Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Height :	419 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.94 km 2
Residents:	5685 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	572 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92660
Area code :	09602
License plate :	NEW, ESB , VOH
Community key :	09 3 74 139
City structure:	4 districts
; City administration address :	Stadtplatz 2 ; 92660 Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Website :	www.neustadt-waldnaab.de
Mayor :	Sebastian Dippold ( Social Democratic Party of Germany )
Location of the city of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Neustadt / WN - new castle

Neustadt / WN - town square

Neustadt / WN - old castle

Neustadt an der Waldnaab (officially: Neustadt adWaldnaab ) is the district town of the district of the same name in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Palatinate .

geography

Geographical location

The city is located in the Upper Palatinate Forest in the heart of the Northern Upper Palatinate Forest Nature Park at the confluence of the Raft in the Waldnaab .

Expansion of the urban area

The community Neustadt an der Waldnaab has four districts:

Mountain mill
Muhlberg
Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Radschinmühle

The area of the smallest district town in Bavaria in terms of area is cut up by the Waldnaab and the raft over an area of 9.93 km². The historic old town lies on a gneiss ridge between the two rivers; the newer residential areas have spread out in a semicircle. The districts of Mühlberg and Radschinmühle are, besides the core town, the only independent parts of the municipality only 500 m away. The Bergmühle district has long grown into the city.

Neighboring communities

In the south the independent city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate is neighbor, in the southwest the community Altenstadt an der Waldnaab , the communities Kirchendemenreuth in the west, Theisseil in the southeast and Störnstein in the northeast are further neighbors.

history

Early history

Finds from spring 2012 ( Lydite core stones and flint artifacts ) prove the presence of people in the southwestern city area as early as the End Paleolithic (12,000–10,000 BC) and in the Mesolithic (10,000– approx. 5000 BC).

First mention, late Middle Ages and modern times

Neustadt was first mentioned in a document in 1218 when the nova civitas were pledged to Heinrich von Ortenburg . In 1329, when the country was divided, it was passed to the Wittelsbach Count Palatine near Rhine, who sold it in 1353 to the Bohemian King and Roman Emperor Charles IV ( the Emperor's Land in Bavaria ). After that it had changing fiefdoms. In 1575 Neustadt was sold to the Lobkowitzers . These received non-Bohemian territory (there they were subject to the Bohemian crown ) in the empire , which, although as an exclave and inheritance of the Lobkowitzers, still belonged to the Bavarian imperial circle and later enabled the imperial immediacy of the House of Lobkowitz.

In 1641 the lordships of Neustadt and Störnstein became the imperial princes of Störnstein with a seat and vote in the Regensburg Reichstag. The Confederation of the Rhine led to the dissolution of the smaller territories in Germany and thus also to the end of the principality. In 1807, Prince Lobkowitz sold the remaining rulership rights to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

The first glass factory to be established in Neustadt in 1891 was the Spiegelglashütte of the descendants of the glass master Franz Schrenk - the successor to the Osserhütte, which was closed in the Bavarian Forest in 1890. The entrepreneur and secret councilor Zacharias Frank moved part of his glassworks from the Bavarian Forest to Neustadt in 1898 due to the existing rail connection . This gave Neustadt its second glassworks and with the third one, the Tritschler, Winterhalder & Co. company, the wave of resettlement from the Bavarian Forest came to an end in 1905.

In 1945 and 1946 there was a significant influx of expellees from the neighboring Sudetenland and Silesia. The economic situation of the entire district of Neustadt in comparison to the whole of West Germany - close to the border with Czechoslovakia in the east, an American military training area in the west and without significant tourism - developed negatively up until the 1980s.

Since the fall of the “ Iron Curtain ” and the harsh eastern border with the Czech Republic that fell away from it in 1992, and especially after the EU's eastward expansion in 2004, there has been a clear economic upswing.

Naming

There have been innumerable forms of name over the centuries; some are mentioned here:

1232 Nova civitas
1339 Neustat in front of the forest
1353 Neuenstatt
1463 Neustädtlein
1514 Niuwenstat on the Waldnab
1557 Neuenstätlein
1575 Neustedl
1603 Neustädlein on the Waldnab
1792 Neustadt ad Waldnaab

Religions

According to the 1987 census, 87.2% of the population were Roman Catholic, 10.3% Evangelical Lutheran and 2.5% with or without a denomination.

According to the 2011 census, 74.7% were Roman Catholic and 13.9% were Evangelical Lutheran.

From the 14th century to 1684 there was a Jewish community in Neustadt .

Incorporations

At the request of its residents, the district of Mühlberg was incorporated into the city of Neustadt on April 1, 1972 by decision of the government of the Upper Palatinate from January 30, 1972 from the municipality of Altenstadt an der Waldnaab.
As part of the municipal reform in Bavaria (from 1972 to 1978) there were no changes in the municipal area.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the city grew from 5,511 to 5,727 by 216 inhabitants or 3.9%.

Population development in Neustadt since 1840
	December 1, 1840	1392
	December 1, 1871	1496
	December 1, 1900	1801
	June 16, 1925	3016
	May 17, 1939	3614
	June 6, 1961	5481
	May 27, 1970	5953
	May 25, 1987	5537
	June 30, 1992	5669
	June 30, 1997	6207
	June 30, 2002	6191
	June 30, 2007	5987
	December 31, 2012	5868
	December 31, 2016	5795

politics

City council

The city council consists of the First Mayor and 20 city council members, of which the CSU has eight (-1), the SPD seven and the Free Voters (FW) five (+1) members since the local elections on March 15, 2020 . (In brackets: changes to the 2014 election)

mayor

The first (full-time) mayor is Sebastian Dippold (SPD). His predecessors were Rupert Troppmann (CSU), Gerd Werner (SPD), Anton Binner (CSU) and Hans Trottmann (SPD).

coat of arms

Heraldic coat of arms Description: Red on a silver horse of golden-armed and golden haloed St. Martin, who shares with a silver sword blue coat with the kneeling on green floor naked beggar.
Coat of arms history: Coat of arms management since 1812, 1819, renewed in 1927. The coat of arms is derived from the seal image; the seal guide has been documented since the 14th century.

Town twinning

Working group Neustadt in Europe

Germany Austria Poland Czech Republic Hungary Slovakia NetherlandsNeustadt an der Waldnaab is a founding member of the international city friendship Neustadt in Europe with another 35 cities and municipalities called Neustadt in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and the Netherlands (as of August 2018). Every year since 1979, well over a thousand representatives from the member cities come together for a large Neustadt meeting ; so 2016 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, 2017 in Neustadt b. Coburg, 2018 for the first time in Nowe Miasto nad Pilica, Poland, and in 2019 in Bad Neustadt adSaale.

Since 1991 there has been a school partnership between the Neustadt an der Waldnaab grammar school and the Töröc Ignac grammar school in Gödöllő (about 30 km from Budapest). In the autumn of each school year, around 25 Neustadt high school students in the 10th grade attend school in Hungary and are accommodated with host families. In the spring, the Hungarian students come to Neustadt, where they also live with host families. During their stay, students are offered numerous educational and cultural activities in both Hungary and Bavaria.

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City panorama ⊙

Culture and sights

City parish church St. Georg

Pilgrimage Church of St. Felix

Buildings and monuments

Old Castle of Heidecker (built from 1532 to 1620)
New Palace of Lobkowicz (built 1698-1720)
Baroque garden
Catholic parish church of St. Georg (built around 1689)
Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Felix (1735–1746) with the Franciscan Minorite monastery (1925)
Catholic St. Anna Church ( Mother Anna Church ) in Mühlberg
Catholic Cemetery Church of the Holy Trinity (1662)
Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Church (1975)
Monument protection ensemble Stadtplatz with the character of the 17th century. The narrow sides of the houses with high gables face the street.
In a green area in the south of the city on the Waldnaab are two large memorial stones with the inscriptions “The victims of the world wars 1914–1918 and 1939–1945” and “The dead in their homeland” (Sudetenland).

Museums

The Neustädter Stadtmuseum is divided into four sections: glass, handicrafts and trade, treasures from town houses, churches and monasteries, and city history. A smoke cake, a Christmas crib and wall cabinets with various exhibits complete the offer. Right next to the entrance, the museum visitors can see why Neustadt ad Waldnaab is called the city of the lead crystal . Works of art made of glass give an impression of the skill and artistry of Neustadt's glassmakers and cutters. The showpiece of the collection is an approximately one meter large overlay vase in gold ruby. The pattern of a bowl that only exists three times in the world (the heirs of Franz Josef Strauss, King Hussein of Jordan and the Frank family are the owners) also testifies to masterful art. In addition, there are regular special exhibitions on topics of local history.

music

House music and folk music have tradition and are intensively cultivated. A typical instrument of the glassmaker families in Neustadt is the zither .

Modern Christian Music Band Carpe Diem
Brass band and show band Die Waldnaabtaler
Ensemble CantArt : New sacred songs
City band of the Neustadt an der Waldnaab music school
Church choir of the Catholic parish church of St. Georg
Male Choir Singers Association Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Zither club Neustadt an der Waldnaab with a large zither orchestra and Stubn music
Salon orchestra

Sports

Sports club DJK Neustadt with a sports center and sports facility including five tennis courts
Sports club ASV Neustadt with a sports center and sports facility including three tennis courts
Shooting club Eichenlaub Neustadt with shooting range and shooting ranges
Eisstockfreunde ESF Neustadt with sports center, summer and winter shooting ranges
Chess Association SV Neustadt-Altenstadt e. V.

leisure

Indoor swimming pool
Leisure facility with children's paddling pool and barbecue areas
Jugendtreff Freiheit der Stadt Neustadt in a building of the leisure facility
Children's holiday club of the parish council
Cycling on the Waldnaab cycle path or on a former railway line: the Bockl cycle path begins in Neustadt and is the longest railway cycle path in Bavaria at 52 kilometers. At the same time, it is part of the Paneuropean cycle path Paris - Prague .

regional customs

The historical vigilante group (formerly the “Royal Bavarian vigilante”) is known far beyond the city limits .
The Neustädter Trachtenverein strives to maintain folk traditions.
The amateur theater group Schabernak brings the old tradition of the farm theater back to life.

Regular events

Citizens' festival every third Saturday in July
Georgsmarkt on April 23 or the previous Sunday
Parish fair on the town square every Sunday before the day of national mourning in November
Traditional carnival procession on Mardi Gras Sunday

Culinary specialties

The Dotsch , in which the dough is pressed flat and then processed, is probably derived from datschen, or together . For the Kirchweih ( Dotschkirwa ) there is the Kirwa-Dotsch or Kirwa-Kuchen , a round, flat cake with raisins. Since the 18th century, the Dotsch or Reiberdatschi made from raw potatoes ( potato pancakes ) has also been an important and popular dish.
Fish, especially carp and trout from the numerous ponds around Neustadt and the fish-rich Waldnaab are an integral part of the regional cuisine.
The history of beer in Neustadt is shaped by the Zoigl . For many centuries, the citizens of the city with the right to brew their own beer in the communal brewery . According to a record in the city archives in 1865 there were 57 homeowners with brewing rights. The beer was served in her own Zoigl room . The word Zoigl comes from Zeigl , the indicator . This sign in the form of the brewer's star , the guild symbol of the maltsters and brewers, corresponds to a hexagram or Star of David . It was displayed by those authorized to brew as a reference to the house drink. The communal brewery no longer exists; three Zoigl restaurants get their beer from outside the country.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Breakpoint Neustadt (Waldnaab) at the former local railway to Eslarn with tilting technology - multiple unit of the 612 series

Trunk roads

Neustadt is located on the federal motorway 93 ( Hof - Weiden - Regensburg -Dreieck Holledau ), to which the city is double connected via exit 21b ( Altenstadt ) and via the north and east bypass with junction 21a ( Neustadt ).

railroad

Neustadt lies on the Weiden – Oberkotzau (Naabtalbahn) and Neustadt (Waldnaab) –Eslarn railway lines . The Neustadt (Waldnaab) station on the Naabtalbahn, which was located in the area of the municipality of Altenstadt an der Waldnaab , was closed to passenger traffic on December 9, 2007 and replaced by a stopping point closer to the city on the Neustadt (Waldnaab) –Eslarn railway line , which it was reactivated on the short section. The stop is served by the Nuremberg – Weiden (Upper Palatinate) –Neustadt (Waldnaab) rail link (timetable route 870).

Long-distance cycle paths

Neustadt is located on the Waldnaabtal / Naabtal cycle path from Bärnau to Regensburg . The Bocklradweg branches off from here in Neustadt , with a length of over 50 kilometers, it is the longest railway cycle path in Bavaria. This takes you on the former route of the Neustadt – Eslarn railway via Pleystein and the Tillyschanz border crossing near Eslarn to Pilsen in the Czech Republic . The Bockl cycle path is part of the international Pan-European cycle path from Paris to Prague.

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Neustadt an der Waldnaab

media

The new day is the only regional daily newspaper based in Weiden .

Jobs

The number of employees subject to social security contributions in Neustadt increased from 1367 in 2011 to 1840 in 2016 and has almost reached the level of 2000 (1857). This has reduced the commuter balance from −684 (more outgoing commuters) in 2011 to −333 in 2016. These figures do not include the self-employed or civil servants. Due to the numerous public facilities in Neustadt (district office, schools, police and local government), the city offers significantly more jobs.
The number of people registered as unemployed on average for the year fell from 383 in 2005 to 214 in 2010 and further to 178 in 2016.

Public facilities

Police inspection
Notary
court House
City administration
Administrative community
City Hall
City library
Caritas retirement and nursing home
City campsite

education

Neustadt is an efficient school center and at the same time the most important educational location in the district. In the state and municipal schools in the district town, a total of 2537 pupils will be taught in the 2013/2014 school year.

St. Joseph day care center (municipal sponsorship)
Kindergarten & crèche St. Martin (church sponsorship)
Elementary and middle school (455 students)
Special Education Center St. Felix School (123)
Lobkowitz Secondary School (719)
Grammar school with linguistic, scientific, technological and musical branches (614)
Vocational school center (BSZ) with the three vocational schools for home economics, child care and social care (493) as well as a vocational school with the three training areas home economics, agriculture and gastronomy (112)
"NEW Life" Academy for Health North Upper Palatinate (21 students)
Neustadt Music School V.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The following people were awarded the honorary citizenship of Neustadt:

Awarded on	Honorary citizen	function
July 12, 1853	Baron von Lichtenstern	Lieutenant Colonel and Royal District Judge
1881	Josef Greiner	retired teacher and choir regent
1890	Johann Zrenner	Paris-Vincennes, Rue Lejemtel 5 (formerly Neustadt)
August 30, 1900	Rev. Daubenmerkl	Pastor of the parish Altenstadt / Neustadt
October 1, 1906	Eduard Geiger	Higher Regional Court Councilor, Neustadt
September 26, 1929	Zacharias Frank	Privy councilor and factory owner, Neustadt
June 21, 1927	Adelgundis Benker	Superior of the Poor School Sisters , Neustadt
December 18, 1928	Josef Hauer	District Office Secretary, Neustadt
June 19, 1933	Georg Knorr	Lord Mayor, Munich
April 19, 1958	Josef Ulrich	District President, Regensburg
June 19, 1962	Rev. Max Vetter	Spiritual councilor, parish priest, Neustadt
January 23, 1968	Anton Frank	Graduate economist and factory owner, Neustadt
October 24, 1968	Christian Kreuzer	District Administrator, Neustadt
May 3, 1983	Heinrich Ascherl	Sparkasse director and chronicler, Neustadt
3rd December 1990	Anton Binner	District Administrator, Neustadt

sons and daughters of the town

Norman Braun (born September 14, 1959 in Neustadt; † July 9, 2013 in Munich), Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Ludwig Fuchs , German champion in the long jump in 1930 with 6.49 m.
Franz Gleißner (baptized April 6, 1761 in Neustadt; † September 28, 1818 in Munich), composer, court musician at the Munich court and musicologist. Together with Alois Senefelder, he developed lithographic sheet music printing ; both founded the stone printing company Gleißner & Senefelder together. Gleißner was also commissioned by the publisher André in Offenbach to write the first catalog raisonné of Mozart's compositions, the basis for the later Köchel catalog .
Oswald Hafner (* October 21, 1806; † August 28, 1882), son of the turner Anton Hafner, born in Neustadt, and local poet who died in the poor house, former school prebarand in Kohlberg, in the Upper Main District of the Kingdom of Bavaria . At the age of two he lost an eye, at the age of seven he became an orphan and made a living as a shepherd in Buch near Parkstein and Ilsenbach and as a gardener in Goldbach (Bohemia). In 1823 he published the poetry volume Mixed Poems with 30 works on religious and seasonal topics (printed by JE v. Seidel'schen Offizin, Sulzbach) and in 1838 the volume Poetic Attempts (new edition 2006 by the Neustadt Museum Association). He died in the Neustädter Spital (poor house). In 1984 the Neustadt chronicler Heinrich Ascherl published a reprint of Hafner's mixed poems , supplemented with Hafner's detailed curriculum vitae, self-published by the city of Neustadt .
Adolf Klughardt (born September 26, 1886 in Neustadt, † 1950 in Jena), dentist, university professor in Jena
Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz (born September 7, 1655 in Neustadt, † October 3, 1715 in Vienna), nobleman, principal commissioner and chief steward
Johann Leonhard Mayer (* 1672; † 1741), church builder. He built u. a. the churches on the Eixlberg near Pfreimd (1701), in Thumsenreuth (1715), the Felix chapel in Neustadt (1735) and the parish church of St. Georg in Neustadt (1689). After his death in 1741, his son continued the expansion of the Felix Church, which had already begun.
Philipp Hyazint von Lobkowicz (born May 25, 1680 in Neustadt, † December 21, 1737 in Vienna), Prince of Lobkowitz, Duke of Sagan, owner of the Prince County of Störnstein
Thaddäus Rabusky (born April 6, 1776 in Neustadt, † June 15, 1862 ibid), Neustadt church painter, carver and restorer.
Karl Schmidt German hammer throwing champion in 1924 and European champion in 1924 with 48.36 m.
Heiko Smazal (born January 6, 1974 in Neustadt), German ice hockey player. Smazal played in the 1st Bundesliga / DEL from 1992 to 2007. In 2001 and 2004 he was part of the German national ice hockey team.
Hans-Rainer Trebin (born May 19, 1946 in Neustadt), physicist and university professor. From 1985 to 2012 full professor at the chair for theoretical and applied physics at the University of Stuttgart, managing director of the institute of the same name.

Personalities who have worked on site

Joseph Piehler (born November 25, 1883 in Wernberg; † November 27, 1947 in Neustadt), former chief government inspector at the Neustadt district office, important local researcher and chronicler of Neustadt. His son-in-law Heinrich Ascherl (see above) built on his work as a chronicler. In 1939 he was appointed archivist by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives ; In 1942 he received the medal for German people care . Piehler was also a member of the city council for several years, and from 1934 to 1947 also worked as a church caretaker for the St. Georg Church Foundation.

Rudolf Ismayr (born October 14, 1908 in Landshut; † May 9, 1998 in Marquartstein), was a legal civil servant at the Neustadt district office after the Second World War . He was multiple world champion in weightlifting, won gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932 and took the oath of the athletes at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 .

Max Fischer (born November 25, 1939), painter and sculptor , ran an art school in Neustadt with his wife Lilo. He designed and created many works of art in Neustadt and the surrounding area, including the hospital chapel, the fountains at the special needs school and the city savings bank, the light bloom in front of the town hall and the farewell room in the St. Felix hospice.

literature

Heinrich Ascherl : History of the city and rule Neustadt ad Waldnaab. , 1982
Bernhard Knauer: Neustadt ad Waldnaab. A city to live. , 1993
Felix Mader : The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Second Volume Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Issue IX District Office Neustadt a. W.-N., 1907
Josef Piehler: Chronicle of the city of Neustadt ad Waldnaab , Naab newspaper 1922–1924
Aloysia Rebl: Neustadt an der Waldnaab - Heimatbildband with notes , 1982
Wilhelm Volkert : Neustadt an der Waldnaab and the princes Lobkowitz in negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , Volume 100, p. 175
Hermann Wild: Thaddäus Rabusky a Neustädter painter and restorer , 2018
Ursula Wiechert (Editor): Neustädter Kaleidoskop - Streifights der Stadtgeschichte , 2017