Buchenau (Lindberg)

Buchenau community Lindberg Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 53 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	746 m
Residents :	180  (1987)
Postal code :	94227
Area code :	09926
Location of Buchenau in Bavaria
Buchenau Castle

Buchenau is a district of the municipality of Lindberg in the district of Regen .

geography

Buchenau is located in the middle of the Bavarian Forest , 4.1 kilometers east of Lindberg and about four kilometers northeast of Frauenau . North of the village, the terrain rises steeply over the Steinschachten slopes to over 1200  m above sea level. NN high ridge of the cock arch . Five kilometers east of the village is the Latschensee and the border with the Czech Republic . Two kilometers to the south is the 94  hectares large drinking water dam Frauenau . The Pommerbach flows through the village and takes in further streams there. To the south and west, following the streams, the terrain gradually descends towards the valley of the Kleiner Regen . As a receiving water, this takes in all streams and drains the area across the Danube area to the Black Sea .

history

Beginnings

In 1629 Hans Preißler moved his glassworks from Unterzwieselau here. Such relocation of glassworks was a normal process at the time of the so-called flying smelters . It was given the name Preißlerhütte .

In 1725 Johann Adam Hilz renewed the glassworks and built seven in- houses for the glassmaker families. The small settlement was now named Hilzenhütte . It belonged to the Glashüttengut Oberzwieselau . With the second municipal edict of May 17, 1818 and the establishment of the municipalities in 1821, the Hilzenhütte came to the municipality of Frauenau, but since a new decree such as Oberzwieselau was not allowed to be divided between two political municipalities, the Hilzenhütte came through due to a municipal change request Ministerial resolution on June 30, 1828 on the municipality of Lindberg.

Glashüttengut

In 1839 the settlement had grown to ten in-houses. In 1840 Benedikt Ritter von Poschinger built a mansion here on Oberzwieselau as a residence for his son Ferdinand. In 1856 he divided his property into two independent glassworks. Now the Hilzenhütte was given the name Buchenau . Ferdinand became master of the Buchenau estate with the glassworks in Buchenau and the neighboring Spiegelhütte as well as 6484 Grundwerk Grund.

Between 1868 and 1870 Ferdinand Ritter von Poschinger expanded his residence in the style of historicism into a representative palace. A palace park was laid out by a Russian garden architect.

In 1878/81 Ferdinand II. Ritter von Poschinger took over the glassworks. Under him, the flat and antique glass from Buchenau as well as the hollow glass from Spiegelhütte achieved world renown . The Buchenau Art Nouveau glass was mainly used for church windows. The craftsman and painter Julius Diez worked here for years . After 1890 Engelbert Humperdinck composed parts of his opera Hansel and Gretel at Buchenau Castle . Poschinger built a schoolhouse, a forest administration building and several farm buildings in the Art Nouveau style from 1903 to 1906 . He died in 1921.

Crisis and a new beginning

Now that his son Günther had lived in Russia since the First World War, the estate was continued by his widow Juliane. In 1929 a storm caused severe damage in the forests of the estate, and the global economic crisis ultimately led to the final decline of the business, which was not in traffic. On November 28, 1932, the last glass was melted in the Buchenau glassworks, and on February 1, 1933 the fire in the furnace went out.

In the spring of 1933, the big creditors pushed ahead with the opening of a debt relief procedure. After some tug-of-war about the fate of the property, the state aid to the east prevailed on behalf of the Bavarian State Forestry Administration , which by law had the task of preventing speculation with land. On April 27, 1934, the Buchenau glassworks was chartered. For a sales price of 1.5 million Reichsmarks , it became the property of Bavaria .

On February 18, 1935, the disused glassworks collapsed under the weight of the masses of snow. The glassmaking village of Buchenau has now become a wood-cutting village. The castle became orphaned after the death of the widow of the last Poschinger zu Buchenau.

In 1942, cookbook author Erna Horn and her husband Dr. Julius Arndt Castle Buchenau. Erna Horn set up an experimental kitchen here, which she ran until the 1970s. After Horn's death, the couple's former employees, Emilie Meislinger Arndt and Theresia Arndt, inherited the property. In 1990 they donated the former Hüttenplatz to the Buchenau Citizens' Association, which built a playground there. Since spring 2006, Buchenau Castle has been owned by the Buchenau Castle Sponsorship Association.

Church building

Filial church St. Gunther in Buchenau

On November 25, 1936, Vicar General Dr. Franz Seraph Riemer created the first sacred space in the palm house of the palace garden on the patronage of Mary, mother of pain. After the castle was sold in 1942, the company moved to the former mechanics' building. In 1959 a church building association was founded. The side church of St. Gunther, which belongs to the parish of Frauenau , was built in 1960 according to plans by diocesan master builder Alfons Hornsteiner. The church was finished in mid-October 1960. The artistically gifted Expositus Alfred Ziesinger from Philippsreut created the tabernacle , the sculpture of St. Gunther and the cross are works by the wood sculptor Hans Lentner from Spiegelau , the Madonna was carved by wood sculptor Emil Kronschnabel from Zwiesel , the altar was designed by wood artist Alois Wenig from Kasberg. On October 16, 1960, Abbot Emmanuel Maria Heufelder of Niederaltaich Monastery consecrated the new Gunther Church.

End of school operations

With the merger of the Buchenau and Spiegelhütte schools in 1963 and the incorporation of Ludwigsthal into the school association in 1967, the unity of school and village ended. In 1970, after the establishment of the community school in Lindberg, the school association was dissolved.

Buchenau has around 200 inhabitants today and is a popular starting point for hikes.

societies

• Buchenau Citizens' Association
• Buchenau Castle Sponsorship Association
• SV Buchenau-Spiegelhütte

literature

• Eva Chrambach: ridge and peacock eye. History of Ferdinand von Poschinger's Art Nouveau glassworks in Buchenau , Morsak Verlag Grafenau 1999, ISBN 3-87553-532-4
• Marianne Wintersteiner: The people of Buchenau (novel), Rosenheim, Rosenheimer Verl.-Haus, 1990
• Roman Eder: Buchenau Spiegelhütte. A local history reader , 1st edition 2003

Web links

Commons : Buchenau  - Collection of Images

• Buchenau Castle Sponsorship Association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Re-congregation in the Historical Atlas of Bavaria