Paulushofen

Paulushofen City of Beilngries Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	506  (496-515)  m
Residents :	597  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	92339
Area code :	08461
The parish church of Paulushofen

Paulushofen is a district of the town of Beilngries in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

location

The place is located south of the Altmühltal on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura in the Altmühltal Nature Park in a loop of the B 299 or the state road 2229.

history

Burial mounds from the Bronze Age and Hallstatt Age were found in the Haar corridor in the Mantlacher Forest and in the Birklach corridor .

"Paulshouen" was first mentioned in a document in 1301 and came to the Eichstätt monastery in 1305 as part of the Hirschberg inheritance after the Hirschberg counts with Gebhard VII died out . Different landlords can be identified; so in 1313 Dietrich von Wildenstein gave a farm to the Plankstetten monastery . The Kastl Monastery , the Schamhaupten Monastery and the local nobility of Töging also owned land in the village. The place suffered damage in the Thirty Years' War . Around 1800 one of the 28 farms in Paulushofen belonged to the Sankt Walburg Eichstätt monastery . The village and community rulership at that time lay with the caste office Beilngries-Hirschberg, the lower and high jurisdiction with the upper office Beilngries-Hirschberg.

With the secularization in 1803 Paulushofen came to the Archduke Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany and in 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . There the village belonged to the district court of Beilngries, which was initially assigned to the Altmühlkreis , from 1810 to the Oberdonaukreis , from 1817 to the Regenkreis and from 1838 to the Central Franconia district . In 1923 land consolidation was carried out. The village suffered damage at the end of the Second World War in 1945. A “German memorial” for “German occupied lands” inaugurated in 1924 was blown up in September 1945 by the Americans. In 1983 there were 29 farms in the village with 366 inhabitants. The municipality, which has been independent since secularization, only became part of the town of Beilngries on January 1, 1972 following the regional reform .

Catholic parish church "Pauli Conversion"

Today's church was built on the site of a Romanesque church as a branch church of Kottingwörth in 1723 using a Gothic west tower, raised in 1904 and baroque for the then almost 200 villagers by the Palier Johann Rigalia the Younger as its first building in the bishopric of Eichstätt according to plans by the Eichstätter prince-bishop "Bau Directore" Gabriel de Gabrieli established, who also acted as an entrepreneur; Rigalia was subordinate to 21 bricklayers and henchmen. The square choir in the west tower has a cross vault , the nave has a flat roof. Inside the church there is baroque stucco by Jakob Eck (Egg) from the time the church was built. The four-column high altar was also performed around 1723, and the two two-column side altars in 1726; the high altar picture "Pauli Conversion" is painted by Franz Hartmann from Munich in the Nazarene style, the side figures of the high altar come from the church of Amtmannsdorf and represent the saints Augustine and Ambrosius .

The Rococo pulpit was stuccoed on the body by Jakob Eck (Egg) in 1723 with, among other things, small depictions of animals. The painted wooden figures of the right side altar date from the 16th century and represent the two church patrons. The left side altar also does not show an altarpiece, but a rosary Madonna (around 1700) - originally located on the choir arch . According to a calculation by Gabrielis, the total cost of the construction amounted to 1825 guilders and 18 kreuzers ; the consecration took place on August 17, 1723. In 1917, Franz Hartmann installed the ceiling painting that shows Paul during his Areopagus speech.

Paulushofen remained a branch church until 1790. From 1805 the Paulushofener curate (the curate was established in 1792) was allowed to use the title “pastor”. The Catholic parish Paulushofen includes as branches Amtmannsdorf with the Church of St. Nikolaus, Eglofsdorf with the Church of St. Martin and the wasteland Viehstall. In 1996 the St. Christophorus Kindergarten was inaugurated in the parish . On November 9, 2008, a fire damaged the church organ. The interior renovation was completed in early 2011.

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Panorama from Paulushofen

societies

• Heimatverein Paulushofen e. V.
• Paulushofen volunteer fire department
• FC Paulushofen
• Catholic rural youth Paulushofen
• KDFB branch association Paulushofen
• Swingolf Club Paulushofen e. V.

literature

• Gabriel de Gabrieli : Construction bill for the praiseworthy house of God Paulushoffen… . 1723. In: Bischöfliches Ordinariatsarchiv Eichstätt
• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries. I Beilngries District Court. 1908 (Reprint 1982, ISBN 3-486-50442-8 .) P. 113
• Felix Mader: History of the castle and Oberamt Hirschberg . Eichstätt: Brönner & Daentler 1940, especially pp. 219–222
• Fritz Schröder: The economic effects of the land consolidation Paulushofen, Ldkr.Beilngries, Opf. Dissertation, Technical University Munich 1951
• Hermann Müller-Karpe: Figuratively decorated vessels of the Upper Palatinate Hallstatt culture. In: Oberpfalz 39 (1951), pp. 86-88
• Paulushofen. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 61 (1965/66), p. 61f.
• The Eichstätter area past and present. 2nd Edition. Sparkasse Eichstätt, Eichstätt 1984, pp. 211-259
• Festschrift for the flag consecration of the Paulushofen volunteer fire brigade. Paulushofen 1984
• “First German memorial” made headlines across Bavaria. In: Donaukurier , November 25, 1998
• Konrad Held: Mini zoo on the stucco pulpit. The Gabrieli facade of the Paulushofener parish church dominates the townscape. In: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Eichstätt No. 49 of December 8, 2002, p. 20
• Klaus Kreitmeir: Thanks to the clergy. 200 years ago Paulushofen became an independent parish. In: Church newspaper for the Eichstätt diocese , No. 31 of July 31, 2005, p. 12
• Heimatverein Paulushofen (Ed.): Heimatbuch Pfarrei Paulushofen. Eichstätt: Brönner & Daentler 2007

Web links

Commons : Paulushofen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bells and photos of the church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beilngries: Paulushofen remains the largest village - A look at the districts: Strong population growth in Aschbuch, Wolfsbuch, Kevenhüll and Wiesenhofen. In: Donaukurier. January 4, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 . 
2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 433 .
3. ↑ Paulushofen: The house of God is a jewel again. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .