Pyrbaum

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
Height :	438 m above sea level NHN
Area :	50.27 km 2
Residents:	5810 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	90602
Area code :	09180
License plate :	NM, PAR
Community key :	09 3 73 156
LOCODE :	DE XPB
Market structure:	14 districts
; Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 ; 90602 Pyrbaum
Website :	pyrbaum.de
Mayor :	Michael Langner ( CSU )
Location of the Pyrbaum market in the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate

Pyrbaum, aerial photo (2016)

Town center with town hall

Pyrbaum is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

Pyrbaum is also known as the “gateway to the Upper Palatinate”. It was the first municipality in Bavaria to implement the municipal reform on October 1, 1970. Pyrbaum is often referred to as the municipality with the largest contiguous forest area in Bavaria.

geography

Geographical location

The market Pyrbaum is the westernmost municipality of the administrative district of the Upper Palatinate 20 km southeast of the city of Nuremberg . Most of its area is covered by forest. As the only municipality in the Upper Palatinate, Pyrbaum belongs to the Franconian region . The place is on a hill. The Neumühle district is the westernmost point in the Upper Palatinate.

Community structure

The municipality of Pyrbaum has 14 districts:

There are the districts of Oberhembach, Pyrbaum, Rengersricht and Seligenporten.

history

Until the 18th century

A hand ax find near Rengersricht shows that hunters and gatherers roamed the area as early as the Neolithic Age . A Celtic settlement in Pruppach from antiquity is documented by the remains of a Celtic entrenchment on the castle stables .

The place Pyrbaum was mentioned for the first time in 1130 and is considered the oldest place in today's municipality of Pyrbaum. From 1346 until its extinction in 1740, Pyrbaum was ruled by the von Wolfstein family. Wilhelm von Wolfstein built a castle in Pyrbaum in 1493. The parish church in honor of St. George was built around 1510, and the church chapel with a winged altar was built at the same time. Around 1540 the Wolfsteiners, who had meanwhile accepted the new confession, had the Reformation carried out in Pyrbaum ; This was completed in 1561, the last Catholics left the place. In the Thirty Years' War , the municipality was badly affected.

In 1740 Pyrbaum came to Bavaria after the Wolfsteiner had gone out. With the help of the Capuchin Order , Pyrbaum was re-Catholicized; April 14, 1751 celebrated Sulzbürger Capuchin the first Mass since the Reformation in Pyrbaumer cereal box. In Castle Pyrbaum a worship room was furnished and in 1752 became a permanent housing for the Capuchins, from Sulzbürg or Neumarkt came for the holding of fair, set up. Even a small church was there in 1753, in spite of the opposition of the Franciscans of Freystadt that their income from alms feared benediziert . Due to the increased number of Catholics, a Catholic school was set up in Pyrbaum on October 13, 1756 (the first Catholic teacher was also employed) and in 1757 a Catholic cemetery was set up on land belonging to the state. The Kapuzinerhospice (today the vicarage at Oberhembacher Weg 2) was built in 1760, which was not without protests from the local evangelical citizens, who also included the Corpus Evangelicorum in Regensburg. These conflicts over Catholic petitions and processions or the setting up of wayside shrines and crosses in public space continued for the next few years. The last complaint to the Corpus Evangelicorum dates from 1768.

19th and 20th centuries

Catholic parish church Mater dolorosa in Pyrbaum

On March 5, 1802, the Capuchin hospice was closed and the monks living here were relocated to the Capuchin monastery in Altötting . The inventory was handed over to the parish and the local priest. On February 14, 1803, Georg Maier was ordained as the first secular pastor; he also received the library of the Capuchins, if it was not already sold to a papermaker. The hospice building became the rectory.

In 1853 the castle burned down, but not the chapel, which was demolished in 1880/81 and replaced by a new building. This church burned down on Whit Monday 1899. In the following year a new building followed, which was designated on January 20, 1901.

In 1923 the community got electricity, from 1954 a central water supply step by step.

Incorporations

At the beginning of the 19th century the communities Pyrbaum, Oberhembach, Rengersricht and Seligenporten were established. These were combined on October 1, 1970 to form the municipality of Pyrbaum.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 4,441 to 5,813 by 1,372 inhabitants or 30.9%.

politics

Town hall of the market

Market council

The municipal council has 20 members. Since the local elections on March 15, 2020, it has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats	+/- ^*	Share of votes
CSU	7th	± 0	35.0%
SPD	3	- 1	14.7%
Green	2	+ 1	09.8%
The left	1	+ 1	03.3%
Free voters Bavaria / Free voters Pyrbaum	4th	± 0	18.4%
Christian Free Voters Seligenporten-Rengersricht (CFW)	2	- 1	12.5%
Free voters Schwarzach	1	± 0	05.0%
total	20th

^* Difference from the 2014 election

mayor

On March 16, 2014, Guido Belzl (CFW) was re-elected First Mayor of the municipality with 81.4% of the vote. His rival candidate Monika Werft (Greens) had 18.6%.

coat of arms

Blazon: In red a rooted green pear tree with golden fruits . The coat of arms has been known since 1527.

Town twinning

A partnership with the Hungarian municipality of Csákvár has existed since October 29, 1988 , and with its neighboring municipality of Vértesboglár since July 31, 1991.

Culture and sights

Ev. Parish Church of St. George

In the district of Seligenporten is the former Cistercian - Kloster Seligenporten .

Parks

Animal enclosure Faberhof

Sports

HSG Pyrbaum / Seligenporten: Handball (1981 and 1992 Bavarian champion)
SV Seligenporten : Football (currently Bayernliga)
Rifle Guild 1876 Pyrbaum e. V.
Riding and driving association Seligenportener Klosterreiter eV

Regular events

Royal shooting of the shooting guild Pyrbaum
Drinking eggs from the Pyrbaum Schützengilde
Wolfstein Festival
Pyrbaumer Christmas market
Pyrbaumer Pfingstkirchweih
Pyrbaumer Brunnenfest
Ball of the market
Advent concert in the Seligenporten monastery church
Seligenporten monastery court festival
Seligenportener parish fair
Seligenportener strong beer festival
Seligenporten classic car meeting
Blessed Porten Blues in the village
Art in the village of Oberhembach
Barbecue of the base weir Pyrbaum
Oven Festival Schwarzach (OGV)
Schwarzacher Kirchweih (annually on the last weekend in September)

Culinary specialties

Pyrbaumer spice bread
Pyrbaumer Sauwetter tea
Seligenportener monastery beer and monastery gold (schnapps) from the Feihl brewery
Schwarzacher kirwaschnaps

Economy and Infrastructure

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Pyrbaum market square

The Pyrbaum market is shaped by the strong influence of the neighboring city triangle Nuremberg – Fürth – Erlangen, in which many Pyrbaum citizens have their jobs. But there are also efficient companies in the community, especially in metalworking, mechanical engineering, printing and bonding technology, electrical engineering and glass construction. A multi-purpose hall for sporting, cultural and social events is available to the population in Pyrbaum. In addition to shopping, there is a primary school, two kindergartens, a library, a pharmacy as well as general practitioners, dentists and veterinarians, in Seligenporten a kindergarten, another primary school and a dentist and veterinarian.

traffic

The Pyrbaum market is connected to the regional transport network via district roads and the St 2402 state road. The Allersberg junction of the Munich – Nuremberg motorway ( A 9 ) is approx. 5 km from the Seligenporten district and the Neumarkt Nürnberg – Regensburg motorway junction ( A 3 ) is approx. 18 km from the Pyrbaum and Seligenporten districts. The distance to federal highway 8 is 5 km. On the county road NM 17 and State Road St 2225 can be reached in 25 minutes Nuremberg.

Until 1973, Pyrbaum, Rengersricht and Seligenporten had stops on the Burgthann – Allersberg branch line, which has since been closed and has since been dismantled .

media

Bulletin for the Pyrbaum market

Public facilities

Pyrbaum community library
Pyrbaum community archive

sons and daughters of the town

Maximilian Krafft (1889–1972), mathematician

literature

Franz Xaver Buchner : The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, Volume II: Eichstätt 1938.
Johann Kirchinger: Prayer and Violence in Public. Denominational perceptions of space in the conflict between Capuchins and Protestants in Sulzbürg and Pyrbaum in the second half of the 18th century. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate monastery landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 291-323. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).

^ Bavarian State Library online

↑ Buchner II, p. 428.

↑ Buchner II, pp. 428-430.

↑ Information brochure of the market town of Pyrbaum ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2013 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. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pyrbaum.de

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 533 .

↑ Announcement of the final result of the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020

Web links

Commons : Pyrbaum - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Pyrbaum in the Topographia Bavariae (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Website of the Pyrbaum market
History of the Catholic parish of Pyrbaum
Entry on the coat of arms of Pyrbaum in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Pyrbaum: Official statistics of the LfStat