Unterfinningen

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Unterfinningen is a place in the municipality of Finningen and a district in the Swabian district of Dillingen on the Danube . The community of Finningen was formed on January 1, 1974 from the independent communities of Oberfinningen and Unterfinningen. On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Mörslingen was incorporated.

history

The oldest archaeological finds in the Unterfinningen district date from the Middle and New Stone Age . One and a half kilometers northeast of the village is the so-called Osterstein , a boulder that was thrown there by the meteorite impact in the Ries around 15 million years ago. The stone was the center of a prehistoric place of worship that was explored during excavations in the 1950s. Around 93,000 ceramic shards were found that came from smashed sacrificial vessels.

Castle in Unterfinningen

Unterfinningen is first documented in 1262. In 1334 the place is handed down as Herrenfinningen , which indicates the seat of an aristocratic rule. The lords of Finningen are mentioned from 1268. They sold their property to the Lords of Erslingen , who have been called Unterfinningen since 1345. They sold their property in 1443 to the St. Ulrich and Afra monastery in Augsburg. Unterfinningen remained the seat of a court until the secularization in 1803 . The seat of this Hofmark was the moated castle to the north of St. Martin's Church .

Religions

Unterfinningen is the seat of an old parish . The current parish church of St. Martin was built around 1680.

Population development

  • 1840: 371 inhabitants
  • 1939: 351 inhabitants
  • 1950: 344 inhabitants
  • 1961: 294 inhabitants
  • 1970: 313 inhabitants

Personalities

literature

  • Werner Meyer (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Dillingen on the Danube. Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 470-485. (Series: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen an der Donau )
  • Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen ad Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 921–927.

Web links

Commons : Unterfinningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community of Finningen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 55 ″  E