Pig point

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Pig point
Municipality Marxheim
The coat of arms of Schweinspoint
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 448 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 770  (Jan 31, 2010)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 86688
Area code : 09097
Aerial view of Schweinspoint, on the left the Schweinspoint Castle
Aerial view of Schweinspoint, on the left the Schweinspoint Castle
Schweinspoint from the south

Schweinspoint is a church village and part of the municipality of Marxheim in the Bavarian district of Donau-Ries, administrative district of Bavarian Swabia .

Schweinspoint Castle , today the St. Johannes Foundation for the Disabled

geography

Schweinspoint is located on the DON 25 district road between Marxheim and Gansheim on the foothills of the Franconian Alb . The town center is at 448  m above sea level. NHN . The place has had a constant population of around 770 for years.

Name declaration

In the Baier language area, point , which is derived from the Old High German term biunta - later Beunde , means a small Gütler estate or a fenced in hallway owned by the landlord.

history

middle Ages

Schweinspoint was a fiefdom of the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach and is documented from 1150. From the 11th to 15th centuries, the place was the seat of an aristocratic family that served the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach as an inheritance gift. There was a castle, but only the tower hill remains .

In 1423 the place came to the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim through purchase from the taverns of Schweinspoint .

Early modern age

In 1544 it passed to Duke Ottheinrich von Neuburg and was then Protestant until 1618. In 1601 the rulership of the Hofmark Schweinspoint changed again and now fell to the Counts of Oettingen and two other nobles. As a result, ownership of the place changed several times. The Catholic barons von Hacke bought it in 1683 and then called themselves Hacke auf Schweinspoint with their full name . They remained the owners until 1849.

The Schweinspoint castle was once the old castle in the Thirty Years' War burned down partly built in the 17th century.

Modern times

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent Schweinspoint was incorporated into the Marxheim community .

Diepold von Schweinspeunt

Diepold von Schweinspeunt went in the wake of Emperor Heinrich VI. 1191 to Italy and received several counties there. After the death of the Staufer Kaiser he belonged to the clique around the regent Markward von Annweiler in Palermo, who ruled for the underage Friedrich II . Diepold von Schweinspeunt betrayed this by persuading his Guelph opponent Otto IV to march into the Kingdom of Sicily. Otto IV made him Duke of Spoleto and, after Otto's failure and several years imprisonment, ended up as a knight of the Teutonic Order .

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In blue a striding golden boar."

The central element of the coat of arms is the walking boar. This goes back to the coat of arms of the taverns of Schweinspoint, which are mentioned between 1197 and 1435 in documents and other traditions. The colors gold and blue are based on the coat of arms colors of the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach, as the Schweinspoint taverns were in a ministerial relationship with them. It is not known which colors these actually led.

economy

150 years of the St. Johannes Foundation for the disabled: German postage stamp from 2010

The place Schweinspoint was dominated by agriculture until the 1970s, today there are only a few full-time farms.

The St. Johannes Foundation for the Disabled, founded in 1860, is now the largest employer in the Marxheim community.

Parish

Schweinspoint belongs to the Catholic parish of Marxheim. The Church of St. Bartholomew is a Gothic building from the second half of the 15th century with changes in the 18th and 19th centuries. For the sanatorium and nursing home, today the St. Johannes Foundation, a separate church was built in 1909 with the patronage of the Sacred Heart of Jesus .

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b ~ 1150 Suinesbiunt> before 1400 Swinisbiunt> before 1717 Schweinespeunt> before 1870 Schweinespaint
  2. ↑ Text printout of Kaisheim Monastery - Certificate 5 Württembergisches Urkundenbuch Online (original document in the Augsburg State Archives , signed Kaisheim Monastery , KU 5)
  3. ↑ Lechsgemünd-Graisbach, Count von Doris Pfister 2008, p. 134
  4. ^ Entry on Schweinspoint, missing castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Schweinspoint on the website of the Marxheim community; Accessed August 15, 2018
  6. ↑ Document in the State Archives Nuremberg / Dominion Pappenheim Document 431 or (1423-1-16)
  7. ↑ a b history of Schweinspoint , gemeinde-marxheim.de; Accessed December 30, 2019
  8. ^ 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. 793 .