Blaibach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 10 '  N , 12 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Cham
Height :	394 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.02 km 2
Residents:	1972 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	93476
Primaries :	0 99 41
License plate :	CHA, KÖZ, ROD , WÜM
Community key :	09 3 72 115
Community structure:	18 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 6 93476 Blaibach
Website :	www.blaibach.de
First Mayor :	Wolfgang Eckl ( CSU / Free Citizens )
Location of the community Blaibach in the district of Cham

The parish church of St. Elisabeth

Blaibach Castle

Blaibach around 1900

Blaibach is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located between the town of Bad Kötzting and the municipality of Miltach am Regen in the Bavarian Forest, around 20 km from the Czech border.

Community structure

There are 18 districts:

Blaibach Dürrnwies Gmündt Harras Hazel trees Hetzenberg Hill High field Kolmberg

Kreuzbach Learning cup grinder Neukolmberg Plarnhof Pulling Reckendorf Spielberg Untergschaidt Wimbach

There are the districts of Allmannsdorf, Blaibach and Kreuzbach.

history

Until the church is planted

Blaibach was first mentioned in a document in 1182. Reichenbach am Regen monastery was an important landowner in the municipality for a long time. Blaibach belonged for a long time to the barons of Notthracht von Weißenstein. Blaibach Castle in its current form was largely built in 1604/05 by Wolf Albrecht Notthracht von Wernberg. In 1611 Wolf Albrecht sold the Hofmark to Christoph Wieninger zu Wiesing. In 1674, Sara Genovefa Notthracht, b. Wieninger, the Hofmark in will to Johann Ernst Pelkhofer zu Stachesried. In 1741 Blaibach went back to the Weißensteiner line of the Notthracht.

The place was part of the Electorate of Bavaria and formed a closed Hofmark , whose seat was Blaibach. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

TSV Blaibach was founded in July 1929.

Incorporations

• On February 1, 1963, the Allmannsdorf community was dissolved. Subsequently, the districts of Untergschaidt and Wimbach were incorporated into the municipality of Kreuzbach, the districts of Allmannsdorf and Obergschaidt came to the municipality of Eismannsberg.

• On January 1, 1972, the villages of Kreuzbach, Untergschaidt and Wimbach, which had about 250 inhabitants at the time, were incorporated into the municipality of Blaibach from the divided municipality of Kreuzbach. The districts of Anzenberg, Höhenried and Dietersdorf with their then almost 100 inhabitants were reclassified to the municipality of Miltach. Also on January 1, 1972, parts of the municipality of Bärndorf, then with around 200 inhabitants, came to Blaibach, while an area with less than 150 inhabitants at that time was assigned to Chamerau.

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the population stagnated or grew from 1,964 to 1,971 by 7 inhabitants or 0.4%.

• 1925: 0843 inhabitants
• 1933: 0909 inhabitants
• 1939: 0904 inhabitants
• 1946: 1131 inhabitants
• 1950: 1157 inhabitants
• 1961: 1105 inhabitants
• 1970: 1278 inhabitants
• 1987: 1913 inhabitants
• 1991: 2106 inhabitants
• 1995: 2069 inhabitants
• 2000: 2065 inhabitants
• 2005: 2054 inhabitants
• 2010: 1985 inhabitants
• 2015: 1923 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor has been Wolfgang Eckl ( CSU / Free Citizens) since May 1, 2014 ; he was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 58.2% of the vote. Its predecessors were

• Ludwig Baumgartner (CSU / Free Citizens) from 2002 to 2014 and before
• Former Mayor Karl Trenner senior (CSU / Free Citizens).

Municipal council

The Blaibach municipal council has had 12 members again since May 1, 2020 because the population fell below the 2000 population limit; previously the body had 14 members. The election on March 15, 2020 had the following result:

	Seats	Share of votes
CSU - Free Citizens	5	38.17%
SPD - Independent Citizens	3	26.31%
Free voter community Blaibach	4th	35.51%
total	12	100.00%

The turnout was 68.89%. Compared to the 2014–2020 term of office, CSU - Free Citizens and SPD - Independent Citizens each lost one mandate; the free voter community remained unchanged.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red an upright silver dragon with a spiky tail, holding a golden clapper in the right muzzle and supporting the left muzzle on a golden shield with a blue bar."

The steeple

Culture and sights

Attractions

The Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth, a late Baroque hall church , was built in 1779. Your onion dome is crowned by a lantern . Most of the furnishings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. The picture windows were made in 1895 and 1910, the ceiling frescoes in 1895. The organ front is a work of the early 18th century. The church has a St. Elisabeth from around 1500 as well as several grave monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The former Hofmarkschloss from 1604 with its stepped gable is now an inn.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Blaibach

Community center

Blaibach community center

The conversion and expansion of the “Blue House”, an empty residential building, into a community center in 2012 was the first project of the municipality of Blaibach in the urban development model project “Place creates center”. They wanted to keep the old residential building in the center and u. a. the walls made of unfired adobe bricks, the basement made of granite stones and the wooden roof structure have been preserved. The plans for this come from the architect Peter Haimerl from Munich, who speaks of the architectural concept of old and new shell. In the new community center there is not only the municipal administration but also the tourist information office. A special gem is the new citizens' hall, which also functions as a wedding room. In the center of the hall there is an energy-saving LED chandelier by Denise Hachinger Licht, which can be individually adapted to room situations using its mechanics. The chandelier was awarded the Best of Design Plus Design Award. The custom-made furniture and threshold-free doors in the community center are made of solid regional fir wood, the grain of the wood always running in one line. The eye-catching chairs covered with red cow hide also make a regional reference. The frameless pictures of individual citizens or groups, clubs or associations, which represent a cross-section of the Blaibach population, can also be called eye-catchers. The images were conceived by the Munich photographer Edward Beierle in cooperation with Jutta Görlich and can be found mainly in the generously designed citizens' office on the ground floor. In the corridor area, old granite stone slabs made of Bayerwald granite, which had previously served as window sills, were reused as floor slabs - based on the so-called "Flez", the traditional entrance area of ​​farmhouses in the Bavarian Forest. The sanitary facilities on the upper floor, whitewashed in bright pink and red, can be described as a contrast.

Concert hall

Blaibach concert hall

The Blaibach Concert and Culture House was opened on September 12, 2014. The 560 square meter building offers space for classical concerts, cultural events and exhibitions. The initiator of the project, the East Bavarian baritone Thomas E. Bauer , contractually guaranteed through his Kulturwald gGmbH that he would provide a good program for 25 years free of charge and at the same time cover the maintenance costs. Kulturwald gGmbH is planning 50 events a year. There are also performances in which the municipality of Blaibach acts as the organizer.

The concert hall, which offers space for 200 visitors, was designed by the Munich architect Peter Haimerl , who had previously converted the “Blue House” into a community center for the community. The architecture of the building is kept minimalist, the facade consists of individual granite stones and is intended to remind of Blaibach's roots as a stone carving village. The puristic interior design is characterized by light glass concrete , which ensures excellent acoustics, and larch wood. The building owner is the municipality of Blaibach. Financially, the investment sum, which is considerable for a small community, only had to be shouldered by participating in the urban development model project “Place creates center” of the Free State of Bavaria, which put the community of Blaibach in a generous funding position. The Free State made the construction possible with 1 million euros in urban development funding and an additional 300,000 euros from the cultural fund. In addition, the Friends of the Konzerthaus Blaibach e. V. founded, which supports the project ideally and financially. With the outdoor area of ​​the concert and culture house, which u. a. will function as the new village square, started in 2015.

For 2019, Deutsche Post has selected the Blaibach concert hall as the motif for one of its special postage stamps . The first day of issue of the postage stamp with a face value of 145 euro cents was March 1, 2019. The design comes from the graphic artist Armin Lindauer from Mannheim.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 222 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 836 people were in employment subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 614 more than that of in-commuters. 25 residents were unemployed.

In 2016 there were 36 farms; 736 hectares of the community area were used for agriculture.

traffic

Road traffic

Blaibach is located on the St 2140 state road between Bad Kötzting and Miltach.

Rail transport

Blaibach has had a stop on the Cham – Lam railway line since 1891 . The Oberpfalzbahn serves it as a subcontractor of the DB Regio every two hours. Until 1922 there was another stop in the community in Pulling. From 1928 to 1991, the Gotteszell – Blaibach railway line, privately built by the Regentalbahn , joined the above-mentioned line here.

education

The following institutions exist (as of March 1, 2018):

• a day care center with 83 approved places and 73 children

Personalities

Albert Wass (1908–1998), one of the most famous prose writers in Hungary, lived here from 1945 to 1949 . He lived in Germany and the USA from 1945 until his death. In Blaibach he wrote many of his most famous works, e.g. B. the poem Üzenet haza or Hontalanság hitvallása , Láthatatlan lobogó , A bújdosó imája . He has also written several novels here. The most important of these are Adjátok vissza hegyeimet (Give back my mountains) and Elvész a nyom (The trail is lost).

literature

• Harald Stark : The Notthracht family - looking for traces in Egerland, Bavaria and Swabia , Weißenstadt 2006, ISBN 3-926621-46-X

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Blaibach  - travel guide

• Homepage
• Blaibach: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Greetings from the mayor. Municipality of Blaibach, accessed on May 31, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Blaibach in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 3, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{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. 499 .
5. ↑ ^{a b c} 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 612 .
6. ^ ^{A b c d e} Bavarian State Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register: The population of the municipalities of Bavaria in the period from 1840 to 1952 (=  contributions to Statistics Bavaria . Issue 192). Munich 1954, DNB  451478568 , p. 59 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00066439-3 ( digitized version ).
7. ↑ Mayoral election 2020 , accessed on August 3, 2020
8. ↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on August 3, 2020
9. ^ Entry on the Blaibach coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
10. ↑ Interim report "Place creates center": [1]
11. ↑ Referenzbauten.de: - ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Denise Hachinger: Chandelier. Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ^ Denise Hachinger: Awards. Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Idowa Mediendienste: Archive link ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ db-bauzeitung.de: [2]
16. ↑ Konzerthaus. Kulturwald GmbH, accessed on May 31, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Roman Deininger: Grüß Gott, Avantgarde. A highly modern concert hall in Blaibach, in the middle of the Bavarian Forest? Crazy idea. Now it is real . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 20, 2014, weekend, p. 4.
18. ↑ http://www.archdaily.com/567635/concert-hall-blaibach-peter-haimerl-architektur
19. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Today opening with Haydn's Creation and Jazz ( memento from September 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), September 12, 2014.
20. ↑ Blaibach receives cultural center of supra-regional radiance: [3]
21. ↑ Final report Location creates center: Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.