Altenstadt an der Waldnaab

Old city on the Waldnaab ( officially: Old City adWaldnaab ) is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 Population development
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 monuments
  • 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
  • 5.2 traffic
  • 5.3 educational institutions

Geography

Geographical Location

Old city on the Waldnaab located in the northern Upper Palatinate. The municipality comprises the villages of Old Town Waldnaab, Book, Haidmuehle, Kotzau, Meerbodenreuth, Sauernlohe and Süßenlohe.

Community structure

The municipality Old City Waldnaab has seven officially named districts:

  • Old city on the Waldnaab
  • Book
  • Haidmuehle
  • Kotzau
  • Meerbodenreuth
  • Sauernlohe
  • Süßenlohe

Districts are the Old City Waldnaab and Meerbodenreuth.

Neighboring communities

Old Town is adjacent to Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Störnstein, Weiden in der Oberpfalz, parking stone and Kirchendemenreuth.

History

On the origin of the place old city on the Waldnaab, lying in Nordgau (Bavaria), nothing definite is known. Presumably there was a first settlement around the year 900 AD It is noteworthy that the members of the community Calvary and along the Windisch Eschenbach road prehistoric shards ( dating LATENE B/C1 and urnfield time ) and a plurality of annealed and non- annealed Silexkernsteine ​​and Silexabschläge and tools endpaläolithischen and Mesolithic origin were found. It is likely that there a Stone Age open air site, were prepared in the Silexwerkzeuge was. After Tabula Peutingeriana the area was the birth of Christ in the settlement area of ​​Narisker.

In 1000 it had proven track record in a Christian church, and was first called Traindorf. This place name may be traced back to riding or driving, so a place to change horses. Traindorf was due to three major ancient trade and military routes, the so-called Golden Street of Prague about the field of Choden to Nuremberg, Magdeburg street from Regensburg to Magdeburg and the iron road that came coming from Auerbach in Traindorf on the Golden Road. In the 13th century, the current name of the Old City was born. Until 1261 the Old Town and Train village was owned by the Earl of Old (s) village, later, the castle of places. Subsequently, the Old City was Waldnaab property of Duke Ludwig of austerity, whose son, Emperor Louis the Bavarian, the government pledged to the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg. Later it was in the feudal area of the Bohemian crown and was rich immediately. The feudal lords in this period were the plow,. Guttenstein of - Vrtbovská ) and the Knights of Heideck Subsequently to 1806, belonged to the Old City to the princely kingdom of County Störnstein under the Prince Lobkowitz house and was sold in 1807 to Bavaria.

After the Act of Confederation from 1806, Old City was Waldnaab to 1918 in the Kingdom of Bavaria under the Wittelsbach family. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. The construction of the station and the connection to the railway network in 1862, promoted the settlement of numerous glass factories in the region, which brought with it an economic boom for the Old City. The company Beyer & Co. and Hofbauer produced estimated lead crystal with appropriate sales and revenue worldwide. A change in the flavor of the consumer brought the loss of outlets for items made ​​of lead crystal and led in the 1980s and 1990s in the loss of hundreds of jobs.

Religions

Old town has two Catholic churches and a Lutheran. Through immigration after the Second World War, a Muslim community emerged. The majority of the population is Roman Catholic.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1975, until then independent municipality Meerbodenreuth was incorporated.

Population Development

Because of the close proximity of Weiden in der Oberpfalz Old Town is a sought after place to live.

Policy

The council consists of 20 members. In the local elections of 2008, the CSU reached 8, the SPD 7 and the Free Voters 5 seats. Mayor Ernst Schicketanz (SPD). Deputy Mayor Konrad Adam ( FWG ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent above a tilted red eagle, down an inclined left black plowshare ."

The emblem has been used since 1959.

Culture and sights

Old town lies on the glass road. The best-known attraction is the Romanesque fortified church of the Assumption, built around 1150. In the church are the tombs of the family of Heideck and a baptismal font from the 12th century. In the so-called old forestry house is the home office of the Homeland Association, called Anton Wurzer room. Other attractions include the Plague of 1697 and the Way of the Cross at Calvary. In the officially inaugurated in March 2008, Golden Lane ( Zlata stezka ) between the primary school and the kindergarten is on 14 tablets of course the Golden road from Nuremberg to Prague illustrates a large area.

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

1998 were employed social insurance contributions at the workplace 339 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 1601. In the manufacturing sector (as well as mining and quarrying and earth ) there were three companies, two companies in the construction industry. In addition, in 1999, there were 23 farms with an agricultural area of 602 hectares. Of these, 362 hectares of arable land and 239 acres of meadowland.

Traffic

Old town lies on the main highway 93 (Hof - Kiefersfelden ). During the construction of the northern bypass of the Old Town and New Town and junction 21a (New Town) of the hitherto highly polluted town center was closed to heavy goods traffic in 2005 and are exempt from the national through traffic. Demote an application to the federal government, the urban stretch of the Federal Road 15 (Hof -Rosenheim ) to the main road and expel the northern bypass for the A 93 as B 15, has not yet been approved. The Federal Highway 22 runs from Würzburg to Cham.

Old town has since 9 December 2007 on a breakpoint at the railroad tracks Regensburg Oberkotzau ( yard ) and Nuremberg -Neustadt ( Waldnaab ). There are also daily for the direct connection from Hof ​​to Munich by Alex.

Educational institutions

  • Two kindergartens ( Catholic kindergarten Noah's Ark Kindergarten and the Workers' Welfare Regenbogenland )
  • Primary school
  • Secondary school with M- branch

Personalities

  • Anton Wurzer (1893-1955), Upper Palatinate dialect and local poet
  • Michael Hardt (1878-1962), local historian and chronicler
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