Oberasbach (Gunzenhausen)

Oberasbach City of Gunzenhausen
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	472  (466-477)  m
Residents :	270  (1982)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1971
Postal code :	91710
Area code :	09831
Location of Oberasbach in Bavaria

Oberasbach aerial photo (2020)

Oberasbach , with Obenbrunn until the regional reform in Bavaria, is an independent municipality, is a district of Gunzenhausen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria .

Oberasbach

The branch church of St. Wolfgang

location

Oberasbach is located 3.5 km southeast of Gunzenhausen on the plateau adjacent to the Reutberg. From the federal highway 13 , the village can be reached by a connecting road branching off in Unterasbach and via the Gunzenhausen-Süd junction.

Place name

The place name goes back to the tree name Espe .

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Oberasbach shows a continuous silver cross brook in green, above two golden aspen leaves pointing upwards, below a golden aspen leaf pointing downwards.

history

14th to 18th century

Oberasbach is first clearly mentioned in a document in 1336, when Countess Ymagina von Oettingen gave her fiefdom to "Obern Aspach", which Meier von Windsfeld held, to the Kirchheim monastery in the Nördlinger Ries . In the further course of the 14th century, the Ellwangen monastery owned the village.

When in 1436 Count Ludwig von Oettingen pledged property to Haupt von Pappenheim , one of them was a subject in “Obernaspach”; it was redeemed in 1493. In 1442, the parish tithing was divided between the monasteries of Himmelthron and Rebdorf . A letter of indulgence from Cardinal Bessarion for the St. Wolfgang chapel in the town is dated from 1460 , which has thus become a pilgrimage chapel; After the fall of Constantinople, the bishop was on a promotional trip for a crusade. When eight years later the community of Mörsach equipped their parish church with an early mass, this also included the income from an estate in Oberasbach. Since the 15th century (documented for the year 1487) the margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach had landed property in the town hall.

The high jurisdiction , the "Fraisch", lay, as is reported around 1504, with the Margravial Office Gunzenhausen. In 1517 1 subject paid interest on the New Pen in Spalt . The Reformation was introduced around 1528 , as a result of which there were no pilgrimages to St. Wolfgang. In 1529 a tenth belonged to the Landalmosenamt Nürnberg . For 1532 it is handed down that the high and low jurisdictions over Oberasbach and Unterasbach are Brandenburg property. In 1543 the Irlbach nurse Stephan Franckman sold income from Oberasbach to the Gunzenhausen citizen Peter Gaylling. In 1545 Stephan Frannckhman sold a property in Oberasbach to the Herriedener Canons Jörg Franckman, who transferred it to Balthasar and Christoph von Rechenberg a year later . In 1575 Hans Gabriell zu Oberasbach sold fields to the Ansbach monastery administrator Hans Willing. In 1577 he bought further field goods from Jakob Meyr from Obersabach; the Willing heirs sold their two field fiefs in 1589 to the margrave. In 1580 two farms in Oberasbach, owned by Margaretha Bertschin zu Nördlingen, were transferred to Bernhard Jäger, Kastner of Cadolzburg from Brandenburg . In 1590 the von Rechenbergs sold their estate in Oberasbach to the margraves.

At the beginning of the 17th century (1608) the ownership structure in Oberasbach is described as follows: 16 subjects are margraves; 1 subject each is valid for the dean and the senior chaplain at Gunzenhausen, 2 subjects for the saint there (= parish), 4 for the council and hospital there; 1 subject belongs to the Heidenheim monastery office, 2 subjects belong to the Cadolzburg caste office, 1 subject is owned by Colonel Fuchs zu Unterschwaningen , 1 subject is owed by the Arberg parish in Eichstätt and 2 subjects are oettingisch and pay interest to the Aufkirchen monastery ; a community pastor's house is interest-free. The fragmentation of property and bailiwicks continued until the end of the Holy Roman Empire .

From the 19th century to the present

In 1801 the Gunzenhäuser "Filialkirchdorf" Oberasbach had 22 subjects, one of which was still a custodian and paid the Arberg- Ornbau care and caste office . 2 subjects were subordinate to the patrimonial court of Wald - Lauffenbürg of the barons of Falkenhausen until 1834 and 1848 respectively .

In 1806 Oberasbach came with the Brandenburg-Prussian margravate of Ansbach to Bavaria. There, in 1808 Oberasbach and Obenbrunn were added to the tax district Unterasbach and in 1811 the rural community Unterasbach in the district court / rent office Gunzenhausen. In 1818 Oberasbach and Obenbrunn became an independent municipality again. It stayed that way until the municipal reform in Bavaria ; On July 1, 1971, the municipality of Oberasbach was incorporated into Gunzenhausen and on July 1, 1972, it was incorporated into the now enlarged new district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , initially under the name of the district of Weißenburg .

In 1876 a cemetery was set up; until then the dead had to be brought to Gunzenhausen. the funeral hall was added around 1900. From 1876 to 1878 the St. Wolfgang Church , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1632, was rebuilt, with the ruins being reused. In 1934 a new school house was built, which was expanded 30 years later.

In the 1960s Oberasbach was connected to the Pfofelder water supply group. Since 2003 the parish of Oberasbach (approx. 250 parishioners) has changed from the parish office Gunzenhausen to the parish office Unterasbach.

Population development

Oberasbach community

• 1818: 165 inhabitants
• 1824: 165 inhabitants in 36 properties
• 1867: 300 residents in 55 buildings (in Obenbrunn 38 residents in 10 buildings)
• 1829: 165 inhabitants in 37 families
• 1950: 273 inhabitants in 37 properties
• 1961: 254 inhabitants in 45 residential buildings
• 1966: 259 inhabitants
• 1970: 270 inhabitants

District Oberasbach

• 1982: 270 inhabitants (including Obenbrunn)

Attractions

• Evangelical Lutheran Filialkirche St. Wolfgang , neo-Gothic choir tower church with cross-ribbed vaulted choir in the old tower basement, with an altarpiece "The Good Shepherd" by Professor Fleischmann, Nuremberg, from 1899 and with two glass windows by Gans Gottfried, Stockhausen, from 1988 The tower has a pointed helmet.
• Barn from 1747 (Oberasbach No. 27)

societies

• Voluntary Fire Brigade Oberasbach (founded 1886)
• "Edelweiß" shooting club
• Trombone Choir Oberasbach (founded 1925)

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia , 4th vol., Ulm 1801, column 153.
• Karl Fr. Hohn: The Rezatkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Nuremberg: Riegel and Wießner 1829, p. 137, see Hohn on Franconia-Online
• J. Heyberger and others (arr.): Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary. Munich 1867, column 1036.
• Karl Gröber and Felix Mader : The art monuments in Middle Franconia, VI district office Gunzenhausen , Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 239f.
• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs . Row I, Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960.
• Official place directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census , Munich 1964, column 786.
• Robert Schuh: Gunzenhausen. Former district of Gunzenhausen . Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 5: Gunzenhausen . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1979, No. 10, p. 13f.
• Gunzenhausen district. Munich, Assling 1966, especially p. 228f.
• Home book of the city of Gunzenhausen, Gunzenhausen 1982, p. 258f.
• Johann Schrenk and Karl Friedrich Zink: God's Houses. Church leaders in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, pp. 145f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heyberger, Col. 1036
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Gunzenhausen district, p. 228
3. ↑ Schuh, p. 16
4. ↑ Gunzenhausen community: Oberasbach district ( Memento from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ This section essentially follows Schuh, p. 13f.
6. ↑ A "Aspach" mention from 1222 is attributed in the Heimatbuch Gunzenhausen, p. 258, Oberasbach.
7. ↑ See Historical Atlas, p. 146
8. ↑ Bundschuh, Volume IV, Col. 153
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Historical Atlas, p. 237
10. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 477 .
11. ↑ ^{a b} Heimatbuch Gunzenhausen, p. 258
12. ↑ Heimatbuch Gunzenhausen, pp. 258f.
13. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 229
14. ^ Gunzenhausen district, p. 123
15. ^ History of St. Wolfgang
16. ↑ Heyberger, Col. 1036; the numbers are probably incorrect.
17. ^ Hohn, p. 137
18. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 715 .
19. ↑ Official List of places, Col. 786
20. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 239f .; God's houses, p. 145f.
21. ↑ Gunzenhausen volunteer fire brigade ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
22. ↑ Trombone Choir Oberasbach

Web links

• Oberasbach on the website of the city of Gunzenhausen
• Description of the Church of St. Wolfgang