Fürholz (Grainet)

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Fürholz coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 58 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 57"  E
Residents : 422  (1987)
Incorporation : 1st January 1971
Fürholz (Bavaria)
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Location of Fürholz in Bavaria
The village chapel St. Florian
The village chapel St. Florian

Fürholz is a district of the municipality of Grainet in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau . Until 1971 it formed an independent municipality.

location

Fürholz is located in the Bavarian Forest about two kilometers south of Grainet.

history

Fürholz owes its existence to the Goldene Steig . Where the mule track led from the old settled area of ​​the Passau Abteiland into the large border forest, a street settlement emerged in the high Middle Ages as a resting place for the packers .

At the Ilzstädter Landtag in 1256, the people of "de Vurholtz" were granted the exclusive right to trade on the route from Passau to Prachatitz , together with those of Waldkirchen , Schiefweg and Böhmzwiesel and Bohemia, from the sovereign, the Passau prince-bishop Otto von Lonsdorf float. The estate of the village was shared by the Watzmannsdorfer, Buchberger, Nussdorfer and others, as well as the Passau prince-bishops themselves, who were able to repurchase the remaining fiefs in Fürholz in the 16th century. The monastery Niedernburg has owned the Bohemian toll in Fürholz since ancient times. Around 1400, Hans Meichsner, a trader from Fürholz, was first mentioned by name in the oldest Passau toll register.

Fürholz has been a crossroads of important roads since the late Middle Ages. In addition to the Salzstrasse to Prachatitz, a path led from here via Rehberg to Winklbrunn to Winterberger Strasse. Another, the Haidweg as a road via Vorderfreundorf and "the Bohemian Heide" to Schönau and Wallern , Oberplan and Krummau in Bohemia.

At that time, Fürholz was the largest mule town in the Passau bishopric , which had around 40 residents in the first half of the 16th century. At that time, in the heyday of the Goldener Steiges, up to 1,200 horse horses, each loaded with three hundredweight, roamed Fürholz every week. A directory from 1538 lists 15 haulers in Fürholz. In addition to two blacksmiths and a bathroom, there were no fewer than 14 innkeepers in the village. The people of Fürholzer also keep cattle and graze in the woods, and in the oldest times they drove their cattle far into the forests around the Haidel and up to the Bohemian border.

For centuries, Fürholz was the last place before the wide border forest, and house after house lined up on both sides of the mule road. At the beginning of the 17th century, when the hem trade was already declining, there were 38 house residents in Fürholz. In the summer of 1620, at the beginning of the Thirty Years War , Fürholz was burned down by Bohemian horsemen.

The citizens of the Freyung market felt harmed by the extensive trade of the Fürholzer , which is why there was a bitter dispute in 1691. With the end of the salt trade to Bohemia in the 18th century, the great time of the place came to an end. The Fürholzer now had to turn to their agriculture and their other trades, linen weaving or other handicrafts, work in the forest or trade in the compartment and to Passau. In 1750 the village, which was previously part of the parish of Waldkirchen, was assigned to the newly founded parish of Grainet. According to the Wolfstein land register of 1788, Fürholz had 43 properties.

Following the community edicts of 1808 and 1818, the municipality Fürholz, which initially consisted only of the place Fürholz emerged. In the summer of 1827, 11 houses burned down here. In 1825 Neuhäusl became a new independent settlement, and in 1868 Obergrainet. With effect from January 1, 1946, the municipality of Böhmzwiesel allocated the places Kronwinkel and Exenbach.

In 1970, 50 percent of the workforce in Fürholz counted towards agriculture and forestry. At that time the place housed 339 inhabitants , the municipality Fürholz in the Wolfstein district 473 inhabitants. On January 1, 1971, Fürholz was incorporated into the municipality of Grainet as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . In 1987 Fürholz had 422 inhabitants.

Attractions

  • St. Florian Chapel. It was built as a school chapel in 1950/1951. Since the renovation in 1996, depictions of the two “mule saints” Wolfgang and Leonhard have adorned the altar windows.

societies

  • Fürholz volunteer fire brigade. It was founded in 1884.
  • FC Bayern Munich fan club “Hüttenzauber Fürholz”, founded on March 3rd, 1999

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