Sankt Georgen (Traunreut)

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View of the village from the south

Sankt Georgen is a parish village and part of the city of Traunreut im Chiemgau in the Bavarian Alpine foothills .

Geographical location

St. Georgen is located on the B 304 federal road west of Traunreut on a moraine hill that rises like a wall from the valley that the Traun created over the past millennia. The banks of the Traun are surrounded by steep Nagelfluh rocks .

history

Archaeological finds have shown that the banks of the Traun were already settled in the Neolithic Age. Celtic entrenchments in the vicinity (near Sondermoning or Truchtlaching ) testify that the eastern Chiemgau was also inhabited in pre-Roman times. When southern Bavaria to the Danube in the years 14 to 16 BC BC was incorporated into the Roman Empire by the legions of Emperor Augustus and finally remained under his rule for almost half a millennium, many settlements arose in close proximity to St. Georgen, in which Roman colonists, traders and craftsmen lived together with the indigenous population. This can be inferred from place names such as Katzwalchen, Litzlwalchen, Traunwalchen, the second part of the name still reminiscent of the "Welschen", the novels. In addition, St. Georgen is located in the middle of Anning , Hörpolding , Weisbrunn or Knesing , where row graves from the 8th century and earlier have been found. Continuous settlement of the eastern Chiemgau from the Neolithic period to the present day is fairly certain.

The valley on the Traun used to offer a completely different picture than it does today. The river looked for a new bed every year after the spring floods. The valley was filled with swamps and oxbow lakes , and in between there was a jungle of alders , willows and other plants that thrive on the damp subsoil. The moraine hill on which St. Georgen is located was particularly suitable as a settlement in this area. There are neither archaeological finds nor documents that indicate settlement of the hill of Sankt Georgen in prehistoric times. The choice of George as the church patron suggests that there could have been a small settlement on the hill of Sankt Georgen as early as Roman times.

The first well-dated news about the place goes back to Bishop Adalbert von Salzburg . In a document from the year 928 recorded in the Salzburg document book under I / 96, a church of St. Georgen is mentioned ("ad sanctum Georgium"). In the same document book on p. 235 there is no reference to the parish church again until 1041 (“in locco ad sanctum Georgium”). St. Georgen was first mentioned as a locality in 1156.

Until the 19th century, St. Georgen belonged to Hofmark Stein , located near the border between Salzburg and Bavaria, in the Trostberg district court , in which the owners of the Stein an der Traun castle had the right to exercise patrimonial jurisdiction . Up until the secularization of St. Georgen, not only the counts of Stein Castle were the landlords, but also - as a result of donations - the Baumburg and Herrenchiemsee monasteries . The Baumburg monastery with its parish of St. Georgen was responsible for church affairs in Hofmark.

Until 1978, St. Georgen was part of the independent community of Stein an der Traun . On October 1, 1950, the government of Upper Bavaria formed the new community with the name Traunreut from areas of the communities Palling , Pierling , Stein an der Traun and Traunwalchen . Since it was incorporated in 1978, Sankt Georgen has been part of Traunreut.

Soil monuments

Infrastructure

Some old farms are clustered around the parish church of St. Georgen. In the past few decades, additional residential buildings and a modern primary and secondary school have been built. Below the hill, between the Traun, the main road and the railway line , a new district with residential buildings and small industrial areas has emerged. The entire village with the old town center on the hill, the numerous hamlets and remote farms as well as the new settlements has around 3000 inhabitants.

Parish

In 1156, when Baumburg Monastery was consecrated , St. Georgen was referred to as a parish. Although the Herrenchiemsee monastery owned real estate in St. Georgen - it owned the Maierhof farm in the hamlet of Weisham until the beginning of the 19th century - but due to one of Pope Lucius III. According to the regulation, all residents of St. Georgen belonged to the St. Georgen monastery parish administered by the Baumburg monastery since 1185. On September 12, 1188, Pope Clement III confirmed . the monastery of Baumburg the monastery parish. The parish church has functioned as the religious center of Hofmark Stein for centuries since the Middle Ages. The owners of Stein Castle also went to church here. In a document from 1439, the first local pastor known by name is named, the Baumburger canon Michael Ramung.

After the Bavarian monasteries had been abolished in the course of secularization around 1803, the Catholic parish of St. Georgen was re-established in 1807; it was affiliated in 1991 by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising to the parish association Traunwalchen - St. Georgen .

During the Landshut War of Succession , the parish church burned down in 1504. The church building that exists today was built in 1520; the Gothic frescoes in the nave were completed by 1535.

Georgiritt

Since animal breeding was previously widespread in Chiemgau, rider processions called 'Georgiritte' were held every year at various locations , which were linked to the request to keep animal diseases and epidemics away from the community. A Georgiritt was celebrated with a particularly festive effort in April every year on the old Salzburger Chaussee from Stein ad Traun via Weisham to Sankt Georgen. Around 150 to 200 costumed riders on horses took part in the procession. The riders originally wore white coats with red collars and a red cross on the left side of the chest and each carried a Georgi staff with them. The custom, first mentioned in documents in 1602, was abolished after secularization in 1804, but reintroduced in 1833 at the instigation of the then owner of Schloss and Gut Stein , Baron Maximilian Joseph von Käser (1800-1849), with the approval of the Bavarian government. In 1962 the ride was stopped again due to the lack of horses. A new beginning was attempted in 1970, but this did not prevail. Due to the increased interest in equestrian sport, the custom was revived in 1985, however, due to the implementation of similar events in neighboring towns, it became necessary to discuss the date with the surrounding communities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Meinrad Schroll: St. Georgen has existed for 1050 years . In: Chiemgau leaves. Supplement to the Traunsteiner Wochenblatt . Year 1979, No. 16, Saturday, April 21, 1979, pp. 1–6.
  2. ^ Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi: New systematic and general description of the earth for all estates . Volume, 3, Nuremberg 1818, pp. 143-154. :
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 581 f .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Volume 1: Upper and Lower Bavaria , Part I, Munich 1860, p. 370.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Schubert: 300 years Georgiritt Stein - St. Georgen 1708–2008 . In: Steiner Burgbrief (published by the Friends of Stein Castle Association), No. 18, 2008.
  6. ↑ a b Hans-Jürgen Schubert and Joachim Zeune : Stein an der Traun in the past and present (published by the Friends of the Castle Stein eV); 8th edition, Stein an der Traun 2006, pp. 57–59.

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '  N , 12 ° 34'  E