Oberschneiding

Coat of arms

Oberschneiding

Location of Oberschneiding within Gemeinde district

Coordinates: 48°48′N 12°39′E / 48.800°N 12.650°ECoordinates: 48°48′N 12°39′E / 48.800°N 12.650°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Ewald Seifert (CSU)

Area

• Total

60.77 km² (23.46 sq mi)

Population (2013-12-31)^[1]

• Total

2,755

• Density

45/km² (120/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

94363

09426

Website

www.oberschneiding.de

Oberschneiding is a municipality in the district of Straubing-Bogen in Bavaria, Germany.

It is located in the south of the "Gäuboden", a very high-producing area famous for its agriculture.

Today's municipality of Oberschneiding consists of 31 villages formerly organized in five different municipalities (Grossenpinning, Niederschneiding, Oberschneiding, Reissing and Wolferkofen). The biggest town and seat of the municipality is Oberschneiding.

History

The area around Oberschneiding was a place being settled in the neolithic about 5000 BC. Many discoveries of skeletons, sherds, and daub prove the existence of settlements from the stone age. Some of the findings are shown in the Gäubodenmuseum in Straubing.

Oberschneiding was first mentioned in records in 790 AD. The "Brevivarius Urolfi", a document written in the monastery of Niederaltaich, names a village called "Snudinga". This name - like all Bavarian towns that end on ing - goes back to the leader of the clan that founded the settlement, Snudo. The name changed from Snudinga to "Schneiding" in the following centuries. Today it is not quite clear which town was mentioned in the document because there are two settlements called "Schneiding": Oberschneiding (=upper Schneiding) and Niederschneiding (=lower Schneiding).

Towns and municipalities in Straubing-Bogen

Aholfing Aiterhofen Ascha Atting Bogen Falkenfels Feldkirchen Geiselhöring Haibach Haselbach Hunderdorf Irlbach Kirchroth Konzell Laberweinting Leiblfing Loitzendorf Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg Mariaposching Mitterfels Neukirchen Niederwinkling Oberschneiding Parkstetten Perasdorf Perkam Rain Rattenberg Rattiszell Salching Sankt Englmar Schwarzach Stallwang Steinach Straßkirchen Wiesenfelden Windberg

References

↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). 31 December 2013.

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