Neustift (Ortenburg)

Neustift Ortenburg market Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 40 ″  E
Height :	357 m
Residents :	470  (2015)
Postal code :	94496
Area code :	08542
Location of Neustift in Bavaria
View of Neustift near Ortenburg

Neustift is a district of the Ortenburg market in the Bavarian district of Passau .

location

Neustift is located in the Wolfachtal about four kilometers north of Ortenburg, seven kilometers south of Vilshofen on the Danube and 20 km west of Passau .

history

Very little is known of Neustift's earlier history. It belonged to the Vilshofen collegiate monastery , in whose books it is mentioned in 1542 and 1597. In the year of conscription in 1752, Neustift is mentioned as part of the Hitzling chairmanship with five properties . Two single-shift subjects belonged to Hofmark Münchsdorf. Most of the time the farm was under the rule of the Ortenburg counts .

It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that Neustift grew out of scattered hamlets and farmsteads into an open village unit without a settlement center. Since 1882, when the Niederbayerischen Schotterwerke started to quarry granite, the number of inhabitants has grown steadily.

In the 1920s, numerous small settlers settled in Neustift. In 1922 the monastery of St. Scholastika Neustift was founded here by Benedictine Sisters of Adoration . The largest employer is the Niederbayerische Schotterwerke quarry with open-cast mining. The place is opened up for the rail freight traffic by the Wolfachtalbahn .

In 1926 residents of Neustift built a school building with a teacher's apartment at their own expense, especially the quarry owner Georg Seil. Because of the proximity of the ever-growing quarry, especially because of the danger of blasting, a new school building was built in 1963/1964. In the course of the school reform, the school was downgraded to a primary school in 1971.

Neustift was part of the municipality of Iglbach until the municipal reform in Bavaria , or from October 1, 1970 Wolfachau , before it was incorporated into the municipality of Ortenburg on May 1, 1978.

Attractions

• Parish Church of Mater Dolorosa. The late Gothic building was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century, the west tower was built in 1639.
• In Neustift is the St. Scholastika Neustift Monastery , which is the motherhouse of the Bavarian Province of Benedictine Sisters of Adoration in Germany. The monastery runs the guest house "Geistlichezelle", which is often used by tourists as a place of rest for a few days. In addition, opposite the monastery and the fire station is the granite park, which was newly created in 2014/2015 and tells the story of granite mining and the resulting settlement in Neustift. The famous Via Nova pilgrimage route also leads through Neustift .

education

There are two schools and a kindergarten in Neustift, and the St. Scholastika Neustift monastery is responsible for the secondary school and the kindergarten.

• Columba-Neef-Realschule Neustift
• Elementary school Neustift
• Catholic kindergarten St. Martin Neustift

societies

Neustift has a large and good club life that is organized in the following clubs:

• Neustift volunteer fire brigade
• DJK-FC Neustift
• Catholic rural youth in Neustift
• Asphalt Club Neustift
• Neustift-Blindham Warrior and Soldier Association
• Friends of the Neustift primary school
• Choral Society Neustift
• Catholic women's association Neustift
• Association of friends and sponsors of the Columba-Neef-Realschule Neustift eV
• Neustift Water Supply Association

literature

• Marktgemeinde Ortenburg: Bürgerschrift , Ortenburg 1994, p. 56 f.
• Benedictine Sisters of Adoration (Ed.): 1851-2001 Benedictine Sisters of Adoration. Festschrift for the centenary of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration . Passau 2001
• Benedictine Sisters of Adoration (Ed.): Annual Report of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration . Annually published since 1924 by the Bavarian Province and published in large numbers on events in the Province and Congregation.
• Friedrich Verena: The Benedictine Sisters of the Adoration of Bellemagny / Dijon - Vienna - Neustift . Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2001, ISBN 978-3-89643-143-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 586 .
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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 620 .