Vorderfreundorf

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Vorderfreundorf
Grainet parish
Coat of arms of Vorderfreundorf
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 29 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 45 ″  E
Residents : 410  (1987)
Incorporation : April 1, 1971
Vorderfreundorf (Bavaria)
Vorderfreundorf

Location of Vorderfreundorf in Bavaria
The village chapel
The village chapel

Vorderfreundorf is a district of the municipality of Grainet in the Freyung-Grafenau district . Until 1971 it formed an independent municipality.

location

Vorderfreundorf is located in the Bavarian Forest about three kilometers southeast of Grainet on the state road 2630.

history

In a document from 1486, the place is mentioned for the first time in connection with disputes with the older Exenbach settlement over meadow irrigation and pasture use. From the certificate it can be seen that agriculture was the livelihood of the young Freindorf settlement and that from the beginning they had adjusted to grazing.

At that time, the forest and pasture land of the rich Freindorfer farmers extended as far as the Bohemian border in the north and the Rannariedlisch-Austrian border in the east. Already at the beginning of the 16th century they had the right to graze on the "great Haid" on the Bohemian border. Today the place Haidmühle stands on this controversial piece of borderland on the Moldau-oxbow lake . Around 1550 Vorderfreundorf had 14 houses.

In the first years of the Thirty Years' War, Vorderfreundorf acquired particular importance due to its location on Haidweg, as it had to accommodate larger troop units several times. The inhabitants were obliged to fortify forests and roads, to "beat up". They had to do digging work and pretensioning services. Prince-Bishop Leopold I gave the order on May 20, 1619 to build the “large ski jump” in Gschwendet. This functional building, which can still be seen today, was largely built by the inhabitants of the villages of Vorderfreundorf, Fürholz and Grainet.

In Vorderfreundorf, among other things, Walloon troops were quartered in 1620 as border guards, who lived so badly that on March 20, 1620 the Passau court councilor asked the commander to moderate "so that the poor subjects would not be driven out of the house and court". But in the same year Vorderfreundorf burned down. On March 17, 1623, the Councilor of Passau decreed that the Fürholzer Abbräufer 400 guilders once and for all, the Vorderfreundorf Abbrenders 20 guilders each and that the timber should be delivered.

The community of Vorderfreundorf, formed in 1818, emerged from the tax district of the same name, much smaller . It initially belonged to the Wolfstein Regional Court , from 1862 to the newly formed Waldkirchen Regional Court , from the same year with the separation of justice and administration to the newly created Wolfstein District Office, which became the Wolfstein District in 1939 . The community of Vorderfreundorf initially only included the localities of Gschwendet and Vorderfreundorf, and in 1868 the new settlements Reut and Sommerau were added.

In 1852 there were 23 houses with 273 inhabitants in Vorderfreundorf, 280 inhabitants in 1900 and 361 inhabitants and 73 houses in 1967. Since 1840 the community of Vorderfreundorf had a size of 746 hectares. If the coat of arms of the community of Vorderfreundorf showed a Trift hook and a paring knife, then this has to do with the Holztrift that developed at the beginning of the 19th century. With the beginning of the drift system, the Freindorf men, who also mastered forest work, found employment in the nearby Osterbach.

On October 15, 1968, the community names Reut and Sommerau were lifted again. As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipality of Vorderfreundorf was dissolved with effect from April 1, 1971 and incorporated into the municipality of Grainet. In 1987 Vorderfreundorf had 410 inhabitants.

Attractions

  • Lady Chapel. After an old, small chapel in the center of the village was demolished, the new building with an attached morgue was built on the outskirts in 1960. It contains the furnishings of the old chapel.

societies

  • Vorderfreundorf volunteer fire department
  • FC Vorderfreundorf

literature

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