Zell (Dietfurt an der Altmühl)

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Cell
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 496 m
Residents : 278  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 92345
Area code : 08468
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The church of Zell
In the church

Zell is a district of the city of Dietfurt an der Altmühl in the Neumarkt district in Upper Palatinate in Bavaria .

location

The parish village is located south of the parish seat on the plateau of the southern Franconian Jura . A road branches off from the B 299 via the neighboring village of Wolfsbuch to Zell, which continues to the neighboring village of Arnsdorf and Riedenburg - Deising in the Altmühltal .

history

Prehistory of Zell without documents

Finds and excavations, which date back to the Hallstatt period, approx. 1000 - 500 BC, prove that the area around Zell was not settled since the time of the documentary mention. BC, go back. These finds were made during the time of the RMD canal construction, but also earlier. Objects from the Hallstatt and Bronze Ages were found in the Zeller Corridor before the turn of the century.

History of Zell with documents

The place name Zell refers to the foundation of the place by a monastery. The mother monastery is clearly the Benedictine monastery in Altmühlmünster. The Benedictine monastery was built by the Agilolfingen dukes, whose last, Tassilo III, was deposed by Charlemagne in 755. One can therefore assume that Zell was created around this time.

In 1158 the Counts Heinrich and Otto von Riedenburg donated a Templar coming to Altmühlmünster . The Templars were their own religious knightly order, which was founded to fight the "infidels" and to protect the Palestinian pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher as a result of the 1st Crusade. After the fall of Akko in 1291, the order began to decline. How long Zell was under the rule of the Templars can no longer be said. In any case, Count Gebhard von Hirschberg made a will on September 8, 1304 in Mühlbach, in which he bequeathed Zell and a number of other places in the vicinity to Bishop Konrad in Eichstätt in the event of his childless death. The dukes Rudolf and Ludwig of Bavaria challenged the will after the counts died out in 1305, because they were of the opinion that the inheritance should have passed to them. In the Gaimersheim arbitration contract of 1305, however, the legality of the will was recognized. In 1309 the dukes Rudolph and Ludwig gave the church of Zell a hub with forest. In 1367 the Abenbergers transferred their own property in Zell to the hospital in Essing . 1432 gave Duke Wilhelm III. of Bavaria the patronage right and the possession of the church of Zell the Johanniterkloster in Altmühlmünster .

After secularization , the village belonged to the Riedenburg district court in the Altmühlkreis, established in 1803 (from 1808; from 1810 to the Regenkreis , renamed Upper Palatinate in 1837 ). In 1838, Zell consisted of 47 houses with 240 residents. When the district offices were set up , the parish village became part of the Hemau district office in 1862 . In 1879/80, Zell moved with the separate district court (and later district) Riedenburg to the new Upper Palatinate district office (and later district) Beilngries .

In 1933 the place had 301 inhabitants, in 1939 280. In the course of the Bavarian regional reform , Zell became part of the city of Dietfurt in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt on July 1, 1972.

Catholic parish church

The early Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin was incorporated on November 12, 1433, Bishop Konrad von Regensburg der Kommende zu Altmühlmünster. In 1646, Georg Hollner, a pastor from Zell, is known by name for the first time. Today's church is almost entirely a new building from 1750; the original choir tower (today east of the choir; with a pointed barrel with brightly glazed bricks) was converted into a sacristy . The Riedenburg master mason Georg Fuchs delivered the crack in 1747 . The square choir has moved in and has a cross vault. The nave, which was extended to the west in 1903, has a flat roof. The church has a baroque interior: the four-column high altar from the beginning of the 18th century shows the Assumption of Mary in the altarpiece and flanking between the pairs of pillars are the saints Wendelin and Isidore . The two two-column side altars are from 1678; on the left, the altar of Mary, there are wooden statues of St. Maria, St. Catherine and St. Barbara , “good work from the end of the 15th century” (Hofmann / Mader, p. 156), on the right wooden figures of St. Pope Gregory and St. Blasius from the same time. A Gothic limestone baptismal font with a vine thread decoration also dates from the 15th century. The ceiling paintings depict the birth of Jesus, the crucifixion of Jesus, the coronation of Mary and symbolically the seven sacraments .

A bell from 1628 comes from the Munich gun and bell founder Bartholomäus Wenglein , and another from 1668 from Kaspar Haslauer in Ingolstadt . Three new bells were added in 1952.

The parish of Zell with 527 Catholics (status: 2001) belongs to the diocese of Regensburg. The pastor of the parish Altmühlmünster-Mühlbach-Zell lives in Zell.

economy

In the village there is, among other things, a bus, a construction company, a carpenter's workshop and a country inn.

societies

literature

  • Cell . In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg . Regensburg 1938, pp. 373-376
  • Friedrich Hermann Hofmann and Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries. II. District Court Riedenburg. 1908 (reprint 1982, ISBN 3-486-50443-6 ) p. 156f.
  • Franz Kerschensteiner: Dietfurt ad Altmühl. Treuchtlingen 1999, p. 86f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 258 ( digitized version ).