Kirchenlaibach

Kirchenlaibach Speicherersdorf municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 33 "  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 6"  E
Height :	464 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	842  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	95469
Area code :	09275
Location of Kirchenlaibach in Bavaria
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Kirchenlaibach is a district of the municipality of Speichersdorf in the Upper Franconian district of Bayreuth .

location

The parish village has now grown together structurally with the parish village , which is adjacent to the east, and is located north of the railway lines and west of Bayreuther Strasse and Creußener Strasse.

The historic core of the settlement is located in the vicinity of the Church of St. Giles .

history

Like Kemnath, the area around Kirchenlaibach belonged to Eastern Franconia for several centuries. The rulers of this area were the margraves of Schweinfurt until Emperor Heinrich the Holy had broken their power and donated the entire area to the diocese of Bamberg as a penal land in 1008. In 1174 it was bought by Emperor Friedrich I von Hohenstaufen. In AD 1223 the aristocrat Berengar von Guntzendorf donated an estate in Lubin (= Kirchenlaibach) to the Premonstratensian monastery Speinshart , which the noble people of Reifenberg had founded in 1145.

The Premonstratensian Monastery of Speinshart had more and more subjects here - a document from 1538 lists 29 subjects - who had to pay a large and small tithe to the monastery every year. In return, the monastery had taken on her earthly and spiritual worries. Around 1450 the monastery founded its own parish in Kirchenlaibach. In the Hussite Wars , Abbot Jorg von Speinshart asked the Margraves Friedrich and Sigmund of Brandenburg, Stettin and Pomerania and Burgraves of Nuremberg for himself and his convent - the monastery was looted as early as 1428 - and all subjects with "the village of Kirchenleiben", Wallenbrunn, Oberschwarzach , Pirk, Göppmannsbühl, "Windischenleiben", Ramlesreut u. a. for protection from the enemy. The abbot received a letter of protection in 1434, 1441 and 1486 and undertook to hold annual memorial services for the margrave family and to bring “ten Sumer Habern Culmbacher Maß” to Plassenburg.

Famous abbot of the monastery was Michael Höser (1577–1634). His parents might have emigrated to Regensburg because of their faith. He had become a Benedictine in St. Emmeram in Regensburg and in 1614, as Abbot Veit Höser in Oberalteich, he led the missionary work of the Upper Palatinate. The Jesuits and the old Bavarian Benedictine abbeys took particular care of Catholic teaching in the Upper Palatinate. The Catholic Elector Maximilian I also became sovereign of the Upper Palatinate in 1628. Since Speinshart belonged to his territory, Catholicism was reintroduced in Kirchenlaibach, despite the contradiction of the margravial sovereign. Benedictine monks came to the Speinhart area. Vitus Höser built a new abbey in Oberalteich and was the builder of the magnificent minster with its two towers. On the occasion of the restoration in 1906, there was a plan to put a memorial plaque on his birthplace or on a public building in Kirchenlaibach.

The school was close to the south side of the church around 1800 and was very small. On the north side, Leonhard Kraft had his blacksmith workshop and house. Next to the church stood the "cellar ruins of Johann Hamann". When the winter school in Kodlitz was closed on May 15, 1806 and the Catholic children from Kodlitz and, from June 20, 1807, the Catholic children from Zeulenreuth, Nairitz, Windischenlaibach and Speichersdorf were assigned to the Catholic school in Kirchenlaibach, the buildings were no longer sufficient . Together with the parish, the school association congregations built a new school across from the rectory in 1821. Today's schoolhouse was built similarly in 1903. The first school house was bought by the neighbor Georg Reiss in 1825. After the fire of 1859, like Kraft and Hamann, he was allowed to build on and next to the church.

The darkest day in the history of the town was the fire in 1859. On August 28, at 10 o'clock in the evening, a fire broke out in Michael Reiss's barn, affecting 31 houses, 28 barns and 35 outbuildings. The church also fell victim to him. The rectory burned down on the north side. The arsonist had thrown himself into the flames and "was found while cleaning up as a half-burned skeleton". The construction was difficult for the village.

In 1861 the Bayreuth-Weiden railway track was laid. The station was planned for the Kirchenlaibach cemetery, but the space could not be purchased. The original station building resembled that of Seybothenreuth and had to give way to the larger one of today when Kirchenlaibach became a railway junction through the construction of the Nuremberg-Eger railway in 1875–1878. Because of these traffic advantages, an airfield was built in the last war. The First World War claimed 30 lives, the second 45 young people. In 1924 and 1957 the local congregation erected a memorial to them on the church square. With the arrival of new citizens, who make up almost half of the population, a new hopeful phase begins. Housing estates, apartment blocks, water pipes, sewers, roads with asphalt pavement - a new rhythm of life! The farmers have cleaned up their fields. A new work rhythm is announced. Industrial companies bring a new twist to the area.

On July 1, 1972, the community of Kirchenlaibach was incorporated into the community of Speichersdorf. The parish area was about 370 hectares .

Origin of name

About the previous time we only know that the Celts (?), The Hermundures (Thuringians), the Franks, the Slavs and the Bavarians touched, fought and left their mark in the area. The origin of the place name Kirchenlaibach is also unclear. Researchers lead Kirchenlaibach (formerly Lubin, Leuben, Leuba, Leiba) from the Slavic loviba , looba , loiba (catch, hunt), hence Luban or Loijbany: the people in the hunting forest. This derivation would be a reference to Wendish settlers from Bohemia, who were perhaps already attracted to the area's forested area around 600 AD. Other scientists lead the place name back to Bach (Old High German bah ) and connect it with laiba , loiba (Slavic forest, foliage); thus Waldbach. Or they combine loiba (forest) with the old German aha (Latin aqua for water) and come to forest water or forest stream. The relationship to the Kirlohbach and the Leimbach is obvious. There are other places of Slavic origin in the vicinity: Selbitz: green (green strips in the forest); Nairitz formerly “Nagritz”, “Nagoritz” from gora (mountain, height, hill); Kulm (mountain); Lübnitz (near Gefrees) from lipa (linden tree), i.e. near the linden tree. "Kirchenleubach" and "Windischenleubach" (windisch place of the Wends) are not differentiated in documents until the 15th century.

traffic

Railcars from the courtyard of RS1 series of the company Agilis the station Kirchenlaibach

In the district is the Kirchenlaibach train station , the junction of the main railway lines Weiden – Bayreuth and Nürnberg – Cheb .

The federal road 22 runs north, while the state road 2184 runs through the town in a north-south direction .

societies

The Kirchenlaibach volunteer fire brigade has respiratory protection and works closely with the Speicherersdorf Fire Department in the event of an emergency.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Speicherersdorf there are six architectural monuments for Kirchenlaibach .

Famous residents

• Michael Höser (born November 12, 1577 in Kirchenlaibach; † August 7, 1634 in his abbey), Benedictine and abbot in the Oberalteich monastery , whose monastery church he built.

• Kaspar von Ruppert (1827–1895), member of the Reichstag and Landtag (center) from Kirchenlaibach: As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of Upper Bavaria 1 (Munich I) from 1878 to 1884 in the Reichstag .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 297 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
3. ↑ Historical map of Kirchenlaibach
4. ↑ Peter Schwarzfischer (pastor of Kirchenlaibach): Notes on Kirchenlaibach .
5. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Official city directory for Bavaria, territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census . Issue 260 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1964, DNB  453660959 , Section II, Sp. 655 ( digitized version ).
6. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 185.

Web links

Commons : Kirchenlaibach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kirchenlaibach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library