Rothenstadt

Rothenstadt City of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 57 "  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 23"  E
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	92637
Area code :	0961

Rothenstadt has been part of the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate since the regional reform in 1978 . Before that it was an independent municipality with the districts Rothenstadt, Ullersricht, Neubau, Maierhof, Haselhöhe and Sperlhammer. The former town hall still reminds of the earlier independence.

geography

To the south of Weiden are the districts of Rothenstadt and Ullersricht without an actual town center along the former federal highway 15. The western edge of the settlement is marked by the Regensburg – Weiden railway , although a previous stop in the southern part of Rothenstadt no longer exists. Highway 93 runs to the east.

The Rothenstadt district today includes the districts Rothenstadt, Ullersricht, Neubau, Maierhof and Mallersricht (incorporated in 1972) with a brickworks.

history

Rothenstadt was the seat of a court marque of the Lords of Sazenhofen . The political community Rothenstadt was established in Bavaria in 1818 by the municipal edict. On January 1, 1914, part of the dissolved municipality of Moosbürg was incorporated. On July 1, 1972 Mallersricht was incorporated. Rothenstadt in turn was incorporated into Weiden in the Upper Palatinate on May 1, 1978 . When it was incorporated into Weiden, the districts Haselhöhe and Sperlhammer were ceded to the community of Luhe-Wildenau .

Attractions

• Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Bartholomäus
  Chorturmkirche, marked 1737 on the portal, the core is medieval; the church was a simultaneous church , this was dissolved in 1910
• Catholic parish church of St. Marien
• Burgstallhügel " Keckenburg " with crypt chapel
  In the center of a rampart, which lies directly on the west bank of the Waldnaab and the connecting road to the neighboring village of Pirk, is the crypt chapel of the von Sazenhofen . It is a brick building made of ashlar in neo-Gothic style and dates from 1863. Along the footpath to the crypt chapel, on which one approaches from the west, is the so-called way of the cross . The individual stations consist of granite blocks, which are provided with cast iron reliefs.
• Rothenstädter Schloss
  The Rothenstädter Schloss is located on the west bank of the Waldnaab and was the seat of a Hofmark owned by the Lords of Sazenhofen. Today it is privately owned and not open to the public. The younger population only knows it through the gate in Kirchenstrasse and the surrounding wall.

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View of the Rothenstadt district. Above the left “Rothenstadt” the natural gas compression station with its three chimneys, to the right of it the directional radio tower of the GKK Etzenricht , to the right of it the two 140 meter high chimneys of the Pilkington flat glass factory in Weiherhammer, to the left the Etzenricht substation with the GKK Etzenricht. To the right of the GKK you can see the 380 kV line to Hradec and the one to the left of it the 110 kV line to Weiden.

literature

• G. Kick: Rothenstadt - history and stories. Wendpunkt Verlag Weiden 2016, ISBN 978-3-942688-81-9 .

Web links

Commons : Rothenstadt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.oberpfalz-luftbild.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 538 .
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes for 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. 636 .
3. ↑ Info on www.weiden-oberpfalz.de
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