Weichshofen
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Weichshofen
municipality Mengkofen
Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 55 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 59" E
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| Height : | 396 m |
| Area : | 3.17 km² |
| Residents : | 335 (May 27 1970) |
| Population density : | 106 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1971 |
| Postal code : | 84152 |
| Area code : | 08733 |
 Location of the community of Weichshofen in what was then the
district of Dingolfing |
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 View of Weichshofen with the Church of St. Georg
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Weichshofen is a district of the Mengkofen municipality in the Dingolfing-Landau district in Lower Bavaria . Until 1971 it formed an independent municipality. The seat of the community was the church village of the same name, Weichshofen.
location
Weichshofen is about half a kilometer southwest of Mengkofen, with which it has completely grown together.
history
Weichshofen was originally just a single farm belonging to the Regensburg diocese . From there the Stinglheim received this property in pledge. Since 1390, Weichshofen belonged to Friedrich von Stinglheim as a fief. Feudal lords were the Counts of Abensberg , later the Bavarian electors and kings. The Stinglheim remained lords of Weichshofen until 1822, when the last landlord died without male descendants. The closed Hofmark Weichshofen fell to the state, which dissolved it.
The first Georgskirche stood in the former cemetery until the current church was built outside the cemetery in 1886. At the end of the 1960s, the cemetery that was located where the car park is today was relocated. A memorial still reminds of it. In church terms, Weichshofen belongs to the Mengkofen parish.
In 1920 the police wanted to carry out a mill inspection in order to confiscate “black” grain. This led to a kind of popular uprising: the angry population used beatings, brooms, iron bars, fence slats and similar striking tools to attack the police, who shot a completely uninvolved young man. So many people from the area appeared at his funeral as she had never seen Weichshofen before. In the subsequent process, the Landshut district court pronounced prison sentences of up to seven months.
The communities Weichshofen and Krottenthal, the hamlets Klein Weichshofen, Hönigsbach, Feldkirchen and Ziegelstadel as well as the wasteland Raschen belonged to the community of Weichshofen. Weichshofen was incorporated into Mengkofen on January 1, 1946 by order of the local US military government agency. However, this incorporation was reversed by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior between 1947 and 1949. The final incorporation took place on January 1, 1971 in the course of the regional reform in Bavaria .
Attractions
- St. George Church. The neo-Romanesque building in brick-red clay was built in 1886 by pastor Karl Bacher by master builder Johann Baptist Niedereder. The limestone of the old church was reused in the base. The interior has a ribbed vault over semicircular wall pillars, the furnishings date from the time it was built. The middle of the colorful lead windows in the choir from the Kunstanstalt Zettler, Munich, shows the patron of the church - St. Georg the dragon slayer, on the right St. Notburga, patroness of the servants, on the left St. Leonhard, protector of the peasant class.
- Sacred Heart Festival. On the third Sunday after Pentecost, the Sacred Heart Festival is celebrated with a large procession. The Aitrachtaler Volksfest developed from the Sacred Heart Festival in 1975. The Sacred Heart Festival with the parade from Weichshofen to the festival tent is still the focus of the festival.
societies
- Association for Horticulture and Land Care Weichshofen eV, founded on April 25, 1909
- Voluntary fire brigade Mengkofen Weichshofen eV.