Falkenberg (Upper Palatinate)

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Coat of arms of the Falkenberg market
Falkenberg (Upper Palatinate)
Map of Germany, position of the market Falkenberg highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '  N , 12 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Tirschenreuth
Management Community : Wiesau
Height : 464 m above sea level NHN
Area : 39.25 km 2
Residents: 934 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 24 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 95685
Area code : 09637
License plate : TIR, KEM
Community key : 09 3 77 117
Market structure: 10 districts
Association administration address: Marktplatz 1
95676 Wiesau
Website : www.markt-falkenberg.de
Mayor : Herbert Bauer (CSU)
Location of the Falkenberg market in the Tirschenreuth district
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Falkenberg is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Tirschenreuth .

Community structure

There are 10 parish parts:

history

Until the church is planted

Falkenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1154 in connection with Falkenberg Castle . In 1274, through the marriage of the daughter of a count , Falkenberg became the property of the Landgrave von Leuchtenberg until the Waldsassen Monastery bought the castle and its surroundings in 1309 (see also Stiftland ). It remained connected with him until secularization ( 1803 ). In 1648, shortly before the end of the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops besieged the city of Tirschenreuth. In a nocturnal action they therefore destroyed the dam of the lower city pond, whereupon a devastating tidal wave formed, which rolled down the Waldna and alone in Falkenberg 27 people were killed that night. In the same year Falkenberg Castle was shelled and conquered by the Swedes , and the Swedish garrison camped in the castle did not leave the place until 1649.

In 1818 the political municipality was established. Falkenberg has had market rights since 1467 .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, Thann, part of the dissolved community of Lengenfeld near Tirschenreuth, as well as Bodenreuth, Hanfmühl and Holzmühl were incorporated from the community of Schönficht , which was dissolved in 1978 . On January 1, 1977 the community of Gumpen was added.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population stagnated or rose by 7 or 0.7% from 940 to 947.

politics

The community is a member of the Wiesau administrative community .

Municipal council

  • CSU 5 seats
  • UBF (Independent Citizens' Community Falkenberg) 3 seats

In the 2014 local elections , only two lists (CSU, UBF) ran.

mayor

  • First Mayor: Herbert Bauer, CSU
  • Second mayor: Bernhard Schuller, CSU

administration

The Falkenberg market together with the Wiesau market, the Wiesau elementary and secondary school association and the Falkenberg school association form the Wiesau administrative community .

coat of arms

Falkenberg Castle
View of the parish church. In the foreground the Waldnaab
Kommunbrauhaus: This is where the Zoigl beer is brewed.
The traditional inn "Roter Ochse" from the 16th century

Falkenberg has had its own coat of arms since 1567 . It is divided by black and blue; Above in a silver post is a shortened golden abbot's staff, which represents the connection to the Cistercian monastery Waldsassen , which owned Falkenberg Castle at the end of the 13th century . A golden hawk seated on three silver rocks below . This is the talking picture for the place name. The monastery administrator Pfalzgraf Reichard gave the market the coat of arms in 1567.

Partnerships

The Falkenberg market has had a partnership with the Hungarian municipality of Nagyvázsony since summer 2005 . The partnership certificate was signed on July 30, 2005 in Falkenberg. The document was countersigned in September 2006 during a visit to Hungary.

Culture and sights

Buildings

nature

Waldnaabtal nature reserve

The castle hill on which the castle was built is considered a geotope . The Waldnaab Valley nature reserve begins in Falkenberg and has some idiosyncratic granite stone formations south of Falkenberg (e.g. Kammerwagen, Biberstein, butter churn and glacier mill).

Culinary specialties

Well known and valued beer - the specialty in Falkenberg is the Zoigl .

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest employer in town is the software company IGZ Ingenieurgesellschaft für logistische Informationssysteme mbH, founded in 1999 by the Falkenberg brothers Zrenner , a SAP project house for logistics and production.

traffic

The main town is on the federal motorway 93 (Falkenberg junction) and on the B 299 .

Public facilities

Tannenlohe Youth Hostel

Tannenlohe Youth Hostel

Since an area change, which came into force on June 1, 2004, the hamlet with the Tannenlohe Youth Hostel has been located in the Falkenberg municipality. The owner of the youth hostel operated by the German Youth Hostel Association is the Tirschenreuth district. The youth hostel was previously located in the Bernstein district of the town of Windischeschenbach in the Neustadt ad Waldnaab district . As a result of the expansion of the A 93 , there were different opinions about the recognizability of the municipal boundaries. In the interest of a clear allocation according to the communal area boundaries, an area reorganization was finally carried out by decree of the government of the Upper Palatinate.

Personalities

Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg bought the ruins of Falkenberg Castle in 1936 and turned them into his retirement home. He was the German ambassador in Moscow and thus played a key role in bringing about the German-Soviet non-aggression pact in 1939 . He was later involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and as a result was executed in Plötzensee on November 10, 1944 . If the attack had been successful , he would have been appointed foreign minister in the new government. In December 2008, Markt Falkenberg bought the castle complex .

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Albert Lang (* 1890; † 1973 in Bonn ), theologian at the University of Bonn
  • Joseph Bartholomäus Mayr (born November 29, 1801 Falkenberg; † May 15, 1886 Munich ), Judge of Appeal in Munich
  • Jeff Beer (born April 1952 in Mitterteich), composer, musician and visual artist
  • Phela (Raphaela Beer; * 1989), musician

literature

  • Josef Bartholomäus Mayr: History of the Falkenberg Castle and Market , 1880; Reprint by Anton Böhm: Falkenberg in der Oberpfalz anno 1880 , 2005.
  • Anton Böhm: Falkenberg in der Oberpfalz , Heimatbuch, 1999, ISBN 3980407268 .
  • Anton Böhm: Falkenberg, A Century in Pictures , 2004.
  • Anton Böhm: Falkenberger G'schichtn , 2006.
  • Anton Böhm: From the Palatinate Forest via Falkenberg to Tegernsee , 2007.
  • Alfons Zöllner: Actually, there shouldn't be anything left of me , 2002, ISBN 3831136076 .
  • Josef Hannig: From the Baderstube , 2007, ISBN 3938253029 .

Web links

Commons : Falkenberg (Oberpfalz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Marktgemeinderat Falkenberg - members. Markt Falkenberg, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111108/084303&attr=OBJ&val= 1079
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 580 .
  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. 663 .
  6. ↑ https://www.statistikdaten.bayern.de/genesis/online?operation=previous&levelindex=4&levelid=1516994556057&step=4
  7. ↑ https://www.statistik.bayern.de/statistikkommunal/09377117.pdf
  8. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Falkenberg (Upper Palatinate)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  9. ↑ http://www.geopark-bayern.de/Public/Geosites/Tirschenreuth/FalkenbergGeotop.htm
  10. ↑ IGZ | The SAP engineers for logistics and production. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ oberpfalznetz.de of December 19, 2008 , accessed on May 4, 2010.
  12. ↑ Source: Family Archive Josef Schmid, Waldsassen; Bishop Central archive Regensburg (Falkenberg)