Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg
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Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg is a municipality
Municipalities of Germany
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 in the district of Straubing-Bogen
Straubing-Bogen
Straubing-Bogen is a Kreis in the eastern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are Cham, Regen, Deggendorf, Dingolfing-Landau, Landshut and Regensburg. The district-free city Straubing is completely surrounded by the district...

 in Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

, Germany
Germany
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 and has around 7000 inhabitants.

Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg is located in the heart of Bavaria in the south of Germany. The medieval cities Regensburg
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...

 and Landshut
Landshut
Landshut is a city in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany, belonging to both Eastern and Southern Bavaria. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also the seat of the...

 are within a 30 km radius and even the major cities Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (München) and Nürnberg are just around 100 km away.

The town is well known for the Mallersdorf Abbey
Mallersdorf Abbey
Mallersdorf Abbey was formerly a monastery of the Benedictine Order and is now a Franciscan convent in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Bavaria.-History:...

, which exists since the 12th century. The Franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....

 order of the "Mallersdorfer Schwestern" is busy around the world. Also Pope Benedictus XVI enjoyed his vacations here.

Coat of arms

  • Mallersdorf (right): The arms were granted in 1803 to the former Benedictine Abbey. The eagle of St. John, the patron saint of the abbey, was used on seals of the abbey since 1495. In 1938 it was attempted to remove the golden nimbus around the head as well as the lettering, but the town never changed the arms.

  • Pfaffenberg (left): The arms were granted in 1558 by Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria. The field is taken from the arms of the Lords of Moosburg, as the town was a possession of these counts in the Middle ages. The mountain is canting (Berg). The plough iron is a local symbol and stands for agriculture. Even though the iron is often misinterpreted and misdrawn, the arms have never changed since.

History

The history of the village Mallersdorf presumably goes back till the Roman's time, because the first castle, which gave the name "Madilhardisdorf" has been established on the rests of a Roman fort. The name goes back on Mathilde von Lupburg, the 9-th abbess of the Reichsstift Niedermünster in Regensburg
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...

 who owned here vast goods. During the Carolingian
Carolingian
The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD. The name "Carolingian", Medieval Latin karolingi, an altered form of an unattested Old High German *karling, kerling The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the...

's time Mallersdorf belonged to the county of Kirchberg. The counts Heinrich and Ernst donated here a cloister in 1107, which was first mentioned in a document in 1129, with the confirmation of the donation by emperor Lothar III.
The Latin school, which was controlled by Benedictine's monks in the cloister of Mallersdorf
Mallersdorf Abbey
Mallersdorf Abbey was formerly a monastery of the Benedictine Order and is now a Franciscan convent in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in Bavaria.-History:...

 on the Johannisberg, is provable there from 1109 to 1803 enjoyed a superior call. The significant library was a reason for the national meaning of Mallersdorf in scientific area. The honorary title "sedes sapientiae" (seat of wisdom) testifies this position.
In the course of the Säkularisation the cloister was converted into an agriculture with brewery. The library, as well as valuable sacred objects was brought to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. The cloister found out a resurgence in 1869 as a franziscan order, the "Sisters of Mallersdorf" established her mother's house there.

In 1972 the places Mallersdorf, Pfaffenberg, Holztraubach, Ascholtshausen, Oberellenbach, Oberlindhart were united to the market Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg. The municipalities of Niederlindhart, Haselbach and Upfkofen came on the 1st January, 1978.
On the 1st July, 1972 Mallersdorf lost the District's Office and came to the administrative district Straubing-Bogen
Straubing-Bogen
Straubing-Bogen is a Kreis in the eastern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are Cham, Regen, Deggendorf, Dingolfing-Landau, Landshut and Regensburg. The district-free city Straubing is completely surrounded by the district...

. Therefore the sign MAL disappeared mainly from the streets.

Partnership

Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg established city partnerships with Paderno del Grappa
Paderno del Grappa
Paderno del Grappa is a town and comune in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto, Italy. Paderno del Grappa is located at the base of Mount Grappa, a mountain located in the Dolomites...

 in Italy
Italy
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 and Jedlicze
Jedlicze
Jedlicze is a town in Krosno County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 5,645 . It is home to a petroleum refinery....

 in Poland
Poland
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.
Godparenthood was taken in 1985 for the expelled Sudeten-German
Sudetenland
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 from the city of Krajková
Krajková
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, formerly Gossengrun, in present-day Sokolov District
Sokolov District
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.

Cloister of Mallersdorf

The franciscan cloister of Mallersdorf which pursues a secondary school is built on a hill above the idyllic Laber
Kleine Laber
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tal (Laber-valley). The basilica affiliated to the cloister was begun in 1109 and received her today's rococo
Rococo
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 equipment in the middle of the 18-th century . In the parish church Saint Johannes there is a high altar of Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian rococo tradition.He was born in Altmannstein, Germany, where he received his earliest training from his father, then studied in Munich under the court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750 and during his...

. The order was founded by Paul Josef Nardini, who was venerated at the 19th December 2005 and beatified at 22 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at the cathedral at Speyer
Speyer
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, Germany .

Jewish monument

Near Pfaffenberg is a Jewish monument. It was established in 1947 and was financed by donations of Jewish inhabitants of the region. It concerns here a tomb for 67 prisoners who had been compulsive-marched from the concentration camp Buchenwald and were shot by German soldiers, before they could be released from the allies.

Education

  • Burkhart's high school
  • St. Martin elementary school and secondary school
  • special school Saint Benedikt
  • Nardini secondary school for girls
  • academy for social educational theory
  • Technical High School for nursing
  • courses of the adult education program
  • music school

Public facilities

  • district's hospital of Mallersdorf
  • Bavarian Red Cross's old people's home
  • kindergarten "the guardian angel"
  • kindergarten "Saint Elisabeth"


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