Parish churches

This article deals with the German town of Pfarrkirchen im Rottal; for the Austrian places of the same name see parish churches in the Mühlkreis and parish churches near Bad Hall .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '  N , 12 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
County :	Rottal Inn
Height :	381 m above sea level NHN
Area :	52.35 km 2
Residents:	12,953 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	247 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	84347
Area code :	08561
License plate :	PAN, EG, GRI, VIB
Community key :	09 2 77 138
City structure:	95 districts
City administration address :	Stadtplatz 2 84347 Pfarrkirchen
Website :	pfarrkirchen.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Beißmann ( CSU )
Location of the town of Pfarrkirchen in the Rottal-Inn district

Parish churches from Gartlberg

Pfarrkirchen is a university town and the district town and second largest town in the Lower Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn in Germany .

geography

location

The city is located on the Rott River in the Rottal . The main town stretches north of the Rott, over the heights of the Galgenberg and the Gartlberg to the Reichenberg as a homogeneous development.

To the south of the Rott, the Mooshof district joins the adjacent commercial and industrial area. The other districts are located as individual locations in the area. The area is characterized by agricultural and forestry use.

Pfarrkirchen is on the B 388 , which leads from Passau, 50 km away, to the state capital of Munich , 125 km away . The city is also located 65 km south of Straubing , 30 km southwest of Vilshofen an der Donau , 40 km west of Schärding , 22 km north of Braunau am Inn and 80 km from Salzburg .

Residents

The municipality of Pfarrkirchen has around 12,500 inhabitants - including the surrounding area with around 16,000 inhabitants - the second largest catchment area in the district after Eggenfelden. The municipality includes the formerly independent communities Reichenberg with approx. 2800, Untergrasensee with approx. 1700 and Waldhof with approx. 600 inhabitants.

City structure

Pfarrkirchen has 95 districts:

Adlgehring Aham Aign Aist Altersham Asbach Benk Mountain near forest Mountain near Wühr Bergham Bottomless Brunnöd Degernbach Diepolting Dulding Einbach To celebrate Gallows Mountain Gartlberg Gehring Geiersberg Griesberg Griesdobl Grub

Gschwend Gstockert Haberbach Habod Hanod Hinterleithen Höckberg Hofroth Wood Holzleiten Hölzlhub Höring Hörmannsöd Kelchham Kugelstatt Kühstetten Laab Lanzing Lempertsöd Lerbing Linding Tan Lukasod Mahlgassing

Mäuslberg Mooshof Naderöd Neunöd Obergaiching Obergrasensee Oberham Oil hard Parish churches Ragl Reichenberg Reith Riessleithen Rockers Red Rottsteg Ruppertsöd box Scheuereck Schieferöd Schlicking Schlott Schnedenberg Guilty wood

Schwarzenstein Spitzmäusing Steffelsöd Stoeckl Mute Suttas Pigeon pit Untergaiching Untergrasensee Unteralling Cattle wood Voglsang Forest Waldhof Pastures Pond Weikersbach Woching Wolf ball Wuhr Quarrel Brick builder Zieglstadl

Markt Pfarrkirchen after an etching by Michael Wening from 1721; on the right in the background Reichenberg Castle

history

Until the 19th century

Pfarrkirchen was first mentioned in a document as pharrachiricha at the end of the 9th century and is therefore named after its church. The place came in 1262 together with the castle Reichenberg to the Duchy of Lower Bavaria, and thus in the possession of the Wittelsbacher . In 1317 it was granted market rights by the Lower Bavarian dukes and in 1862 it was made a town. Reichenberg Castle was the seat of the Vitztum "an der Rott".

See also : Seat Grub  and Castle Reichenberg

With the opening of the " Rottalbahn " from Neumarkt-Sankt Veit via Eggenfelden and Pfarrkirchen to Pocking , the place was connected to the railway network on September 1, 1879.

County seat

Since the regional reform, which came into force on July 1, 1972, Pfarrkirchen has been the district town of the Rottal-Inn district.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Reichenberg, Untergrasensee and Waldhof were incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the city grew from 10,343 to 12,677 by 2,334 inhabitants or 22.6%.

politics

Old Town Hall (built around 1500)

City Councilor and Mayor

Composition of the city council in the 2014–2020 legislative period:

Party / list	CSU	Free voters	SPD	JL-BL
Seats	11	6th	4th	3
Share of votes	45.84%	22.92%	18.15%	13.10%

Wolfgang Beißmann ( CSU ) has been the 1st mayor of the district town of Pfarrkirchen since May 1, 2014 . He prevailed in the runoff election on March 30, 2014 with 58.7% against his rival Horst Lackner ( Free Voters ). Beißmann is the successor to Georg Riedl ( CSU ), who for reasons of age could no longer run in the 2014 local elections and was at the head of the city for 24 years.

Town twinning

Pfarrkirchen maintains partnerships with

• Saint-Rémy-de-Provence ( Provence ) in France , since 1991
• the municipalities of the Lucerne Rottal: Ruswil , Ettiswil , Buttisholz and Grosswangen , since 1997
• San Vincenzo in Italy , since 1998

There are looser partnerships with the two Austrian communities called Pfarrkirchen: Pfarrkirchen near Bad Hall and Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis .

coat of arms

Blazon : Under a silver shield head, inside a striding red panther, in blue a two-towered silver church with red roofs; a golden weathercock on the nave.

Attractions

The city parish church

View of the tower of the old town hall through the legs of the Wimmer horse

The Wimmer-Ross on the town square with the new (left) and old town hall (back)

The town's landmarks are the Gartlberg pilgrimage church and the Wimmer-Ross on the town square, which are reminiscent of the town's long horse tradition. The bronze sculpture was created by Hans Wimmer in 1942 and placed on a brick plinth on the town square in 1966.

The city center is surrounded by a chestnut avenue that was laid out on the crown of the rampart of the old fortification. The 115-meter-long city pond to the northeast is also a relic of the fortifications at that time. This consisted of the city wall, the moat, the defensive wall and the pre-moat. Especially in the western part of the Ringallee, the city fortifications with walls, towers and entrenchments are best preserved.

The parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus from the early 14th century characterizes the cityscape of the old town. The church, which was initially built in the Romanesque style, was converted into a three-nave church in the late Gothic style in the 15th century . Further renovations took place in 1860 and 1971. The parish church has a 67 m high steeple. Originally the church had two towers, the southern tower burned down in 1648 and was demolished.

The old town hall is a baroque building (built around 1500), which has an octagonal dome tower with clock and bell. The New Town Hall, a solid building in the classical style, was part of a bet in the television show Wetten, dass ..? Because of its distinctive windows . .

On the town square, the residential buildings from the 16th to 18th centuries - far from the actual core area - show the Inn-Salzach style : horizontally closing facades lie in front of the roofs of the moat . Many of these buildings house figures of Mary or saints in external wall niches. These were, after the siege by the Austrian infantry regiment no. 49 of the General Bärnklau mounted on the buildings in the Austrian Succession by its bombardment with heated cannon balls intact remained. Some of these spheres can be seen next to the main entrance of the Gartlberg Church as a votive offering.

The oldest trotting track in Bavaria is located in Pfarrkirchen. It was opened on September 22, 1895. In addition to the trotting races that take place at Pentecost, high-class, international dirt track races are also organized .

The Wimmer Ross is a bronze sculpture by Hans Wimmer that was placed on the town square in 1966. a. reminds of the city's long horse tradition

The Marian pilgrimage church on Gartlberg was built between 1661 and 1715 in the baroque style. In addition to lavish church inventory, it houses a large number of votive offerings that give a good overview of the city's history. A Way of the Cross with 15 stations leads from the city to the church on Gartlberg.

The station Pfarrkirchen as the transmission mast of Deutsche Telekom AG for VHF and TV, with a height of 164 meters belongs to the municipality of Postmünster, but shapes the southern horizon line of the city.

Around 1800 the fortification wall lost its importance, as the wall no longer offered protection due to the change in warfare (modern weapons) and the increasing number of the population could no longer find a place within the walls. In 1803 365 fruit trees were planted on the old fortification wall. In the meantime supplemented by poplars (1828), the now still existing Kastanienallee was built in 1876, which in the truest sense of the word forms the parish church “Wall Street”. In 1905 the water ditches were filled in during the construction of the higher agricultural school (grammar school). Remains of the city moat can be seen at the city pond. The peace oak on the southeast corner was planted in 1871.

See also: List of architectural monuments in parish churches

Panorama shot of parish churches. The parish church can be seen in the middle, on the right the Gartlberg with the two-tower pilgrimage church.

Economy and Infrastructure

Numerous small and medium-sized businesses are located in Pfarrkirchen. In addition to the largest furniture store in the region, the city is also the production location of large food marketers. Together with a company that refines molded parts and a wood processor, they form the larger production companies.

In addition, there are a large number of wholesalers and retailers as well as efficient craft firms with partly highly specialized job profiles or of national importance.

The numerous offices, authorities and schools represent another important employer. In addition to the administrative institutions of the district and municipalities, state and federal offices are also represented.

Pfarrkirchen is also the location of a geriatrically specialized hospital with over 160 beds.

Companies

Company based in Pfarrkirchen

• WEKO Wohnen group of companies - furniture and kitchen markets
• Knirps License Corporation - Umbrella distributor
• Sparkasse Rottal-Inn
• VR-Bank Rottal-Inn

Other companies

• Develey Mustard & Delicatessen Production Site
• Stora Enso sawmill

education

In addition to elementary, middle and secondary schools, the Pfarrkirchen school location also includes a grammar school with an attached boarding school, a special educational facility and a technical and vocational high school. Pfarrkirchen is a vocational school location and has an agricultural school as well as various vocational schools of national importance.

In the 2015/16 winter semester, the branch of the TH Deggendorf began operations under the name European Campus in Pfarrkirchen. This made parish churches a university town . The current two courses “Bachelor International Tourism Management / Health & Medical Tourism” and “Medical Informatics” are to be followed in a few years by a course in the field of energy technology.

traffic

• Air: The Pfarrkirchen airfield is located between Pfarrkirchen and Eggenfelden .
• Rail: The Passau – Neumarkt-Sankt Veit railway is now operated by the Südostbayernbahn (infrastructure and passenger transport) and DB Cargo (freight transport).
• Road: Pfarrkirchen is located on the B 388 , 50 km from Passau and 125 km from Munich .
• Bus: The Pfarrkirchner city bus goes to the various districts of the Pfarrkirche.

societies

• TUS parish churches
• Riding and driving club Pfarrkirchen

Personalities

Honorary citizen:

→ Main article : List of honorary citizens of parish churches

Sons and daughters:

• Nikolaus Staudacher (1660–1736), Jesuit , confessor and advisor to the Palatinate Electress Elisabeth Amalia and her son Karl III. Philip
• Georg Sebastian Plinganser (1681 according to the Postmünster baptismal register –1738), leader in the Bavarian popular uprising 1705–1706
• Adolf von Doß (1825–1886); noble Jesuit, writer and composer
• Hans Wimmer (1907–1992), sculptor
• Anna Wimschneider (1919–1993), Bavarian farmer and writer
• Franz Xaver Eder (1925–2013), Bishop of Passau
• Hans F. Nöhbauer (1929–2014), journalist and writer
• Erich Kiesl (1930–2013), Bavarian politician ( CSU ) and Mayor of Munich (1978–1984)
• Bernhard Dilling , also Hadti Dilling (1932–1994), set designer, painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• Konrad (Conny) Wirnhier (1937–2002), Olympic champion 1972 (skeet shooting)
• Georg Paul Hefty (* 1947), editor of the FAZ
• Werner Leitner (* 1959), diplomat and lawyer
• Walter Leitner (* 1963), chemist and university professor
• Andreas Artur Reichelt (* 1977), writer
• Romy (* 1989), popular pop singer and presenter

Persons in connection with Pfarrkirchen:

• Manfred Reichelt (1947–1996), artist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Passauer Neue Presse: The new place-name sign now bears the addition "University City" . In: Pfarrkirchen - Nachrichten - Zeitung - Rottaler Anzeiger . ( pnp.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).
3. ↑ bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 552 .
5. ↑ Election Portal parish churches
6. ^ House of Bavarian History - Bavaria's municipalities. Retrieved February 14, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Bärnklau, Johann Leopold Freiherr zu Schönreith . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 117 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ Press release: New teaching format: Students Conference on the European Campus - controversial topics, practical knowledge transfer . ( wochenblatt.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City website
• Association for the promotion of city partnerships in the parish church
• Entry on the coat of arms of parish churches  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Parish churches: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.24 MB)