Etzenricht
Etzenricht is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab and a member of the administrative community pond hammer.
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 monuments
Geography
Geographical Location
Near Etzenricht there are numerous fish-filled ponds that can be used by anglers with a fishing license from the local fishing club.
East of Etzenricht direction Rothenstadt, there is a substation of E.ON AG and DC short coupling Etzenricht, which also includes a 55 -meter-high radio tower at 49 ° 37'28 " north latitude and 12 ° 6'55" east longitude in a free-standing steel framework construction and a large compressor station for natural gas include.
Community structure
The municipality Etzenricht has three officially named districts:
- Etzenricht
- Haberstumpf mill
- Radschin
History
Etzenricht 1270 was documented for the first time mentioned in 1283 Salbuch Louis austerities as " Aechswinreuth ". The residents of Etzenricht lived at the time of the honey extraction and agriculture. 1414 came the reformer John Huss on his way to the Council of Constance by Etzenricht. Etzenricht now in the district Upper Palatinate belonged since the 17th century the Duchy of Neuburg -Sulzbach. In the Thirty Years' War Etzenricht 1631 destroyed. Since 1777, the village belonged to the district court park stone pastures of the Electorate of Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. 1875 was the construction of the railway, but until 1877 was Etzenricht its own train station. Until the completion of the Catholic Church in 1932 took Etzenricht on the state of the Simultaneum, that is Protestant and Catholic services were held in the same church. 1934, the district Beckendorf was renamed after the smelter since 1717 based at the site in Weiherhammer and received on February 1, 1952, the municipal autonomy.
Policy
Coat of arms
Blazon: A digressed into black tip, is a vertically Asked silver fish, split of gold and silver; front a black beehive behind a blue grubbing hoe.
The emblem has been used since 1970.
Culture and sights
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Etzenricht
Economy
In 1970, near a substation Etzenricht the former Bayern Werk AG, which was extended several times in the subsequent years, from 1992 to 1995 an HVDC short coupling, the GKK Etzenricht housed. A 400 - kV high- voltage line leading to the substation Hradec in the Czech Republic.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Josef Obernberger (1905-1994), painter, artist and art professor