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In the year ... |
1241 |
Town first mentioned as apud Weiden in a record attributed to King Konrad IV |
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1301 |
First designation of a judge in Weiden as judex in salice and in ducal urbarial documents as Weiden in the towne |
1366 |
Town mentioned in Luxemburg’s urbarial documents as the "towne of weiden" |
1515 |
Weiden in the Upper Palatinate had 2,140 inhabitants, who were divided into 362 bourgeois families, 148 inhabitant families, and 63 widows |
1522 |
Ministers of the parish church St. Michael started preaching according to the new gospel |
1536 |
Fire completely destroyed town save for seven houses |
1540 |
Church and the surrounding area again destroyed by fire during reconstruction |
Um 1634
the town was captured by the Swedes, who pulled down the suburb (149 houses) and the extensive grounds of the hospital; 1,800 people fell victim to the plague |
In the year ... |
1661 |
Only 316 families out of 530 were left after the Thirty Years’ War |
1663 |
Introduction of the Simultaneum. Politically valid until 1818, in the ecclesiastical sphere valid until 1900 |
1863 |
3,059 people lived in Weiden. The construction of the railroad marked the beginning of the town’s rise |
1900 |
After the beginning of industrialization, the town had 9,959 inhabitants |
1914 |
Incorporation of Moosbürg, Ermersricht, Fichtenbühl, and Leihstadtmühle |
1915 |
Incorporation of Tröglersricht and the Zollhaus (customs post) |
1919 |
Weiden became a town administered as an independent district |
In the year ... |
1938 |
Weiden had 27,493 inhabitants |
1945 |
By the end of World War II, Weiden had 38,941 inhabitants, 12,000 of which were refugees and foreigners |
1968 |
Weiden had 43,202 inhabitants |
1972 |
Incorporation of Frauenricht, Muglhof, and Neunkirchen |
1978 |
Incorporation of Rothestadt and Moosöd |
1980 |
Completion of the New Town Hall |
1987 |
Connection to the autobahn network (A93 Weiden - Regensburg - Munich); According to census on May 26, Weiden had 42,100 inhabitants |
1991 |
750 years Weiden in the Upper Palatinate; first mentioned on July 16, 1241; anniversary year from June 29, 1991 to July 26, 1992 |
1992 |
Inauguration of the convention center Max-Reger-Hall; Completion of the leisure center located at Raiffeisenstaße, including the ice stadium (opening 1987) and “Weiden’s World of Thermal Baths” |
1994 |
Inauguration of the local public library (“Regionalbibliothek”) located in the “Waldsassen Granary”; Weiden becomes a “supreme center”
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1995 |
Opening of the University of Applied Sciences Amberg/Weiden in the fall term 1995, Department of Economics
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1996 |
Inauguration of the senior citizens’ center Maria-Seltmann-Haus
Inauguration of the kindergarten and day care center "Tohuwabohu" |
1997 |
Opening of Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Amberg/Weiden in the fall term 1997
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1998 |
Opening of the children’s hospital (perinatal center) |
2000 |
AExpansion of the Frauenricht underpass (Railroad Munich – Regensburg – Hof); Launch of the project “Social Town” to redevelop the district of Stockerhut |
2002 |
Opening of the center for philately by the German Postal Services Inc. |
2004 |
New course of studies at the University of Applied Sciences Amberg/Weiden:
Department of European Business and Language Studies |
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