Train, Bavaria
Train is a municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim. It belongs to the administrative community Siegburg.
- 3.1 Mayor
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Established businesses
Geography
Train is in the Hallertau and is part of the planning region Regensburg.
Districts are Train, Mallmersdorf, Neukirchen and St. Johann.
History
The village was founded around the turn of the millennium as " Hittinburg " and was renamed in the 13th century in Train. Among the owners of Hofmarkschlosses there are several important noble families, including the Pfeffenhausener and Feurer, the Eckher of Kapfing and Baron von Deuring, who in 1722 launched the Schlossbenifizium to life. Perhaps the most famous guest, the the castle walls have once housed, Emanuel Schikaneder was. Parts of his libretto for Mozart's opera " The Magic Flute" he should have written here. Particularly eventful was the era of Elizabeth Train, which was 1788-1807 chatelaine. During her reign there was even two sensational popular uprisings. In the course of administrative reform in the Kingdom of Bavaria was born with the congregation of 1818 the current municipality. Since 1980 Train is also the seat of a Catholic parish.
Incorporations
In 1945 or 1946, a part of the dissolved municipality storage roof was incorporated.
Policy
Mayor
Mayor in Train Gerhard Zeitler ( Independent list).
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: In the battlements cut diagonally divided by silver and blue; below a silver scutellum with a continuous blue St. Andrew's cross.
The coat of arms contains elements from the heraldic badge of two as the owner of the castle and Hofmark Train for the history of the church since the 16th century important noble families. The rafter is taken from the coat of arms of Pfeffenhauser, the beginning of the 17th century are extinct. The number three of diamonds comes from the coat of arms of Ecker Kapfing.
Attractions
The moated castle Train was built in the 15th century by the Hofmarksherren Train. The acorns is the rebuilding of the destroyed in the Thirty Years' War the castle owe. The château is a beautiful chapel whose rococo altar of the Landshut champion Christian Jorhan ( the Elder) created. The revered as miraculous, Black Madonna - a carved replica of the 1683 Altöttinger Grace Statue - moved in 1700 to many believers. Came almost daily pilgrimages from some distant parishes.
Worth seeing is the parish church of St. Michael, which was enlarged and restored in 1995/96. The lower tower walls with stucco ceiling and chancel date from the year 1674, while the nave was rebuilt after its collapse in 1835. Only in 1980 was the former benefice Train, which had formed out of the former castle chapel foundation out, raised to their own parish.
Another church there used to be on Vitali mountain. it was dedicated to St. Vitalis, but had to be aborted early 19th century "on the electoral command". In the villages of Neukirchen Mallmersdorf and there are beautiful branch churches. The small church of St. George in Neukirchen is Romanesque and served the population in times of war as a fortified church. Here once led past the old salt road. At St. Johann is a newly built chapel reminded that the place was only established in 1806, rebuilt after a fire -damaged forest chapel into a first house. Relaxation and calmness provides the sprawling Dürnbucher forest, the north-west adjoins the municipality. Well worth a visit the lonely forest chapel of " Mariahilf ", where in 1745 a shopkeeper was attacked by robbers and was rescued by the invocation of the Virgin Mary.
See also List of monuments in Train ( Lower Bavaria )
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
About the motorway in the neighboring Elsendorf Train is connected to the A93 motorway Munich -Regensburg. Through the district of St. Johann federal road B301 leads to Main castle or Abensberg
Established businesses
The largest company in the place is the Hopfenveredelungsgesellschaft St. Johann with over 100 employees. It is the largest hop pelletizing plant in the world. The vast majority of processed hop pellets in the world of European origin are produced there, hop from all over Europe. The work is part of the international trading group hops Johann Barth & Sohn.
Personalities
- Johann Franz Eckher of Kapfing and Liechteneck (1649-1727), Prince-Bishop of Freising from 1695 to 1727, which had converted the local Cathedral of the brilliant Asam brothers in the Baroque style great. Eckher also laid the foundation stone of the Abbey Church in World castle.