Altoetting tourist information
Altoetting Germany
Altoetting is called. Rightfully, because of its far over thousand-year old history in the middle in the heart of the old Bavarian master duchy, in addition, because of its meaning as a center of the faith and the Volksfroemmigkeit. 500 years Marienwallfahrt Altoetting 1989 could celebrate. But history Altoettings continues to go back much. With excavations on the Altoettinger Kapellplatz in the years 1983/84 by archaeologists of the Bavarian national office for care of monuments traces of human settlement were discovered, which go back into the Jungsteinzeit. Which humans of that time did here whether this place was cult place already at that time, extracts itself from our knowledge. A Roman past, how it attributes the Bavarian historical writer Aventinus (Johann Thurmair) Altoetting, remains legend. Altoetting steps the latinisierten form of "Oetting" documentary only in the early Middle Ages, in the year 748 into the light of history, under the name " Autingas", . The name decreases/goes back to the name car or Oto, probably a bajuwarischen master leader, that settled here as the first. To the distinction in old and Neuoetting it comes only into 13. Century, when Neuoetting is established as commercial centre at the Inn.
At the time of the first documentary denomination Altoetting is already an important place, because a agilolfingischer duke yard , the most important duke seat is here in the country to Regensburg; besides a chapel, which proves its oktogonaler sketch as taufkapelle. It might have developed around 700 and their building from the excessive quantity brought with holy mission bishop Rupertus of Salzburg in connection, of which a legend tells, it first of all the first Christian Bavaria duke in Oetting baptized and secondly a Marienbild after Oetting brought here. After the Entmachtung of the letzen Agilolfingerherzogs Tassilo III . by Karl the large one in the year 788 it becomes former duke yard from Oetting to the karolingischen Koenigspfalz . Several stays of karolingischer emperors and kings are provable. Their largest time experienced the Oettinger Karolingerpfalz, when king Karl man , who completely shifted great-grandchildren of Karl of the large one its seat of the government 865 from Regensburg to Oetting and from here up to its death 880 as a king over Bavaria and Italy prevailed.
Karl man established also first choir gentleman pin , which he equipped richly, and a Basilika , to which he donated among other things Reliquien of the Apostels Philippus, and in which he 880 its last ruhestaette found. Ind Altoetting ended also the history of the duetschen Karolinger: Karl man son, emperor Arnulf von Kaernten , died here on 8 December 899 and its son Ludwig, "the child" mentioned, 900 in Oetting was born and in the octagon of the chapel baptized. With its death 911 the German branch of the Karolingergeschlechtes expired.
the Hungary tower place and Pfalz, pin and Basilika devastates 907. Only the octagon of the taufkapelle gets over the destruction. Only three centuries later, in the year 1228 , that is again-established to choir gentleman pin, by the Wittelsbacher duke, Ludwig the Kelheimer . At the side of the former Karlmann Basilika it lets a new Basilika in the romanischen style build as pin church. 1489 break, by which arranges reports of two look up-exciting healing miracles, the wallfahrt open after Altoetting . A goal of this wallfahrt, to which soon Pilger flow out completely Europe, is around 1300 on the upper Rhine or in Burgund Marienbild carved developed from lime tree wood in the octagon of the former taufkapelle, which might have come around 1330 to Altoetting.
The Pilgerstrom is so large that neither the small chapel nor the romansiche pin church are able to seize it. Between 1499 and 1511 develops in the place of the romanischen today's gotische pin church . Also the octagon of the chapel receives soon a nave. In addition, by the centuries Altoetting remained always the wallfahrt of the simple people, got as Pilgerziel and meeting place of the "large ones of the world" politsche meaning. Emperors and kings, dukes and cure princes and also two Popes stayed as Pilger in Altoetting. In the time of distress of the 30jaehrigen of war Bayerns cure prince Maximilian entrusted its fate and that of the country in a Weihebrief written with its blood to the nut/mother of God of Altoetting. 1681 has themselves emperors Leopold I . and it Bavarian cure prince max of Emanuel to prayer and political negotiations in Altoetting met and here the alliance of the "Altoettinger alliance" forged, which came two years later in the fight against the Turks before Vienna to carrying. Until into our century inside the rulers Bayerns let their hearts bury after their death in silver urns in the octagon of the Altoettinger chapel in wandnischen, as a "fuerstliche honour guard".
With Selig-und holy speaking of the Altoettinger Kapuziner Pfortenbruders Konrad von Parzham 1930 and 1934 Altoetting got beside the Gandenkapelle a second much-visited Pilgerziel: The grave of the holy one in the Kapuzinerkirche pc. Konrad. Altogether today annually approximately 1 million Pilger Altoetting visits. Politically Altoetting was as municipality of the Middle Ages up to to the beginning 19. Century a pin yard Mark without independent autonomy. With the end the second choir gentleman pin in the secularization of 1803 the municipality became independently, even if only as simple "Ruralgemeinde". 1845 were raised Altoetting to the market. 1898 took place the collection to the municipality . Their architectural expression the city collection in the building 1908 of the finished, representative city hall at the Kapellplatz found.
Up to the beginning of the Second World War Altoetting counted about 6,000 inhabitants. After the war the number, first precipitously through influx of refugees of homeland, rose later continuously to today over 12.000.
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