Haidmühle is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Freyung-Grafenau Freyung-Grafenau is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Passau, Deggendorf and Regen, the Czech Republic and by Austria. History The district was established in 1972, by ...

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

Geography

Geographical location

The community lies in the Donau-Wald on the Kalte Moldau in the

Bavarian Forest The village of Zell in the Bavarian Forest The Bavarian Forest (German: ' or ''Bayerwald''; bar, Boarischa Woid) is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany that is about 100 kilometres long. It runs along the Czech border and is con ...

, on the border with the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

. Haidmühle is located 25 km from Freyung, 24 km from Waldkirchen, and 20 km from the border with

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. A few meters away from the village is the border crossing Nové Údolí (''Neuthal'') to Stožec, which is open to pedestrians and cyclists. Haidmühle was formerly a railway border station, connected by the Waldkirchen–Haidmühle railway to Waldkirchen and Passau, and by the Číčenice–Haidmühle railway to

Volary Volary (; german: Wallern) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,700 inhabitants. It is located in the Bohemian Forest, close to the border with Germany. An area in the northern part of the town with timber-f ...

and

Prachatice Prachatice (; german: Prachatitz) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 11,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation. Administrative parts Prac ...

. The section in the Czech Republic is still in use. Part of the route is a museum train Pošumavská jižní dráha in operation.

Constituent Communities

The municipality consists of the following districts: * Auersbergsreut * Bischofsreut * Frauenberg * Haberau * Haidmühle * Langreut * Leopoldsreut * Ludwigsreut * Marchhäuser * Raumreut * Schnellenzipf * Schwarzthal * Theresienreut There are the following districts: Bischofsreut, Philippsreut, Frauenberg.

History

The village in the former Bishopric of Passau was secularized in 1803 with the majority of the Bishopric and the territory in favor of Ferdinand of Tuscany and fell until 1805 with the peace treaties of Brno and Bratislava to Bayern. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria originated with the municipality edict of 1818, the church today. In the spring of 1933, when the community dedicated a ''Ritter-von-Leeb House'',

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German field marshal and war criminal in World War II. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which gra ...

was among the guests of honor. In June 1940, locals crammed into the ''Niederl Inn'' to watch with intense curiosity the movie

Eine Nacht im Mai ''A Night in May'' (german: Eine Nacht im Mai) is a 1938 Cinema of Germany, German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Marika Rökk, Viktor Staal, and Karl Schönböck. It was made by Universum Film AG, UFA the leading German compa ...

Anna Rosmus Anna Rosmus, also known as Anja Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author and researcher born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria. Early life and research As a 16-year-old, Rosmus started developing an interest in contemporary history, especially that of t ...

''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 238f Since 1946 belonged to the former glassworks settlement Schwarzthal the municipality Bischofsreut who came to Haidmühle 1978. On 27 April 1951, the church name was officially changed in Frauenberg Haidmühle.

References

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