Mengkofen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '  N , 12 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
County :	Dingolfing-Landau
Height :	398 m above sea level NHN
Area :	84.75 km 2
Residents:	6035 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	84152, 84150
Primaries :	08733, 08774, 09427
License plate :	DGF, LAN
Community key :	09 2 79 127
Community structure:	110 parts of the municipality 5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Von-Haniel-Allee 12 84152, 84150 Mengkofen
Website :	www.mengkofen.de
Mayor :	Thomas Hieninger ( CSU )
Location of the community Mengkofen in the district of Dingolfing-Landau

Catholic parish church of the Annunciation in Mengkofen

Church of St. Georg in Weichshofen

Church of the Assumption in Hüttenkofen

Mengkofen is a municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of Dingolfing-Landau .

geography

location

Mengkofen is located in the Aitrach valley , which is part of the tertiary hill country .

Community structure

In addition to the main town and parish village Mengkofen, the 110 parish parts of Mengkofen also include the other parish villages Hofdorf , Martinsbuch , Obertunding and Steinbach as well as the church villages Dengkofen , Hagenau , Hüttenkofen , Ottending , Pramersbuch, Puchhausen , Tunzenberg and Weichshofen . Mengkofen also includes the villages of Ettenkofen , Hönigsbach, Kirchlehen, Klein Weichshofen, Krottenthal, Leppersberg, Mühlhausen , Niedertunding, Oberwackerstall, Pramwinkl, Radlkofen, Schönrain, Süßkofen , Vogelsang, Weitenhülln and Ziegelstadel, the hamlets of Birket, Bräugraben, Eckhof Ginhart , Haberdorn, Hammelhof, Hausenthal, Hochstraß, Hueb, Kleinhaslau, Kothlacken, Lueg, Multham, Obersteinbach, Rasch, Rogau, Unterneiger, Untersalhof, Unterwackerstall, Wackerstall and Wunder as well as the desert areas ( individual settlements ) Altendorf, Auholz, Berg, Brettbach, Bruckhof , Brunnholz, Buchwald, Eck, Eisental, Esterthal, Frauenthal, Furth, Großlug, Grünleiten, Hanny , Haunhart, Haunmühle, Haunsdorf, Heinzleck, Hinflucht, Hofstetten, Huchelwies, Hüttleiten, Klausen, Kleinlug, Kohlschlag, Kupfermühl, Limbach, Lohe, Mauka , Meising, Misslbach, Muckenwinkel, Murrenkreuth, Neukreit, Neukreut, Niederreuth, Oberallmannsbach, Oberbibelsbach, Oberhirschwell, Oberhütt, Oberreuth, Obersalhof, Pfarrholz, Raschen, Rauheck, Rauhleiten, Reifberg, Reith, Rumplmühl, Sommeracker, Steinbühl, Stolzenberg, Süßwies, Unterallmannsbach, Unterhirschwell, Unterhütt and Waldhof.

Markings

The five districts are Hofdorf, Hüttenkofen, Martinsbuch, Mühlhausen and Tunzenberg.

history

timeline

• In the first half of the 12th century, Mengkofen is known to have a larger manor. First of all was a Babo von Mengkofen.
• 1140/27/1, the consecration of the St. Wolfsgangkapelle inprüfunging is documented in a document. It was built as a family burial place. Erchinbert von Stirn (later the Altendorf and Leonsberg family, leaving 1329), Wernher von Mengkofen and Babo von Zulling (near Landau, leaving around 1200) are mentioned.
• Wernher von Mengkofen went on the second crusade in 1147 (last mentioned). He was a swordtail (miles) of the Counts of Sulzbach. With his death, the property was split up (Stirn / Zulling / Abensberg). With heir daughter Sophie, the wife of Count Gebhard von Abensberg , the property in Mengkofen went to the Abensbergers. At Mengkofen there were now the Count's ministerials , who called themselves soon after.
• December 19, 1253: The name Mengkofen (also: Menchofer, Maeinhover, Mengkofer) appears for the first time in a peace treaty between Bishop Albert of Regensburg and the dukes Ludwig and Heinrich of Bavaria as arbitrator. Berthold the Maeinchover , who, together with his daughter Margarethe, wife of Ulrich von Teisbach, was mentioned in a Teisbach court document of February 26, 1296.
• Ulrich der Menchofer zu Choelnpach (today Großköllnbach ) appears as a court assessor in a court document from Leonsberg in 1378, as Taidinger in a court document from Landshut from 1396 and contractor in a deed of assignment of goods from 1409.
• As the keeper of Erding, a Dingolfing court document from 1335 names Chunrat den Memchofaer as judge from Leonsberg 1378 a Leonsberg court document Hans den Menchover.
• The large handwritten coat of arms of the ducal Bavarian archivist Lieb, which was created around 1600 to 1609, mentions the aforementioned Hans the Mechover with the addition of "zu Salach" for the year 1358, and Erhard Menkhofer for 1411 "Pfleger am Frauenhaus" in the "Baierischen" War (ie in the Bavarian-Palatinate War of Succession of 1504/1505). This Mengkofer seems to have been the last of his tribe. Since 1570 other owners of the formerly large Mengkofen estates have been documented, who were probably not descendants of the family by blood.
• As a symbol of the oldest local rule, the coat of arms with the bear's paw symbolizes a large piece of local history. The shape of the heraldic shield and the representation of the heraldic figure are based on the oldest models in the seal impressions from the years 1335 and 1378.
• May 4, 1939, after completing a few formalities, a document signed by Franz von Epp personally arrived , with an enclosed coat of arms showing a black, curved, red-armored bear paw on a gold background. This gave the municipality of Mengkofen the right to use its own coat of arms.

Incorporations

Weichshofen, located immediately southwest of Mengkofen, was incorporated into Mengkofen on January 1, 1946 by order of the local department of the US military government. However, this incorporation was reversed by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior between 1947 and 1949. The final incorporation took place on January 1, 1971 in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria . On January 1 and July 1, 1972, more parishes were added. On May 1, 1978, the series of incorporations was completed with the incorporation of Hüttenkofen, Mühlhausen (formerly in the Mallersdorf district ) and Süßkofen (also previously in the Mallersdorf district; with the parts of the former municipality of Asbach incorporated on January 1, 1970).

The municipalities of the former district of Dingolfing

local community	District	Area ha	Residents (1970)	Incorporation date
Hofdorf	Hofdorf	968.91	357	01/01/1972
Hüttenkofen	Hüttenkofen	697.98	287	05/01/1978
Martin's book	Martin's book	1093.03	448	07/01/1972
Mulhouse	Mulhouse	656.09	281	05/01/1978
Puchhausen	Hüttenkofen	1181.92	463	01/01/1972
Sweet oven	Mulhouse	1345.86	545	05/01/1978
Tunding	Tunzenberg	574.82	331	01/01/1971
Tunzenberg	Tunzenberg	924.86	328	01/01/1971
Weichshofen	Hofdorf	317.07	335	01/01/1971

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the municipality grew from 4,387 to 6,114 by 1,727 inhabitants or 39.4%.

politics

Municipal council

In the period 2020 to 2026, the Mengkofen town council has 20 members, plus the first mayor.

	CSU	SPD / active citizens	Aitrachtaler Citizens List / Free Voters	Tundinger Citizen List	For the Aitrachtaler	total
2002	9	4th	7th			20 seats
2008	7th	5	6th	2		20 seats
2014	6th	6th	6th	2		20 seats
2020	6th	5	4th	2	3	20 seats

mayor

The first mayor is Thomas Hieninger (CSU); he was elected on March 15, 2020 with 52.7% of the vote and took office on May 1, 2020. In 2008 Karl Maier (Aitrachtaler Bürgerliste / Free Voters) was elected mayor and was confirmed in office in 2014 without an opposing candidate. For several years he was the second mayor under his predecessor Josef Forster (CSU). In the municipal election in 2020 , he has not raced for more.

Josef Koch (SPD / Active Citizens) has been the second mayor since 2008 (re-elected in 2014 and 2020).

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In gold, a red armored black bear paw."

The municipal coat of arms corresponds to the ancestral coat of arms of the wealthy local noble family of Mengkofers, who were in the service of the Wittelsbachers. The coat of arms has been documented on seals since the beginning of the 14th century.

The coat of arms was awarded by decree of the Reich governor in Bavaria on March 4, 1939.

Legend has it that the coat of arms comes from Sigfridus the Menníchhofer. He is said to have had a fight with a bear on his way to Mengkofen. That is why the claws of the bear paw are also shown in red.

Attractions

Mengkofen Castle (Monastery)

• The Catholic branch church of the Assumption in Hüttenkofen. The new longhouse in bare brick from 1852 was designed by the architect Leonhard Schmidtner .

• Church of St. Georg in Weichshofen from 1886 (this church is mainly used because it is the largest)

• Church of the Annunciation in Mengkofen from 1722.

There is a story about this church:

The first church was in the "drendan village", which means on the other side of the Aiterach , a larger stream that flows to the Danube . To get to the church from the castle, you had to cross the Aiterach. When the Lerchenfeld couple drove back from church one day, there was a terrible storm and the stream had swelled into a river. As they drove on the old wooden bridge, it collapsed and with it the carriage. When they were swept away by the floods, Franz-Adam von Lerchenfeld said: If we get out of here alive, I'll build a new, larger church on the other side of the village. As if by a miracle, the horses pulled the carriage out of the water. Franz-Adam von Lerchenfeld kept his promise and built the church .

It is believed that the two figures on the high altar have the facial features of their builders. Left Franz-Adam von Lerchenfeld as Saint Francis von Sales and right his wife Margarethe von Lerchenfeld as Saint Margarethe . In the middle of the altar, on the tabernacle, is a figure. It shows a pelican sacrificing itself for its young. This should represent that Jesus sacrificed himself for us. The picture on the high altar shows the angel Gabriel's proclamation to Mary that she would bring a child into the world. This altarpiece was only made in the second half of the 20th century. Some photos of the previous painting have survived. St. Nicholas of Tolentino is depicted on the left side altar . Five stone slabs are built into the church. Behind most (four) people are likely to be buried. The builder of the church himself, namely Franz Adam Joseph von Lerchenfeld, is buried on the right edge of the church.

• Mengkofen Castle, from 1951 the monastery of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross, previously refugee accommodation. It serves as a retirement home for the order. In the east wing there is a kindergarten under their sponsorship. The newest building of the monastery, which extends south along the Bräugraben into the gardens, is now used, together with the secular Kreuzkapelle, of a specialist clinic for rehabilitation. The three-storey main building of the relatively spacious palace complex with corner towers and stepped gables was rebuilt in 1842 after a fire. The old castle was bigger, had its own church and much more.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Mengkofen

age structure

Age	total	Male	Female
80 years and older	318	106	212
66 to 79 years	675	333	342
60 to 65 years	436	247	189
50 to 59 years	1184	637	547
40 to 49 years	873	470	403
30 to 39 years	950	552	398
19 to 29 years	966	552	398
16 to 18 years	178	91	87
7 to 15 years	479	216	263
4 to 6 years	168	8200	86
0 to 3 years	225	112	113
Total:	6452	3379	3073

This table shows the population of the main and secondary residences.

The number of residents with main residence is 6158.

As of November 13, 2017

literature

• Michael Sirl: The three court brands Mengkofen, Weichshofen, Tunzenberg, District Office Dingolfing, District of Lower Bavaria: a local history. Kaufbeuren 1917.
• Franz Tyroller: The Lords and Counts of Altendorf and Leonberg. In: ZBLG. 14 1943/44, pp. 63-127.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Mengkofen community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on February 22, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, municipalities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 447 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 634 .
5. ↑ Allocation of seats to the parliamentary groups
6. ^ Mengkofen community (ed.): Citizen's letter of the Mengkofen community . 2017, p. 10 .

Web links

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

• Entry on the Mengkofen coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Official homepage of the municipality
• Mengkofen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.66 MB)