Raitenbuch

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Coat of arms of the Raitenbuch community
Raitenbuch
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Raitenbuch highlighted

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '  N , 11 ° 8'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Middle Franconia
County : Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen
Management Community : Nennslingen
Height : 559 m above sea level NHN
Area : 38.23 km 2
Residents: 1195 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 91790
Area code : 09147
License plate : WUG, GUN
Community key : 09 5 77 163
Community structure: 4 parts of the community
Association administration address: Schmiedgasse 1
91790 Nennslingen
Website : www.raitenbuch.de
Mayor : Joachim Wegerer ( new list )
Location of the municipality of Raitenbuch in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
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Raitenbuch is a municipality in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen and a member of the Nennslingen administrative community . Raitenbuch has the lowest population density in the district and one of the lowest in Bavaria.

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the east of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in the West Central Franconia region , south of Nuremberg and twelve kilometers east of Weißenburg . Raitenbuch is located on a plateau of the Weißenburger Alb , a partial mountain range of the Franconian Alb low mountain range . In the south and east the border leads to the neighboring district of Eichstätt in Upper Bavaria . The Limes ran through the municipality . The community is characterized by the forests of Raitenbucher Forst , Wildhau and Raitenbucher Holz . There are no natural springs in the community. The only river in the municipality is the Anlauter , a tributary of the Schwarzach , which flows through the Bechthal district and feeds the Bechthaler Weiher . State road 2228 leads through Raitenbuch . The Laubenbuch nature reserve is located in the south-west of the municipality . The highest point in the community is the Hohlbügel (587.3 m).

The neighboring communities are:

Ettenstatt Nennslingen , Burgsalach Burgsalach
Weißenburg in Bavaria Neighboring communities Titting
Weißenburg in Bavaria Weißenburg in Bavaria , Schernfeld , Pollenfeld Titting

Community structure

The municipality has 4 officially named municipality parts (the type of location is given in brackets ):

history

Until the church is planted

Raitenbuch belonged to the Hochstift Eichstätt and thus from 1500 to the Franconian Empire . The care office of the Hochstift, with most of the Hochstift area, fell to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany's Principality of Eichstätt in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . Since the Peace of Pressburg in 1805, the place, like large parts of Franconia, has belonged to Bavaria . In 1818 the political municipality was established.

Incorporations

As part of the municipal reform , the municipalities of Bechthal and Reuth am Wald with its part of the municipality of St. Egidi were incorporated into Raitenbuch on July 1, 1972. The Raitenbucher Forest , which was formerly free from municipalities , was also dissolved and incorporated into Raitenbuch.

Population development

  • 1961: 0891 inhabitants
  • 1970: 0972 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1011 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1020 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1162 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1168 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1176 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1134 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1206 inhabitants

Parish parts

  • Raitenbuch
Raitenbuch is first mentioned in a document in 867 as "Rehtinbooh"; the name means "The cleared in the beech forest" or "Hof im Walde". Graves from the Stone Age suggest a much earlier settlement. Around 100 BC Elbe Germanic tribes are likely to have populated the area. In 80 AD the Romans pushed their border into this area with the Limes . Later, the Alemanni ousted the Romans, and Burgundians and Juthungen immigrated at times . From 506 the country was populated by Franconian farmers as planned. A lower noble family named after the place went out in 1333. The village and the castle stables were acquired by Wilhelm von Reichenau , Bishop of Eichstätt in 1469 . He had the castle stable surrounded by a wall and a moat. In the same year, Raitenbuch became the seat of the Episcopal-Eichstättischen Vogt and care office. In the Thirty Years War the population fell to 50; 1649 raged in Pest what Pestkreuze remember in the near and far. In 1792 Raitenbuch was forcibly separated from Eichstätt and belonged to Prussia until 1806 , then to Bavaria.
In the 18th century, the castle stables, seat of the regional court, then the official residence of the forest clerk, were converted into a small castle that is still inhabited today. The first church was built around the year 1000, today's church was built around 1900 in neo-Gothic style. Valuable late Gothic altar figures were auctioned from the neighboring community of Nennslingen in 1811 , including a statue of Mary from 1470 known as the Raitenbucher Madonna .
In 1952 Raitenbuch got a water pipe, the sewer was connected in 1956/1957, the land consolidation was carried out from 1959 to 1962.
  • Reuth at the forest
The earliest evidence is a note in the archives that Bishop Gundekar II of Eichstätt has consecrated a church. In 1486 six goods are subject to tax at “Reuwt” at Pechtal Castle. In 1600 the Eichstätt monastery was in charge of "Reith". The lower floors of the tower of the Church of St. Pantaleon are Romanesque . The nave and the tower end date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Bechthal: village church and ruins
  • St. Egidi
The hamlet was first mentioned in a document in 1452. The chapel and the hermitage probably go back to a royal hunting lodge in the Weissenburg Reichswald, near which there was a chapel dedicated to St. Egidius . The chapel was destroyed during the Thirty Years War and rebuilt in 1726.
  • Bechthal
Bechthal ruins. Watercolor by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt
The first owners of the castle were the Pechthaler, first mentioned in 1163, ministerials of the Eichstätt bishops. As early as the 14th century, they ruled independently over a small area that encompassed the surrounding villages. They also had free float in more distant places. The castle changed hands several times from the end of the 15th century, came to the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt between 1554 and 1557 and was administered by the Titting-Raitenbuch maintenance office. In 1633 it was almost completely destroyed by gunfire from the Swedish Colonel Sperreuth. The village and church burned down and the residents fled to Wengen . The castle ruins with the almost 30 meter high keep is now owned by the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district. The subsidiary church of St. Margareta in Bechthal dates back to the 12th century and was redesigned in the Baroque style in the 17th century . It has two outstanding works of art: a sacrament niche from 1525 and a seated Madonna of the late Gothic on the right side altar.

politics

mayor

Joachim Wegerer ( FWG Raitenbuch) has been mayor since May 1, 2020 . He was elected unopposed. His predecessor was Josef Dengler (New List) until 2020. In 2002 he succeeded Georg Schreiner senior. (Free community of voters).

Municipal council

There are 12 municipal councils in Raitenbuch, all of which have stood for the Raitenbuch Free Voting Association.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: obliquely divided by red and silver; above a growing silver bishop's staff, below a slanted green beech leaf.

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were ten employees in the manufacturing sector and no employees in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. There were a total of 415 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were no companies in the manufacturing or construction industries. In addition, in 1999 there were 63 farms with an agricultural area of ​​999 hectares, of which 735 hectares were arable land.

Local products are sold in the farm shop of the Bergmühle in Bechthal, which has been in existence since 1348, and a bakery is attached.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

  • Kindergartens: 75 kindergarten places with 63 children
  • School with three primary classes as part of the Nennslingen primary school

Tourism and tourism

In 1976 the Bechthaler Weiher , a bathing pond , was created near the Bechthal castle ruins. This is fed by a spring that rises near the castle hill. The pond has an area of ​​1.3 hectares with a maximum water depth of 2.5 meters. The water quality is continuously checked by the health department, a local fishing company takes care of the fish population and maintains the facilities. In 2007 the pond was renovated. There are parks and campsites near the pond.

In 2012, the approximately 3.5 km long mining history educational trail Grubschwart was opened around the former mining area Grubschwart . The nature trail was created on the idea and initiative of Arthur Rosenbauer .

energy

Starting in 2016, Bavaria's largest forest wind farm will be built in the Raitenbucher Forst .

literature

Web links

Commons : Raitenbuch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  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. ^ Community Raitenbuch in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on December 25, 2019.
  3. ^ E. Weis: The justification of the modern Bavarian state (1799-1825) , in: The new Bavaria: State and politics. From 1800 to the present , ed. by Alois Schmid, second edition, Munich 2003, pp. 4–128, here: p. 23
  4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 593 .
  5. ↑ groundbreaking ceremony for the largest Bavarian Forest Wind Farm ( Memento of 16 August 2016 Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk, published on June 27, 2016th