Suffersheim

Suffersheim Large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 8 ″  E
Height :	465 m
Residents :	310  (2007)
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	91781
Area code :	09149
Location of Suffersheim in Bavaria
Suffersheim, watercolor in sepia by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt

Suffersheim is a district of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

location

The village is located in the Altmühltal nature park on the Schambach , which rises two kilometers east of the Laubenthal and six kilometers west of the village in the Treuchtlinger Bucht flows into the Altmühl . The Suffersheimer Steinriegelquelle, which the Schambach water supplies, is a heavily pouring karst overflow spring that does not dry up even in drier periods , so that people and animals in Suffersheim were well supplied with water all year round from the start. There are further springs and streams in the local area; Due to the abundance of water, a water pipe was laid from Suffersheim to Treuchtlingen at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . Because the valley floor of Suffersheim is only 200 meters wide, the inhabitants created already in the Middle Ages more arable land in the opening out here Dry Valleys , in Pfaffental, in Rudertstal, in Heuberger valley and on the edge heights of Schambach valley. They also had access to the corridor of the street village of Noradenberg, founded by the Counts of Pappenheim north of Suffersheim around 1200 and which fell into desolation in the 13th century (rebuilt around 1270 on the Heuberg as the village of Heuberg).

history

In the area of ​​Suffersheim, pottery from the late Roman imperial and migration period was found. The place, probably in the 6./7. It was established in the 19th century as a manor house by the settlement of an Alemanni named Suffer, was first mentioned in a document in 867 as Suberesheim (home of the Suffer) in the Labinthal (Laubenthal), with which the East Franconian King Ludwig the German gave the Lower Bavarian Monastery of Metten an east and south of Suffersheim given forest area. Probably because of these relationships, the church of Suffersheim has the same patronage as St. Michael Metten. Five centuries later, in 1304, the monastery still had this remote ownership, but later sold it. In the 12th century local nobles were enfeoffed with the place as Reichsministeriale; In 1189 Wihboto and Heinricus de Suversheim can be found in a document, 1197 Heinricus and Wibodo de Sufferseim, 1210 and 1212 only Heinricus. Since the Suffersheimer Meierhof, the former manor house, was listed as the property of the Marshals von Pappenheim in 1214, the local aristocracy was probably already extinct by this time. The location of the castle of this noblewoman can be seen from the remains of a rampart 60 meters above the valley and the adjoining castle bar. In 1214, apart from the Widdemhof, there was only one large farm in Suffersheim, which the marshals of Pappenheim had to pay taxes to, in which the village mill was integrated.

In 1341 the Pappenheimers sold their forest property in Suffersheim to the knight Ulrich Schenk von Geyern , Otto the Zenger von Gerolfing and Hans von Hausen. In this context, the keep and one of the three mills in Suffersheim, the village mill, are also mentioned. The same people received the village, which had gradually developed from the Meierhof through the splitting off of independent farms, as a fief . But there were other owners: In 1344 Konrad von Riegshofen (Riedhofen), enfeoffed by the Lords of Heideck , transferred the income from Suferheim to the Benedictine monastery of St. Walburg in Eichstätt; The feudal lords also transferred income from a farm in Sufersham to the monastery . In 1456 Hans von Hausen sold the majority of the villages of Suffersheim and Schambach, a total of 49 properties in the city of Weißenburg, which Conrat, Herr von Heideck, enfeoffed with Suffersheim. These ownership structures did not change for centuries: In 1800 Suffersheim had the Counts of Pappenheim, the monastery of St. Walburg zu Eichstätt and the imperial city of Weißenburg as landlords .

After secularization in 1803, Suffersheim was assigned to the district office as an independent municipality, and from 1939 to the Weißenburg district. The municipality became part of the municipality of Weißenburg in Bavaria on the occasion of the municipality reform , which came into force on May 1, 1978. In 1900 the place had 339, in 2007 around 310 inhabitants. An important citizen of Suffersheim was the Bohemian writer and co-editor of the monthly Der Ackermann von Böhmen Karl Franz Leppa (* 1893; † 1986).

Attractions

→ Main article : "Suffersheim" in the article List of architectural monuments in Weißenburg in Bavaria / districts

St. Michael Church

The Gunthildis Chapel "God's Snail Shell" "

Gunthildis source near Suffersheim

• The Evangelical Lutheran branch church St. Michael , belonging to the parish of Neudorf- Suffersheim, was built on the slope of the Mühlberg in 1722/23 on a medieval basis; the previous church of St. Gunthildis from the 9th century was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War. The church portal with arched field, inside a Roman cross, dates from the 11th century. The cemetery walling probably dates from the 17th century. The 36 meter high tower has four gables and three bells from the 19th and 20th centuries; the top of the tower shows the typical colored glazed tiles used in a pattern for the Pappenheim area. The coat of arms of the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim is placed above the choir arch and commemorates their patronage from the 12th to 19th centuries. The baroque altar dates from around 1721 (new altarpiece from 1957). The baroque pulpit was created in 1688. The organ case is also baroque (around 1720). The 16-armed brass chandelier is from 1990.

• 1.5 kilometers west of Suffersheim was a hermitage with a chapel , which was inhabited in the 11th century by Gunthildis , a benevolent maid († 1057?). She was soon venerated as the blessed and the patroness of the servants, and was regarded as an emergency helper for sick cattle. Only foundation trains remain from the medieval pilgrimage church . In addition, volunteers from the St.-Gunthildis-Kapelle e. V. built the “ God's Snail House ” according to the plans of Professor Johannes Geisenhof , an ecumenical chapel in the shape of an ammonite . A “snail’s passage” leads to the interior and the center, a stone ambo made up of twelve pillars, symbolizing the tribes of Israel. The barn church in the Weißenburg part of the municipality Dettenheim (Catholic parish Weißenburg) is consecrated to Saint Gunthildis , where 75 Catholics lived in 2003.

• About 200 meters west of God's snail shell , a spring, the Golden Fountain , was captured as a Gunthildis Fountain in 2005 . The stone wayside shrine above shows a relief representation of the saint, a work by the sculptor Reinhard Fuchs .

• In Suffersheim you can still find a number of houses in the typical Jura house style, some with lime-plate roofs from the 18th and early 19th centuries; some of them are entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

literature

• Shouting to His Majesty the King at the very high of the same passage through the Ellingen court. At the edge of it, offered by the school youth in Suffersheim on July 5, 1826 , (song), Weissenburg 1826
• Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 42 (1927), p. 13f
• Wilhelm Kraft: St. Günthild in Suffersheim. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Kirchengeschichte 5 (1930), pp. 1–16
• Wilhelm Kraft: From St. Gunthild in Suffersheim. In: Historische Blätter für Stadt und Landkreis Eichstätt 9 (1960), No. 6, pp. 22-24
• Neudorf - Suffersheim . In: Evang.-Luth. Pappenheim Church District , Pappenheim 1966, pp. 29–32
• Reinhard Schwirzer: Karl Franz Leppa. A forgotten author from Bohemia. In: Villa nostra. Weißenburger Blätter for the history, local history and culture of the city and Weißenburger Land , issue 1 (1992), pp. 5–12
• Friedrich Gronauer: Church of St. Michael Suffersherim (leaflet). Ed. From Ev. Lutheran Parish Office Neudorf-Suffersheim, 1993
• Ulf Beier : Weißenburger field names . Weißenburger Heimatbücher Volume 4, Weißenburg i. Bay. 1995
• Gerhard Ruf (editor): Suffersheim. From Suberesheim to the district of Weißenburg i. Bay. 867 - 1996. Weissenburg Homeland Books Volume 5, Weissenburg i. Bay. 1996, ISBN 0-00-010648-8
• (Several articles on the Gunthildis cult), in: Villa nostra. Weißenburger Blätter for the history, local history and culture of the city and Weißenburger Land , years 1997 and 1999
• Friedrich Eigler : Suffersheim. In: Ders .: The early and high medieval settlement of the Altmühl-Rezat-Rednitz area , Munich / Vienna 2000, pp. 85–114
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Organ monuments in Middle Franconia , Rensch Orgelbauverlag 2001, p. 207, ISBN 3-921848-08-3
• Klaus Kreitmeir: A saint with secrets. Is Gunthild, the (Eichstätter) diocese patroness and the pious maid, one and the same person? In: Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt , No. 39 v. September 25, 2005, p. 14f
• St. Gunthildis Chapel in Suffersheim. In: Guest letter 2007 diocese Eichstätt , p. 15
• Here the soul comes to rest , in: Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt, No. 35 of September 2, 2007, p. 31
• Suffersheim. In: Johann Schrenk and Karl Friedrich Zink : God's houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, pp. 212–214
• Ekkart Sauser :  GUNTHILDIS (Gunthild) from Suffersheim. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 585-586.

Web links

• Today's Gunthildis Chapel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Eigler: Early stages of the -ingen and -heim villages in Raetien north of the Danube , in: Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie-Geschichte-Geographie 17 (1999) 181-218, here: p. 194 ( online, PDF ).
2. ^ 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. 731 .