Weigersdorf (pollen field)

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Weigersdorf
Municipality Pollenfeld
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '24 "  N , 11 ° 11' 28"  E
Height : 539 m
Residents : 143  (Jan. 1, 2015)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 85131
Area code : 08421
St. Andreas - Weigersdorf
St. Andreas - Weigersdorf

Weigersdorf is a district of the municipality of Pollenfeld in the district of Eichstätt , Bavaria .

location

The place is located on the southern Franconian Jura about six kilometers north of Eichstätt at the intersection of the streets Pollenfeld - Langensallach and Seuversholz - Preith and is surrounded by fields.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1186 when Pope Urban III. Ownership and rights (church and Meierhof) confirmed to the Eichstätter cathedral chapter . Two years earlier, the Eichstatt canon Volckmar had built a St. Mary's Church here. In 1194 a noble seat is mentioned. In 1484/86, the Eichstatt Bishop Wilhelm exchanged goods in Weigersdorf with the parish of Etting near Ingolstadt and with the Augustinian Canons Rebdorf . From the 17th to the 19th century, ore mines were exploited near Weigersdorf. In 1689 the broken church bell in Nuremberg was cast around.

In 1936 land consolidation was carried out. Weigersdorf has been incorporated into Pollenfeld since the municipal reform in 1972. In 1973 there were five full-time farms and 15 part-time farms in the town with 143 inhabitants, as well as a clothing factory with 20 employees. In 2003, 139 Catholics lived in Weigersdorf, pastoral care by the pastor of Pollenfeld, and 18 non-Catholics.

church

The Catholic Church of St. Andreas, a branch church of Pollenfeld, was built in 1745 by the Pollenfeld master mason Joseph Leitner under the supervision of Giovanni Domenico Barbieri according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli ; it was consecrated in 1746. The lower floor of the tower is medieval, the upper floor of the tower dates from 1834; the tower closes with a helmet over four gables. The ceiling paintings are by Hugo Ernst Murmann (1745). The high and side altars are baroque (1745); the stucco pulpit was created by Franz Xaver Horneis in 1746 . The church houses late Gothic and Baroque sculptures. The mobile equipment includes a St. Andreas early Rococo reliquary from 1735.

societies

Archival material

  • State Archives Nuremberg, Volume Hochstift Eichstätt Literature HEL 158

literature

  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928 (reprint 1982), pp. 344-346
  • Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 61 (1965/66), p. 40f.
  • The Eichstätter space in past and present , Eichstätt 1973, p. 289

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on the municipality. Community of Pollenfeld, accessed on June 16, 2017 .

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