Oberviechtach

Oberviechtach is a city in the Upper Palatinate district Schwandorf and nationally recognized resort.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 9-11 WTC Memorial Oberviechtach
  • 4.3 monuments
  • 5.1 Music
  • 5.2 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Public bodies
  • 6.3 Education
  • 6.4 Sports and Leisure
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 7.2 personalities who are associated with the city

Geography

Geographical location

Oberviechtach is located in the nature reserve Upper Palatinate Forest.

Neighboring communities

Oberviechtach borders the following municipalities: Teunz, Niedermurach, Dieterskirchen, Winklarn, Schoensee, Eslarn, moss creek.

Boroughs

The municipality has 43 Oberviechtach officially named districts:

  • Antel village
  • Station Lind
  • Station Niedermurach
  • Fire houses
  • Brücklinghof
  • Bruderbügerl
  • Dieter village
  • Eigelsberg
  • Forest
  • Garden Ried
  • Garden Rieder mill
  • Gütting
  • Hanna mill
  • Herzoghof
  • Court
  • Horn mill
  • Johannisberg
  • Knaumühle
  • Konatsried
  • Kotzenhof
  • Gentle
  • Lukahammer
  • Mitterlangau
  • Niesaß
  • Nunzenried
  • Oberlangau
  • Obermurach
  • Oberviechtach
  • Pirk
  • Pirkhof
  • Plechhammer
  • Pullenried
  • Slide mountain
  • Schlüsselhof
  • Schönthan
  • Stone mill
  • Tanner mill
  • Tressenried
  • Unterlangau
  • Weissbach
  • Werneröd
  • Wildeppenried
  • Zieglhäusl

The following districts are uninhabited or are no longer conducted as separate districts:

  • Iceberg
  • Beetle mill
  • Neumühlestrasse

History

Oberviechtach in Nordgau ( Bavaria ) was about 1130 mentioned for the first time in a document. 1337 received it as a " Viechtach " market rights. In the Hussite Wars, the city was destroyed twice, in 1420 and again in 1432. 1580 was mentioned as part of a country's visitation for the first time a school with a negative judgment. The place belonged to Rentamt Amberg and the district court Murach in the Electorate of Bavaria.

In the course of administrative reform in the Kingdom of Bavaria was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community. In 1913 a railway line from Nabburg about Oberviechtach after Schoensee was completed. 1952 Oberviechtach is charged to the city and in 1961 a garrison town by the advent of the mechanized infantry battalion 122

Until the local government reform in Bavaria from 1 July 1972 the city was the seat of the district Oberviechtach ( license plate " OVI "). With the district reform, the city lost the district administration and other important offices. The county was Oberviechtach with about 15,000 inhabitants, the smallest and one of the districts of Bavaria with low incomes. On 1 July 1972 he was disbanded in the course of municipal reform in Bavaria and summarized together with the former counties Burglengenfeld, Nabburg and nine vorm Wald, as well as the hitherto independent city in the district of Schwandorf Schwandorf.

Incorporations

In 1946, the formerly independent communities Eigelsberg and yard as well as parts of the disbanded community Nunzenried were incorporated. On January 1, 1972 Lind and Obermurach were added. 1 July 1972, followed Pullenried and Wildeppenried with the 1945 or 1946 incorporated territory parts of Pirkhof. On 1 July 1976, added Langau.

Policy

Mayor

Since May 2008, Heinz Weigl ( non-party group of voters ) mayor of the city.

Its predecessor was Wilfried Neuber ( also non-party group of voters ), who was in office since 1989.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Oberviechtach shows on silver background a green rooted spruce, standing on green meadow land. The central element, the spruce, should point to the spruce forests that are located around Oberviechtach and gave the city its name (upper Viecht - ah ).

Twinning

Sponsor and partner cities of Oberviechtach are:

  • Nabburg in the Upper Palatinate ( sponsorship since 1952)
  • Hann. Munden in Lower Saxony ( sponsorship since 1978)
  • Raschau marker brook in the Erzgebirge ( partnership since 1990 with the independent village until 2007 Raschau )
  • Bronnyky ( Rivne ) in Ukraine ( in partnership relations since 1991)

The places Burg- Gymnasium in Oberviechtach also maintains partnerships with school:

  • Collège Château- Gaillard, Libourne in France (since 1981)
  • Obchodní Academy (trade school), Prague in the Czech Republic (since 1989)

The Doctor Eisenbarth school Oberviechtach maintains the framework of the EU Comenius School Partnership intense cultural exchange with:

  • Secondary school, Peilstein in Austria (since 2005)
  • Middle school Konrad Fischnaler, Sterzing in South Tyrol / Italy (since 2005)
  • Zakladni Skola Poběžovice in the Czech Republic (since 2000)

Furthermore, it is since 1984 a sponsorship with the 2nd company of armored infantry battalion 122 in Oberviechtach is located.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Doctor Eisenbarth Fountain
  • Dr. Max Black Fountain
  • Fountain at City Hall with the city's history
  • Monuments ( number of wine, Father Knell Inger, Dr. Eisenbarth )
  • Doctor Eisenbarth and City Museum ( former market mill)
  • Catholic parish church of " St. John the Baptist " from 1689, reconstruction 1775/76
  • St. Giles Church ( yard )
  • Castle ruins Murach

9-11 WTC Memorial Oberviechtach

On 8 October 2011, a memorial to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City was unveiled in Oberviechtach. It consists of the Artifact # H- 0031a, a 650 -pound piece of steel beam from the remains of the destroyed Twin Towers. This piece of steel is situated on a block of granite Upper Palatinate. Before that is a replica of the twin towers of glass. At the dedication of the memorial government President Brigitta Brunner gave a speech from the Bavarian state government. She said that this monument for the rejection of any ideological radicalism and political extremism stands and is a commitment to social tolerance and social cultural diversity.

Already the opening ceremony of the monument was disturbed by neo-Nazis. They called in the sequence more or less openly to blow up the monument on. These processes, that the message of the memorial was very well understood.

Monuments

Gallery

Doctor Eisenbarth and City Museum

Doctor Eisenbarth at the Star stinging

Catholic church of "St. John the Baptist"

Dr. Max Black Fountain at the Market

Doctor Eisenbarth fountain on the market square

9-11 WTC Memorial Oberviechtach

Oberviechtach station complex

Hanomag locomotive No. 3427 Year 1899 on Oberviechtach Station

Music

Founded in 1963 Kolping marching band took part in the 2007 and 2008 German Orchestra Competition.

In the city there is a town chapel, which was refounded in 1988 on the initiative of the city council Ludwig Berger. In 2007 the orchestra took part with more than 40 musicians on the traditional Steuben Parade in New York City.

Regular events

Listed annually on the marketplace the Doctor Eisenbarth festival, in which the history of born Oberviechtach Johann Andreas Eisenbarth is told.

Economy and infrastructure

The town is nationally recognized resort. In the Middle Ages and the early modern gold mining was carried out in Oberviechtach.

Traffic

By Oberviechtach the highway passes 22 ( " Ostmarkstraße "). The nearest motorway junction ( A93 ) in Nabburg is about 20 km away. Also in Nabburg is the nearest railway station on the route from Regensburg to court.

Until 1976, passenger trains lead by Nabburg after Oberviechtach and on to Schoensee. 1995, the freight was discontinued; the railway line is a hiking and biking trail today.

Public institutions

Oberviechtach is the seat of the administrative community Oberviechtach, which emerged from the former county Oberviechtach. The community includes the surrounding communities Gleiritsch, Niedermurach, Teunz and Winklarn (Oberpfalz ), which together have a population around 5500 (as at 31 December 2003) and is the seat of a district court.

In Oberviechtach located since 1961 significant for the city location of the armored infantry battalion of 122 Bundeswehr, where Oberviechtach 2002 was the seat of the location management for the district and the district of Cham Schwandorf with 5000 soldiers and 700 civilian employees until December 31.

Education

Oberviechtach has one of the region centrally located school, which places Castle High School, a primary school, a middle school with M- train and all-day care, the Doctor Eisenbarth school ( Oberviechtach ), a special school and a state-accredited vocational school.

Sport and Leisure

Oberviechtach has several tennis courts, a multipurpose hall, a multi- gym and an outdoor pool. The TSV Oberviechtach eV operates on its premises a soccer field and a archery area. The city and some districts have children's playgrounds.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1661-1727), crafts surgeon, surgeon and Starstecher, known by the mocking song I'm the Doctor Eisenbarth
  • Balthasar Knell Feininger (1634-1696), preacher
  • Florian Sigmund Maximilian von Miller on Altammerthal and Fronhofen (* 1668, † unknown), leader in the Upper Palatinate peasant uprising 1705-1706
  • Bastian Steger ( born 1981 ), table tennis players
  • Adam Gregor number of wine (1712-1766), theologian and canonist, Rector of the University of Salzburg

Personalities who are associated with the city

, Died Karl Leon Du Moulin - Eckart (1900-1991), German politician of the National Socialist period in Oberviechtach

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