Oellingen (Gelchsheim)

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Oellingen
Gelchsheim market
Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 308 m
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Incorporated into: Gelchsheim
Postal code : 97255
Area code : 09335

Oellingen is a district of the Gelchsheim market in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg .

Geographical location

The parish village of Oellingen is located in the east of the Gelchsheim municipal area at the Schleibach spring. To the north you can find Osthausen , further to the north the area of ​​the municipality of Ochsenfurt begins with the Hopferstadt district , Oellingen is connected to the town by the state road St 2269. To the east is Gülchsheim , a district of the municipality of Hemmersheim in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Central Franconia . The city of Aub is to the south , while Gelchsheim itself can be found in the west.

history

The place name with the ending -ingen refers to a so-called Alemannic-Swabian clan settlement. The head of this settlement could have been a certain Odilo. During the Middle Ages, Oellingen probably had its own local nobility, who sat in a castle in the south of the village. The village came under the influence of the Würzburg monastery early on . In the course of the Counter Reformation , Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn expanded the village church. In 1978 the municipality of Oellingen lost its independence.

Attractions

The center of the cluster village is the Catholic parish church of St. Vitus. It presents itself as a hall with a retracted choir and a choir tower with a pointed helmet. The nave of the church was extended in 1907 to accommodate the increasing number of visitors. In the last days of World War II, the Americans destroyed the typical pointed helmet of the church.

The rectory from the 17th century is located on the church square . The house is a two-story gable roof building with a plastered half-timbered upper floor. The cemetery was moved to the edge of the village in the 19th century and expanded in 1926. There is an old draw well on Ochsenfurter Straße. In addition, many in the village and in the district of Oellingen shrines to find and small memorials that have been donated by private individuals.

Personalities

  • Ignaz Neubauer (1726–1795), theologian and university professor, Neubauer worked as a pastor in Oellingen and died there.
  • Johann Michael Feder (1753–1824), Catholic clergyman and professor at the University of Würzburg.

literature

  • Christian Will: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . Würzburg 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Will, Christian: Greetings from the communities around Würzburg . P. 34.

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