Schönsee
Schoensee is a city in the northeast of the Upper Palatinate district Schwandorf in Bavaria. It is with the municipalities and Stadlern Weiding (Landkreis Schwandorf ) office of the Management Community Schoensee.
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Geography
Geographical Location
The town in the Upper Palatinate Forest is close to the Czech border in the vicinity of the city Hostouň ( Hostau ) in western Bohemia in the valley of Asha, which flows via the Schwarzach and Naab in the Danube River, nestled between the 808 m high piece of stone and the Drechsel Berg ( 836 m high). A few kilometers to the east is the 896 m high Weingartner rock, which is the highest point of the district. Here the Šumava observation tower was built in 1984. Schoensee lies in the nature reserve Upper Palatinate Forest.
Neighboring communities
The neighboring municipalities (clockwise ) are: Eslarn, Rybnik nad Radbuzou, Stadlern, Weiding (Landkreis Schwandorf ) Winklarn (Oberpfalz ) and Oberviechtach.
Boroughs
The municipality has 23 Schoensee officially named districts:
- Book mountain
- Dieter Berg
- Dieter village
- Owl mountain
- Friedrichshäng
- Gaisthal
- Gaisthalerhammer
- Grünthal
- Rear Lindau
- Johannismühle
- Josephsthal
- Leaves
- Lilienthal
- Lindau
- Muggenthal
- Cushion
- Racke Thal
- Rosenhof
- Rosenthal
- Schoensee
- Schwandstrasse
- Weber homes
- Ziegelhuette
Old, dilapidated today, uninhabited or differently named districts are:
- Bügellohe
- Plößerlohe
- Schaller hammer
- Piece Häusl
- Wagnermühle
Historical Overview
1329 appeared the toponym Schoensee, back in Nordgau ( Bavaria ), located in a deed of the Lords of Hostau in connection with the city Hostau ( Hostoun ) as a place in serfdom on, as in the Bohemian forest area in the settlement area of the West Slavic Choden since 200 years German settlers founded villages. Since 1350 Schoensee was under the suzerainty of the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg and 1354 was a market town in the Upper Palatinate. At 874 meters high rich stone was found in 14th century gold. 1514 sold Ulrich, Jörgen and Sebastian von Waldow ( nobility ), the castle rich stone, castle ruins today as a rich stone ( Upper Palatinate ) is obtained, and the city Schoensee for 3900 Rhenish florins to Jobst key fields, Hans Reich and Hieronymus Hollfelder. In this time, the granting of town rights and the issue of the coat of arms with a water lily stock fell.
In the 15th and 16th century iron hammers were operated Schönseer country; Köhler smoldering charcoal needed for this in the wooded area. In 1530, Hans von Fuchs ( noble ) of Wallburg owner of erbuntertänigen rule rich stone Schoensee. As according to the Augsburg Imperial and religious peace of 1555 the Bavarian Elector Otto Heinrich had joined of Pfalz- Neuburg the Lutheran confession, Schoensee was for three generations followers of the teachings of the reformer Martin Luther.
In the Thirty Years War during the recatholicization in Bavaria twice invaded Evangelical Lutheran Sweden; of the arson in Schoensee was not spared the church. In 1641 came Schoensee and a number of other places in the area to the Gefürstete Störnstein county, remained there until the year 1807 and were sold to the secularisation of Bavaria by the Electorate of Bavaria to the newly formed Kingdom of Bavaria. In the middle of the 19th century at the time of emancipation in Bavaria from serfdom and the beginning of industrialization in Schoensee 1868 a fire disaster occurred. The city was rebuilt and heard since the end of World War I and the November Revolution of 1918 to the Free State of Bavaria in the Federal Republic of Germany.
At the beginning of the 19th century broke glass cutting shops from the iron hammers. New employment opportunities were opened in the early 20th century, when a lace school was opened in Schoensee. The high quality level of the peaks continues to this day. The fall of the Iron Curtain and the opening of the border in 1993 to the Czech Republic liberated the area from his Schönseer zone periphery.
Today, tourism in Schoensee has a special significance as a source of income. Besides the local gastronomy and the park systems, the city's sports and leisure facilities and a largely intact, surrounding nature is at 120 km has highlighted, local hiking trails, cross-regional routes, such as the E6 and guided cross-border hiking and biking in the Upper Palatinate and Bohemia border region to the Czech Republic. For RV owners, a parking area at the pool of the city was established.
In Schönseer country the art of lace-making has a long tradition and continues the tradition of the former Weißensulz in the judicial district Hostau. There are weekly and weekend courses for tourists and locals offered to learn this craft and maintain it. In cooperation with the German Association clapper in Ubach- Palenberg exhibitions will be prepared and implemented. The department store Köck in Schoensee offers with a lace exhibition and purchase opportunity an overview.
Since March 2006, is in the former Kommunbräuhaus the city Schoensee a Bavarian- Bohemian cultural center, the Centrum Bavaria Bohemia ( CeBB ) to promote cross-border German - Czech relations with exhibitions include for bobbin lace, concerts, readings and other events.
Incorporations
In 1945 or 1946 parts of the formerly independent communities Gmeinsrieth and Pirkhof were incorporated. On 1 January 1972 Dieter village and Schwandstrasse were added. Gaisthal followed on 1 January 1975.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Argent, a shield from the left edge of growing, horizontal, green lily floor with three green leaves. The coat of arms dates from the 15th century.
Culture and sights
From the former Schoensee station runs a cycling and walking trail along the former railway line from Schoensee after Nabburg.
- List of monuments in Schoensee
Traffic
From Schoensee of lead connecting roads in the surrounding towns Oberviechtach, Rotz, forest Munich and the border community Waidhaus. Here there is a junction with the motorway 6 (distance 14 km). The nearest railway station is located 30 km to the west in the city Nabburg. About Nabburg Schoensee is connected to the A 93. The railway line Nabburg - Schoensee is shut down.
Schoensee (2009)
Schoensee in Winter ( 2012)
Schoensee 1700