Weichs (Regensburg)

Weichs Castle today

Weichs castle and brewery around 1700. Copper engraving by Michael Wening

Weichs is the District 08 from Regensburg . Weichs is located south of the Reinhausen district , north of the Danube at the confluence of the Regen River with the Danube, opposite the Regensburg port . The place was incorporated into the city of Regensburg on April 1, 1924.

Weichs was first mentioned as Wihs (= village spots) in 1310. At the site there is also a castle predecessor was formerly the still existing castle from the Renaissance . In the area around the castle, the famous Weichser radish , the Weichser Radi , was grown by gardeners .

During the Thirty Years' War , Weichs and the neighboring district of Reinhausen to the north became a quarter for several Bavarian infantry regiments under the command of General Feldzeugmeister Otto Heinrich Fugger during the fighting for Regensburg . These regiments had the thankless task of conquering the heavily fortified Stadtamhof , the northern bridgehead of the Stone Bridge, which was occupied by the Swedes .

After 1810, when the city of Regensburg fell to Bavaria, it became apparent that the new, not yet incorporated suburbs of Weichs and Reinhausen were difficult to reach and could only be reached indirectly via the stone bridge . As an attempt to improve the connection, boat crossings and ferry services were initially set up, and in 1873 even a cable ferry. When in the winter of 1893 the Weichs was cut off by an ice rush for 14 days and could not be supplied, a bridge to the Unteren Wöhrd was also planned, but nobody was able to finance its construction. After the incorporation, a pontoon bridge at the site of today's Nibelungen Bridge was opened to traffic in 1924 , and was in service until the then Adolf Hitler Bridge was completed in 1938.

Weichs had a stop on the narrow-gauge Walhalla Railway, which was put into operation in 1889, between Regensburg and Wörth on the Danube . From 1953 to 1963 the only Regensburg trolleybus line served the district. Today the district is characterized by multi-lane roads and new buildings - above all the Danube shopping center and the Regensburg business park .

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 602 .
↑ Peter Engerisser: A previously unknown view of the siege of Regensburg in 1634 . In: Negotiations of the historical association Regensburg . tape 148 . Verlag des Historisches Verein für Oberpfalz and Regensburg, 2008, ISSN 0342-2518 , p. 55-83 .
↑ Klaus Heilmeier: A desert island and more of a village than a suburb. Searching for traces on the Untere Wöhrd . In: City of Regensburg, Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Regensburg . tape 13 . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2550-5 , pp. 122 f .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Weichs - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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[1] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 602 .

[2] Peter Engerisser: A previously unknown view of the siege of Regensburg in 1634 . In: Negotiations of the historical association Regensburg . tape 148 . Verlag des Historisches Verein für Oberpfalz and Regensburg, 2008, ISSN 0342-2518 , p. 55-83 .

[3] Klaus Heilmeier: A desert island and more of a village than a suburb. Searching for traces on the Untere Wöhrd . In: City of Regensburg, Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Regensburg . tape 13 . Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2550-5 , pp. 122 f .