Stopfenheim

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Stopfenheim
City of Ellingen
Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 455  (450-477)  m
Residents : 844
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 91792
Area code : 09141
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Deutschordensvogtei Stopfenheim

Stopfenheim is a district of the town of Ellingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . With its 844 inhabitants, the place is one of the largest districts of a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district.

location

Stopfenheim lies within a wide open landscape on the federal highway 13 between Ellingen in the southeast and Gunzenhausen in the northwest. In the village, the B 13 crosses the district road WUG 3 from Alesheim (in the south-west) to Dorsbrunn (in the north-east). The Störzelbach , a tributary of the Altmühl, flows through the village . The Kesselweiher is located in the village .

history

A band ceramic settlement site was found near Stopfenheim .

The place is likely to have originated during the Frankish conquest (5th to 8th century) as a village of the Stopfo in the Suala field. The first mention by name can be found in the "Miracula S. Waldburgis Monheimensia" from 894/95. Between 1057 and 1075, the Eichstatt Bishop Gundekar II consecrated a church; In 1182/1196 a successor building was consecrated by Bishop Otto. The early landlords here were the Benedictine monastery of Wülzburg , the Teutonic Order , the Church of Eichstätt, the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim and other nobles. In 1274 a local nobleman named Marquard von Stopfenheim is mentioned in a document. In 1281 a knight appears Sifrid Pezzaer de “Stoppenheim”; the gender of the Peysser / Peizer appears several times in documents. In 1289 one learns of a castle on site. In 1291 and 1296 a "miles Conradus dictus Peizer" (Knight Konrad called Peizer) was named in the entourage of the last Count of Hirschberg , Gebhard VII. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Seckendorffers seem to have come into possession of the village; In 1369 a Walther von Seckendorff sits in Stopfenheim. 1337 Eberhard von Stopfenheim is a canon in Eichstätt. The town charter granted by King Charles IV in 1349, along with other privileges , did not come into effect. In 1422 the Seckendorffers sold their Stopfenheim property with all rights to the Rieter family in Nuremberg . In 1427, however, there was a lawsuit involving the Stopfenheim Castle between Jörg von Seckendorff and the Nuremberg patricians Haller and Rieter; Wolf (hard) von Seckendorff can be proven as the owner of the castle from 1430 to 1442. In 1442 this sold to the Teutonic Order. The third church in Stopfenheim was built in 1484. The valid book of the Ahusen (Auhausen) monastery from 1491 shows ownership in Stopfenheim. In 1566 the place came into the ownership of the Teutonic Order; This exercised the patronage right of the parish from the 14th century and built the fourth and thus today's Catholic parish church in the 18th century . In 1716, the order built a bailiwick building in the village, today called the "Deutschordensschloss Stopfenheim".

Witch hunts were carried out in Stopfenheim from 1590 to 1629 : 13 people were involved in witch trials , two were released, all others were executed in Ellingen.

In 1789 the place became part of the German-Nordic-Franconian Ballei , which lost its strong independent position. Stopfenheim was no longer an office of its own, but only the seat of an official of the Obervogteiamt Ellingen of the high and German master of Mergentheim . At the end of the Old Kingdom , Stopfenheim belonged almost entirely to the Teutonic Order; Only the Auhausen administration office, the Ansbach hospital , the Oberhochstatt parish , the Stopfenheim parish and the Eschenbach early mass had smaller property .

As a result of secularization , Stopfenheim became Bavarian in 1806. Bavarian regional court and Rentamt White Castle Stopfenheim 1808 formed with Tiefenbach a control district (from 1811 municipality) of 1815 with nine other tax districts / municipalities as " rule of court Ellingen " by royal endowment to the Field Marshal Prince Wrede came. In 1835, Stopfenheim had 60 residents out of 120 houses. From 1852 Stopfenheim belonged to the District Court of Ellingen .

On July 1, 1972, Stopfenheim became part of the town of Ellingen during the Bavarian regional reform .

Parish Church of St. Augustin, east facade
High altar with altarpiece

economy

The loan fund association Stopfenheim with Dorsbrunn and Tiefenbach was founded in February 1897. 15 farmers and craftsmen were present at the founding meeting. The cooperative survived the two world wars, in 1923 the balance sheet was shown in trillions and after the currency conversion in 1948 there were losses in the annual accounts. Theresia Bittner was a computer scientist from 1946 to 1982 and initially Joseph Wachter was the chairman of the board, followed by Michael Krach from 1950 to 1973.

In 1952 the company name changed to Raiffeisenkasse Stopfenheim , and in 1970 a new bank building with an attached warehouse was inaugurated. When the bank was converted to electronic data processing in 1984, the balance sheet total was 16 million marks . In 1999 the merger with Raiffeisenbank Weißenburg took place and since 2007 Stopfenheim has been one of the 40 branches of Raiffeisenbank Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

Attractions

Catholic parish church of St. Augustine

The church was built from 1773 to 1775 in the late baroque and early classicism styles by the Deutschordensballei Franken, based in nearby Ellingen. The Teutonic Order had the right of patronage since 1320 . It was planned and built by the order builder Matthias Binder (Pinther) from Ellingen, who raised the high, light-flooded hall church on the site of the church built in 1484. The three-story tower with a domed roof and lantern protrudes only moderately from the east facade. A larger than life stone figure of Maria Immaculata , created in 1776 by Leonhard Meyer , stands in a niche above the portal . Above is the coat of arms of the builder, Landkomtur Franz Sigmund Albert Freiherr von Lehrbach , and above it the coat of arms of the then Teutonic Order Grand Master Karl Alexander von Lothringen . In the two niches on the side of the tower are the Meyer stone figures of St. George and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. His figures standing on the sloping roof of the east facade probably represent the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul . The classicistic high altar (around 1782) shows an altarpiece of the church patron contemplating St. Trinity by the Munich court painter Christian Wink from 1782. The side altars from 1720 from the previous church are Rococo creations; the right baroque side altarpiece depicts the homage of the magicians, the left the Madonna with the baby Jesus, a Nazarene work that was given as a gift from pastor Dr. Philipp Aurnhammer († 1981) came to church. The pulpit (around 1780) with a rectangular body is classical. Opposite is a large crucifix with Mary as Mater dolorosa (around 1780). The richly shaped, flat-carved baroque choir stalls, including the carved communion bench, date from 1720, the organ case from 1730. On the lid of the late-baroque baptismal font there is a figure of St. John the Baptist by Leonhard Meyer. The ceiling painting was only introduced in 1863/64 by the history painter Wilhelm Asselborn . It shows the ascension of Christ and is surrounded by other paintings. In the choir he painted the birth of Christ. The Way of the Cross painted on sheet metal is a work by Karl von Waibl from 1843. From 1714, Franz Xaver Bovius , manufacturer of sundials, worked in Stopfenheim as a cooperator .

In 2007 the Catholic parish of St. Augustine comprised a total of 1,147 Catholics. The branch St. Nikolaus in Dorsbrunn with 705 inhabitants has belonged to it since 1928 (status: 2007; 320 of them Catholics). The parish is also the seat of the regional youth pastor for the Catholic deaneries in Weißenburg and Herrieden.

Teutonic Order Castle

In Stopfenheim, the building of a Teutonic Order Vogtei can be viewed (from the outside), a baroque building from 1716 by the Teutonic order builder Franz Keller , a four-wing complex around a rectangular courtyard surrounded by a former moat.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Ellingen

societies

In the local club life, the volunteer fire brigade, the soldiers, warriors, reservist comradeship, the sports club DJK with a shooting department, the Catholic German Women's Association, the Catholic rural youth movement, the nursing association and a traditional costume group are active.

Others

  • The Heimatfest takes place every year on the third weekend in July.
  • There is a three-group kindergarten, the "Wurzelhaus".
  • The Franconian small car collection Bittner is in Stopfenheim.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Seis: Says the devil, Says, also your daughter. The persecution of witches in the Kommende Ellingen of the Teutonic Order from 1575 to 1630 , Ellingen 2004, pp. 129 and 203-210
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 592 .
  3. ↑ Keynote speech by Wilfried Wiedemann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Raiffeisenbank Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new bank building on May 23, 2014

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