Tirschenreuth town fire in 1814

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City fire on July 30, 1814

The fire in Tirschenreuth in 1814 was a conflagration that destroyed almost the entire Bavarian city ​​of Tirschenreuth . It happened on July 30, 1814 and was the worst disaster for the city after the invasion of Swedish troops during the Thirty Years War.

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The fire was discovered between nine and ten in the morning in the barn of the clothing maker Joseph Scherbaum. Within a short time the fire spread from the blacksmith's house to the neighboring houses. After the fire raged for four hours, the city was completely destroyed. Only the parsonage , three neighboring small houses and half of the parish church of the Assumption of Mary, as well as the Fischhof outside the city, remained.

A total of 907 buildings, including 307 main and 600 auxiliary buildings, were destroyed by fire in the city. The rapid spread of the fire was favored by the narrow buildings and the narrow streets, as the city wall on one side and the two city ponds on the other, which had surrounded the city and were only drained a few years earlier, set limits to the large-scale spread would have.

consequences

This event had serious consequences for the cityscape of Tirschenreuth. During the reconstruction, the gable fronts of the houses on the market square were dispensed with and the town hall was also built without a stepped gable or roof turret. The reconstruction of the Tirschenreuth Castle was completely dispensed with. The city fire was followed by famine in the years that followed .

On January 28, 1819, the city celebrated its rebuilding after the city fire. The collection in the entire kingdom brought together around 42,000 guilders , the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph donated 1000 guilders from his fortune and another 12,000 tree trunks from the royal forest for the reconstruction.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Brunner, Max Gleißner: History of the city of Tirschenreuth. Tirschenreuth 1982, p. 268.
  2. ^ Max Gleißner: Chronicle of Türschenreut . Missionsbuchhandlung St. Peter, Tirschenreuth 1983, p. 48 .
  3. ^ Max Gleißner: Chronicle of Türschenreut . Missionsbuchhandlung St. Peter, Tirschenreuth 1983, p. 50 .