Mainburg

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Mainburg
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '  N , 11 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Bavaria
County : Kelheim
Height : 422 m above sea level NHN
Area : 61.59 km 2
Residents: 15,163 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 246 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 84048
Area code : 08751
License plate : KEH, MAY , PAR , RID, ROL
Community key : 09 2 73 147
LOCODE : DE MNB

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 1–4
84048 Mainburg
Website : www.mainburg.de
Mayor : Helmut Fichtner ( Free Voters )
Location of the city of Mainburg in the Kelheim district
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Mainburg is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim .

The origin of the name has not yet been clearly established. Philipp Apian derived the name from Marrenberg (chestnut mountain), Michael Wening from Maien (birch trees) - the coat of arms with the tree speaks for the first interpretation (proven since 1374). The name Mainburg could also have been derived from Count Mainhard von Rotteneck , who built the castle.

geography

Old town with Salvatorberg
City view from Salvatorberg
The evenings at Mainburg

Geographical location

The city is located on the Abens river in the center of the Hallertau , the largest contiguous hop-growing area in the world, and is therefore also known as the middle center or heart of the Hallertau .

Local division

There are the districts of Aignerhof, Aufhausen , Auhof, Axenhofen, Bachmühle, Beslmühle, Brandmühle, Dirschengrub, Ebrantshausen , Frauenberg, Götzenberg, Grabmühle, Gschwellberg, Gschwellhof, Gumpertshofen, Haid, Holzmannshausen, Kleingundertshausen, Köglzburg, Lindkirchen , Leitenbach, Leuchtenkirchen Massenhausen, Meilenhausen, Meilenhofen , Mittermühle, Neumühle, Oberempfenbach, Obermühle, Öchslhof, Petermühle, Pettenhof, Plankmühle, Puttenhausen, Ried, Rohnstorf, Rothmühle, Sandelzhausen , Seemühle, Steinbach , Straßhof, Streichmühle, Unterempfenbach, Unterwangenbach, Wambach, Weihmenühle.

geology

There are extensive bentonite deposits near Mainburg.

history

Hop metropolis

At the end of the 14th century, Duke Stephan II of Bavaria-Ingolstadt granted the right to hold annual markets on St. Margaret's Day and St. Gall's Day . Mainburg was a market town for centuries until it was given the right to seal hops in 1847.

Elevated to town in 1954, the area of ​​the former district town of Mainburg increased tenfold in the course of the area reforms of the 1970s through the incorporation of the formerly independent communities Ebrantshausen, Holzmannshausen, Lindkirchen, Oberempfenbach, Steinbach and Sandelzhausen.

Today Mainburg is the cultural and social center of the region.

Historic city center

The architectural center of the city is the market square with the historic town hall, the Liebfrauenkirche and the Marienbrunnen, one of the city's landmarks. The town hall, with its beautiful gable facade, the arched arcades and the bay tower, was built in 1756 after the old town hall burned down at this point. In earlier times, the building was still used for civic arrest, later a school class, shops on the ground floor, the Schranne (the grain market) and, until 1964, the hop scale.

Emergence

The city of Mainburg in its earlier form before the incorporation from 1972 onwards developed from four settlement centers, namely Schleißbach, Englmarsdorf, Mainburg and Schüsselhausen. Schleißbach, already mentioned in 825 as "Slegelpach" for the first time, located on the heights of the western Abenstal, was an independent parish with a church consecrated to St. Laurentius and was lordly dependent on the bishopric of Freising . In 1272, Schleissbach came into the possession of the Wittelsbach Duke Ludwig II through an exchange ; shortly afterwards it was incorporated into the diocese of Regensburg . The second core of the settlement emerged around 1220, when Count Meinhard von Rotteneck built the Mainburg fortress opposite on the so-called Hofberg, on the eastern hill of the Abenstal valley. The last Lord of Rotteneck, the Regensburg Bishop Heinrich II. Von Rotteneck , sold the Rotteneck Castle and all its possessions, including the Mainburg Fortress, to Duke Ludwig II on August 21, 1279 in favor of his cathedral church. In Schüsselhausen, the third center of the settlement in the river valley, there is a documentary mention of a mill that the duke could cultivate. The uniform ownership structure in favor of the Wittelsbach rulers should have made it possible to merge the three individual settlements into one community.

The Mainburg market in today's Niederbayern district was a nursing office before 1800 and belonged to the Munich Rent Office of the Electorate of Bavaria. Mainburg had a market court with extensive magistrate rights. In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

At the end of the Second World War , the attempt by a citizen of Ebrantshausen to leave the place to the US troops without a fight with a white flag on the church was the undoing of the Catholic pastor beneficiary Augustin Wagner . He was denounced and shot on April 28, 1945 by members of the Waffen SS . At the murder site in a forest between Holzmannshausen and Meilenhausen , the Wagner chapel was built in 1955 in his memory .

In 1954 Mainburg was elevated to the status of a city. In the course of the regional reform in Bavaria , Mainburg lost its status as a district town on July 1, 1972. Like most of the communities in the Altlandkreis , Mainburg was incorporated into the Kelheim district.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Ebrantshausen (until 1865 Ebertshausen ) and Sandelzhausen were incorporated. Holzmannshausen followed on January 1, 1976. Lindkirchen with the Meilenhofen incorporated on January 1, 1972, Oberempfenbach and Steinbach were added on January 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the population increased from 10,867 to 15,241 by 4,374 inhabitants or 40.3%.

politics

The Mainburg town hall

City council

The local elections on March 15, 2020 led to the following result:

list CSU SPD FDP FWM 1 JLM 2 SLU 3 ÖDP Green LZM total
% 36.66 6.88 4.65 19.99 4.06 11.58 10.10 4.47 1.62 100
Seats 9 2 1 5 1 3 2 1 0 24
+ / - + 2 - 1 ± 0 + 1 - 2nd - 1 ± 0 + 1 -

1 Free Voters Mainburg     2 Young List Mainburg     3 Stadt Land Union

Ebrantshausen and Holzmannshausen are represented on the city council by local spokesmen .

mayor

With an election result of over 67% in 2008, Josef Reiser from the City of Land Union (SLU) replaced Josef Egger (FWG) as 1st Mayor, who was in office from 1990 to 2008 and was no longer running.

Administrative community Mainburg

Mainburg is the seat, but not a member of the Mainburg Administrative Community .

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Pauliner Monastery Mainburg

Attractions

On the Salvatorberg above the town hall stands the Mainburg monastery with its baroque church of St. Peter and Paul .

Churches

  • Catholic parish church
    to Our Lady

  • Catholic City Parish Church
    To Our Lady
    Interior

  • Catholic parish church of
    St. Laurentius

  • Catholic Salvator
    Church of St. Peter and Paul

  • Catholic Salvatorkirche
    St. Peter and Paul
    interior

  • Evangelical Church of the Redeemer

  • Evangelical Church of the Redeemer interior

Theaters and museums

Mainburg City Museum
  • The LSK-Theater Mainburg offers productions in April and November as well as a children's theater at Christmas time and an open-air theater in June.
  • Hallertau local history and hop museum

Regular events

  • Hop Festival: on the second weekend in July (with iron market)
  • Old town festival: mid-August
  • Mainburger Gallimarkt : on the second weekend in October (with an agricultural exhibition)
  • Christkindlmarkt (second weekend in Advent)

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Three large hop processing and trading companies have branches in Mainburg. The heating system manufacturer Wolf and the special shoe manufacturer Haix (especially fire fighting boots) are based in Mainburg. Mainburg is one of the leading centers of the graphics industry with printing companies such as Böhm & Partner Druckerei GmbH and Pinsker Druck & Medien GmbH. The Ziegler Bräu , a beer brewery with tradition since 1892, still exists today .

media

MAIradio is the internet radio of the city of Mainburg produced by young people under the patronage of the first mayor Josef Reiser.

education

Memorial plaque for Franz Xaver Gabelsberger in Mainburg

The Gabelsberger-Gymnasium Mainburg is a scientific-technological, linguistic, economic and social science high school. With 1059 students and 69 teachers (as of the 2017/18 school year) it has become one of the largest schools in the Lower Bavaria district. The school was named in 1968 after Franz Xaver Gabelsberger , the inventor of the shorthand. The Gabelsberger family had lived here since 1636, the paternal grandfather came from Mainburg.

There has been a secondary school in Mainburg since the 2012/2013 school year, which started with two fifth grades and has been fully expanded since the 2017/18 school year (grades five to ten) and offers three elective subjects. 339 students were taught by 21 teachers (school year 2017/18).

The Hallertau Middle School in Mainburg is the largest middle school in the administrative region of Lower Bavaria; in the school year 2017/18 493 pupils were taught by 45 teachers; there are bound and open all-day classes.

There are primary schools in Mainburg and Sandelzhausen in the city.

There are also the Mainburg vocational schools for nursing and nursing assistance of the Institute for Education, Training and Continuing Education in Health Care eV

traffic

Mainburg is located near the A 93 Munich – Regensburg motorway and is connected to Abensberg and Freising via the B 301 federal road, which is referred to in sections as the Deutsche Hopfenstraße .

Since 1895 Mainburg was the terminus and operational center of the Hallertau local railway . Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1969 and replaced by rail buses . Today there are bus connections from Mainburg with the MVV lines 602/603 to Freising and 683 to Moosburg as well as several lines of the Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH (RBO) in the direction of Abensberg , Kelheim and Landshut .

After the railway line, which was still used for freight traffic until 1995, was closed, parts of the route were converted into bicycle paths, e.g. B. the Hallertau hop tour .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Honorary citizen

  • Hans Bachner (1910–1990), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit , honorary citizen
  • Alfons Brandl (1924–2011), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, honorary citizen

Web links

Commons : Mainburg  - Collection of images, 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. ^ Greetings from the First Mayor - City of Mainburg in the Hallertau hop country. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
  3. ^ Joseph Anton Eisenmann: Topo-geographical-statistical lexicon of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Erlangen 1832. in Google book search
  4. ^ Johann Baptist Prechtl : History of the four markets Au, Wolnzach, Mainburg and Nandlstadt in the Hallertau. Freising 1864.
  5. ↑ Joseph Maria Ritz: The art monuments of Lower Bavaria. XVIII: District Office Mainburg. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1928 in the Google book search
  6. ^ Hans Detter: Mainburgs Heimatgeschichte. Pinsker Verlag, Mainburg 1974, ISBN 3-920746-15-6 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Hubert Freilinger: Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Issue 46. Ed. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1977, p. 272 ​​ff. In the Google book search
  8. ^ Werner Vitzthum, Günther Hastreiter: Mainburg. Heart of the Hallertau. Pinsker Verlag, Mainburg 1991, ISBN 3-920746-39-2 .
  9. ^ Hans Winkelmeier: Mainburg history and stories. Pinsker Verlag, Mainburg 2014.
  10. ↑ Adam Rottler: Abensberg through the ages. Self-published, Abensberg 1972, p. 50.
  11. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 162.
  12. ↑ mainburg.de: Life in Mainburg
  13. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 516 .
  14. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 610 and 611 .
  15. ↑ City Council. Accessed June 2015 .
  16. ↑ mainburg.de: twin cities
  17. ↑ pfarrei-mainburg.de: History of the Mainburg parish church ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Hallertauer Heimat- und Hopfenmuseum Mainburg
  19. ↑ MAIradio - City Radio by and for young people
  20. ↑ Train bus instead of local train. Hallertauer Lokalbahnverein eV, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Chronicle of the Holledauer Bockerl. Alois Graßl, accessed on July 4, 2020 .