Niederhofen (Pilsach)

Niederhofen Municipality of Pilsach Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 56 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 50"  E
Height :	495 m
Residents :	85  (1987)
Postal code :	92367
Area code :	09186

In Niederhofen

Niederhofen is an officially named part of the municipality of Pilsach in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

geography

The village is located in the Upper Palatinate Jura in the valley of the Schwarzen Laber at around 495 m above sea ​​level .

traffic

The district road NM 14 runs around the place with two entrances to the place. A local connecting road leads east to Dietkirchen .

history

Niederhofen in the sense of the lower, lower-lying settlement belonged in the Old Kingdom to the Litzlohe Probstei of the Kastl monastery in the Palatinate-Neuburgian maintenance office Pfaffenhofen-Haimburg , which exercised the highest jurisdiction . Around 1800 there consisted of 17 properties that shared the monastery office and the nursing office.

In the Kingdom of Bavaria (1806) the tax district was formed around 1810 , with the second municipal edict of 1818 the municipality Dietkirchen in the district court of Kastl , to which Niederhofen belonged from the beginning and to which Giggling and Eschertshofen were added in 1818 .

Lived in Niederhofen

• 1836 109 inhabitants (17 houses),
• 1867 124 inhabitants (40 buildings),
• 1875 112 inhabitants (34 buildings; 17 horses and 101 head of cattle among large livestock),
• 1900 100 inhabitants (17 residential buildings),
• 1925 103 inhabitants (17 residential buildings),
• 1937 98 inhabitants (only Catholics),
• 1950 131 inhabitants (18 residential buildings).
• 1987 85 inhabitants (20 residential buildings),

Today 19 house numbers are assigned.

At the end of the Bavarian regional reform , the municipality of Dietkirchen and thus Niederhofen was incorporated into Pilsach on January 1, 1978.

Church conditions

The village has belonged to the Lampertshofen branch of the Catholic parish Dietkirchen of the Kastl monastery in the Eichstätt diocese . From 1540 to 1626 Dietkirchen was Protestant with Pfalz-Neuburg, and thus Niederhofen as well.

Architectural monuments

The two former farmhouses Niederhofen 8 and 11, with half-timbered gables and dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, are considered historical monuments. Century, as well as a field chapel in the Thurnäckern from the same period.

The Doggerfelswand from Niederhofen

"Doggerfelswand" geotope

After leaving the village, north of the road towards Dietkirchen, there is an approx. 200 m long and 10 m high Dogger rock wall made of iron sandstone (= Dogger Beta). Due to their resistance to weathering, the sandstones of the Dogger Beta often form steep steps in the terrain - as here near Niederhofen. The high stability with simultaneous ease of processing offered ideal conditions for the construction of around 40 chamber-like rock cellars . Geotope No. 69 is one of the 100 most beautiful geotopes in Bavaria.

literature

• Franz Xaver Buchner : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I, Eichstätt: Brönner & Däntler, 1937
• Bernhard Heinloth: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part Altbayern, Issue 16: Neumarkt , Munich: Commission for Bavarian State History, 1967

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinloth, pp. 134, 221, 302
2. ↑ Heinloth, pp. 322, 324
3. ↑ Th. D. Popp (ed.): Matriculation des Bissthumes Eichstätt , Eichstätt: Ph. Brönner, 1836, p. 50
4. ↑ Joseph Heyberger: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria together with an alphabetical local dictionary , Munich 1867, column 790
5. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... based on the results of the census of December 1, 1875 , Munich 1877, Col. 971
6. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): List of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... [based on the results of the census of December 1, 1900] , Munich 1904, column 871
7. ^ Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 , Munich 1928, Col. 878
8. ↑ Buchner I, p. 171
9. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 , Munich 1952, Col. 742
10. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 260
11. ↑ Popp, p. 50; Buchner I, p. 171
12. ^ Sixtus Lampl and Otto Braasch: Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III: Upper Palatinate. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments, Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1986, p. 157
13. ↑ Information board by the Niederhofen rock face

Web links

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

• Bayer. State Office for the Environment, Geotop 69