Rissing (Cham)

Rissing (Cham) City of Cham Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 23 " N , 12 ° 40 ′ 35" E
Postal code :	93413
Area code :	09971
Location of Rissing (Cham) in Bavaria

Rissing is one of 53 districts of the district town of Cham in the district of Cham in the administrative district of Upper Palatinate in Eastern Bavaria .

Geographical location

Rissing is seven kilometers south of the town center of Cham, 486 m above sea level. NN high, on the ridge of the pile . The exposed location in the predominantly agricultural area is characterized by hard winters with cold east winds and often violent early and late summer thunderstorms from the west.

history

The area has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. At the beginning of the Metal Age , lead and crystal deposits were first exploited, and iron ore was also mined in Celtic times . Its smelting fell victim to large areas of the post-glacial primeval forests to generate energy, the areas that were released were used for agriculture and livestock, and even in Roman times they were never reforested. It can be assumed that the area was completely uninhabited in the late Roman period and during the troubled times of the Great Migration , as archaeological horizons did not start again until the Carolingian period. From the early Middle Ages have been preserved, for example, the so-called killer stone , a medieval granite Tele the 300 meters southeast of rissing toward the Leitenfeld it in the midst of a Neolithic ground monument is located.

In the late 17th century there were seven farmsteads in Rißsing, slightly different in size and economic orientation. The hamlet time numbered probably about 40 - 50 souls.

Between 1970 and 1980 the place was incorporated into Cham . Today the village has about 90 inhabitants.

Transport links

The B 20, which runs two kilometers to the west, can be reached via local roads . There are also sporadic connections to local public transport at Traitsching on weekdays .

Web links

Murderer's Cross near Rissing

Individual evidence

↑ Mörderstein LfD list, page 6 (pdf)

[1] Mörderstein LfD list, page 6 (pdf)