Bad Höhenstadt
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Bad Höhenstadt
Fürstenzell market
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| Height : | 348 m | |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 | |
| Postal code : | 94081 | |
| Area code : | 08506 | |
Location of Bad Höhenstadt in Bavaria |
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Bad Höhenstadt is a district, former place of pilgrimage and former health resort in the market of Fürstenzell in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .
location
Bad Höhenstadt is located about three kilometers south of Fürstenzell in the Lower Bavarian hill country . The parish church can be seen on a ridge from afar.
history
A circular moat with a diameter of 95 meters and finds, including a clay water jug and a flint dagger, go back to the Stone Age . From the time of the Celts three square entrenchments have been preserved, east of the Einödhof Bibing, in Moosbauerfeld and northeast of Hafering.
The first mention of Höhenstadt comes from the year 788 when the goods at Hohunsteti were donated by the Hrodin and Wantila siblings to the cathedral monastery in Passau . The tradition code of the Vornbach monastery lists the sources for the first time in 1144. In 1319 the Passau cathedral chapter entrusted the pastoral care of the former church to the Cistercians of the Fürstenzell monastery , of which remains have been preserved. A mention from the year 1334 refers to a sulfur spring as the " Stünchende Brunn ". In 1380 the parish was incorporated into the Fürstenzell monastery. Höhenstadt was a popular place of pilgrimage at this time. When a new pilgrimage blossomed in Sammarei around 1630 , the high altitude town lost its importance.
The bathing business was renewed in 1713, when the sulfur willow and its springs were acquired by the monastery. In that year the city physicist of Vilshofen Johann Andrä Mayr and Abbot Abundus II. De Pugnetti published a 53-page booklet under the title Marianischer Heyl- und Gnadenbrunnen . In 1719 they had a wooden bath house built. In 1726, Dr. Mayr in Höhenstadt an illustrious list of bathers both clerical and secular. The pilgrimage also seems to have blossomed again, because a new altar was built for the miraculous image in 1780. From 1780 to 1783 Abbot Otto Prasser built a stone bathhouse.
After secularization in Bavaria in 1803, the parish of Bad Höhenstadt is independent. The rural community Höhenstadt was founded in 1818 by the Bavarian municipal edict.
The village shoemaker Benedikt Wiesner bought the bathhouse for 1,400 guilders and ran it together with his son. On October 1, 1830, Wiesner sold his bath for 29,000 guilders to the interested Kingdom of Bavaria . On May 8, 1839 in Rome, King Ludwig I approved the plan designed by Leo von Klenze and revised by Friedrich von Gärtner for a new Royal Bavarian State Bath in Höhenstadt. The construction costs amounted to 32,000 guilders. In the summer of 1842 the new Kurhaus with 45 rooms and 15 double rooms was opened. After the bathing business had declined in 1865, King Ludwig II sold the Kurhaus in 1871 for 25,000 guilders to the private owner Wilhelm Straßner. After that, the bathroom changed owners and tenants several times. The bathroom experienced a new boom between the two world wars. Höhenstadt has held the title of Bad since September 24, 1925 .
In 1940, when the married couple Alois and Anna Baumgartner owned the bath, a hospital was set up in the Kurhaus, and after the end of the war it was turned into a refugee camp. In 1945 the place had 1,559 inhabitants, 749 of them refugees. In the post-war period there was no resumption of bathing operations in the spa house in need of renovation, which was finally sold. It has served as a nursing home since 1974.
The municipality of Bad Höhenstadt came to Fürstenzell on January 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .
Attractions
- The pilgrimage church and today's parish church Maria Himmelfahrt was built between 1460 and 1495. The miraculous image, a late Gothic figure of the Mother of God, called Beautiful Maria in the tower , which is now in the middle of the Rococo altar in the side chapel, dates from this time . The name recalls the original location in the basement of the old Romanesque tower. A relief from 1520 is integrated in the neo-Gothic high altar. It shows the last supper. The frescoes date from 1780.
- The early classicist former Kurhaus was built in 1841 according to plans by Leo von Klenze . The traditional sulfur spring in the spa park is now accessible again. It can be used by anyone for drinking and in a Kneipp pool.
Personalities
Bad Höhenstadt is the birthplace of Wilhelm Diess (* June 25, 1884, † September 13, 1957). He was one of the most important Bavarian storytellers of his time.
societies
Important local associations are the Bad Höhenstadt volunteer fire brigade , the BRK Readiness Bad Höhenstadt and the DJK SV Bad Höhenstadt eV
traffic
The Bad Höhenstadt stop is on the Passau – Neumarkt-Sankt Veit railway line .
coat of arms
The municipality of Bad Höhenstadt had its own coat of arms until it was incorporated. It was run with the consent of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior since April 1, 1957. (No. IB 1-3000-29 H 8)
Blazon
Mid gold over a red wooden bathtub a blue anchor, about a red rafters; a six-pointed blue star in each of the upper corners.
literature
- Georg Lohmeier : Art cures in the three-bath region , Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-9801631-0-5
- Ulrich Pietrusky, Günther Michler, Donatus Moosauer: Lower Bavaria - rediscovered on the fly. Verlag Morsak Grafenau, 2nd edition 1982, ISBN 3-87553-135-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 548 .