Ostermühle (Velburg)

Easter mill City of Velburg Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 45 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	470 m
Residents :	8  (1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	92355
Area code :	09182

Ostermühle is a district of the city of Velburg in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate .

Geographical location

The wasteland lies on the Franconian Alb in the Upper Palatinate Jura , about one kilometer southwest of Lengenfeld in the valley of the Schwarzen Laber . The settlement can be reached via the municipal road between Lengenfeld and Oberweiling running in the valley .

history

The mill was in the Old Kingdom of court rights of domination Helfenberg . It is mentioned in the sage book of this reign from around 1500.

In 1841 it was rebuilt using materials from Helfenberg Castle, which was demolished after secularization . It was driven by an undershot water wheel . This and a generator provided electricity for the village of Lengenfeld until 1920. In 1962 the mill was given up, the mill building gave way to a new residential building.

In the Kingdom of Bavaria , Lengenfeld belonged to the Lengenfeld tax district that was newly formed around 1810 , which later became the Lengenfeld rural community in the Parsberg district court .

As part of the Bavarian regional reform , the Lengenfeld community was incorporated into Velburg on January 1, 1972.

Place name interpretation

The place name can be interpreted as “mill facing east”, although the reference point is unclear.

Population development

• 1836 9 inhabitants (1 house)
• 1867 9 inhabitants (4 buildings)
• 1875 6 inhabitants (3 buildings; large livestock: 2 horses, 9 cattle)
• 1900 6 inhabitants (1 residential building)
• 1925 12 inhabitants (1 residential building)
• 1938 7 inhabitants (only Catholics)
• 1950 9 inhabitants (1 residential building)
• 1987 8 inhabitants (2 residential buildings, 3 apartments)

Church conditions

The Easter mill has belonged to the Lengenfeld parish since ancient times. This was subject to the Reformation with Pfalz-Neuburg in 1556 and re-Catholicized in 1621 ; all subjects had to change faith, including the residents of the Easter mill. Before 1767, a St. James chapel was built near the mill; it is considered an architectural monument.

literature

• L [eonhard] Graf: Helfenberg. The castle and rule on the thread of the history of the Upper Palatinate . [Lengenfeld] 1875
• Manfred Jehle: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, volume 51: Parsberg , Munich 1981
• Franz Xaver Buchner : The Diocese of Eichstätt , Volume II. Eichstätt: Brönner & Däntler, 1938

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jehle, p. 327
2. ^ Graf, p. 266
3. ↑ Kurt Romstöck (text) and Alfons Dürr (drawings): Die Mühlen im Landkreis Neumarkt id Opf. , Neumarkt id Opf. 2004, p. 300
4. ^ Graf, p. 266
5. ↑ Th. D. Popp (ed.): Matrikel des Bissthumes Eichstätt , Eichstätt: Ph. Brönner, 1836, p. 164
6. ↑ Joseph Heyberger: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary , Munich 1867, Col. 796
7. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... based on the results of the census of December 1, 1875 , Munich 1877, Col. 979
8. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau in Munich (edit.): List of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria ... [based on the results of the census of Dec. 1, 1900] , Munich 1904, column 901
9. ^ 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. 910
10. ↑ Buchner II, p. 87
11. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria, edited on the basis of the census of September 13, 1950 , Munich 1952, Col. 783
12. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 , Munich 1991, p. 261
13. ↑ Popp, p. 164; Jehle, p. 308
14. ↑ Buchner II, pp. 83, 89; Sixtus Lampl and Otto Braasch: Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III: Upper Palatinate. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments, Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1986, p. 163