Uttigkofen

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Uttigkofen
Municipality Aldersbach
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '53 "  N , 13 ° 1' 55"  E
Height : 334 m
Postal code : 94501
Area code : 08543
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The parish church of the Assumption of Mary

Uttigkofen is a district of the municipality of Aldersbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .

location

Uttigkofen is located on the right bank of the Sulzbach in the Isar-Inn hill country about two kilometers southwest of Aldersbach on the state road 2108.

history

A widow named Christina Vilserin gave an estate in Uttinchoven to the Aldersbach monastery in 1242 with the consent of her children . In 1379, Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg owned the village of Uttigkofen as a fief of Obermünster Abbey in Regensburg . The goods in Uttigkofen belonged to the secularization largely the rule Haide castle , smaller parts of the monastery of St. Nikola and the monastery of St. Salvator . The Hofmark Uttigkofen was also under the rule of Haidenburg.

A St. Mary's Church was located here as early as the 14th century. Wolfgang von Closen , pastor in Uttigkofen, became Prince-Bishop of Passau in 1556.

In 1818 the lordly rural community of Haidenburg was formed, the scope of which was identical to the parish of Uttigkofen. Eggerting and Mandlmühle were added in 1821. On January 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria, the municipality of Haidenburg became part of the large municipality of Aldersbach.

Attractions

  • Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary. The late Gothic building was built in the middle of the 15th century and redesigned in Baroque style in 1632. The tower structure is classical. The furnishings are neo-Gothic, with parts of earlier furnishings, including a rococo wood figure of the Annunciation and a tabernacle from around 1400.
  • Grave monuments of the noble families from Haidenburg from the late Gothic to the early baroque (15th to 17th centuries). The oldest gravestone bears the year 1444.
  • Chapel on the road to Freundorf. It was built by citizens of the parish of Uttigkofen on the occasion of the 1250th anniversary of the town of Aldersbach. The chapel reminds of the former pilgrimage to the "Herrgot on Hochstrasse".

literature

  • Joseph Klämpfl: The former Schweinach and Quinzingau. A historical-topographical description , 1855, reprint 1993, Neue Presse Verlags-GmbH, Passau, ISBN 3-924484-73-2