Joditz

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Joditz is a village in Upper Franconia, community Köditz, county court.

Location and data

Joditz lies in the valley of the Saale River, ten kilometers north-west of the yard. The village has 345 inhabitants (as of January 2010) and has a parish church and a cemetery. In the area of ​​parish includes the hamlets of Joditz, Lamitz, Saalenstein, nicks, Stöckaten and Siebenhitz.

History and Culture

In the center of the town is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John. It was first mentioned in 1365, and was appointed in 1561 to a separate parish. The present church was built in 1704 on the foundations of a previous building older than Patronatskirche of Freiherr vom Stein in the style of a hall church. Pulpit, altar, organ case and baptismal ( the latter no longer exists ) come from the Hofer sculptor Johann Knoll. The panel of the altar depicts the birth of Christ; it is flanked by the statues of Moses and John the Baptist. Crowning is the altar of three putti with the coat of arms of the former patronage families. The pulpit adorn the figures of the four evangelists. Also noteworthy is the figure of the Risen Christ on the sounding board of the pulpit; you go around them, you will notice that the back of the Risen One is completely naked. The church was renovated in 2002 /2003.

Joditz was the childhood home of the 1763 born in Wunsiedel poet Jean Paul, whose father was the pastor from 1765 to 1776. In his autobiographical work entitled Same biography of the poet described the importance of the small village for his socialization and his later poetic work, related his childish joys, but also of the great fears about the ghost awe struck him there.

" Lasse but bear no poet in a capital city and educate, but perhaps in a village, most in a small town. The overabundance and About charms of a big city are for the excitable weak child soul food at a dessert and drink distilled spirits and bathing in hot wine [ ...] One wins and but guess not so much if you come from the city to the village as reversed from Joditz to Hof ".

Also, the village school teacher Maria Wutz in Auenthal in Jean Paul's eponymous idyll is based on a character from the children's life of the poet.

The Jean Paul Museum in Joditz holds the memory of the poet and his time spent in Upper Franconia childhood years. Located in an atmospheric rural setting, which includes the old vicarage garden belongs, are manuscripts, early prints, first editions, engravings, drawings and other documents from the 18th/19th. Century issued. The museum is based on a private initiative of Eberhard and Karin Schmidt.

On 1 May 1978, until then independent municipality was incorporated into the municipality Köditz.

Tourism

The idyllic location, location is often visited by lovers of the poet Jean Paul. The Jean -Paul trail with stations of the childhood memory of the poet leads from Hof ​​to Joditz. In the area of ​​community on Auensee is also a campsite.