Amendingen
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Amendingen
City of Memmingen
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| Height : | 585 m |
| Area : | 7.1 km² |
| Residents : | 3714 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 523 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 87700 |
| Area code : | 08331 |
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Amendingen ( Swabian Aumadenga ) is a district and parish village of the independent city of Memmingen in Bavaria. The first settlement dates back to before 233. The place was first confirmed in a document in 1180 and belonged to the rule of the Knights of Eisenburg until 1455 . From 1475, the village began to be split up into different rulers and monasteries. In 1803, the current hall was established with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss .
From 1805 Amendingen was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Memmingen in 1972. With over 3700 inhabitants, Amendingen is the largest district after the main town of Memmingen. The former parish village is best known for its baroque St. Ulrichs church and the north industrial area , which is mostly on Amendinger Flur.
geography
location
The Memmingen district Amendingen is located on the western edge of the Memminger Achtals . The place is located north of the Memmingen core city and has now grown together structurally. In the north of the Amendinger Flur lies most of the north industrial area.
climate
Amendingen has the average annual temperature and the amount of precipitation in the temperate zone , with precipitation mostly slightly higher and lowest temperatures slightly lower. The Memminger Ach flowing through the village and the nearby Weidenbach can cause dense fog in the fields and within the village in spring and autumn . The coldest month is January with an average daily low temperature of -5 ° C and an average daily high temperature of 2 ° C. The warmest months are July and August with an average minimum temperature of 12 ° C and an average maximum temperature of 24 ° C.
geology
The subsoil consists of a one meter thick layer of loess clay , under which there are about 20 meters of gravel . The valley floor east of the municipality consists of alpine pastures and peat deposits below , which are occasionally mixed with gravel and gray-black sand. Especially the Memminger Ach in its regulated course indicates the approximate border between Almerde and gravel. At the edge of the valley there is a tertiary deposit, which favors the rich occurrence of springs all the way down to Heimertingen .
history
Early history (up to the 8th century AD)
In the Roman Empire, the road from Kempten (Allgäu) ( Cambodunum ) to Kellmünz ( Caelius Mons ) probably also ran over the Amendinger Flur. During several new constructions and conversions, remains of Roman walls were discovered again and again in the municipality. In 1943 and 1954, those from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD were exposed. In the south of what is now the municipality, a veteran who retired from military service probably built a manor, a so-called villa rustica . Archaeological excavations around 1830 and the early 1960s found that the courtyard covered an area of approximately ninety by ninety meters. It was destroyed by fire at least three times and rebuilt. Craftsmen's houses were also probably connected to the farm, as the discovery of a weaving weight suggests. When the Teutons overran the Limes north of the Danube for the first time in 233 , the Roman estate was probably destroyed for the first time.
The core of the village Amendingen, southwest of the church, was probably created in the course of the Alemannic conquest in the 5th / 6th. Century. An Alemannic settlement route from Heimertingen to Memmingerberg , which followed the watercourse of the Ach , was likely to have been decisive . The old Roman road certainly played a role in the settlement. As with Memmingen , the place name is made up of a personal name and the ending -ingen . Presumably the chief's name was Otmund . It later became Otmundingen , now Amendingen . The corridor of the oldest village initially comprised parts of the Memminger Ach and the fields reclaimed by the Roman estate. During excavations by the Memminger Altertumsverein around 1830, a stone slab grave was found, which is now located on the south side of the Memmingen forest cemetery. Due to the lack of additions, it is assumed that the grave was created before 751, during the Merovingian era. A wall of tuff , the same material as the burial box , was also cut. Brick finds showed that the wall and the other finds, with the exception of the graves, came from Roman times. Further excavations revealed that the pagan inhabitants of Amendingens laid their burial places at the destroyed Roman court. The dead lay with their heads facing east. Around the year 800 the first church was built in Amendingen, probably as a simple structure made of wood. The dead were buried in the associated cemetery.
Ottobeuren monastery and property of secular lords
The Chronicon ottenburanum , which contains a collection of copies of older documents from around 1180, names the village of Amendingen with all its possessions (and the people belonging to it) - villam Oumintingen cum pertinentiis suis - as a foundation property in the foundation deed of the Ottobeuren monastery . The copy reflects the content of a document from the year 764 that is considered authentic but has been lost. For the year 972, an assignment of territory by the Ottobeuren monastery is attested in a document, the authenticity of which is, however, controversial. The copy from the early 12th century mentions Amendingen as oppidum Oumintingen cum vico suo Trunkenesperc . Emperor Otto I. enfeoffed the Alemanni Duke Burchard III. of Swabians with goods that the Ottobeuren monastery had ceded to the emperor in order to free themselves from the duties of military service, military service and the court camp. The earliest written mention of Amendingen in the vita of St. Ulrich written by Augsburg Cathedral Provost Gerhard in 982/992 testifies that he met monks from the nearby monastery in Amendingen on his journey home from Upper Swabia to Augsburg in May 973 to give them the to communicate imperial privilege of free election of abbot.
Around 1200 Amendingen went to the Knights of Eisenburg , who had taken over the military service in the area from the Dukes of Swabia and thus formed the economic center of this rule. From an ecclesiastical perspective, the village belonged to the Rot an der Rot monastery from 1341 . The last knight of Eisenburg sold his rule.
Possession of Memmingen and Protestant-Catholic conflict
Amendingen came to the Memmingen bourgeois and patrician family Sättelin in 1455 and later a large part of the village came into the possession of other Memmingen citizens who remember the street names (Marquard, Spichel, Waimer, Zehender). With other places, the village passed into the possession of the neighboring imperial city of Memmingen in 1580. Since 1586 this also held the highest jurisdiction in the village. Twenty-one years later, in 1601, the Ulm citizen and patrician Hans Eitel Neubronner acquired the entire rule of Eisenburg . The Sättelin as citizens of Memmingen became Protestant during the Reformation , and the Neubronner as their successors had also accepted the new teaching as citizens of Ulm . The rule was now Protestant, but the land vogtei , which was above the rule, was Catholic. This resulted in differences which led to a treaty in 1586, thirty years after the Peace of Augsburg . The church records show that of six hundred subjects, one hundred and fifty remained Catholics. The treaty stipulated that the Lords of Eisenburg were allowed to remain Protestant, but that the subjects should remain in the old Catholic religion. Provided they had accepted the new denomination, they were allowed to keep it for another eight years. After that, the subjects had to return to the old religion under threat of punishment. The pastor at the time, Gallus Möslin, managed to convert most of them before the deadline . However, those who wanted to stay with the new faith moved to the Protestant Steinheim or to Memmingen.
During the Reformation period, the first Jews also settled in Amendingen and other places under the rule of Eisenburg, as the imperial cities did not grant them accommodation. Since many of the Jews were trading, there were soon minor quarrels between the city of Memmingen and Sebastian von Berwang as the owner of the Eisenburg estate and several times about trials. In 1573 there were 83 Memmingen craftsmen in the register of the Amendingen Jews. There was no Jewish population in Amendingen since 1600, as most of them moved to Fellheim , where they were under the protection of the local ruler. When the Neubronner bought the Amendingen estate in 1601, it was agreed in the purchase agreement not to accept any more Jewish populations. As the new owners of the rulership, the Neubronner tried to create order through contracts and agreements from the start. They stipulated the rights and duties of the sacristan and the teacher and made an agreement with the Rot an der Rot monastery on the tithe rights in Amendingen.
During the Thirty Years War there was billeting of imperial and Swedish troops and a corresponding burden on the population. There was a clash between the two warring parties at the St. Ottilien Chapel. The parish registers show that the fallen were buried in front of the chapel.
The plague also raged in the area around Memmingen in 1635. However, it is not known to what extent Amendingen was affected. As the most important consequence of the war, the Rot monastery sold on July 16, 1642 the patronage right with the tithe and other possessions in Amendingen to the Buxheim Charterhouse . The church in Amendingen was destroyed in 1655 when the tower collapsed. This event led to the erection of a makeshift building, which was inaugurated in 1661. In 1671, the heirs of the Neubronner family split the rule into twelve parts. Despite an appointed administrator for all twelve parts, there was soon a dispute. The majority was sold to the Memmingen Unterhospital from 1705 .
In 1752 the construction of today's church began, the choir no longer faces east but north. The building was completed in 1754 and was inaugurated on October 12, 1755.
19th century to World War II
Until 1805 the village remained under the rule of Eisenburg. After the Treaty of Lunéville brought sovereignty over the Swabian territories to the Electorate of Bavaria , the Crown of Bavaria officially took over sovereignty in Amendingen on December 31, 1805 at noon after two o'clock. This made it an independent Bavarian municipality. Since then, Amendingen has also included the hallway in the direction of Eisenburg and the Landschloss Grünenfurt .
In 1866 a disaster struck Amendingen. It went down in the chronicle under the name The great fire of Amendingen . In the Memminger weekly newspaper of October 3, 1866 (No. 79) the following could be read:
“On Sunday, September 23rd - when the people were in the church - and on Tuesday, September 25th when the farmers were working in the fields - a major fire broke out in Amendingen, which killed 15 ridges. The fire is said to have started at the butcher's (house number 17) by children setting fire and started again on Tuesday despite the fire watch. Eleven families, including a large number of children, were made homeless. "
Since the houses were almost entirely made of wood at that time and the roofs were thatched, the fire could spread quickly. The size of the fire can be seen from the deployment of 20 fire departments. The fire had the consequence that the entire townscape changed. The reconstruction also took place from the point of view of how such a catastrophe could be prevented in the future. Some courtyards were moved or relocated to loosen up the development. Only through the fact that notarial contracts were necessary for the postponement, we now know that seven courtyards and houses burned down. No information is available about other houses that have burned down.
In 1904 Johann Dirr took over the mayor's office from his father. For more than 40 years, including in the First and Second World Wars, he directed the fortunes of Amendingen.
At the beginning of the First World War Amendingen had around 700 inhabitants. After the end of the war, because of its proximity to Memmingen, numerous workers, civil servants and tradespeople settled here. Favored by the influx, two main political currents gradually formed in the village. The larger group represented the Christian-bourgeois middle of the Bavarian People's Party and the center . Then there was the socialist left of the working class ( social democrats and communists ). In addition, the farmers' union was very well represented as a right-wing, loose interest group. Because of the conflicting political opinions, there were also frequent quarrels within the village. Significant for this was the existence of two sports clubs, the Catholic journeyman's club and the workers' sports club , both of which practiced the same sports without competing against each other once in ten years. Around 1930 there were several major fires in the village due to an arsonist who was never identified. In 1923 the new school building, today's kindergarten, was inaugurated.
Until 1933, the Nazis under Hitler won more and more supporters for their NSDAP in Amendingen . However, with around 20% of the votes, interest remained relatively low. The reason for this was the Catholic attitude of the majority of the inhabitants and the left-wing workers' parties. It was only when Hitler came to power that a local branch of the NSDAP was founded. At the same time, the old councilors and mayor Dirr were to be deposed and replaced by party members or supporters of the party. The local NSDAP chairman Göppel was to take over the office of mayor on behalf of the district leadership. Through Dirr's 30-year activity as mayor and because of the confidence that the Amendinger citizenship had in him, Göppel saw that Dirr was the more suitable and therefore asked him to remain in office. However, Dirr had to join the party for this. Göppel himself became deputy mayor. The local group took on the task of organizing the ordered festive events such as May celebrations, harvest festival and others as well as promoting sport and the Nazi institutions. By the beginning of the war, the party's membership rose from 10 to 80.
Amendingen in World War II
Amendinger soldiers were already involved in the attack on Poland. There were already the first victims of the war. During the Balkan campaign in April 1941, many Amendingers were deployed in the mountain troops. Also in Stalingrad fought Amend Inger soldiers.
From the beginning of 1943 Amendingen was threatened by Allied air raids because of the nearby Memmingerberg air base. Around 50 refugees, mainly women and children, arrived from the almost completely destroyed city of Essen in the same year. Soon there were around ten more Silesian families.
From March 1945 around 4,000 wounded soldiers were lying in the Memming hospitals. The mayor of the city of Memmingen tried to persuade the on-site doctor to apply to declare Memmingen as a hospital town, i.e. an open town, in consideration of the large number of wounded, and thus to hand it over without a fight. This would have meant that Amendingen would not have been defended either. However, the doctor declined the request, stating that he was much too much of a soldier and had a duty to defend even the last pile of sand.
The stream of refugees from the west via Egelsee and Ulm took on ever greater proportions. The retreat of the German army from the west began in mid-April. The column moved past Amendingen through the city of Memmingen. The Vlasov army stationed in the Heuberg camp on the Swabian Alb , made up of Soviet prisoners of war and “volunteers” recruited by Heinrich Himmler , moved through Amendingen on its retreat. Most of the estimated 10,000 men went to the nearby community forest to bivouack . Several hundred stayed in the village and spent the night there. They broke into different houses and ransacked them. Soon they were moving east.
During heavy air raids on April 20, 1945 on the Memmingerberg air base and railway facilities in Memmingen, around 30 bombs fell on the Amendinger area. Apart from the railway tracks, at the height of today's sports field, there was no significant damage.
On April 26, 1945, around six in the morning, the first artillery fire was heard. Heimertingen , seven kilometers away , had already been taken and badly damaged. After the American troops had issued an ultimatum to surrender Memmingen on the same day, it was decided to surrender the city and surrounding villages without a fight - also because of the many wounded in the hospitals. On the orders of the local group leader of the NSDAP, the local farmer's leader drove to the town hall in Memmingen later that day in order to make a declaration of solidarity for the community of Amendingen for a non-fighting handover together with the city of Memmingen.
In the early afternoon, Mayor Dirr and the local group leader Göppel handed over the place without a fight. Dirr also made the statement that Amendingen was free from German soldiers and would not be shot. A group of French prisoners of war soon made themselves the spokesman for the Amendinger. Most of them had worked with the peasants in the village for two years or more and told the Americans that they had been treated well by the peasants and the rest of the population.
While taking the place there was an incident at the old mill in the so-called New World . One fatality was to be mourned when the owner of the mayor's office in the Villa Stetter could not open the locked door in time and was hit by the shots fired by an American soldier to blow up the castle. Otherwise the American invasion went off without any problems. The tanks moved on to occupy the city of Memmingen. The last of the 100 Amendinger prisoners of war did not return until five years later. Of the 350 men called to arms, 64 had died and 35 were missing.
Post-war until today
The Americans stayed in the village for about 14 days until Germany surrendered. A small staff was left in place after the withdrawal in order to maintain peace and order and to enforce the interests of the American military government . The forced laborers, who moved freely in large numbers, roamed the country for several days, pillaging. The Americans had given them permission, so no one could argue against it. One heard of mass thefts and fires in all the surrounding villages. Thanks to the testimony of the French prisoners of war, however, in Amendingen, care was taken to ensure that nothing happened, with a few exceptions.
After 41 years of uninterrupted activity, Mayor Johann Dirr was deposed by the Americans because of his party membership. Half a year later he died of a stroke. As his successor, the mill and sawmill owner Josef Höfelmayer was appointed provisionally by the occupying power. In February 1946, the first free municipal elections took place, in which the farmer Josef Riedmiller was elected mayor of the municipality Amendingen.
290 refugees and displaced persons came to Amendingen from the former German eastern regions and above all from the Jägerndorf (Krnov) area in the Sudeten region. This meant a great burden for the community of 900 inhabitants.
In 1949 and 1950 the last prisoners of war returned home from Russia and other eastern countries. The housing shortage was still great. In the following time, some social buildings were built, such as a six-family house in 1950 on the outskirts or in 1952 ten private homes on Stoll-Wespach-Straße. With the land consolidation in the winter of 1953/54, the regulation of the Memminger Ach began. The previously artificially created streambed was filled in and the river returned to its almost natural course. The municipality had to invest a lot of money together with the district for the settlement of new industries to create jobs . Finally, the company Metzeler -schaumgummi-Werke and the carpet factory Cord GmbH settled there and built a spacious factory.
The company preferred to hire workers from Amendingen, which led to a reduction in the high level of unemployment. The rooms of the poorly housed municipal administration in the school had become too narrow. The local council therefore bought a farmer's farm. A parish hall was built on its property at today's Ulrichsplatz. The post office and the volunteer fire brigade were also housed in the new building. In 1956, Mayor Riedmiller did not run for local elections for health reasons. Henning von Rome was elected as his successor.
The favorable geographical location of Amendingen was a great attraction. The construction activity for industry and handicrafts and also the private housing construction increased rapidly, thus also the tax revenues grew rapidly. With the construction of social housing, apartments were created for the refugee families so that the great housing shortage was alleviated.
The entire road network was built in four construction phases between 1959 and 1963. In addition to the basic construction, the laying of kerbstones and securing the water drainage, the streets were also provided with new asphalt pavements. In October 1964, construction began on a new school, which was inaugurated on July 16, 1966. The old school became a kindergarten.
On July 1, 1972 Amendingen was incorporated into the city of Memmingen as part of the regional reform . This ended the short period of independence for the place. The town hall is today owned by the Memmingen city administration and the Amendingen volunteer fire brigade. V. used. In the 1970s, the B18 on the southern edge of the village was expanded to become the A 96 . This still runs right through the town and separates the old town center from the new settlements such as the Römerhofsiedlung , which takes its name from the remains of the villa rustica found there .
Differences between the Amendingers and Memmingen arose over the years, mainly due to the repeated delays in building a new morgue in the cemetery and the drastically worsening situation at the Amendingen elementary school. There, more and more students were taught in a confined space. It was not until 1986, after much discussion, that the Amendinger School began to be expanded. From 21. to 23. June 1985 the new sports field and the sports home of SV Amendingen were opened. In the same year, on September 27th, the music home that had been attached to the kindergarten was inaugurated.
The Amendinger Brunnenfest has been held annually since the inauguration of the fountain in front of the former town hall on June 2, 1991. The north industrial park, which is mostly located on Amendinger Flur, continued to develop. Today it is the second largest contiguous industrial area in Swabia.
Due to a lack of space, the risk of accidents and the lack of various functional rooms, an initial cost statement for an extension of the old fire station with a training room and wet rooms was commissioned in 1993. After the space situation turned out to be insufficient, a completely new fire station was planned. However, a few years passed before the groundbreaking ceremony in March 2017. A plot of land in Donaustraße near the north industrial area was chosen as the new location. The new fire station cost almost 4 million euros. On a usable area of 1,100 square meters, the vehicle hall offers space for up to six fire engines, there are also workshop and storage areas as well as an administration area with several training and function rooms. The new fire station was inaugurated on April 13, 2019.
coat of arms
Blazon : Split; in front in green a black-nailed silver horseshoe, behind in gold a pawed black double cross .
At the request of the municipality, a municipal coat of arms was approved by the state government in 1962. The horseshoe refers to the former rule of Eisenburg , who owned the political community in the past, and the paw cross is the coat of arms of the Memminger Kreuzherren , who at the time had larger possessions in the village. The field colors green and gold remind us that the patronage rights over the Amendingen church had belonged to the Buxheim Charterhouse since 1642; the Buxheim coat of arms is gold-green, which can be traced back to the Lords of Ellerbach as the founders of the Charterhouse.
Religions
Due to the historical development, the community is predominantly Catholic. The center is the baroque church of St. Ulrich . Later on, a Protestant congregation was formed, whose community center has been housed in the Amendinger Schlössle since 1998 . Another church is subordinate to the Society of St. Pius X.
Population development
| Population development in Amendingen from the 16th century to 2018 |
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| year | Residents | ||||||||
| 16th Century | 600 * | ||||||||
| 1600-1650 | 150 * | ||||||||
| 1650-1700 | 300 * | ||||||||
| 18th century | 600 * | ||||||||
| 19th century | 700 * | ||||||||
| 1935 | 679 | ||||||||
| 1946 | 1300 * | ||||||||
| 12/1953 | 1280 | ||||||||
| 12/1964 | 1650 | ||||||||
| 06/1966 | 1844 | ||||||||
| 01/2006 | 3623 | ||||||||
| 12/2006 | 3699 | ||||||||
| 12/2007 | 3711 | ||||||||
| 12/2008 | 3740 | ||||||||
| 12/2009 | 3739 | ||||||||
| 12/2013 | 3712 | ||||||||
| 12/2018 | 3714 | ||||||||
- * Estimate
politics
The former council consisted of eight councilors, the mayor and his deputy. The last mayor was the businessman and owner of the Grünenfurt Palace , Henning von Rome. After the local elections in March 2008, there are six councilors and the deputy mayor from Amendingen in the Memmingen city council.
As far as known, the former community leaders and mayors were:
- ? - 1904: Dirr sen.
- 1904–1946: Johann Dirr
- 1946–1946: Josef Höfelmayr (acting)
- 1946–1956: Josef Riedmiller
- 1956–1972: Henning von Rom
On December 9, 1972, shortly after the incorporation, a citizens' committee was founded at the instigation of the Amendinger citizens Xaver Mang, Heinrich Lacher and Stefan Binzer. The task of the citizens' committee should be to monitor compliance with the concessions made in writing and orally on the part of the city during the involuntary incorporation of Memmingen in objective cooperation. The citizens' committee has no rights and can only achieve success through skillful action. The impression should never arise as if he wanted to build a wall between the city and the district of Amendingen. The committee is intended to support the councilors responsible for Amendingen to the best of its ability and also works directly with the city . The members of the committee are elected every three years. All amenders aged 18 and over are entitled to vote.
Culture and sights
Historical buildings
Amendinger Schlössle
The Amendinger Schlössle was built around 1730. Originally it was a coppersmith and wire drawing shop. In order to use the blacksmith's hammer, a second creek bed was dug, which was filled in again in 1960. Later the Schlössle temporarily housed the post office.
Since it is a listed building, it was not allowed to be demolished. So it came into the possession of several people who, however, let it lapse in view of the high renovation costs. In 1995 the Protestant church took over the building and renovated it. In 1998 it was inaugurated as a Protestant parish hall.
The Schlössle before ...
... and after the renovation
St. Ulrich Church
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Ulrich was built between 1752 and 1755 in the Baroque or Rococo style. The patronage festival is celebrated on July 4th ( Ulrich von Augsburg ). The most important works of art in the church are a Madonna Ivo Strigels and a statue of St. Ottilie (around 1500).
War memorial
The war memorial with St. George on horseback on a large plinth, a work by the Memmingen sculptor Daumiller , was erected by the Veterans Association in 1923 on St.-Ulrich-Platz. Most of the costs came from the community, the rest was covered by donations within the association.
Hammer forge
The first hammer forge with hammer, Bollier and Schleiff stood on the Haienbach near the segmül . It is mentioned for the first time in 1465 when it was awarded to a Blattner (hammer smith). Presumably it was moved to the north end of the parish soon after. Like the Schlössle , it was owned by the Memmingen Unterhospital as a copper hammer for a very long time . In the 1930s, the hammers and the waterwork were removed, after mostly only bell handles had been forged there. The forge was used until the 1950s. In 1975 it was demolished, despite its character worth preserving, to make way for residential buildings. The street name An der Hammerschmiede still reminds of the location.
Tafern
The Tafern , today the restaurant zum Adler, a simple gable-roof house with a wrought-iron bracket with stylized tendrils and flowers from the second half of the 18th century, was both an inn and a manorial brewery, which had to supply the Eisenburg rulership and the associated towns with beer. The inn was mentioned for the first time in 1475 when the Sättelin split the rule. The first host was mentioned in 1551. The building belongs to the Memminger brewery and is still an inn.
societies
The oldest association in town is the Amendingen volunteer fire brigade . It is the second largest fire brigade in the area of the city of Memmingen. After the great fire of Amendingen in 1866, efforts were made to set up a volunteer fire brigade . However, this was only founded twenty-one years later, on June 15, 1887. The biggest fire in the history of the fire brigade occurred in 1977 in the Metzeler factory . The fire lasted four days and fighting proved so difficult that the professional fire departments from Munich and Augsburg and a foam fire engine from the Frankfurt airport fire department had to be called in. The fire brigade was not just an association, but also an institution of the community. A legal clarification of this dual nature has only existed since the publication of the Bavarian Fire Brigade Act (BayFwG) in 1985. Thereafter, the fire brigade is a communal institution, but the fire brigade association exists in parallel .
The fire brigade's fire brigade currently consists of the following vehicles:
- Fire truck 16/25 (Florian Amendingen 21-1)
- Fire fighting group vehicle LF8-TS (Florian Amendingen 48-1)
- Crew transport vehicle (Florian Amendingen 14-1)
- Powder fire trailer P250 (is mostly pulled by the LF8-TS fire fighting group vehicle , was retired in 2014)
- Oil damage trailer (is mostly pulled by the crew transport vehicle)
Together with the LF 16-TS of the Steinheim fire brigade , the vehicles form the third fire engine in the city of Memmingen. It is the first call fire brigade for operations in the north industrial area and at the Memmingen motorway junction. The vehicles and the clubhouse were housed in the old town hall until April 13, 2019. Since that day, the Amendingen volunteer fire brigade has been housed in the new fire station at Donaustraße 111. Approximately 45 firefighters are currently doing active fire service. In addition, the fire brigade association has around 40 passive or supporting members. In the youth fire brigade , 14 young people are currently being prepared for fire service. The north industrial area with over 100 companies is also part of the fire brigade's area of operation.
The second oldest club is the Amendingen sports club . It was founded in 1923 as a gymnastics club. After the dissolution during the war, the re-establishment took place in 1946. The club offers a wide range of different sports. The SVA women's fistball group currently plays in the second division .
The music association Amendingen was founded on October 1st, 1954. He provides the musical framework for the various festivals, takes part in rating games and takes care of the other musical activities. In addition, a theater club, a snuff club and smaller music groups have formed. The youth band ABS was founded in 2000 with the neighboring bands from Steinheim and Buxheim . Later the young musicians from the Memmingerberger Kapelle joined them. In order to further promote young talent, the board of directors decided in 2002 to found a support association for young musicians in Amendingen. Early musical education introduces even the youngest to instruments. The association is a member of the Allgäu-Swabian Music Association . It currently (2008) has 43 active members and is supported by 202 passive members.
Regular events
Since the inauguration of the fountain in front of the former town hall on June 2, 1991, the fountain festival has been held there every year. This festival is organized alternately by the fire brigade and the music association. On the Sunday after Ulrich's Day (July 4th) the parish festival is held in and in front of the parish hall and church. The traditional wine festival usually takes place on the last weekend in September in the gym of the Amendinger school. On Spark Sunday, i.e. the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday , a spark fire is usually burned on the Amendinger Flur, in the direction of Grünenfurt .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
For a long time Amendingen was oriented towards agriculture and characterized by farms. The oldest company in the village is the special vehicle manufacturer Goldhofer . It developed out of the Amendingens village smithy, which was located next to today's Protestant parish hall. The largest part of the industrial area north, the second largest contiguous industrial area in Swabia, is located on the Amendinger Flur. Many companies are world market leaders in their branch. There are the forwarding companies Dachser , Gebrüder Weiss , Epple and Honold. Buzil, a global cleaning agent company, is also based in the industrial park, as is Goldhofer AG from Amendingen , the world's leading manufacturer of special transport vehicles. A large retail park with retailers is also located on the edge of the industrial park.
traffic
The district is connected to the national transport network by the A 96 and the Augsburg – Memmingen federal road (B 300) and to Memmingen's public transport network by two bus routes.
At the eastern end of the village, the Illertalbahn passes without stopping. In the course of the Regio-S-Bahn Donau-Iller , the establishment of a stop near the village is planned.
education
The first school house, a small brick building, stood next to today's Sparkasse. After the number of students increased, the formerly single-class school was divided into two levels. The small school with the 1st and 2nd grade students was temporarily located in the old sacristan's house next to the church. The big school , in which pupils from the 3rd to the 7th grade were taught, remained in the old brick building. The first large school in Amendingen was built during the period of inflation . In 1954 a third school hall was added and a few years later another hall in a barrack-like style was added.
After a long search, a plot of land for a new school building was found on the eastern edge of the village. At a cost of around two million D-Marks , a school district was created that housed an eight-class elementary school with a gym. Construction began in October 1964 and the new building was inaugurated on July 16, 1966. Shortly after completion, however, an expansion would have been necessary, as the school had become an association school. The number of students rose rapidly. After frequent and urgent demonstrations of the school space shortage, the school building extension was approved in 1985. The school was ready for use at the beginning of the 1987 school year. In 1996, the building was enlarged again with the addition of eight more classrooms and specialist rooms on the north side of the first extension. On August 5th, 2008 the groundbreaking ceremony for the extension of the gym took place.
The school includes elementary and middle school from 1st to 9th grade. In addition, there is also an intermediate-level train from 7th to 10th grade. Today's school district includes primary and secondary school students from the Memmingen districts of Amendingen and Eisenburg and the politically independent communities of Buxheim (5th – 9th grade), Heimertingen , Fellheim and Pless (7th – 9th grade). There are currently 570 students attending school and the teaching staff consists of 49 teachers. It was converted into a primary and middle school in 2011.
The primary school Amendingen became known nationwide in 1979 when a teacher slapped a pupil and this was tolerated by the Supreme Court in Bavaria with reference to common law. This ruling led to a change in the law in Bavaria that finally abolished corporal punishment.
Personalities
The painter Josef Madlener was born in Amendingen in 1881. A postcard reproduction of his painting "The Mountain Spirit" served the writer JRR Tolkien as inspiration for the magician Gandalf in the novel " The Lord of the Rings " .
The four-time national soccer player Franz "Bulle" Roth (* 1946), who played for FC Bayern Munich from 1966 to 1978 , is also an amendinger.
The former Bavarian Agriculture Minister Josef Miller (* 1947) lives in Amendingen and is a city councilor in Memmingen.
literature
- Joachim Jahn et al: The history of the city of Memmingen - from the beginnings to the end of the imperial city . Theiss, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8062-1315-1 .
- Paul Hoser among others: The history of the city of Memmingen. From a new beginning in the Kingdom of Bavaria to 1945 . Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1316-X .
- Uli and Walter Braun: One hour for Memmingen - not to mention the surrounding area. Maximilian Dietrich Verlag, Memmingen, ISBN 3-934509-30-4 (various editions).
- Maximilian Dietrich: The district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Memmingen 1971, ISBN 3-87164-059-X .
- Günther Bayer: Memmingen - Old views from town and country. Verlag Memminger Zeitung, Memmingen 1990, ISBN 3-9800649-9-9 .
- Stefan Binzer: Amendingen in the past and present - a concise local history . Amendingen 1957.
- Stefan Binzer: Amendinger Chronicle . History of Amendingens - Over 30 years of war and peace - From World War I to 1964. 1964.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The street names of Memmingen from 1970 under Kalchstraße: Kalch has always been the name given to the yellowish-white Almerde that is around 3 m deep in the Memminger Valley between Stadtbach and Haienbach. Here you repeatedly come across lime or lime under thin humus.
- ↑ Michael Dapper: The history of the city of Memmingen - From the beginnings to the end of the imperial city . S. 26th f .
- ↑ The clergy of the Ottobeuren chapter. From its origin to secularization, Vol. IV, Memmingen 1919, pp. 185-253.
- ^ Anton Steichele: Archive for the history of the Diocese of Augsburg . B. Schmid, 1859, 1859, p. 16 f . Accessible online under Archive for the History of the Diocese of Augsburg, at Google Books. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ^ The documents Konrad I, Heinrich I and Otto I. Edited by Theodor Sickel. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The documents of the German kings and emperors 1st Hahn, Hanover 1879–1884. Retrieved August 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria - Swabia Series I, Issue 4: Memmingen, p. 231. Retrieved on March 29, 2010 .
- ↑ Manfred Weittlauf (Ed.): Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg - Festschrift on the occasion of the thousand-year anniversary of his canonization in 993 . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 1993, p. 137 .
- ↑ Maximilian Dietrich - The district of Memmingen - p. 135.
- ^ Rootsweb, family tree of the Sättelin family. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Street directory of Memmingen with explanations of the street names. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ↑ Matthias Stroeher - Memmingen Foundations - Part 2, p. 63.
- ↑ Maximilian Dietrich - The district of Memmingen - p. 136.
- ↑ Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Claus covering the years 1826-1892, edited and explained by Friedrich Döderlein (royal high school teacher), Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 178
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung, November 7, 1932
- ^ Stefan Binzer: Amendinger Chronik. History of Amendingens - Over 50 Years in War and Peace - From World War I to 1964, pp. 90–92.
- ^ Report of the former local group leader Göppel, Stefan Binzer: Amendinger Chronik. History of Amendingens - Over 50 Years in War and Peace - From World War I to 1964, pp. 77–79.
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 601 .
- ↑ 1972–1992 - 20 years of incorporation - 20 years of citizens' committee
- ↑ a b City of Memmingen: Business location. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ^ City of Memmingen: New construction of the Amendingen fire station. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ IX. Resident directory of the rural communities in the district office of Memmingen
- ↑ Stefan Binzer, Amendingen in the past and present - a brief local history, p. 34.
- ^ Stefan Binzer, Amendinger Chronik. History of Amendingen - Over 30 years in war and peace - From World War I to 1964 1964, p. 218.
- ↑ Local history material collection of the city and the district of Memmingen
- ↑ Memmingen and its districts. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Registration Office, City of Memmingen
- ↑ Address list of the city council. Retrieved August 9, 2012 .
- ^ Invitation to found the Amendingen Citizens' Committee on December 9, 1972
- ↑ About Us, page of the volunteer fire department Amendingen. Retrieved March 29, 2010 .
- ^ History, page of the MV Amendingen. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 21, 2010 ; Retrieved March 29, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SMA / Intraplan: Regio-S-Bahn Donau-Iller results of the main study (PDF; 2.4 MB), November 27, 2012, accessed on November 19, 2013
- ↑ Festschrift for the inauguration of the school extension on November 20, 1987, p. 6.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung, August 6, 2008, p. 27.
- ^ School year 2011/12 according to information from the rectorate
Amendingen | Buxach with Hart | Dickenreishausen | Eisenburg | Steinheim | Volkratshofen with Ferthofen
