Reichenbach Am Regen - The Reichenbacher Bridge

The Reichenbacher Bridge

Presumably, was already before the founding of the monastery Reichenbach 1118 a transition on the rain had been created, because it has also led a street of Cham over Reichenbach and Roßbach after Regensburg, Falkenstein and Straubing. Was the first time Reichenbacher bridge mentioned 1744 or 1743, when a flood damaged the bridge. 1750 cracks Eisstoß the wooden bridge away. Then had the village and monastery dwellers with barges on the rain set. In the wake of the secularization of 1803 was the Bavarian builder of the bridge shaft of the community over Reichenbach. The 1831 flood schwemmte the rain again built another bridge times continued. The creation of a new bridge was vital, since beyond the rain flow fields, and wood Hutweiden beaten and the proceeds anyway barely sufficient for survival. For the people who have horses with the bridge befuhren or for agricultural purposes had to use, there was the "bridge guilders" or "bridge duty." The bridge was always the biggest "problem child" of the community. The citizens always protested against the guilder to pay bridge and the councilors wanted the maintenance of the bridge to the county Roding pass. This was finally in 1924, probably in the course of expanding the feeder road (Districtstraße) for new railway errichtenten "Falkenstein - Regensburg." (From that time comes, the expansion of the existing main road - better known as "New Road" - current Pfister the road replacing Hauptstraße as. The formerly narrow path, similar to the Kirchsteig, has been under great protest of the riparian and with enormous effort, greatly widened.) Even the battle with the Bavarian State was terminated, so that these funds made available to a new wooden bridge to be built. After extinguishing the fire works at the monastery 1959 by the inadequate bearing capacity of the wooden bridge has been obstructed, another bridge was begun. Of the total cost of DM 810,000 of the county had only 70,000 DM to expend its own resources. The community Reichenbach had only 15,000 DM for the bridge ramp to afford. As the present bridge was completed, she was seen as the "most modern prestressed concrete bridge in the Upper Palatinate".