Untermühlhausen
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Untermühlhausen
municipality Penzing
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| Height : | 597 m |
| Residents : | 417 (Nov. 2, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1971 |
| Postal code : | 86929 |
| Area code : | 08191 |
 St. Benedict in Untermühlhausen
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Untermühlhausen is a district of the municipality of Penzing in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .
location
The parish village is about 2 km northwest of Penzing. The Lost Bach , a tributary of the Danube, has its source near Untermühlhausen .
history
The community of Untermühlhausen was shaped by farming and craftsmanship for centuries and was in close contact with the neighboring community of Epfenhausen and the nearby town of Landsberg am Lech . The area around Untermühlhausen was already settled in the Roman Empire , as shown by grave sites with additions on the southern outskirts. Since the 8th century, the place named after the mill on the brook, later also called Baiermühlhausen, was connected to the monasteries of Benediktbeuern and Sandau. The parish church of St. Benedict has its patronage from this. Until 1803 the abbot of Benediktbeuern appointed the clergy in the village, who also looked after the churches in Sandau, at the Höschlhof, in Ummendorf and Reisch. At the castle in Untermühlhausen, which can still be seen in traces of the terrain in the northeast of the village, there were ministerials of the dukes of Bavaria from the Guelph dynasty . In the 12th century, the knight Ulrich donated property to the Wessobrunn monastery , which, along with the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Landsberg, became the largest landlord of properties in Untermühlhausen. In the late Middle Ages there was a separate village court in the village, in which a lordly bailiff was established, whose functions were later partially taken over by the municipality of Untermühlhausen.
With the mill , the castle , the village court , the bailiff and the parish , the village had central functions for the neighboring towns from an early age. In the 19th century, the town received strong impulses from the construction of the Munich-Lindau railway line and the construction of the train station. Until the 1960s, a high density of businesses developed with three farms, three carpenters, two blacksmiths and agricultural machinery dealers, two country dealers, two electricians, etc. Since the 1950s, the community has modernized its infrastructure extensively with the construction of its own water supply, the asphalting of the Local roads, the extension of the church including the cemetery, with plans for a kindergarten and playground as well as for the extension of the local road to Oberbergen. The construction of a new school, including a teacher's house, together with the neighboring community of Epfenhausen, triggered a surge in education and academia in the younger generation in the 1960s. After it was incorporated into Penzing by the authorities in 1971, the town suffered a collapse: no building area was designated for more than 20 years, and young adults had to reluctantly leave the village; Post and railway gave up their offices and the train station. The independent Raiffeisen cooperative Epfenhausen-Untermühlhausen merged with Raiffeisen Kaufering , which first built a new warehouse for agricultural trade in the village, but then closed the local branch and warehouse and sold all the assets that had been built up over a century in Epfenhausen and Untermühlhausen. The children from Epfenhausen and Untermühlhausen could no longer use the new school. The large listed rectory was demolished at the instigation of the new mayor. After growing protests from the population with signatures from the pastor and all the association boards, there has been new impetus since the 1990s: smaller building areas were designated, the long-delayed sewer system built, the water supply renewed, the fire station expanded, the school converted into a kindergarten and clubhouse . The parish made more and more local infrastructure available. It enabled the necessary expansion of the cemetery, took part in the design of the new village green with a pond and built an event building with the parish aristocracy, which can accommodate up to 400 people and enables a variety of cultural activities.
education
The community kindergarten "Wurzel-Purzel" is available together with the neighboring town of Epfenhausen . The primary school is in neighboring Penzing , secondary schools in Kaufering , Landsberg , Schondorf (boys) and Dießen (girls), a vocational and technical high school is in Landsberg, grammar schools in Sankt Ottilien (Hum./Benediktiner), Landsberg and Dießen .
For children there is a playground and soccer field as well as a sledge hill. There are smaller forests nearby and the Lost Brook, which is dammed up into a small lake in the headwaters, with the neighboring natural monument "Seven Sources".
Public life
Numerous clubs and organizations are active in Untermühlhausen : the sports fans, the rifle club, the fruit and horticultural club, the choir club, the chess club, the soldiers 'comradeship, the boys' club, the Catholic rural youth, the parish council, the church foundation, the volunteer fire brigade and the hunting association. Well known in the region is the annual carnival parade, which the Fasching team Untermühlhausen e. V. organizes. The Untermühlhausen village community takes care of local political interests.
The clubs intensively involve children and young people. Senior afternoons provide information , entertainment and an exchange of views.
The clubs and organizations enable numerous regular activities. Larger events and customs in the town are the rasso festival, a choir and brass music serenade, the Martinszug and Christmas market, the Knöpflesnacht and the Gockel fetching on Friday night. Events now mostly take place in the centrally located Pfarrstadl. The Gasthaus Schauer-Philipper with beer garden was the last of the three inns in Untermühlhausen to close in 2015.
Parish of St. Benedict
The Catholic parish of St. Benedikt is looked after by Pastor Franz Schaumann SDB and Chaplain Guido Beck together with St. Maria-Himmelfahrt in Epfenhausen and St. Johann in Kaufering . The church of St. Benedict was decorated in the 18th century in the Rococo style by Wessobrunn artisans. According to A. Schöppner's book of legends, St. Rasso was born in Untermühlhausen, as evidenced by a memorial stone from the 18th century and a chapel. The parish maintains the Pfarrstadel as an event space in the village.
Townscape
The townscape of Untermühlhausen is still characterized by the originally rural and artisanal character and the embedding in the surrounding landscape between terminal moraine and the valley of the Lost Brook. In the middle stands out the green village green with a pond near the parish church. Buildings that characterize the townscape, such as the mill or the Thoma, Veiten and Gruber estates as well as the train station, have been renovated and converted for residential and commercial purposes. Other characteristic farmhouses and towns with gardens are waiting for new uses or users. New buildings have mostly been built as one or two-family houses since the 1950s until recently. On the southern outskirts, the old water tower is one of the landmarks of the place.
Seven springs natural monument
The headwaters of the Lost Brook in the west of Untermühlhausen are designated as a natural monument because of its rich flora and fauna. Rare plants and animals, sometimes a black stork, can be observed there.
coat of arms
“Split by silver and blue; in front a vertically positioned black spade , behind a silver cup from which a golden snake climbs. ”The spade is reminiscent of the late medieval village court in Untermühlhausen, which was held at times by the Landsberg family Ostendorfer. The snake from the cup refers to Saint Benedict as the parish patron.
Soil monuments
See: List of soil monuments in Penzing (Bavaria)
Personalities
- Manfred Broy , computer scientist , professor at the Technical University of Munich
- Johann Kindl , lawyer, professor at the University of Münster
- Ferdinand Kramer , historian, professor at the LMU Munich
- Paul Ondrusch , academic sculptor , (from 1945 in Untermühlhausen)
literature
- Ferdinand Kramer: History of the community Untermühlhausen . Regensburg / Berlin 2000
- Ferdinand Kramer: Farm work in a village on the Lechrain . Landsberg 1990
- Ferdinand Kramer: Untermühlhausen: Experienced world of villagers and the possibilities of dissemination of intellectual currents in a rural region . In: Fassl, Peter / Liebhart, Wilhelm / Wüst, Wolfgang (eds.): From Swabia and Old Bavaria . Sigmaringen 1991, pp. 133-155
