Eichstädt is a village in

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. It is not to be confused with

Eichstätt Eichstätt () is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district of Eichstätt. It is located on the Altmühl river and has a population of around 13,000. Eichstätt is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Dioce ...

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History

Eichstädt was first mentioned in 1350, when the village was given as a fief to Ulrich von Lindow. In the

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it was a castle fief belonging to Bötzow; in 1474 a knight's estate with four hectares and peasant estates with 13 hectares were recorded. From the 16th century two manors existed in the village, belonging to the von Hünnicke and von Krämer families, which subsequently determined the history of Eichstadt. By the end of the 18th century three more manors were added, but all manors in Eichstädt were again united in one hand in 1805, when the village had 323 inhabitants. In the first half of the 19th century the hereditary servitude of the peasants was abolished and the manors came into bourgeois ownership. As a result, the number of inhabitants grew steadily and in 1885 the village had 467 inhabitants; after the

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the number was about 600. During the time of the GDR, a machinery lending station was established for the farmers and a new housing estate was developed. After 1990, a commercial area was added and the infrastructure was extensively renewed. The old sheep barn was converted into a trotting stud farm, currently Germany's most successful. Effective May 18, 1998, the municipality of Eichstädt was absorbed into the newly formed municipality of Oberkrämer.

References

Villages in Brandenburg {{Brandenburg-geo-stub