Altenschwand (Bodenwoehr)

Altenschwand Bodenwohr municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 46 "  N , 12 ° 14 ′ 43"  E
Height :	415 m
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	92439
Area code :	09434
Location of Altenschwand in Bavaria
Altenschwand (2013)

Altenschwand is a district of the municipality of Bodenwöhr in the southern district of Schwandorf in the Bavarian administrative district of the Upper Palatinate .

geography

Altenschwand is located in the east of Bavaria in the Upper Palatinate, one kilometer north of the federal highway 85, which leads from Schwandorf to Cham.

history

The place arose from a clearing in the 11th century. The name ending ("-schwand") indicates Schwendbau , a common form of agriculture at that time. down. Under the name Swantt , the name appeared in 1031 as a property in the Regensburg Benedictine Monastery of St. Emmeram . This record is a rotulus , which contains arable entries from the monastery. The original, which was kept in the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich until the outbreak of World War II, could no longer be found. But a copy of the document from 1921 is still available, so that the description of the property was preserved under Abbot Burkhard von St. Emmeram. 1035 Suuant without Tweifel is to be settled in the Mark Nabburg. Around 1150 Siegfried von Pettendorf donated property to Swante (Alten- and Neuenschwand) to the Ensdorf monastery. In the first half of the 11th century, the Sankt Emmeram monastery owned the locus Suuant ( schwenden = to make arable) in this area. After the death of Pettendorf Friedrich III. († around 1119) gave his son-in-law Otto von Wittelsbach to the Bamberg Bishop Otto I. these possessions to found a monastery in Ensdorf . This monastery was also equipped by Bishop Otto with parts of the imperial forest that Emperor Heinrich II had donated to the Bamberg diocese. Early 13th century has a Seyfridus de Pettendorf the monastery Ensdorf the Prädium Swante passed 1,210 one appears in a document of the monastery Ensdorf Fridericus de Swante as a witness and probably as Ministeriale the Lords of Pettendorf. In 1306 the Reichenbach am Regen monastery also had a curia in Swantt . In 1370 Eberhard der Hofer owned the Swantt (= Altenschwand) seat . At the beginning of the 15th century he was followed by a Peter Urssenpeck on the Schwandt Fortress . He left the seat on loan to his son-in-law Ulrich Hawczendorffer . After his death, Peter Urssenpeck resided here again .

Alten- and Neuenschwand

A distinction between Alten- and Neuenschwand is first made in the Regensburg parish register from 1438. On April 19, 1448 Peter Urssenpeck, his son Jörg and his daughter Anna sold the Veste Allten Geswant with all pertinances to the Schwandorf nurse Hanns Vingerlein . He bequeathed the seat to his son Georg, who was matriculated with Altenschwand between 1518 and 1522. His son Sebastian sells the property to Bernhard Stöckel zu Eslarn . During this transfer of ownership, a detailed list of all income associated with the fortress was made. On April 3, 1536, the festival passed to Jobst von Thondorff , who sold it to Elector Ludwig V and Count Palatine Friedrich for six months . Since then, Altenschwand has belonged to the Palatinate Office of Neunburg vorm Wald . Most of the village of Neuenschwand was subject to interest after Bodenstein and follows the history of Bodenstein Castle . The Vogtei over Neuenschwand was a fiefdom of the St. Emmeram Monastery and was awarded as such until the secularization of 1803.

Church building

In 1820/21 the community of Altenschwand was established with 24 families. The municipality of Altenschwand included Warmersdorf with five families, the hamlet of Meldau with four families and the wasteland of Mappenberg with two families.

Population development

Population development in the municipality of Altenschwand from 1840 to 1975:

year	1840	1861	1867	1871	1890	1900	1910	1919	1933	1939	1946	1950	1961	1975
Residents	303	313	345	357	311	377	314	407	430	480	678	636	575	625

On May 1, 1978 the community Altenschwand (Altenschwand village, Altenschwand hamlet, Mappenberg (partially) and Warmersdorf) was incorporated into the community of Bodenwöhr; the districts of Meldau and Mappenberg (partially) became part of the municipality of Wackersdorf. Until 1921, Bodenwöhr belonged to the independent community of Neuenschwand. In 1921 the name "Neuenschwand Municipality" was changed to "Bodenwöhr Municipality".

Altenschwand Castle

The fortress Altenschwand was located in the center of Altenschwand near the branch church of St. Nicholas. Rising masonry is no longer there. The castle site is protected as a ground monument number D-3-6739-0002: "Medieval castle stables". Immediately to the east, between this monument and the district road SAD 18, there is another ground monument with the number D-3-6739-0003: "Flattened medieval tower hill".

Attractions

• St. Nicholas Church

See also: List of architectural monuments in Altenschwand

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  Altenschwand (2017)

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  Fire station (2017)

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  St. Nicholas (2017)

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  Altenschwand Castle

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  Former Altenschwand station (2017)

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  Franziskus-Marterl with the "Cross of Wackersdorf"

traffic

The Altenschwand depot is on the Schwandorf – Furth railway line in the forest . Passenger trains stopped here until 2001 . In the meantime the trains pass the place without stopping.

Personalities

• Michael Meier - Plaintiff against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant and WAA property neighboring. The unemployed part-time farmer refused to sell his property to the WAA operating company, even though they offered him millions for it. In 1985 he was the only one of eight residents of the planned WAA to file a lawsuit before the Bavarian Administrative Court. In 1988 Meier won the lawsuit and the development plan for the WAA was declared invalid. The Franziskus-Marterl was built on his property.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Name of clearing
2. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 93
3. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 31
4. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 51
5. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 157
6. ↑ The sometimes rumored opinion that Otto Zenger von Schwarzeneck received permission from Margrave Ludwig the Brandenburger in 1348 to build a fortress on Schwant , and can only refer to the village of Gschwand near Lixenried (today a district of Furth im Wald ) and not on this swant .
7. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 157
8. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 158
9. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 417
10. ^ Wilhelm Nutzinger, Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Neunburg vorm Wald, p. 440
11. ↑ List of monuments for Bodenwöhr (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF; 135 kB)
12. ↑ Wackersdorf judgment: The victory of Michael Meier - A man stood firm. In: Die Zeit of February 5, 1988.
13. ^ Wackersdorf: Bruch im Keller - Even after the judgment of the Munich Administrative Court, Bonn and Bavaria stick to the concept of reprocessing. The opponents hope for a construction freeze. In: Der Spiegel from February 1, 1988.

Web links

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