run to the south .

Surname

The Maxweilerstrasse
The name Maxweiler is supposed to remind of King Max I.

In a letter dated May 31, 1808, the residents submitted an application to the Royal Land Directorate and suggested naming the place "Maxweil" as a thank you to the king. But Maximilian I. Joseph delayed his approval. It was not until October 15, 1810 that the name Maxdorf first appeared in the files, and later Maxweiler .

history

Maxweiler was founded by Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of Bavaria . The first residents were eight Mennonite families from the Rheinpfalz , who settled in the town in 1802 and lived in the Grünau hunting lodge for two years . During this time they were provided for by the Bavarian state. The new residents tried to cultivate the nearby "Lower" and "Upper Dessau" as well as the "Weinschlages".

In 1804, the colonists were given permission to build “on the Riegel”, a nearby oak forest, as they saw fit. The Hofbau director Freiherr von Reigersberg had overall supervision. The settlers were financially supported by the Neuburger Landschaftskasse , the Spital Lauingen and the Provinzialstiftungskasse , and the parish church in Höchstädt an der Donau gave a loan. They received tax exemption for ten years.

In 1810, eight farmsteads were entered in the property tax register. These were tax-free until 1814. The place developed and soon had 18 houses with 120 souls. Almost all of the residents were Mennonites. The few Protestants and Catholics belonged to the parish Weichering .

Since 1818 the place has belonged to the municipality of Zell , but not to the nearby municipality of Bruck, which is located between Maxweiler and Zell . Since the land of the colonists was in the tax municipality of Bruck, the citizens of Maxweiler submitted a request on March 25, 1846 for re-municipality to Bruck or for the formation of their own independent municipality. The application for independence was rejected on the grounds that the community had no connection with Zell, that the town had a continuous corridor , and also had its own prayer house and school, but it was agreed to incorporate it into Bruck.

Due to economic difficulties , 8 Mennonite families emigrated between 1851 and 1856 , one to Hungary, seven to Iowa in North America, only three families stayed in Maxweiler.

In 1935 the first maypole was probably erected in the village. In 1955 the rifle club “Freiweg” and the village youth took up the tradition again.

  • Maxweiler's maypole

  • A motto on the maypole in Maxweiler

Mennonite prayer houses

According to a design by the master mason Karmann, the first prayer house was to be built, which should also contain a classroom. On December 26, 1831, the plan was submitted to the Royal Bavarian Government of the Upper Danube District in Augsburg for approval, and the house was inaugurated on December 9, 1832. It was the first Mennonite prayer house in Bavaria. On April 23, 1833, the community received a grant from the royal treasury of 684 guilders to cover costs, and a further amount of 200 gulden from the district school fund. The first preachers were Daniel and Heinrich Müller from Maxweiler.

On April 6, 1955, a plan for a new building was submitted to the district office in Neuburg. The design by the Zell master mason, Simon Schönacher, was approved and the church center was completed in 1956. It is a simple room with seventy seats, a wooden pulpit and a communion table. In 1983 the harmonium was exchanged for an electronic organ.

  • The first and still preserved Mennonite prayer house in Bavaria in Maxweiler

  • The new prayer house in Maxweiler

school

Five years after the village was founded, the colonists petitioned the royal government to pay for a teacher for 25 school-age children. Another reason was the great distances to neighboring schools. Although this was initially rejected, from the end of 1811 classes were taken up by a "non-teacher". On October 31, 1822, the colonists complained about the state of the school and applied for a school building. The cost of the building was put at 945 guilders. 228 guilders were offered for personal contribution, the municipality wanted to pay 317 guilders, and the rest of the sum should be paid by the royal government. In 1833 the prayer house was built, in which a school room was planned.

In 1885 the school district was changed, the children from Rohrenfeld and Rothheim now also attended the school in Maxweiler. The prayer and school house served as a school until 1970.

literature

  • Ernst Corell: Donaumoos . In: Mennonitisches Lexikon , Volume 1 (1913), pp. 459-461.
  • Christian Hege: Maxweiler . In: Mennonitisches Lexikon , Volume III (1958), p. 63 f.
  • 's Moos, Kirchen im Donaumoos 1987 . Ed .: Kulturhistorischer Verein Donaumoos e. V.
  • Jakob Rupp: Creation and dissolution of the community in Maxweiler near Neuburg on the Danube. Moundridge, Kansas, 1924.
  • Ludwig Wagner: Chronicle of Zell Bruck - with Marienheim, Rödenhof, Rohrenfeld and Maxweiler - on the trail of village history . Self-published, Neuburg 1998 ( website by Ludwig Wagner ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population figures in the city of Neuburg an der Donau
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 601 .
  3. ^ Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt 104.