Hofkirchen, Bavaria

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Hofkirchen is a market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Market council
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Finance
  • 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 Medicine

Geography

Geographical Location

Hofkirchen lies in the Donau -Wald directly on the Danube and on the southeastern border of the Gäuboden. The market is located around 30 km north- west of Passau, 25 kilometers southeast of Deggendorf and 7 km from Vilshofen on the Danube. For the Federal Highway 3 (exit Iggensbach or Garham ) there are also 7 km.

Neighboring communities

  • Künzing (Landkreis Deggendorf )
  • Winzer ( Landkreis Deggendorf )
  • Iggensbach (Landkreis Deggendorf )
  • Eging am See
  • Vilshofen on the Danube

Community structure

The municipality has 57 Hofkirchen officially named districts:

  • Aichet
  • Green
  • Mountain
  • Unterbichl mountain
  • Bruckmuhl
  • Just
  • Edlham
  • Edt
  • Entweg
  • Fürstmühl
  • Garham
  • Gelbersdorf
  • Gmein
  • Grubhof
  • Gsteinöd
  • Hachelberg
  • Hagenham
  • Henhart
  • Hilgartsberg
  • Court
  • Hofkirchen
  • Holzham
  • Hufnagl
  • Kapfham
  • Klafterding
  • Kühbeckberg
  • Leithen
  • Lerch mountain
  • Moser wood
  • Mühlloh
  • Neuderting
  • Low- village
  • Oberlangheim Rain
  • Upper Neustift
  • Oberngschaid
  • Oberriegl
  • Oberschöllnach
  • Oitzet
  • Philipp Wart
  • Pirka
  • Riding
  • Riders
  • Seehof
  • Semmelreut
  • Solla
  • Pointed wood
  • Tracking
  • Untergschaid
  • Under Long Rain
  • Under Neustift
  • Unterschöllnach
  • Under Staudach
  • Voggenreut
  • Wiffling
  • Wimmhof
  • Witzelsberg
  • Fence village

There are districts: Hilgartsberg, Hofkirchen and Garham.

History

Hofkirchen is first mentioned on 5 November 1005. It came in 1200 in the possession of the bishops of Passau, which left it to the Whose salvors. After they died in 1240 Rapoto gained III. of Ortenbourg the village, they were but already on February 19, 1241 the bishop back and took it probably as a fiefdom. After his death in 1248 the Wittelsbach received Advokatie, 1256, the fief and 1262 by comparing the rule over Hofkirchen.

Already before 1300 the place is called the market, but only in 1387 he was awarded the right to a weekly market every Monday by Duke Albrecht II. Towards the end of the 15th century, the white fields were invested with Hilgartsberg and Hofkirchen. Until 1821 Hofkirchen belonged to the rule Hilgartsberg when Count Eligius Fugger sold them to the state. The market Hofkirchen belonged to Rentamt Straubing and the district court Hengersberg of the Electorate of Bavaria. Hofkirchen had market rights with magisterial own rights.

The present parish church was built with the help of the nobles of Puchberg and other benefactors and consecrated in 1498. On 18 October 1745 the centerpiece ship of Emperor Franz I. Hofkirchen put on, and the monarch involved in today's Gasthof Buchner and his entourage the night quarters. To this day, the Emperor road to this day. In Hofkirchen there was also a built at the beginning of the 15th century castle, which was purchased from the market town and stopped in the early 19th century.

With the start of the Danube Steam Navigation in 1837 and the opening of the railway line Straubing to Passau in 1862 at the other bank of the Danube lost the market Hofkirchen important. A new source of income was found in the cultivation of the Weber- carder, the hauliers Reischer Josef (1775-1850) brought to Hofkirchen where they thrived well.

Incorporations

On 1 October 1970 the merger with the community Hilgartsberg, on May 1, 1978, the annexation of most of the former municipality Garham.

Population Development

Policy

Market council

The market council has been working for the municipal election on 2 March 2008 as follows:

  • SPD: 8 seats (47.6% of the vote)
  • CSU: 6 seats ( 39.2 % of the vote )
  • UW: 2 seats (13.3% of the vote)

Mayor

First Mayor is William Wagenpfeil (SPD). He was confirmed by the 2002 successor to Joseph White ( CSU) and 2008 with 84.87 % of the valid votes in the office in the year.

Second Mayor Gabriele Stocker ( SPD), third Mayor Werner Solubility (SPD).

Finances

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of 665 k € in 1999, which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) converted 122 T €.

Culture and sights

The late- Gothic parish church of the Assumption, built in the early 16th century, has a complicated net vault of the latest Gothic. The stained-glass windows in the choir date from the early 16th century.

See also: List of monuments in Hofkirchen (Donau)

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

There are two industrial estates in Hofkirchen and Garham and another commercial space in Garham. It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the manufacturing sector and 134 in the area of ​​trade and transport 52 persons work at the workplace. Social insurance contributions at town there were a total 13535th In manufacturing, there was no, in construction enterprises 8. In addition, in 1999, there were 31 farms with an agricultural area of 1057 ha, of which 456 ha of arable land and 601 ha of permanent grassland.

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

  • Kindergartens: 2 with 123 kindergarten places and 101 children / 9 teachers
  • Elementary schools: two elementary schools with 17 teachers and 280 students in 4 classes

Others

In Hofkirchen and Garham exist two heated outdoor swimming pools with 3 pools.

Medicine

In Hofkirchen are a general practice (with integrated patient care service of charity ), a dental clinic and a veterinary practice.

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