Thurmansbang

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '  N , 13 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
County :	Freyung-Grafenau
Management Community :	Thurmansbang
Height :	494 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.92 km 2
Residents:	2435 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	94169
Primaries :	08504, 08544
License plate :	FRG, GRA, WOS
Community key :	09 2 72 150
Community structure:	35 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Gründelln 3 94169 Thurmansbang
Website :	www.thurmansbang.de
Mayor :	Martin Behringer ( Free Association of Voters )
Location of the municipality of Thurmansbang in the Freyung-Grafenau district

View of Thurmansbang

Thurmansbang is a municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau , the seat of the administrative community Thurmansbang and a state-recognized health resort .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the Danube Forest region in the southern Bavarian Forest , more precisely in the Dreiburgenland . Thurmansbang is located around 30 km north of Passau , 18 km southwest of Grafenau , 22 km northeast of Vilshofen an der Donau and 15 km from the federal motorway 3 ( Garham exit ). There are very few connections with public transport.

Neighboring communities

• Tittling ( District of Passau )
• Fürstenstein (District of Passau)
• Eging am See (District of Passau)
• Zenting
• Saldenburg
• Schoenberg
• Innernzell

Community structure

There are 35 districts:

Old butterflies Ebenreuth Edlau Eggenreuth Eizersdorf Erlau Gingharting Gschwendt Haidreuth

Haundorf Kneisting Koehlerberg Kritzenberg Lindau Lindberg Loderhof Tan Lohaus

Muhlberg Oisching Rabenstein Rettenbach Roitham Rottaumühle Schadham Nicks Schlinding

Selinghof Solla Stieglreuth Stockwiesreuth Thannberg Thurmansbang Traxenberg grasslands

history

Early history

Dormannesbanc first appears in a document in 1180, when a Heinrich de Dormannesbanc appeared as a witness at the Aldersbach monastery . In 1252 the Vogtei passed from the Ortenburgers to the Wittelsbachers . Turinspach is mentioned in the land register of Lower Bavaria from the beginning of the 14th century . It was the seat of a ducal judge. In 1386, a winegrower named an Andre bailiff to Turmanspankch in a court document . In the middle of the 19th century the spelling of the village was Thurmansbank .

In 1429 the exposition and already in 1476 the parish Thurmansbang was established. The Lords of Puchberg played a decisive role in this. Hartlieb von Puchberg sold a farm and an estate near Eging around 1456 , and his daughter Elisabeth, owner of the Fürstenstein estate , presented the new parish with a forest of around 100 days' work.

Thurmansbang belonged to the Landshut Rent Office and the Vilshofen Regional Court of the Electorate of Bavaria. The church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and renovated in 1683. In 1763 the parish church of St. Markus was renewed and enlarged. In 1855 the parish counted 1910 souls. In 1904 the church was extended ten meters to the west and the tower was raised by one floor.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, part of the former municipality of Solla came to Thurmansbang as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,183 to 2,437 by 254 inhabitants or by 11.6%.

• 1961: 1580 inhabitants
• 1970: 1839 inhabitants
• 1987: 2159 inhabitants
• 1991: 2350 inhabitants
• 1995: 2331 inhabitants
• 2000: 2391 inhabitants
• 2005: 2448 inhabitants
• 2010: 2391 inhabitants
• 2015: 2361 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor is Martin Behringer (Free Association of Voters).

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In red a single-towered silver church in front view; on the right a golden fir tree towering behind the church.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The baroque parish church of St. Markus from 1763 was extended in 1904. The tower dates from the Middle Ages and was raised by one floor in 1910. In the high altar there is a figure of St. Joachim. In the church and on the cemetery wall there are grave monuments of various Saldenburg lords and carers.

On the 622.6  m high Ochsenstiegl, located south-southwest of Thurmansbang, there is a 25 m high wooden observation tower .

See also : List of architectural monuments in Thurmansbang

Regular events

The elephant meeting , the world's oldest and largest winter meeting for motorcyclists, has been held annually since 1988 with more than 5000 visitors from all over Europe on the last weekend in January in Loh near Solla in the municipality of Thurmansbang.

Every year the "Flower Festival" takes place in the first week of August.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Thurmansbang

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees at work subject to social security contributions in the manufacturing industry or in trade and transport. In other economic sectors, 194 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 767 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and five in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 73 farms with an agricultural area of ​​908 ha, of which 241 ha were arable land and 664 ha were permanent green space.

Viticulture

In Thurmannsbang, the Baierwein , which was mentioned in a document as early as the 8th century, thrives on a small area . The place is thus in the second smallest wine-growing region in Germany and the smallest in Bavaria.

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2018):

• 1 day care center with 64 places and 63 children
• 2 elementary schools with a total of 9 classes, 11 teachers and 172 students

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "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 ).
2. ^ Municipality of Thurmannsbang in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2018.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 473 .
4. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
5. ↑ Ochsenstiegl observation tower at bayerischer-wald.de

Web links

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

• Entry on the coat of arms of Thurmansbang  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Thurmansbang: Official statistics of the LfStat