Mendorf

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Mendorf
Altmannstein market
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 416  (411-436)  m
Residents : 507  (March 15, 2007)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 93336
Area code : 09446
Mendorf (Bavaria)
Mendorf

Location of Mendorf in Bavaria
Mendorf
Mendorf

Mendorf is a district of the Altmannstein market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

location

The village is located on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura on the eastern edge of the Köschinger Forest, southwest of the Altmannstein municipality on State Road 2231.

history

West facade of the baroque parish church
The house where Johann Simon Mayr was born

A former Celtic Viereckschanze is proven here at Biber .

The first documentary mention comes from the year 887: the East Franconian King Arnulf of Carinthia exchanged the "Villa Mandorf im Chelsgau " with the Regensburg Bishop Am (b) richo for a hunting area near Prüll (Regensburg). Located south of the Jura towards the Danube basin, the Mendorfer Flur was characterized by its good soil. At the end of the 10th century, land in Mendorf was donated to the Regensburg St. Emmeram monastery several times . From the 12th century on, the Benedictines of Weltenburg owned Mendorf. For 1186 the local nobility of the Mendorfer is proven; but there was another noble family in the village, the Endorfs. Ulrich von Mendorf was the first owner of Oberdolling Castle in 1339 . In 1447 Peter Mendorfer zu Mendorf donated the district of Bettbrunn to the church and in 1477 the parish of Mendorf gave the church forest. Around 1420, the lords of Muggenthal finally bought Mendorf from Sandersdorf . The goods of the Mendorfer and Endorf family passed to them in the 16th century.

During the Thirty Years' War the Muggenthalers had to sell their entire Sandersdorf-Mendorf estate in 1644. When the new owner, Wolf Georg Unverzagt , Freiherr von Retz, died soon afterwards, his brothers and, as believers, Johann Jakob Lossius , professor at the University of Ingolstadt , took over the inheritance. In 1650 Lossius finally acquired the entire property. He bequeathed it to his sister's son, the Ingolstadt law professor and advocate of the Bavarian Elector Dominikus Bassus , who built the Mendorfer Church of St. Leodegar . The disappeared residences of the noble families of Endorf, Mendorfer and another, the Präntl, were within the village, their location can no longer be localized.

In 1877 the volunteer fire brigade, in 1961 the Schützenverein Edelweiß e. V. and in 1992 the Friends of Music of the composer Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845) from Mendorf and sponsored by Baron Thomas de Bassus was founded. There are also a number of other clubs. The village had a railway connection with the station of the same name on the Ingolstadt – Riedenburg railway line . Passenger traffic existed between May 1, 1903 and the final cessation of operations on May 28, 1972; the Mendorfer Bahnagentur was the first of the Royal Bavarian State Railways, which was run by a woman from 1904 to 1929. The route has been used as the Schambachtalbahn cycle path since 2008 . In 2003 a spacious village community center was built.

Dominikus (de) Bassus probably commissioned the local baroque church of St. Leodegar in 1696. In 1684 a Josephi brotherhood was founded. The parish village belongs to the diocese of Regensburg and is now also provided for by the pastor from Steinsdorf .

On April 1, 1929, part of the dissolved community of Sollern was incorporated. On January 1, 1972, Mendorf was incorporated into the Altmannstein market.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • The Eichstätter area past and present. Eichstätt 1984, p. 244 (with bibliography).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 557 .

Web links

Commons : Mendorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files