Grafenau (Waidhaus)

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Grafenau
Waidhaus market
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 58 ″  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 543 m above sea level NN
Residents : 10  (May 9, 2011)
Postal code : 92726
Area code : 09652
Grafenau
Grafenau

Grafenau is a district of the Bavarian market Waidhaus in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in the administrative district of Upper Palatinate .

Geographical location

Grafenau is located on a cleared island about four kilometers northeast of Waidhaus and 500 meters west of the German-Czech border on the slope of the 553 meter high Rippelberg.

The trout stream flows into the Rehlingbach about 600 meters north of Grafenau . The Rehlingbach flows from north to south along the Czech border about 500 meters east of Grafenau and flows into the Pfreimd at Pfrentschweiher , which is still called Katharinabach there.

history

In 1858 there was a Pocherhaus belonging to the Frankenreuth glassworks in Grafenau . There the quartz sand was crushed and prepared for the glass melting process.

In 1867 Grafenau had five buildings and 13 residents. It belonged to the Waidhaus community. The Waidhaus community at that time included the districts Waidhaus, Birkenlohe, Buchen, Bucher, Forsthaus, Frankenreuth, Grafenau, Hörlmühle, Kühmühle, Oberströbl (= Speckermühle), Pfälzerhof, Reichenau, Richterhaus (= Hermannsbach) and Ziegelhütte.

In 1930 Grafenau was also listed as a town in 1930. It belonged to the municipality of Waidhaus, which from 1939 had the districts of Waidhaus, Birklohe, Forsthaus, Frankenreuth, Grafenau, Hörlmühle, Kühmühle, Marxmühle, Oberströbl (= Speckermühle and Ströbl), Ödkührieth, paper mill, Pfälzerhof, Reichenau and Ziegelhütte.

religion

Grafenau belongs to the parish of St. Emmeram Waidhaus and to the dean's office in Leuchtenberg. In 1913 Grafenau had two houses and 13 Catholics. At that time there were 1653 Catholics, 8 Protestants and 16 Jews living in the area of ​​the parish Waidhaus. In 1990 there were 11 Catholics in Grafenau. At that time, 95.39% of the inhabitants of the parish Waidhaus were Catholic.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://atlas.zensus2011.de/
  2. ↑ Fritsch hiking map of the Northern Upper Palatinate Forest Nature Park, scale 1: 50,000
  3. ↑ Michael Müller: The mirror glass dynasty "Copper and Glass" and the Frankenreuth glassworks (Opf.). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on October 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de
  4. ↑ Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary. , Volume 5, Munich 1867, literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, p. 806, online: Statistisches Handbuch Bayern, 1867
  5. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauss p. 226
  6. ^ Diocese of Regensburg (ed.): Register of the Diocese of Regensburg . ed. i. A. Sr Excellency of the Most Revered Bishop Dr. Antonius von Henle from the Episcopal Ordinariate Regensburg. Regensburg 1916, p. 335 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Manfred Müller (Ed.): Register of the diocese of Regensburg. Verlag des Bischöflichen Ordinariats Regensburg, 1997, p. 760

Web links

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