Wenzenbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wenzenbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '  N , 12 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Palatinate
County :	regensburg
Height :	358 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.85 km 2
Residents:	8727 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	292 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	93173
Primaries :	09407, 0941
License plate :	R.
Community key :	09 3 75 208
Community structure:	33 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Main street 40 93173 Wenzenbach, Germany
Website :	www.wenzenbach.de
Mayor :	Sebastian Koch ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Wenzenbach in the district of Regensburg

Wenzenbach is a municipality (until 1924 the name was Schönberg municipality ) in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria .

The community in the northeast of the city of Regensburg presents itself primarily as a residential community.

Parish Church of St. Peter Wenzenbach

geography

Geographical location

Wenzenbach is located in the Regensburg planning region about 9 km northeast of Regensburg .

Altitude level: between 320 and 475 m above sea level

Community structure

There are 33 districts:

Abbachhof Birkenhof Birkmühle Brunnhöfl Ehrenberg Forstacker Fußenberg Gonnersdorf Grabenbach

Grafenhofen Grünthal Haslbach Hauzenstein Hölzlhof Hop garden Irlbach Jägerberg

Kufberg Fiefdom Oberackerhof Probstberg Roith Sandhof Schnaitterhof Steinbügl

Mountain of straw Thanhausen Thanhof Thurnhof Unterackerhof Wenzenbach Zeitlhof Goat farm

There are the districts Grünthal I , Grünthal II , Hauzenstein, Wenzenbach, Kreuth and Kufberg.

history

Until the 19th century

Wenzenbach was already called Menzinpah in the 9th century , derived from the proper name Menzo . The place name means "to the brook of Menzo". The Regensburg bishop Ambricho recorded exchanges or gifts of goods several times in his domous episcopus in marca ad Menzinpah (= house of the bishop in the Wenzenbach corridor).

On September 12, 1504, the Battle of Schönberg took place here. The last great knight battle of the Middle Ages decided the Landshut War of Succession .

From 1614 Wenzenbach belonged to the Counts of Lerchenfeld , from 1751 to the Barons of Stingelheim and was part of the Electorate of Bavaria. Wenzenbach was the seat of the Schönberg estate, gifted with the blood spell . The Stingelheim family remained in the possession of Schönberg until 1817, when Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis bought the rule. In 1818 the political community of Schönberg was established, but it was subordinate to the first class patrimonial court of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis at Schönberg Palace . This also administered the patrimonial courts Bernhardswald and Wiesent . The last remnants of the aristocracy were abolished in the revolution of 1848 .

Name change

In 1924 the municipality of Schönberg was officially renamed Wenzenbach .

Incorporations

In 1945 or 1946 part of the dissolved community of Kreuth was incorporated. On May 1, 1978 Grünthal and Hauzenstein were added.

Religions

The Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church was consecrated in 2016.

Population development

year Residents 1939 2075 1950 2680 1961 3001 1970 4069 1985 5435 1990 6055 1995 6858 2000 7507

year Residents 2001 7784 2002 7900 2003 8000 2005 8116 2006 8200 2007 8255 2008 8214 2009 8199

year Residents 2010 8230 2011 8243 2012 8283 2013 8337 2014 8409 2015 8441 2016 8395

politics

City council election 2020

(in %)

 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

36.66

31.97

21.16

10.22

SPD

CSU

FW

Green

Current distribution of seats in the Wenzenbach municipal council (March 15, 2020)

    

A total of 20 seats

• SPD : 7
• CSU : 7
• FW : 4
• Greens : 2

mayor

On March 30, 2014, the 26-year-old social democrat Sebastian Koch was elected 1st mayor of the municipality. He decided the runoff election against Johannes Wiesbeck (CSU) with almost 61%. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, Sebastian Koch was re-elected with 70.94% of the vote.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 20 members. In the local elections on March 15, 2020, 4,890 of the 7,050 residents eligible to vote in the municipality of Wenzenbach exercised their right to vote, bringing the voter turnout to 69.36%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by a silver sloping beam, which is covered with a red halberd; above in blue a flying silver lark, below five times obliquely left divided by black and gold. " The coat of arms has been used since 1980.

Town twinning

The twin town of Wenzenbach has been the Czech town of Sušice since 2004 .

Culture and sights

Hauzenstein Castle

Hauzenstein Castle

→ Main article : Hauzenstein Castle

A Hauzenstein castle is first mentioned in 1372. At that time the owner was a Hermann Hauzendorfer. The present complex was built at the end of the 17th century by the Freidl family from stones from an old castle complex. It has been owned by the Walderdorff family since 1830 . The complex has a striking bell tower with an onion roof and a three-storey main building. The palace chapel is located in the portico. There is a baroque garden in the south of the complex.

Schoenberg Castle

Schoenberg Castle

→ Main article : Schönberg Palace

Three-storey hipped roof building with an irregularly broken floor plan to the south with oriel, core building 1253/54 (dendro. Dat.) With medieval extension, formative renovations from the late 17th to early 18th centuries and around 1770/71 (dendro. Dat.), Roof truss 1820 / 23 inscribed., St. Joseph Palace Chapel; with equipment; Cellar of a former outbuilding, preserved in fragments, two parallel barrel vaulted cellars made of quarry stone, probably second half of the 16th century; Parts of the curtain wall with shell towers; Zwinger wall with ditch and outer wall, granite rubble, probably from the late Middle Ages.

All architectural monuments

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wenzenbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Wenzenbach is a residential community in the immediate catchment area of ​​Regensburg. There are numerous craft, trade and service companies.

traffic

Wenzenbach was on the Regensburg – Falkenstein railway line . This was shut down at the end of the 1980s and is now a cycling and hiking trail .

Public facilities

• Community library
• Recycling center
• Waterworks and association for water supply Wenzenbacher Group
• Johanniter Kindergarten Wenzenbach
• Johanniter Kindergarten Irlbach
• Catholic kindergarten Irlbach
• Forest kindergarten Grünthal
• Day nurseries
• Day care centers

education

• Elementary school Irlbach
• Wenzenbach primary school
• Middle School Wenzenbach

media

The Mittelbayerische Zeitung and the Regensburger Wochenblatt , an edition of the Wochenblatt publishing group, appear in the community . In addition to the national programs, the radio stations Radio Charivari , Radio Gong FM and the regional television station TVA can also be received in the municipality .

Personalities

• Adolf von Walderdorff (1835–1919), born at Hauzenstein Castle, Bavarian treasurer and member of the Reichstag (center)
• Josef Gradl (1921–2016), honorary 1st mayor of Wenzenbach from 1966 to 1978, since 1993 honorary citizen of Wenzenbach
• Hans Huber (* 1934), amateur boxer, won the silver medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
• Corinna Harrer (athlete)

literature

• Rudolf Ebneth (Red.): Wenzenbach - Young community with a long past. Regensburg 1983.
• J. Meier: Schloß Schönberg and Wenzenbach. Regensburg 1914.
• Klaus Völger: Petrography and tectonics of anatectic rocks in the Wenzenbach-Altenthann area. Dissertation, TU Berlin 1958.

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. ^ Community Wenzenbach in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on November 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Diethard Schmid: Altbayern row I issue 66: Regensburg II. The district court Haidau-Pfatter and the Palatinate-Neuburg rule Heilsberg-Wiesent. Munich, 2014, from the series: Commission for Bavarian State History (Ed.): Historischer Atlas von Bayern , ISBN 978-3-7696-6558-1 , p. 612.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 573 .
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 555 .
6. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 658 .
7. ↑ https://wahlen.landkreis-regensburg.de/kommunal2020/20200315/09375208/html5/Gemeinderatswahl_Bayern_66_Gemeinde_Gemeinde_Wenzenbach.html
8. ↑ https://wahlen.landkreis-regensburg.de/kommunal2020/20200315/09375208/html5/Buergermeisterwahl_Bayern_67_Gemeinde_Gemeinde_Wenzenbach.html
9. ↑ https://wahlen.landkreis-regensburg.de/kommunal2020/20200315/09375208/html5/Gemeinderatswahl_Bayern_66_Gemeinde_Gemeinde_Wenzenbach.html
10. ↑ Entry on Wenzenbach's coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on August 6, 2020 .
11. ↑ Wenzenbach website , accessed on May 15, 2017

Web links

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

• Entry on the coat of arms of Wenzenbach  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wenzenbach: Official statistics of the LfStat