Freyung, Bavaria

Freyung is the county town of the district Freyung -Grafenau in the district of Lower Bavaria. The city is located in the Bavarian Forest, near the German -Czech border.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 spin-offs
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 5.1 industry
  • 5.2 traffic
  • 5.3 Public bodies
  • 5.4 Recreational Facilities
  • 5.5 Education
  • 5.6 Bundeswehr
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

The county town of Freyung located in the southeast of the Bavarian Forest on the banks of Saußbaches which forms the Wolfsteiner Ohe later. North of Freyung is the Bavarian Forest National Park. Freyung located 33 kilometers north of Passau, 17 km from the Czech border, 18 km from Grafenau and 27 km from the border with Austria.

Boroughs

The municipality has 27 Freyung officially named districts:

  • Ahornöd
  • Aigenstadl
  • Bannholz
  • Falkenbach
  • Field Scheid
  • Freyung
  • Geyer mountain
  • Grillaberg
  • Köppenreut
  • Kreuzberg
  • Conducting mill
  • Linden
  • Marchzipf
  • Mundobl
  • Neureut
  • Oberndorf
  • Wastes
  • Place
  • Perlesöd
  • Pittersberg
  • Promau
  • Reschmühle
  • Saußmühle
  • Schönbrunn
  • Solla
  • Speltenbach
  • Angle Brunn

History

First settlements from the 13th century on the territory of today's Freyung are known; the inhabitants settled in the vicinity of the old castle Wolfenstein, which the bishop had Wolfger built by Erla in 1200, in a village clearing down. Earlier, the Emperor Henry VI. the country in 1193 ceded to some bishops of Passau. The Freyung was not yet a place name, but referred to an area where the settlers a Freiung, that is an exemption from the tax was granted. 1301 this place was first mentioned as to Purchstol to Wolfer stone and a forest in a document.

Already in 1354 received the neighboring Kreuzberg, which had been founded in the early 14th century, the market rights, which was broadcast in 1523 on Freyung. As in Freyung a parish church was built in 1380, Kreuzberg was already longer a famous pilgrimage site. Today's Kreuzberg parish church and the first school of the village were first mentioned in 1500. In the Middle Ages the two towns were hit twice by the plague, which, however, the popularity of the shrine did not hurt.

When in 1803 the Prince-Bishopric of Passau was disbanded with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss, Freyung initially fell to the Austrian Duchy of Salzburg and came two years later with the Peace of Pressburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1811 were counted 535 inhabitants. In a devastating fire in 1872 39 of about 70 houses were destroyed.

On December 3, 1953 Freyung became a town. After the incorporation of location Freyung was from April 1, 1954 to June 30, 1972 county town of the district of Wolfenstein. Following the unification of the county with the county Grafenau, it became a district town of the district Freyung -Grafenau.

Religions

In the census on 25 May 1987 Freyung had 7124 inhabitants, of whom 6582 ( 92.4 %) Roman Catholic, 93 (5.5%) were Protestant and 149 inhabitants (2.1%) other religious beliefs.

Incorporations

On 1 April 1954, the formerly independent communities Ahornöd and location were incorporated. As was in place, the seat of the district office of the county Wolfenstein, Freyung became the new county seat of this county. Kreuzberg was added on 1 April 1971. On May 1, 1978 parts of the community Kumreut were reclassified to Freyung.

Spin-offs

On March 1, 1979, a region was surrendered with about 500 inhabitants on the market Roehrnbach.

Policy

City ​​council

Election results 2008:

  • Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU ): 43.04 %
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD): 8.27%
  • Citizens Community Town and Country Freyung eV ( BGStuL ): 21.36 %
  • Ecological- Democratic Party ( ödp ): 7.82%
  • Nonpartisan voters Freyung- Kreuzberg ( ÜWFK ): 7.82%
  • Free Democratic Party ( FDP): 6.56%
  • Young voters Union Freyung e.V. ( JWU ): 5.13%

Distribution of seats:

Mayor

Currently, the city consists of top

  • First mayor Olaf Heinrich, CSU (2008: 62.74 % of the valid votes in the first ballot)
  • Second Mayor Sebastian Gruber, CSU
  • Third Mayor Herbert Schiller, CSU

Twinning

  • Vimperk / Winterberg ( Czech Republic)
  • Attersee am Attersee ( Austria )

Attractions

  • Castle Wolfenstein ( with Hunting and Fishing Museum and Gallery county )
  • Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption
  • Vicarage
  • Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Anna in Kreuzberg
  • Meadow Farm House
  • Schramlhaus, local museum in a square court yard of the 17th century, with collection of glass and glass painting
  • Heritage Museum Winterberg in the Bohemian Forest
  • Buchberger Leite ( river gorge )
  • Golden Trail, mule from the 14th century, from the remnants are preserved on Geyersberg

→ List of monuments in Freyung

Economy and infrastructure

Industry

  • In the Carbidwerk Freyung artificial gemstones are produced.
  • Plastic processing Freyung ( work of Karl Bachl GmbH & Co KG)
  • Plastic processing Freyung ( Aptar Freyung GmbH)
  • Tradition of brewing in the brewery long

Traffic

The city lies at the confluence of the B 533 in the B 12 These represent the connection here to the Federal Highway 3; the B 12 leads to the border crossing at Philippsreut, where it flows into the Czech road I / 4, which leads over Strakonitz to the 180 km distant Prague.

Public transport buses focuses on the RBO. In local usage, a city bus, which is operated by a local bus company, offered.

After Freyung leads coming from Passau Ilztalbahn. This is no longer operated in regular people operating since 1982. After flood damage she was from August 2002 to August 2009 broke. It was then reactivated eV by the Ilztalbahn GmbH and the Friends Ilztalbahn and is traversed since September 12, 2010 entered into between Freyung and forest churches and since 15 July 2011 full-length again. As part of the leisure traffic project Danube -Ilz Moldova is now performed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays during the summer months and on special trips throughout the year trains.

Public institutions

  • District hospital with 175 beds Freyung
  • 2 homes for the elderly
  • Survey Office Freyung
  • District Court Freyung

Recreational facilities

  • Cineplex Freyung
  • Outdoor pool
  • Indoor swimming pool
  • Ski resort Freyung- Geiersberg

Education

  • 4 kindergartens with 190 seats
  • 2 elementary schools ( primary and secondary schools ) with 579 students
  • Secondary school with 838 pupils
  • Secondary school with 607 pupils
  • School with a program focusing on mental development (formerly for the individual's coping ) with 53 students
  • Catholic education work
  • Music School Freyung -Grafenau
  • Technology Transfer Center, a branch of the Deggendorf University with three chairs for Geoinformatics, Embedded Systems and bionics. Commencement of teaching operation for the winter semester 2009/10.

Bundeswehr

Freyung advertises the label a garrison town and is at the military base on the Gold Trail location of reconnaissance battalion 8

Personalities

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

  • George Mayerhofer (* March 4, 1894, † December 17, 1966 ), politicians ( Bavaria Party), Member of Parliament.
  • Georg Poxleitner ( born July 31, 1898), politician ( NSDAP), MdR
  • Heinrich Schmidhuber ( born February 21, 1936), former Member of Parliament and DFB treasurer
  • Severin Freund (born 11 May 1988), ski jumpers
  • Florian Fesl (born 1 August 1988), folk singer and harmonica player
  • Shkemb Miftari ( born August 1, 1993), football player
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