Babenhausen (Swabia)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Babenhausen
Height :	560 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.24 km 2
Residents:	5611 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	206 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87727
Area code :	08333
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 115
Market structure:	4 parts of the community
; Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 ; 87727 Babenhausen
Website :	www.babenhausen-schwaben.de
First Mayor :	Otto Göppel jun. ( CSU )
Location of the Babenhausen market in the Unterallgäu district

Fugger Castle with St. Andreas Church

Babenhausen is a market in the Bavarian - Swabian district of Unterallgäu and the seat of the administrative association of the same name .

The place is known for the Fugger Castle and the Church of St. Andreas. It is the seat of the Fugger family , which was very important in the Middle Ages and especially in the Renaissance .

geography

The community is located about 25 kilometers northeast of Memmingen and 40 kilometers southeast of Ulm in Upper Swabia . It belongs to the Donau-Iller region .

Expansion of the municipal area

The municipality consists of the districts Babenhausen and Klosterbeuren.

There are four officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

There is also the non-officially named part of the municipality Sparergatt in the municipality .

history

Until the 19th century

The name of the settlement was first mentioned in a document on March 24, 1237 in the course of the settlement of a border dispute. On May 12, 1315, the name city was already included in a deed of purchase. Emperor Ludwig IV the Bavarian granted Ulm city rights in 1337. In 1436 Rudolf Mötteli vom Rappenstein acquired the castle and market for around 2000 guilders from Benno and Albrecht von Rechberg. On July 26, 1466, as part of the so-called Rottweiler judgment, the imperial eight was imposed on the rule of Babenhausen. As a result, Babenhausen's town charter was permanently lost.

Before 1800 the market was ruled by the Fugger-Babenhausen princes and from 1500 belonged to the Swabian Empire . In 1803 Babenhausen became an imperial principality . With the Rhine Confederation Act in 1806, the place became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria , and until 1848 the place was the seat of the Princely Fugger Court of Babenhausen.

The Franciscan monastery in Klosterbeuren was founded before 1273 and demolished in 1860.

Rail connection

In 1894 the place was connected to the railway network by the single-track branch line Kellmünz on the Iller - Babenhausen branching off from the Illertalbahn . Seventy years later, in 1964, local passenger traffic was discontinued and a cycle path has been running on the former embankment since 2009.

Incorporations

The formerly independent municipality of Klosterbeuren and the village of Unterschönegg of the municipality of Oberroth were incorporated into Markt Babenhausen on May 1, 1978 as part of the municipal reform.

Population development

year	1840	1871	1900	1925	1939	1959	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	2219	2284	2495	2504	2527	4246	4351	4631	4630	4953	5190	5315	5250	5176	5488

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 4,751 to 5,628 inhabitants or by 18.5%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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12.6%

16.6%

11.3%

5.9%

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Gains and losses

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City council and mayor

The municipal council has twenty members. In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the distribution of seats was as follows:

Free voters : 8 seats (40.3%)
CSU: 6 seats (28.0%)
Young voters Union: 2 seats (12.4%)
Alliance 90 / The Greens 2 seats (10.4%)
List of committed citizens: 2 seats (9.0%)

Compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office, the Free Voters won one seat; CSU, List of Committed Citizens and Young Voters Union each lost one mandate. The Greens were not represented in the previous period and won two seats.

Mayor Otto Göppel jun. Has been since May 2008. (CSU). He was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 51.2% of the votes (with two competitors).

Community finances

In 2011 the municipal tax revenue amounted to 5,827,000 euros; of which EUR 3,052,000 were trade tax receipts (net).

Babenhausen in the valley of the Günz

Town hall in Babenhausen

Stadtgasse with Fugger Castle

badges and flags

Blazon : "In gold between three (2: 1) black mallets a black star."

The original coat of arms dates back to 1471, making it the second oldest communal coat of arms in the Unterallgäu district. The by Emperor Friedrich III. Coat of arms letter awarded to Regensburg on July 15, 1471 describes the coat of arms privilege as follows:

"A yellow scabbard, in it three swarcz slugs, the style underneath is keret, you stand two up next to each other, and in between a black star and under the same star the third slug in the middle of the scarf ...".

The Schlegel as a coat of arms symbol are taken from the coat of arms of the former local lord Konrad von Schönegge with the surname Prügel, which can be traced back as a family coat of arms to the year 1273. They commemorate the rule of the Reichsministeriale, the Lords of Schönegg in the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1796, Count Anselm Maria Fugger added a coat of arms with two crossed pennants, a steel-colored, bourgeois helmet and a golden wall crown. Similar attributes adorned various other municipal coats of arms in the district, in keeping with the spirit of the times. However, since a government directive of July 27, 1928, all of these additions are inadmissible and are therefore not part of a legally binding historical coat of arms.

The market carries a black and yellow striped flag with the municipality's coat of arms on it.

Community partnerships

Argentré and Louvigné ( Mayenne department , France)

Attractions

St. Andrew's Church

Babenhausen owns a Fugger Castle, which houses a Fugger Museum. The church of St. Andrew with its baroque interior is one of the local attractions.

In the cemetery chapel there are seven pictures of a dance of death from around 1722. Together with four other pictures ( Fall of Man, Thanksgiving for the Dead, Ransom for the Dead, Consolation of the Poor Souls ) they belong to the cycle of a cult of the dead based on the model of the Vienna Death Chapel by Abraham a Sancta Clara (alias Johann Ulrich Megerle from Kreenheinstetten near Messkirch).

Fugger pond

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

In 2011 there were 17 employees in agriculture and forestry, 1322 in manufacturing and 376 in trade and transport at the place of work. In other sectors of the economy this figure was 435 people. In 1998 there were people in residence subject to social security contributions. There were nine companies in the manufacturing sector and seven in the construction sector. In 2010, also 37 farms planted with an agricultural area totaling 1,342 hectares , of which 616 ha of arable land and 726 hectares of meadowland.

The trade tax multiplier is currently 290% (2011).

education

The following facilities existed in the community: three kindergartens with a total of 217 kindergarten places and 204 children being looked after (as of 2012) as well as two elementary schools with 53 teachers and 783 pupils (school year 2011/12). The Anton-Fugger-Realschule in Babenhausen had 33 teachers with 555 students (school year 2011/12), who were taught in four branches.

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of the Market

Jacob III Fugger (1542–1598), merchant and gentleman at Babenhausen Castle

Joachim Enzmilner , Count von Windhaag (1600–1678), counter-Reformation politician

Johannes Bisselius (1601–1682), Jesuit preacher, writer and poet

Franz Joseph von Herz zu Herzfeld (1681–1739), legal scholar and university professor

Johann Georg Beer (1701–1781), architect and builder

Andreas Primus (1782–1849), princely personal and court doctor, councilor

Alois von Wiest (1810–1890), judge, member of the Württemberg state parliament

Wilhelm von Behringer (1820–1902), liberal member of the Reichstag and Landtag

Wilhelm Engel (1838–1933), cabinet maker

Emil Ehrensberger (1858–1940), chemist and industry manager

Heel, Franz Xaver (1758–1831), composer

Otto Jochum (1898–1969), composer, choir director and music teacher

Eugen Jochum (1902–1987), conductor

Georg Ludwig Jochum (1909–1970), conductor

Lothar Meid (1942–2015), bass player, music producer and film composer

Personalities who have worked on site

Anselm Maria Fugger von Babenhausen (1766–1821), Imperial Prince of the Principality of Babenhausen
Claudia Roth (* 1955), politician, former federal chairwoman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , vice-president of the German Bundestag, grew up in Babenhausen

literature

Thomas Reich: Rule formation and rulers in the area of the Altlandkreis Illertissen , Taufkirchen 2000

Web links

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

Community website
Entry on the coat of arms of Babenhausen (Swabia) in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Babenhausen (Swabia): Official statistics of the LfStat

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 ).
↑ Markt Babenhausen: Employees A – Z. "G". Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
^ Babenhausen community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
^ 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. 782 f .
↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
↑ District Unterallgäu under District Administrator Dr. Hermann Haisch (Hrsg.): Coat of arms in the district of Unterallgäu . 1st edition. Mindelheim, ISBN 3-927003-00-X , p. 53 .
^ VGem Babenhausen: Administrative Community Babenhausen - The coat of arms of Babenhausen. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
↑ District Unterallgäu under District Administrator Dr. Hermann Haisch (Hrsg.): Coat of arms in the district of Unterallgäu . 1st edition. Mindelheim, ISBN 3-927003-00-X , p. 52 .
↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . P. 231 ff.

[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 ).

[2] Markt Babenhausen: Employees A – Z. "G". Retrieved May 21, 2020 .

[3] Babenhausen community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-4] 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. 782 f .

[5] Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018

[6] District Unterallgäu under District Administrator Dr. Hermann Haisch (Hrsg.): Coat of arms in the district of Unterallgäu . 1st edition. Mindelheim, ISBN 3-927003-00-X , p. 53 .

[7] VGem Babenhausen: Administrative Community Babenhausen - The coat of arms of Babenhausen. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .

[8] District Unterallgäu under District Administrator Dr. Hermann Haisch (Hrsg.): Coat of arms in the district of Unterallgäu . 1st edition. Mindelheim, ISBN 3-927003-00-X , p. 52 .

[9] Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . P. 231 ff.