Weisingen

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Weisingen
Municipality Holzheim
Weisingen coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 431 m
Residents : 1055  (June 30, 2014)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 89438
Area code : 09075

Weisingen is a district of the municipality of Holzheim in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau . The place, which had incorporated Altenbaindt on October 1, 1970 , became part of Holzheim on May 1, 1978.

location

The parish village is located west of Holzheim and has grown together structurally. Weisingen is located in the small valley of the Weisinger Bach at the northern foot of the Iller-Lech-Platte .

history

Archaeological finds from Roman times were made in the area. The Römerstraße Günzburg - Burghöfe follows the Dorfstraße a little way in an east-west direction. Weisingen goes back to an Alemannic foundation, which is documented by row graves from the 7th century. The place was probably created as an expansion settlement from Holzheim.

Weisingen is first mentioned in 1209 as "Witingin", in 1239 it is passed down as Wizzingen. The place was the seat of its own rule under the Lords of Weisingen, who are attested between 1239 and 1400. Around 1400 the rule came to the Lords of Grafeneck and in 1454 to the bishopric Augsburg . Weisingen became the seat of an (upper) Vogtamt in the Hochstift , which was under the Dillingen Rent Office until 1789. In 1789 the Weisingen nursing office was created. In the course of secularization in 1802/03, Weisingen came to Bavaria and was assigned to the Dillingen district court on June 1, 1804 .

Religions

St. Sixtus in Weisingen

Weisingen belonged to two thirds to the original parish Holzheim, the remaining third to the parish Altenbaindt. In 1810 the entire place was raised to the status of an independent curate . In 1871 it received the status of an independent curate and finally in 1922 the own parish of Weisingen was founded. The Catholic parish church of St. Sixtus was built between 1730 and 1732. The Herrgottskapelle from the 18th century stands on the western edge of the village .

Population development

  • 1840: 0476 inhabitants
  • 1875: 0550 inhabitants
  • 1910: 0590 inhabitants
  • 1939: 0575 inhabitants
  • 1950: 0851 inhabitants
  • 1961: 0722 inhabitants (with Altenbaindt: 882 inhabitants)
  • 1970: 0740 inhabitants (with Altenbaindt: 881 inhabitants)
  • 1980: 0853 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1007 inhabitants
  • 2014: 1055 inhabitants

Architectural monuments

Personalities

  • Sebastian Guggenbichel was born in Weisingen after 1580 as the son of a mercenary family. In 1598 he started an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Christoph Murmann the Younger in Augsburg . During his time as a journeyman, he worked in the sculpture workshop of Christoph Rodt zu Neuburg an der Kammel . There he was already working on his most famous work, the high altar of the parish church in Illertissen . In 1610 he settled in Dillingen on the Danube and married Elisabeth Rößlerin there that same year. The marriage resulted in at least 8 children. Until his death on June 19, 1646 he ran a sculpture workshop in the city.
  • Georg Guggenbichel , probably a younger brother of Sebastian, was a sculptor and architect . During the Thirty Years' War he worked in the Lake Constance area, in Switzerland and then in Upper Swabia . The youngest of Georg's four sons Johann Meinrad Guggenbichel, also known as Meinrad Guggenbichler , became known as the “Sculptor from Mondsee”.
  • Pius Dirr , born on November 28th as the son of the Weisingen farmer and innkeeper Franz Dirr, was a historian and politician. He was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1912 to 1924. Dirr died on January 27, 1943 in Munich.

literature

  • Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 319–322.
  • Adolf Layer :: The Guggenbichel in Weisingen. Yearbook of the Historisches Verein Dillingen, Volume 67/68 (1965/66), pp. 89-104.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 446 .
  2. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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 and 771 .