Pondorf (Kirchroth)

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Pondorf
Municipality Kirchroth
Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 52 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 17 ″  E
Height : 328 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 137  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 94356
Area code : 09428
The Parish Church of the Assumption
The Parish Church of the Assumption

Pondorf is a district of the municipality of Kirchroth in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen . Until 1978 it formed an independent municipality.

location

Pondorf is located on the edge of the Bavarian Forest in the Gäuboden on the north bank of the Danube about five kilometers northwest of Kirchroth. The closest cities are Straubing and Wörth an der Donau .

history

Between 889 and 891 who received Subdeacon Anamot from Regensburg Bishop Ambricho in exchange for royal estate fiefdoms in Pondorf. With the transfer of the royal property, the imperial church was obliged to serve the king and provide him with lodging. Later, Emperor Heinrich III. in Pondorf and documented there too. The catchment area of ​​the Amthof included the surrounding towns.

In 1470 the Amthof Pondorf subjects of the places Mitterforst (Zins), Pillnach, Niederforst (Zins) and Zeitldorn were subject to sharps . In the late Middle Ages, Pondorf had the status of an office in the rulership of Wörth. In the description of the district court Donaustauf from 1689, Pondorf belonged with 21 properties to the lower area (Amt Oberzeitldorn ) of the dominion of Wörth.

Pondorf also gained importance as a parish. Originally a branch of Wörth, Pondorf was first mentioned as a parish in 1226. Only with the dissolution of the Principality of Regensburg , which existed from 1806 to 1810 , did Pondorf become Bavarian. In 1811 the Pondorf tax district was formed with the first municipal edict and in 1818 the rural community Pondorf was formed in the Wörth rulership with the second municipal edict.

The municipality of Pondorf, which only included the place Pondorf, later belonged to the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg and was spun off from this in 1972 and connected to the newly formed Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Pondorf with 131 inhabitants became part of the unified municipality of Kirchroth on May 1, 1978.

Attractions

  • Parish Church of the Assumption. In 1894 it was converted from a single-nave structure to a three-nave basilica. The tower is Gothic in the basement. Above that follows the octagonal superstructure with a pointed helmet over eight gables. The choir has a Gothic reticulated vault. The neo-Gothic high altar contains Gothic figures from around 1480.
  • St. Katharina's cemetery chapel. It has a pointed roof turret over the west gable from 1591.

education and parenting

  • Day care center "St. Nikolaus"

societies

  • Beekeeping Association Kirchroth-Pondorf
  • Catholic Women's Association Pondorf
  • Country women Pondorf
  • Marian Congregation for Men - Pondorf local group
  • Spielvereinigung Pondorf-Oberzeitldorn eV
  • KLJB Pondorf
  • Voluntary Fire Brigade Pondorf eV

literature

  • Diethard Schmid: The district court Stadtamhof, the imperial lords of Donaustauf and Wörth . Historical Atlas of Bavaria , Altbayern Series I, Issue 41, Munich 1976

Web links

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. 235 ( digitized version ).