Pilgramsreuth (Rehau)

Pilgramsreuth City of Rehau Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 21 ″  N , 12 ° 1 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	580 m above sea level NN
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	95111
Area code :	09283
Pilgramsreuth

Pilgramsreuth is a parish village and has been part of the town of Rehau in the Upper Franconian district of Hof since 1978 .

geography

Pilgramsreuth is located on a cleared island on the northern slope of the Großer Kornberg about three kilometers south of Rehau. To the north of this are the hamlet of Wüstenbrunn and the neighboring villages of Degenreuth and Fohrenreuth.

history

It was first mentioned in a document in the middle of the 14th century. The owners were the von Hirschberg family , and later the Rabensteiners joined Döhlau . On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community was incorporated into the town of Rehau.

Culture and sights

Pulpit structure

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church with fresco remains from the Gothic period and rich furnishings of great uniformity from the Baroque around 1700 is worth seeing. The construction of the nave was completed in 1473, the majority of the wall paintings, of which 16 figures or scenes have been exposed, are probably from this time are, among other things, a rare representation of the Volto Santo with the Spielmannswunder , otherwise mostly figures of Mary and images of saints, as well as the altar by the Bayreuth sculptor Elias Räntz from 1710/11 with a representation of Jesus' work of redemption from the Last Supper to the ascending Christ. The pulpit structure is rich in figures; the parapets of the galleries bear 76 painted scenes. The church also contains a Gothic sacrament niche, the richly pictorial Baroque baptism from 1719, a baptismal font from the 15th century, a parish seat from 1692, wooden figures from a late Gothic winged altar with Maria, Katharina, Barbara and tombstones from 1717/18.

The potato monument in the churchyard was erected in 1990. Around 1647, Hans Rogler and other farmers in Pilgramsreuth began systematically cultivating potatoes in the fields , which is the earliest known potato cultivation in Germany. The bronze sculpture on a stone plinth shows a farmer with a potato digger and a kneeling woman with a potato basket, both in peasant clothes from the 17th century. According to local researcher Arno Ritter from Roßbach , the potato was brought to Pilgramsreuth by Hans Rogler von Roßbach. He sees this as evidence that potatoes were already a common food in his hometown.

literature

• Michael Brix , Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Former district of Rehau and town of Selb . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XXXIV. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1974. pp. 48-58.
• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : Regnitzlosa . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 4 : Ni-R . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, DNB  790364301 , OCLC 833753101 , Sp. 352-353 ( digitized version ).
• Reinhard Höllerich : Former district of Rehau and formerly district-free city of Selb . Historical book of place names of Bavaria , Volume 3, Munich 1977. pp. 50–53.
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Pilgramsreuth . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 628 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• http://www.bayern-fichtelgebirge.de/kleindenkmal/kartoffeldenkmal.htm

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 688 .
2. ↑ Potato cultivation / Roßbach as a place of origin of potatoes (pdf; 84 kB)