HohenpeiÃŸenberg

Hohenpeißenberg is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim -Schongau. The former mining town located in the center of the Pfaff angle. Dominated landscape is the place through the nearly 1000 meters high Hohenpeißenberg, whose summit fairly centrally located in the local area and offers a beautiful view of the Alps. The Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption is a famous pilgrimage site and popular tourist destination. On the mountain there is now a radio tower and a meteorological observatory, which is considered the oldest mountain weather station in the world.

2.1 Local History 2.1.1 Time of the Augustinian canons
2.1.2 Mining

3.1 Mayor
3.2 municipal
3.3 Local Taxes

4.1 Public bodies
4.2 Leisure and sports facilities
4.3 traffic

5.1 Museums
5.2 Structures 5.2.1 churches
5.2.2 chapels

6.1 freeman
6.2 Further to the location associated personalities

Geography

Hohenpeißenberg situated in the Bavarian Oberland, in the foothills of the Alps. There is only the district Hohenpeißenberg.

The highest point of the resort is the summit of the 988 meter high High Peissenberg. It is named for its breathtaking panoramic view and the " Bavarian Rigi " or more rarely " mons parnanssus ". He is considered the most beautiful mountain panorama of Bavaria and is a popular destination. Early epithet of the mountain were " mons doctus " because of the scholarship, because of meteorological research. The majority of the population live on the south side of the mountain, another smaller part is on the west side ( districts: Hetten and Buchschorn ), a small proportion of the population is on the north side and east side.

The place is located on the left bank of bunting. The bunting flows past below the south side of the village, in a valley called " Schnalz ".

Districts

Districts are: Bear Cave, Brandach, Bschorrwald, Buchschorn, fox den, Hetten, Klausen, Kleingreith, Krönau, Kühmoos, Schendrich, Schendrich - Wörth, Schächen, Sedlhof, stone case, Pröbstlsberg, front, top, Mitter and rear Schwaig, substructure.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are Peiting ( west ), Peißenberg ( east ), Wessobrunn ( north ), and beyond the Schnalz in the south Böbing.

History

1514 residents built on the Hohenpeißenberg a chapel. From the chapel Schongau was a ducal nurses bring a carved mother of God figure there. This figure quickly gained a reputation as a miraculous image, a pilgrimage developed. At the beginning of the 17th century because of a second church was built ( the Sanctuary ), whereby the current double church was built. The chapel is located west of the church tower, the Sanctuary itself east of it. The ensemble gives the top of the mountain its distinctive silhouette.

Time of the Augustinian canons

In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. Previously, the local area belonged to Peiting. Hohenpeißenberg belonged to Rentamt Munich and the court Schongau of the Electorate of Bavaria.

The first phase of the old, historic school building on the mountain, was built after the time of the monks from 1882 to 1883.

Mining

Once in the 16th century discovered the local residents pitch coal deposits, there was initially isolated mining activities to a lesser extent. On 8 May 1837 State Mining began with the attack of the main drift in the district Brandach. There are or were in urban areas some old tunnels, are in the main tunnel now several times a year guides. From 1 July 1889, the base wells were drilled. In order to transport coal from the equipment shaft for deep tunnels in Peißenberg, there were 1898 to 1928 a 3.6 km long cable car. From 1937 to 1939, the air shaft at the station was drilled in Hohenpeißenberg, he was from the middle of October, 1960, with 1150 meters depth deepest shaft in Bavaria. There was also an air shaft in Chiusa. The reduction in the Peienberg trough placed the BHS in 1968 initially in Peiting and then in 1971 in a Peißenberg. The closure of the Peienberg mine meant the end of coal mining at Hohenpeissenberg.

By 1972, ran through the present place territory the district border of the former counties Schongau and Weilheim, eggs Bach marked a portion of this border. Now the place is located in the center of the new district Weilheim -Schongau.

Religion

The majority of the population is Catholic, at the last census in 1987, 85.1 percent Roman Catholic and 10.7 percent were Protestant. The formerly independent Catholic parish was combined lack of priests, a few years ago with the Peiting parish. There are now doing but again a priest who lives locally.

Dialect

In the resort equally a typical Bavarian as in large parts of Upper and Lower Bavaria is not widely spoken, especially on the north side of the mountain is still a slight coloring of the Lech Rainer dialect noticeable touch of Bavarian and Alemannic language elements and is characteristic of the area of the so-called Lech Rains. West, in, historically belonging together neighboring Peiting the influence of the Alemannic dialect is already apparent. Historically, it goes back to the period after the retreat of the Romans, because then resulted in a transition area between the Alemanni and Bavarians.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978 parts of the territory of the dissolved municipality Ammer farms were incorporated. Eastern districts were previously Ammer Höfer area.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor

Parish council

Municipal taxes

The municipal tax revenue amounted in 2011 2.585.000 €, of which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) € 688,000.

Economy and infrastructure

Public institutions

Primus Cook Elementary School Hohenpeißenberg ( primary school ), the new school building has been used since the school year 1969/70
Two kindergartens: Catholic kindergarten at the parish church, since 1974
Of municipal kindergarten in the district Hetten, since 1993

Leisure and sports facilities

Gymnasium on the school grounds
Two football fields: Football field with football field at the clubhouse of TSV Hohenpeißenberg
Football field at the Rigi -Alm

Traffic

On the south side of town, the B 472, which runs from Deer Mountain Marktoberdorf runs. Since 2009, a ring road under construction that will be built south of the village. This Hohenpeissenberg bypass is the last part of the common new stretch of the detours of Peissenberg, Peiting to Schongau.

The main street was formerly on the north side of the mountain, and served mainly the salt transport. This former salt road also took advantage of King Ludwig II, when he traveled by then end of the line in Peißenberg from Munich to Hohenschwangau to the two castles. These salt road leading from Berchtesgaden to the Allgäu. The "Lower Salt Road " also ran through Huglfing, Peißenberg, Peiting and Schongau. In 1889 the new State Street, which is present main road at the same time, opened on the south side of the mountain.

Also on the south side of the High Peissenberg is a small railway station on the railway line Weilheim -Schongau. On this route run every hour DMUs Bayerische Regiobahn. Originally, it was the desire of the community Hohenpeißenberg to build the station at Schächen, but this would not have been possible because of the strong slope of Peißenberg. Therefore, the station was built at a lower altitude, on the southern point. From 1937, the air shaft at the station had its own railway siding. In addition, there was at the station until the 1950s, a goods shed on a dead-end track. The railway siding was there until the late 1970s and into the 1990s, a crossing track was available to this time the two trains from Weilheim Schongau or met in Hohenpeißenberg. Meet the respective pairs of trains in Peißenberg each other. The actual station building formerly owned a loading ramp with storage room. Later, the appearance of the building changed by a conversion, the loading ramp was omitted. Today, on the site of a covered shelter house and a car park.

Culture and sights

Museums

Treasury from Hohenpeißenberg, the highest Museum ( 988 m) in the Pfaff angle.

Structures

TV Tower Hohenpeißenberg, built in 1978 with 158.76 m height.
Meteorological Observatory with since January 1, 1781 led to the present day meteorological observations, which is the oldest mountain weather station in the world.

Churches

Hermitage and pilgrimage church " Assumption " with rococo frescoes (1748 ) by Matthäus Günther, 1514, respectively. Early 17th century built on the Hohenpeißenberg.
The parish church of " resurrection of the Lord " with cornerstone was laid in 1960 in the village on the south side of the mountain. The consecration took place on October 29, 1961 by the then Archbishop Cardinal Julius Dopfner instead.
Small Lutheran Gustav Adolf Church in Cross Street, corner of Sun Street; built in 1951

Chapels

Hett Chapel
Small chapel in Buchschorn
Barbara Chapel in Hohenbrand

See also List of monuments in Hohenpeißenberg

Regular events

Every year in summer there is a costume pilgrimage place along the mountain road up to the Sanctuary.

Winter view of the mountain

Hohenpeißenberg (south side) with peaks of the High Peissenberg of the cross street

Meteorological Observatory

TV Tower

The main gallery in the district Brandach

Substructure tunnel before remodeling

Pit base to about 1900

Gasthof Schächen

The Alps from Hohenpeißenberg from

The view from Hohenpeißenberg Hohenpeißenberg from. Direction of view: To the south towards the Alps.

Town View from above

New parish

Personalities

Freeman

Anton Pröbstel (1872-1957), miner and Mayor
Michael Zieglmeier (1874-1959), Upper Mountain Director
Bernhard Bauer (1920-1995), pastor of

Other impacts associated with the location of personalities

Matthäus Günther (1705-1788), an eminent painter of the Rococo; he was in the pilgrimage church acolyte and painted the frescoes in the chapel
Primus Koch ( * July 10, 1752 in Wolnzach, † March 20, 1812 in Hohenpeißenberg ), Augustinian Canons, teachers, first parish priest
Albin Schwaiger ( born December 16, 1758 in Böbing; † September 6, 1824 in Hieronymus ), Augustinian Canons, of Meteorological Observer and researchers
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913), painter and reformers; had on 10 February 1882, the Hohenpeissenberg under the impression sunrise a vision that shaped his future uncompromising life as a pioneer of a new, ecologically oriented culture.
Kätelhön Hermann (1884-1940), painter; He created, among other things his " Hohenpeissenberg drawings " and was a major " mining painter" of the 1930s
Hilger van Scherpenberg (1899-1969), diplomat and Secretary of State; he lived from 1937 to Hubertushof on the mountain
The opera singer couple, Ferdinand Frantz (1906-1959) and the soprano Helena Braun (born 1903 in Dusseldorf, † 1990 in Sonthofen ), had lived to about 1950 in the village of Klausen.
Karl Manninger (1912-2002), a church painter; 1987 he painted the ceiling painting in the Chapel Hetten
Christine Stadler (1922-2001), sculptor and ceramist; they created the interior design of the new parish church, and the large mosaic
Hubl Greiner ( * 1955 in Hohenpeißenberg ), musicians
Maximilian Nagl (* 1987), motocross riders; comes from Hohenpeißenberg

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