Weiherhof (Gessertshausen)

Weiherhof community Gessertshausen Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '32 " N , 10 ° 42' 26" E
Height :	506 m above sea level NN
Residents :	39 (1987)
Postal code :	86459
Area code :	08238

The settlement Weiherhof (formerly Oberhofen) near Döpshofen ( Gessertshausen ) is located about two kilometers southwest of the Oberschönenfeld monastery in the Augsburg district in Swabia and is part of the perennial landscape . In addition to a small housing estate and a few farm buildings, there is also the “Weiherhof”. The baroque solid building with its associated chapel now serves as an inn and is a popular excursion destination in the Augsburg-Western Forests nature park . In the north of the settlement there is a 9-hole golf course .

history

View from the east

The decorative gable

According to tradition, the first seat of the Oberschönenfeld convent was located here in the High Middle Ages . The monastery finally left Weiherhof in 1211 and moved to its current location. In 1480 the monastery built a fish pond in Weiherhof, but it disappeared again over time.

The present inn was built in 1728 under the abbess Viktoria Farget. The chapel was added ten years later after the (disappeared) building inscription. The brief inventory has the following words: "Built in 1738, repealed in 1803, parish changed from Dietkirch to Döpshofen in 1825".

Weiherhof originally belonged to the municipality of Döpshofen, which was incorporated into the municipality of Gessertshausen on May 1, 1978.

Inn

The two-storey solid building with six to five window axes stands on a hill above the road connecting the monastery and Döpshofen. The chapel is located to the east. Towards the street, the baroque tail gable with its volutes and curved attachment defines the architectural image. A round arched niche between pilasters hides a painted clay figure of St. Benedict, which is from the construction period. The preserved building inscription on the corner stone at the southeast corner is laid out as a chronogram : "MarIa VIctorIa antIstIta Longe gLorIosa aeDes Isthas ConstrVXLt" (1728).

chapel

The small, rectangular room only has a single window axis. The sacred building stands on a high base, the structure consists of strong pilaster strips and Tuscan pilasters . East to the input crowned a roof turret with onion cover the saddle roof .

The interior spans a groin vault . In the flat, three-sided end there is an altar bench. The simple grid on the arched portal is modern.

literature

Wilhelm Neu and Frank Otten: District of Augsburg . (Bavarian art monuments, brief inventory, XXX). Munich 1970.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ History of the Döpshofen district
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .

[1] History of the Döpshofen district

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 768 .