Oberbreitenau

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Landshut House

Remains of the village

Oberbreitenau refers to a plateau in the Upper Bavarian Forest and the desert there , a part of the municipality in the Habischried district of the municipality of Bischofsmais in the Regen district .

The 300 to 500 meter wide plateau, also known as Breitenau for short , lies at a height of over 1000 meters between the Breitenauriegel and the Geißkopf . The heather and moor landscape is characterized by annual rainfall of 1200 to 1400 millimeters, since 1982 the high moor area in the core of the area has been a natural monument.

history

The area called Praittenaw Campus ("Feld Breitenau") by Philipp Apian in the 16th century was cleared by a Degenberg lord residing at Weissenstein Castle in 1585 and nine buildings built.

The mountain farming village of Oberbreitenau existed for 350 years and is also the highest settlement in the Upper Bavarian Forest. A farmer initially owned around 7 hectares of single-mowed meadows on which he could keep ten head of cattle. Usually some grain was grown, especially oats, as well as flax, cabbage and beets. The ash distillery brought a little extra income for the glassworks in the nearby village of Unterbreitenau , but in 1755 the Unterbreitenau glassworks was closed.

In 1816 Oberbreitenau had 12 houses in which 14 families lived, in 1832 80 people lived here. A total of 190.3 hectares were cultivated, an average of 23.8 per yard, plus the municipal corridor with 19.8 hectares. At the 1871 census, the hamlet was part of the Habischried community and had 60 inhabitants. He belonged to the Catholic parish in Bischofsmais and to the district of the school in Bischofsmais.

In the 1920s, the Free State of Bavaria acquired the partly abandoned property. In 1925 Matthias Greil was the last to sell his farm and his share of the communal pasture area to Bavaria. Most of the formerly agricultural land has been reforested. From 1936 to 1939 the Oberbreitenau was used as a glider airfield.

Only the former Greilhof remained. Under the name "Landshuter Haus", it served the Landshut section of the Bavarian Forest Association and, from 1959, the Deggendorf section as a lodging house until it burned down on September 5, 1965. Half of the new building erected in 1969 was managed by the forest association section and the other half by the German Youth Hostel Association . As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the community of Habischried was dissolved at the end of 1971 and incorporated into Bischofsmais on January 1, 1972.

When the youth hostel withdrew in 1998 , the Landshut house was converted into a modern mountain hut in 1999. The ruins of the houses hidden in the Jungschonungen were uncovered again. The moor landscape on the Oberbreitenau is also known for its rare plants, especially the occurrence of the Karlscepter .

The Oberbreitenau can be reached on foot from Unterbreitenau and also with the Geißkopfbahn.

Personalities

Franz Xaver Greil , a member of the Reichstag , was born in Oberbreitenau in 1819.

literature

• Ulrich Pietrusky, Donatus Moosauer, Günther Michler: Lower Bavaria - rediscovered on the fly. A study of the country in 103 colored aerial photographs . 2nd Edition. Morsak, Grafenau 1982, ISBN 3-87553-135-3 .

Web links

Commons : Oberbreitenau  - Collection of Images

• Bayerische Landesbibliothek online - location database
• Bischofsmais Tourist Info: Oberbreitenau - the abandoned village Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 3.3 ″  E
• District Deggendorf: hiking map Rusel-Oberbreitenau with Graflinger valley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regen district: Oberbreitenau ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 611 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized - "Habischried ..., Oberbreitenau, W., zkPf.u. Schule Bischofsmais 5, ₅ kg, z.Post Regen 14, ₅ kg . , 60 pop., 12 buildings, 8 p., 83 rev. ").
3. ^ Homepage of the LSV Deggendorf-Plattling