Sand harlands

The parish village of Sandharlanden is a district of the city of Abensberg in the Kelheim district in Lower Bavaria . In 2005 the place had around 1000 inhabitants.

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Panorama photo with a view of the Kapellenberg

history

Town view from the east

The local history of Sandharlanden can no longer be precisely reconstructed. What is certain, however, is that the area was populated very early on. If you look for documents in which the place is mentioned, you will find the oldest of them in the Weltenburg monastery . However, it has been proven that Sandharlanden was formerly the property of the Lords of Werd and only became the property of the Weltenburg Abbey through a foundation.

The place is mentioned for the first time in this context in the year 895, at that time already in a spelling very similar to today's Santharlanta . In the translation from Old High German, this name means arable land, on which mainly flax was grown . Further records about sand harlands can only be found in documents from the Weltenburg monastery, which can be dated from around 1000 to the 13th century . There you can read about a Hademund von Harlanden who donated an estate to the monastery. The von Harlanden family appears again and again in lists of the dead: at the beginning of the 13th century an Adelheid von Harlanden and around 1325 Messrs. Conrad and Ulrich von Harlanden. The first verifiable dates of the old church in the village come from this time.

The St. Gallus Church

Over the years, the community has suffered several wars. Initially it was peoples who invaded from the east, such as the Huns and the Avars , then followed in the 10th century by the Hungarians who set many places on fire. The Sandharlanders then suffered the worst in the course of the Thirty Years' War . Above all, the mercenaries of the Swedish king Gustav Adolf as well as the soldiers of the Bavarian elector Maximilian I devastated many regions. The residents were still suffering from the consequences of this war and the plague when the War of the Spanish Succession brought new calamities to them at the beginning of the 18th century . The Austrians triumphed over the French and severely punished the Bavarians for the military aid they had given the French King Louis XIV .

In the subsequent War of the Austrian Succession , Sandharlanden was again a theater of war in the Battle of Abensberg in 1744 (not to be confused with the Battle of Abensberg in 1809). Some warlords had set up their headquarters in the town's mansion . Based on the remains of the wall found, it is assumed that it stood by or even in the former cemetery, which was so strongly fortified that it could be used by the residents as a refuge in the event of an attack. The wall was much higher than it is today. All that remains from this time is the Romanesque entrance portal , which was included in the complex when a new church was built.

Still recalls the valor of Sandharlandener the old church as a fortified church was built and the nave loopholes has. The 13th century Romanesque church of St. Gallus was changed in the Baroque period. The altars are from 1730, wooden figures of Mary and St. Gallus from the end of the 15th century. A fortified cemetery follows.

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality Sandharlanden was incorporated into the city of Abensberg.

Architectural monuments

See also: List of architectural monuments in Sandharlanden

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 493 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 '  N , 11 ° 49'  E