Waldthurn

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′  N , 12 ° 20 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Height :	556 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.96 km 2
Residents:	1916 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	92727
Area code :	09657
License plate :	NEW, ESB , VOH
Community key :	09 3 74 165
Market structure:	20 districts
Market administration address :	Vohenstraußer Str. 16 92727 Waldthurn
Website :	www.waldthurn.de
Mayor :	Josef Beimler ( CSU )
Location of the Waldthurn market in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district

Waldthurn (2016)

Town center with parish church St. Sebastian (2016)

Waldthurn is a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . The pilgrimage town of Fahrenberg belongs to the community of Waldthurn .

Community structure

The community of Waldthurn has 20 districts:

Albersrieth Brunnhof book Frankenrieth Goldbrunn Irlhof Kühbachhof

Lennesrieth Lindnermühle Maienfeld Mangelsdorf Oberbernrieth Oberfahrenberg Ottenrieth

Sandbachhöf Spielberg Unterfahrenberg Waldthurn Wampenhof Woppenrieth

history

Early settlement

Since the 8th century, Slavs coming from the east gradually settled the area around the rivers Pfreimd and Naab . Slavic place names such as Döllnitz, Söllitz , Köttlitz , Gleiritsch , Hohentreswitz or Trefnitz document an early settlement of the area around the Pfreimd. Slavic settlers infiltrating from the east met Bavarians advancing northwards from the south . Two trade routes, now also known as old roads, crisscrossed what is now the Upper Palatinate. They mostly ran along rivers. One of these old roads ran from Sulzbach-Rosenberg via Luhe , Michldorf , Kaimling , Waldau and Waldthurn along the Luhe to Tachau.

Reign of Waldthurn

Friedrich von Waldthurn has been documented since 1217. Waldthurn, Lennesrieth, Remmelberg, Letzau (Leutsowe), Pirk, Tresenfeld and the scattered meetings Bernhof and Willhof belonged to the dominion of Waldthurn . After 1308 the Waldau people had taken over the rule of Waldthurn. They called themselves Waldauer zu Waldthurn. In 1335 they owned Letzau with 7 farms, 2 estates and two desolate farms. In 1352 the Waldau people of Walthurn were able to acquire several properties from the Waldsassen Abbey, including Waldkirch, Bernrieth, Dimpfl and Fahrenberg , a monastic settlement of Waldsassen . From the middle of the 14th century until 1806, the rule of Waldthurn was a Bohemian fief. On April 10, 1540, Georg von Waldau zu Waldau and Walthurn sold the Waldthurn estate with the Schellenberg estate to Willibald von Wirsberg, who came from Wirsberg Castle near Kulmbach. A Salbuch of the Waldthurn rule from 1666, in which the ownership structure is recorded, reports on a monastery in Fahrenberg, in which "Cistercian monks were who passed away from time immemorial". The taxes to be paid previously to the Fahrberg monastery were received by the Waldauer zu Waldthurn, later their successor by the Wirsberger. As King of Bohemia, Emperor Ferdinand III sold. on May 16, 1656 the dominion of Waldthurn to Prince Wenzel von Lobkowitz . The Lobkowitz were owned by the Waldthurn domain until 1806. These sold the rule to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 .

See also : Waldthurner (noble family)

Many of the historic buildings were lost in the great fire on October 5, 1865.

Tax District and Parish Education

The Kingdom of Bavaria was divided into 15 districts in 1808. These districts were named after rivers based on the French model ( Naabkreis , Regenkreis , Unterdonaukreis , etc.). The districts were divided into district courts. The districts in turn should be divided into individual municipality areas. In 1808 the Vohenstrauß Regional Court was divided into 47 tax districts. One of them was the Waldthurn district with the wasteland Luhmühle. In 1821 the independent community of Waldthurn was established. On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities of Lennesrieth and Spielberg and parts of the area of ​​the dissolved community of Bernrieth were incorporated.

Population development

Population development in the municipality of Waldthurn taking into account the incorporations:

year	1840	1871	1900	1925	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2005	2010	2015
Residents	1757	1677	1737	1834	1890	2305	1923	2052	2072	2214	2157	2182	2015	1946

Between 1988 and 2018, the population fell from 2,067 to 1,913 by 154 inhabitants or 7.5%.

politics

Market council

Three groups have been represented in the municipal council since the 2014 election.

• CSU : 7 seats
• Free voters : 4 seats
• SPD : 3 seats

coat of arms

Blazon: Divided by blue and silver; above, side by side, three silver pinnacle towers connected by walls; below, three green deciduous trees standing on low green hills.

The coat of arms has been known since 1649.

Attractions

• former Lobkowitz Castle
• Stone crosses
• Fahrenberg with the pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Waldthurn

Personalities

• Johann Baptist Hauttmann (1756–1832), portrait painter
• Wolfgang Caspar Printz (1641–1717), composer, music writer and novelist
• Ludwig "Wigg" Bäuml (* 1954), painter, object artist and dialect poet
• Albert Rupprecht (* 1968), politician (CSU, Member of the Bundestag since 2002)
• Franz Weig (1927–1992), farmer and politician (CSU)
• Hans Beimler (1895–1936), politician ( KPD ) and political commissioner of the Thälmann battalion in the Spanish civil war .
• Franz Vitzthum (* 1973), singer ( countertenor )

traffic

Waldthurn station on the former Neustadt (Waldnaab) –Eslarn railway line has been closed.

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  Fahrberg with pilgrimage church (2016)

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  Hofzeil, sports grounds (2016)

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  Waldthurn Castle (2014)

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  Wampenhof (right), Spielberg (2014)

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  St. Jakob, Lennesrieth (2013)

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  House from 1890 (2014)

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. ↑ http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/orte/ortssuche_action.html ? Anzeige=voll&modus=automat&tempus=[phone]/184853&attr=OBJ&val= 998
3. ^ Anton Dollacker, Altstraßen der Mittel Oberpfalz, VHVO 88, p. 174
4. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 188 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 189 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Main State Archives Munich I, Pfalz-Neuburg, Ausw. Staten, No. 2587
7. ^ Main State Archives Munich, Court Literature Upper Palatinate, Waldthurn No. 3, May 56
8. ^ Main State Archives Munich, Court Literature Upper Palatinate, Floß No. 6 / I
9. ↑ Main State Archives Munich, Court Literature Oberpfalz, Waldthurn No. 3
10. ^ Ernst Emmering, The Government of the Upper Palatinate, History of a Bavarian Central Authority, Contributions to the History and Regional Studies of the Upper Palatinate, Issue 20, Regensburg 1981, p. 12 ff.
11. ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 211 ( digitized version ).
12. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 587 .
13. ^ Database statistical data for Bavaria
14. ^ Upper Palatinate Media - The New Day: Memories of Hans Beimler from Waldthurn: Fighters against the Nazis . In: onetz.de . ( onetz.de [accessed on December 22, 2016]).

literature

• Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 ( digitized version ).
• Alois Köppl, From the history of the community of Gleiritsch, 2nd edition, 1988
• Anton Dollacker, Altstraßen der Mittel Oberpfalz, VHVO 88
• Main State Archives Munich, Judicial Literature Upper Palatinate
• Main State Archive Munich I, Palatinate-Neuburg files

Web links

Commons : Waldthurn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• First recording sheet Waldthurn (1808–1864)
• Aerial views of the market
• Entry on the coat of arms of Waldthurn  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Albersrieth locality
• Waldthurn: Official statistics of the LfStat