Furth in the forest

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Coat of arms of the city of Furth in the forest
Furth in the forest
Germany map, position of the city Furth highlighted in the forest

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '  N , 12 ° 50'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Cham
Height : 407 m above sea level NHN
Area : 67.05 km 2
Residents: 9084 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 135 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 93437
Area code : 09973
License plate : CHA, KÖZ, ROD , WÜM
Community key : 09 3 72 126
City structure: 37 districts

City administration address : 		Burgstrasse 1
93437 Furth im Wald
Website : www.furth.de
Mayor : Sandro Bauer ( CSU )
Location of the town of Furth im Wald in the Cham district
Lohberg (Bayern) Lam Arrach Hohenwarth (Landkreis Cham) Grafenwiesen Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut Eschlkam Furth im Wald Gleißenberg Arnschwang Bad Kötzting Rimbach (Oberpfalz) Blaibach Waldmünchen Treffelstein Tiefenbach (Oberpfalz) Rötz Schönthal (Oberpfalz) Weiding (Landkreis Cham) Chamerau Miltach Willmering Stamsried Pösing Zandt Traitsching Chamerau Runding Cham (Oberpfalz) Pemfling Waffenbrunn Schorndorf (Oberpfalz) Michelsneukirchen Roding Walderbach Reichenbach (Landkreis Cham) Rettenbach (Oberpfalz) Falkenstein (Oberpfalz) Zell (Oberpfalz) Wald (Oberpfalz) Tschechien Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Regen Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Regensburgmap
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Town square of the city of Furth im Wald

Furth im Wald ( Brod nad Lesy in Czech , or Bavorský Brod ) is a town in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham and a border town with the Czech Republic .

geography

Geographical location

Furth im Wald is located on the border with the Czech Republic and lies on the waters of Chamb , Cold and Warm Pastritz . In terms of administration and also geographically, the area of ​​the urban area forms a separation between the Upper Palatinate Forest in the north and the Bavarian Forest in the south. It borders the Cham-Further Senke , a deep valley cut between these two low mountain ranges and is adjacent to the Künischer Gebirge . About 3 km northeast of the city rises the Dieberg ( 639  m above sea level ), on which the observation tower Bayernwarte stands; south of the mountain, the Chamb is dammed in the Drachensee . The Kreuzfelsen ( 938  m above sea  level ), the highest point in the German part of the Upper Palatinate Forest, rises about 5 km northwest of the city .

City structure

There are 37 parish parts:

  • Aiglshof
  • Applet
  • Blasihof
  • Blätterberg
  • arc
  • Böhmerstrasse
  • Bruckmühle
  • Daberg
  • Degelberg
  • The mountain
  • Furth in the forest
  • Grabitz
  • Grasmannsdorf
  • Grub
  • Gschwand
  • Haberseigen
  • Klopflesberg
  • Kühberg
  • Flax mill
  • Lixenried
  • Oberrappendorf
  • Ösbühl
  • Rogue
  • Soot mill
  • Schafberg
  • Sengenbühl
  • Seuchau
  • Strasshof
  • Tradl
  • Trad
  • Unterdörfel
  • Unterrappendorf
  • Voithenberg
  • Voithenberghütte
  • Varadein
  • Mill
  • Brick hut

Markings

Furth im Wald has the following districts:

  • Furth in the forest
  • Grabitz
  • Herzogau (with the municipality parts Voithenberg and Voithenberghütte). A part of the district lies on the municipality of Waldmünchen .
  • Lixenried
  • Rogue
  • Sengenbühl

Neighboring communities

On the part of the Federal Republic of Germany, the city of Waldmünchen and the municipality of Gleißenberg border Furth im Wald in the northwest, and Weiding (district of Cham) and Arnschwang are in the south . In the east it borders on Eschlkam , in the north on the Okres Domažlice in the Czech Republic .

history

Stone age

Stone axes and other prehistoric finds suggest the first settlements in the Neolithic Age 4500 BC. Close. See also at Stefling .

middle Ages

Furth was first mentioned in a document on April 9, 1086. At that time the Salier emperor Heinrich IV donated several heirloom villages and their income in the margraviate Cham im Nordgau (Bavaria) , including Vurte , which later developed into the city of Furth im Wald, to Regensburg cathedral bailiff Friedrich from the house of the counts of Bogen ( Noble family) for their services during the investiture dispute in favor of the emperor. As the name Vurte suggests, the village was at a ford, by trade and military routes along the floodplain of meandering Chambs in the settlement area of Chodsko in Western Bohemia led. Furth im Wald was first mentioned as a customs post in 1300. In 1332 the Bavarian Duke Heinrich XIV confirmed the town charter. In 1426 army groups of the reform movement of the Hussites looted and murdered in the border region of the Künisches Gebirge , which probably also destroyed the city of Furth. In 1470 a Grenzhauptmannschaft Furth was founded as one of the oldest Bavarian Landwehr organizations and the border flag was consecrated with the coat of arms of the Counts von Bogen (noble family) , the white and blue diamonds. A follow-up version made of precious material was kept in a showcase in the town's local museum. (see literature in Johanna von Herzogenberg ).

Modern times

In 1514 the Further border captain Sigmund von Seyboltsdorff had a border visor drawn up, the oldest cartographic border description from Furth in the forest to the Arber in the Bohemian Forest . The Further Drachenstich was first mentioned in 1590. It is one of the oldest folk plays in the German-speaking area, originally created during a Corpus Christi parade . In this festival, the Hussite Wars have been represented as the background of the dragon stitch since 1951 . In 1633 during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), evangelical-Lutheran army groups of the Swedes devastated the city, as General Field Marshal Wallenstein a . a. had held a council of war with Octavio Piccolomini in Furth im Wald and had decided to withdraw his army to Eger ( Cheb ). The battle at Antlesbrunn with the capture and looting of the city in the War of the Spanish Succession took place in 1703. In 1764 the border between Bohemia and Bavaria was finally determined between Empress Maria Theresia and the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III. Joseph . Through the Bavarian municipal edict of 1818, the municipal rights of self-government in Furth im Wald were renewed. In 1838 a district court seat was relocated to Furth im Wald, and until 1862 Furth was the seat of administration and court. In 1861 it was connected to the railway network. Furth im Wald became a stop on the main line from Nuremberg to Prague. In 1862, Furth was administratively assigned to the newly established Cham district office , and the regional court continued to exist as a judicial authority. In 1863 a city fire devastated Furth, with the entire eastern half of the city and the old Further city tower being destroyed. Furth survived the Second World War (1939–1945) largely unscathed, although in April and May 1945 in the border area near Cham there were still sometimes bitter fighting with the troops of the American armed forces advancing to West and South Bohemia.

present

From 1946 to 1957 there was a reception camp in Furth im Wald for around 706,000 displaced persons during the period of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia . In 1964 the road border crossing over Vollmau (Folmava) in Czechoslovakia was reopened under the strict visa requirements of the Iron Curtain . The dismantling of the border barriers on the Czechoslovak side took place in 1990. The signing of the state treaties on the facilitation of border clearance in rail, road and ship traffic as well as on the mutual support of customs administrations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czech Republic followed in 1995 in the town hall of Furth im Wald. On December 21, 2007, the border controls between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czech Republic ceased and the border station was dissolved.

Incorporations

In 1946 part of the Grabitz community was incorporated. Ränkam (with the other part of the former municipality of Grabitz) and Sengenbühl (until mid-1904 in the Kötzting district office ) were incorporated on January 1, 1972, Lixenried and part of the Herzogau municipality (both from the Waldmünchen district ) on July 1, 1972.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the population decreased from 9,396 to 9,093 by 303 inhabitants or 3.22%.

politics

City council

The city council consists of 20 councilors plus the first mayor . After the municipal elections in 2014 and 2020, the following distribution of votes and seats resulted:

Parties and constituencies Share 2014 Seats 2014 Share 2020 Seats 2020
Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) 27.1% 6th 27.8% 5
Alliance 90 / The Greens (Greens) 0% 0 8.6% 2
Free voters (FW) 12.4% 2 18.8% 3
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 11.1% 2 8.4% 2
Ränkamer Voting Community (RWG) 9.0% 2 10.4% 2
Christian voter community (CWG) 12.0% 2 14.4% 3
Sengenbühler Voting Association (SWG) 9.1% 2 8.3% 2
Free voter block (FWB) 3.3% 1 0.0% 0
Christian Free Voter Association (CFW) 5.5% 1 3.3% 1
Young List (JL) 10.6% 2 0.0% 0
total 100.0% 20th 100.0% 20th

In the past terms of office, the surrounding electoral communities traditionally joined the CSU parliamentary group, but in 2008 they founded their own “surrounding parliamentary group”.

After the death of Mayor Reinhold Macho, Johannes Müller was elected First Mayor (see below).

mayor

Furth town hall in the forest

1. Mayor is Sandro Bauer ( CSU ). After the death of the long-time mayor Reinhold Macho on September 8, 2005, new elections were held on December 4, 2005. There was a runoff between Volker Heiduk ( Free Voters ) and Johannes Müller (CFW). On December 18, 2005, the citizens of Further elected Johannes Müller as the new mayor with 56.93% of the vote. In the next election in November 2011, Johannes Müller and the CSU candidate, Sandro Bauer, made it to the runoff. Bauer won this on November 20, 2011 with 61.1%; Incumbent Müller came to 38.9%. Sandro Bauer (CSU) won the local election on March 16, 2014 with 82.89%. His opponent Günter Stelzer (CFW) came up with 17.11%. In the election on March 15, 2020, Bauer was elected with 58.2% for a further six years; Toni Schmidt (Free Voters) received 33.9% and Günter Stelzer (CFW) 7.9% of the vote.

  • 2nd Mayor Michael Mühlbauer (Free Voters)
  • 3. Mayor Franz Former (Christian constituency)

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Furth in the forest
 Blazon : “Under the shield head with the Bavarian diamonds divided by silver and green; two black wavy strips at the top. "

The coat of arms has been known since the 14th century and was renewed in 1978.

The two black wavy strips at the top symbolize the Chamb River .

Town twinning

There are partnerships with the cities

Sponsorship

In 1957 the sponsorship for the expelled Sudeten Germans from the city and the district of Bischofteinitz was taken over.

Culture and sights

Museums

City tower
  • Drachenhöhle: The main attraction of the Further Drachenstich and the largest four-legged walking robot in the world (entry in the Guinness Book of Records) can be viewed in its "cave" on the fairground.
  • Museums at the city tower
    • State Storm Museum with collections on prehistory and early history, the history of the city and the border with Bohemia , handicrafts, religious folk art and rural and bourgeois life in the city
    • The First German Dragon Museum shows the history of the local festival and a general cultural history of the mythology of the dragon .
    • The Museum of the Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz emerged from the collections of the Sudeten German Heimatkreis Bischofteinitz in southern Egerland , founded in 1972 .
    • Department of glass and glass street with a children's adventure area
  • Private Flederwisch Museum with the transmission workshop of a historical printing works, a forge and an agency for emigrants
  • The historic Hammerschmiede Voithenberghütte is located in the Kalten Pastritz valley, right on the border with the Czech Republic . It was built in 1823 by Baron Zacharias Voith von Voithenberg as an employer and was in operation until 1926. Today this hammer forge is a branch of the State Storm Museum, houses an exhibition of forged products and other documents and shows blacksmithing demonstrations with two water-wheel driven hammers.
  • The private forest museum Sengenbühl am Steinbruchsee contains a collection of around 800 specimens of native animals, illustrative material on the geology and flora from the area around Furth im Wald, tools for woodworking, an extensive clock collection and has an affiliated game reserve and fish ponds.

Architectural monuments

The palace square with the 35 m high city tower built in 1865 is listed as an ensemble . The tower houses the Landestor- und Drachenmuseum, whose opening times also include the viewing platform high above the surrounding roofs .

See also: List of architectural monuments in Furth im Wald

Further rock passages

Like numerous other cities, Furth im Wald is built on a rocky hill, partially tunnelled by underground escape and connecting passages. These are made accessible again by committed local homeland researchers and volunteers interested in helping. The exposed rock passages can be viewed in the summer months. With the almost unchanged layout of the buildings, which has been preserved since the Middle Ages , they provide an interesting glimpse into the history of the streets rebuilt after numerous fires.

Dragon Lake

After the dragon from the Further Volksschauspiel , the Further Drachenstich , the flood storage tank Furth in the forest was named "Drachensee". Around the 175 hectare reservoir of the Chamb river near Furth in the forest, those looking for relaxation and nature explorers will find a special adventure area. What distinguishes the Drachensee from other reservoirs in the Bohemian Forest is a so-called four-zone concept. The focus is on the nature experience zone and the ecological regeneration zone. The measures aimed at compensating for humans and nature create a new, noteworthy habitat that has good prerequisites to offer endangered animals and plants a home and opportunities to survive.

At the northern west bank of the Dragon Lake is a lake stage and from COR-TEN steel -made sculpture "Myth Dragon", a walk-in viewing platform has.

Leonhardiritt

Every year on the morning of Easter Monday there has been a Leonhardiritt around the Leonhardi Church for over 200 years, followed by a field mass and a horse blessing on the town square.

  • City parish church

  • Zacchaeus Church

City parish church

The baroque parish church of the Assumption of Mary , which was expanded in 1893, characterizes the cityscape.

Kreuzkirche

It was built in 1668 and was more important as a pilgrimage church in the 17th century . It houses what is probably the oldest art object in the city, a crucifixion group from the 14th century.

Zacchaeus Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Zacchaeus Church, built in 1903, was renovated from November 2014 to February 2015 due to massive damage to the masonry.

Economy and Infrastructure

Jobs

In 2017 there were 3,392 jobs subject to social security contributions in the city. Of the resident population, 3,290 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. This meant that the number of inbound commuters was 102 more than that of inbound commuters. 201 inhabitants were unemployed.

traffic

Furth im Wald station is a border station on the line from Schwandorf , which continues in the direction of Plzeň . Due to the border location and the route, which is heavily used by freight and passenger traffic, there are large tracks for freight trains and for changing locomotives.

By the railway is weekdays an approximately hourly connection to the nearest town circle Cham . There are also regular connections to Schwandorf , Regensburg , Nuremberg and Munich as well as with the Czech State Railways ( České dráhy ) in regional traffic to Domažlice (Taus), in long-distance traffic to Plzeň and Prague . The connections are also used by commuters .

Furth im Wald has the B 20 or on the Czech side the N 26 at Česká Kubice connection to the regional road network.

Established businesses

The “Flabeg” emerged from a traditional glassworks , but in Further working circles it is always referred to as “glassworks”. "Flabeg GmbH & Co. KG" has a self-developed technology for glass bending and is a major manufacturer of car mirrors, display, screen and scanner glass as well as solar collectors for parabolic trough power plants.

There are several small industrial areas with electronics companies (Deltec Automotive GmbH & Co. KG, ELOTEC Fischer Elektronik GmbH, Zollner Elektronik AG ) and other supplier companies . Important employers are also tourism , the Vion NV slaughterhouse and retail trade .

Medical supplies

There is a therapy center and a specialist clinic for addiction disorders and psychosomatics . There is also the "Grenzland" medical care center. There are also various medical practices in a wide variety of directions.

education

  • Four day-care centers with 219 approved places and 293 children
  • Primary school in Furth im Wald
  • Middle School Furth im Wald
  • State secondary school in Furth im Wald
  • State vocational school in Furth im Wald
  • Paedagon - Specialized Academy for Social Pedagogy & Vocational School for Child Care
  • District School of Music Cham (Furth im Wald branch)
  • Adult Education Center in the Cham district (Furth im Wald branch)

Personalities

Downtown Furth im Wald

sons and daughters of the town

Honorary citizen

  • City Pastor i. R. Prelate Sebastian Werner
  • Edmund Stoiber (former Bavarian Prime Minister)
  • Willi Gabriel
  • Rudolf Blahut
  • Entrepreneur Manfred Zollner sen.

literature

  • Furth i. Wald 1332–1982 - Editing by Reinhold Macho and Siegi Wild, Perlinger Druck, Furth im Wald
  • Josef Pongratz: Furth in the forest. Neue-Presse-Verlags-GmbH, Passau
  • City history
  • Wolf-Armin Frhr. v. Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Bavarian place names. Origin and meaning . CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-55206-4 , p. 90 .
  • Johanna von Herzogenberg : Between Danube and Moldau. Bavarian Forest and Bohemian Forest. Das Mühlviertel and Südböhmen, Prestel Verlag Munich 1968, Furth im Wald pages 54–59, 60. The book's dust jacket shows a view of the Grenzversier from 1514 and contains a map with an overview of the road connections to Pilsen in western Bohemia .
  • Golo Mann : Wallenstein. His life is told by Golo Mann . 2nd edition, S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3 10047903 3 , text passages on Furth im Wald, pages 194, 993-995, 998

Web links

Commons : Furth im Wald  - 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. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ^ Furth im Wald, St in Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online
  4. ^ [Bylaws of the city of Furth im Wald from May 7, 2002]
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 440 .
  6. ^ Municipal council since 2014 , accessed on August 15, 2020
  7. ↑ Mayor. Furth im Wald community, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Mayoral election 2020 , accessed on August 15, 2020
  9. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Furth im Wald  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  10. ^ Landestormuseum - Dragon Museum on the website of the city of Furth im Wald
  11. ↑ Artwork "Mythos Drache" and floating stage on bayerischer-wald-ganz-oben.de
  12. ↑ Primary School Furth im Wald in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 15, 2020.
  13. ^ Middle school Furth im Wald in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 15, 2020.
  14. ^ Staatliche Realschule Furth im Wald in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 15, 2020.
  15. ↑ Quarterly publication of the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria, 1958