Mörnsheim

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Moernsheim is a market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Market council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 monuments
  • 4.3 Natural Monuments
  • 4.4 Regular events
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The market is located in the Moernsheim Gailachtal. The Gailach flows through the municipal area of ​​the source in Mülheim on the actual market Moernsheim to the confluence as a right tributary of the Altmühltherme.

The market Moernsheim borders on the district of Middle Franconia and Swabia. Thus, it is right at the intersection of the three tribes, of which Bavaria is today, namely Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia.

Community structure

The market consists of the districts Moernsheim with Gröbl mill, mill and market Wildbad, Altendorf with coal mill, Lichtenberg, Maxberg and hammer mill, Ensfeld with Sonderholzerhof, Haunsfeld and Mülheim with apple valley and Finster mill.

History

  • Based on the findings of H. Mayer can be assumed that the hills were inhabited by Moernsheim since the Bronze Age.
  • The district of Mülheim is in the will, first mentioned in writing ( in a donation to the monastery of Fulda) of the Holy Sola, about 794 †, an Anglo-Saxon Christian missionary.
  • 918 Documentary first citation of today's local part Altendorf than the earlier Moernsheim.
  • First mention of the castle Moernsheim above Moernsheim under Bishop Henry I of Zipplingen (reigned 1225-28 ), where the gender of the Mörnsheimer sat and the Bailiwick to 1289 had a fief.
  • 1354 get Castle and Office of Charles IV the neck jurisdiction.
  • Bishop Frederick IV of Oettingen (r. 1383-1415 ) restored the castle and can add a kennel.
  • From 1500 was Moernsheim as part of the Bishopric in the Frankish Empire circle.
  • The seat is laid down in 1612 by surrendering the castle in the market in the "box" (now Town Hall).
  • 1672 adopted by the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt for the quarry a mountain right.
  • In 1760, the castle is partially removed; the destruction continues.
  • The eichstättische Office remains until 1802 in Moernsheim. With the secularization of the place comes to Ferdinand of Tuscany, in 1805 to Bavaria and belongs to the 1817-38 rule court of the Dukes of Leuchtenberg.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1971, part of the municipality Haunsfeld was incorporated. On April 1, 1971, the formerly independent municipality Altendorf followed. On 1 July 1972, added Mülheim. Finally, the incorporation of Ensfeld rounded on May 1, 1978 from the series of incorporations.

Policy

Market council

The market council of Moernsheim has 12 members.

  • SPD 1 seat
  • Choice Association 6 seats
  • Free voter block 1 seat
  • Free electoral group 1 seat
  • Free electorate 3 seats

(As at municipal election on March 3, 2002)

Mayor

Mayor since May 1, 2002 Richard Aver on the choice of association.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " In red a silver embattled tower, in front of the gate of which a blue -dressed man is holding a red flag to a golden lance; on the silver crookedness of the Bishop's staff. "

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Schlossberg with castle ruins of the castle Moernsheim the bishops of Eichstätt, about Moernsheim
  • Parish church since 1065 testifies only the tower from the 13th century, the nave, a new building of 1956, however, with senior figures and ornaments and some historical Jura marble grave slabs in the interior.
  • Jurassic quarries with fossils and fossils; the Horstberg break ( so named because in 1841 sold by the municipality to the merchant Horst from Strasbourg ) was the first, in 1668, opened fraction whose blue - gray stones were characterized by high hardness and fine grain, and were ideally suited for the 1798 invented lithography; Reduction until 1954.
  • Pilgrimage Church of Maria End in Altendorf, 1710 in Baroque church of Gothic origin
  • Kastenhof in Moernsheim, today seat of the municipality
  • Branch Church of Sts. Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, with Carolingian core in Mülheim
  • Jura - houses in all districts

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Moernsheim

Natural Monuments

  • Gailachquelle, Jurassic karst spring with a strong source river in Mülheim
  • Seeing and experiencing values ​​rock formations, beech forests, meadows and juniper heath reasons

Regular events

Every year on the third Sunday in October, the fair is held. Every third weekend in May Altmühltaler lamb lift with 1,000 sheep, lambs and goats; Shepherd and craft market with regional specialties

Economy and infrastructure

With the neighboring Solnhofen Moernsheim is a center of the degradation of Solnhofen stone ( Juraplattenkalk ). The quarries were in the 16th century, the main source of income of the population; in them an excellent lithography shale was recovered in the 19th century, since 1889 the same cooperative degradation.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Martin von Eyb, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, born August 30, 1630 Moernsheim, † December 6, 1704 in Herrieden

Panorama

Bergordnung Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany Duke of Leuchtenberg Adelschlag Altmannstein Beilngries Buxheim Denkendorf, Bavaria Dollnstein Egweil Eitensheim Gaimersheim Hepberg Hitzhofen Kinding Kipfenberg Lenting Nassenfels Oberdolling Pollenfeld Schernfeld Titting Wellheim Wettstetten
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