Röthenbach (Kohlberg)
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Roethenbach
Kohlberg market
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 32 ″ E
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| Height : | 411 m above sea level NN |
| Residents : | 130 |
| Postal code : | 92702 |
| Area code : | 09608 |
Röthenbach is a district with 130 inhabitants and a district of the Kohlberg market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . Röthenbach is four kilometers from the main town of Kohlberg.
geography
The historical center is the hammer lock . It is located on the Röthenbach, which was dammed up there to form the Röthenbacher Hammerweiher. On the other side of the Röthenbach there is a residential estate.
Röthenbach is located on the border between the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district and the Amberg-Sulzbach district . Röthenbach is surrounded by Dürnast in the north and Mantel (market) and Weiherhammer in the northeast. In the south lies Massenricht with its districts Obersteinbach and Untersteinbach and in the west Thansüß and Freihung.
The center of Röthenbach is 411 m above sea level. NN .
history
The place Röthenbach goes back to an iron hammer , which was already mentioned in the medieval Salbüchlein of Charles IV . A blast furnace that produced pig iron was still in operation there until 1880.
From the middle of the 18th century to 1928 there was a glass industry in the village , first processing plants, then also a glassworks . A listed glassworker's house from this period has been preserved, as well as the building colored with polished red, in which the glass polishing plant was housed until 1928. The castle chapel with a Doser altar is also worth seeing .
Recognized as a country estate , the Hammerschloss, built in 1678, with the castle chapel of the Conception of the Virgin Mary (1728) and brewery and agricultural buildings, was converted into a second class patrimonial court in 1818 . With the repeal of the patrimonial courts in Bavaria by law of June 4, 1848, the place came administratively to Markt Kohlberg.
In the age of industrialization, the population grew from 121 in 1864 to over 260 in 1910. After all farms were closed at the end of the 1960s, the population fell to less than 150.
Economy and Infrastructure
Extensive agriculture is practiced on the former farm pastures, there is beekeeping, forestry and pond management. You can also fish at Röthenbacher Hammerweiher, which has several bathing areas. Röthenbach is connected to the Weiden - Nürnberg railway line, and cycling and hiking trails cross.
traffic
The Röthenbach (Oberpf) stop is on the Neukirchen – Weiden railway line and is served by Regional Express trains on the Nürnberg Hbf - Neustadt (Waldnaab) route.
literature
- Burkhard von Grafenstein: The mirror glass industry in Röthenbach. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat . Vol. 51, 2006, pp. 183-204.
Web links
- Alois Laumer: Obersteinbach, Röthenbach, Roethenbach, aerial photo Oberpfalz Untersteinbach. In: www.oberpfalz-luftbild.de. Retrieved on October 23, 2012 (aerial photos from Röthenbach).
Individual evidence
- ^ Heribert Sturm: Historical Atlas of Bavaria : Altbayern. Series I, Issue 47: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden
- ^ Burkhard von Grafenstein: From the history of the glass industry