Siebnach

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Siebnach
Ettringen municipality
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 55 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 565 m above sea level NN
Residents : 620
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 86833
Area code : 08249

Siebnach is a district of the municipality of Ettringen in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Unterallgäu .

geography

Siebnach

The parish village lies at the foot of a chain of hills that was probably formed in one of the last ice ages and extends from Türkheim to the gates of Augsburg . The highest peaks of this chain are in the west; behind it lies the headwaters of the Schmutter and to the east the expanses of the Wertach and Lech valleys.

To the north of the village is the hamlet of Kirch-Siebnach, on which the parish church “St. Georg ” is located. In addition, the repatriate farms “Kusterberg” (northeast), “Ziegelberg” (north) and “Am Dornet” (northeast) can be found in this area .

history

The Romans had already built a watchtower in this area in order to be able to better control the Roman road leading from Türkheim via Ettringen and Siebnach to Schwabegg . Objects unearthed during construction work are evidence of this. Objects from pre-Christian times were also discovered during targeted excavations.

During the construction of the Augsburg-Kaufbeuren gas pipeline in 1951/52, which was led along Römerstrasse, Alemannic row graves were discovered . Assign century. The origin of the place name Siebnach should also lie in this time. Despite many modifications, it is assumed that the seven oaks that accompany the footpath and bike path from the village to Kirch-Siebnach were the inspiration for the name.

The castle, built by the Guelphs around 1050, was burned down in 1083 by Bishop Siegfried von Augsburg, Friederich the Swabian Duke and Count Rapoto . In connection with this event, Siebnach was first mentioned in a document.

The outlines, ramparts and moats on the Schlossberg still bear witness to another castle complex - the Siebnach castle stables . The knights of Siebenaich , who were dependent on the Guelphs and Staufen , lived in this castle complex . Father Mangold I lived from 1120 to 1160 and had two sons: Mangold II and Hartmann II. As a feudal man, Hartmann II von Siebenaich took part in the Italian campaign of the German emperor Barbarossa in the autumn of 1166 and even saved the emperor the following year in Susa by a trick The life.

In 1237 descendants sold the property to the Steingaden monastery . Siebenaich now belonged to the Premonstratensian monastery. Most of the time, however, it was pledged to some pawnbroker, who squeezed the last bit out of the population by all means.

The rule of Schwabegg was responsible for high jurisdiction . The pawnbrokers took turns. Around 1550, Wolf von Knöringen took over the so-called neck court with the pledge loan , which decided on severe physical and life sentences. In the Thirty Years War in 1632 the Swedish King Gustav Adolf came from Augsburg, plundering and murdering through Siebenaich. Most of the houses were burned down and the women raped. The next day he moved with his group to Mindelheim . In 1646 the Swedish-French troops came through the village and burned everything down again. Even the church records were destroyed.

After the village had recovered from the horrors and destruction of the Thirty Years' War , it received the status of a Herrngunstgut at the end of the 18th century and the place was written for the first time as Semnach , later Sibnach and finally Siebnach . The farm was loaned to the farmers upon revocation against payment of 500 guilders. Only a few were able to put the excessively high amount on the table in cash. Most had to pay the debt in annual installments of 100 guilders. Due to bad harvests and all sorts of epidemics, many could not raise the 100 guilders and had to incur new debts with some moneylender at usurious interest rates.

Siebnach land map (1828)

After the secularization of the Steingaden monastery in 1803, Siebnach came to the crown of Bavaria with the church statute. But even with secularization, the peasants were left with their debts. Some fell by the wayside and others continued to pay until the end of the 19th century. The first third of the 19th century was marked by bad harvests due to the rigors of the weather. Then there were the unpredictable floods of the Wertach , which spread to a width of up to one and a half kilometers. According to a land map from 1824, the Wertach in the Siebnach area consisted of seven rivers.

In order to tame the threatening mountain river, the municipality signed a silting contract in 1858 on the recommendation of the government of the Upper Danube District. The subsequent correction of the Wertach dragged on for almost 10 years. At the end of the correction, a bridge had to be built over the new river bed. This wooden construction with four central bays and a length of 38 meters withstood the floods for 30 years. Then a flood damaged the structure so badly that in 1899 the community was forced to have a steel bridge built.

The straightening and the now much narrower river bed resulted in the Wertach digging deeper and deeper. This lowered the water table and the wells in the village dried up. So in the spring of 1906 the community was forced to commission a central water supply. The weir, which was later built downstream, reduced the flow speed of the river, but the groundwater level became very dependent on the water level of the Wertach.

In the years 1936/37, the community tackled the recurring floods in the upper village. The moor and the wet meadows southwest of the village as well as the Langweidbach with its many rivulets from the forests to the west led to the snowmelt and, during longer periods of rain, floods that threatened the village. The problem was eliminated by building several drainage canals and a main canal that leads the water to the Wertach.

Old postcard (around 1930)

Shortly before the start of the Second World War , the thoroughfares in the village were given a layer of gravel and then a fine leveling. In the last days of the war and afterwards, the streets were nothing but knee-deep trenches and mud. The withdrawal of the Wehrmacht with hundreds of motorized vehicles and all kinds of military equipment as well as several hundred horse-drawn wagons had badly damaged the village streets.

When Siebnach was captured by the US Army on April 27, 1945 and rainy weather set in, it got even worse. For almost a whole week, columns of tanks and trucks drove from Schnerzhofen in the direction of Wertachbrücke to Ettringen. Only gradually has the village streets in drudgery barely been repaired.

As part of the first land consolidation after the war, the local road to Ettringen was paved by both communities. The local connections were not finally expanded until 10 to 15 years later. Most of these roads are now in the custody of the county .

With the beginning of the sewer system and the new construction of the water supply, the basis for a progressive rural village was created. Road and sidewalk construction followed civil engineering work. The development of the building areas on the western outskirts and in the north enabled the descendants and new residents to build their own home.

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent Siebnach was incorporated into the Ettringen community.

Culture and sights

The St. Anna Chapel is still the center of the village today. It was given its present form in 1682 by the Wessobrunn master builder Johann Schmuzer . In 1993/94 the chapel was completely renovated.

Kirch-Siebnach is halfway between Siebnach and Traunried. The parish church standing on a hill was built in the years 1718/20 under pastor Alois Jayer by the Ettringen master builder Michael Stiller . The St. George's Church was first mentioned in a document in 1238. The introduction of the Scapular Brotherhood after the Thirty Years' War in Kirch-Siebnach was the goal for many thousands of pilgrims for centuries.

On the bike path between Siebnach and Kirch-Siebnach on the Buchberg - first mentioned in 1083 - is the high medieval castle Siebnach , whose wall system is still clearly recognizable today.

Economy and Infrastructure

Most of the people of Siebnach pursue their working lives in the immediate and wider area. Some of them work for the companies located in the village and in the Ettringer paper mill. Today barely a third of the inhabitants of Siebnach live exclusively from agriculture.

During the school reform in 1969, Siebnach was incorporated into the Ettringen school system. The three-kilometer way to school in Kirch-Siebnach, which the children had to cover in all weathers, was a thing of the past. The community reform in 1978 resulted in the loss of independence, but the village would not have been able to undertake building measures such as the construction of a new Wertach bridge at the time.

Club life

The oldest club is the volunteer fire brigade (founded in 1875), followed by the rifle club, the veteran and reservist camaraderie, the music club, the women's group, the ski club "Happy Skiing" and the youth club.

literature

  • Martin Kleint: Three Swabian Villages tell stories (1977)
  • Robert Sturm: The first written mentions of Ettringen, Siebnachs, Traunried (1994)
  • Stefan Schmid: From the history of Siebnach (2000)
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia (2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 782 .

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