Alerheim

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Ries
Height :	425 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.37 km 2
Residents:	1666 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86733
Area code :	09085
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 111
LOCODE :	DE AAQ
Community structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Beuthener Str. 6 ; 86720 Nördlingen
Website :	www.alerheim.de
Mayor :	Christoph Schmid (Free Voting Association Alerheim)
Location of the municipality of Alerheim in the Donau-Ries district

Alerheim is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and a member of the Ries administrative community .

Aerial photograph of Alerheim (2016)

Aerial view of Alerheim Palace (2016)

Stele in memory of Johann Wilhelm Klein

geography

Geographical location

The church village is located in the Nördlinger Ries , nine kilometers east of Nördlingen, and is part of the Augsburg planning region . The Wörnitz crosses the municipality in a north-south direction.

Community structure

The municipality consists of four districts , which correspond to the former municipalities, and has seven districts :

Alerheim ( parish village ) with castle ruins ( hamlet ) and Wennenmühle ( wasteland )
Bühl with Anhauserhöfe (hamlet) and Neumühle (no officially named part of the municipality)
Rudelstetten ( Kirchdorf )
Wörnitzostheim (Kirchdorf)

history

Until the church is planted

For the first time in the 8th century AD Alerheim was mentioned in a document as "Villa Alarheim" in connection with a donation to the imperial abbey of Fulda . In the Thirty Years' War , the village was heavily devastated in 1645 during the Battle of Alerheim , and the reconstruction was only completed after 70 years. Alerheim was owned by the Oettingen - Wallerstein family from 1306 to 1806 and became part of Bavaria with the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806 as the Oberamt of the Principality of Oettingen-Wallerstein .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, Wörnitzostheim was incorporated as part of the municipal reform, and on January 1, 1978 the municipalities of Bühl im Ries with their districts and Rudelstetten were added.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,502 to 1,637 inhabitants or by 9%.

1904: 1420 inhabitants
1939: 0711 inhabitants (only town of Alerheim)
1947: 1095 inhabitants (only locality Alerheim)
1961: 1503 inhabitants
1970: 1455 inhabitants
1987: 1501 inhabitants
1991: 1591 inhabitants
1995: 1620 inhabitants
2000: 1675 inhabitants
2005: 1696 inhabitants
2010: 1665 inhabitants
2015: 1619 inhabitants

The 1663 inhabitants identified by the municipality in 2008 were distributed among the districts as follows:

Alerheim: 962 inhabitants
Bühl im Ries: 231 inhabitants
Rudelstetten: 279 inhabitants
Wörnitzostheim: 191 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor has been Christoph Schmid (Freie Wahlgemeinschaft Alerheim) since May 2008; he was re-elected in 2014 and 2020. The predecessor was Gerhard Ament (Alerheim / Rudelstetten voter association).

Municipal council

Period from 2020 to 2026 (unchanged as in the 2014 to 2020 term of office):

Alerheim voters' association: 6 seats
Voter Association Rudelstetten: 2 seats
Voting community Bühl i. Ries: 2 seats
Wörnitzostheim voters' association: 2 seats

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Stephan
Alerheim Castle
The 489.3 m high Wennenberg between Alerheim and Rudelstetten
Anhauser Weiher, natural monument, north-west of Anhauserhöfe, in the Middle Ages created

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of € 714,000 in 1999, of which € 153,000 (net) was trade tax revenue.

In 1998 there were no employees at the place of work in agriculture and forestry, 180 in manufacturing and 53 in trade and transport. There were 598 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was one in the manufacturing industry (as well as mining and quarrying of stones and earth) and six in the construction industry. In addition, in 1999 there were 87 farms with an agriculturally used area of 1,909 ha. Of this, 1,488 ha were arable land and 419 ha were permanent green space.

education

In 2011 there were the following institutions:

Day care center for children: The Alerheim kindergarten is sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community and has 60 places. It is attended by 55 children, including 8 crèche children under three years of age.
SVE, school preparatory facility of Schwabenhilfe e. V .: Three groups from the Schwabenhilfe funding facility are housed in the school building and are attended by children from all over Ries.
Primary school: In Alerheim there is a largely single-course primary school for grades 1–4, the Johann-Wilhelm-Klein-Volksschule (one grade is two-tier). It is attended by around 100 students in five classes.
Adult Education Center : There is a branch of the VHS Nördlingen in Alerheim.

traffic

The state road St 2221 from Oettingen to the B 25 crosses the municipality and crosses the district road DON 10 on the eastern edge of the village of Alerheim .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Wilhelm Klein (1765–1848), pioneer of education for the blind

Wilhelm Schmidt (1888–1962), politician ( WAV , DP )

Hans Löfflad (1922–1997), politician (WAV, DP)

People connected to the community

King Heinrich (VII.) , In 1235, Emperor Friedrich II kept his rebellious son in custody in the castle in the Schloßruine district . He was “passing through” and came to Alerheim from the castle dungeon in Heidelberg . He was then transferred further via Friuli to Apulia and held captive in the San Fele fort and other castles in southern Italy until his death .
Franz von Mercy (1597–1645), Commander in Chief in the Thirty Years' War, died in Alerheim. A memorial stone near the Stephanuskirche reminds of this.

literature

Bernhard Erhard: Alerheim im Ries. A historical mosaic from the 8th century to the present day . Alerheim community, 2000, ISBN 3-00-007186-5
Gottfried Stieber: Alerheim . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 182-184 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Alerheim - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Allerheim in the Topographia Sueviae (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Homepage of the community
Entry on the Alerheim coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Alerheim: Official statistics of the LfStat
Alerheim in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).

^ Community Alerheim: community organs . Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
^ Community of Alerheim in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 3, 2019.
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 541 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 793 .
^ Locations directory of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Munich, 1904
^ Natural monuments Donau-Ries - Anhauser Weiher

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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 ).