Zell (Neuburg on the Danube)

Cell Large district town of Neuburg on the Danube Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 14 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	379 m
Area :	14.58 km²
Residents :	210 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1976
Postal code :	86633
Area code :	08431

Zell is a district of the large district town of Neuburg an der Donau in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria and lies on the edge of the Donaumoos .

There are five districts in the Zell district:

history

Dorfstrasse from Zell before the settlement of the village

In 1007, King Heinrich II gave Zell to the Benedictine monastery in Neuburg . This is also the oldest written note about Zell. However, 20 burial mounds in the Eichele cell confirm that people lived here as early as the Hallstatt period . A bronze knife came to light in the herb gardens in Zell, which is believed to date from the Latène period (500 BC). 15 BC The Roman road already passed here. Zell has been a parish village for a long time . Ecclesiastical rights go back to 1318.

The community

When the community was reorganized in 1808, the Rödenhof, Maxweiler, the Rohrenfeld stud, Rothheim belonged to the community of Zell. But also the solitude of Bürgererschwaige, today in the Heinrichsheimer district, as well as the English garden with two inhabitants, the Grünau Castle and the Längenmühle at the gates of Neuburg were also part of the municipality. The settlement of Heinrichsheim and Marienheim was a new addition .

In 1837 the Heinrichsheim colony already had 34 families with 225 souls. Now the wish came to form a church of their own. 30 signatures are collected and passed on. And the reason: The ways to Zell and Marienheim are too far and too bad are partly swampy. The municipality of Zell had nothing against the outsourcing. The ministry approved the new community "Heinrichsheim" on March 11, 1838.

When the office of mayor was introduced in Bavaria in 1869 , the government proposed that Zell, Bruck and Heinrichsheim be merged into one municipality. On August 16, 1869, Zell decided that it wanted to form an independent municipality. The other places took the same decisions. So this church reform failed. In the years around 1970 the reform carousel turned again. The population tended to have its own community with Bruck and Heinrichsheim, but this failed. The municipal councils voted for Neuburg and on January 1, 1976, it was incorporated into the district town of Neuburg. On December 31, 2008, the Zell district had 196 inhabitants.

A village is moving

A traffic sign warns of air traffic

The Zeller See is an idyll of the place

The Zell airfield was a military facility and was built out of the ground before the Second World War as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht operated by the Nazi regime . During the war , especially in March and April 1945, the air base was bombed and severely damaged by US aircraft several times . There were fatalities among the residents of the surrounding villages, but also great damage to buildings.

At the end of the 1950s, the municipality of Zell learned that a NATO airfield for the air force of the newly founded Bundeswehr was to be built on the former airfield . The approach path should be laid directly over the houses and a building ban should be imposed on most of the land. The citizens of Zell defended themselves against it. Karl Heinz Lemmrich , a member of the Bundestag at the time , was also involved. But the state originally had deaf ears. There were citizens' meetings and demonstrations, which were reported nationwide. Finally, a settlement outside the danger area was approved and the old buildings were replaced with state funds. In 1968 the topping-out ceremony of the first newly built house was celebrated.

The noise from the F-86 or "Starfighter" (from 1965) was great after the base was put into operation in 1961, and school operations were severely disrupted. In 1971, a starfighter crashed into the nearby Zeller Holzspitz while approaching.

The relocation was long completed, most farmers have made new homes on the land they have been assigned. Most of the commercial enterprises and also some non-farmers had to build their domicile in the neighboring towns or in the city of Neuburg. Only a few houses and the church are still in Alt-Zell.

The Zeller See, a huge digger pond, is still reminiscent of the extensive gravel extraction for the construction of the airfield. Today the Zeller See is a small idyll for bathers.

Four wayside shrines

Wayside shrine to the fourteen saints

Once upon a time, the houses and farms in Alt-Zell were built very closely together. After the construction of the military airfield and the relocation of the village, the whole area was more or less unused. In 1988 four wayside shrines were erected as a piece of jewelry and as a testimony to Christian piety . This was a large joint effort under the direction of the citizens of Zell. Local craftsmen volunteered around a thousand hours of unpaid work for these monuments. Church painter Georg Löhnert from Etting near Ingolstadt took on the planning and drafts as well as the artistic design. The breeding animal cooperative of Zell donated 5,000 marks, there were further grants from the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn, from the city of Neuburg and the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen. The total cost was put at 34,000 marks. The horticultural association took over the future care and maintenance. The shrines were consecrated as part of a two-day celebration on May 28 and 29, 1988, in which around 30 clubs took part.

The wayside shrine on Neuburger Strasse is adorned with the diocese patrons St. Ulrich and Afra of the diocese of Augsburg . The largest wayside shrine dedicated to the 14 helpers stands on the former school property . At the canal bridge to the resettlers, Maria greets them as patron saint. The resurrection of Christ is depicted on the cemetery grounds. The four shrines also serve as Corpus Christi altars .

Church history

literature

Ludwig Wagner: Chronicle of Zell Bruck - with Marienheim, Rödenhof, Rohrenfeld and Maxweiler - on the trail of village history . Neuburg, 1998

Web links

Commons : Zell (Neuburg an der Donau) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Population figures in the city of Neuburg an der Donau
^ Landmarks of the city of Neuburg
^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 601 .

[1] Population figures in the city of Neuburg an der Donau

[2] Landmarks of the city of Neuburg

[3] 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 601 .