Fusion of Two Villages
Eckendorf is first mentioned in 744 and is catalogued under various names subsequently, including Ecchenheim (744), Ecchenheimomarca (in 764 and 792), and Ecchenthorf, Ekkendorf, Ekindorf. The Abbey of Wissembourg is listed as the landowner in from 752-787. Later, in 1120, the monsastery at Mauermünster-Sindelsberg is named as the landowner. In 1146 it was recorded that the knight Simon de Frundsberg ceded his possession at Ekindork for "16 ½ lötig Silberstücke" to the Abbey of Stürzelbronn. In 1194, the monastery at Neuburg was the landowner of Eckendorf.
Altdorf does not appear until later in history, with a completely different name; perhaps Mazonivilare, because it is recorded in a document of 752 that Sigfrid, son of Sigismund gave up his property in the villages of "Ecchenheimo et Mazonivilare". No mention of the village occurs later; it was undoubtedly destroyed during a war and when the inhabitants returned they named the place Altdorf (old village). The name Altdorf does not appear until 1331.
The two villages were imperial possessions before 744. In the 18th Century, they were in the possession of the Landgraf von Werd in his capacity as the abbatial fief of Wissembourg.
The first mention of a church in the two villages is in 1313 when Rudolf von Hüttendorf, son of Burckhard, knight of Hüttendorf is installed as rector of the church.
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