Leuchtenberg

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Management Community :	Tännesberg
Height :	572 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.35 km 2
Residents:	1127 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92705
Area code :	09659
License plate :	NEW, ESB , VOH
Community key :	09 3 74 132
LOCODE :	DE LH6
Market structure:	18 districts
; Market administration address :	Innerer Markt 13 ; 92705 Leuchtenberg
Website :	www.uchtenberg.de
Mayor :	Anton Kappl ( CSU )
Location of the Leuchtenberg market in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district

Leuchtenberg is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . The market is located in the Northern Upper Palatinate Forest Nature Park and is a member of the Tännesberg administrative association .

View of Leuchtenberg

Parish Church of St. Margareta

geography

Geographical location

Leuchtenberg is 15 kilometers southeast of Weiden . The scenic valleys of the Pfreimd , Lerau and Luhe rivers are located near Leuchtenberg .

Community structure

The municipality of Leuchtenberg has 18 districts:

history

Until the 19th century

In 1124, Leuchtenberg was first mentioned in a document . It was the home of the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg . The Leuchtenberg market was the seat of an upper and a lower court and belonged to the Fürstete Landgraviate Leuchtenberg, which had been Bavarian since 1714 after the Leuchtenberg family died out . The elector carried the title of Landgrave zu Leuchtenberg and partly carried the Leuchtenberg coat of arms in his own coat of arms.

In 1817 Eugène de Beauharnais received from the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph the title of Duke of Leuchtenberg, proposed by Maximilian von Montgelas , without any territorial ownership there; his property was the newly formed principality of Eichstätt .

In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's community of Leuchtenberg was created with the community edict of 1818 .

In 1842 a large part of the village fell victim to a fire.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Lerau was incorporated. On July 1, 1976 Döllnitz was added with Preppach, which was incorporated in 1945 or 1946, and parts of the Woppenrieth community, which was dissolved at the same time . Michldorf followed on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population decreased from 1,269 to 1,155 by 114 residents or 9%.

religion

88% of the population are Catholic, 7% Protestant. On the Catholic side, most of the parish area belongs to the parish of St. Margareta (Leuchtenberg) including the Expositur St. Jakobus the Elder (Döllnitz) ; there is also the parish of St. Ulrich (Michldorf) . Both parishes belong to the deanery of Leuchtenberg in the diocese of Regensburg . On the Protestant side, Leuchtenberg belongs to the parish Vohenstrauß in the deanery Weiden in the Upper Palatinate of the Regensburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

politics

mayor

Anton Kappl (CSU) has been the mayor since May 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Square with a silver heart shield, inside a blue bar; 1 and 4 in red a golden oak branch with acorn, 2 and 3 in gold a green hop tendril with umbel. "

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

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

The ruins of Leuchtenberg Castle rise above the village of Leuchtenberg . It is the largest and best preserved castle ruin in the Upper Palatinate. The Leuchtenberg Castle Festival is organized there every year from May to August by the Upper Palatinate State Theater . The castle complex is the most popular open-air theater in the Upper Palatinate.

The parish church of St. Margareta , totally destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1621 and after the fire of 1842 and badly damaged in 1889 except for the choir, was repeatedly rebuilt on the old foundations of the original church.

Protected areas, natural monuments and geotopes

Lerautal nature reserve near Leuchtenberg
Heller Stein near Steinach
Hoher Stein near Leuchtenberg (probably a historical cult site)
Devil's butter churn near Burgmühle (granite formation, rock tower)
Leuchtenberg Castle Hill
Granite rock cairn near Döllnitz
Franzosenfelsen in the southeast of Döllnitz
Gneiss outcrops at the Kainzmühlsperre
Granite rock Teufelspranke in the south of Leuchtenberg
Former quarry in the northwest of Leuchtenberg
Kummerer-Felsen in the northeast of Leuchtenberg
Former quarry on the Luhe in the east of Michldorf
Wolfslohklamm in the east of Michldorf
Granite blocks to the west of Sargmühle

traffic

Leuchtenberg is close to the federal motorway 6 ( Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) as well as the federal roads 14 ( Stockach - Waidhaus ) and 22 ( Bamberg - Cham ) ( Bayerische Ostmarkstrasse / Glasstrasse ).

Others

In 1992, Leuchtenberg was awarded the Europa Nostra Prize for the successful renovation of the historic town center . Leuchtenberg is the namesake of a Catholic student association that was based in Regensburg from 1968 to 1996.