Lintach (Freudenberg)

Lintach Community Freudenberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 14 "  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 26"  E
Height :	445 m
Residents :	737  (Jan. 2018)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1971
Postal code :	92272
Area code :	09627
Lintach (in the background the Johannisberg)

St. Walburga Church in Lintach

The village of Lintach is located about six kilometers east of Amberg in the Fensterbach valley on the western foothills of the Upper Palatinate Forest in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach . On April 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality became part of the Freudenberg municipality . The village currently has 726 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2016)

history

Lintach was first mentioned in a document on July 2, 1011. Excavations in the vicinity of the Church of St. Walburga, however, revealed a burial ground from the late 7th and 8th centuries. The place name changed over the centuries from Lintawa, Lintaha, Linta to Lintach.

Buildings

Today's cath. St. Walburga Church was built in 1735/36 and is one of the most beautiful baroque churches in the area. The interior impresses with the imposing high altar , the barrel vault , the finest stucco work and three valuable Gothic figures: St. Nicholas from the 15th century, St. Walburga and St. Mary with the baby Jesus. The organ case comes from Funtsch (1746), it contains a work by Steinmeyer (8 / I / P, 1901). It was developed by Rainer Kilbert supplemented / honey Hausen to a built-in behind the high altar choir organ (from Fuchsmühl, Binder 7 / I 1907), the only one of its kind in Amberg-Sulzbach.

The upper castle , a high, two-storey gable building, is built over a Gothic core. The Rorenstätter sat there in the 15th century and the Vestenbergs in the 16th century . Today the castle is privately owned and has been extensively renovated by the owner.

The lower castle , with a spiral staircase in the tower and bay window , was inhabited for almost 300 years from 1625 by the old Franconian noble family of Lochner von Hüttenbach . In 1931 a fire destroyed large parts of the building. These were restored by the current owner based on the historical model and the entire castle was also lovingly renovated.

coat of arms

Since March 2010 Lintach has had a coat of arms in the form of a split shield : on the left the branch of a linden tree ; on the right the church; below the curved tip with stylized grassland and a stream. The linden tree and the watercourse indicate the name: Lintach (the ending -ach in place names means a settlement on a watercourse).

Significant people

• Professor Ferdinand Haberl (born March 15, 1906 in Lintach; † July 3, 1985 in Regensburg ), prelate , composer, director of the Regensburg church music school , holder of the Bavarian Order of Merit (1972) and the City of Regensburg's Culture Prize (1976).

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. 419 .
2. ^ Frank Feuerhahn, Eleonore Wintergerst, A local cemetery with early medieval burials in Lintach. The archaeological year in Bavaria 2002, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 92–93.

Web links

Commons : Lintach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the village of Lintach
• Website on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary
• Aerial photos of Lintach