Kreuzberg (Freyung)

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Kreuzberg
City of Freyung
Coat of arms of Kreuzberg
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 33 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 819 m
Residents : 754  (1987)
Incorporation : April 1, 1971
Postal code : 94078
Area code : 08551
Kreuzberg (Bavaria)
Kreuzberg

Location of Kreuzberg in Bavaria
The widely visible cone of Kreuzberg
The widely visible cone of Kreuzberg

Kreuzberg (from Gereutsberg - cleared mountain) is a district of the town of Freyung in the Freyung-Grafenau district , Bavaria . Until 1971, Kreuzberg formed an independent municipality.

geography

Kreuzberg is located on an 819 meter high, unforested gneiss cone about 3.5 kilometers north of the district town of Freyung. Apart from a saddle to the 791 meter high Randlberg in the northeast, the elevation drops evenly on all sides by about 150 meters to the valleys of the Reschbach in the west and the Saussbach in the south.

Starting from the central settlement, the individual hooves are arranged in a circle, so that Kreuzberg corresponds to the settlement type of a round forest hoof village . Apart from that, there are still a few smaller settlements that emerged in later expansion phases.

history

Kreuzberg; the radially arranged hooves are easy to see

For a long time, Kreuzberg was the northernmost town on the Bergreichenstein branch of the Goldener Steige . Agriculture provided the population with a secure livelihood, and for about 300 years the place was the customs post of the Passau monastery . Kreuzberg acquired market rights as early as 1354 , which it lost again in 1576, although weekly and three annual markets continued to take place.

One of the oldest St. Anna pilgrimages developed in Kreuzberg . The first mention of this pilgrimage comes from the year 1429. On October 25, 1501, the benefice was founded to look after the pilgrimage, and so from 1501 to 1927 a beneficiary was active in Kreuzberg . In the map of Philipp Apian from 1568 the place is entered under the name "Creitzperg".

The heyday of pilgrimage began after the end of the Thirty Years War. In 1777, Leopold Giesecke, pastor in Freyung, gave the number of those who received communion on the three "Golden Saturdays" (the three Saturdays after the feast of St. Michael on September 29) as 20,000. According to this, Kreuzberg was probably the most important place of pilgrimage in the Diocese of Passau at that time, along with Mariahilf in Passau . The Kreuzberg pilgrimage has not recovered from the decline at the time of the Enlightenment in the times of the prince-bishops and the subsequent secularization in Bavaria , so that today primarily only individual pilgrims come to Kreuzberg.

Kreuzberg belonged to the parish Freyung and was elevated to a branch in 1849 and a parish in 1896. The Kreuzberg volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1874, the TSV Kreuzberg in 1929. On April 1, 1971, the community of Kreuzberg, which had 747 inhabitants in 1970, was incorporated into Freyung.

The Catholic Parish Church of St. Anna

Attractions

The church of St. Anna , consecrated in 1517, was changed in the 17th century and was affected by two local fires on May 20, 1819 and July 19, 1901. It contains numerous baroque and Gothic figures. The miraculous image from 1633 is a replica of the third of Anna herself from the 14th century.

In the list of architectural monuments in Freyung , 14 monuments are listed for Kreuzberg .

societies

  • BRK column Kreuzberg
  • Caritas Altenclub Kreuzberg
  • German Soldiers and Warriors Union Kreuzberg (DSKB)
  • Kreuzberg volunteer fire department
  • Horticultural Association Kreuzberg
  • KAB Kreuzberg
  • Kath. Frauenbund Kreuzberg
  • Kreuzberg men's choir
  • OCV Kreuzberg
  • TSV Kreuzberg 1929
  • Forest community of Kreuzberg

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Matzke: 100 years of the parish of St. Anna. Kreuzberg 1896-1996. 1996
  • Ulrich Pietrusky, Günther Michler, Donatus Moosauer: Lower Bavaria - rediscovered on the fly. Verlag Morsak Grafenau, 2nd edition 1982, ISBN 3-87553-135-3

Web links

Commons : Kreuzberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 595 .