Forest-ate
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| base data | |
| Land of the Federal Republic: | Bavaria |
| governmental district: | Upper Palatinate |
| circle: | Tirschenreuth |
| geographical situation: | Coordinates: 50° 0 ' N, 12° 18 ' O 50° 0 ' N, 12° 18 ' O |
| height: | 491 m and. NN |
| surface: | 66.54 km ² |
| inhabitants: | 7.483 (30. June 2005) |
| Population density: | 114 inhabitants for each km ² |
| postal zip codes: | 95652 |
| preselection: | 09632 |
| Kfz characteristics: | ANIMAL |
| municipality key: | 09 3 77 158 |
| city arrangement: | 11 local parts |
| address of the city administration: | Basilikaplatz 3 95652 forest-ate |
| Website: | www.waldsassen.info |
| E-Mail address: | |
| Politics | |
| mayor: | Harsh ore cock (CSU) |
forest-ate are a city in the district Tirschenreuth in the northern Upper Palatinate anda cultural center of the Oberpfälzer of pin country.
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Geografie
geographical layer
the Czech city Cheb (Eger) can distant only 10 kilometers from forest-eaten and over the border crossing dog brook - Svaty Kriz (holy cross) be attained.
city arrangement
into the cityForest-ate became in in common December:
- History
- the beginnings of Waldsassens
- go to locality
- Hatzenreuth locality
- Kondrau locality
- Münchenreuth locality
- net steel locality
- dog brook locality
- Mammersreuth locality
- Schloppach locality
- Egerteich locality
locality
Groppenheim [work on] back up to the year 1133. At the 1.October got Mark count DiepoldIII. of Vohburg - Cham, monks from Volkenroda in Thuringia here, in order to create a monastery. It developed in the following centuries to one of the most important Cistercian monasteries Bayerns. The monastery buildings the only settlement represented long time. Only around 17. Developed for century around outsidethe monastery the first house lines.1895 became the railway line how/as sow - Eger opens. For forest-eaten meant this a industriellen upswing.
1896 the market forest-ate lent by prince regent Luitpold municipal rights. The number of inhabitants had increased in the meantime nearly on approximately 4,000. 30 years before one hadthe first porcelain factory based, which in the following years a clinker factory, a brick work and the first glasswork followed. A strong increase in the population experienced forest-ate after 1945, when many refugees of homeland found a new here at home. The total population rose precipitously from 5.300 to 7.800. Into the followingNew quarters, which changed the townscape considerably, developed for decades.
politics
partnerships between cities
citizen sponsorship
- since 1956: Chodau, now Chodov, (Tschechien)
culture and objects of interest
beside the culture, which one maintains in forest-eaten on a high level - in completely Bavaria only admitted church concerts are mentioned - estimates one also the people communication, which not least by thosespatial proximity to the Czech neighbour is promoted.
buildings
- Stiftsbasilika with of Germany largest church and Klostergruft and the most extensive baroque Reliquienschatz north the alps
- monastery that Cistercian inside
- pin library in the monastery of the Cistercienserinnen with its artful Schnitzereien
- Dreifaltigkeitskirche Kappl, an important circular building of theBaroque
- pin land museum with its special exhibitions
sport
- urban heated open-rir swimming pool
- indoor swimming pool
- gymnasium
- several football fields
- tennis court
- bitumen ice stick courses
- several fully automatic skittle-alleys
- ski plant with elevator, floodlight and Beschneiungsanlage
- shooting plant
- riding tournament place
economics and infrastructure
resident enterprise
the industry Waldsassens has someTo exhibit rare pieces. Thus the Waldsassener glasswork Lamberts manufactures among other things genuine Antik-glass for church window glazings.
Singularly also the wood bead production of the company was Stilp, who resided since 1912. The enterprise, which stopped production into the 1990er years, manufactured up to 90 different bead sorts, alsoone of the company developed special technology and color were painted.
A sad chapter of industrial history is the fall of the china industry in the city. While into the 1960er years of the last century still two porcelain factories manufactured „the white gold “, is this branch of industry meanwhile completely outForest-ate disappeared.
personalities
of sons and daughters of the city
- Philipp courage clay/tone building master
- Karl Stilp sculptor
- Georg Dientzenhofer building master
- Werner Fritsch important contemporary theatre man and author
- Dietmar Hamann football player of the German national team
literature
- a Thal of the sea-gene readerfor the literature of the monastery forest-ate, Manfred Knedlik, George scrap iron, Kallmünz 1998
- of beginners, Aufschneider and the Bröislboad/ the dialect of the Waldsassener Glasmacher, Beatrix Dürrschmidt, Bayreuth 1996
- forest-ate/ 850 years cities of the grace, Franz Busl, yard 1983
- history of the monastery andPin forest-ate, Gerwigkreis forest-ate 1984
- Bayerns former sulfur ore mining industry, Johannes Pfeufer, Bochum 2003
- city forest-ate, Hogo fast, Anton Seitz, Munich 1977
- Wöi us there Schnowl gwachsn is/ Stiftlanda Gschichtla and Gedichtla, Barbara Heinrich, forest-ate 2002
Web on the left of
- monastery Cistercian inside of forest-eaten
- Homepage of the Kath. Pfarrei forest-ate with the world-famous to see papal Basilika
- minor are approx. 400 artistic photos from forest-eaten
- lock hardhit a corner
- forest-ate: Cities and municipalities
- in the district
pin land museum | Fire | Ebnath | Inheriting village | Falcon mountain | Peace rock | Fuchsmühl | Immenreuth | Kastl | Kemnath | Konnersreuth | Krummennaab | Kulmain | Leonberg | Mähring | Memo-ore-calibrate | Neualbenreuth | Newensure | Pechbrunn | Plössberg | Pullenreuth | Reuth at inheriting village | Tirschenreuth | Whale the yard | Forest-ate | How/as sow
