March (rain)

March City rain Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	648 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	94209
Area code :	09921
The parish church of St. Peter and Paul

March is a parish village incorporated in the town of Regen in the Bavarian Forest in 1978 on Bundesstraße 85 with approx. 740 inhabitants.

geography

The place used to be very agricultural and is now predominantly the residence of commuters who are employed in the surrounding cities ( Regen (city) , Viechtach , Deggendorf , Zwiesel ).

history

March was first mentioned in 1232. It was on the eastern border of the domain of the Counts of Bogen , which later became a court, district and district border at the gates of Regen. At least since 1400 it had been a Hofmark , whose castle, according to a record from 1606, no longer existed at that time.

Around 1742 March was threatened by the Pandours . The Pandurensteig that leads past the village still reminds of this today. In 1821 Baron von Hafenbrädl sold the March and Zell patrimonial courts to Count Montgelas, Minister of State . After five years he sold it to the knight Dall'Armi. In 1828 the Kingdom of Bavaria acquired the Hofmark.

With the end of the Second World War , many refugees from the Sudetenland and Bohemia settled in the place . At about the same time, the American armed forces came to March. They built their "Camp May" in a nearby forest, alluding to the place name March, which means March in English.

With the incorporation of the Viechtach district into the Regen district in 1972, the boundary between March and Regen disappeared. On May 1, 1978, as part of the municipal reform, the municipality was dissolved and incorporated into the city of Regen. Only the border between the Diocese of Passau and the Diocese of Regensburg still separates the current district from the city of Regen.

With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc , the Americans finally withdrew in the early 1990s. Their camp was soon converted into a refugee and asylum seeker home to cope with the growing flow of refugees from war zones in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Kosovo , Afghanistan, etc.

Culture and sights

The portal of the parish church

• The Catholic village church is consecrated to Saints Peter and Paul and defines the townscape with its onion dome . It was built from 1905 to 1907. The frescoes in the choir: Christ with the sacrament of the altar and apostles, in the nave: Storm on the lake, Pauli conversion, King David with angels, 12 medallions of saints are by the neo-baroque painter Josef Wittmann from 1934.
• The annual highlight in village life is the parish fair - popularly known as Kirwa - which is organized by the local volunteer fire brigade and the March sports club. This is celebrated at the end of June from Friday to Monday during the patronage of the church "Peter and Paul".
• More traditional customs are the typical local Sonnwendfeuer and the Wolf expelling the night before St. Martin .

traffic

Not far from the village is the Triefenried stop of the forest railway from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein . The federal highway 85 passes March in the immediate vicinity. The regional road REG 5 also runs through March.

literature

• Ulrich Pietrusky, Donatus Moosauer: The Bavarian Forest - rediscovered in flight . Verlag Morsak, Grafenau 1985, ISBN 3-87553-228-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 622 .