Amstetten (Württemberg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '  N , 9 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	628 m above sea level NHN
Area :	49.8 km 2
Residents:	4013 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73340
Primaries :	07331, 07323
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 008
Community structure:	6 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Lonetalstrasse 19 73340 Amstetten
Website :	www.amstetten.de
Mayor :	Johannes Raab
Location of the municipality of Amstetten in the Alb-Danube district

Amstetten is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

geography

Geographical location

Old town center of Amstetten-Dorf seen from the southwest

Amstetten is located in the northern Swabian Alb at the head of the Geislinger Steige , about 25 kilometers northwest of Ulm . Here an ancient trade route from the Filstal crosses the Alb.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on the city of Geislingen an der Steige in the district of Göppingen , in the east on Gerstetten in the district of Heidenheim , Altheim (Alb) and Weidenstetten , in the south on Lonsee and in the west on Nellingen .

Community structure

The districts of Bräunisheim , Hofstett-Emerbuch, Reutti , Schalkstetten and Stubersheim belong to the municipality of Amstetten . The place Amstetten itself is divided into the old Amstetten village and the Amstetten train station, which was newly built after the railway was built .

history

The Laurentiuskirche, built around 1000, characterizes the old town center.

Traces of a Roman road station at the head of the Geislinger Steige attest to the important geographical location. While Amstetten itself lacks traces of early medieval settlement, finds from the districts of Schalkstetten, Bräunisheim and Stubersheim show settlement at least since the Merovingian period . The first documentary mention of Amstetten comes from the year 1275 in the Liber decimationis , the tithe book of the diocese of Constance . In the late Middle Ages, the region mainly belonged to the Counts of Helfenstein , who, however, had to pledge their property to the imperial city of Ulm at the end of the 14th century. In 1803 Amstetten, together with Ulm, first fell to the Electorate of Bavaria , then finally to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810 and was assigned to the Oberamt Geislingen . In 1850, Amstetten was connected to the railway network of the Württemberg railway with the continuation of the Eastern Railway to Ulm . In 1938 Amstetten came to the district of Ulm as part of a regional reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era . In 1945 the place became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. Since the district reform that took place in 1973, Amstetten has been part of the newly formed Alb-Danube district.

Population development

These are population numbers according to the respective territorial status. The numbers are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office (only main residences ).

year Residents December 1, 1871 ¹ 1712 December 1, 1880¹ 1762 December 1, 1890¹ 1607 December 1, 1900 ¹ 1661 December 1, 1910¹ 1733 June 16, 1925 ¹ 1736 June 16, 1933 ¹ 1756 May 17, 1939 ¹ 1820 September 13, 1950 ¹ 2607

year Residents June 6, 1961 ¹ 2673 May 27, 1970 ¹ 2816 December 31, 1980 3242 May 25, 1987 ¹ 3369 December 31, 1990 3562 December 31, 1995 3952 December 31, 2000 3943 December 31, 2005 3974 December 31, 2010 3940

year Residents December 31, 2015 3978

Incorporations

In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the following municipalities were incorporated into Amstetten:

• March 1, 1972: Hofstett-Emerbuch and Stubersheim
• December 1, 1973: Bräunisheim
• January 1, 1975: Reutti and Schalkstetten

The earlier communities belonged to the Ulm district until its dissolution .

Outsourcing

On July 1, 1974, Sontbergen, until November 30, 1973 a district of Bräunisheim, was ceded to the neighboring community of Gerstetten.

Coats of arms of the incorporated communities

Hofstett-Emerbuch	Stubersheim	Bräunisheim	Reutti	Schalkstetten

politics

Municipal council

In Amstetten, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . After the last election, the municipal council in Amstetten has 21 members (2009: 20). The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following official final result. The turnout was 61.0% (2009: 60.0%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Political party	be right	Seats	comparison
Free Association of Voters (FWG)	36.0%	8 seats	2009: 6 seats
Free electoral association	34.8%	7 seats	2009: 8 seats
Citizen-friendly list	29.2%	6 seats	2009: 6 seats

mayor

Johannes Raab was elected mayor in March 2018 with 74.1% of the vote (1st term of office) The election had become necessary because his predecessor Jochen Grothe had resigned during his third term of office due to illness.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black shepherd's shovel on a silver (white) background , which is covered with a silver (white) five-spoke wheel. The municipality flag corresponds to this coat of arms in black and white. The coat of arms and flag were awarded in 1958.

The colors of the coat of arms are reminiscent of the city of Ulm, to which Amstetten once belonged. The shepherd's shovel is a reminder of the sheep farming that was once widespread in this area, and the five-spoke wheel, a symbol of traffic and industry, reminds of the train station, to which Amstetten owes its economic development.

Community partnerships

Amstetten has had a partnership with Celles-sur-Belle in France since 1989.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Amstetten there is a foundry owned by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG with around 870 employees.

Amstetten is on the B 10 Stuttgart - Ulm .

Rail transport

Arrival of a regional express at Amstetten station

Amstetten train station

The Albbähnle on the journey from Amstetten / Württ. to Oppingen

Historical signpost in Amstetten-Dorf

The Stuttgart – Ulm– Munich line ( Filstalbahn ) runs through the community. The Amstetten train station used to be important due to the connection of two secondary lines and its location at the head of the Geislinger Steige .

Today two museum railways still run on the branch lines at times. The local railway Amstetten – Gerstetten (gauge 1435 mm) runs on a 20 km long route to Gerstetten . The Albbähnle to Oppingen (gauge 1000 mm) runs on a section of the former railway line to Laichingen . After it was shut down in 1985, it was possible to prevent the six-kilometer route between Amstetten and Oppingen from being dismantled.

Sports

The SV Amstetten 1946 eV is the local sports club with the divisions football, tennis, handball and gymnastics. It maintains two large sports fields, a clubhouse and a tennis hall with outdoor facilities.

The district of Stubersheim in Germany had the soccer team with the fewest points and most goals conceded in the 2010/2011 season, an average of 13 per game.

Personalities

• Benedictus Ducis , born around 1492 in Konstanz, died in late 1544 near Ulm, worked in Stubersheim from 1533 and in Schalkstetten from 1535. He was a pastor, humanist and composer of the Renaissance .
• Jakob Stoller , born April 21, 1873 in Amstetten, died November 15, 1930 in Weimar, geologist and university professor
• Wilhelm Stoller , born April 8, 1884 in Amstetten, died November 4, 1970 in Ludwigsburg, diplomat and consul general

literature

• Rainer Schreg : Excavations in an early to high medieval settlement on the outskirts of Schalkstetten, Gde. Amstetten, Alb-Donau district. in: Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 2005, pp. 181–183.
• H.-E. Dietrich: Highlights from the history of Stubersheim. Festschrift on the occasion of the church renovation 1981–84 and the 400th anniversary of the church building in 1984. Stubersheim 1984.
• H.-E. Dietrich: Highlights from the history of Bräunisheim. Geislingen 1993.
• Hans-Joachim Knupfer: Narrow gauge to Laichingen. The history of the Alb-Bahn Amstetten – Laichingen . Schweinfurt 2002, ISBN 3-928786-87-3 .
• Karlheinz Bauer: AMSTETTEN history of a Alb community. Amstetten municipality, Amstetten 2003, ISBN 3-00-012405-5 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Amstetten in the description of the Oberamt from 1842  - sources and full texts

• Amstetten (Württemberg) at LEO-BW
• Website of the municipality of Amstetten
• Schalkstetten local history museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Population development in Baden-Württemberg from 1871 to 2012 ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ^ 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. 457 .
4. ^ 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. 542 .
5. ^ 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. 543 .
6. ^ 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. 470 .
7. ↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/amstetten/
8. ↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/amstetten/
9. ↑ The Republic's shooting gallery . In: DIE WELT , October 30, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2016.