Offenstetten

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Offenstetten
City of Abensberg
Offenstetten coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 23 ″  E
Residents : 1417  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Offenstetten (Bavaria)
Offenstetten

Location of Offenstetten in Bavaria
Offenstetten Castle
Offenstetten Castle

The parish village of Offenstetten is part of the town of Abensberg in the Kelheim district in Lower Bavaria . Offenstetten was an independent municipality until 1978.

Surname

According to oral tradition, the place was called “Uvidum” in Roman times (Uvidus would also be possible, but then with an addition to the name such as bonna , i.e. Uvidusbonna ), which means damp or wet place (Latin uvidus , humid, wet) means. If you consider that the place has been drained by ditches for centuries, it must have been a very humid place in the past.

It is also said that the inhabitants of that time supplied the nearby Roman fort of Eining (Abusina) with fish from created or natural ponds. The still living fish were transported to Eining in watertight barrels on ox carts. The so-called Ochsenstraße, which runs through the village, leads directly to the fort in Eining. When the place became Bavarian in the 7th century, the still local Kelto novels would have conveyed the place name to the newcomers.

Because of the 14 helpers in need Vitus was most similar to the previous place name, the Offenstetten people used it as the patron saint of their church. Over the centuries the place name changed to the current spelling. In the local dialect the place is called "Owáschdeen".

The northern part of Offenstetten is called See. Immediately to the south of the place there are wet meadows (the uncut meadows or the moss). Wetlands in the village are the reeds (a silted pond) between Johann-Zimmermann-Straße and Frönaustraße, the Schmiedweiher, the Allinger Weiher and to the west of the village the Öxlauweiher. The Offenstetten moated castle is also indicative of this.

location

Kreittmayr monument; Sculptor: Alexander Fischer

The place lies on the edges and partly also in the plains of a sand basin, which was created by the Ice Age primeval evening that once drained northwards over the Hopfenbach valley into the Kelheim valley basin . Regensburg is about 35 km to the east, Ingolstadt 40 km to the west. Munich is about 95 km south of the town.

history

The place was once the seat of a court market with a castle, which the Lords of Offenstetten owned for over 400 years. They first appeared in documents in the 11th century in connection with donations from Aribo, Lord in "Ouanstetten", to Weltenburg Abbey . In documents of the Hochstift Freising from the time from 1078 to 1098 a knight "Waltkun" or "Walchun", resident in Offenstetten, is mentioned as a witness. The last "Ofenstätter" was Degenhart, knight and nurse zu Leonberg, who died in 1480, whose heirs sold the castle and goods in 1497 to the brothers Hans and Wolfgang Preysing zu Kopfsberg.

After the end of the Thirty Years War , to which the village and a large part of the population fell victim, Amandus Aicher, Mayor of Landshut, acquired the largely destroyed Hofmark. At the end of the 17th century he sold it to the Froenau family. Georg Caspar Emmanuel von Froenau took care of the reconstruction of the castle and church as well as the renewal of the local infrastructure. He is therefore referred to as the second founder of Offenstetten.

In 1750 the property came to the Kreittmayr family for 140 years when Maria Romana Franziska von Froenau married the state chancellor Alois Wigileus Freiherr von Kreittmayr , the author of the first Bavarian code of law. Baron von Kreittmayr is buried in the family crypt in Offenstetten. After various other changes of ownership, in 1939 Counselor Oskar Schlitter , from 1964 to 1969 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Greece , acquired the Offenstetten Castle and Estate. After the end of the Second World War , Mrs. Daisy Schlitter and Prelate Michael Thaller, the director of the Catholic youth welfare in Regensburg , founded a children's home for refugees, which has since been named Cabrini-Haus after the first American holy Cabrini home. The Cabrini House now looks after children and young people with curative and special educational needs.

Offenstetten had been an independent municipality since 1876. On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Bachl and Sallingberg were incorporated. On May 1, 1978, the community of Offenstetten was dissolved as part of the regional reform. The larger part was incorporated into the town of Abensberg and the smaller part into the Rohr market in Lower Bavaria .

At the Battle of Abensberg on April 20, 1809, the later Bavarian Minister of War Anton von Gumppenberg stormed the village under the eyes of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria with his soldiers and was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor .

Architectural monuments

See also: List of architectural monuments in Offenstetten

The Catholic parish church of St. Vitus was built from 1719 to 1721 by the builder Hans Reicherstorfer from Kelheim in the baroque style after the previous church was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War.

Economy and Infrastructure

There are some craft businesses in the village. It has almost completely lost its original agricultural character and has developed into a popular place to live. In addition to the Cabrini-Haus facility (formerly Cabrini-Heim), Offenstetten also has a primary school, a support center with a focus on intellectual development (Cabrini school) and a kindergarten. Until 1904 there was a nationally known limestone quarry in the community. Adolf Wilhelm Keim , the inventor of silicate paints , set up his first production facility near it at the end of the 19th century . Offenstetten has about 2100 inhabitants.

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 181 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Geological Institutes of the Universities of Vienna and Bern (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  3. ↑ a b c d Georg Rieger, Kelheimer Heimatbuch for the city and the district of Kelheim, pages 300–302, ed. 1953
  4. ↑ a b c Homepage of the parish ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrei-offenstetten.de
  5. ^ Wilhelm Ritzinger, Negotiations of the Historisches Verein Niederbayern, vol. 55, page 41, ed. 1920
  6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 493 .
  7. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 611 .
  8. ↑ Ludwig Albert von Gumppenberg: History of the von Gumppenberg family , Würzburg, 1856, page 414; Digital scan from the source