St. Veit (Pleinfeld)

St. Vitus Market Pleinfeld Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	390 m above sea level NN
Residents :	340
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	91785
Area code :	09144
St. Vitus Church , on the left the former schoolhouse

St. Veit (more rarely Sankt Veit ) is a district of the Bavarian market Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The parish village with its almost 340 inhabitants is at an altitude of 390  m above sea level. NHN . The place was an independent municipality before the municipal reform in Bavaria in the 1970s. The place is accessible to tourists by hiking trails.

Geography and traffic

The parish village is surrounded by meadows and forests in West Central Franconia , around one kilometer west of Pleinfeld in the middle of the Franconian Lake District ; it is three kilometers to the northern Brombachsee . The Schwarzleite rises between the village and the Brombachsee . The Roman Limes, which runs from Ellingen via Dorsbrunn , is around two kilometers south .

The Walkerszeller Bach flows into the Banzerbach around 100 meters south of St. Veit . This flows through the place. To the northeast are the approximately 1.5 hectare Fürsten- or Veiter Weiher .

The district road WUG 3 leads through the village and leads to the south adjoining state road St 2222 . The Gunzenhausen – Pleinfeld railway runs along the northern edge of the village . The next train stations are in Ramsberg am Brombachsee and in Pleinfeld .

history

Until the 16th century the place was called Erlbach or Untererlbach . The village, which was originally built in the 9th or 10th century by fishermen and shepherds, takes its current name from its patron saint, St. Vitus . St. Veit was first mentioned in a document on August 15, 1275. For a long time the place belonged to the Teutonic Order .

With the Rhine Confederation Act , the place fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 . With the municipal edict 1808/1818 the tax district or the later municipality St. Veit was created. The tax district was located in the Weißenburg regional court and from 1852 belonged to the Ellingen regional court . Later the place came to the district of Weißenburg in Bavaria , which coincided with the district of Gunzenhausen in 1972 and became today's district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. In 1846 there are ten houses, 18 families and 113 souls in St. Veit  . In 1875 120 people with 6 horses and 51 cattle lived in 48 buildings.

While the village consisted almost exclusively of rural properties for centuries, today it is home to families who earn their living as commuters.

Before the municipal reform , St. Veit was an independent municipality with the districts of Banzermühle , Gündersbach and Walkerszell . On January 1, 1972, it was incorporated into the Pleinfeld market.

Buildings

The former schoolhouse (Sankt Veit 12), which later served as a sacristan's house, is located near the village church . The hipped roof building is two-story and was built in 1782 by the Teutonic Order . The former rectory (Sankt Veit 3) from 1590 was a mill from 1627 that was rebuilt in the 17th century. Near the building is the parish barn , a single-storey hipped roof building made of quarry stone with half-timbered interior walls from the 18th century. A small path chapel from the 18th century is located slightly outside the village on the school meadows on the road to Gündersbach. North of St. Veit there are two listed water passages of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn made of barrel-vaulted sandstone from 1848.

The Vitus fountain, which is made of sandstone, was built by Reinhard Fuchs in 1987 on the occasion of the land consolidation .

The townscape is characterized by the Catholic parish church of St. Vitus from 1787.

literature

• Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Francs. Row I , Issue 8: Gunzenhausen-Weißenburg . Edited by Hanns Hubert Hofmann. Munich 1960
• Erich Straßner: Historical place name book of Bavaria. Volume 2: rural and urban district Weißenburg i. Bay. Munich 1966

Web links

• St. Veit on the homepage of Pleinfeld
• Geographisches Lexikon 1799-1804, 5th volume, 55-56
• Map of St. Veit in the Bavarian Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

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1. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
2. ^ Veiter Weiher. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 17, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ St. Veit ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pleinfeld Market 
4. ^ Eduard Vetter: Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria , 1846, page 274
5. ↑ Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. […] With an alphabetical general register of places containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875. Munich, 1877, column 1270 ( digitized version )
6. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
7. ↑ Description of the school building ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Description of the parish barn ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Description of the chapel ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Description of the Vitus Fountain ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.