Achslach

Achslach ( bavarian: Oxla ) is a municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of rain and a member of the administrative community Ruhmannsfelden.

  • 2.1 naming
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 5.1 Education

Geography

Geographical Location

Achslach lies in the Danube- forest in the heart of the Bavarian Forest at the foot of Deer Mountain in the Valley of the Teisnach about 18 kilometers north of Deggendorf, 14 km south of Viechtach and 19 km west of the county town of Regen (city).

Community structure

The municipality has 28 Achslach officially named districts:

  • Achslach
  • Aign
  • Au
  • Bachlehen
  • Eden Mayrhofen
  • Finkenschlag
  • Frath
  • Hienhardt
  • Hofpoint
  • Hohenried
  • Kager
  • Kalteck
  • Pebble mill
  • Kotting Grub
  • Marktleuthen
  • Lindenau
  • Oedwies
  • Randburg
  • Rimbeck
  • Scream village
  • Weghof
  • Wieden
  • Wolfertsried
  • Zeitlhof
  • Zeitlsäge

History

The Achslacher valley lies within the area of the so-called Carolingian forest (northern forest ) which was populated from Metten Abbey in the 9th century. In the 11th century this activity took over the Counts of Bogen.

Achslach was mentioned in 1115 for the first time under the name Drasloha. At that time occurs in the wake of Count Adalbert I of the arc Ministeriale Eppo de Drasloha on a foundation charter of the monastery Oberalteich. As a result, here was a managed by Eppo Gräfliches Kammergut in agreement with the Metten Abbey. On December 11, 1126 Eppo de Drahsala is called back to one of Pope Honorius II in the Lateran at Rome made ​​out foundation charter for the monastery Oberalteich as a witness.

After the extinction of the Counts of Bogen in 1242 the territory passed into the possession of the Wittelsbach family.

In 1409, reports on a Erbbrief, the Knights of the Eberhard Nußberger sealed that the Kammergut a tolerable tavern ( beerhouse ) was connected.

In a document from 1431 the knight Hans von Degenberg left the monastery of God the cell Wildbann ( hunting rights ) in the Oxla.

Achslach 1464 was the seat of a captaincy. It was also the seat of a magistrate of one of the five offices of the District Court Viechtach. As one of the few places in the district Achslach had a patrimonial with a bailiff as a judge and a hangman in the 17th century. The hallway Name gallows Wiesel on the outskirts of God's cell still bears witness of that time.

Achslach belonged to Rentamt Straubing and the district court Viechtach of the Electorate of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. The survey Achslachs the parish was 1818.

As part of the Bavarian municipal reform Achslach on May 1, 1978 member of the administrative community Ruhmannsfelden.

Naming

The name changed from Drasloha in 1115 on Drahsala ( 1126 ), Drahsla (1310 ) and Achszlach (1431) to the current version Achslach which was first mentioned in 1527.

The vernacular language shows that it is Achslach is an old geographical names, of all through by the Teisnach Au signified in the Oxla means in Achslach. So at that time also the God Zeller area was counted in the Oxla. The dialect ( Oxla ) are the forms with the palate According to (x ) of 1126 and 1310 the excess weight. The base word is Ach ( shortened to -a) with the importance of water, large creek. The qualifier must obviously be in the former Scriptures ahsal ( 1126 ), in the dialect Oxl and today armpit. So Achslach means the high-altitude Ache or Hochau as a by filled.The from water valley was mostly referred to as Au. The reason for the beginning of the older forms of the name to 1310 with Dr- is the drafting of deeds and other documents in the Latin language. The German in the Achslach was in Latin, which knows no gender word to in drahsala, from Achslach to de drahsala.

Population Development

Policy

Parish council

Composition of the municipal council for the legislative period 2008-2014:

  • CSU / FDP Achslach: 8 seats ( 68.0 % of the vote )
  • UCD: 4 seats ( 32.0 % of the vote )

Mayor

Mayor Gerhard Mies ( CSU).

Coat of arms

Description: In blue with a silver wave beams, above obliquely crossed two golden pilgrimage bars, topped with a silver scallop, below a golden reinforced silver ibex hull.

The municipality was to 1242 is under the rule of the Counts of bow and then came up with their heritage of the House of Wittelsbach ( dish and box office Viechtach ). The colors silver and blue remember this connection. The silver bow wave represents the Achslacher Valley of Teisnach. Shell and pilgrims bars refer to the Achslacher patron St. James. The golden armored silver ibex hull represents the impaired arms of the Ramsberger that were established as a former ministerial of the counts of arc in the district of Randburg.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Catholic Parish Church of St. James (1833, Tower basement medieval )
  • Lourdes Grotto on the Kirchberg ( 1900)
  • Chapel in Lindenau from 1804 with baroque relic pyramids at the altar
  • Wooden chapel ( 1850 ) on the Oedwies (1030 m above sea level. NN ) with forester's house ( about 1863 )
  • On the mountain of Achslach, the 1095 meter high deer stone, is a viewing tower from which you have views of the Bavarian Forest, the Danube valley and the Alps.
  • See also: list of architectural monuments in Achslach

Lourdes Grotto on the Kirchberg

Interior view Chapel Lindenau

Chapel on the Oedwies

Forest House Oedwies

Lookout on the Hirschenstein

Economy and infrastructure

There were 1998 in the field of agriculture and forestry, in the manufacturing sector and 85 in the area of ​​trade and transport workers at the workplace. In other areas, 51 people were employed at the workplace. Employees at the residence, there was a total of 371 in the manufacturing sector (as well as mining and quarrying and earth ), there was an operation in the construction of three plants. In addition, in 1999, there were 69 farms with an agricultural area of 729 hectares. Of this, 60 acres of arable land and 669 acres of meadowland. The municipal tax revenue in 1999 amounted to the equivalent of 264,000 euros, of which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) converted 17,000 euros.

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

  • Kindergarten with 25 kindergarten places, 22 children
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