Bächingen an der Brenz

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Bächingen an der Brenz
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Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '  N , 10 ° 19'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Dillingen on the Danube
Management Community : Gundelfingen on the Danube
Height : 440 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.34 km 2
Residents: 1358 (December 31, 2019)
Population density : 185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 89431
Area code : 07325
License plate : DLG, WHO
Community key : 09 7 73 113
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 15
89431 Bächingen
Website : www.baechingen.de
First Mayor : Roland Grandel (Free Voters' Association Bächingen)
Location of the municipality of Bächingen adBrenz in the district of Dillingen an der Donau
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Bächingen an der Brenz (officially: Bächingen adBrenz ) is a municipality in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau and a member of the administrative community Gundelfingen an der Donau .

geography

Geographical location

Bächingen is located in the Donauried on the edge of the Swabian Alb . The Brenz flows north of the village , while the Swabian Donaumoos begins to the south . In the west, the Bächinger district boundary is both the border of the Dillingen district and the state border with Baden-Württemberg .

Neighboring communities

City of Gundelfingen an der Donau , Sontheim an der Brenz (Baden-Württemberg), Medlingen

history

It is believed that the village was founded in the 6th to 7th centuries by the Alamanni as Bechenheim . The name probably goes back to the Alemannic founder, as the word means to the home of a bacho . The first written mention of the name goes back to 1269/71 and was already mentioned there with the addition to the Brenz . The name Bächingen replaced the original term in the 19th century.

As the first rulers of the place, the lords of Riedheim are documented in the 15th century , from whom he came into the hands of the knight family von Westernach . Bernhard von Westernach had today's moated castle built in 1531 . His son Eitelhans († 1576) managed to spin off Bächingen from the Principality of Palatinate-Neuburg as a free imperial knighthood and introduced the Reformation in 1576 .

West side of the castle

In 1594 the rule passed to the Barons vom Stain , who later also received the neighboring free imperial knighthood of Niederstotzingen and ruled in Bächingen until 1790. Under their patronage , the Church of St. Nicholas , built in the early 15th century, underwent major changes and extensions.

From the Thirty Years' War Bächingen was not spared. Especially under the Bavarian Army , it suffered great damage in 1620, as did the surrounding towns. Due to Bächingen's imperial immediacy and the popularity of the Freiherren vom Stain , who ran a small farm in Bächingen based on the French model and maintained connections in the highest circles, Bächingen became a refuge for citizens of surrounding villages towards the end of the war. After the war, immigrants, in the case of Bächingen mostly Wenden , filled the gaps in the population.

In 1790 the Duchess Franziska von Württemberg, better known as Franziska von Hohenheim , bought the Bächingen estate as a private property. The Duchess's grandmother was Sophia Charlotta Baroness von Vohenstein, née Freiin vom Stain from Bächingen.

In the course of mediatization , Bächingen was incorporated into the newly formed Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 and lost its autonomy.

After the duchess's death in 1811, her universal heir was Karl Ludwig Axel Freiherr von Böhnen Bächingen, who made it a patrimonial court . In 1821 he sold the village to the newly ennobled Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süsskind , a wealthy banker from Augsburg . His descendant Albrecht Freiherr von Süßkind-Schwendi and his wife Christine, daughter of Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe , still own the castle estate today.

After the Second World War had left Bächingen largely untouched, the place felt it in full force on April 24, 1945. American low-level aircraft attacks killed a number of people and around a third of the houses burned down.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,088 to 1,332 by 244 inhabitants or 22.4%.

church

The Protestant parish of Bächingen, which also includes the Protestants from Medlingen, currently (as of 2011) has almost 1000 members. The Bächinger Catholics are parish in Medlingen.

politics

The municipal council has twelve members. Since the municipal elections in Bavaria in 2014 , they have been divided into the following lists:

  • Free electoral association: 6 seats
  • CSU / Active Citizens: 6 seats
Parties and constituencies Seats
2014 		Seats
2008
FWV Free Voters (FW) Bächingen e. V. 6th 5
CSU Christian-Social Union in Bavaria 6th 4th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 0 3
total 12 12

Siegmund Meck (UAB Bächingen / CSU) has been mayor since May 1, 2020, who was elected with 79.4% on March 15, 2020. His predecessor was Roland Grandel (Free Voters' Association) from May 2002 to April 2020; he no longer stood for re-election in 2020.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Mooseum - Forum Swabian Danube Valley (nature-oriented information and communication center with events and a permanent exhibition for the Swabian Danube Valley region)

Archives

Nikolaikirche Bächingen
Patronage cemetery of the families von Süsskind and Süsskind-Schwendi

Buildings

Architectural monuments

Soil monuments

music

  • Choral Society 1898 Bächingen e. V. (oldest local association)
  • Musikverein "Eintracht" Bächingen (since 1950)

nature

In the south of the Bächinger district lies a part of the Swabian Donaumoos with protected flora and fauna.

Bächingen is also known for its storks , which since 1989 after years of absence have settled back on a chimney in Bächingen Castle; For many years it was the only pair of storks in the district of Dillingen , until a couple made their home in Höchstädt in the late 1990s . The storks made the village in the Brenztal a little famous in 1997 when they did not move south for the first time and spent the winter in Bächingen, which is now the case every year.

There is a natural monument to the north behind the castle. There are still remnants of the former castle avenue.

The former Schlossallee in winter

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bächingen is close to the Ulm / Elchingen motorway junction ( A 7 / A 8 ). The two motorways can each be reached in around 15 minutes. The next connection to the B 16 is five minutes away by car.

education

The primary school association Bächingen- Medlingen has its seat here.

Sons and daughters of the place

Other personalities associated with the place

Web links

Commons : Bächingen an der Brenz  - 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. ^ Municipality of Bächingen ad Brenz: Mayor. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Lindenallee in Bächingen