Münchenreuth (Feilitzsch)

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Munchenreuth
community Feilitzsch
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 558 m above sea level NN
Residents : 305  (Feb. 1, 2005)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 95183
Area code : 09295
Münchenreuth (Bavaria)
Munchenreuth

Location of Münchenreuth in Bavaria

Münchenreuth is a district of the municipality of Feilitzsch in the Upper Franconian district of Hof in Bavaria . The place was incorporated on May 1, 1978.

geography

Saxon – Bavarian boundary stone Grobau – Münchenreuth

Geographical location

The Bavarian side of the Drei-Freistaaten-Stein in Münchenreuther Flur

Münchenreuth is the northernmost part of the municipality of Feilitzsch. It is located north of the town of Hof and east of the village of Mödlareuth on the district road HO 1 on a higher level across from Straßenreuth and Gebersreuth . Due to its location on the border triangle between Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia, Münchenreuth was for years a border town on the German-German border with Thuringia and Saxony . The three free states stone located there marks this special border point where the three free states of Germany meet. The northern and eastern corridors of Münchenreuth are part of the Green Belt Germany nature reserve , which includes the former inner-German border. The Kupferbach flowing through Münchenreuth has its source in Thuringia and passes the state border with Bavaria at the Drei-Freistaaten-Stein. It flows into the Saale . South of the village is the Kreuzlein weekend settlement belonging to Münchenreuth.

Münchenreuth is located in the north of the Hof district and in the Upper Franconian part of the historical Vogtland , which is known as the Bavarian Vogtland . Geographically, the place is at the transition from the Thuringian-Franconian low mountain range to the Central Vogtland hill country .

Neighboring places

Gebersreuth with Straßenreuth
(Thuringia) 		Rough construction with hallway Stöckigt
(Saxony)
Mödlareuth
(Bavaria) / (Thuringia) 		Neighboring communities Gutenfürst , Krebes
(Saxony)
Obertiefendorf , Untertiefendorf Schollenreuth , Unterhartmannsreuth

history

The area around Münchenreuth was already settled in the Neolithic . This is evidenced by a stone ax from this era found in the village, which was probably made from local serpentine . It is now in the Bavarian Vogtland Museum in Hof (Saale) .

Münchenreuth was founded in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights Order in Plauen . History documents prove that an administrative administrator "Dietrich zu Münchenreuth" lived as early as 1302. In the vicinity of today's castle there was probably a tower hill castle with a moat. It served to secure the road connections to Saxony via Grobau and to Thuringia via Misslareuth . Until recently, the square foundations with a side length of 14 meters were recognizable. The Vorwerk Münchenreuth was upstream of the Burgstall Zedtwitz . The place name Münchenreuth refers either to the clearing of the area around Münchenreuth by monks or by a foreman named Münch. In 1390 the chapel "bey Munchenreuthe" was mentioned for the first time. The Church of Münchenreuth was before 1945 branch of the armed parish Misslareuth in Saxony and was due to the division of Germany in 1945 to the parish Töpen . From 1398 the von Zedtwitz family owned the Gut Münchenreuth . Between 1488 and 1604 it belonged to the von Beulwitz family . Further owners were the lords of Reitzenstein , from 1658 Heinrich Wilhelm von Raitenbach , from 1773 Georg von Reitzenstein and from 1775 again the lords von Feilitzsch.

Between the 12th and 14th centuries, Münchenreuth and the Regnitzland belonged to the administrative area of ​​the Vögte von Weida , which is why the name Bayerisches Vogtland is also used for this area today . In 1373 they sold their claims to the Burgraviate of Nuremberg , from whose Upper Mountain portion the Principality of Bayreuth later developed. From 1498 onwards, Münchenreuth was part of the “Hof military district”, from which the Hof governorate was formed in the first half of the 16th century . Münchenreuth belonged to the hospital, caste, monastery and city bailiff's office in Hof. With the Principality of Bayreuth, Münchenreuth fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1792 , then to France and in 1810 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Münchenreuth assigned this to the Mainkreis , which was designated as Obermainkreis from 1817 and as Upper Franconia from 1838 . Münchenreuth has belonged to the Free State of Bavaria since 1918 and to the district of Hof since 1939.

Due to the division of Germany after 1945, Münchenreuth was on the edge of the GDR zone . Thus the place was cut off from its northern and eastern neighbors in Saxony and Thuringia. On May 1, 1978, Münchenreuth was incorporated into the Feilitzsch community.

Due to the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the inner-German border was dismantled after 1989 and its conversion into a special eco-zone as a green belt . This means that the triangle of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia is accessible from all three sides again. There, on May 11, 2007, the Three Free State Stone was consecrated as a cultural monument. On February 1, 2005, 305 people lived in the village. In the agricultural town there is a farmer's chapel and the Gut Münchenreuth residential and nursing home in the former manor.

Attractions

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle and history of the Feilitzsch community
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 688 .
  3. ^ Website of the Gut Münchenreuth nursing home