Pölling (Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate)

Polling City of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 28 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	436 m
Residents :	2636 (2012)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
	Pölling, view from the southwest

Pölling is a district of the large district town of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . Until the municipal reform in 1972, the place was the administrative seat of the former municipality of Pölling.

location

Pölling is located at an altitude of 436 m west of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate. The town is bordered in the south by the Nuremberg – Neumarkt – Regensburg railway line , in the east by the Münchener Ring bypass and in the north by Bundesstraße 8 . The Maierbach, which rises on the eastern slope of the Dillberg, flows through the district from west to east and flows into the Schwarzach in Neumarkt .

Pölling developed into a typical clustered village that developed around the church of St. Martin. From around 1950 the place grew to the east.

history

3000 BC Until 1000 AD

Various excavations in the Neumarkt basin, including in the area of today's Pölling, document a long history of settlement at least since the Stone Age. Bronze Age barrows were discovered in Holzheim , a ring wall system from the Iron Age is located near Rittershof.

While the Romans penetrated into southern Bavaria from around 100 AD, the area around Neumarkt was settled by a tribe of the Narists . Various coin finds from the district document trade relations with the Romans south of the Limes .

In 488 the Romans left Bavaria and the country was settled by the Bavarians . From 806 the Nordgau was part of the Franconian Empire, the first royal courts emerged, for example in Lauterhofen . The historian Heinrich Löwenthal wrote in 1805 that a document found in the monastery of Sankt Emmeram in Regensburg describes the founding of Pölling in 976 by a certain Polo. This information is no longer verifiable.

1000 to 1500

The first documentary mention of Pölling, however, can be clearly documented: a Mazil de Poling is mentioned in a document from the St. Emmeran Monastery in 1068 . Around 1130, the city of Neumarkt was built east of Pölling. In 1181 Otto I of Bavaria received homage from local noblemen in Neumarkt, including that of a Wigbold von Bellingen . From 1252, Pölling, previously ruled by the Wolfsteiners , belonged to the Seligenporten monastery. The neighboring Rittershof was first mentioned in 1330. In 1331 all possessions around Neumarkt fell to the Wittelsbach family , from 1410 Neumarkt was the seat of the Wittelsbach line Palatinate-Neumarkt .

1500 to 1900

In the summer of 1504, the Landshut War of Succession raged in large parts of Bavaria . During an unsuccessful siege of Neumarkt by imperial troops from Nuremberg, Pölling was sacked and set on fire on August 1st. In 1545 the Reformation was introduced in Pölling . In the Thirty Years' War , Pölling became Catholic again from 1626 , but was occupied by the Swedes in 1634 and reformed again. It was not until 1650 that Pölling became Catholic again. In 1796, Neumarkt was occupied by French troops under General Bernadotte during the coalition wars. Pölling was again looted and set on fire.

In 1806 Pölling fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1824 the church received a new steeple, in 1833 a schoolhouse was built by the community. In 1871 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. In the same year the Nuremberg – Neumarkt railway was completed and in 1873 extended to Regensburg. The Pölling halt was not opened until May 1, 1896.

1900 until today

The industrialization, which meanwhile also expanded in Neumarkt, did not reach Pölling, it remained a farming village even at the beginning of the 20th century. The first public telephone booth was installed in 1905, and in 1906 the construction of a water supply began. In the winter of 1923/1924 there was electric light in Pölling for the first time, and from 1928 the streets were also illuminated. In 1934 the parish church was rebuilt. During the Second World War , 8 houses and 15 barns were damaged or destroyed in Pölling, and more than 100 people lost their lives. In April 1945, Pölling was shot at by American troops with artillery from Berg near Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . Although there were still Hungarian SS units in Pölling, two Pöllingers set out on foot for Berg on April 17, 1945, asked for the fire to be stopped and promised that Pölling would be handed over without resistance. The SS troops fled when the Americans approached, a skirmish would have resulted in the execution of the two Pöllingers.

In 1963 a new school building was built, and from 1964 to 1972 Pölling was connected to the Neumarkt sewage treatment plant. On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Pölling lost its independence as part of the regional reform and was incorporated into the new large district town of Neumarkt. In the spring of 1985, when the snow melted, the Maierbach caused one of its worst floods and numerous buildings were damaged. In the same year construction began on the Neumarkt bypass, which leads past Pölling to the east. In 1993 the new school building was completed and Pölling was connected to the Neumarkt bus network. In the summer of 1994, the new Herrnhof golf course was inaugurated. The federal highway 8 was moved out of Pölling in 2004 and led past Pölling via the newly built bypass.

Population development

year	Residents
1813	0539
1871	0587
1885	0612
1900	0622
1925	0723
1939	0758
1950	1032
1960	1253
1961	1250
1970	1624
1987	2045
1994	2378
January 1, 2012	2636

Worth seeing

St. Martin Church

St. Martin Church

Heinrichsbürg ( Heinzburg ) castle ruins : Castle stables from the 12th century,expanded into a hunting lodgeby Count Palatine Johann in the 15th century

Pöllinger Hochzeit-Allee : Allee where Pöllinger bridal couples plant a tree on their wedding day

Burgstall Pölling , abandoned hilltop castle from the 13th century

Sports

The Herrnhof Golf Club, an 18-hole championship course, is located west of Pölling at the foot of the Grünberg.

The only sports club in Pölling is SV Pölling , which includes several football teams and a tennis team. Other departments offer table tennis , yoga and gymnastics .

Transport and infrastructure

The district of Pölling is located at the intersection of federal highway 8 and the Neumarkt bypass, which today forms federal highway 299 . The B 8 ran through Pölling; in 2004 the new bypass in the north of Pölling was completed.

Pölling is located on the Nuremberg - Neumarkt railway line, and the stop of the same name on the southwestern edge of Pölling is a station on the Nürnberg Hbf - Neumarkt (Upper Palatinate) S-Bahn line . The city bus line 561 connects Pölling with the city center of Neumarkt.

Various medium-sized companies, mostly craft businesses, have settled in Pölling. The headquarters of Der Bäcker Feihl GmbH , a chain of bakeries with branches in the Neumarkt area, in the greater Nuremberg area and in Berlin, is also located there.