Bodenwöhr
Bodenwoehr is a municipality in the southern district Schwandorf in the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate. The place is a nationally recognized resort.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
Geography
Geographical Location
Bodenwoehr lies to the east of the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park. The town lies on the banks of the lake hammer, an 8 -kilometer swimming lake, which offers plenty of opportunities for swimming, fishing and boating. By 2009, his bank was embellished. There new bike and hiking trails have been laid out and built a new beach. The lake is bordered to the east by the Warblers Rucker pond and to the northwest by Weichselbrunn pond.
Community structure
The municipality has 16 Bodenwoehr officially named districts:
- Altenschwand I
- Altenschwand II
- Sheet metal hammer
- Bodenwoehr
- Book
- Erzhäuser
- Höcherhof
- Kipfenberg
- Wallet mountain
- Neuenschwand
- Pech mill
- Pingarten
- Taxöldern
- Turesbach
- Warmersdorf
- Wind corn
History
The place Bodenwoehr is first documented in 1123 as " Potenwre ". An iron hammer was moved to 1464 Bodenwoehr ago. With the founding of political communities in Bavaria in 1818 the town belonged to the municipality Neuenschwand. In 1921, the renaming of the former " community Neuenschwand " in " community Bodenwoehr " took place.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Taxöldern was incorporated. On 1 May 1978, the former municipality Erzhäuser and parts of the territory of the dissolved municipality Altenschwand were added.
Policy
Coat of arms
Blazon: Azure, on a silver wave beams obliquely crossed a golden mallet and a golden hammer. It thus points to the resulting in the 15th century metallurgical plant.
Attractions
- Parish Church of St. Barbara - built 1948-1950, designed by government architect Hans Beckers; The church is in terms of style, the type of the Romanesque basilica. As a building material was sandstone from the district Erzhäuser.
- Francis Marterl - The Saint Francis Chapel shrine is a shrine in the southeast of the unfinished reprocessing plant Wacker village " in the blueberry forest " in the district Altenschwand.
See also: list of architectural monuments in Bodenwoehr
Tourism
In the community Bodenwoehr there are four campsites, all directly on the shores of Lake Hammer (64 hectares, about 8 km long) are, as well as numerous apartments and pensions. The Hammersee is a fish- rich waters and can be busy with boats without motor. There are several public swimming areas on the lake.
Traffic
The Bodenwoehr North station is on the railway line Schwandorf - Furth im Wald. From there, the journey time to Schwandorf 10 to 15 minutes, according to Cham 20 to 25 minutes and to Furth im Wald is about 40 minutes. At this station in the district of sheet metal hammer branches off the railway line Bodenwoehr - Nittenau, on which, however, takes place only freight. Furthermore Bodenwoehr North was the starting point of the now disused railway line Bodenwoehr - Rotz.