Menning (Vohburg an der Donau)

Menning City of Vohburg on the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 58 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 56"  E
Height :	367 m
Residents :	424  (1972)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	85088
Area code :	08457
The catholic church Sankt Martin in Menning (2018)

The Seliger Bauer Chapel on the Galgenberg near Menning (2010)

Menning is a district of the Upper Bavarian city ​​of Vohburg an der Donau .

history

Around 1060, Bishop Gundekar II of Eichstätt consecrated a (presumably) first church on site. In 1326 Menning is mentioned as an independent parish. In 1504 the place was burned down in the Landshut War of Succession . Over 100 years later, the Swedes suffered the same fate again during the Thirty Years' War . The core of today's Catholic parish church of St. Martin comes from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century, was baroque in 1706 and extended to the west in 1888/89 and 1928. In 1818 Menning (with the hamlet Auhöfe) became an independent municipality through the Bavarian municipal edict . The community lost its independence on January 1, 1978 and was incorporated into the city of Vohburg an der Donau with 438 inhabitants at that time.

The blessed farmer

The legend of the blessed farmer is of great importance for the Catholic communities around Vohburg. It is about the farmer Johann, who is said to have lived near Griesham at the end of the 15th century . After his wife and children died, legend has it that he retired as a hermit in the Dürnbuch forest and left his property to the church. One day the pious man was attacked, mistreated and hung up in his house by two robbers. He was wrongly not buried in the cemetery but, as is usual for suicides, buried on the gallows hill. After it was believed that miraculous healings were recognized as proof of the innocence and holiness of the blessed farmer, the body was exhumed and buried in the hospital church. Over time, the bones of the blessed farmer were transferred to St. Andrew's Church and then later to St. Anton, where they are still to this day. On the Galgenberg near Menning, a Menninger farmer built a chapel in 1950 in honor of the blessed farmer, which was restored in 2009.

Architectural monuments

See: List of architectural monuments in Menning

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Vohburg an der Donau

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012: Complete Local Lexicon , 2012. P. 889.
2. ↑ List of monuments for Vohburg an der Donau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 586 .
4. ↑ Peter M. Busler: The Hallertau - portrait of an urban Bavarian landscape. P. 39, W. Ludwig Buchverlag, Pfaffenhofen 1990, ISBN 3-7787-3365-6