Grafenwiesen
Graf Meadows is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Education
Geography
Geographical Location
The town is located north of Bad Kötzting between Kaitersberg and Hoher bow. Immediately at the site flows past the white rain.
Community structure
The municipality Graf Meadows has eleven officially named districts:
- Berghäuser
- Engl mill
- Feßmannsdorf
- Graf meadows
- Haiberg
- Matheshof
- Schönenbuchen
- Thürnhofen
- Voggendorf
- Watzlhof
- Zittenhof
In the municipality there are three districts: Graf Meadows, Voggendorf and Rimbach, the latter district is shared with the community Rimbach.
History
Graf Meadows was first mentioned in 1177. 1217 a Seyfried de Kravewissen was mentioned. The Count meadows were ministeriales the Counts of Bogen and the Marquis of Cham. Her successor occurred in 1402 at the Hohenwarther. The Hofmark Graf Meadows was a fief of the monastery Rott am Inn. From the 16th to the 18th century they received several noble families by inheritance or purchase.
The four-winged castle Graf Meadows, which goes back to a medieval building, derived mainly from the period 1612-1620. 1712 bought the monastery Rott back at the Inn Good and Hofmark in whose hands Grafenwiesen 1803 remained until the secularization in Bavaria.
1818 Graf Meadows was a landgericht immediate community of the District Court Kötzting. On October 14, 1923, the inauguration of the present parish church was. By 1959, the castle is also a brewery was established. Built in 1612 chapel served until the construction of the new parish church in 1923 as a house of worship.
In 1892 the construction of the railway line Kötzting - Lam, as well as the state road St2140. From 1803 to 1918 Graf meadows belonged to the parish Kötzting. 1923, the parish church was dedicated. In 1978, the municipalities Count meadows and Rimbach banded together (and also Hohenwarth to 1980 ) to manage Community Count meadows, which was disbanded in 1994.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1972, until then independent municipality Voggendorf was incorporated.
Policy
Coat of arms
Blazon: " Azure, a silver oblique beams in three blue fish; above two six-pointed golden stars, down a leaping silver stag. "coat of arms since 1978.
Culture and sights
- Opened in 2008, German Zündholzmuseum informed about the history of Zündholzfabrikation. It also shows excerpts of an extensive special collection of matchstick matchstick containers and labels.
- Another attraction is the deer park in the district Voggendorf.
- In the courtyard of the 1612-1660 newly built old castle is a chapel of in 1612.
- The neo-baroque parish church Holy Trinity from 1923 has a Rococo interior of the former palace chapel.
- Greifvogelpark Count meadows.
See also: List of monuments in Grafenwiesen
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Graf Meadows has a break point on the railway line Cham Lam. Here courses of Oberpfalzbahn. In addition, by Graf Meadows runs the state road 2140.
Education
- Elementary school Grafenwiesen
- Kindergarten Count meadows