Bechtsrieth

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Management Community :	Umbrella seat
Height :	452 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.78 km 2
Residents:	1089 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	228 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92699
Area code :	0961
License plate :	NEW, ESB , VOH
Community key :	09 3 74 170
LOCODE :	DE B9C
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Main street 29 ; 92699 Bechtsrieth
Website :	www.bechtsrieth.de
First Mayor :	Gerhard Scharl (community list)
Location of the municipality of Bechtsrieth in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab

Bechtsrieth is a municipality in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab and a member of the Schirmitz administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

Bechtsrieth is located in the Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald ( Upper Palatinate Forest ) nature park , about four kilometers southeast of Weiden . The old town center is traversed by the Gleitsbach, a right tributary of the Luhe .

Community structure

There are two districts:

Bechtsrieth
Trebsau

Neighboring communities

history

Bechtsrieth and Trebsau (left in the background)

Until the church is planted

Bechtsrieth was mentioned in a document in 1408 as "Perchtersreuth" and in 1436 as "Perchtolzriet". The name ending -reuth or -riet , which is related to the word clearing , indicates that Bechtsrieth was created as a clearing settlement on the upper reaches of the Naab and its side courses as part of the large land development from the 11th to the beginning of the 13th century . The place on the Gleitsbach, a tributary of the Luhe, was probably a clearing that was led by a Berthold. Such deforestation leaders mostly led farmers willing to settle in previously unused areas on behalf of the sovereign . The sovereigns were very interested in the development of their lands, since more agricultural land meant greater crop yields and thus higher tax revenues.

The northern Upper Palatinate was at least before the arrival of the first German or Bavarian settlers, but probably also during the first years and decades of clearing work, interspersed with widely distributed Slavic settlement islands. Refer to it e.g. B. the names of the Gleitsbach and the neighboring village of Trebsau , which are of Slavic origin according to the Germanist Ernst Schwarz from Erlangen . Over the centuries of coexistence, the Slavic population merged with the German population.

The Landgraves of Leuchtenberg had goods and rights in the place for a long time. Around the middle of the 16th century they owned six farms and two fiefs in Bechtsrieth . Around the middle of the 18th century, Bechtsrieth consisted of 26 properties and a shepherd's house. In addition to the farmers, there was a miller , a weaver , a tailor and a shepherd . In 1808 a tax district was formed from the village of Bechtsrieth, the village of Trebsau and the desert Trebsauermühle.

The part of the municipality Trebsau was a country estate with the right to the lower jurisdiction . The aristocratic residence was owned by the von Preisling family from the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. The phoenix in the front half of the shield of today's municipal coat of arms goes back to their coat of arms .

The town hall of the municipality of Bechtsrieth

The political communities Bechtsrieth (with a population of 30 families at the time) and Trebsau (23 families), founded in 1821, were merged in 1854 to form the Bechtsrieth community.

20th century

After the end of the Second World War , the population of Bechtsrieth experienced a considerable increase. Initially, many displaced people settled in the so-called old settlement. Since the mid-1960s, Bechtsrieth became very popular as a place of residence for commuters , especially to Weiden , which led to an expansion, especially in the eastern residential areas. As before, there are several agricultural enterprises in the town.

Religions

Bechtsrieth and Trebsau together form a branch community of the Catholic parish Schirmitz , whose branch church St. Josef is located in Bechtsrieth.

Incorporations

On 1 January 1978 in the wake of were local government reform Bechtsrieth and Trebsau with Irchenrieth to the municipality Irchenrieth together. Since January 1, 1994, after a referendum and the approval of the Bavarian State Parliament, Bechtsrieth is again an independent municipality with the suburbs of Bechtsrieth and Trebsau. At the same time, the community was included in the administrative community Schirmitz.

Population development

Between 1995 and 2018, the population of the municipality stagnated at around 1,030 to 1,100.

politics

mayor

First mayor is Gerhard Scharl.

coat of arms

Blazon: split between blue and silver, in front a silver phoenix rising from red flames , behind a blue bar.

The phoenix in the front half of the shield is taken from the coat of arms of the von Preisling family, who held the state estate or patrimonial court of Trebsau from 1706 to 1848 . The phoenix also symbolically reminds of the resurrection of the community of Bechtsrieth on January 1, 1994, after the community had fought for years and finally with success against the merger with Irchenrieth implemented in the course of the regional reform in 1978 . The rear field, in silver a blue bar, shows the coat of arms of the Leuchtenbergers, to whose sovereign territory, the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg , the municipality area belonged from the Middle Ages to the 17th century.

Culture and sights

The Church of St. Josef in Bechtsrieth

Buildings

The St. Josef Church, built in the 1930s, is the branch church of the Bechtsrieth parish belonging to the Catholic parish of Schirmitz .

Natural monuments

The 631 m high Dreifaltigkeitsberg , located east of Bechtsrieth in the Weidener urban area , on which there is a chapel of the same name , allows a view over the municipal area and the meadow landscape of the nearby Waldnaab Valley . Two long-distance hiking trails cross the ridge , the 176 km long Burgenweg and the 660 km long Goldsteig .

Sports

Gym and sports field
Gymnastics Club Bechtsrieth

Regular events

Cross-country run

Economy and Infrastructure

The primary school in Bechtsrieth

traffic

Bechtsrieth is located on Bundesstraße 22 ( Würzburg - Bamberg - Weiden - Cham ), which is followed in this section by the old Bavarian Ostmarkstraße and the tourist Glasstraße . About seven kilometers away, junction 25 ( Weiden-Süd ) of the federal highway 93 ( Hof –Weiden– Regensburg - Kiefersfelden ), Bechtsrieth is connected to the national trunk road network. The public transport bus line 11 , which runs between Weiden and Leuchtenberg / Oberviechtach , ensures the connection to the railway network via the Weiden train station, and a cycle path between Weiden and Michldorf also provides a connection to the long-distance cycle network .

education

In Bechtsrieth there is the Rasselbande kindergarten , which is run by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , and a four-class elementary school , which is also attended by children from the neighboring community of Irchenrieth .