Regen district

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Coat of arms of the Regen district Map of Germany, position of the Regen district highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 6'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Bavaria
Administrative headquarters : rain
Area : 974.92 km 2
Residents: 77,410 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 79 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : REG, VIT
Circle key : 09 2 76
NUTS : DE229
Circle structure: 24 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Poschetsrieder Strasse 16
94209 Regen
Website : www.landkreis-regen.de
District Administrator : Rita Röhrl ( SPD )
Location of the Regen district in Bavaria
Weiden in der Oberpfalz Straubing Würzburg Schwabach Schweinfurt Regensburg Rosenheim Nürnberg Nürnberg Passau Landshut Memmingen Kaufbeuren Kempten (Allgäu) Ingolstadt Fürth Hof Erlangen Coburg Bayreuth Bamberg Augsburg München Aschaffenburg Amberg Ansbach Landkreis Würzburg Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau Landkreis Unterallgäu Landkreis Traunstein Landkreis Tirschenreuth Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Starnberg Landkreis Schweinfurt Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Rottal-Inn Landkreis Roth Landkreis Rosenheim Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld Landkreis Regensburg Landkreis Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm Landkreis Regen Landkreis Passau Landkreis Ostallgäu Landkreis Oberallgäu Landkreis Nürnberger Land Landkreis Neu-Ulm Landkreis Neustadt an der Waldnaab Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim Landkreis Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Landkreis München Landkreis Mühldorf am Inn Landkreis Miltenberg Landkreis Miesbach Landkreis Main-Spessart Landkreis Lindau (Bodensee) Landkreis Lichtenfels Landkreis Landshut Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Kulmbach Landkreis Kronach Landkreis Kitzingen Landkreis Kelheim Landkreis Hof Landkreis Haßberge Landkreis Günzburg Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen Landkreis Fürth Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau Landkreis Freising Landkreis Forchheim Landkreis Erlangen-Höchstadt Landkreis Erding Landkreis Eichstätt Landkreis Ebersberg Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Dingolfing-Landau Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau Landkreis Deggendorf Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Coburg Landkreis Cham Landkreis Berchtesgadener Land Landkreis Bayreuth Landkreis Bamberg Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen Landkreis Bad Kissingen Landkreis Augsburg Landkreis Aschaffenburg Landkreis Ansbach Landkreis Amberg-Sulzbach Landkreis Altötting Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg Bodensee Schweiz Österreich Baden-Württemberg Hessen Tschechien Sachsen Thüringenmap
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District town of Regen
Landscape near Frauenau

The district of Regen is the northernmost district of the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Bavaria . In the north it borders on the Upper Palatinate , in the northeast on the Czech Republic .

geography

location

The district area is completely covered by the Bavarian Forest , which here consists of the so-called Inner and the Front Bavarian Forest . Between the two lies the pile , a landscape made of quartz rock. The highest elevation in the Bavarian Forest, the Great Arber , is located on the northern boundary of the district of Cham . The district and district town are named after the Regen river , whose source river Schwarzer Regen runs through the district from east to west in a wide arc. The black rain in turn arises from two source rivers, the small and the large rain, which unite in Zwiesel , in the east of the district.

Neighboring areas

The district borders counterclockwise in the north, beginning with the districts of Cham , Straubing-Bogen , Deggendorf and Freyung-Grafenau . In the northeast and east it borders on the Czech administrative district of Pilsen Region ( Plzeňský kraj ).

history

Regional courts

The area of ​​the Regen district belonged to Bavaria before 1800. In 1803 the Regen and Viechtach regional courts were established. The district court Viechtach initially belonged to the rain district , from 1810 to the Lower Danube district , to which the district court Regen belonged before. In 1838 the Lower Danube District was renamed Lower Bavaria.

District Offices

In 1862, a district office was formed from each of the two regional courts .

Counties

On January 1, 1939, the designation district was introduced as everywhere else in the German Reich . So the district offices became the districts of Regen and Viechtach.

Regen district

As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , on July 1, 1972, the two districts of Regen and Viechtach as well as the municipality of Lohberg from the dissolved district of Kötzting were merged into today's district of Regen. On May 1, 1978, the community Wettzell , which was incorporated into the town of Kötzting , and the community Lohberg moved to the district of Cham. At the same time, the community of Niederndorf moved from the district of Cham to the district of Regen and was incorporated into Arnbruck .

In 2012, a CSU district council sparked a debate that provided for the Regen district to be renamed "Arberland district".

Population development

From 1988 to 2008 the Regen district grew by almost 3,000 inhabitants or around 4%. Since 2002 the trend has been declining after a high of around 82,700 inhabitants. Between 1988 and 2018 the district grew from 76,869 to 77,656 by 787 inhabitants or by 1%.

The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

Population development
year 1840 1900 1939 1950 1961 1970 1987 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Residents 35,984 49.091 62.032 80,857 71.501 74,470 76,688 80,584 82.194 82,512 81,416 78,953 76,812

politics

District election 2020
Turnout: 63.09%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
33.05%
17.45%
12.26%
9.35%
9.17%
8.35%
5.93%
4.15%
2.84%
The independents
GFW
IG Frauen-Regen
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.61  % p
-3.30  % p
+1.39  % p
-2.42  % p
+ 9.17  % p.p.
+1.57  % p
± 0.00  % p
+0.58  % p
+1.17  % p.p.
The independents
GFW
IG Frauen-Regen

District administrators

District council

Distribution of seats after the local elections in Bavaria 2020 on March 15, compared to previous years:

CSU SPD The
independents		 GFW AfD Green ÖDP IG women
rain		 FDP total
2020 20th 10 7th 6th 6th 5 2 2 2 60
2014 23 12 7th 7th - 4th 4th 2 1 60

Referendum

On February 8, 2015, the voters were called in the district, in one initiated by the district council referendum over a two-year trial operation of the reactivation of the railway line between Gotteszell and Viechtach vote. It should be clarified whether the district should declare its willingness to ensure 10% of the costs incurred during the trial run in the event of insufficient passenger participation and, at the same time, the freedom to travel for schoolchildren. Both the reactivation of the railway line and the referendum passed by the district council were hotly debated in the Internet media and in forums of the local newspaper. When voting, those eligible to vote voted with a majority of 63.9% of the votes cast (with a turnout of 20.9%) for the trial run. In a total of 17 municipalities in the district, the citizens voted for the referendum, in seven municipalities they voted against. With Achslach, Geiersthal, Gotteszell, Patersdorf, Ruhmannsfelden, Teisnach, and Zachenberg, these were all communities in the vicinity of the railway. The biggest rejection of the decision was in Teisnach with 66.42% against the trial run. There was the greatest approval in Viechtach with 85.69%. This community was also the only neighboring community of the railway line that spoke out in favor of trial operation. Although the necessary quorum (15% of the electorate) was not achieved, District Administrator Adam announced that the election result, as determined by the district council, would be regarded as binding.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Regen district
 Blazon : “Under the shield head with the Bavarian diamonds in red, a silver post, inside a green spruce rooted; in front a silver goblet, behind a growing tin tower. "

A white and blue flag with the county coat of arms is used as the unofficial county flag .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Regen district was ranked 305 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with “future risks”. According to the study, it offers the fifth worst future prospects of all the districts in Bavaria.

traffic

Rail transport

The AG der Bayerischen Ostbahnen opened up the district area in 1877 with the railway line Plattling - Deggendorf - Regen - Zwiesel - Bayerisch Eisenstein ( Bavarian Forest Railway ), which connected here to the Austrian Railway (today the Czech State Railway).

In 1890, two local railway lines were added that branch off the first line: The Bavarian State Railways established the connection from Zwiesel with the Zwiesel – Grafenau railway line to Grafenau, and a local railway company ran a line from Gotteszell to Viechtach.

Only decades later, in 1928, did the railway network experience two more additions and now comprised a network of 119 km in length:

The Lokalbahn-AG extended its line from Viechtach to Blaibach to the Gotteszell – Blaibach railway line and from then on operated as the Regentalbahn AG (RAG), while the Deutsche Reichsbahn built the Zwiesel – Bodenmais railway line from Zwiesel .

In 1991 the Regentalbahn shut down its route from Gotteszell to Blaibach and thus 38 km of a total of 119 km of railway lines in the district; However, between Gotteszell and Viechtach there are still tourist trains of the “Wanderbahn im Regental e. V. ". In cooperation with the municipalities and the district, the association is endeavoring to resume regular passenger traffic on this route.

The RAG took over the passenger traffic under the name " Waldbahn " first in 1993 on the two Zwiesel branch lines and from 1997 also on the main line Plattling - Bayerisch Eisenstein on behalf of the DB Regio Bayern . The German railway continues to be represented in the district as an infrastructure operator. As a result of a Europe-wide tender by the BEG, RAG has been commissioned directly with the provision of the local rail transport since December 2013 . In December 2015, this order was transferred to the subsidiary Die Länderbahn .

Local public transport

RBO regional buses and private bus routes such as the Igelbus operate in the district . City bus lines exist in Zwiesel, Regen and Viechtach (free of charge there). A citizens' bus is operated in the municipality of Kirchdorf . Call-line taxis are used on individual lines, especially in the western district . In addition to the in-house tariffs of the bus companies, the tariffs of the transport associations of the respective neighboring districts, namely the VLC tariff for the district of Cham, the VLD tariff for the district of Deggendorf and the VLS tariff for the district of Straubing-Bogen, apply in individual outgoing and incoming lines .

The Bayerwald ticket is valid in the district . In the municipalities of Bayerisch Eisenstein, Frauenau (both since May 1, 2010), Lindberg (since August 1, 2010), Zwiesel (since June 1, 2010), Regen (since December 1, 2010) and Langdorf (since January 15, 2011 ) the guest cards are valid as a so-called GUTi ticket in the district as well as in the neighboring districts of Freyung-Grafenau and Cham.

Streets

The federal highways 11 and 85 run through the district . In addition, several state roads connect the district with these highways.

media

In addition to the national media, the Passauer Neue Presse with the Bayerwald-Bote and the newspaper group Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung with the Viechtacher Anzeiger publish local newspapers in the district.

tourism

development

Tourism in the Regen district was born at the end of the 19th century with the establishment of the Bavarian Forest Association . However, it was not until the 1960s that tourism in the region increased. The number of rental companies rose to the same extent. There are currently around 32,000 beds available in the district.

Parameters

In 2014, around 480,000 holidaymakers visited the district. A total of 2.25 million overnight stays were counted this year. Approx. 15% of the full-time employees in the Regen district work in tourism.

Communities

Landkreis Cham Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Deggendorf Landkreis Freyung-Grafenau Zwiesel Zachenberg Viechtach Teisnach Ruhmannsfelden Rinchnach Regen (Stadt) Prackenbach Patersdorf Lindberg Langdorf Kollnburg Kirchdorf im Wald Kirchberg im Wald Gotteszell Geiersthal Frauenau Drachselsried Böbrach Bodenmais Bischofsmais Bayerisch Eisenstein Arnbruck Achslach TschechienMunicipalities in REG.svg
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(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Cities

  1. Rain (10,988)
  2. Viechtach (8374)
  3. Zwiesel (9306)

Markets

  1. Ground corn (3562)
  2. Ruhmannsfelden (2047)
  3. Teisnach (2978)

Administrative community

  1. Ruhmannsfelden
    with the member communities Achslach, Gotteszell, Ruhmannsfelden (market) and Zachenberg

No unincorporated areas

Other communities

  1. Achslach (939)
  2. Arnbruck (1944)
  3. Bayerisch Eisenstein (1006)
  4. Bischofsmais (3157)
  5. Boebrach (1629)
  6. Drachselsried (2443)
  7. Frauenau (2684)
  8. Geiersthal (2234)
  9. Gotteszell (1213)
  10. Kirchberg i.Wald (4362)
  11. Kirchdorf i.Wald (2100)
  12. Kollnburg (2759)
  13. Langdorf (1800)
  14. Lindberg (2294)
  15. Patersdorf (1751)
  16. Prackenbach (2741)
  17. Rinchnach (3039)
  18. Zachenberg (2060)

Municipalities of the Altlandkreis Regen

Before the beginning of the Bavarian regional reform, the Regen district comprised 26 communities at the end of the 1960s:

The municipality of Bärndorf was incorporated into the city of Regen on April 1, 1962. The Eggenried community followed on July 1, 1964.

Protected areas

The district has 14 nature reserves , three landscape protection areas , 15 FFH areas and at least 50 geotopes designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (as of August 2016).

See also

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the REG distinguishing mark when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old district of Viechtach had license plates with the letter pairs KA to ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 99.

From March 1, 2018, it is possible to receive the VIT of the old district Viechtach .

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Regen  - Collection of pictures, 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. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  4. ↑ a b District election & district council election in the district of Regen 2020 - candidates & results. In: Wahl.info. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Obituary notice on the death of District Administrator Heinz Wölfl , Passauer Neue Presse, August 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ gsc: Railway line Viechtach-Gotteszell: District assembly passes a referendum . PNP , December 15, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  7. ↑ dal: Railway trial operation: District citizens decide on February 8th. PNP , December 19, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  8. ↑ weighed: Liveticker: Viechtach's joy about the vote for the rail test run. PNP , February 8, 2015, accessed February 9, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Quick report on the referendum on the rail test run on February 8, 2015. Regen district, February 8, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the Regen district  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  11. ^ Entry on the Regen district on the Kommunalflaggen.eu page
  12. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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.prognos.com
  13. ↑ City bus timetable
  14. ↑ "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 ).
  15. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria 1964