Bärnstein (Grafenau)

Bärnstein City of Grafenau Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 59 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 34"  E
Height :	547 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	136  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1946
Incorporated into:	Blow
Postal code :	94481
Area code :	08504
Location of Bärnstein in Bavaria

Bärnstein is a village and district of the city of Grafenau in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau . The local castle was the seat of the Bavarian district court Bärnstein until 1799 .

geography

Bärnstein is located in the district of the same name, southwest of Grafenau on the Kleine Ohe .

history

At the beginning of the 12th century, the nobles of Bernstein, Ministeriale of the Counts of Formbach , built Bärnstein Castle . In 1207 it fell to the Counts of Hals and in 1375 to Johann Landgraf von Leuchtenberg . In 1417, Bärnstein Castle and Office, together with Ranfels, went to Count Etzel I von Ortenburg for 16,000 guilders . He left the two lords in 1438 for 30,000 guilders to Duke Heinrich of Lower Bavaria . The Wittelsbachers made Bärnstein the seat of a nurse who, as a captain in front of the forest, was also head of the military area organization and had an armory . During the following centuries the Grafenauer Land was administered by the Bärnstein Regional Court .

Franz von der Trenck occupied Bärnstein during the War of the Austrian Succession . When one of his captains was shot in an ambush on July 16, 1742, he had the castle set on fire and the ruins including the castle chapel blown up. A new nursing court building was built at another location , which burned down on July 6, 1829. As early as 1799, the seat of the Bärnstein Regional Court was relocated to Grafenau. Only small remains of the wall and the castle inn that was built later have been preserved from the once important castle.

With the Bavarian Gemeindeedikt built from 1818 independent rural community Bärnstein was 1950, the community impact associated. In 1925 the area of ​​the municipality was about 694 hectares , the municipalities were Bärnstein, Grafenhütt , Hötzhof , Köpplhof , Oberhüttensölden , Unterhüttensölden and Voitschlag . On January 1, 1978, the rural community of Schlag was incorporated into Grafenau. On May 25, 1987, the village had 57 apartments in 44 residential buildings and 136 residents.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 177 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Franziska Jungmann-Stadler: Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria. Row I / Grafenau: District Court Bärnstein, Nursing Courts Diessenstein and Hals. Edited by the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich, 1992.
3. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Hrsg.): The municipalities of Bavaria according to the territorial status May 25, 1987. The population of the municipalities of Bavaria and the changes in the acquisitions and territory from 1840 to 1987 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 451). Munich 1991, p. 61 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00070717-7 ( digitized version - footnote 3).
4. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 476 ( digitized version ).
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 627 .