Reichenbach (Cham district)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Cham
Management Community :	Walderbach
Height :	386 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.53 km 2
Residents:	1316 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	125 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	93189
Area code :	09464
License plate :	CHA, KÖZ, ROD , WÜM
Community key :	09 3 72 149
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Pfisterstraße 12 93189 Reichenbach
Website :	www.gemeinde-reichenbach.de
Mayor :	Eduard Hochmuth ( Reichenbacher Free Voters )
Location of the municipality of Reichenbach in the district of Cham

Reichenbach (2013)

Reichenbach is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham and a member of the Walderbach administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Reichenbach is located in the Falkensteiner Vorwald , in the central Regental, on the Regen river .

Neighboring communities

In the north and east: Walderbach municipality
In the south: Wald municipality
In the west: City of Nittenau (district of Schwandorf)

Local division

Kienleiten is a part of the municipality. dialect: khüi (n) laitn / kinleitn ; since '1555. Former place names: Khuenleuthen or Khienleiten . Explanation of the place name: Old High German hilta, lita, Middle High German lite die Leite , the mountain slope. The word chien (Old High German) means pine resin, the pine, the pine. Just as there is a stream or a birch line, so here is a "Kienleite", a settlement on a mountain slope that is covered with pine trees. Kienleiten was once owned by Walderbach .

Heimhof is a hamlet in the Tiefenbach district. dialect: haimhof ; since around '1125. Former place names: 1125 Heiminghoven ; 1378 Heimhof ; 1668 Haimbhoff ; 1670 Heimhof . Explanation of the place name: "At the courtyards, or at the court of a Heimo, Haimo." The hamlet once belonged to the Reichenbach monastery.

Windhof is a hamlet in the Tiefenbach district . dialect: Windhof, Windin ; since '1249'. Former place name: 1667 Windahoff . Explanation of the place name: The farm is located on the high roof of the high Roßbach after the rain, which is completely open to winds of all kinds. Wind farm is a farm in a location that is particularly exposed to the wind.

Kaltenbach is a wasteland. dialect: kholtbo / kholtboch ; since '1270'. Former place name: 1270 Chaltenbach , 1378 Die Lo des Kaltenbach . Explanation of the place name: The name arose from the course of the "Kaltenbach" stream, which rises from the Walderbach Forest and flows into the rain west of Reichenbach. The settlement on the cold brook.

Hochgart is a desert, district Reichenbach. dialect: hougoat . Explanation of the place name: From Old High German gart “fenced property, fenced country estate” , but also “fencing, the garden” . "High" indicates the high location on the Pfaffenstein, which runs towards the Regental. Settlement in a garden protected by a fence or a settlement on an estate protected by a fence. The wasteland belonged to the municipality of Walderbach and is east of the Reichenbach monastery. Because of its close proximity to Reichenbach Abbey, Hochgart may once have been part of the monastery property, which is under its own management.

Linden is a hamlet in the Tiefenbach district. dialect: lintn / lindn since '1249'. Former place names: 1249 Linda ; 1498 Linter velder and founded . Explanation of the place name: The trees and forests of the earlier forests often gave the fields and settlements their names, including the place Linden. A very old linden tree still stands there today, so that the Walderbach baptismal register in 1646 correctly names the place as "ab der Linden". Linden once belonged to Walderbach.

There are two districts in the municipality : Reichenbach and Tiefenbach.

On November 1, 2013, a piece of the dissolved community-free area Einsiedler and Walderbacher Forst was added to the community area.

history

Origin of name

Reichenbach , dialect : raichawo / raichaboch ; since 1118. Earlier place names: 1122 Richinbach ; 1283 Richenwach ; 1317 Reichennbach ; 1392 Reychenbach .
The closest explanation for the place name Reichenbach: settlement on rich brook. The meaning rich in water is probably out of the question, as this stream was almost waterless in the dry season, so only the meaning “stream rich in fish” remains. In earlier centuries, fishing in the rain played a far greater role than it does today because of the great needs of the nearby monasteries and the many meatless days.

Prehistory and early history

The first people in the area around Reichenbach are likely to have resided since the Paleolithic . This is evidenced by finds such as hunting weapons and sacrificial stones in the surrounding districts.

First evidence

The settlement in the valley of the rain river, located at a ford , was already the center of a manorial organized and administered district in the early Middle Ages. In 1118 the Reichenbach Monastery was founded and since then the history of the place and that of the monastery have been linked.

Middle Ages (time to 1600)

Reichenbach experienced an early boom in the first decades of its existence. After the Wittelsbach family took over the bailiwick in 1204 , Reichenbach lost its regional importance. In the 14th century, things changed for the better. At the beginning of the 15th century, the monastery was largely rebuilt in the Gothic style and surrounded by fortifications. These prevented the Hussite incursions in 1428 and 1433 .

On the basis of the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio , after 1555 the sovereign was entitled to determine the religion of his subjects. So was Ottheinrich , who served from 1556 to 1559 as the Palatine Elector, the Lutheran made commitment binding. The monastery was closed in 1556. In Reichenbach, Johannes Hagnus, a graduate of the University of Wittenberg, was responsible for enforcing the Protestant church order. During the subsequent reign of Elector Friedrich III. (1559–1576), who was a supporter of the Reformed , Calvinist direction of Protestantism , Hagnus was dismissed like other Lutheran clergy. The Calvinist iconoclasts destroyed many works of art in the Reichenbach monastery around 1570.

Modern times

From 1626 Reichenbach was re-Catholicized by the new sovereign, the Electorate of Bavaria . In 1661, under electoral administration, Benedictines again moved into the monastery, who from 1669 were under the administration of St. Emmeram in Regensburg. It was not until 1695 that the monastery was again an independent abbey and experienced a second bloom.

With the secularization and the dissolution of the monastery in 1803, the lively scientific and literary activity of the Reichenbach Benedictines ended . Since then the church has been a branch church of the parish Walderbach. The monastery first became state property before the buildings were auctioned off in 1820. The monastery buildings found different uses, including a. Heinrich Waffler founded an earthenware factory in 1841, which he operated until 1863.

On February 20, 1882, the Reichenbach volunteer fire brigade was founded due to several fires in the village. In 1890 the Brothers of Mercy took over the building and set up a sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally and physically handicapped.

View of the Reichenbach Monastery

Engraving of the monastery from the "Churbaierischen Atlas" by Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1687

In 1893 the monastery started operating its own brewery. At the beginning of Holy Week, the planned construction of the new and larger aqueduct started. This was almost two kilometers long. Many citizens of the community provided free transport services. The sources were at the Windhof. 1897 on the night of September 23rd to 24th, a fire broke out in the monastery buildings. The fire spread at breakneck speed and 140 patients had to be evacuated. The water pipe was a great help, because the adjacent ponds were pumped empty after a short time. The fire raged for eight days and after six weeks glowing debris was pulled out of the rubble. The fire did not claim any human life, but the monastery was only a smoking ruin. The population of Reichenbach provided all conceivable help with the reconstruction. Around Christmas 1897, the fosterlings moved to Straubing and Attl could be brought back. As a result, a permanent night watchman was employed in Reichenbach in 1898 .

In 1900 the beer bar in the monastery was closed. A separate new water pipe was set up for the wash house and the Wurzgarten in the monastery, as the one laid in 1893 did not provide enough water in dry weather. In 1908 the Reichenbacher morgue was built under Father Eberhard Forstner from Kaisheim . At this time Reichenbach was making great strides. He had a hop garden planted near the monastery, the yield of which was sufficient to meet the needs of the monastery brewery. In addition, a granite quarry was discovered between the Windhof and the forest , where a field forge was also built. The prior's greatest and best work, however, was the construction of the Kienleiten-Roßbach road (today's CHA 25 district road). The road conditions in Reichenbach were extremely bad. The only access to the monastery was through the village (Pfisterstraße). There were massive difficulties with the residents during implementation. In 1911, the local infrastructure was improved under Prior Frater Sympert Fleischmann . His main focus was to continue the road to Roßbach. A wide road now led through Reichenbach. Half of the village was canalized. A water pipe was built for around 20 houses in Reichenbach. This water pipe was in operation until the introduction of the circular water supply in 1967. In the end, users were only allowed to use the water in the boiled state because bacteria were repeatedly found in it.

The First World War (1914-1918) also claimed its victims in Reichenbach. The local men and 23 brothers were drafted into military service, 25 of which did not survive the war and 5 were missing. During the war, food had become very scarce. That is why food cards were issued in Reichenbach . This situation persisted for a long time after the war. Then there was inflation , which made money worthless.

From 1919 an electrically operated grinding mill was put into operation, which had to be stopped in 1943 on official instructions. In 1920 the Reichenbach Monastery shone brightly. On the first Sunday in May the electric light finally arrived. The electricity was generated from steam. In 1921, due to the prevailing housing shortage in the community of Reichenbach, all immigration from abroad was prohibited from March 1st. In 1922, the water turbine on the nearby Regen River was improved. In 1923 electric light was introduced throughout the community. The currency reform of 1923 brought a great improvement. In 1924, the monastery was struck by a devastating fire on the night of March 2nd to 3rd. The wooden bed and the barn burned down completely. All stocks of fodder, straw, as well as many wagons and plows were lost. On March 5th, the monastery bell announced a fire again. This time a barn in Kienleiten was on fire. The house was saved on that day by brave intervention. On March 7, two days later, there was a third fire alarm. Now the house next to it burned down.

In 1924 a sawmill was built in the monastery. Two floods occurred during the completion phase of the hydroelectric power station on the Regen. The rain rolled enormous amounts of water and the building threatened to collapse. Due to these natural events, the construction, which was finally completed in 1926, was delayed. It now had 20 hp. In 1927 the local council decided to raise a beer tax from July 1st, 1 Reichsmark per hectolitre . With effect from December 11, 1927, the tax on beer was reduced to 50 pfennigs at the request of the monastery .

From 1933/34 Reichenbach and the monastery were not spared from the terrorist regime of National Socialism , handicapped people were considered “ unworthy of life ” at that time and so there was no lack of inhumane atrocities. Even now men had to go to war. 31 fell and 6 were missing. In contrast to the First World War, the civilian population was also directly affected by the acts of war in the Second World War and often had to leave their homes and seek shelter in the old rock cellar next to the mountain chapel.

When Nittenau was bombed, Reichenbach citizens were among the seriously injured and killed. Because of the air raids, the windows had to be darkened from the inside. This was compulsory and strictly controlled. Foreign workers from occupied territories of the German Reich were also employed in farms in Reichenbach. Most of them were Poles and French. In 1942 bell tolls had to be paid again, only the smallest bell remained in the tower.

Post-war and modern

Towards the end of the war there was a military training camp in the monastery of the Barmherzigen Brüder, in which Hitler Youth were to be trained for service at the front. Commander Trott wanted to resist the approaching American troops and had anti-tank traps erected. The Americans' answer was clear: if even one shot was fired, Reichenbach would be bombed. The population then fled to Hochgart. Trott also fled, but was caught and shot by the Americans in Falkenstein a short time later .

When the Allies approached, the Flossenbürg concentration camp was evacuated . On the following death march , the prisoners also passed through Reichenbach. As it was night, some of them took the chance and dared to flee at the Häring brewery. Some of them were shot immediately, and few others hid in barns. On April 24, 1945, American troops occupied Reichenbach Abbey. For the villagers and especially the children, who had never seen anyone with a different skin color, the colored soldiers were surprising. The American occupation of Reichenbach proceeded without major incidents. The village of Reichenbach also had to accommodate many refugees. As in World War I, food was only given out on ration cards during and after the war. The villagers were partly able to support themselves, as almost all of them ran a small farm.

In 1946 the inn's cross was rebuilt and on June 9 the wooden cross was consecrated at the end of the eight-day mission of the Reichenbach branch. The currency reform took place in 1948 . The village was hit by floods in 1954. The rain bridge was not passable for a day. In 1959, on April 22nd, another major fire broke out in the granary of the east wing of the Reichenbach monastery. The major alarm called around 20 fire brigades from the area to the site of the fire, including the professional fire brigade from Regensburg. The then District Administrator Sackmann immediately mobilized the relevant authorities and initiated all security measures for the endangered art objects. Even a pioneer unit of the Bundeswehr from Bogen was sent. The damage was considerable. It was 172,700 DM (to assess the damage: The weekly earnings of a well-paid monastery employee during this time were 35.00 DM / approx. 18 €).

Presumably, before the founding of the Reichenbach monastery in 1118, a crossing over the rain had been created, because there was also a road from Cham via Reichenbach and Roßbach to Regensburg , Falkenstein and Straubing. The Reichenbacher Bridge was first mentioned in 1743 and 1744, when a flood damaged the bridge. In 1750 an ice rush tore the wooden bridge away. After that, the village and monastery residents had to use boats to get over the rain. In the course of secularization in 1803, the Bavarian state handed over the building contractor for the bridge to the municipality of Reichenbach. The flood of 1831 washed away the rebuilt rain bridge one more time. The construction of a new bridge was vital, as fields, pastures and wood lay across the rain river and the yields were barely enough to survive anyway. For the people who drove the bridge on horses or had to use it for agricultural purposes, there was the "bridge guilder" or " bridge tariff ". The bridge has always been the community's biggest "problem child". The citizens always protested against the bridge guilders to be paid and the municipal council wanted to shift the maintenance obligation of the bridge on to the Roding district . This finally succeeded in 1924, probably in the course of the expansion of the feeder road (District road) to the newly built Falkenstein - Regensburg railway line. (The expansion of the current main street - colloquially "Neue Straße" - which replaced the current Pfisterstraße as the main street also dates from this time. The formerly narrow path, similar to the Kirchsteig, was greatly widened with great protest from residents and with enormous effort.) The fight with the Bavarian state was also ended, so the latter made funds available to build a new wooden bridge. After the extinguishing work during the monastery fire in 1959 was hampered by the insufficient load-bearing capacity of the wooden bridge, another bridge construction was started. Of the total cost of DM 810,000, the district only had to spend DM 70,000 in own funds. The municipality of Reichenbach only had to pay DM 15,000 for the access to the bridge. When the current bridge was completed, it was considered the most modern prestressed concrete bridge in the Upper Palatinate.

The elementary school in Reichenbach was closed at the beginning of the school year 1970/71. Since then, the students in the Reichenbach community have attended the elementary school in Walderbach. The communities of Reichenbach, Tiefenbach and Treidling existed until the end of the war. The latter were dissolved in 1945 or 1946. The hamlets of Linden, Tiefenbach, Heimhof, Windhof and Treidling (meaning of the name: Treideln , -ing ) came to the community of Reichenbach . On the occasion of the district reform , which came into force on July 1, 1972, the municipality agreed to the allocation of the district to Cham with the proviso that the municipality could form an administrative community with Wald and Walderbach with its headquarters in Reichenbach. Should the municipality of Walderbach join the city of Roding and the municipality of Wald remain independent, the municipality of Reichenbach wanted to look for a connection to the city of Nittenau and the district of Schwandorf . Incorporation to Roding was rejected due to the distance of 15 km. As a result of this regional reform, the municipality of Reichenbach lost 17.7% of its total area. The hamlets of Forsting, Jägerhöhe, Treidling and Holzseige (except Kaltenbach), and later also Tiefenbach, came to the town of Nittenau. Among the missing business tax income, u. a. of the quarry in Treidling, the community still suffers today because no compensation was created. The municipality of Reichenbach remained independent, but formed an administrative community with the municipality of Walderbach.

In 1975 the drainage system (sewer system) was built. The Johann von Gott workshops were established in 1976. This is a workshop for foster people of the monastery as well as external foster people. In 1984 the era of the "Härig Reichenbach Brewery" came to an end. The brewery was founded in 1756. The last owners Anna and Georg Häring died in 1978.

In 1991 the St. Paulus Kindergarten started operations. In mid-July 1993, the community and the monastery celebrated 875 years of Reichenbach Monastery . Over the years, other building areas were designated. In 1998 the Reisinger family chapel in Kienleiten was inaugurated in honor of Saint Catherine. In 1999 the “ Markgraf-Dipold-Platz ” (church square) and the Eustachius-Kugler-Straße were redeveloped as part of urban development. On January 1st, 2000, exactly at midnight, the “ turn of the millennium ” was celebrated with a huge firework display in the former monastery garden. In 2001 the district road CHA 25 (main road) in the Reichenbach area was completely renovated and a sidewalk was built. In August 2002 Reichenbach and all other places on the rain river were hit by an unprecedented flood. On the evening of August 12th, the fire brigade began to clear the youth campground. On the night of August 13th, a disaster alert for the district of Cham was issued by district administrator Theo Zellner and the crisis team in the district of Cham. Already at this point in time it was clear to everyone that this flood exceeded all expectations and would become a new flood of the century. The highest reporting level was exceeded around 10 a.m. At the same time, the flood operation began in Reichenbach. From 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning, the level could no longer be measured due to the enormous amount of water. The measuring station failed. The lower raining areas were badly affected. In some streets the water was sometimes two meters above the road surface. Fortunately, the water level reached its peak a few centimeters below the rain bridge around 10 p.m. So the bridge didn't have to be closed.

A year later the waterfront was completely redesigned. In 2005 the community qualified for the district decision in the competition “ Our village has a future ”. On a rainy day in 2006 the jury got an idea of ​​the place. Despite the bad weather, Reichenbach received the silver medal.

Market rights

In the 15th century Reichenbach had the status of a market . Territorially, it belonged to the upper part of the Wittelsbach Electoral Palatinate , which was administered from the royal seat of Amberg .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the municipality grew from 1,067 to 1,309 by 242 inhabitants or 22.7%.

• 1960: 1131 inhabitants
• 1970: 1101 inhabitants
• 1980: 1104 inhabitants
• 1990: 1119 inhabitants
• 1995: 1176 inhabitants
• 2000: 1152 inhabitants
• 2005: 1199 inhabitants
• 2010: 1242 inhabitants
• 2015: 1301 inhabitants
• 2019: 1328 inhabitants

religion

At the beginning of 2011 95% of the population of Reichenbach were Catholic, 4.7% Protestant and 1.0% belonged to another or no religious community.

Roman Catholic Church
The Catholics belong to the parish in Walderbach, which is assigned to the diocese of Regensburg. In addition to the monastery church of the Assumption and other chapels, such as E.g. the house chapel Rosary Queen in the monastery of the Barmherzigen Brüder, the Sorrowful Mother of God Mountain Chapel (built in 1935 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the consecration of the monastery church), the Mother of God field chapel in Linden (built in 1950) and the Katharinenkapelle in Kienleiten (established by the Reisinger family in 1998).

Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Evangelical Christians in Reichenbach belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community.

Politics and administration

Municipal council

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2014 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

The Reichenbach municipal council consists of 12 voluntary councilors and the honorary first mayor .

The local elections on March 16, 2014 brought the following results:

Party / group	Share of votes	Seats
Reichenbacher Free Voters	58.3%	7th
CSU	41.7%	5

mayor

Eduard Hochmuth (Reichenbacher Free Voters) was elected mayor on March 15, 2020 with 82.0% of the valid votes and took office on May 1, 2020. He is the successor to Franz Pestenhofer, who headed the community from May 1996 to April 2020.

coat of arms

The town's coat of arms, introduced in 1969, shows a "red dragon standing in silver over a blue wave shield base." The town of Reichenbach, which was always closely related to the Benedictine monastery founded in the 12th century, had the status of a market since the 15th century, whose administration carried its own seal. A seal stamp made in the early 17th century, which is still preserved today, shows a coat of arms that depicts the dragon, the dragon, ascribed to the founder of the monastery in Reichenbach. The image of this traditional coat of arms reminded of the close connection between the place and the Reichenbach monastery. To document the location of the community on the Regen, the so-called wave shield foot was chosen as the water symbol, which resulted in a municipal emblem that was both historically and heraldically justified.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Brothers of Mercy Monastery
• Former Benedictine abbey founded in 1118
• Romanesque monastery church (interior redesigned in Baroque and Rococo styles)
• Lourdes grotto at the apse of the monastery church

See also : List of architectural monuments in Reichenbach

Churches and monasteries:

There are numerous testimonies to earlier popular piety that can be found in the woods and fields. At some of them, devotions and services are still celebrated today, for example at Marienplatz or at the so-called "Pfaffenstein". On June 9, 1949, the so-called "Wirtskreuz" was consecrated on a hill above the village, which the residents of Reichenbach erected in thanks for the fact that the village was spared the dangers of war. It bears the inscription "You will sing with this symbol - in gratitude for the special protection of our village in danger of war" and was erected in 1946. According to tradition, there must have been a cross there as early as 1914/1918, which had been destroyed by fanatical groups between 1939 and 1945. Since 1998, a way of the cross , which leads along the Sonnhofweg to this place of prayer, has invited believers to linger in prayer. The Stations of the Cross were artistically designed in loving detail by residents and employees of the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy . The veneration of Mary has always played an important role in Reichenbach. The Lourdes grotto in the apse of the monastery church, which was inaugurated in 1895, and the mountain chapel in Pfisterstraße are evidence of this. The latter was built in 1935. The rock cellar next to the chapel also served the villagers as a shelter during the Second World War . Since 1998, a chapel in Kienleiten has been inviting the faithful to prayer. It was built by the Gerhard Reisinger family based on a promise and is consecrated to Saint Catherine. Church life could not be imagined without the petitions at which people asked for good weather and a good harvest. Believers from Walderbach and Reichenbach came together for prayer on these occasions. Once the Reichenbach moved to Walderbach, another time the Walderbachers moved to Reichenbach, where the believers from Reichenbach went to pray for them. A highlight of the church year was certainly the Corpus Christi festival , popularly known as the “Prangertag” . The path that the procession went along was decorated with so-called “prangestauden” ( birch trees ), reed grass and fresh fir green with scarves and flags. In addition, figures were set up and images of saints were attached to the house walls. Two statues of Our Lady, as well as one figure each of Joseph and Jesus , were decorated with flowers and carried by girls during the procession. The “Prangertag” also included going to the “landlord” or “Häring” for traditional bratwurst dinner. Even if the bratwursts are no longer unusual on today's menu, this custom has been preserved to this day.

music

• Reichenbach church choir (since 1993)
• Reichenbacher Klosterspatzen
• Staff choir of the Reichenbach Monastery

Attractions

• Marienplatz (Marienbild and wooden cross, located in the forest, space for prayer and church services)
• Pfaffenstein (highest point in the local area, located in the forest, wooden cross in the rock, space for prayer and church services)
• Teufelsbuchs'n (Teufelsbuz'n) (steeply rising rock with a short sleeping tube in Kienleiten; buz means a being of stunted growth)

Sports and clubs

• Sports facility of the DJK Reichenbach
• On February 20, 1882, the Reichenbach volunteer fire brigade was founded due to several fires in the village. Responsible citizens formed a community and purchased fire extinguishers. The purchase of the first extinguishing machine on July 9, 1882 was a hand pressure pump. 56 citizens were among the founding members. Statutes were drawn up, the primary purpose of which was to provide service first in the village of Reichenbach and then in the surrounding area in order to protect people and their property in the event of fire. The first “commandant” was Alois Pestenhofer. At all times, the Reichenbach volunteer fire brigade took part in all church and community festivals and in the Gau days in the district.

Regular events

• Easter market in Reichenbach Abbey
• May celebration at the youth campground
• Johannifeier at the youth campground
• Dorfkirta in the Wirtsgarten (parish fair)
• Christkindlmarkt (Christmas market) in the Reichenbach Monastery

Economy and Infrastructure

Over 400 people with physical and mental disabilities live in the monastery of the Barmherzigen Brüder Reichenbach and around 500 employees are employed. This makes it one of the most important employers in the region. In addition, Reichenbach has a supermarket with a butcher's shop, several master carpenters, a master car workshop, a body and paint shop, an interior and acoustic construction company, an advertising technology agency and other small businesses. There are also numerous small and large farms in Reichenbach.

Traffic:

The districts of Reichenbach and Kienleiten are connected by a reinforced concrete bridge. The municipality of Reichenbach is relatively close to regional roads. The district roads CHA 25 (Hauptstrasse) and CHA 27 (Bodensteiner Strasse) run through the town itself. The districts of Reichenbach and Kienleiten are separated by the state road St. 2149. Traffic in this crossing area is regulated by a traffic light. The driveway to the newly built B 16 (Roding-Regensburg) is only 3.5 km away. The access to the B 85 (Schwandorf-Cham) is approx. 15 km away.

education and Science

The St. Paulus Reichenbach kindergarten is a one-group all-day kindergarten and is primarily geared towards the needs of working parents. It has existed since October 1, 1991. The children from the community area and the employees of the Barmherzige Brüder Reichenbach facility are looked after from the age of three. The municipality of Reichenbach does not (any longer) have its own school . There is only one vocational school for curative care in Reichenbach. This is housed in the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy. The students from Reichenbach go to primary and secondary school in Walderbach . The closest grammar school is in Nittenau (Regental grammar school ). The closest secondary school is the Staatliche Realschule in Roding .

media

• Chamer Zeitung (circulation: 10,215 total) - regional edition of the Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung
• Bayerwald-Echo (circulation: 16,170 total) - regional edition of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung
• Rain indicator
• Bulletin of the community

Personalities

Personalities who worked on site
All the people listed here are very closely connected to the Reichenbach Monastery

• Margrave Diepold III. von Vohburg (* 1075; † 1146), founder of the monastery
• Count Palatine Otto I of Pfalz-Mosbach (* 1390; † 1461)
• Anselm Meiller OSB (born February 15, 1678 Amberg; † September 18, 1761 Plankstetten)
• Georg Dengler (* 1839; † 1896), cathedral vicar
• Father Andreas Amrhein (born February 4, 1844 in Gunzwil, † December 29, 1927 in Sankt Ottilien)
• Brother Eustachius Kugler (born January 15, 1867 in Neuhaus near Nittenau; † June 10, 1946 in Regensburg), was beatified on October 4, 2009 in Regensburg

Sons and daughters of the church

• Andreas von Regensburg (* around 1380 in Reichenbach am Regen; † after 1442 in Regensburg)

See also

• Reichenbach Abbey am Regen

literature

• Cornelia Oelwein (arrangement): The traditions of the Reichenbach am Regen monastery , publisher: Beck, Munich 1991
• Werner Endres: Reichenbacher Steingut , publisher: City of Nittenau and Museum Association Nittenau, 1991
• Josef Klose, Rudolf Knopp, Wolfgang Kauzner, Günter Lorenz: 875 years of Reichenbach Abbey am Regen 1118–1993 , Ed .: Reichenbach community, Johann-von-Gott-Verlag, Munich 1993
• Maria Kagerer et al .: 100plus: Reichenbacher Rückschau 1890-2000 , Ed .: Gemeinde Reichenbach, 1999
• Heribert Batzl: Kloster Reichenbach am Regen , Publisher: Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg 2001
• Josef Klose, Arved von der Ropp: Former Benedictine Abbey Church Reichenbach , Publisher: Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002
• Maria Kagerer, Hermann Reisinger, Norbert Mezei: 125 years of the Reichenbach volunteer fire brigade: Festschrift for the founding party from July 27th to 30th, 2007 , publisher: Reichenbach volunteer fire brigade, 2007

Web links

Commons : Reichenbach (Regen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Reichenbach community
• Report and pictures of the monastery fire ( Memento from March 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Entry on the coat of arms of Reichenbach (Cham district)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Reichenbach (district of Cham): Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Official Journal Upper Palatinate: Proclamation , Correction
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 559 .
4. ^ Bavarian State Office for Statistics. Reichenbach. Municipal statistics 2014 PDF, Munich 2015, p. 6.
5. ↑ Local election 2014: [1] Reichenbach