Althegnenberg is a
municipality in the district of
Fürstenfeldbruck
Fürstenfeldbruck () is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located 32 kilometres west of Munich. It is the capital of the district of Fürstenfeldbruck. it has a population of 35,494. Since the 1930s, Fürstenfeldbruck has had an air force base.
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in
Bavaria in
Germany. The municipality consists of the villages Althegnenberg, Hörbach and Lindenhof.
History
The first documentary mention of Althegnenberg was made in 1096 as ''Haginiberc'', which translates as " walled settlement on the hill". Hörbach was first mentioned in 1127 as ''Huruuuinin'', meaning "settlement on marshy creek" (from the Middle High German word ''hurwin'' for " swampy "). At the southeastern edge of the town is the castle hill - an artificially raised
motte that was surrounded by a moat. On the castle hill was the little castle of the Hegnenberger, the ''Burgstall Althegnenberg'' in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The Hegnenberger were a family of
ministeriales, serving the powerful
Guelphs. Engelschalk and Hermann von Hegnenberg were first mentioned in 1192 ; they came from Swabia (Schmalegg near
Ravensburg
Ravensburg ( Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.
Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and an impo ...
) and had to protect the Guelph
Altomünster Abbey
Altomünster Abbey (Kloster Altomünster) was a monastery in the small Bavarian market town of Altomünster.
History
A small monastery was founded here by and named after Saint Alto, a wandering monk, before 760. The ''vita'' of Alto, likely wri ...
. In their time they were sought-after advisors and confidants of the powerful. They were witnesses at coronations, monastic foundations (Fürstenfeld), and in legal transactions of the church, the country gentlemen and the nobility.
With the death of
Welf VI in 1191 the whole
Lechrain area passed to the
Staufer. Under these, the Hegnenberger rose to become Reichsministerialen. Only after the tragic death of the young king
Conradin (1268) the possessions of the Staufer passed to the
Wittelsbach family, and came thus to Bavaria. The Hegnenberger served the Wittelsbach family faithfully. They had extensive possessions in Bavaria and Swabia. Around 1300, they left their ancestral seat and built their new castle Hofhegnenberg 4 km to the west of Althegnenberg. During this time, the closed Hofmark Hegnenberg, a legal entity of 7 villages, namely Hofhegnenberg, Althegnenberg, Hörbach, Hausen, Steindorf, Tegernbach and at times also Steinach, was created. The lords of this Hofmark were from 1540 to 1848, the Counts of Hegnenberg - Dux.
In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria of 1818, the municipalities Althegnenberg (consisting of Althegnenberg and Lindenhof) and Hörbach were created. Hörbach became part of Althegnenberg on 1 July 1972 in the course of the municipal reform.
References
Fürstenfeldbruck (district)
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