Saint Nikola (Passau)
Sankt Nikola , short form St. Nikola , was a municipality and is now a district in what is now the area of the Lower Bavarian city of Passau . The district has an area of 1.5 km² and includes the eastern parts of the Passau districts Haidenhof North and Haidenhof South .
Where the Neue Mitte Passau and Passau main train station are today, the municipality of St. Nikola, bordering Passau, was located until 1870. It got its name after about 1070 from Sel. Bishop Altmann founded the Augustinian canons of St. Nikola .
A settlement developed around the monastery, the residents of which were subordinate to the monastery. With the construction of the city wall in 1209, St. Nikola was separated from Passau. In 1248 Duke Otto II gained control of the monastery and the associated Hofmark . From then on, St. Nikola belonged to Bavaria and was outside the Passau bishopric .
The place St. Nikola was of great importance as a distribution point for the salt trade in the Passau area. The salt ships up the Danube were dispatched here, and even the Passau salt barn was supplied from here. At the time of secularization, 400 people were still working in the salt business in St. Nikola.
In 1803 the monastery was closed and in 1809 a large part of the building was demolished for military reasons . The two churches of St. Elisabeth and St. Jakob were also destroyed. The monastery church served as a warehouse, and the monastery buildings were used as barracks.
After the secularization, the parish of St. Nikola emerged at the gates of the, now also Bavarian, episcopal city of Passau. In 1809 a vast area was added, which until then had been divided into three different communities (Haidenhof, Haitzing and Neuburg am Inn ).
From 1815 the reconstruction of the destroyed houses progressed. The relations between Passau and St. Nikola were naturally very close, and on September 19, 1845, the Passau magistrate submitted a petition to the government of Lower Bavaria asking for part of St. Nikola, namely the former Hofmark, to be incorporated has been. On September 25, 1846, however, the mayor announced that the magistrate had decided by a majority of votes not to incorporate the Hofmark St. Nikola, because this would only bring disadvantages.
On May 27, 1850, the St. Nikola parish council applied to the Passau II district court to divide up the large parish area. At the beginning of 1855 the division into the suburban community of St. Nikola and the rural community of Haidenhof was completed.
The construction of the railway restarted the negotiations for the integration of St. Nikolas in Passau. Nevertheless, the government of Lower Bavaria, Chamber of the Interior, rejected an incorporation in the government resolution of July 24, 1857 without further explanation. In 1860, for example, the Passau train station was built in the municipality of St. Nikola, i.e. in the suburban area.
It was not until August 17, 1869 that the government of Lower Bavaria granted approval for the incorporation, on May 7, 1870 the corresponding decree of the State Ministry of Justice and the Interior came, and on June 4, 1870 the incorporation was achieved by taking over the files, books and the cashier carried out by Mayor Paul Stockbauer.
literature
- Franz Mader : The history of the incorporation after Passau (= Der Passauer Wolf. Series of publications of the Passau City Archives. Vol. 7). City archive, Passau 1997, ISBN 3-929350-29-7 .
- Alexander Erhard: History of the City of Passau , 2 volumes. FW Keppler's Verlag, Passau 1862 and 1864 ( digital copies of both volumes on Google Books)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 602 .