Meckenhausen

Meckenhausen City of Hilpoltstein Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 14 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	415  (411-423)  m
Area :	6.86 km²
Residents :	1102  (2009)
Population density :	161 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1976
Postal code :	91161
Area code :	09179
The church of Meckenhausen

View from the old church to the new altar island in front of the tower basement and the extension

View of the old church

Figure of St. Martin on horseback above the church portal

In the cemetery

View of houses and Meckenhausen. Taken near Obermässing (Greding)

The parish village of Meckenhausen is a district of the town of Hilpoltstein in the district of Roth in the administrative region of Middle Franconia in Bavaria .

location

The place is in the foothills of the Middle Franconian Alb below the Hofberg, south of the Main-Danube Canal and east of the A 9 federal motorway; its corridor is 686 acres.

history

Archaeological finds show that the corridor of Meckenhausen has been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic .

Meckenhausen (= to the houses of the "Maccho") was probably created in the course of the Franconian conquest in the 8th century, as both the place name broadcast -hausen and the church patron, the Franconian saint Martin , suggest.

The local aristocrats sat in two aristocratic seats; one of them, on the north side of the village, was surrounded by a circular moat. The first written mention of Meckenhausen can be found in the Eichstätter Pontifical Gundekarianum at the church consecrations of Bishop Gundekar II between 1057 and 1075. From the 11th and 12th to 14th centuries, the Meckenhauser family appears, with strong, sometimes family ties to the Gender of the Hilpoltsteiner stands. These include 1122 Regenolt de Mecchenhusen ( Ministeriale of Eichstätter Church), 1169 Tiemo and his son Wirnth von Mekkenhusen, most recently in 1359 Reycher, Konrad and Seitz von Meckenhausen. They were followed by the Groß zu Meckenhausen (probably related to the Groß zu Nürnberg ), then by the Fridwitzhofer and Lentersheim. Other families to Meckenhausen were the Warperger / Wartberger (mentioned since the end of the 13th century) and (most recently 1346) the Morsbeck / Morspekke. In 1422 Hans Gross von Meckenhausen was sitting on the Altenburg while the other manor house was destroyed; Hans Gross received permission from King Sigmund to rebuild it.

The Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg belonging and here the Pflegamt Hilpoltstein - Allersberg assigned to the Count Palatine pledged Ottheinrich 1542 the place with approximately 80 subjects / goods at Nuremberg; the Nuremberg Salbuch from 1544 recorded sitting on the now only manor Bastian von Fridwitzhofen. Under the rule of Nuremberg, the Lutheran church ordinance was introduced in Meckenhausen in 1542 . In 1627/28 the re-catholicization took place under the count Palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm, who converted to the old church .

As a result of secularization , Meckenhausen became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 .

In 1904 there were 85 residential buildings in Meckenhausen, and in 1952 89. The Federhof district had previously belonged to Meckenhausen. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , on January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities of Hagenbuch , Karm , Sindersdorf and Weinsfeld and on July 1, 1972 parts of the Pierheim community came to the community of Meckenhausen, which in turn became part of the city of Hilpoltstein on July 1, 1976 has been.

Catholic Parish of St. Martin

Between 1057 and 1075, the Eichstatt Bishop Gundekar II consecrated a church in “Mecchenhausen”. It was a branch of the original parish of St. Georg in Sulzkirchen and became a parish in 1517. The medieval church of Meckenhausen was surrounded by a wall with a tower in the east and flank towers at the entrance. Today's church tower in the southwest corner with a truncated brick helmet and a dome-roofed lantern bears the date 1482 carved in stone; the basement is Gothic . In the Thirty Years' War imperial troops plundered the church. It was restored around 1645. In 1650 new bells came into the tower, the condition of which was described as critical in 1700 and fell on the church in a storm in 1728. In 1735 the structure was repaired again; then the ceiling was provided with stucco of the early rococo and painted. The old high altar and the two side altars date from 1740. In 1781 a consecration took place. Towards the end of the 19th century, the ceiling painting by Melchior Puchner from 1736 was painted over. During a renovation in 1950/51, this painting, which shows the coronation of Mary in a heaven of saints , was restored.

1974–1976 the church was extended to the north by an extension under the Munich architect Christoph Hackelsberger . Inside the old church , a new altar island was created in front of the tower, the east and north walls of which are perforated from the floor to the arch , to which both parts of the church are oriented (the pews of the old church were turned over). Furnishings include wooden figures, a late Gothic Madonna (around 1500), an incomplete Anna selbdritt (1720/30), a baroque pulpit (1710/20) that is no longer completely preserved, the figure of the church patron from around the same time, which is now in the attached "new church" and a St. Martin on horseback (around 1700) above the church portal. There is a cemetery grotto near the church.

Branches are St. Maria in Karm-Meilenbach, St. Maria in Michelbach, St. Maria in Pierheim and St. Walburga in Sindersdorf . The parish runs a kindergarten in Meckenhausen.

Population development

Meckenhausen locality:

• 1910: 0494 inhabitants
• 1933: 0496 inhabitants
• 1939: 0455 inhabitants

Meckenhausen municipality:

• 1961: 1332 inhabitants
• 1970: 1421 inhabitants

District Meckenhausen:

• 1987: 0771 inhabitants
• 2009: 1102 inhabitants
• 2012: 1169 inhabitants

traffic

The state road 2238 leads via Sindersdorf to the junction of the A 9 or to Michelbach . The district road RH 32 / NM 19 leads to Forchheim , the district road RH 28 leads to Pierheim or Karm to the state road St 2388 .

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. III: Hilpoltstein district office . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1929. (Reprinted 1983, pp. 225–228)
• Hans Gruss: Geological investigations in the area of ​​the position sheet Meckenhausen. Geological Institute of the University of Erlangen, 1956.
• Franz Xaver Kratzer: 100 years of the fruit and horticultural association Meckenhausen and the surrounding area: Meckenhausen 1899–1999. Festschrift and Chronicle. Meckenhausen 1999.
• Meckenhausen. In: Wolfgang Wiessner: Hilpoltstein . In: Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Part Franconia, Series I, Issue 24. Munich 1978, ISBN 3-7696-9908-4 ( digitized version ).
• Johann Braun: Experienced and written down. In: 50 Years of the End of the War. Special issue of the series Heimatkundliche Streifzüge. 1995.
• Chronicle of Meckenhausen and surrounding places.

Web links

Commons : Meckenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Meckenhausen's website
• Meckenhausen as a district of Hilpoltstein
• Bells ringing and photos of the church

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Tichy : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. Online map (PDF; 4 MB)
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 483 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 732 .
4. ↑ ulischubert.de
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hilpoltstein. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Meckenhausen. gov.genealogy.net
7. ^ Meckenhausen. hilpoltstein.de