Wurz (Püchersreuth)

Root municipality of Püchersreuth Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 55 ″ E
Residents :	448 (2012)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	92715
Area code :	09602

The village of Wurz is part of the municipality of Püchersreuth in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . The incorporation took place on January 1, 1978 as part of the territorial reform at that time.

Wurz has 448 inhabitants (2012), the surrounding villages, which belong to the parish of Wurz, a total of 290 inhabitants.

geography

Wurz is nestled in a mountainous landscape in the Upper Palatinate Forest Nature Park , not far from the district town of Neustadt an der Waldnaab (6 km) and from Weiden in the Upper Palatinate (16 km). Wurz can be reached from both cities via federal road 15 and district road NEW 19. The district road also connects Wurz with Windischeschenbach .

history

Church of St. Matthew in Wurz (2012)

Rectory in Wurz, main building (2012)

Finds from the Neolithic Age were made in the corridor of Wurz . The region was later settled by Celts who were assimilated by Germanic peoples during and after the migration - as were Slavs who migrated from the east . The Christianization took place at the time of Boniface . The old high German name of the fortified settlement "Wurzaha" / "Wrzaha" (aha = Bach) should not be derived from the root (according to the local chronicle Christoph Schulze) , but from the ministerial named Drozza . In 1069 King Heinrich IV handed over the Wrzaha estate in his margraviate in the Gau Nortgowe (Nordgau) to the Bamberg bishop Hermann and his church. So at that time it was in Reichsland and not in Bavaria. In the 13th century there were the servants Cunrad and Gotfridus von Wurz. A parish existed in Wurz as early as the 11th century . She had chosen Saint Matthew as her patron saint. The church was destroyed during the Hussite invasions in 1428. In 1438 at the latest, Wurz was incorporated into the Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen . Troops also devastated the country during the Thirty Years' War . In the 16th century there was a "confusion of faith" between Calvinists and Luther followers until, from 1628, re-Catholicization consistently set in. In 1689 a new parish church was consecrated. The massive Romanesque tower of the previous church was preserved and was increased to four storeys in 1787, instead of a pyramid roof it was given an onion dome. From 1776 to 1778 the abbot of the Waldsassen monastery had a representative rectory built in Wurz as his summer residence. In 1933 the vault of the parish church collapsed, and in 1935 the newly built, larger church was consecrated.

1945/46 Wurz also took in many expellees , especially from the neighboring Sudetenland . Until the mid-1950s, the main source of income in Wurz was agriculture in small and medium-sized farms. Since then, the inhabitants have increasingly found work in the industry of the neighboring towns, and trade, handicrafts and businesses developed in the town itself. Two new development areas expanded the village into an attractive residential community. Land consolidation took place from 1976 onwards, and from 1981 to 1985 a structural and traffic-related village renovation for 2.8 million DM. This was accompanied by private investments in the existing building fabric that was well integrated into the townscape.

The parish of Wurz has been looked after by the respective pastor of Neuhaus since 1972 . In the meantime the parish of Neuhaus belongs to Windischeschenbach. There is currently a parish community with Püchersreuth and Wildenau.

Population development in Wurz from 1824

1824-1913
year	Residents	building
1824	126	23
1838	129	23
1871	131	72
1885	134	23
1900	150	23
1913	178	30th

1925-2011
year	Residents	building
1925	160	29
1950	250	35
1961	212	43
1970	258	k. A.
1987	335	89
2011	430	k. A.

Attractions

Mozart in the wall niche of the rectory in Wurz

Parish Church of St. Matthew : The nave was rebuilt in 1934 because the vault of the previous church built in 1683 collapsed in 1933. The new church became longer and wider, it received a side aisle, a coffered ceiling, a spacious sacristy, a wide gallery and its own main entrance. The church is decorated with pictures by the Neustadt painter Thaddäus Rabusky (1776–1862). A high altar image represents the inspiration of the apostle and church patron Mathäus. The high church tower, which was preserved when the nave collapsed and was rebuilt, has a baroque hood.
Cemetery chapel from 1745 near the parish church
War memorial in the complex next to the church. It honors the fallen and missing soldiers from both world wars from Wurz and the surrounding area. The relatives of the expellees are also included on the name boards. The monument was built in 1923 and renewed in 1959 and the early 1980s.
Statue of Saint Matthew on the east side of the church. The bronze statue was consecrated in 1984 as part of the awarding of the state prize for successful village renovation.
Historical Wurz parsonage in the vicinity of the church. It was built in 1776/78 according to plans by Philipp Muttone as the summer residence of the abbot of the Waldsassen monastery. The rectory consists of a large, two-storey residential building with a mansard roof and an adjoining former horse stable (now a concert hall), a bakery and wash house, a barn (now supply rooms during the summer concerts) and a large fruit and vegetable garden. A mighty wall with a gate faces the street. The rectory has been owned by Dr. Rita Kielhorn, who saved it from deterioration and restored it.
Crucifixion group (Jesus with Holy Mother of God and John) and granite altar on the promising hill "Löherl" under oaks and birches.
Fifteen stations of the cross to the Löherl were inaugurated in 1986.
Land consolidation monument at the foot of the Löherl. It shows a picture of rural life with a plow, ears of grain and a pigeon. The inscription on the board reads: "Land consolidation and village renewal, Wurz 1976-1986. State Prize 1985/1986 (Special Prize) of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests".
Lipperthof with a listed stable building, large stud (Icelandic horses) and riding school.
Commemorative boards (symbolic death boards ), with which the place honors particularly deserving community citizens

societies

Voluntary fire brigade, "Waldnaab" rifle association, warrior and soldier comradeship, Catholic women's association, Catholic rural youth movement, sports club, local beautification association, Wurzer Hogerer, Siedlerbund, Bauwong.

Supraregional events

Annual Wurzer summer concerts in the historic rectory since 1988, with classical music by German and international performers, founded and further organized by Rita Kielhorn and the "Freundeskreis Wurzer Sommerkonzerte".

Annually on the first weekend in September the "Wurzer O`Schnitt" (comes from "cut off" and comes from earlier than the harvest festival). It is now a constant in the region with several thousand visitors.

literature

Manfred Ruhland: Village renewal Wurz - contribution of the land consolidation to the preserving renovation and design of a village in the border region . In: "Village renewal Wurz. District Neustadt an der Waldnaab". Ed. Flurbereinigungsdirektion Regensburg, Regensburg 1986
Christoph Schulze: Wrzaha, Wurz in the northern Upper Palatinate . Self-published, 1988
Lorenz Enslein and others: Mute witnesses along the way. Hallway and small monuments in the municipality of Püchersreuth . Published by the municipality of Püchersreuth, 2007

Individual evidence

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↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 265 ( digitized version ).

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