Rinkam
Rinkam
Atting parish
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 20 ″ E
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Height : | 331 m above sea level NN | |
Residents : | 237 (May 25 1987) | |
Postal code : | 94348 | |
Area code : | 09421 | |
Location of Rinkam in Bavaria |
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Rinkam is a district of Atting in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen .
location
The church village of Rinkam is located at an altitude of 331 meters in the Gäuboden, about five kilometers west of the center of the city of Straubing on federal road 8 .
history
There are finds from the area around Rinkam from Roman times. Wall and moat remnants on the outskirts are reminiscent of the former ramparts . In the Middle Ages there was a noble seat here .
Since the 1990s, three mazes with brain teasers and stamping points have been laid out on a ten-hectare field at the Hiendlmeier farm .
Attractions
The branch church of St. John the Baptist was built as a castle chapel in the late 12th century. It is a Romanesque country church with a secular upper floor .
The chancel of the church is almost square, followed by the short rectangular nave. In the Gothic period it was given an upper floor with notch windows and a square west tower. The function of this facility, for example as a fortified church or asylum , has not been clarified.
societies
Rinkam has its own volunteer fire department .
literature
- Marianne Mehling (ed.): Knaur's cultural guide in color. Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-26647-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 233 ( digitized version ).