Gelbelsee

Gelbelsee is a parish village near the geographic center of the Free State of Bavaria. It belongs to the municipality Denkendorf. The village has about 500 inhabitants. Village patron saint is St. Hippolytus. The village church is built in the baroque style.

Geography

Gelbelsee located in the natural park Altmuhltal on the plateau of southern Franconian 540 m above sea level. NN between Kipfenberg and Denkendorf.

Church

The parish church St.Hippolyt was built in the Baroque period. It is slightly raised in the village. Hippolytus of Rome, a Roman church father of the 3rd century, in Germany in just a very few municipalities revered as a saint (see list of Hippolytkirchen ), where he long time not as a priest and writer, but erroneously as a Roman officer (who in prison to guard the St. Lawrence, is converted by this, however, and therefore later torn as a martyr by four horses ) was presented.

The newly renovated interior of the church are three beautiful altars. The tower has three bells in the tone sequence a1 -h1 - cis2.

Transmitter Gelbelsee

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History

Gelbelsee is in the oldest documents Gouliubese called what is known as " Lake of Gouliub " - is interpreted - an inhabitant. In 1301 the place Gelbelsee was written.

Gelbelsee is located in an ancient settlement area, ( 1200-500 BC) show how the round barrows located in the forests of the Hallstein time. The Hallstein people belonged phylogenetically to the Illyrian family of nations. They were followed by the Germanic tribes and the migration of peoples in the fifth century the Bavarians. Coming from the east, already a pre-Roman road passes through Gelbelsee, continue through the Kristal and Kipfenberg west. Near By the Roman Limes (residues: two observation towers, barracks and wells ) ran.

Some data from the history:

• Earliest in 1058 consecrated Bishop of Eichstätt a Gundekar II Church of St. Hippolytus.
• 1075: patronal feast on August 13. Hippolytus was anti-pope Calixtus I. to, he died around 235 as a martyr in Sardinia. - Fair but has since time immemorial on the feast of St.. Bartholomew (24 August ) and celebrated on the following Sunday.
• 1144: The town emerged as Gouliubesee to in a document of the monastery Plankstetten.
• 1279: Konrad goitre (or goiter) of Kipfenberg presented the monastery Kaisheim a farm in Gelbelsee.
• 1301: Konrad crop of Kipfenberg sold custrum et oppidum (Castle and the market ) with the Erbleuten, the right of patronage of the church Gelbelsee and all the accessories etc. to the Bishop Konrad II of Pfeffenhausen of Eichstätt. Gelbelsee, yet mother church of Kipfenberg, then branch was. The cast went right by the Lord bolster to Kipfenberg to the Bishop of Eichstätt on.
• 1426 brought Bishop John II of Heideck Gelbelsee again to the parish.
• Around 1620 protested the pastor of Gelbelsee, Melchior Holl, against the " bow dance " of the villagers and the then newly built dance house of the village.
• Early 17th century: It was the Wooden figure of St. Hippolytus ( in knight costume with spear and shield ) in the parish church.
• 1690 the church received a new longhouse.
• On November 12, 1678 the rectory burned down. It was re- built by master builder Hans Eichstätter Biba.
• 1745 had to be rebuilt on medieval foundations of the church tower.
• Around 1770, the church was still present today Baroque altars with their altar leaves. The church is stuccoed.
• 1829-1841 worked in Gelbelsee the learned Rev. Dr. Franz Anton Mayer.
• 1910 Franz Hartmann painted the ceiling fresco Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus in the parish church.
• 1960 founded a warrior and camaraderie club.
• On November 11, 1977, the branch club Gelbelsee Book Irlahüll of the Catholic German Women's League founded.

On May 1, 1978 Gelbeslsee was incorporated into the municipality Denkendorf.

Others

Through the village leads the German Limes Cycle Route. It follows the Upper Germanic - Rhaetian Limes 818 km from Bad Hönningen am Rhein to Regensburg on the Danube.