Amberg (Swabia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Türkheim
Height :	608 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.96 km 2
Residents:	1473 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	134 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86854
Area code :	08241
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 111
Address of the municipal administration:	Main street 1 86854 Amberg, Germany
Website :	www.gemeinde-amberg.de
First Mayor :	Peter Kneipp ( Free Voters' Association )
Location of the municipality of Amberg in the Unterallgäu district

Amberg is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu and a member of the Türkheim administrative community .

Amberg (Swabia) in 2018

geography

Amberg is located in the Donau-Iller region in Central Swabia .

The municipality consists only of the Amberg district . Originally the municipality part of Pisterhof belonged to Amberg . In 1972, a shortwave transmitter was built on the site of the village.

history

Until the church is planted

The place was first mentioned in 1170 as a Guelph estate. The construction of the parish church began in 1249, it was originally consecrated to John the Baptist and was given the patronage of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in 1399 . After several changes of ownership, the village belonged to Bartholomäus Welser from 1540 , who had a castle built there, which was demolished after 1775. Welser's heirs sold their property in 1601, which after further changes of ownership fell to the Steingaden monastery . The closed Hofmark , located in the Electorate of Bavaria , was under the sovereignty of the Bavarian rule Schwabegg. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,076 to 1,476 by 400 inhabitants or 37.2%.

• 1810: 0280 inhabitants
• 1970: 0736 inhabitants
• 1987: 0994 inhabitants
• 1991: 1126 inhabitants
• 1995: 1189 inhabitants
• 2000: 1279 inhabitants
• 2005: 1302 inhabitants
• 2010: 1388 inhabitants
• 2015: 1421 inhabitants

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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38.1%

11.3%

17.8%

11.1%

8.9%

4.8%

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CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2013

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-2.9  % p

+ 12.9  % p

+ 6.6  % p.p.

+ 2.0  % p

+1.8  % p

-1.7  % p

-2.9  % p

CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

mayor

Mayor is Peter Kneipp (Free Voters' Association). In 2002 he succeeded Johann Bäßler (Free Electoral Association) and was confirmed in office on March 15, 2020 with 92.5% of the votes for a further six years.

Municipal council

Since the Free Electoral Association submitted the only election proposal in both 2014 and 2020, it was allocated all twelve seats.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by decision of the government of Swabia on October 4, 1979.

Blazon : "Above a blue shield base, inside concentric, silver arcs (radio waves), split by silver and red with a heraldic lily in confused colors."

In the 16th century, the place was owned by the well-known Augsburg patrician family Welser, from whose coat of arms the heraldic lily was taken in confused colors. From 1972 to 2014, the strongest short-wave transmitter in Europe dominated the site, which is why the radio waves were displayed in the shield foot - in a heraldically convincing way.

Heinz C. Bessling from Hechendorfer designed and designed the coat of arms.

flag

The flag is blue-white-blue (1: 1: 1) striped with the municipal coat of arms.

Amberg from the south in 2011, in the background the now dismantled Wertachtal shortwave transmitter

Amberg - Kirchenweg

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Amberg

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Amberg

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

Portions of this article appear since 1998 is out of date to be .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

In 1998 there were no employees at the place of work in agriculture and forestry, 44 in manufacturing and no employees in trade and transport. There were a total of 447 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in manufacturing and four in construction. In 1999 there were 35 farms with an agricultural area of ​​761 hectares. 450 hectares of this were permanent green space.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

• Kindergarten: 50 kindergarten places with 50 children

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Paul Gedler (* 1715 in Amberg, † 1790), altar builder
• Anton Städele (* 1873 in Amberg, † 1956), editor of the "Neue Free People's Newspaper" in Munich, member of the state parliament
• Adalbert Keller (* 1959), Roman Catholic theologian and university professor

Personalities associated with the community

• Bartholomäus V. Welser (* 1484, † 1561 in Amberg), Augsburg patrician and merchant

Web links

Commons : Amberg (Schwaben)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage
• Entry on the coat of arms of Amberg (Swabia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Amberg (Swabia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1 MB)

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. ↑ Amberg community: The local council. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Amberg in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 27, 2019.
4. ^ Community Amberg: Chronicle of Amberg. Retrieved May 15, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018