Schafhausen (Kinding)

Schafhausen , part of the Kinding market in the Eichstätt district in Upper Bavaria, is located in the Anlautertal , a side valley of the Altmühl , about 7 kilometers southwest of Kinding.

history

Jura farms in Schafhausen in the Anlautertal. Watercolor by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt (No. 519)

The place is first mentioned in a document in 1179, in which Pope Alexander III. the cathedral chapter Eichstätt confirmed the possession of the Meier farm and rights. In 1377 Heinrich von Absberg zu Rumburg (ruin above Enkering ) was granted ownership of the village. Two years later, the imperial court declares its claims to be unfounded, so that property and rights continue to belong to the cathedral chapter. In 1413, the Eichstätter Bishop Friedrich IV. Von Oettingen bought the place for the bishopric , where it remained until the secularization in 1802.

In 1808 Schafhausen came to the Kingdom of Bavaria , where it, united with the neighboring town of Erlingshofen , was assigned to the Kipfenberg district court . In 1818 the place became an independent municipality with the neighboring Schafhauser Mühle , but in 1830 it was merged again with Erlingshofen with its six agricultural properties. When Bavaria was re-divided into districts in 1837, the Erlingshofen-Schafhausen community became part of the Eichstätt district office (from 1938 of the district ). In 1875 the village had 40 "souls" in ten houses. The writer and painter Dörthe Ulmer-Stichel lived in the village from 1943 to 1949 . In 1961 the village inn was closed; Until a few years ago, the slogan above the entrance was in large letters:

“This house is mine - and yet not mine,
it will probably be the same with the second [owner].
The third one is also carried out.
Friend, tell me who owns this house. "

With the territorial reform in 1971, Schafhausen becomes part of the large community of Kinding. The children attend school in Titting in the Anlautertal or from the 7th grade in Kipfenberg. In the 1990s, 50 asylum seekers were billeted in the village; there was tension among the asylum seekers with one death from knife wounds. For the long-established population of around 50, this was a time of considerable strain.

The prehistoric and early historical section fortification Mallburg was located about 425 meters south-southwest of the town center .

Attractions

Schafhausen Church in the snow-covered Anlautertal. Watercolor by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt (No. 882)

The Schafhausen Church in winter 2010/11

The Schafhausen Church is located a little outside the village. As a branch church of Altdorf in the Anlautertal, it is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin ; this "Franconian" patronage refers to an age that in previous buildings may even refer to the missionary time of St. Willibald , the founder of the Eichstatt diocese, goes back. The squat tower has a short, plastered half-timbered octagon with a domed sheet metal structure above a square substructure . In the tower is the choir, which like the nave is flat-roofed on the inside.

The church is medieval, the choir and tower seem to have been built at the same time. In 1484 the church received a St. Martin, which was renovated in 1591. A significant redesign of the little church took place in 1751 under the Eichstättischen prince-bishop Gabriel de Gabrieli 1751.

The high altar was built around the turn of the 18th century; the side altars also date from around 1700. The altarpiece on the high altar was probably made by the South Tyrol- born Augsburg painter Johann Evangelist Holzer (1709–1740). The pulpit from 1680 has a simple sound cover . A late Gothic Vespers group from 1460 and a St. Mary with the child from 1490 are the most important works of art in the church. The church has had an organ since 1891 . The bell was bought again in 1928, paid for by felling in the church forest. Schafhausen, together with the mother parish Altdorf in the Anlautertal, receives church care from the pastor of Emsing (municipality of Titting ).

In the village with its 40 - according to the scheme of the diocese of Eichstätt from 2003 entirely Catholic - there is a mighty old Jura farmhouse opposite the former inn (see illustration); The village also has other Jura buildings that have been preserved in their historical appearance .

Not far from the church on the road towards Schafhauser Mühle on the edge of the forest there is a trinity picture stick, which reminds of a sacrifice of the host : “On July 21, 1891, the church in Schaffhausen was robbed, the tabernacle was dragged here and desecrated the holy of holies. St. Hosts were poured out here and in a solemn procession to Erlingshofen. ”Legendary is the tradition that sheep found the hosts and did not move on from this point.

literature

• Schafhausen community Kinding . In: Hans Baier and others: The Eichstätter Raum in Past and Present Stadt- und Kreissparkasse, Eichstätt 1973, p. 268f.
• Erlingshofen. 25 years of Heimatverein “Rundeck” [1971–1996], Kipfenberg: Hercynia-Verlag 1996, esp. Pp. 84f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 42 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 31"  E