Bad Neualbenreuth

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Tirschenreuth
Height :	547 m above sea level NHN
Area :	50.14 km 2
Residents:	1348 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	95698
Area code :	09638
License plate :	TIR, KEM
Community key :	09 3 77 142
Market structure:	22 districts
; Market administration address :	Marktplatz 5 ; 95698 Bad Neualbenreuth
Website :	www.neualbenreuth.de
First Mayor :	Klaus Meyer ( CSU )
Location of the Bad Neualbenreuth market in the Tirschenreuth district

Bad Neualbenreuth (Bavarian: Neialwaraad) is a market in the east of the Upper Palatinate district of Tirschenreuth . It borders the Czech Republic and is a state-approved spa .

geography

geology

A circular structure with a diameter of 300 m in the municipality is considered by geologists to be the remains of a former volcano; Drilling in April 2015 confirmed an assumed age of 200,000 years and the thesis that it is the youngest volcano in Bavaria. A monogenetic volcanic eruption created a maar that filled with water and then formed the Bad Neualbenreuther high moor after silting up . Not far away is the Eisenbühl volcano and the maar near Mýtina (Altalbenreuth) in Czech territory .

Community structure

The political municipality has 22 officially named municipal parts:

history

Refuge at the border crossing to the Czech Republic ⊙

Overview of historical development

Guest information at the market square ⊙

In 1284 the name Neualbenreuth appeared for the first time in a parish directory, which made it possible to differentiate between Altalbenreuth and Neualbenreuth. Before that, the place name was Albenreuth. Since Neualbenreuth was founded, there has been a centuries-long historical connection between the now-Czech, almost desolate neighboring town of Altalbenreuth. In the middle of the 14th century Neualbenreuth also became subordinate to the magistrate of the city of Eger (Czech: Cheb), paid interest (fraiste) and robbed , after the Waldsassen monastery had sold the place with its income to the city of Eger, a behavior common in the Frais area . After a few years, Neualbenreuth came back into the possession of the Waldsassen monastery and was expanded as a parish and school location. From the 16th to the 19th century, the jurisdiction changed annually between the Waldsassen monastery and the city of Eger . Neualbenreuth was a so-called mixed village in the special legal area of the Frais.

Incorporations

On April 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Wernersreuth was incorporated. Ottengrün joined the company on July 1, 1972.

Sibyllenbad

Since 1989, the Sibyllenbad district has developed into a health center with a spa center, spa gardens, the Maiersreuth bathhouse, a so-called bathing temple and a therapy path, which was officially recognized as a mineral spring spa in 1998. From then on Neualbenreuth was allowed to call itself a state-recognized resort. On November 13, 2019, Neualbenreuth was recognized as the second spa in the Upper Palatinate and has since been allowed to use the title spa and the name Bad Neualbenreuth.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 1458 to 1343 by 115 or 7.9%.

politics

Municipal council

town hall

Since the local elections on March 16, 2014, the first mayor of the community has been the banking economist and former second mayor Klaus Meyer of the CSU. The municipal council has twelve members. In the 2014 to 2020 electoral term, they are distributed over the following lists:

CSU / CWG (Christian Voting Association): eight seats
SPD / Free Voters : four seats

coat of arms

Bad Neualbenreuth has had a coat of arms in red and white since 1930. When designing the coat of arms, the connection between Neualbenreuth and the city of Eger and the Waldsassen monastery was heraldically symbolic. In the coat of arms, the red dragon in the upper half indicates the family of the Diepoldinger Rapotonen , margraves in Nordgau (Bavaria) and founder of the Waldsassen monastery . In the lower half of the coat of arms a white slanting grid symbolizes the relationship to the former imperial city of Eger, today's Cheb in the Czech Republic .

Attractions

Buildings

St. Laurentius and Market Square

Bad Neualbenreuth is located in the hilly landscape around the 939 meter high Tillenberg , which was once calculated as the center of Europe . In the village, the impressively designed half-timbered houses in the Egerland half-timbered house style stand out, making the market square a place worth seeing in the local architecture in the Upper Palatinate . This architectural style is also found in other places in the Egerland and the former Stiftland
The Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius from the 18th century
The legend fountain in front of the town hall on the market square, designed by the sculptor Günter Mauermann from Weiden. The central theme of the art object is the nearby Tillenberg on the border with the Czech Republic. The multi-openwork stone sculpture contains eight different mythical and fairytale characters: in addition to the legendary fortune teller Sibylle von Prag (namesake of the local spa), dwarfs, mountain spirits and various other motifs from the regional world of legends, for example the mysterious Tillenstadt.
Hardeck Castle , one of the former summer residences of the abbots of the Waldsassen monastery

All Saints Church ⊙

All Saints Church west of Wernersreuth from the early 18th century. The All Saints Church is already on the territory of the neighboring community of Leonberg , but belongs to the parish of Wernersreuth.
Alter Herrgott chapel in the Eger Forest south of Neualbenreuth
Kleine Kappl , a pilgrimage church near Ottengrün .
Sibyllenbad , a mineral spring spa

Sights in and around Bad Neualbenreuth
Spring in
Bad Neualbenreuth
Egerland half-timbered house in
Bad Neualbenreuth
Detail from the Sagenbrunnen, Tillenstadt
Grenzlandturm
with restoration
Small Kappl
near Ottengrün ⊙49.970097222222 12.426833333333
Shell construction of a half-timbered house
May 2013 ⊙48.202038 12.441925
Wayside cross
on Zollstrasse ⊙49.985454 12.444115
Cemetery chapel in
Bad Neualbenreuth

Surroundings of the place

In the area of the municipality of Bad Neualbenreuth lies the 634 hectare Eger city forest , a property of the city of Eger from the time of the former Frais area , to which the successor city of Cheb in the Czech Republic asserts legal claims. The "City of Eger" is entered as the owner in the responsible land register in Tirschenreuth . From 1965 to 2012 an institution of the Federal Republic of Germany managed this forest area in trust. An overview of the legal situation in: Jürgen Massopust: The case law of the Bavarian Supreme Court on the question of ownership of the Egerer Stadtwald, inaugural dissertation of the University of Würzburg, 1977. A return to the city of Cheb is controversial. There is a foundation for the administration of the city forest.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Bad Neualbenreuth

freetime and sports

Hiking destinations

Morning marketplace ⊙

In the extensive forests of the Upper Palatinate Forest , which begins near Bad Neualbenreuth, there are many hiking destinations that are well worth seeing:

Muglbach waterfall

Remains of the giant beech near Altmugl

Nigerl beech , a mighty giant tree

Kastanienallee between Hardeck Castle and Sibyllenbad

Grenzlandturm , an observation tower with a wide view over the Egerland and the Stiftland

Border crossing for pedestrians to Mýtina , the former Altalbenreuth in the Czech Republic

Border crossing for pedestrians to Hrozňatov with the castle and pilgrimage church Maria Loreto , part of Via Porta

Summit of the 939 m high Tillenberg with the center of Europe and the Königsstein

Železná hůrka (Eisenbühl) near Altalbenreuth, an extinct volcano in western Bohemia

Mighty rock formation of the Ringelfelsen on the north-east slope of the Heidelberg

Sports

Near Ottengrün and Sibyllenbad is the GC Stiftland e. V.

traffic

Neualbenreuth is on the Euregio Egrensis long-distance cycle path .

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Bad Neualbenreuth - travel guide

Official website of the municipality
Entry on the coat of arms of Bad Neualbenreuth in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Bad Neualbenreuth: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
^ Community Neualbenreuth: Market community council. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
^ André Jahnke: Volcanic eruption in the Upper Palatinate not long ago. Welt online, April 9, 2015, accessed April 9, 2015 .
↑ Geo-Newsletter Bavaria No. 28 / LfU-Bohr confirms recent volcanism in northeast Bavaria. (PDF) Bavarian State Office for the Environment, August 29, 2015, accessed on August 31, 2018 .
↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111108/152303&attr=OBJ&val= 1091
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 580 .
^ Martin Maier: Neualbenreuth becomes Bad Neualbenreuth. In: Upper Palatinate. November 13, 2019. From ONetz.de, accessed December 8, 2019.
↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberpfalz/egerer-stadtwald-100.html ( Memento from December 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] Community Neualbenreuth: Market community council. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .

[3] André Jahnke: Volcanic eruption in the Upper Palatinate not long ago. Welt online, April 9, 2015, accessed April 9, 2015 .

[4] Geo-Newsletter Bavaria No. 28 / LfU-Bohr confirms recent volcanism in northeast Bavaria. (PDF) Bavarian State Office for the Environment, August 29, 2015, accessed on August 31, 2018 .

[5] ttp://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=+20111108/152303&attr=OBJ&val= 1091

[6] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 580 .

[7] Martin Maier: Neualbenreuth becomes Bad Neualbenreuth. In: Upper Palatinate. November 13, 2019. From ONetz.de, accessed December 8, 2019.

[8] ttp://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberpfalz/egerer-stadtwald-100.html ( Memento from December 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk