Windorf

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Lower Bavaria
County :	Passau
Height :	306 m above sea level NHN
Area :	56.92 km 2
Residents:	4899 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	94575
Primaries :	08541, 08544, 08546
License plate :	PA
Community key :	09 2 75 159
Market structure:	77 districts
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 23 94575 Windorf
Website :	www.markt-windorf.de
Mayor :	Franz Langer ( CSU )
Location of the Windorf market in the Passau district

The town hall of Windorf

The parish church of St. Jakobus d. Ä.

Windorf is a market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau and a state-approved resort .

geography

Geographical location

Windorf is located in the Danube Forest region on the northern bank of the Danube , four kilometers downstream from Vilshofen an der Donau . The market is located 20 kilometers northwest of Passau , 35 kilometers south-east of Deggendorf and seven kilometers from the federal highway 3 (exit Aicha vorm Wald ).

Community structure

The municipality of Windorf has 77 districts:

Aigenberg Anger Antholling Atzing Babing mountain Bertholling Besensandbach Birka Breiteich Deichselberg Desching Doblhof Doblmühle am Perlbach Doblmühle Ebersberg Edhäusl Edhof Eglsee Erlhof Fishing Frauendorf Gaishofen Straight Gottholling Haberg

Hacklsdorf Haitzing Haseneck Hatzing Hidring Hintergalgenberg Heating Höbersdorf Hofstetten Holzing Kading Kalteneck Kerschbaum Kissling Klinghof Kreiling Lviv Wet camping Neuhofen Oberhart Oberreit Otterskirchen Punzing Ragaul Rathsmannsdorf Ratzenleithen

Renholding (area code 08544) Rennholzberg reed Ruhstorf Scheuereck Nice hard Schwarzhöring Seidlmühle Sessing Silling (area code 08544) Socking Soeldenham Solla Stomping Steining Stelza Stetting Unterriegl Vordergalgenberg Walding Weiding Wilhelmhof Wimberg Wimm Windorf

There are the districts Otterskirchen, Windorf, Albersdorf (sub-area) and Rathsmannsdorf.

Neighboring communities

• Vilshofen on the Danube
• Hofkirchen
• Aicha in front of the forest
• Tiefenbach
• Passau ( Heining district , border of the middle of the Danube )
• Eging at the lake

history

Until the founding of the forerunner churches

Windorf is as Winidorf first mentioned in 1010 in documents than King Henry II. The Kloster Niederburg handed. With this it came in 1161 to the Hochstift Passau . The district of Otterskirchen was founded around the year 800 and was first mentioned in a document in 1165. The castle in the Rathsmannsdorf district probably dates from the 10th century. In the middle of the 13th century, the place was raised to the market.

The market had extensive rights vis-à-vis the Hochstift (Lower Court etc.) and belonged to the Hochstift Passau until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 . It was one of the few parts of the bishopric that fell to Bavaria in 1803 . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipal edict of 1818 created the municipalities of Rathsmannsdorf, Otterskirchen and Windorf.

19th and 20th centuries

In Windorf, shipbuilding (the "Schopperei") was still flourishing in the 19th century, as eight foremen with 130 foremen made no less than 14 different types of ships, including the Waidzille, which is widespread on the Danube. In addition to Germany, the orders came from Austria, Hungary and Slovenia. The Bruckzillen for the ship bridges of Pressburg and Komorn came from Windorf until the 1890s. Only at the beginning of the 1950s did the last Windorf Schoppermeister stop working.

Until 1972 the market was part of the district of Vilshofen and came with the division of the district of Vilshofen to the district of Passau. On May 1, 1978, parts of the dissolved municipality of Albersdorf were added.

religion

The population is predominantly Roman Catholic. There are Catholic parishes in Windorf, Otterskirchen and Rathsmannsdorf. The responsible Protestant parish is Vilshofen.

legend

Windorf Bear in Pirka in Styria

A legend tells of the "Windorf bear catch". One day a young man is said to have spread the rumor in the market that a horrific monster was sitting on a tree near Hacklstorf. He thought he saw a bear. Armed with flails and scythes , the market dwellers set out to kill the beast. As they got closer, however, they noticed that the bear was just a Capuchin monk praying his breviary and nibbling cherries. The Windorf “bear catchers” went home ashamed and have since endured the ridicule of the neighborhood.

On the occasion of the 25-year partnership between Windorf and the municipality of Pirka in the Austrian state of Styria , a stone sculpture for the "Windorf Bear Catch" was inaugurated there in 2010. The southern part of the community, which existed until the end of 2014, also bears the name Windorf.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975, the previously independent community Otterskirchen and Rathmannsdorf were incorporated. A part of the dissolved community of Albersdorf was added on May 1, 1978.

Assignments

On May 1, 1978, parts of the area were ceded to the neighboring community of Aicha vorm Wald .

Population development

In the period from 1988 to 2018, the market grew from 4,200 to 4,871 by 671 inhabitants or 16%.

• 1961: 3885 inhabitants
• 1970: 4092 inhabitants
• 1987: 4212 inhabitants
• 1991: 4474 inhabitants
• 1995: 4594 inhabitants
• 2000: 4649 inhabitants
• 2005: 4735 inhabitants
• 2010: 4780 inhabitants
• 2015: 4762 inhabitants

politics

Market council

Since May 1, 2020 ( local election on March 15, 2020 ), the municipal council has been composed as follows (the seats from the previous term in brackets):

• CSU : 6 seats (7)
• SPD : 2 seats (3)
• Non-partisan voter community : 6 seats (4)
• New generation: 2 seats (1)
• Independent: 0 seats (1)

mayor

Franz Langer (CSU) has been mayor since May 2008. He replaced Gerhard Bernkopf (non-partisan voter community), who had been in office since 1975.

Franz Langer was elected in the runoff election in 2008 with just under 50.14% of the valid votes against Josef Fischl (ÜW), although after the first ballot he was still in the lead with 40.55% against 33.55%. On March 15, 2020, Langer was confirmed for a third term with 61.2% in office.

coat of arms

Around 1835 a municipal coat of arms was adopted, which is handed down in the mayor's medal from 1840. The description reads: "In silver a rising red wolf."

Culture and sights

• Ship museum in Windorf
• Kulturhaus Alte Kirche in Rathsmannsdorf
• Rathsmannsdorf Castle
• Parish Church of St. Michael in Otterskirchen
• Plague column in Lapperding
• Longest upstream Danube Island

See also : List of architectural monuments in Windorf

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017 there were 796 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of the resident population, 1,889 people were in an employment relationship subject to compulsory insurance. The number of out-commuters was 1093 larger than that of in-commuters. 67 residents were unemployed. In 2016 there were 96 farms; 2692 hectares of the community area were used for agriculture.

traffic

State road 2127 leads from the town center via Rathmannsdorf to the Aicha vorm forest entrance around 7 kilometers away. State road 2125 also runs through Windorf along the Danube.

education

The following facilities are in Windorf:

• three day-care centers with 180 approved places and 137 children (as of March 1, 2018)
• Primary school Windorf with nine teachers and 164 students (school year 2018/19)

Web links

Commons : Windorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

• Homepage of the Windorf market
• Windorf: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ↑ Markt Windorf in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 20, 2018.
3. ↑ Information board on “Windorf Bear Catching” from the market town of Windorf / Municipality of Pirka , Pirka 2010, photo .
4. ↑ ^{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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 620 and 621 .
5. ↑ Municipal council and committees from May 2020 , accessed on July 21, 2020
6. ↑ [1]
7. ↑ Laudations - Municipal Medal of Merit in Silver on July 28, 2005 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior ( Memento from April 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Windorf primary school in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on July 21, 2020.