Regenstauf
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Regenstauf is a market and the largest municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria. December 31, 2008 Regenstauf counted 15 013 inhabitants.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 4.1 Market council
- 4.2 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 Sports clubs
- 5.2 Culture and Customs clubs
- 5.3 Attractions
- 6.1 Road Access
- 6.2 Education
Geography
Geographical Location
The town lies on the river rain flowing fifteen kilometers further south near Regensburg near its northernmost point in the Danube. Regenstauf has some charming buildings, bridges, fountains and monuments, such as the famous lookout tower on top of the 436 meter high rain Swabian castle mountain, which towers over the old market by a good 90 meters. Core of the village is the historic street market, which clearly stands out from the sparse construction in the rest of the settlement area. Awareness has also achieved a stork's nest on a disused brewery chimney in the center. In the district of Karlstejn the Karl Stein ( 1393 ) Castle and about 650 west is the ruins of the castle mountain forest (around 1200).
Community structure
The municipality has 87 Regenstauf officially named districts:
- Anglhof
- Asing
- Birkenzant
- Breitwies
- Focal Thal
- Brunnhaus
- Buchenlohe
- Danersdorf
- This Bach
- Dirnberg
- Drackenstein
- Edlhausen
- Eichlberg
- Eitlbrunn
- Misery half street
- Ellmau
- Epfenthau
- Ferneichlberg
- Fidelhof
- Forstberg
- Fraunberg
- Fronau
- Ganglhof
- Geiersberg
- Gfangen
- Gibacht
- Glapfenberg
- Sanctuary
- Grafenwinn
- Old man mountain
- Grub
- Haguenau
- Heilinghausen
- Hinternberg
- Hirschling
- Hochstraß
- Hohenwarth
- Wood
- Irlbründl
- Karlstejn
- Kerm
- Kirchberg
- Kleeberg
- Kleinanglhof
- Kleinramspau
- Kohlstatt
- Kreuth
- Kühthal
- Kürnberg
- Lindachstraße
- Linglhof
- Hole
- Maad
- Marienthal
- Medersbach
- Mette Bach
- Münch Ried
- Neuhaus
- Neuried
- Oberhaslach
- Oberhof
- Oberhub
- Preischlgut
- Preßgrund
- Ramspau
- Rappershof
- Regenstauf
- Clean Grub
- Reitersberg
- Judge Keller
- Ruith
- Schanzlohe
- Schneitweg
- Schnepf mountain
- Schönleiten
- Schwaighof
- Spindlhof
- Stadel
- Steinberg
- Süßberg
- Süssenbach
- Unterhaslach
- Unterhub
- Wasa
- Wieden
- Wiedenhof
- Wöhrhof
History
In the year 970 Regenstauf was first mentioned in records as a place. In 1196 it came into the possession of the Duchy of Bavaria. 1326 was the collection of rain Staufs to the market.
The coat of arms of the market, 1470 awarded by Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria, shows two crossed fish as a symbol of the river under a colorful rainbow. 1563 the district this Bach precious seat. During the Thirty Years' War were 1633-1646 Swedish, Imperial, Austrian and Bavarian troops in Regenstauf. In the district Heilinghausen found 1686 witch trial of the mill owner of Eichmühle Anna Bayer instead.
1713/14 the famous Sebastian chapel was built. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 1786 in Regenstauf, his Italian Journey takes literarily on the first pages of Karlovy Vary from over Regenstauf its beginning.
On May 1, 1906, the night train from Munich to Berlin (D - train 21) at Regenstauf was involved in a rear-end collision. An incorrectly Asked Soft he went on to a freight train, he was supposed to overtake. Celebrity passenger of the train was Thomas Mann, the events in the story The railway accident - published 1909 - processed. " The large quick- tractor of Maffei was in two back and forth. Price seventy thousand, " Mann wrote in the narrative.
1918 visited the English writer David Lindsay the market Regenstauf and visited, among others, the observation tower on the summit of the castle hill. Impressed by " the mysterious of the tower " and the tremendous effort in addressing the many steep steps immortalized Lindsay the tower in the last chapter of his famous novel A Voyage To Arcturus planet. The tower with its windows, its inner and outer appearance is described in Lindsay's book point by point according to the real model in Regenstauf.
1924 donated Maximilian Freiherr von Marquart purlins for the district Heilinghausen a Benefiziat for ever. Since the second half of the 1950s Regenstauf captured by the suburbanization. A lively residential ensued, resulting in leaving the village primarily in the following decades, the residential location near Regensburg. In 1961 here down the hatchery Süd GmbH & Co KG Lohmann broiler hatchery.
In 1976 came the discovery and excavation of eleven urn graves from the Celtic period in the district this stream. In 1982, a fundamental recovery in place with the reorganization of local through traffic after the highway bypass was completed. A town hall was built, the old town hall in 1997 converted into a cultural center. see also Postal Regenstauf, castle ruins Ramspau, castle stables barn, castle Forstberg
Incorporations
On 1 January 1978, the formerly independent communities Heilinghausen, Hirschling, Karlstejn and Ramspau as well as parts of the territory of the dissolved municipality Bubach were incorporated in the forest. This Bach, Eitlbrunn and Steinberg and parts of the disbanded community Ponholz followed on 1 May 1978.
Confessions
With own churches or Versammlungsbauten the Roman Catholic and the Protestant church and the Jehovah's Witnesses are represented in Regenstauf.
Policy
Market council
The municipal election held on 2 March 2008 resulted in the following distribution of the 24 seats in the municipal market:
- CSU: 10 seats
- SPD: 8 seats
- FW: 3 seats
- ODP: 2 seats
- REP: 1 seat
Coat of arms
Blazon: Azure, under a striped red, green and gold rainbow two diagonally crossed silver fish. The coat of arms has been known since 1470.
Culture and sights
Sports clubs
In the market town of Regenstauf there are several sports clubs. The largest club with approximately 2200 members, the TB / ASV Regenstauf, which was created in 2008 from the merger of TB in 1893 and the ASV Regenstauf Regenstauf. In addition to the football department with 500 members there are in the club nor the divisions volleyball, table tennis, tennis, skiing, gymnastics, karate, taekwondo and aerobics.
- TB 1893/ASV Regenstauf
- SpVgg Ramspau
- These SV Bach
- TSV Eitlbrunn
- FSV Steinberg
- 1 skittle - Club Regenstauf
Cultural and traditional clubs
- Carnival society Lari - Fari This stream eV
- Bart - Club Regenstauf - This creek
- Mountain Club Regenstauf e.V.
- Friends and Sponsors of Red - Cross - Museum eV
- Association for the Promotion of Church Music in St. James Regenstauf
- Dramatic Club Regenstauf
- Theater district of St. James Regenstauf
Attractions
- Observation tower on the Schlossberg in Regenstauf
- Castle Spindlhof
- Castle Ramspau
- Castle Hirschling
- Castle Glapfenberg
- Karlstejn Castle
- Giant leap in Drackenstein
- See also: list of architectural monuments in Regenstauf
Economy and infrastructure
Transport links
Regenstauf lies on the A 93 Regensburg - Hof (junction Regenstauf ), the parallel current federal highway 15 crosses the center Regenstauf.
The rain Stauf railway station is on the railway line from the Regensburg - Oberkotzau. Here trains of Deutsche Bahn and the Vogtlandbahn. The municipal area Regenstauf is the airfield Regensburg Oberhub. The nearest international airports are Munich and Nuremberg II.
The rain is not navigable.
Education
Schools:
- School on the Schlossberg ( primary and secondary school with M- train )
- This stream primary school
- Primary school Ramspau
- Elementary School Steinberg
- Max -Ulrich von Drechsel junior high school, named after the born on Karlstejn resistance fighters of 20 July 1944
- State Special Schools
- Eckert schools
- Manfred Meyer brick school
- Since September 2008 ISR - International School Regensburg Regenstauf ( bilingual / Waldorf ) housed in the Eckert schools