Schönthal (Upper Palatinate)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Cham
Height :	453 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.71 km 2
Residents:	1934 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	93488
Area code :	09978
License plate :	CHA, KÖZ, ROD , WÜM
Community key :	09 3 72 157
Community structure:	19 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Rathausplatz 1 ; 93488 Schönthal
Website :	www.gemeinde-schoenthal.de
Mayor :	Ludwig Wallinger ( CSU )
Location of the community Schönthal in the district of Cham

Schönthal (2016)

Schönthal is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Cham .

geography

Geographical location

Schönthal is located on the Schwarzach in the Upper Bavarian Forest Nature Park .

Community structure

The municipality of Schönthal consists of the following 19 parts of the municipality:

There are the districts Döfering, Hiltersried, Loitendorf, Trosendorf, Rhan, Premeischl, Schönthal, Thurau, Öd, Flischbach and Steegen. Schönthal shares the Steegen district with the neighboring municipality of Rötz to the west .

history

Until the church is planted

Schönthal belonged to the Schönthal Monastery , which was founded before 1263 .

In 1433 the Battle of Hiltersried took place near Schönthal , in which Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt drove the Hussites out of the Upper Palatinate.

The place was later part of the Electorate of Bavaria and formed a closed Hofmark of the monastery, which was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . In 1818 today's political community was established.

Incorporations

The municipality part of Kleinschönthal was reclassified from the municipality of Döfering in 1946. In 1972 the municipality of Thurau was completely incorporated into Schönthal. On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipalities of Döfering, Hiltersried, Loitendorf and Premeischl, as well as the municipal parts of Flischbach, Flischberg, Niederpremeischl and Öd from the dissolved municipality of Steegen, were incorporated.

Population development

Population development
year	1840	1900	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2001	2005	2010	2015
Residents	2453	1973	1860	2313	1847	1900	1894	1882	1892	2026	2033	2022	1951

Between 1988 and 2018, the municipality grew from 1,888 to 1,949 by 61 inhabitants or 3.2%.

politics

mayor

Ludwig Wallinger (* 1946) (CSU) has been mayor since May 1, 1996; he was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 91.3% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council (status: local elections on March 15, 2020 ) has 12 elected members and the mayor. Until April 2020, the committee consisted of 14 council members plus mayor; the reduction came about because the population fell below 2,000. The distribution of seats in the current and the previous term of office is as follows:

	Seats 2020	Seats 2014
Free voters-Hiltersrieder group	4th	5
Free electorate Schönthal	4th	4th
Free voter community Döfering	3	4th
Voter block Flischbach-Öd	1	1
total	12	14th

tax income

In 2017, the municipal tax revenue was € 1,209,000, of which € 304,000 was trade tax receipts (net) and € 720,000 was the municipal share of income tax.

coat of arms

The description of the municipal coat of arms reads: In gold over a lowered black wavy bar a red burning heart with four black lightning bolts. The coat of arms has been used since 1982.

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In 2017 there were 286 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 748 people were in employment that required insurance. This means that the number of out-commuters was 462 more than that of in-commuters. 31 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 76 farms. 2,613 hectares of the communal corridor were used for agriculture.

The Rhanerbräu brewery is located in the Rhan district .

education

There are

two day-care centers with a total of 80 places, in which 64 children were cared for by eight people (as of March 1, 2018)
Schönthal primary school with four teachers and 81 students (school year 2018/19)
Private Montessori elementary school Schönthal (elementary school and secondary school leaving certificate) with seven teachers and 75 students (school year 2018/19)

Schonthal
Town hall in Schönthal
graveyard

literature

To Flischbach → Harald Stark : The Notthracht family - looking for traces in Egerland, Bavaria and Swabia , Weißenstadt 2006, ISBN 3-926621-46-X

Josef Kraus: Schönthal. , Schönthal 1969

Josef Kraus: Treffelstein. A home book , Treffelstein 1971

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
^ Community Schönthal in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
↑ ^a ^b ^c Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Hrsg.): The municipalities of Bavaria according to the territorial status May 25, 1987. The population of the municipalities of Bavaria and the changes in the property status and area from 1840 to 1987 (= contributions to the statistics of Bavaria . Heft 451). Munich 1991, p. 77 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00070717-7 ( digitized version - footnote 24).

^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 643 and 644 .

↑ Mayoral election 2020 , accessed on August 20, 2020

↑ 2020 municipal council election , accessed on August 20, 2020

↑ Schönthal primary school in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 20, 2020.

^ Private Montessori elementary school Schönthal in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on August 20, 2020.