Vohburg on the Danube
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ' N , 11 ° 37' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Upper Bavaria | |
| County : | Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm | |
| Height : | 371 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 45.18 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8399 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 186 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 85088 | |
| Area code : | 08457 | |
| License plate : | PAF | |
| Community key : | 09 1 86 158 | |
| LOCODE : | DE VOH | |
| City structure: | 13 parts of the community | |
City administration address : |
Ulrich-Steinberger-Platz 12 85088 Vohburg adDonau |
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| Mayor : | Martin Schmid ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the city of Vohburg adDonau in the Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm district | ||
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Vohburg an der Donau (officially: Vohburg adDonau ) is a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm .
geography
Geographical location
The town of Vohburg an der Donau is located on the northern border of the Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm district , about 15 km downstream from Ingolstadt . The old town is framed by the rivers Danube , Little Danube and Paar . The Ilm also flows on the southern outskirts of the city . Vohburg could thus be described as a city of four fluids. The next larger watercourse in Vohburg is the Mailinger Bach, which flows north into the Danube .
Neighboring communities are Ernsgaden , Geisenfeld , Großmehring , Manching , Münchsmünster , Oberdolling , Pförring . Vohburg is also on the border with Hallertau .
Community structure
The municipality has 13 officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):
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Bronauerhof is not an officially named part of the municipality. More than a third of the total number of residents is accounted for by the incorporations, so at the end of 2017, 5123 people lived in the core city and Hartacker (which merges seamlessly).
Districts of the town center
The Vohburg town center can be divided into smaller, mostly unofficial, parts: the historical center in the north of the city (in the overview: 1 ), the Gries, the Antonius settlement and the industrial area in the east ( 2 ), the Au in the west ( 3 ), Beizn / Bahnhofsstrasse and the old settlements around Siedlungsstrasse ( 4 ), the new settlements around Kastanienallee and Clermontplatz ( 5 ), the quarter not far from Neumühle in the south ( 6 ) and Hartacker on the southern arm of the Ilm ( 7 ).
Historical center
The historic center of Vohburg ( 1 ) includes the castle hill, the rectory, the small Danube gate in the south, the market square and the Danube road. The eastern town center on Alten-Landgerichtsstrasse also belongs to it, the Auertor to the west, the houses on Hohenstaufenstrasse and the Donautor to the north. This densely built-up part of Vohburg has existed for centuries. Today it is the administrative center of the city with the town hall and the district office branch. The city library and the Kulturstadl are also located here.
Before the modern structural change of the last few decades, the center was littered with small craft businesses and businesses, including the Kopp tannery, the Ludsteck fashion house, the Demmel confectionery, the Polz car workshop and the Hammerschmid baker. On the Donaustraße there were inns like the Strasser-Wirt or the Gasthaus zur Sonne ("Schapfl"). In addition, beer was brewed in the Amberger brewery. Today city center life is shaped primarily by the authorities, the bank branches, the bakery and butcher chains and the gastronomy on the market square with pizzeria, bar, cafe and ice cream parlor.
Burgberg / Burgstrasse
Burgstrasse forms the border between Au and Burgberg. It runs from the small Danube gate in the direction of the fire station describes a narrow loop running around the castle hill, which passes the Auertor on the left and from there runs back to Donaustraße as Hohenstaufenstraße. The city center and the market square are to the east of the castle hill.
The castle hill houses mostly sacred and historical buildings: the Peterskirche, the cemetery, the remains of the Vohburg, the nursing home, old barns and cellars, the water tower and in the south the vicarage.
Before general electrification in the 20th century, the inhabitants of the slopes of the castle hill used small caves and sheds to store and cool food in the cool rock massif. On the east side of the mountain there are larger cellars that extend into the castle hill and on which the residents created terraced gardens. This terracing can also be seen around the castle hill.
Au
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Au ( 3 ) consisted largely of arable land and small gardens. There were isolated farms a few hundred meters from the castle hill.
In the Au the streets have bird names (example: Amselweg, Habichtstraße, Kiebitzweg). Exceptions are three main streets, Austraße (runs south from Burgstraße, towards BP-Weiher), Augartenweg (near the fire station / bus stop Vohburg, Augartenweg separates from Austraße and runs westwards), Auertorstraße (connects to Auertor the Burgstrasse and runs west) and the less developed Augrabenweg. The fire station of the Vohburg volunteer fire brigade is located in the Au .
The name of the district comes from the floodplains of the small Danube (in the south of the Au) and the Danube (north of the Au). The proximity to the two rivers and the low-lying terrain were often fatal for the floodplain in the past: the residents there often had to deal with floods. Since the flood exposure for the small Danube (2007–2008), the district is now largely protected from the floods of the northern Ilm branch.
Neumühle
There is another quarter ( 6 ) at the southern end of Bahnhofstrasse . Framed by Neumühle in the south and the tall warehouse on the main street, it forms the southern edge of the city. The Neumühle itself was mentioned in the market law letter as early as 1350. The "Yellow Blocks" followed much later in connection with the industrial settlement of 1966/1968 (BP and power station). Today there is business there (the Kaltenecker car dealership, Auto Huber or the Seber printing company). In the last few years a steadily growing housing estate has emerged in addition to this trade, which in the vicinity of the "Yellow Blocks" extends almost to Neumühle.
At the very end, on the extreme southern edge of the city, there is the lock ("Schleissn"), which divides the Ilm into two arms: the northern arm, the small Danube, and the southern arm, which is still called the Ilm and continues towards Hartacker .
Hartacker
Hartacker ( 7 ) was mentioned in a document as early as the 12th century. In the records of the Münchsmünster monastery, “servants and persons liable to pay interest” from the village were listed. Over the centuries the name "Ardachaer", "Ardakker" or "Artackher" for the local nobility settled there. In 1616 the area around the place was called "Harackher Acker", which is derived from fields on a Hart (a small pasture forest or a public pasture). To this day, “Harackher” has been used by the Vohburgers.
After the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century, the village comprised 24 houses and a mill, which was located on the Ilm, and at that time belonged to the municipality of Wöhr . To this day, the properties are listed under the district name of Oberwöhr. In 1837 Hartacker became an independent municipality. In 1907, the Alter family took over the inn and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.
On January 1, 1972, Hartacker became a district of Vohburg as part of the regional reform in Bavaria.
In its current state, Hartacker is seamlessly connected to the city center of Vohburg through the settlements built in the last quarter of the 20th century.
From the city center, Hartackerstraße leads south-east to Hartacker, starting at the large Bahnhofstraße / Regensburgerstraße intersection. It leads to the elementary school, to the senior center "Herzog Albrecht", the Jahnstraße with connection to the industrial area and sports park, to industrial areas and the settlement street. This road to Hartacker is therefore of above-average importance. The core of Hartacker can be clearly seen in the chapel, which was newly built in 1910/11. This is also where the Alter tavern is located and the Waldstrasse, which adjoins Hartackerstrasse, crosses Kreuzstrasse.
history
The history of Vohburg includes the beginnings of settlements in the Stone Age, medieval heydays, a devastating break in the Thirty Years' War, Napoleon's stay, and many other interesting and significant events. Today's Vohburg is defined by its history, which is precisely why it was elevated to a town in 1952.
Historical town festivals and the Agnes Bernauer Festival do their part to ensure that Vohburg and its citizens keep the history of their hometown alive. The short history treatise on the city's homepage and especially Max Kirschner's On the History of the City of Vohburg served as sources . (listed under literature ).
From the Bronze Age to the first destruction of the Vohburg
- 1500 BC Finds on the Vohburger Burgberg indicate a settlement there in the Bronze Age
- 895 AD. First mention of a "larger fortified courtyard" on the castle hill. This was owned by a 'Pernhard de Vohapurch'.
- 911–1081 The Counts of Vohburg are documented as nobles residing in the castle
- 1081 With the wedding of Beatrix von Vohburg (widow of Count Palatine Cuno II ) with Rapoto III. von Cham the dynasty of the Vohburg counts died out. The Diepoldinger (the name is still rooted in the family name Diepold, which occurs frequently in the region) now ruled over the Vohburg. This already had serious consequences for the Vohburg 25 years later.
- 1104–1106 After the German Emperor Heinrich IV had been cursed and disempowered by the Pope (see also under Gang to Canossa ), his advocacy disappeared under the German princes and especially with his son Heinrich V , who took him prisoner in 1104 and ascended his throne. Margrave Diepold von Vohburg acted as an important advisor, who, along with a few other princes, played the decisive role in Henry V's accession to the throne. Henry IV was able to free himself from captivity and punished the main agitators , among whom, as already mentioned above, was the Diepoldinger: The castle of Vohburg was founded in 1105 by troops of the allied Margrave Luitpold of Austria and his brother-in-law, the Bohemian King Bořivoj II. , completely destroyed. However, when the overthrown king died in 1106 and nothing warlike could be expected from his allies, Diepold built the castle according to his ideas.
From the Wittelsbach family to the third destruction of the Vohburg
- from 1204 the castle was owned by the Wittelsbach family
- 1246 marriage of Elisabeth of Bavaria , daughter of Duke Otto II the Illustrious, with the Roman-German King Conrad IV.
- 1316 After Ludwig the Strict died, the Vohburg went to his son Duke Rudolf. A rift broke out between Rudolf and his brother, Duke Ludwig the Bavarian , who later became the German Emperor. In the dispute between the two brothers, Ludwig destroyed the magnificent Diepoldinger building on Burgberg and other possessions of his brother. The latter showed himself to be submissive and withdrew from the government and from the claim to Vohburg.
- 1316–1414 Until it was rebuilt, the destroyed castle was sold to all (secular and clerical) princes and moved for 100 years. The Schilwazen are occupied as keepers during this period . In addition to their influence in Vohburg, the Schilwazen had possessions in Schillwitzhausen, Irsching, Ilmendorf, Engelbrechtsmünster and Wöhr.
- 1414 Duke Ernst of Bavaria rebuilt the castle on the foundations of the Diepolding building.
- 1641 The Vohburg was destroyed for the third and last time. When the Swedes reached Vohburg during the Thirty Years' War under General Banér , they destroyed the castle one last time in its history. The settlement area or the market at the foot of the Vohburg could be saved from devastation by a considerable fire tax. Many citizens of Vohburg fled to the nearby forests or to the well-protected Ingolstadt. This break in the city's history draws a final line under the medieval significance of the Vohburg and marks a turning point in the history of the city.
From the War of the Spanish Succession to the city's recent history
- 1704 After a brief siege by the Austrians in the War of the Spanish Succession , Vohburg was conquered by the Austrians and the market and the surrounding villages were plundered. In November 1704, Prince Eugene of Savoy stopped in Vohburg, whose horses even had to build new stables. The time of occupation by the Austrians lasted until 1715, when Vohburg was repeatedly fleeced by high war costs.
- 1809 Napoleon stayed at the castle on the Burgberg on April 19 to prepare for the battle of Abensberg against the Austrians
- 1952 elevation to the city by Wilhelm Hoegner
- 1963 Settlement of the oil refinery of Deutsche BP (today Bayernoil )
- 1966 Construction of the steam power plant of the Isar-Amper-Werke (today E.ON )
- 2007 Start of expansion of the power plant and construction of a test gas turbine
- Famous visitors to Vohburg throughout history
Conrad IV.
Sweden General Johan Banér
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Napoleon Bonaparte
Incorporations
On January 1, 1972, the previously independent community of Hartacker was incorporated. On July 1, 1972, Dünzing and Oberhartheim (both previously in the Ingolstadt district ) were added. Irsching , Menning and Rockolding followed on January 1, 1978.
Population development
Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 5,952 to 8,312 by 2,360 inhabitants or 39.7%.
The diagram gives a rough overview of how the population in Vohburg has changed over the past 200 years. The left-hand scale shows the number of inhabitants, the lower the year.
While around 1,000 people still lived in the ducal city around 1800, by the beginning of the 21st century there were already over 7,000. In addition to all epidemics (nerve fever in 1813, cholera in 1854), the wars also had an impact on the total number of Vohburgers.
While there were 16 dead in the Napoleonic Wars and seven in the Franco-German War, there are 270 (108 in the first and 162 in the second) fallen Vohburg men in the two world wars. With around 2,000 people, that was around 14 percent of the population and around 30 percent of the male citizens of Vohburg.
In the post-war period, Vohburg continued to grow. The incorporation of Hartacker (348 inhabitants), Oberhartheim and Pleiling (156) and Dünzing (437) in 1972 also caused a sharp increase in the number of inhabitants (light blue bar). In 1978 the formerly independent municipalities Irsching (699 inhabitants), Menning (438) and Rockolding (545) were incorporated , which is evident from the sudden increase in 1978 (dark blue bar).
politics
Local politics in the post-war period
With the liberation of Vohburg from the rule of the National Socialists on April 26, 1945, the current chapter in Vohburg's history begins. After 66 Wehrmacht soldiers were killed and 6 civilians were killed in the battle for the city, Vohburg was occupied by the Americans. Born in Vohburg, Alfons Hierhammer (1904–1975), who lived in the United States for many years and even held American citizenship, was appointed mayor by the governor of Pfaffenhofen, Major Graham. This happened on May 4, 1945, around a week after the battle for the city. The mayor under the National Socialists, Joseph Lohr from Hartacker, was deposed.
Hierhamer's knowledge of English, his relationships with the Americans, and his political skill in difficult times proved to be a godsend for the market town. A makeshift bridge was quickly built over the Danube after the iron Danube bridge was destroyed in the battle for Vohburg. At the instigation of Hierhammer, the people of Vohburg were given back the church bells that the National Socialists had taken from them (see ARG from 1947–1953 ).
Alfons Hierhammer also ensured that Vohburg was replaced by Dr. Wilhelm Hoegner was raised to town. The planning and construction of the BP refinery in Vohburg, which was officially opened in 1968, also fell during his term of office. Hierhammer was first elected mayor by the citizens in 1946. He was confirmed in office in the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1966 elections before resigning in 1970 for health reasons. The economic upswing in the post-war period, as well as the new self-confidence as the "City of Vohburg" after centuries without any meaning to regain greater appreciation in the region, led to a heyday that continues to this day.
City council
The following chapter is devoted to the development of the Vohburg City Council based on the city council elections from 1990 to the present day.
The 1990 election plays a key role in the city's recent political history. Under Mayor Joseph Hammerschmid, the Aktives Vohburger (AV), founded in September 1989, will join the city council for the first time with four seats. The proportion of the active Vohburgers grew steadily in the decades that followed, making them the largest group in the Vohburg city council in 2008 and 2020.
The following is the proportion of votes in the city council elections in the period 1990-2020:
| Election year | CSU | SPD | FW 1 | AV | FDP | REP |
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| 1990 | 25.2 | 17.0 | 36.9 | 17.2 | - | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 25.4 | 22.9 | 38.8 | 12.9 | - | - |
| 2002 | 30.9 | 19.8 | 26.8 | 18.2 | 4.2 | - |
| 2008 | 20.9 | 25.7 | 24.8 | 28.6 | - | - |
| 2014 | 19.6 | 33.1 | 18.7 | 28.6 | - | - |
| 2020 | 18.1 | 27.2 | 25.8 | 28.9 | - | - |
mayor
Mayors in the 20th and 21st centuries:
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Parties and people
In the period from 1990 to 2020, the CSU in Vohburg is shaped by Rudi Fahn, mayor from 1996–2008, and Xaver Dietz, long-time chairman of the CSU local association. The strong man of the SPD is Martin Schmid, initially 2nd mayor under Fahn. Schmid then prevailed against Werner Ludsteck (AV) in the runoff election in 2008 and is still mayor of the city. The Free Voters provided the mayor with Joseph Hammerschmid from 1978 to 1996, but were then twice defeated in the mayor runoff election (candidate both times: Josef Stangl) of the CSU under Fahn. Since the mid-2000s, Ernst Müller has been the main contributor to the Free Voters. With the active Vohburger it is Werner Ludsteck and Sepp Steinberger, who lead the faction in the city council for many years.
Town twinning
religion
Parishes and churches of the city
In Vohburg, in addition to the secularized Church of St. Andrew, today's town hall , the town parish church of St. Peter on the Burgberg and St. Anton on the market square dominate the cityscape.
St. Anton is the branch church of the Catholic parish of St. Peter and was built by the Franciscans in 1728 in its current size . Due to the dissolution of the Franciscan monastery by secularization in 1802, the monastery building and the church stood empty for a year before they were used from 1803 to 1823 as a parish replacement for the St. Peter's Church, which was still under renovation. The outbuilding was used as a school until the 20th century. Today the Vohburg branch of the Sparkasse is located there. St. Anton was renovated in 1946/47, 1965 and in the 1990s. During the last-mentioned renovation, the church was also equipped with a new organ.
St. Peter was built in its current size between 1820 and 1823. It is the main church of the parish of St. Peter. Since the beginning of the settlement of the castle hill, sacred buildings have been erected at the current location of the church. The spectrum ranges from simple wooden churches to medieval Gothic buildings . In 1697/98 the fourth church was built here, in the baroque style. In 1717 the church tower was partially demolished and the onion dome, which is still characteristic today, was built. St. Peter was in very poor condition in the middle of the 18th century, but was not completely renovated until 1820. 1980–1983 the church was completely renovated.
In Vohburg there is also a Protestant congregation whose church, St. Johannes , is not to be found in the center of Vohburg, but in Hartackerstraße. It was inaugurated at Easter 1969 and is built in the style of a modern church from the 1960s.
The churches in the districts north of Vohburg - Dünzing ( St. Nikolaus ) and Oberhartheim ( Our Lady ) - are all branch churches of the St. Peter parish in the center of Vohburg. Menning ( St. Martin ), on the other hand, is its own parish, but is also looked after from Vohburg.
The branch churches in Rockolding, Ilmendorf and Knodorf are managed by the parish of St. Ottilia in Irsching .
The blessed farmer
The story of the blessed farmer is of great importance for the Catholic community in Vohburg. It is about the farmer Johann, who is said to have lived near Griesham at the end of the 15th century . After his wife and children died, legend has it that he retired as a hermit in the Dürnbuch forest and left his property to the church. One day the pious man was attacked, mistreated and hung up in his house by two robbers.
When he was found, all evidence pointed to a suicide. As was customary in the past, the body was not buried in the cemetery, but rather buried on the gallows next to the beam. The story goes on to say that a few weeks later after visiting the fair in Vohburg, people went to the grave and suddenly saw the blind among them again when they saw the place of death, and the lame could walk again. People took these miraculous healings as evidence of the innocence and holiness of the blessed farmer. The two robbers were caught shortly after and admitted the murder of the hermit from the Dürnbuch forest.
The body was exhumed and buried in the hospital church. Over time, the bones of the blessed farmer were transferred to St. Andrew's Church and then later to St. Anton, where they are still to this day. His remains rest in an ornate sarcophagus in a reliquary on the left side of the nave. There is also a pillar in memory near his hut in the forest .
On the Galgenberg near Menning, a Menninger farmer built a chapel in 1950 in honor of the blessed farmer, which was restored in 2009. There are still documents there from people who were sick and suffering, who thank the blessed farmer for relieving them of pain and healing them.
Culture and sights
See also: List of architectural monuments in Vohburg an der Donau and List of ground monuments in Vohburg an der Donau
Vohburg Castle
The remains of the high medieval Vohburg castle are on a rock above the town . Today, the castle hill serves as the cemetery of the Church of St. Peter and as a venue for the regularly held open-air festival, which is well known beyond the region. In the entrance gate to the cemetery is the oldest coat of arms of Bavaria, which is carved in stone slabs on the north inside.
Buildings
The Vohburg town hall, which is located in the secularized St. Andrew's Church in the north of the market square, was completely renovated and restored by 2007. The interior rooms were redistributed in years of renovation work and the main entrance was moved from the west to the south side. In addition, the fresco on the west gable, which depicts the medieval Vohburg, was repainted. The renovated town hall was presented to the public in October 2007 and visited shortly afterwards in February 2008 by the then Bavarian Prime Minister Günther Beckstein .
On the eastern slope of the castle hill is the care castle , which was rebuilt in 1721 and renovated in 1785–1786. In addition, Napoleon stayed in the castle during the war against Austria from April 19-20, 1809. In the 20th century it served as a hospital and retirement home.
In November 2010 the Agnes-Bernauer-Halle - a still young building of the city - was inaugurated. The multi-purpose hall offers space for sporting activities and events and was opened with an indoor soccer tournament of the local sports clubs, which TV Vohburg won. The building is located directly at the Vohburg elementary school, can be reached via the school yard and uses the parking space in front of the school.
City gates
The city center of Vohburg has three city gates that close the old town to the north, west and south. In addition, a north-south axis through Vohburg can be identified by the Kleine Donautor and the Donautor. Both follow or followed in the Middle Ages the bridges over the Danube and the Little Danube .
More about the gates:
- The Kleine Donautor is the unmistakable landmark of the city and is located in the south of the city center. It was last renovated in the 1980s.
- The Donautor was completely renovated in 2008 and opened to the public for the first time on the Open Monument Day in 2008. In the future it will be used as a city archive and as a tourist office.
- The Auertor is located in the Au , in the west of the castle hill.
- In addition, the castle gate is located on the castle hill, in which the oldest Bavarian coat of arms from 1477 is located.
- Gates of the city of Vohburg
Little Danube author
Danube author
Auertor
Castle gate (from inside)
The "Subject"
The importance of the Betlauter is deeply anchored in the Vohburg city population. It usually rings with a high-pitched bell when it is time for the children on the streets to go home in the evening. This tradition has been maintained for many generations.
The Betläuter is actually only the head of an old man on the south side of Andrew's church tower. Until the renovation in the 1960s, the wooden head hung there, ringing the bell for the children to go to bed. This head shows a little man with a pointed hat and a beard to which a bell is attached. The age of the head is estimated to be 400 years. It can be assumed that the head shows the architect or builder in a stylized way, as is the case, for example, with other sacred buildings. Badly weathered and marked by the long time spent at the Andreaskirche, it was removed in 1964 and replaced by a metal replica in the mid-1990s. This continues the custom and rings three times a day for the Angelus prayer in the usual bright bell voice of the prayers.
There is also the legend that the shepherd Hannes lost a game with the devil and loosened the bells of St. Andrew. They were supposed to kill the Messner, but this went seriously wrong and cost him his life. His headless body was found on the church wall, but the head with a bell on his beard was hanging on the church. As a reminder, a head carved out of wood was later attached: the prayers .
Festivals and markets
A fixed sequence of markets and festivals takes place in Vohburg every year. Spring is celebrated by the Josefi market on a Sunday in March.
As in many municipalities in Bavaria, maypoles are set up in Vohburg on May 1st . There are four maypoles in the urban area of Vohburg: in front of the town hall in the city center, in the Au near the Auertor, in the Beizn and by the chapel in Hartacker, whereby the maypole in the Beizn is not set up on May 1st, but on April 30th . There are maypoles in the Vohburg districts.
The city festival (connected with the Petersmarkt) celebrates the city on a June weekend in the city center.
The folk festival is held at the beginning of September and usually lasts from Friday (election of the fair queen) to Sunday (afternoon for the elderly and children). At the end of the year, the Kathrein market (November) and the Christmas market (December) take place.
Agnes Bernauer Festival
The festival organized by the Kolping Family Vohburg has been an integral part of the city's cultural life since 1909. They are always organized as amateur plays by the citizens of Vohburg.
Until 2005 it was the stage adaptation of the Bernauer material by Martin Greif , which was interpreted in artistic freedom by the directors. In 2009 a new version of the story of Agnes Bernauer was used to celebrate the hundred-year tradition of the games : Isabella Kreim, a doctor of theater studies from Ingolstadt , took on the subject. The piece celebrated its premiere on July 2, 2009.
In April 1909, the story of the Augsburg Bader daughter and her tragic end was premiered by the Catholic Citizens Association in Vohburg. To celebrate the 175th anniversary of the citizens' association in 1926, the play was performed again. From then on, the festival was repeated every 25 years. In 2001 the piece was first played as an open-air piece. The success prompted those responsible to shorten the cycle from 25 years to just four years and to move it permanently to the open-air stage on the Burgberg. The festivals of 2005 and 2009 took place there.
Those responsible for the last festival were the director Ernst Grauvogl, the project managers Sepp Steinberger and Ludwig Schleibinger, and the costume master Helmut Eisele. Around 120 Vohburgers took part in the 2009 Agnes Bernauer Festival.
In June / July 2013 the Agnes Bernauer Festival took place again in a new production on Vohburger Burgberg. The Munich theater director Christine Neuberger, who grew up in Vohburg and worked as an assistant director for Franz Xaver Kroetz, took over the direction.
sport and freetime
TV Vohburg
The Turnverein Vohburg is the largest sports club in Vohburg. It was founded in 1911 and houses departments in the areas of football, athletics, gymnastics, table tennis, stick shooters, karate, modern fitness and leisure cycling. The first chairman is Michael Huber, the club colors red-blue.
The first football team on TV plays in the Pfaffenhofen district class (district: Upper Bavaria, district: Donau / Isar).
The TV Vohburg is also the current indoor city champion. In the opening tournament of the Agnes-Bernauer-Halle in autumn 2010, the first men's team prevailed against teams from the districts and neighboring communities.
In 1999, TV Vohburg moved from the sports fields on Griesstrasse to the newly built sports center on Jahnstrasse in the Vohburg industrial park. In addition to a stadium and training rooms, this also includes long jump, shot put facilities and a running track. A clubhouse was also built there, which the members of the TV team built on their own.
Football in the other districts
Almost every district of Vohburg has its own sports club and thus a football department. This leads to intense competition and many local derbies. SV Irsching-Knodorf , FC Rockolding and SV Menning always try to defeat TV from the ducal city.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Vohburg train station is in the Rockolding district on the Regensburg – Ingolstadt railway line .
Vohburg can also be reached via federal highways 16 and 16a .
With the INVG lines 26 and N8 , Vohburg is also integrated into the bus network of the city of Ingolstadt.
education
There are three kindergartens and a primary and secondary school in Vohburg. Secondary schools (secondary schools, grammar schools and technical schools) are located in Ingolstadt , Manching and in the district town of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm .
Established businesses
Bayernoil BT Vohburg, HF safety clothing , MERO pipeline , CLAAS agricultural machinery , E.ON power plant Irsching , drinks HÖRL, B1 Systems.
At the E.ON location in Irsching, a test field was created for the world's largest and most powerful SGT5-8000H (375 MW) gas turbine , which was newly developed by Siemens Power Generation. After completion of the test phase, the gas turbine was integrated into a modern CCGT with an overall efficiency of 60%. On May 11, 2011, power plant unit 4 in Irsching achieved an efficiency of 60.75% in trial operation, making it the new world record holder.
Personalities
The city of Vohburg was inextricably linked by its biographer Felix Joseph Lipowsky with the tragic story of Agnes Bernauer , the daughter of a Bader from Augsburg , a lover of Duke Albrecht III. : Albrecht III. was governor in Straubing and the only heir to the duchy, so that a secret wedding (allegedly carried out at Vohburg Castle) with the "Bernauerin" would have endangered the continued existence of the lineage. Albrecht's father, Duke Ernst of Bavaria-Munich , had the woman from Bernau captured during his son's hunting excursion and drowned on October 12, 1435 near Straubing in the Danube .
Honorary citizen
Name, life dates, occupation, earnings for the city of Vohburg and finally the year in which the honorary citizen was obtained are given
- Ulrich Steinberger (1825–1904), pastor in Vohburg from 1868; to this day he is considered to be the greatest benefactor of Vohburg; 1890 first honorary citizen of Vohburg
- Joseph Piller (1842–1926), pastor in Vohburg; In 1917 he was made an honorary citizen on the occasion of his golden jubilee as a priest
- Wilhelm Hoegner (1887–1980), a. a. Bavarian Prime Minister; In 1952 he was made an honorary citizen on the occasion of the elevation of Vohburg to the city he had prompted
- Karl Hafner (1878–1962), teacher and rector; worked at the elementary school Vohburg from 1908 to 1945; 1955 honorary citizenship
- Josef Karg (1881–1972), master builder and government superstructure inspector; primarily promoted the protection of Vohburg from floods; 1956 was honored with the dignity of an honorary citizen because of his commitment
- Max Bogner (1875–1957), master tailor and mayor of Vohburg; In 1957 he was made an honorary citizen posthumously.
- Georg Huber (1883–1957), pastor in Vohburg from 1932 to 1956; In 1957 he was made an honorary citizen posthumously
- Karl Gerz (1877–1963), textile merchant; committed himself to the regulation of the Ilm and the introduction of electric light in Vohburg; he became an honorary citizen in 1957
- Konrad Schneider (1885–1968), master painter; Painted the fresco on the gable end of the town hall (1955); In 1960 he was honored with the title of honorary citizen because of his special commitment to preserving the historical character of the city
- Tobias “Dobe” Kopp (1873–1963), master tanner; He was a long-time magistrate and involved in supplying Vohburg with electricity; In 1963 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Vohburg
- Max Kirschner (1906–1992), dialect poet, local researcher and teacher in Wöhr and Vohburg; In 1976 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Vohburg (1973 already honorary citizen of Wöhr )
- Joseph Pflügl (1929–2014), city council member from 1966 to 2008, district council member from 1972 to 2002
sons and daughters of the town
- Adela von Vohburg (late 1128 – after 1187), first wife of the later Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, German queen and Duchess of Swabia
- Diepold II of Vohburg († 1078), Margrave of the Nordgau and von Giengen
- Diepold III. von Vohburg (1075–1146), Margrave of the Nordgau and von Nabburg, Vohburg and Cham
- Franz Xaver Anton von Stubenrauch (1718–1793), administrative lawyer, economist and forest scientist
- Joseph Graetz (1760–1826), organist, composer and music teacher
Vohburg local history researcher
Joseph Pfügl and Max Kirschner should be explicitly mentioned here, who have recorded the history of Vohburg for the following generations in words and pictures with their books over the past decades.
In his books, Kirschner primarily deals with the history of the city of Vohburg. He explains the prehistoric finds on the castle hill and describes the medieval core of the city. In On the History of the City of Vohburg , chronologically important events from early history to 1978 are listed.
In his book Vohburg with its districts in the 20th century, Pflügl summarizes the recent history of Vohburg in the 20th century and illustrates it with many pictures. It thus conveys the changes that the city has undergone over the last century.
literature
- Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, ISBN 3-7787-3115-7
- Elisabeth Able: A Bavarian market in the era of reform absolutism. Vohburg an der Donau 1745–1799. Also: Eichstätt, Univ., Diss., 2001, Herbert Utz, Munich 2007, 414 pp., ISBN 978-3-8316-0718-1 (Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia; 182)
- Friedemann Needy : The Hohenstaufen. A lexicon. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-89678-288-6 .
Web links
- The official site of the city
- Entry on the coat of arms of Vohburg an der Donau in the database of the House of Bavarian History
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 Vohburg an der Donau in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 12, 2019.
- ↑ Gasthaus Alter in Hartacker - 100 years of tavern - tradition ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The old ducal town of Vohburg - through the ages ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, pages 14 to 16
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, pages 41 and 42
- ^ Wiguleus Hund: Bavarian Stammen-Buch. Second part. Ingolstadt, 1595, page 328.
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, page 123
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, pages 83 and 84
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 550 .
- ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 586 .
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, pages 134 to 141
- ↑ Joseph Pfügl: Vohburg and its districts in the 20th century. 1998, pages 29 to 31
- ↑ Joseph Pfügl: Vohburg and its districts in the 20th century. 1998, pages 244 ff.
- ↑ Rudolf Osterauer: Münchsmünster with Wöhr and Schwaig through the ages. Pp. 166–167, published by the Münchsmünster community, 1981.
- ↑ Peter M. Busler: The Hallertau - portrait of an urban Bavarian landscape. P. 39, W. Ludwig Buchverlag, Pfaffenhofen 1990, ISBN 3-7787-3365-6
- ^ Max Kirschner: On the history of the city of Vohburg. 1978, p. 142.
- ↑ The subject ( memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.freilichtfestspiele.de/agens-bernauer-festspiele
- ↑ The most powerful power plant in the world. Image of Science, May 20, 2011, accessed September 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Joseph Pfügl: Vohburg and its districts in the 20th century. 1998, pages 33 to 39
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