Waldkirchen

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Waldkirchen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '  N , 13 ° 36'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Bavaria
County : Freyung-Grafenau
Height : 573 m above sea level NHN
Area : 80.04 km 2
Residents: 10,704 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 134 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 94065
Primaries : 08581, 08551, 08582
License plate : FRG, GRA, WOS
Community key : 09 2 72 151
LOCODE : DE WKX
City structure: 67 districts

City administration address : 		Rathausplatz 1
94065 Waldkirchen
Website : www.waldkirchen.de
Mayor : Heinz Pollak (UCW-FW)
Location of the town of Waldkirchen in the Freyung-Grafenau district
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Waldkirchen is located on one of the Goldene Steige and is the youngest and most populous town in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau . It was promoted to city in 1972.

Waldkirchen from the west

geography

Waldkirchen is one of the easternmost cities in Bavaria . The city lies between the three-river city of Passau and the Bavarian Forest National Park .

history

Waldkirchen market square
Market square and parish church

Until the 18th century

The Waldkirchen market owes its origins to the important Goldener Steig trade route in the direction of Bohemia , which probably dates back to the turn of the millennium. A travel report from 1203 by a pastor in or from a “church in the forest” suggests for the first time Waldkirchen. According to tradition, received Waldkirchen 1285 the market law and was the main town in the so-called Abbey land , formerly owned by the monastery Niederburg whether Passau that since the turn of the 13th century the property of the Bishopric of Passau was.

In 1300 the Passau prince-bishop Bernhard von Prambach confirmed the market rights, the sole salt deficit in the Passau compartment and the road constraint , but the Waldkirchen people later did not succeed in defending the rights for the then lucrative salt trade. From that time until 1806 the place had a market court with extensive magistrate rights.

In 1458, Waldkirchen was threatened with arson by the Hussites under Kaplirz de Sulewicz . The Passau bishop Ulrich von Nussdorf then had a curtain wall built with ten towers and two gateways around 1460 . In the oldest view of Waldkirchen from 1720 by Joseph Haas, the wall is still completely in place, some remains of the fortifications have been preserved to this day, other parts were largely reconstructed to enhance tourism.

The place was secularized in 1803 with most of the bishopric area in favor of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany and only fell to Bavaria in 1805 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Fires

In its history, between 1492 and 1945, six devastating city ​​fires struck Waldkirchen. The fire of 1862 destroyed 140 houses. The last fire occurred after shelling by American troops in the last days of the war on April 26, 1945. Eight people were killed, 48 houses and the church were destroyed and 120 families were left homeless.

city

On September 16, 1972, the Waldkirchen market was elevated to a town .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1968, the previously independent municipality of Oberfrauenwald was incorporated. On July 1, 1970, the municipalities of Ratzing and Schiefweg were added, Unterhöhenstetten followed on April 1, 1971. On January 1, 1978, Böhmzwiesel with part of the municipality of Stadl, which was dissolved in 1946, and the municipality of Karlsbach were added. There are 67 districts:

Population development

Waldkirchen within the boundaries of that time

  • 1939: 1,926 inhabitants
  • 1950: 2,647 inhabitants
  • 1970: 3,099 inhabitants

Waldkirchen as it is today

  • 1961: 05,764 inhabitants
  • 1970: 06,391 inhabitants
  • 1991: 09,943 inhabitants
  • 1995: 10,468 inhabitants
  • 2005: 10,603 inhabitants
  • 2010: 10,481 inhabitants
  • 2015: 10,283 inhabitants
  • 2016: 10,384 inhabitants
  • 2020: 10,721 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 9,489 to 10,534 by 1,045 inhabitants or 11%.

religion

88% of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic, another 6% Protestant, 0.3% Old Catholic, the rest profess to other religious communities or do not belong to any religious community. In addition to the churches of the various parishes, there are also numerous corridor chapels , wayside shrines and wayside crosses in the vicinity of the city .

politics

Waldkirchen Town Hall

City council

2020 election results
grouping be right Seats
CSU 27.98% 7th
UCW - FW 38.52% 9
BP 13.22% 3
SPD 9.43% 2
Green 6.22% 2
ÖDP 4.63% 1
Election result 2014
grouping be right Seats
CSU 34.95% 8th
UCW 26.55% 6th
BP 15.15% 4th
SPD 10.55% 2
ÖDP 5.17% 1
JWU 7.63% 2

mayor

  • 1. Mayor: Heinz Pollak, UCW FW
  • 2nd Mayor: Christian Zarda, UCW FW
  • 3rd Mayor: Hans Kapfer, BP

coat of arms

The city coat of arms of Waldkirchen shows, according to the name, a church with a tree.

Town twinning

ILE compartment

The community is a member of the “Integrated Rural Development Abteiland” (ILE Abteiland) working group founded by 11 communities in April 2011, whose motto is to preserve and design the natural, cultural and economic area of Abteiland as a livable home.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Goldener Steig Museum
  • Museum in the Emerenz Meier House, Schiefweg
  • House of Nature, Culture, Art and Youth (HNKKJ) in the former Kittlsäge on Marktmühlenweg in Waldkirchen
  • Art space Jahnstrasse

Buildings

  • City parish church of St. Peter and Paul , built from 1857 to 1861 according to plans by Leonhard Schmidtner. The three-aisled neo-Gothic pillar structure, known as the “Cathedral of the Bavarian Forest”, was badly damaged in World War II and then restored.
  • Side church of St. Karl Borromäus (Karoli Chapel), built around 1665, redesigned in 1756. The furnishings are baroque, on the restored ceiling frescoes the vita of St. Charles Borromeo depicted.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was built in 1955 near the parish church.
  • The historic market square with its medieval house facades and the stone wheel deflectors is the ideal setting for all kinds of celebrations
  • The funeral hall in Waldkirchen am Friedhof is a place of farewell and mourning.
  • The ground monument Goldener Steig Waldkirchen commemorates the 1000th anniversary of the Goldener Steig.
  • The Zwieselholz chapel from 1830 stands at the foot of the Karoliberges.
  • Along the “Grüß Gott” path there are many sights such as the memorial column for Maria Schmid, the Norman monument and the memorial of the Waldkirchen / Oberfrauenwald hunting association.
  • On the northern side of the so-called Saußwald, high above the Saußbachklamm, there is the portrait of "Maria vom Guten Rat" on a stone column.

Parks

  • City park . From June 29 to September 2, 2007, Waldkirchen hosted the “Nature in Waldkirchen” garden show. The event became the most successful"small" state horticultural show inBavaria since the series of events began.

Leisure and Tourism

  • In September 1973 the groundbreaking ceremony for the first public golf course in Germany took place in Waldkirchen-Dorn. In autumn 1975 the 9-hole course, located about 3 kilometers east of Waldkirchen, was opened with an area of ​​over 25 hectares. In 1997 and 1998 the course was expanded to include the 18-hole tournament facility in Poppenreut according to the plans of the architect Keith Preston, so that there is now a facility covering around 90 hectares.
  • The Erlauzwieseler See spa park is 2.5 kilometers east of Waldkirchen . There is a spa pavilion with a floating stage and other sights. Various types of water sports are possible in the lake.
  • The Waldkirchen climbing forest is popular with locals and tourists.
  • large exercise course (since 2014) at the Erlauzwieseler See spa park
  • Guest and community center with event hall and conference rooms for meetings
  • Karoli bathing park with indoor pool, sauna, outdoor pool, 100 meter slide and Mediterraneum
  • Saußbachklamm south of Waldkirchen
  • City park with the newly built city park stage in 2016
  • Magic forest on the Karoli
  • Kneipp facility on the lake
  • Ski lift on the Oberfrauenwald
  • more than 100 kilometers of cycling and hiking trails
  • Ice rink on Karoli mountain
  • Lookout tower at the Oberfrauenwald
  • several tennis courts
  • Mini golf course

Sports

  • Ice hockey : ESV Waldkirchen is an ice hockey club (the Karoli Crocodiles) that started playing in 1999 instead of the disbanded ice hockey department of TSV Waldkirchen, and is one of the city's flagships among sports clubs. He takes part in the BEV's game operations , where he plays his home games in the Karoli ice rink . From the 2018/19 season, the Crocodiles will play in the Bavarian State League .

The ESV achieved the greatest success in the club's history in 2011 after the Bavarian regional league runner-up when they qualified for the fourth-class regional league (BYL) . The ESVW could not exercise its right of promotion and therefore continued to play in the BLL in the following season . Further successes were the four-time championship of the Bavarian Regional League East and North and the two-time championship of the Bavarian Regional League East in 1995 and N / O 2011 . Source: rodi-db.de

Regular events

  • January 5th: Rauhnacht
  • Food truck festival in May (since 2016)
  • June: Citizens Festival
  • June: Ring wall festival
  • July / August: folk festival
  • July – September: brass music summer (since 2015)
  • Village market Schiefweg
  • Picnic in the park
  • Wolfstein autumn
  • Autumn market
  • Easter market
  • Christmas markets in the town's villages and in the market square

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Waldkirchen is connected to the A 3 via a motorway feeder (State Road 2131) (between Aicha vorm Wald and Hutthurm ) and from Röhrnbach via the B 12 . A state road - the old WOS 1 - connects Waldkirchen with Freyung . Moreover Passau on the B 12 to achieve after 30 kilometers.

In 1892 the Royal Bavarian State Railways took the Passau – Freyung line , on which the Waldkirchen (Niederbay) train station is located just outside in the Richardsreut district . From 1910, the Waldkirchen – Haidmühle railway branched off at the Waldkirchen station, providing a direct connection from Passau to Budweis in Bohemia. The route to Haidmühle was closed until 1995 and then converted into the Adalbert-Stifter walking and cycling path . The reception building of the Waldkirchen train station, built in neo-historic style, is now a listed building .

After the Passau – Freyung railway was no longer passable from August 2002, it was closed on April 1, 2005. This shutdown lasted until August 2009, when the Ilztalbahn GmbH , supported by the Förderverein Ilztalbahn eV, began to reactivate the line. The Waldkirchen – Freyung section has been in operation again since September 12, 2010, and the Waldkirchen – Passau section has also been open to public transport since July 16, 2011. Since then, as part of the Danube-Ilz-Moldau leisure traffic project, trains have been running again on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays in the summer months and year-round for special trips.

Waldkirchen also has a bus station not far from the town center. The city bus routes and the RBO buses , which connect the city to the local transport system of the Bavarian forest, run here.

economy

Companies

The most important employers include the Garhammer fashion house and also the tool manufacturer Gedore , which has a branch in Waldkirchen.

Public facilities

In addition to hospitals in Freyung and Grafenau, the clinics of the Freyung-Grafenau gGmbH have only operated one medical care center in Waldkirchen since the end of 2018 .

Education and Research

Kindergartens
  • St. Peter, Waldkirchen
  • Forest kindergarten "Die Waldbachkinder", Waldkirchen- Fischerhäusl
  • Forest kindergarten in the RSC building
  • Forest kindergarten at the eye candy
  • Forest kindergarten Dorn
  • Noah's Ark, Böhmzwiesel
  • St. Paul, Holzfreyung
  • St. Josef, Karlsbach
Elementary schools
  • Maria Ward Primary School Waldkirchen
  • Primary school Böhmzwiesel
  • Elementary school Karlsbach
  • Holzfreyung primary school
  • Special school in Erlenhain
Further training

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Ludwig Liebl (1874–1940), National Socialist medical officer and newspaper publisher, honorary citizen
  • Emerenz Meier (1874–1928), folk poet
  • Svatava Ohme-Fiedler (1921–2010), painter
  • Assumpta Schenkl (1924–2009), abbess
  • Heinrich Schmidhuber (* 1936), former mayor, member of the state parliament, president of bayer. Savings Banks and Giro Association, DFB Treasurer, Honorary Citizen
  • Nicolaus A. Huber (* 1939), professor, composer
  • Jutta Graf (* 1954), from 2003 to 2012 head of the Oberpfaffenhofen location of the German Aerospace Center
  • Rudolf Gallist (* 1955), Managing Director Microsoft Germany
  • Andrea Holzner (* 1964), Austrian politician ( ÖVP )
  • Stefan Binder (* 1978), soccer player and coach

People related to the city

Web links

Commons : Waldkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Waldkirchen  - travel guide

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. ↑ a b Stadt Waldkirchen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b bauernhofurlaub-bayerischerwald.de: Waldkirchen
  4. ^ Paul Praxl : The Golden Steig. A home booklet. Waldkirchen 1959 ( online at Staatliche-bibliothek-passau.de ).
  5. ^ Paul Praxl: The Golden Steig. Grafenau 1976, p. 12.
  6. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 627 and 628 .
  7. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 596 .
  8. ↑ Local elections 2020 in the city of Waldkirchen - overview. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ hogn.de: Ois Guade! 40 years of the Waldkirchen town elevation - 120 pictures for a birthday
  10. ^ Origin of ILE Abteiland , accessed on April 25, 2020.
  11. ↑ esv-waldkirchen.de, Info ESV Waldkirchen
  12. ^ Regiowiki.pnp.de, Ice Hockey in Lower Bavaria ESV Waldkirchen
  13. ↑ ref rodi-db.de, league membership ESV Waldkirchen
  14. ↑ https://www.frg-kliniken.de/ueber-uns/aktuelles-presse/aktuelles-presse/daten/2018/12/21/standort-waldkirchen-ab-22122018/