Windshofen

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Windshofen
municipality Aurach
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 460  (459-469)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 90  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 91589
Area code : 09804

Windshofen is a district of the municipality of Aurach in the district of Ansbach ( Middle Franconia ).

geography

The village lies on the Seitzenbronner Bach, a right tributary of the Wieseth . It forms a closed settlement with Westheim to the west . The Kapellenwald and the Mörnsheimer Wald are located on a hill in the south and southwest. In the north and east there is grassland with a few trees and arable land on a flat hilly plain. The district road AN 36 leads to Westheim (0.5 km west) or Leuckersdorf (1.5 km east). A residential path leads to Elbleinsmühle (0.3 km east).

history

The place is first mentioned by name in 1388 in the fief book of the Herrieden monastery. At the time, the manorial power in Windshofen was divided between the Eichstätt Monastery and the Feuchtwangen Monastery . In 1418 Peter von Mörnsheim zu Aurach u. a. a meadow near Windshofen. In 1430 the Feuchtwangen canon monastery acquired two farms and the mill there.

Windshofen was in the Fraisch district of the Ansbach Oberamt Feuchtwangen . In 1732 the place consisted of 8 properties with 9 teams and 1 chapel. The landlords were the Feuchtwangen monastery administration office (1 farm with double crew, 1 farm, 1 farm) and the caste office in Herrieden (2 farms, 3 farms). By the end of the 18th century there were 10 properties, 5 of which were Feuchtwangisch. In 1804 there were 12 subject families in the place, 7 of which were from Eichstätt. From 1797 to 1808 the place was subordinate to the Justice and Chamber Office Feuchtwangen .

With the community edict (early 19th century) Windshofen was assigned to the tax district and the rural community of Weinberg . In the course of the regional reform , Windshofen was incorporated into Aurach on May 1, 1978.

Pilgrimage to the Mater Dolorosa above the Wiesethgrund

The new Catholic pilgrimage and subsidiary church Mater Dolorosa von Windshofen, built in 1855

A pilgrimage church stood on the hill between Windshofen and Charhof until 1808 , the oldest traces of which were built into the 13th / 14th centuries. Century ways. The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1452. Originally consecrated to St. Leonhard , shortly before the Reformation the main patronage was rededicated to Our Lady of Sorrows . Other patrons were St. Sebastian and St. James .

The chapel had both a Hochstiftisch-Eichstättisch and a margravial-Ansbach church caretaker . The margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach held the church consecration protection . As a branch church of the Aurach parish, the chapel represented the spiritual center of the surrounding villages and served at the same time as a fortified church and signal tower. The pilgrimage from Windshofen experienced its heyday around the 30-year war . In the course of the Enlightenment, their importance declined at the end of the 18th century. In 1807 the chapel was secularized and finally demolished in 1808. Today only a wayside shrine lined with linden trees reminds of them at their original location. This was built in 1855 when a new pilgrimage chapel was built between Windshofen and Westheim . The field name "Kappelberg" was also retained.

The chapel, which was newly built in 1855/1856, has been used regularly for pilgrimages since 1996.

Architectural monuments

  • Catholic pilgrimage and subsidiary church Mater Dolorsa , simple historicizing choir tower church with attached sacristy, 1855/56; with equipment.
  • Windshofen 19: One-storey stable house, half-timbered gable, early 19th century

Population development

year 001818 001840 001861 001871 001885 001900 001925 001950 001961 001970 001987
Residents 71 112 105 * 117 112 108 * 106 * 149 * 124 * 115 90
Houses 13 18th 23 23 * 22 * 23 * 24 * 23
source
* including Gutenmühle

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 324 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Windshofen in the Bavaria Atlas
  3. ↑ Windshofen on the website aurach.de
  4. ↑ According to the Vetterische description of the Oberamt Feuchtwangen from 1732 ( see also Windshofen ( manor ) on the website geschichte-feuchtwangen.de).
  5. ^ Johann Bernhard Fischer : Windshofen . In: Statistical and topographical description of the Burggraftum Nürnberg, below the mountain, or the Principality of Brandenburg-Anspach. Second part. Containing the economic, statistical and moral condition of these countries according to the fifteen upper offices . Benedict Friedrich Haueisen, Ansbach 1790, p. 195 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ JK Bundschuh, Vol. 6, Col. 263.
  7. ↑ The Windshofer Pilgrimage on the website aurach.de
  8. ↑ Mater Dolorosa Chapel, Windshofen on the website www.pfarrgemeinde-aurach.de
  9. ↑ Only inhabited houses are given. In 1818 these were referred to as "fireplaces", in 1840 as "houses", and from 1871 to 1987 as "residential buildings".
  10. ↑ Alphabetical index of all the localities contained in the Rezatkkreis according to its constitution by the newest organization: with indication of a. the tax districts, b. Judicial Districts, c. Rent offices in which they are located, then several other statistical notes . Ansbach 1818, p. 104 ( digitized version ).
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  16. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1224 ( digitized version ).
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