Klingenbrunn - Zentrum u. Pfarrkirche

The first reference to a "Cunradus de Chlingenprunne" dates back to 1250. In 1395, Klingenbrunn was a sizeable village with ten fiefdoms. In 1488, the first references to a glassworks in Klingenbrunn can be found in the Bärnsteiner Scharwerksgeldregister. In the map of Philipp Apian from 1568 it is marked as Klingenprun. The name comes from Old High German and means something like "rippling spring". The owners changed frequently until the entire Hüttengut Klingenbrunn was auctioned off in 1752. In 1753, Christoph Hilz acquired the Hüttengut, which now remained in the possession of the Hilz family (from Hilz from 1806). In 1832, Felix von Hilz sold the Klingenbrunn estate to the Kingdom of Bavaria for 107,000 guilders. The state kept only the forests and sold the glassworks to a consortium of investors. The operation in Neuhütte was discontinued due to dilapidation and resold. The glassworks in Althütte continued until 1839. After that, glass production was relocated to Flanitzhütte. In 1833 the forest district of Klingenbrunn was founded and a forester's house was built. In 1834 the municipality of Klingenbrunn was established, which at that time also included Spiegelau. In 1844 a village chapel was built. The founding of the Klingenbrunn volunteer fire brigade took place on September 25, 1876. When the Zwiesel–Grafenau railway line was opened on September 1, 1890, Klingenbrunn also received a connection, albeit far north-east of the town at an altitude of 769 meters. In 1909 Klingenbrunn became a branch and in 1921 a parish. In 1927 the Klingenbrunn church "Maria Hilfe der Christen" was built. On August 14, 1959, the name of the community of Klingenbrunn was changed to the community of Spiegelau. Since then, Klingenbrunn has only been a part of the municipality. In 1975 a weather station was set up at Klingenbrunn station. Many hiking trails lead from Klingenbrunn to the Großer and Kleiner Rachel area or to the Eschenberg and Wagensonnriegel. Klingenbrunn is also known as the temporary residence of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in the summer of 1876 in the Gasthaus Zum Ludwigstein, where he enthusiastically praised the "blissful stillness" and "the freedom of the mountains" in a letter to his sister. pole of cold:In the district of Klingenbrunn Bahnhof there is a measuring station of the German Weather Service. Temperatures are regularly measured here, which are among the lowest in inhabited places in Germany.source: http://de.wikipedia.org