Rehau (Monheim)

Rehau City of Monheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 59 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	539 m
Residents :	250  (2015)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	86653
Area code :	09091

Rehau is a district of the city of Monheim in the Donau-Ries district ( Bavaria ).

geography

The church village is about 4.5 km northwest of Monheim.

Rehau is one of the border towns of the Alemannic dialect area , both to East Franconian and Bavarian . So you can say that Rehau represents the Swabian tip of the "three-tribe corner". The capital Monheim itself is already part of the Bavarian dialect area.

history

A document from 1329 says that Count Berthold zu Marstetten and Graisbach left his two own people Marquardt and Heinrich, the sons of the old master Heinrich von Rechhave (Rehau), to the Kaisheim monastery . The marshals Hans and Heinrich von Pappenheim sold in 1341 the village to a Donauwörther citizens.

The previously independent community of Rehau was incorporated into Monheim on January 1, 1975.

Architectural monuments

• Jurassic barn, Abtstrasse 17
• Catholic branch church of St. John the Baptist

See also : List of architectural monuments in Rehau

People born in Rehau

• Plazidus Vogel OSB (1871–1943), from 1914 to 1937 first abbot after the re-establishment of Münsterschwarzach Abbey
• Bonifaz Vogel OSB (1912-2004), nephew of Plazidus Vogel, 1959-1982 abbot of Münsterschwarzach Abbey

Web links

• Rehau on the Monheim website
• * Rehau in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

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. 793 .