Preith

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Preith
Municipality Pollenfeld
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 5 ″  E
Residents : 891  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 85131
Area code : 08421

Preith is part of the municipality of Pollenfeld in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

Geographical location

The village is located 5 km north of Eichstätt on the Franconian Jura plateau on the road from Eichstätt via Pollenfeld and Altdorf to Kinding .

history

Preith (formerly also Breydt, Preyd, Breit, Breith, Preit or Preut) is a settlement on the former Roman road connecting the fort of Pfünz and the fort of Weißenburg , which ran from southeast to northwest . A “Roman stone” northwest of the village reminds of this. A Roman signal tower is said to have stood on the site of today's church.

The village is first mentioned in 1178 when Pope Alexander III. confirmed possessions in Preith to the cathedral chapter of Eichstätt. 1302 sold knight Heinrich von Muhr von Chunenstein, castle owner of Konstein , his Hofmark "Breid" to the Eichstätter cathedral chapter; thus the patronage rights , the village court and all tithe levies passed to the canons. Another sale of the village is on record in 1378: the village, patronage, court and bailiwick passed from Burkhard von Seckendorf to Heinrich Regeldorfer . In 1429 Hans Mair, citizen of Eichstätt , acquired half of the village. In 1466 the village with the associated forest passed from the property of the wife of Hutzelmayer zum Stein to the Eichstätter monastery of St. Walburg , which had already acquired the big tithe to Preith from Michael Regeldorfer zu Obereichstätt in 1414 . From this point on, Preith was a monastery village until secularization in 1806. After secularization, Preith was briefly owned by the Leuchtenberg ducal family .

Land consolidation was carried out from 1958 to 1962 .

On May 1, 1978, the municipality of Preith was dissolved as part of the regional reform and the place Preith was incorporated into the municipality of Pollenfeld. The other districts of the former municipality, Häringhof , Lüften , Wimpasing and Ziegelhof , came to the city of Eichstätt . The population was 899 in 2008 (1855: 356; 1900: 280). The village has a rich secular and ecclesiastical community life.

Parish Church of St. Brigida

The fortified church of Preith
View into the fortified church of St. Brigida

The St. The Catholic parish church, consecrated to Brigida , is a medieval fortified church in Preith , which is still surrounded by a wall (no longer preserved in its original height) and has a two-storey gate tower with a gable roof on the southwest side of this ring. Inside the Bering was the cemetery, which was closed in 1994; Gravestones from the 18th and early 19th centuries are still standing. While the church tower, which was raised in 1708 by the court architect Jakob Engel and provided with a cut-off brick helmet and four-sided open lantern, and the Bering still date from the Middle Ages, the nave was rebuilt in 1727 and extended to the west in 1935 under the architect Friedrich Ferdinand Haindl by demolishing the cemetery wall there. widened and raised.

The high altar shrine from 1510/20 probably comes from the St. Walburg monastery and replaced a baroque altar from 1727, which is now in the pilgrimage church of Freystadt in the Upper Palatinate. Its altarpiece in oil from 1700 remained in Preith and hangs on the north wall of the nave. It shows the church patroness and the Eichstatt diocesan saints Willibald and Walburga . The high altar has as figurative decorations Catherine of Alexandria , Mary with the baby Jesus, Barbara , Apollonia and Otmar , the latter two as half-sculptures, and on the outside paintings showing Saints Barbara and Apollonia as well as two scenes from the legend of Catherine. In front of the high altar is a wooden relief " Death of Mary " from around 1480.

The two two-column side altars with later altar leaves by Alois Süßmeier around 1870 , the pulpit with a polygonal body with images of the evangelists by Süßmeier and the Madonna of the Rosary are Baroque creations (around 1700); a sculpture of the church patron from around 1500 is on the south wall of the nave. In 1985, a new organ from the Munich company WRK-Orgelbau was installed in the old organ prospectus .

A sandstone and olive relief from 1480 is embedded in the south wall of the gate tower .

As of June 1, 2008, the parish comprised 792 Catholics. A kindergarten belongs to her.

economy

The Ingolstadt- based manufacturer of special and special tools Cartool had a production site in Preith. Cartool was acquired by SPX Corporation in 2005 . The company was renamed SPX Service Solutions Germany GmbH and in 2008 the company's headquarters were relocated to Preith. In 2010 the company had a turnover of 136.9 million euros and, in addition to Preith, also had locations in Hainburg , Mönchengladbach and Garching . In December 2012, the company with the location in Preith was sold to Bosch .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Preith

Associated with Preith

  • Franz Xaver Bovius (1677–1725), German Catholic priest and manufacturer of sundials. Pastor in Preith from 1723 to 1725.
  • Markus Buchheit (* 1983), German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Grew up in Preith from 1988.
  • Antonellus Elsässer OFM (1930–2014), German Catholic theologian. From 1982 to 2010 parish administrator in Preith.
  • Hans-Peter Schneider (* 1981), German author.

literature

  • Otto Duration: Preith village book. 1967. In: Bert Braun: Großgemeinde Pollenfeld with the community parts . 1984, from p. 333
  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office . Munich 1928 (reprint 1982), pp. 296-300
  • Preith fortified church . In: Karl Zecherle (editor): Castles and palaces . Kipfenberg o. J. (1983?): Hercynia, pp. 20f.
  • The Eichstätter area past and present . Eichstätt 1984: Sparkasse, p. 270f. (with bibliography)
  • Prof. Dr. Antonellus Elsässer: Parish Preith. Pollenfeld community. Parish Church of St. Brigida . [Leaflet], status 6/2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the municipality. Pollenfeld community, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  2. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 599 .
  3. ↑ SPX Service Solutions Germany GmbH - Annual financial statements for the business year from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010, in the electronic Federal Gazette
  4. ↑ Bosch completes takeover of SPX Service Solutions , at www.bosch-presse.de , accessed on October 1, 2018

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