Gegenbach

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Gegenbach
Community Breitenberg
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 650 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 200  (2012)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 94139
Area code : 08584

Gegenbach is a district of the municipality of Breitenberg and a district in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . The village is about three kilometers west of Breitenberg.

The creek Gegenbach, which gives it its name, arises in the area of ​​the former municipality, but does not flow through the town itself. It is the border creek between Austria and Germany and rises in the area of ​​the triangle before it flows into the Große Michelbach before Breitenberg . After the confluence with the Finsterbach, this in turn becomes the Große Mühl in Austria .

history

The place in the office Jandelsbrunn the District Court Jandelsbrunn in the former Bishopric of Passau fell in the secularization in 1803 with the largest part of the territory hochstiftischen to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany and only came in 1805 to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipality of Gegenbach was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . In addition to Gegenbach and the Rastbüchl municipality, it included the towns of Burgstallberg, Hirschenberg and Ungarsteig. On January 1, 1971, the neighboring community of Schönberg was incorporated into Breitenberg. On April 1, 1971, Gollnerberg was added. Gegenbach followed on January 1, 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. Müller's Großes Deutsches Ortsbuch 2012. De Gruyter, 2012, p. 416.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 590 .