Lauterhofen

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Lauterhofen is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. The town lies on the River Lauterach.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Market council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Regular events
  • 4.3 Education
  • 4.4 Culture
  • 4.5 Art
  • 4.6 theater
  • 4.7 Sport
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Community structure

The municipality has 42 Lauterhofen officially named districts:

  • Aglasterhof
  • Ballert Mayrhofen
  • Brenzenwang
  • Brunn
  • Buschhof
  • Deinschwang
  • Dippersricht
  • Eidelberg
  • Engelberg
  • Eratsmühle
  • Finsterhaid
  • Fischermühle
  • Freiberg
  • Gebert Mayrhofen
  • Trench
  • Grafenbuch
  • Hader mill
  • Hans mill
  • Hartenhof
  • Hillohe
  • Wood home
  • Inzenhof
  • Landnerhof
  • Lauterhofen
  • Mantlach
  • Marbertshofen
  • Mette Mayrhofen
  • Mitterberg
  • Muttenshofen
  • Nattershofen
  • Niesaß
  • Pettenhofen
  • Ramertshofen
  • Reitelshofen
  • Ruppertslohe
  • Schlogel mill
  • Schweibach
  • Stieglitz height
  • Thürsnacht
  • Traunfeldmühle
  • Trautmannshofen
  • Wilfertshofen

( italics: Former municipalities)

History

Lauterhofen is located on an ancient trade route that led northward from the Danube to the Main about Forchheim and beyond through the Thuringian Forest in central Germany. In the 1960s, graves were discovered from the 7th century, which document an early settlement. In general, the tombs of the late 7th and early 8th century have been associated with bajuwarischer settlement activity, with recent settlement history research assess an ethnic designation ( Bavarians / Franken? ) Reserved, as was the case in recent decades. As part of the Frankish expansion a Frankish ( Carolingian ) Royal Court in the district was probably set up in the corner on the eastern edge of Lauterhofen no later than the middle of the 8th century. 806 the village was first mentioned in the known as divisions regnorum Chapter Members of Charlemagne to the division of the kingdom as a villa Lutrahahof. The place was then in 1100 in the possession of the Lords of Habsberg - Kastl and the Counts of Sulzbach and came by way of gift to the Monastery Kastl and finally to Bavaria. On the eastern edge of the present village was in the late Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages the castle Oberlauter Mayrhofen, since 1307 owned by the sheriffs, 1307-1487, it was the stone Linger.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the until then independent municipality Pettenhofen and parts of the disbanded community Brunn were incorporated. Deinschwang, Engelberg, Gebert Mayrhofen, Traun field and Trautmannshofen were added on 1 May 1978.

Policy

Market council

The market council has 16 members:

  • CSU 10 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • FW 3 seats

(As at municipal election on March 2, 2008)

Coat of arms

Blazon: Argent, on a green hill two supplied turned, red crowned golden lion holding a diagonally placed red crenellated tower with pointed roof, which is manned up with bay windows and covered on foot with the pound sign.

The coat of arms has been known since the 15th century.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • The town hall dates from 1593
  • In the district Trautmannshofen is the Sanctuary of the Virgin name. It was built in 1691 to designs by the architect Leonhard Dietzenhofer. The church tower and the defensive wall surrounding it are still medieval in origin
  • The parish church of St. Michael was built in 1100 as a proprietary church of Count Berengar of Sulzbach, possibly at the site of an older church. The tower can still brickwork of the time it was built to recognize
  • To the east of the town are in the area of the residential building Lampertistraße 1, corner Martin road, the remains of the church of St. Martin of the Carolingian royal court ( church largely departed )

See also: List of monuments in Lauterhofen

Regular events

  • Carnival
  • Jacobi Kirwa ( fair )
  • German festival on Kühruh
  • Art Exhibition Lauterhofen

Education

In the community Lauterhofen a primary school and a middle school and two kindergartens are available.

  • Jugendtreff Lauterhofen
  • Gemeindebücherei Lauterhofen

Culture

  • Culture blame Lauterhofen, Lauterachstraße 31

Art

  • Group of artists Lauterhofen

Theater

  • Free Theatre Oberpfalz

Sports

  • Golf course in the district Ruppertslohe
  • General sports club SV Lauterhofen

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Engelbert Niebler ( born August 13, 1921 in Lauterhofen, † June 29, 2006 in Munich), 1975-1987 Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and Honorary Professor at the University of Munich.
  • Gottlieb (Johann Baptist ) Auer ( born October 25, 1887 in Lauterhofen, † April 6, 1952 in the camp Oksadok, Korea) - Missionary Benedictines, martyr of Tokwon
  • Seyfried Schweppermann (* around 1257 in Hillohe at Lauterhofen, † 1337 in Deinschwang at Lauterhofen ) was a captain of the imperial city of Nuremberg.
  • Frederick V ( Palatinate) ( 1596-1632 ), the Winter King
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