Zell an der Speck

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Zell an der Speck
Nassenfels market
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Postal code : 85128
Area code : 08424

Zell an der Speck (officially: Zell adSpeck ) is a church village and part of the municipality of Nassenfels in the Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park . It belongs together with the Sächenfartmühle to the Meilenhofen district .

location

The place is in the Schuttertal one and a half kilometers west of Nassenfels or the Speckmühle in the direction of Meilenhofen . "Speck" here means Knüppeldamm or Prügelweg: From Nassenfels a Roman road led through what is now Zell in the direction of Treuchtlingen . A "Speckgraben" as a drainage ditch runs parallel to the Schutter.

history

The place name is likely to be derived from a Fronhof of the nearby Benedictine convent of Bergen ; According to another reading it could mean a field part. In 1239 the Augustinian monastery at Rebdorf near Eichstätt owned properties in Zell. Around 1300 the village was designated as an independent parish . In 1422 there was a Leonhardi chapel near Zell as a pilgrimage site. Until secularization and thus until the dissolution of the Hochstift Eichstätt in 1802, Zell belonged to the Landvogtei with its seat on the Willibaldsburg Eichstätt. After brief Tuscan rule, Zell became Bavarian in 1806. Under the rule of the Duke of Leuchtenberg , Napoleon's stepson and son-in-law of the Bavarian King , Prince of Eichstätt Eugène de Beauharnais , Zell was merged with the larger Meilenhofen in 1818 to form one municipality. In 1821 Zell itself had ten houses in which eleven families with 60 people lived. When the Principality of Eichstätt fell back to Bavaria in 1833, the municipality returned to Bavaria. From 1838 it was incorporated into the Rezatkreis by the Regenkreis and became part of Central Franconia with the latter. The political municipality Meilenhofen joined the market Nassenfels on the occasion of the regional reform on April 1, 1971. On July 1, 1972, the enlarged Eichstätt district moved to Upper Bavaria.

Attractions

  • The Catholic Church of St. Vitus , a branch church of Meilenhofen, is a building from 1724, probably built by the Eichstatt master mason Hans Deller according to a plan by Benedikt Ettl. An eight-sided roof turret with a sheet metal dome stands above the choir . The two-column, baroque high altar dates from 1710, the curved elevator was created two decades later. The side altars are also from 1710. All of the altar leaves are more recent. The unadorned pulpit is from 1700. Franz Hartmann created the ceiling painting in 1913. - The 172 Catholics of the place (status: 2003) are also provided for by the pastor of Ochsenfeld . The Evangelical Christians of Zell belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Eichstätt.
  • On the outskirts there is a military cemetery from the end of World War II with 18 graves of German soldiers and one grave of a US soldier.
  • Finds from the Paleolithic , Middle and Neolithic Ages were made on the nearby Speckberg to the east , an elevation in the middle of the Schuttertal valley with steppe heathland .
  • On the way to Meilenhofen, a brick wayside shrine with a painted picture reminds of a tragic accident. The - recently restored - inscription reads: “She did not recognize her loved one the Spindl runs into his heart | He just wanted to scare her and got himself dead | Ave Maria."

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. 456 .

literature

  • Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 42 (1927), p. 4, 50/51 (1935/36), p. 56–58
  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. II. Eichstätt District Office , Munich 1928 (reprint 1982), p. 36
  • Oswald Böhme: Zell an der Speck, in: Heimgarten 25 (1954), No. 10
  • Heinz Mittel: Walks in the Wellheimer Tal, Ingolstadt 1981, p. 105
  • The Eichstätter space in past and present , Eichstätt 2nd edition 1984, p. 308
  • Ludwig Hartmann: Wednesday, April 25, 1945, in Zell , in: Historische Blätter für Stadt und Landkreis Eichstätt 41 (1994), No. 5
  • Ludwig Hartmann: Zell an der Speck, April 25, 1945, in: Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt 143 (1995), pp. 92-98

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