Rohrbach (Rennertshofen)

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Rohrbach
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 44 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 476 m above sea level NN
Area : 10.15 km²
Residents : 187  (Jul 31, 2020)
Population density : 18 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 86643
Area code : 08434

Rohrbach is a parish village and part of the market Rennertshofen in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria .

geography

Rohrbach lies in the middle of the hilly landscape of the southern Franconian Alb .

In terms of traffic, it is directly north of the north-west-south-east running state road St 2214 from Monheim to Rennertshofen .

The neighboring towns of Rohrbach are Trugenhofen in the west, Kienberg and Ammerfeld in the northwest, Emskeim in the north, the Wellheim district of Gammersfeld in the northeast, Ellenbrunn and Mauern in the east, the main town Rennertshofen in the southeast, Gallenmühle in the south and Erlbach in the southwest.

A large community forest belongs to the district, which the lawyers can enjoy.

history

Several stone age stray finds indicate an early settlement history. At the western exit of the village, remains of a Bronze Age settlement were found in Schindwinkel , as well as a Celtic iron smelting site north of the village. On the slope of the Ussel valley , the remains of a Roman estate were found near the Wochenfeld springs ; In the Middle Ages, the hamlet of Wochenfeld with iron smelting furnaces was located in the same place .

The place name Rohrbach can be traced back to the Rohrbächlein, which originated from the Rohräckern . In the Middle Ages Rohrbach was in the Sualafeldgau . The place was first mentioned in 955 as a gift from King Otto I the Great (later Emperor Otto I) to Bishop Starchand von Eichstätt , at that time together with Ellenbrunn and Trugenhofen as part of a Königshube. From 1100 to 1342 Rohrbach belonged to the court jurisdiction of the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach . They also had some real estate in Rohrbach, in addition to the Kaisheim monastery and the Adelshof brands Tagmersheim and Stepperg .

In the Middle Ages, Rohrbach was also the seat of a noble family, the Lords of Rohrbach , originally ministerials to the Bishop of Eichstätt . Her family died out in 1350.

With the dissolution of the county of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach in 1343 their rights and possessions fell to the Wittelsbach family . From 1505 to 1808 Rohrbach belonged to the Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg , namely to the Neuburg court of Graisbach-Monheim. Logically it belonged to the Bavarian district court Monheim until 1879 , only from then on to the district court Neuburg an der Donau . A school was set up in Rohrbach as early as 1581.

In 1637/38 Rohrbach was so badly devastated in the Thirty Years War that only 8 inhabitants remained.

Until June 30, 1972 Rohrbach was an independent municipality in the Swabian district of Neuburg an der Donau and then in the course of administrative reform in Bavaria the now Upper Bavaria enlarged district Neuburg on the Danube, on 1 May 1973. the name Neuburg-Schrobenhausen received , slammed. On May 1, 1978 it was incorporated into the Rennertshofen market .

The Catholic parish of Sankt Katharina in Rohrbach is part of the Monheim Parish Association in the Weißenburg-Wemding deanery in the Eichstätt diocese . The tower with choir on the lower floor of the parish church dates from around 1300, the adjacent nave from the 16th century; the west end of the ship, an extension, dates from 1856/57. Incidentally, the church patron was Saint Willibald until 1595 .

The church law (patronage right) was granted to the Schweinspoint taverns from 1416 to 1479 , to the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim from 1479 to 1542 , to the dukes and princes of Palatinate-Neuburg from 1542 to 1808 and finally to the Bavarian kings until 1918.

Personalities

literature

  • Willibald Herlein and Johannes Evangelist Weiß-Liebersdorf: The village life: In its historical development , published 1908.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in Rennertshofen
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 602 .

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