Zenting

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Zenting
Zenting
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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 13 ° 16'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Lower Bavaria
County : Freyung-Grafenau
Management Community : Thurmansbang
Height : 450 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.25 km 2
Residents: 1145 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 94579
Area code : 09907
License plate : FRG, GRA, WOS
Community key : 09 2 72 152
Community structure: 27 districts
Association administration address: Gründelln 3
94169 Thurmansbang
Website : www.zenting.de
Mayor : Dirk Rohowski ( Free Voters Zenting-Ranfeld-Daxstein )
Location of the municipality of Zenting in the Freyung-Grafenau district
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View of Zenting, in the background the Aschenstein (left) and the Geißlstein
The parish church of Zenting

Zenting is a municipality in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau and a member of the Thurmansbang administrative community .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in the Danube Forest region in the middle of the Bavarian Forest . The village is nestled in a sunny basin open to the south, overlooked in the north by the Brotjacklriegel ( 1016  m ) and Aschenstein ( 945  m ). Zenting is located approximately 35 km northwest of Passau , 13 km from Tittling , 18 km south west of Grafenau , 26 km north of Vilshofen and 15 km from the A 3 (exit Iggensbach away).

Neighboring communities

Community structure

There are 27 districts:

There are the districts Ranfels and Zenting.

history

Until the 19th century

On the way from the Danube to the once feared “Northern Forest”, the place offered rest and supplies for merchants and travelers. Zenting is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1151 as the property of the Counts of Formbach , when Count Adalbert (Ekbert III.) Gifted the Osterhofen monastery with it. The fate of the place was determined from 1151 to 1783 by the Osterhofen monastery. This had a church built in 1176, which was consecrated in 1178 by Bishop Theobald of Passau .

The monastery raised Zenting ( Centingen ) to a court mark . After the dissolution of the monastery in 1783, Hofmark belonged to the dominion of the St. Anna women's monastery in Munich for 50 years before Zenting was acquired by the state in 1833. The baroque parish church of St. James the Elder and St. Margaret was expanded in 1831. Zenting, originally a branch of Schöllnach in church terms , became a branch in 1798 and a parish in 1895 .

20th and 21st centuries

The municipality of Zenting gained national fame because it was there in 1920 that one of the first nationwide petitions and decisions was made. In February 1920, 81 of the 316 eligible voters demanded a vote on the early election of the municipal council. The background was that in the previous municipal council election there was only one list to choose from. However, since between the submission of the referendum and the referendum, the mayoral election was carried out by the local council responsible at the time, the voters themselves were no longer interested in the referendum. In the vote, only one citizen made use of his or her right to vote.

Today the place is enjoying increasing popularity in the tourism industry.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent community Ranfels was incorporated. On August 1, 2013, a part of the dissolved community-free area Sonnenwald was added to the community area, which increased by 51.5 hectares.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population decreased from 1,168 to 1,142 by 26 inhabitants or 2.2%.

  • 1961: 1038 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1064 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1170 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1219 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1252 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1190 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1162 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1157 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1178 inhabitants

politics

mayor

The honorary first mayor is Dirk Rohowski (Free Voters Zenting-Ranfeld-Daxstein). He has been the successor to Leopold Ritzinger (Free Voting Association) since May 1, 2020.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: Split of silver and red; in front a left-facing, resisting, fire-breathing, red-armored green dragon with a spiked tail, behind a slanting left golden pilgrim's staff, separated from above and below by a facing golden shell.

The dragon as an attribute of St. Margaret refers to the patroness of the Premonstratensian monastery in Osterhofen and the close historical connection with Zenting. Zenting was Klosterhofmark until the abolition of the monastery in 1784 and then became the property of the St. Anna women's monastery in Munich. Pilgrim staff and pilgrim shells are attributes of St. Jacob and refer to the patronage of the local church of Zenting, which can be traced back to the 12th century and has been a parish church since 1895. The colors of the Diocese of Passau can be heard in the field tinging in silver and red.

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 155 employees in the manufacturing sector and 55 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. There were a total of 379 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in manufacturing and seven in construction. In addition, in 1999 there were 65 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​719 ha, 594 ha of which were permanent green space.

traffic

The bus line 6143 of Regionalbus Ostbayern GmbH offers a connection to Deggendorf train station about 30 km to the west on the Plattling – Bayerisch Eisenstein railway line . Other nearby train stations are Vilshofen on the Regensburg – Passau railway , 25 km south, and Grafenau, the end point of the Zwiesel – Grafenau railway , 18 km northeast.

education

The following institutions exist (as of 2009):

  • Kindergartens: 25 kindergarten places with 21 children

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. ↑ a b Mayor / Lord Mayor in municipalities belonging to the district (as of May 1st, 2020). (xlsx) Bavarian State Office for Statistics, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  3. ^ Municipality of Zenting in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on January 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Christopher Schmidt: Immediate community democracy in central and southern Germany during the Weimar Republic . Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8329-2607-6 , pp. 56 f .
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 473 .
  6. ↑ www.regierung.niederbayern.bayern.de
  7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Zenting  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Web links

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