Reichenbach Am Regen - History

History

The settlement in the valley of the river, rain, at a ford, was the early Middle Ages center of a grundherrschaftlich organized and managed district. 1118 saw the founding of the monastery Reichenbach and since then combine the history of the place and those of the monastery.

Reichenbach experienced in the first decades of its existence, an early bloom. After the Wittelsbach 1204 over the Bailiwick had lost Reichenbach its regional importance. In the 14th century, the town took a turn for the better. In the beginning of the 15th century, the monastery was largely re-built in Gothic style and was surrounded by fortifications. These 1428 and 1433 prevented the Hussiteneinfälle.

In the 15th century, Reichenbach had the status of a market. It territorially belonged to the upper part of the Wittelsbach Kurpfalz, the residence of the city of Ahmadabad was administered.

Under the principle cuius regio, eius religio stood there after the 1555 Land Lord, the religion of his subjects to be determined. It was through Ottheinrich of 1556 to 1559 as Elector Palatine amtierte, the Lutheran Confession made mandatory. The monastery was repealed in 1556. In Reichenbach, it was John Hagnus, a graduate of the University of Wittenberg, the Protestant Church to enforce order. During the subsequent reign of Frederick III, Elector. (1559–1576), a supporter of the reformed, Calvinist direction of Protestantism, was Hagnus as other Lutheran clergyman dismissed. The Calvinist iconoclasts destroyed in 1570 by Reichenbacher monastery many artworks.

From 1626 was carried out by the new ruler, the Electorate of Bavaria, the re-Catholisation Reichenbach. 1661 electors under administration rose again in the Benedictine monastery, which from 1669 under the administration of St. Emmeram stood in Regensburg. Until 1695 the monastery was again an independent abbey and saw a second bloom.