Neustadt an der Waldnaab (district)
The district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab ( officially: County Town adWaldnaab ) is in the north of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The county seat of the county is the place Neustadt an der Waldnaab. Adjacent to the north of the county Tirschenreuth, in the east of the Czech western Bohemia, in the south, the counties Schwandorf and Amberg -Sulzbach and in the west the district of Bayreuth. The independent city of Weiden in der Oberpfalz is completely surrounded by the district of Neustadt. The counties and the city of Neustadt and Tirschenreuth pastures form the northern Oberpfalz region.
- 4.1 traffic
- 4.2 Energy
Geography
The county has a share in Upper Palatinate Forest and the Upper Palatinate hills. The largest rivers in the district are the Waldnaab that Haidenaab that Fichtelnaab and Pfreimd, all source and tributaries of the Naab, which is produced by the Association of Waldnaab and Haidenaab in the southern district area.
History
The area of present-day district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab Formerly the Nordgau, the later Upper Palatinate and in 1628 the Electorate of Bavaria. It was affected by numerous restructuring and political change. 1803, in the post-Napoleonic period, the District Courts Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Eschenbach were established in the Upper Palatinate, and Kemnath Vohenstrauß. They belonged to the Naabkreis, from 1810 to the Main Circle, 1817 Upper Main District; Vohenstrauß came to the rain circle. 1838 were all these places to the rain circle in the management of Upper Palatinate. At the same time a separate district court was formed in Weiden in der Oberpfalz. 1841 was the district court Auerbach in der Oberpfalz by separation from the district court Eschenbach and 1849, the district court heritage village from parts of the former county courts Kemnath, Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Forest aces and Tirschenreuth, part areas of the pin state. 1862 formed the Neustadt district courts and the district office Weiden Neustadt an der Waldnaab; from the District Courts Eschenbach and Auerbach was the district office Eschenbach. The District Courts Kemnath and heritage village formed the county Kemnath, the district court Vohenstrauß became the eponymous county. In 1919, after the First World War ( 1914-1918), retired from the city of Weiden in der Oberpfalz from the Neustadt district office and was a circular immediate city. In 1931 the churches were the Neustadt district office allocated in space heritage village from the district office Kemnath, after hearing the judicial district Neustadt since 1929 (Resolution of the District Court Heritage Village ). In 1939, the district offices were renamed in district offices and the districts into counties. By resolution of some communities to increase the training area Grafenwoehr, the number of municipalities decreased in the county.
As part of local government reform in Bavaria after the Second World War (1939-1945) the district of Neustadt were affiliated to the Waldnaab the county Vohenstrauß and the majority of the district Eschenbach on 1 July 1972. The space heritage village in the north of the former district Neustadt was annexed to the enlarged Tirschenreuth. The space Auerbach ( county Eschenbach ) came to the district of Amberg -Sulzbach. The city of Weiden in der Oberpfalz remained acyclic.
Policy
District administrators
In the municipal election on March 2, 2008 Simon Wittmann was re-elected with 61.69 % of votes.
Council
District elections on March 3, 2002, March 2, 2008
County Council Election May 1, 1948:
- CSU: 51.3 %, 25 seats
- SPD: 36.8 %, 17 seats
- FDP: 3.9%, 1 seat
- KPD: 3.3%, 1 seat
- DBI: 2.9 %, 1 seat
- KRJ: 1.5%
- Pal: 0.3 %
Coat of arms
The county coat of arms was granted by resolution of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on December 22, 1954, at the request and confirmed by a letter from the government of Upper Palatinate on 22 March 1977 in Regensburg. It is described as follows: " Split and divided back; front in black and a red crowned and red reinforced golden lion; top rear in blue three, two -to-one asked, golden stars, below in silver, a blue bar. The coat of arms shows heraldic symbols of three formerly important rulers in the district: the golden lion on a black ground of the Palatinate line of the Wittelsbach; the three golden stars in blue, of Prince Lobkowitz in the erstwhile princely kingdom of County Störnstein and the rule Waldthurn and the blue bar of the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg and keeps the memory of these three noble families awake ".
This coat of arms was maintained even after the last municipal reform, as the district area .. by the ( upper) Palatine Lion, who was also included in the coat of arms of Altkreise Eschenbach and Vohenstrauß and should feel comfortable with representing the lights Berger beams from the Vohenstrausser circle coat of arms
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The main flow of railway traffic follows the Naab Valley from north to south; here the AG Bayerische Ostbahnen has built in the year 1863 a train from Regensburg to Weiden, which was soon extended beyond Pressath to Bayreuth.
The following year in 1864 then came the stretch of willows on Neustadt ( Waldnaab ) added to Eger. The 1875 by willow on Weiherhammer completed towards Neukirchen- Nuremberg train was a work of Eastern Railway.
The further expansion of the network took over the Bavarian State Railways: Since 1878, the Nuremberg- Marktredwitz runs through the circle area in the extreme northwest at Vorbach. The 50-kilometer branch line Neustadt- raft - Eslarn 1886 took its operation to Vohenstrauß on, reached the border town of Waidhaus 1900 and 1908 was completed. The diversion of raft to Flossenbiirg came only in 1913 - initially only for freight - to do so.
In 1904 the old circle Eschenbach got its railway connection through the route Pressath - Grafenwoehr - Kirchenthumbach. Soon after, was written in 1910 in Grafenwoehr a branch line railway station to the camp, which has long restricted to military traffic was used for military training area.
Passenger traffic on the local railways has been shut down as follows:
In order for the passenger transport network comprises only 89 km distances, compared with the peak of 168 kilometers.
Energy
Etzenricht is the site of a 380 kV substation, from which emanates a 380 kV line to the Czech Republic. This substation housed from 1992 to 1995 the only HVDC short coupling in Germany. In Tanzmühle is a hydroelectric power plant, which feeds into the 110 kV network.
Cities and Towns
(Area in km ² on 31 December 2001, population figures of 31 December 2012)
Cities
Markets
Communities
Free community areas ( 53.61 km ²)
The area Michlbach (1.41 km2 ) was dissolved on August 1, 2013, and distributed to Vohenstrauß and moss creek.
Management Communities
Geotopes
The district is 71 (as of September 2013) are the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab.