Aichach-Friedberg district

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Coat of arms of the Aichach-Friedberg district Map of Germany, position of the district Aichach-Friedberg highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '  N , 11 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
Administrative headquarters : Aichach
Area : 780.33 km 2
Residents: 134,655 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 173 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : AIC, FDB
Circle key : 09 7 71
NUTS : DEB3B
Circle structure: 24 municipalities
Address of the
district administration: 		Münchener Strasse 9
86551 Aichach
Website : www.lra-aic-fdb.de
District Administrator : Klaus Metzger ( CSU )
Location of the district of Aichach-Friedberg in Bavaria
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Pair valley with Aichach from the west
District Office Aichach-Friedberg

The district of Aichach-Friedberg is the easternmost district in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia .

geography

location

The district is east of Augsburg ; the border between the two areas is usually formed by the Lech . The most important inner river is the Paar , which crosses the district from southwest to northeast and on which some Friedberg districts and Aichach lie.

The district of Aichach-Friedberg is largely rural, larger cities and communities are Friedberg , Aichach and Dasing and in the south Mering and Kissing .

The district is also known as the Wittelsbacher Land , as the ancestral seat of the Bavarian ruling family of the Wittelsbachers was once here. In Oberwittelsbach , a district of Aichach, the remains of the family castle and a castle church built on the same site can still be viewed today .

Neighboring areas

Starting in a clockwise direction in the northwest, the district borders on the districts of Donau-Ries , Neuburg-Schrobenhausen , Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , Dachau , Fürstenfeldbruck , Landsberg am Lech and Augsburg as well as the independent city of Augsburg .

history

Until 1800

Archaeological finds show that the district area has been inhabited for at least ten thousand years. Numerous weapons finds indicate that there have often been armed conflicts here.

In Roman times , the district was primarily the “forecourt” for Augusta Vindelicorum , the capital of the province of Raetia . Most of the farms that supplied the capital are likely to have been there, alongside some suburban villas belonging to the wealthy city dwellers.

With the end of Roman rule in Raetia (end of the 5th / beginning of the 6th century), the Alemanni and Bavarians settled in what is now the district. The first written record of a district municipality is Adelzhausen , which is attested in 782 as Adalhemelshusir .

In 1124, Count Otto V. von Scheyern moved his family's ancestral castle from Scheyern near Dachau to Wittelsbach near Aichach. The noble family, henceforth known as Wittelsbacher , gained the ducal dignity of Bavaria in 1180 and ruled the country until 1918. However, the castle itself was razed in 1209, and only a memorial stone reminds of the original building.

Friedberg Castle was built in 1264 to charge a fee for transport across the Lech. Nothing reminds of this castle today either, as the original building burned down in the 16th century.

Due to its border location on the Lech and its proximity to the imperial city of Augsburg, today's district was often the scene of bitter battles. B. 1420, in the Thirty Years' War or in the 18th century under the two Wars of Succession and later the French Revolutionary Wars .

Regional courts

The district area was originally divided into the district courts Aichach , Friedberg and Mering. After the unification of Friedberg and Mering (1799) and the administrative reforms of the early 19th century, Friedberg belonged to the Isarkkreis (capital Munich) from 1817 , Aichach with the neighboring Rain to the Oberdonaukreis (capital Augsburg). In 1837 Friedberg, Aichach and Rain came to Upper Bavaria .

District Offices

Aichach and Rain were combined to form the Aichach district office in 1862, and the Friedberg district office was created from the Friedberg district court.

On the occasion of the reform of the layout of the Bavarian district offices, the district office of Aichach ceded the district court district (also the district) of Rain to the district office of Neuburg an der Donau on January 1, 1880 .

On July 1, 1910, the Friedberg district office ceded the Meringerau (now Siebenbrunn ) community to the city of Augsburg. On January 1, 1913, other parishes came to Augsburg.

On January 1, 1914, the Landsberg am Lech district office handed over the Unterbergen community to the Friedberg district office. Schmiechen followed on January 1, 1915 .

Counties

On January 1, 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. Thus the district offices became the districts of Aichach and Friedberg .

The Friedberg district was assigned to the Swabian administrative district in 1944 .

Aichach-Friedberg district

On July 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria in the administrative district of Swabia, the new district of Augsburg-Ost with its headquarters in Aichach was formed from the following components :

The district council of the new district decided to change its name, so that on May 1, 1973 the district was given its current name, Aichach-Friedberg District .

On January 1, 1994, Baar (Swabia) was spun off from the Thierhaupten municipality in the Augsburg district and raised to a municipality in the Aichach-Friedberg district.

politics

District council

The local elections on March 15, 2020 in the Aichach-Friedberg district led to the following result for the district council:

District election 2020
Turnout: 59.8% (−4.6% p)
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20th
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41.3%
15.4%
11.5%
10.9%
8.2%
5.2%
5.1%
2.4%
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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-2.6  % p
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Remarks:
f Party-free and independent voter community
Allocation of seats in the
Aichbach-Friedberger Kreisag 2020
        
A total of 60 seats

Election results of the district council elections 2020, 2014 and 2008: in the district of Aichach-Friedberg:

Parties and constituencies %
2020 		Seats
2020 		%
2014 		Seats
2014 		%
2008 		Seats
2008
CSU Christian-Social Union in Bavaria 41.3 25th 46.9 28 48.0 29
Green Alliance 90 / The Greens 15.4 9 8.7 5 7.3 4th
FW Free voters Bavaria 11.5 7th 8.7 5 5.8 3
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 10.9 7th 17.7 11 21.4 14th
AfD AfD Bavaria 8.2 5 - - - -
PFUW Party-free and independent voter community 5.2 3 10.2 6th 7.4 5
ÖDP Ecological Democratic Party 5.1 3 2.9 2 2.3 1
FDP Free Democratic Party 2.4 1 2.3 1 4.4 2
REP The Republicans - - 2.6 2 3.2 2
total 100 60 100 60 100 60
voter turnout 64.0% 59.8% 64.4%

District administrators

Period Surname Political party
July 1, 1972 - June 30, 1989 Josef Bestler CSU
July 1, 1989 - April 30, 2002 Theodor Körner CSU
May 1, 2002 - April 30, 2014 Christian Knauer CSU
since May 1, 2014 Klaus Metzger CSU

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Aichach-Friedberg district
 Blazon : “Under the shield head with the Bavarian diamonds split by silver and red; in front a green oak leaf, behind a gold Ulrich cross. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: The oak leaf is a so-called "talking" symbol and comes from the old district coat of arms of Aichach. The Ulrich cross was already visible in the Friedberg coat of arms. The Bavarian diamonds symbolize the old rule of the Wittelsbachers in today's district.

The coat of arms was donated on December 10, 1975.

Language and dialect

A prominent feature of the region is its unique dialect, which mixes the Bavarian dialect with Swabian influences. The generally Bavarian pronunciation of the words is typical here. In most verbs, however, the second person singular is followed by the typical Swabian “-sch”, so “kann” is pronounced “kannsch”, which for people from other language areas often gives the impression that you have it with you To do “real” Swabians . The long-established residents of the Wittelsbacher Land , however, attach great importance to their belonging to old Bavaria . This can also be recognized by the place names: Only places west of the Lech usually end in the Alemannic -ingen , while many places east of the Lech, where the entire district is located, end with the Bavarian -ing . The Altlandkreis Aichach has only been part of the administrative district of Swabia since the regional reform in 1972, whereas the Altlandkreis Friedberg became Swabian earlier. The residents of the Altlandkreis Aichach in particular, which stretched around Aichach to Kühbach , Inchenhofen and Adelzhausen , live and cultivate their cultural affiliation with old Bavaria, and the local youth also continue these traditions, especially in the countryside.

City and community partnerships

District partnership with Riesa-Großenhain district (since 1990)

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the district grew from 103,260 to 133,596 by 30,336 inhabitants or by 29.4% (in the period mentioned the highest population growth of a district in the administrative district of Swabia).

Population figures according to the respective area.

Population development in the Aichach-Friedberg district from 1840 to 2017 according to the table below
was standing population
December 01, 1840 35,584
December 01, 1871 38,272
December 01, 1900 40,588
06/16/1925 46,599
05/17/1939 49,579
09/13/1950 73.995
06/06/1961 72,884
05/27/1970 82,677
05/25/1987 102,793
December 31, 1991 110.121
December 31, 1995 117,921
December 31, 2002 125,534
06/30/2005 127.246
December 31, 2010 127.955
December 31, 2015 130.916
December 31, 2017 132,596

Attractions

Churches

  • Maria Birnbaum Monastery

  • Pilgrimage church Herrgottsruh

Castles

  • Blumenthal Castle

  • Friedberg Castle

  • Scherneck Castle

  • Affing Castle

  • Unterwittelsbach Castle

  • North-east view of Hofhegnenberg Castle

    Hofhegnenberg Castle

Recreation areas, lakes and bodies of water

Mandicho Lake

economy

The economy in the rural district is essentially based on a number of innovative medium-sized companies and many craft businesses. The central location in the middle of the economic region Munich-Augsburg-Ingolstadt is a major advantage of the location.

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district was ranked 135th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with “future opportunities”.

In October 2018, the unemployment rate in the Aichach-Friedberg district was 1.8%.

media

The daily newspaper Aichacher Zeitung appears in the district .

traffic

The Munich-Augsburg railway company ran its route through the southern district as early as 1840. In Mering, the Bavarian State Railroad had a railway branched off southwards towards Weilheim in 1898.

The northern part with the district towns of Aichach and Friedberg was opened up in 1875 by the Ingolstadt – Augsburg route. The rail network had now reached its present size. The federal highway 8 and the federal highway 300 are of decisive importance for automobile traffic. For air traffic there is the Augsburg airfield .

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Cities

  1. Aichach (21,470)
  2. Friedberg (29,979)

Markets

  1. Aindling (4485)
  2. Inchenhofen (2647)
  3. Kühbach (4326)
  4. Mering (14,852)
  5. Poettmes (6853)

Other communities

  1. Adelzhausen (1726)
  2. Affing (5498)
  3. Baar (Swabia) (1188)
  4. Dasing (5812)
  5. Eurasburg (1743)
  6. Hollenbach (2401)
  7. Kissing (11,621)
  8. Merching (3218)
  9. Obergriesbach (1963)
  10. Petersdorf (1694)
  11. Rehling (2581)
  12. Ried (3131)
  13. Schiltberg (1966)
  14. Schmiechen (1373)
  15. Sielenbach (1732)
  16. Steindorf (976)
  17. Deathly Wise (1420)
Baar (Schwaben) Pöttmes Todtenweis Aindling Petersdorf (Schwaben) Inchenhofen Kühbach Schiltberg Sielenbach Adelzhausen Eurasburg (Schwaben) Ried (bei Mering) Mering Merching Schmiechen Steindorf (Schwaben) Kissing Obergriesbach Hollenbach Rehling Affing Aichach Friedberg (Bayern) Dasing Augsburg Landkreis Neuburg-Schrobenhausen Landkreis Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm Landkreis Dachau Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Augsburg Landkreis Landsberg am Lech Landkreis Donau-Ries Landkreis Dillingen an der DonauMunicipalities in AIC.svg
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Administrative communities

  1. Aindling
    (Markt Aindling and communities Petersdorf and Todtenweis )
  2. Dasing (municipalities of Adelzhausen , Dasing , Eurasburg , Obergriesbach and Sielenbach )
  3. Kühbach (market Kühbach and community Schiltberg )
  4. Mering
    (Markt Mering and communities Schmiechen and Steindorf )
  5. Pöttmes (market Pottmes and community Baar )

Protected areas

There are three nature reserves , seven landscape protection areas , seven FFH areas and at least twelve designated geotopes in the district (as of August 2016).

See also

License Plate

On July 1, 1975, the district was assigned the AIC , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Aichach district. It is still issued today.

Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old district of Friedberg received license plates with the letters U to Z and the letter pairs from UA to ZZ, each with the numbers from 1 to 999.

Since July 11, 2013, the license plate liberalization has also made the distinguishing mark FDB ( Friedberg ) available.

literature

  • Martin Kluger : Wittelsbacher Land. Aims in the Aichach-Friedberg district , context, Augsburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-939645-64-1 .
  • District Office Aichach-Friedberg (Hrsg.): The district of Aichach-Friedberg introduces itself. WEKA-Verlag, Mering 2003.
  • Erich Hoffmann: Aerial photos from the Wittelsbacher Land , Mayer & Söhne GmbH publishing house, Aichach 2002, ISBN 3-923778-05-8 .
  • Landschaftspflegeverband Aichach-Friedberg e. V .: Natural treasures in the Wittelsbacher Land - A journey of discovery to the treasures on our doorstep , Aichach 2014.

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Aichach-Friedberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
  3. ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
  4. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 1994
  5. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the Aichach-Friedberg district  in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The district coat of arms . Aichach-Friedberg district, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prognos.com
  8. ↑ "Data 2" sheet, Statistical Report A1200C 202041 Population of the municipalities, districts and administrative districts 1st quarter 2020 (population based on the 2011 census) ( help ).