Speinshart

Speinshart is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab and a member of the administrative community Eschenbach. The town is famous for its abbey Speinshart.

  • 2.1 founding legend
  • 2.2 Amalgamations
  • 2.3 Population development
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 monuments
  • 5.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 personalities who have worked in Speinshart

Geography

Geographical Location

Speinshart lies in the planning region Upper Palatinate North between the City Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz and the city of Neustadt am Kulm in the North Upper Palatinate hills.

Community structure

The municipality has 13 Speinshart officially named districts:

  • Barbara Berg
  • Dobertshof
  • Haselbrunn
  • Haselhof
  • Herrnmühle
  • Courts
  • Basement House
  • Münch Reuth
  • Seitenthal
  • Speinshart
  • Sweet Pond
  • Tremmersdorf
  • Zettlitz

At the district include the towns Speinshart Speinshart, Münch Reuth and Haselhof and the hamlet Sweet pond, to the villages of district Tremmersdorf Tremmersdorf, courtyards, Haselbrunn and the hamlet of Mr. Mill and the district Seitenthal the places Seitenthal, Barbara Berg and Dobertshof. The village belongs to the district Zettliz Pichlberg.

History

1145 founded noble people of Reifenberg, his wife and his two brothers Richenza the monastery Speinshart and handed it over to the Premonstratensians. The abbey was abolished in 1556 in the wake of the Reformation in the Upper Palatinate and in 1661 resettled from the stone monastery of Gaden. The place came the Thirty Years War to the Electorate of Bavaria and formed until the secularization in 1803 a closed Hofmark of the monastery. The monastery came after the secularization initially in state ownership and later housed, among others, the parsonage, a school and the Forestry Office. The rural communities Speinshart, Tremmersdorf and Seitenthal 1818 established by the municipality edict in Bavaria. 1921 Long-Range monastery on the mediation of Munich canon prelate Michael Hartig was returned and founded by the Premonstratensians the pin Tepl in Cheb, the new monastery. 1923 Speinshart was Abbey again.

Founding legend

The founding legend of Speinshart and the monastery is: " In the year 1150, the wife of the Count of Reifenberg stray with a friend in the swamps. They came into it further and found no way out. As the Countess prayed to God and promised to build a convent if they would be saved. In the village the Count made ​​very worried about his wife and decided to look for them with some men. When the men after a long search, the two women found the Countess her husband fell into his arms and told him of her promise. Then sent the Count, his white horse in the forest. At the point, stopped the mold three times, the foundation stone for the monastery should be set. So it happened. The mold was in the midst of the marshes three times stand in the same place. The Count had the marshes dry up and sat there the foundation of the monastery. "

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the formerly independent municipality Tremmersdorf and parts of the municipalities Pichlberg and Seitenthal were incorporated.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor Albert Nickl (CSU ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: In red a silver embattled tower, beseitet right of a beblättertem golden lilies stems, left by a golden miter.

Culture and sights

Monuments

  • Speinshart monastery with church of Maria Immaculata
  • Church of St. Peter and Paul in Tremmersdorf

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the manufacturing sector and 35 in the area of ​​trade and transport any social insurance contributions at the workplace. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 385 in the manufacturing sector, there were 1 businesses in the construction industry do not have. In addition, in 1999, there were 55 farms with an agricultural area of 1409 hectares, of which 894 hectares of arable land.

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 1999):

  • Kindergartens: 50 kindergarten places with 38 children
  • Elementary and secondary school part: " At the elementary school Rauhen Kulm " with 20 teachers and 304 students

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • John Speth ( 1664 - after 1719), German organist
  • Alois Erhardt (1831-1888), Mayor of the City of Munich 1870-1887
  • Georg Girisch (* 1941), politician

Personalities who were active in Speinshart

  • Johann Georg von Gleißenthal (1507-1580), German abbot in the Reformation, leader of the prelate Bank in the Upper Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate Viztum
  • P. Gereon OPraem Motyka (1892-1969), prior of the monastery Speinshart
Protestant Reformation Egerland Johann Speth Bechtsrieth Eslarn Etzenricht Georgenberg, Neustadt Irchenrieth Kirchendemenreuth Kirchenthumbach Kohlberg, Bavaria Leuchtenberg Luhe-Wildenau Moosbach, Bavaria Pirk Pleystein Pressath Schirmitz Schlammersdorf Schwarzenbach, Upper Palatinate Theisseil Vorbach Weiherhammer Integrated Authority File
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