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Posing
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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '  N , 12 ° 33'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Palatinate
County : Cham
Management Community : Stamsried
Height : 364 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.12 km 2
Residents: 980 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 107 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 93483
Area code : 09461
License plate : CHA, KÖZ, ROD , WÜM
Community key : 09 3 72 147
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Schlossstrasse 10
93491 Stamsried, Germany
Website : www.poesing.de
Mayor : Michael Reith ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Pösing in the district of Cham
Lohberg (Bayern) Lam Arrach Hohenwarth (Landkreis Cham) Grafenwiesen Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut Eschlkam Furth im Wald Gleißenberg Arnschwang Bad Kötzting Rimbach (Oberpfalz) Blaibach Waldmünchen Treffelstein Tiefenbach (Oberpfalz) Rötz Schönthal (Oberpfalz) Weiding (Landkreis Cham) Chamerau Miltach Willmering Stamsried Pösing Zandt Traitsching Chamerau Runding Cham (Oberpfalz) Pemfling Waffenbrunn Schorndorf (Oberpfalz) Michelsneukirchen Roding Walderbach Reichenbach (Landkreis Cham) Rettenbach (Oberpfalz) Falkenstein (Oberpfalz) Zell (Oberpfalz) Wald (Oberpfalz) Tschechien Landkreis Schwandorf Landkreis Regen Landkreis Straubing-Bogen Landkreis Regensburgmap
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Pösing is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham and a member of the Stamsried administrative community .

geography

Pösing is in the Regensburg planning region .

history

Pösinger hand ax
Spout ax from the Bronze Age

Origin of name

Over the centuries the place name changed from Besinga (896) , Pesinge (1194) , Pesingen (1243) , Pesing (1301) via Poysing (1484) to Pösing (from 1499) .

Prehistory and early history

The first people in the area around Pösing must have been around since the Paleolithic . This is evidenced by finds such as hunting weapons and sacrificial stones in the surrounding districts.

First evidence

Middle Ages (time to 1500)

The place belonged to the Rentamt Amberg and to the district court Wetterfeld of the Electorate of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

  • First bridge in the 13th century.
  • Local nobility: Engelschalk von Pesingen, servant of the St. Emmeram monastery in Regensburg (1190); Ulrich von Pösing (1240), the noble family of Pösing expires (1324).

Modern times

Pösing is also known for the discovery of a hand ax (Riss-Würm interglacial period, approx. 100,000 years ago) on October 11, 1961 in the municipality: " Pösing hand ax ". It consists of honey-colored quartzite , as found here in the river. 1957 Finding a spout ax from the Bronze Age in the Regen river.

At the end of the Second World War in April 1945, the deportation of the concentration camp prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp to the Dachau concentration camp began . A death march led prisoners from Flossenbürg and Rötz via Diebersried to Pösing. Those who could no longer walk or wanted to flee were shot by the guards. The completely exhausted people were driven by SS men with dogs and weapons. 597 dead prisoners were found from Diebersried to Pösing.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 894 to 983 by 89 inhabitants or 10%.

  • 1961: 749 inhabitants
  • 1970: 887 inhabitants
  • 1987: 870 inhabitants
  • 1991: 929 inhabitants
  • 1995: 961 inhabitants
  • 2000: 971 inhabitants
  • 2005: 976 inhabitants
  • 2010: 979 inhabitants
  • 2015: 988 inhabitants

Religions

At the beginning of 2011 91.6% of the population of Pösing were Catholic, 6.9% Protestant and 0.5% belonged to another or no religious community.

Roman Catholic Church
The Catholics belong to the parish in Stamsried, which is assigned to the diocese of Regensburg. In the place there is the Catholic curate beneficiary St. Vitus.

Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Evangelical Christians in Pösing belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community in Roding.

Politics and administration

Pösing community, formerly a school building

Community structure

Pösing has two districts (the type of settlement in brackets):

There is only the district Pösing.

mayor

Michael Reith (CSU) has been mayor since May 1, 2020; he was elected with 94.2% of the valid votes. His predecessor was Edmund Roider (CSU) from May 1, 2008 to April 30, 2020.

Municipal council

In addition to the mayor, the council has eight council members. As in the 2014 to 2020 term of office, both nominations received four seats each on March 15, 2020:

coat of arms

DEU Pösing COA.svg

The description reads: In blue a silver wave bar, which is covered by a narrow red zigzag bar; a golden crown above, a golden hand ax below. The coat of arms has been in use since 1982.

The crown indicates that Pösing was an old royal estate. The white wavy band symbolizes the rain. The red zigzag bar gives an indication of the various noble families who played a role in Pösing. The hand ax documents a settlement in Pösing 100,000 years ago.

Culture and sights

St. Vitus Pösing Church
Marienkapelle in Langwald
Kalvarienkapelle on the Pösinger Bierl
Chapel "Innocent Children - The Silent Scream"
New playground in Pösing
New fire station in Pösing
Open air stage
Regentalaue nature reserve

The “ Regentalaue ”, an area that has been protected for decades and which was designated as a nature reserve on January 22nd, 2010, extends as far as the local border of Pösing . The "Regentalaue" stretches as far as Cham and with 1,427 hectares is by far the largest nature reserve in the Upper Palatinate.

Buildings

There are a number of architectural monuments in Pösing.

Profane structures

  • "Old" school house, built in 1838, today the municipality of Pösing.

Churches and monasteries

  • Catholic parish church of St. Vitus
First church built around 1000, second church around 1530, almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , third church between 1730 and 1750. In 1750, the brewery couple Schneider from Pösing donated the Pösing benefit. 1820 construction of an organ. 1899 renovation of the church. On January 25, 1901, the Benefician Pösing was converted into a Curate Beneficiary (by the highest resolution of Prince Regent Luitpold ). 1908 purchase of a new organ with eight registers. In 1921/22 the nave was extended by 56 meters to the west. The sacristy was moved from the tower to an annex on the south side. The new organ was inaugurated on January 21, 1996. The church patron is St. Vitus , the two altar figures are the other Bohemian national saints Wenceslaus and Sigismund .
  • Calvary Chapel
Foundation of the chapel with Stations of the Cross in 1822 by the innkeeper Walburga Schreiber. Foundation of the "Association for the Preservation of the Beer Chapel" in 2008, renovation start in 2009
  • Lady Chapel
Langwald district, construction 1961–1962, opening ceremony 1962
  • Chapel "Innocent Children - The Silent Scream"
Construction and inauguration ceremony 2008

In the vicinity

Sights
geotopes near Pösing:

The pile , a very hard rock layer, runs under Pösing . As a result, there is a natural ford through the rain here .

Sports and clubs

  • FSV Pösing e. V. 1958
590 members, departments: soccer, karate, ice stock, tennis, gymnastics
  • Rifle club "Gemütlichkeit" 1924
150 members
  • Sport-Kegel-Club Regental Pösing e. V.
  • Fishing Association Pösing e. V.
  • Model flying group Roding-Pösing

Regular events

  • June: Johannifeuer on the "Bierl"
  • July: Pösinger Open Air on the "Bierl"
  • December: Christmas market in the town center
  • A big open air takes place in Pösing every year. On the "Bierl", the mountain from which you can see the whole of the Regental, around 3000 fans meet annually on the 3rd weekend in July to celebrate summer and music. The organizer is the Musik- und Kulturverein Pösing e. V., who also organizes some events for the rest of the year.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 224 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 417 people were in employment subject to compulsory insurance. This meant that the number of out-commuters was 193 greater than that of in-commuters. 11 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 13 farms; 466 hectares of the community area were used for agriculture.

traffic

The village is right on the rain . The bridge was built in 1890.

The B 85 passes the village in the immediate vicinity. It is one of the main routes from the Czech Republic. The volume of traffic has been increasing for years. On December 5, 2007, the four-lane expansion between Cham and Untertraubbach was opened to traffic.

Pösing has a stop on the Schwandorf – Furth railway line in the forest .

education and Science

There is a day-care center with 82 places and 78 supervised children, including 12 children under three years of age; the extension with the crèche was completed in 2012.

The children up to the fourth grade attend the Wolfgang-Spießl-Grundschule Stamsried-Pösing.

media

The Donau-Post , a local edition of the Straubinger Tagblatt , the Bayerwald-Echo , a local edition of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung and every Wednesday the Chamer Rundschau , a weekly newspaper of the MZ appear.

Sons and daughters of the church

Others

  • Pösing has a local call system . This is a public address system for announcements to the village.

literature

  • 1100 years of Pösing, 895–1995. Publisher: Municipality of Pösing
  • Langwald 1947–1997. Publisher: Siedlungsgemeinschaft Langwald e. V.

swell

  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. The "Killing Fields" near Pösing - death march. Central Bavarian Newspaper. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics. Pösing community. Municipal statistics 2015 PDF, Munich 2015, p. 6.
  4. ^ Parish Pösing in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2018.
  5. 2020 municipal council election , accessed on August 16, 2020
  6. Stamsried-Pösing Primary School in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 17, 2020.

Web links

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