Branch (forest munich)

Branch City of Waldmünchen Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 48 ″ N , 12 ° 38 ′ 58 ″ E
Height :	469 (461-487) m above sea level NHN
Residents :	220 (2007)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	93449
Area code :	09972
Location of Ast in Bavaria

Branch, church from the north

Branch pilgrim fountain

Ast is part of the municipality of Waldmünchen in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham .

location

The parish village is located in the Schwarzachtal about 4.5 km west of Waldmünchen, a little north of the state road 2400.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in a document dated July 26, 1265; In it, Duke Heinrich certified the right of patronage over the church in Ast to Abbot Berthold of the Cistercian monastery Walderbach .

The town of Hirschhöf is part of the Ast district.

In 1945 or 1946, the Englmannsbrunn community was dissolved and added to the Ast community. On January 1, 1972, Ast was incorporated into the city of Waldmünchen.

Catholic Parish and Pilgrimage Church of Our Lady

The early Gothic three-aisled basilica , first mentioned in 1265, dates from the second half of the 13th century and has a recessed rectangular chancel and a square tower with a pyramid helmet in the northeast. According to legend, the founding of the church goes back to a vow made by a Countess von Schwarzenwihrberg; When the church was being built, a picture of the Madonna was discovered on the branch of a felled tree. This picture was then transferred to the new church and the settlement at the church was given the name Ast. Ast was first mentioned as a place of pilgrimage in 1409; the miraculous image of the Madonna with the baby Jesus on the high altar dates from the end of the 15th century. In 1616 the pictures and altars were removed from the now Calvinist church. In the Counter Reformation from 1626 the place became Catholic again; In 1665 the church, which was now again catholic, was made Baroque . It received its current furnishings and stucco in the 18th century. - Since 1996 there has been a horse pilgrimage from the parish church of St. Stephan in Waldmünchen to Ast every September .

societies

Ast Volunteer Fire Brigade , founded in 1888

Good wood branch

Catholic rural youth movement Ast

Ast fruit and horticultural association , founded in 2000

Shooting club "Tannenbaum" Ast, founded in 1954

literature

Art in the church . Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1998, p. 6

Individual evidence

^ Branch in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 3, 2017.
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 588 .
↑ History - Schützengau Böhmerwald Waldmünchen . Schuetzengau-waldmuenchen.de. Archived from the original on October 31, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2010.

Web links

Commons : Branch - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Branch in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 3, 2017.

[2] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 588 .

[3] History - Schützengau Böhmerwald Waldmünchen . Schuetzengau-waldmuenchen.de. Archived from the original on October 31, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2010.