Pfeffingen (Bad Dürkheim)

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Pfeffingen from Landstrasse (far left is the former church area)

Pfeffingen is a hamlet near Bad Dürkheim .

history

Pfeffingen from the field side (southeast)
Found boundary stone of Weißenburg Abbey
Manor house (converted rectory), seat of the Pfeffingen winery
Pfeffingen, with St. Peter's Church, 1827

It was probably founded between 500 and 600 AD, but according to finds made there it seems to have been settled as early as Roman times. A Franconian aristocratic family is said to have had their seat in Pfeffingen from the 6th century, which is believed to be the origins of the often mentioned county or court associated with Pfeffingen. The settlement was first mentioned in the 9th century as Peffingen . A document from 1280 speaks of the "Hof Peffingen", curia Peffingen . In the early days of its existence, the settlement , with its St. Peter's Church, was the starting point for further settlement in the area.

That Peterskirche is mentioned for the first time in 1240. However, it was evidently much older, as Pfeffingen belonged to the Weissenburg Abbey even before the year 800 . The local church patronage of St. Peter suggests an early foundation of the church by the Weißenburg monastery of the same name. From this time there is still a boundary stone found here in the courtyard of the Eymael winery with the standing Petrus key from the Weißenburg abbey coat of arms. Similar Weissenburg boundary stones have also been found in the southern Palatinate. In the so-called Salian church robbery of 985, the monastery lost its Pfeffinger rulership rights to Duke Otto I and never got them back. From then on, the place belonged to secular rulers and later became part of the Electoral Palatinate .

A castle of the Counts of Homburg is said to have stood here. It is believed that it was built in 1389, but it is only mentioned from 1836. All documents regularly refer to the county, court and church, but never about a castle. There are no findings on site that prove a former castle complex.

Until 1502 the Salvatorkirche Kallstadt was a branch of the Pfeffinger Church. The Nikolauskapelle Ungstein and the Michaelskapelle in Bad Dürkheim also belonged to her . In 1457, Elector Friedrich I of the Palatinate gave the parish church to Pfeffingen and its subsidiary churches to the University of Heidelberg . As the castle church in the center of Dürkheim became Protestant around 1550, St. Peter zu Pfeffingen subsequently served as the main church for all local Catholics. In connection with the re-establishment of a Catholic parish in the city itself and the new construction of the Ludwigskirche there, the Pfeffinger Church was abandoned in 1827 and later torn down. The only relic from the old church is a bell, which is dated around 1430. It came to Erpolzheim in 1651 , was returned from there to Pfeffingen in 2005 and is now suspended from a modern pole next to the road in the direction of Ungstein. According to the historian Johann Georg Lehmann , around 1750 in the construction of this road, near the Pfeffinger Church, “several large stone coffins and in them many treasures of gold, silver and precious stones, as well as a silver, gilded and set with precious stones Radiant crown, along with coins and the like. "

The buyer of the Pfeffinger church area was in 1827 the Dürkheim merchant Johannes Fitz . In 1828 he had the church demolished and the rectory expanded and converted into the manor house that still exists today. He founded a winery here and planted vineyards. In 1828 the fragments of a Roman dedicatory inscription were discovered, which are now exhibited in the Villa rustica Weilberg . Pfeffingen has belonged to the Ungstein district since 1836, and from 1972 it became a district of Bad Dürkheim . In 1931 Valentin Schnell acquired the Pfeffingen winery , which his descendants named Fuhrmann and Eymael have run to the present day. Four of the stone coffins previously found here are in the yard of the estate.

On the (defunct) Pfeffinger cemetery to put the on February 15th 1788 electoral-Leiningen court painter Franz Joseph Noortwyck (1767-1788) at. Prince Carl Friedrich Wilhelm let a Mannheim court sculptor erect a tomb for him here, which has not been preserved.

gallery

  • Memorial stone for local history

  • Historical staircase to the former church area

  • Stone coffins in the courtyard of the manor (Eymael winery)

  • Stone coffin in the garden of the manor house (Eymael winery)

  • Pfeffinger bell

  • The historical bell

  • The bell on the mast

  • Memorial plaque to the bell

  • The Roman inscription found at the church

literature

  • Johann Georg Lehmann : Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , Volume 2, pp. 133-140, Heidelberg, 1834; (Digital scan)
  • Pleickhard Stumpf: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom , Munich, 1852, p. 400; (Digital scan)

Web links

Commons : Pfeffingen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Hoppstädter, Hans-Walter Herrmann: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes: From the Frankish conquest to the outbreak of the French Revolution , Historical Association for the Saar Region , 1977, p. 267, ISBN 3921870003 ; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Website on the history of the church in Ungstein
  3. ↑ Website of the Palatinate Forest Association with an enlargeable image of a boundary stone of the Weissenburg Abbey
  4. ↑ Olaf Wagener: Pfeffingen in Pfälzisches Burgen-Lexikon IV.1 O-Sp, S, 127, Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0
  5. ^ Johann Georg Lehmann (historian) : Historical paintings from the Rhine district of Bavaria , Volume 2, p. 139, Heidelberg, 1834; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Die Pfalz am Rhein , year 1984, p. 35; (Detail scan)
  7. ↑ CIL 13, 06139 (4, p 89) .
  8. ^ Walther Klein: Dürkheimer Maler , p. 24, Bad Dürkheim, 1975

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 35 ″  E