Bad Groenenbach

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Bad Groenenbach
Height :	718 m above sea level NHN
Area :	42.02 km 2
Residents:	5675 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	135 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87730
Area code :	08334
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 144
Market structure:	46 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 87730 Bad Grönenbach
Website :	www.bad-groenenbach.de
First Mayor :	Bernhard Kerler (CSU)
Location of the Bad Grönenbach market in the Unterallgäu district

Stiftsberg in Bad Grönenbach

Market square in Bad Grönenbach, with collegiate monastery and the church of St. Philipp and Jakob in the background

Bad Grönenbach is a market in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu and the seat of the Bad Grönenbach administrative community .

The place is officially recognized as a Kneipp spa . The market is located between the cities of Memmingen in the north and Kempten in the south. The A 7 motorway runs a little to the east of Bad Grönenbach. The rulership of the town, first mentioned in a document in 1099, has changed several times over the centuries. A local aristocracy existed until the beginning of the 13th century, after which rule went over various noble families until Bad Grönenbach was added to Bavaria in 1803.

geography

Expansion of the municipality of Bad Grönenbach

topography

The place is located in southwest Bavaria , around 13 kilometers south of the independent city of Memmingen in the Donau-Iller region in Upper Swabia . The market in the south-western area of ​​the Unterallgäu district at an altitude of 718  m above sea level. NN and borders on the Oberallgäu district to the south, with which the typical Allgäu hill landscape begins. The highest point with 841  m above sea level. NN is located in the southeast of the municipality, about 1.4 km south-southeast of the hamlet of Hintergsäng. Approximately a quarter of the municipality is covered with forest, mostly the Grönenbacher Wald southwest of the main town.

Municipal area

The municipality consists of the districts Gronenbach and cell .

The market has 46 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Au ( hamlet ) Bad Grönenbach (main town) Firewood ( wasteland ) Darast (wasteland) Dießlings (wasteland) Egg (hamlet) Ehwiesmühle (hamlet) Falcons (wasteland) Fautzen (wasteland) Frauenkau (hamlet) Gmeinschwenden (village) Greit (hamlet) Haitzen (hamlet) Herbisried (village) Hintergsäng (wasteland)

Hohmanns (hamlet) Hörpolz (village) Hueb (hamlet) In the Tarrast (hamlet) Ittelsburg ( Kirchdorf ) Klevers (wasteland) Koppenloh (wasteland) Kornhofen (hamlet) Kreuzbühl (wasteland) Manneberg (wasteland) Niedergsäng (hamlet) Niederholz (wasteland) Oil mill (hamlet) Raupolz (hamlet) Rechberg (wasteland)

Rothenstein (hamlet) Rothmoos (wasteland) Schachen (wasteland) Schulerloch (village) Schwenden (hamlet) Seefeld (wasteland) Strip (hamlet) Thal (village) Vordergsäng (hamlet) Waldegg (wasteland) Wieslings (wasteland) Zell (Kirchdorf) Zellereinöde (hamlet) Ziegelberg (village) Ziegelstadel (hamlet)

Bad Grönenbach borders in a clockwise direction on the communities Legau , Kronburg , Woringen , Wolfertschwenden , Böhen , all in the Unterallgäu district , as well as the Dietmannsried community in the Oberallgäu district .

geology

Geologically, the largest part of the municipality is located in the natural area of the Lower Illertal, only a small part in the south is assigned to the natural area Iller-Vorberge. There are the villages of Ziegelberg , which belong to Bad Grönenbach, and the south-eastern area of Herbisried . The oldest rocks in the subsoil of the municipality are formed by Miocene deposits of the upper freshwater molasse, which is made up of marls , sands and clays with embedded gravel . During the subsequent ice ages in the Pleistocene , the plain of the Upper Freshwater Molasse was crossed by glaciers several times . Glacial rivers cut deeply into the plane, so that the deposits of Freshwater today only locally at the edges of the valleys open minded are.

The Würm glacial period was geomorphologically defining in the Bad Grönenbach area . During the maximum of the ice expansion, the glacier front lay in the Memminger Valley. When the glacier melted back, large ice reservoirs formed between the terminal moraines and the glacier front . To the east of Ziegelberg the water broke through the terminal moraine and flooded the northern gravel plain near Memmingen. Due to the high erosive power of the suddenly emerging glacial lake water, the watercourse cut deeply into the gravel terraces and formed a characteristic trumpet valley . The place where the glacier waters broke through the terminal moraine is also known as the “Allgäuer Tor”.

The substrate of the capital structure is geologically divided into crushed ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Mindel and Rißeiszeit . The edge of the eastern municipal area consists of gravel from the Würm glacial period, the last glacial period in the Alpine region . The hamlets of Vordergsäng and Niedergsäng lie on an old moraine from the Mindel glacial period, the Falken's high terrace , to the north of it, was formed in the Riss glacial period . The upper freshwater molasse from the Miocene forms the base of the elevation. The Upper Freshwater Molasse is also open to the Iller in the east of the municipality . The natural area of ​​the Iller foothills consists of a young moraine with terminal moraine courses from the Würm glacial period.

Natural monuments and geotopes

Nagelfluh outcrop near Waldegg, Bad Grönenbach. Geotope no. 778A007

Ziegelberger Trumpet Valleys, Geotope No. 778R003

→ Main articles : List of natural monuments in the Unterallgäu district  and list of geotopes in the Unterallgäu district

In Bad Grönenbach, the group of trees on the Schloßberg, consisting primarily of ash, and the Weihbrunn spring in the Zell district are designated natural monuments.

Registered geotopes are the Nagelfluh outcrops west of Bad Grönenbach and Waldegg, the Toteisloch near Herbisried, the Ziegelberger Trompetentälchen, the Nagelfluhfelsen am Falken northeast of Ittelsburg, the Zeller Hochterrasse northeast of Grönenbach and the Prallhang am Illertal north of Fluhmühle.

The two Nagelfluh outcrops show gravel from the Lower Pleistocene and were artificially created by mining gravel. The Nagelfluhfelsen near Ittelsburg consists of rubble with predominantly limestone origins. Since it has significantly more angular than rounded pieces, the rubble was hardly transported. The glacier front during the last glacial period must therefore be in close proximity.

The Ziegelberger Trompetentälchen, the largest trumpet valley in the Allgäu, was also formed in the last glacial period . The name Trompetental goes back to the funnel-shaped opening of the valley in a northerly direction, similar to a trumpet neck. Albrecht Penck demonstrated, among other things, with the help of the Zeller high terrace and the gravel deposited there, the multiple parts of the Pleistocene. The valley floor of the gravel terrace dates back to the Würme Ice Age, above it rises the high terrace from the Riss Ice Age, which in turn is dominated by the terrace from the Mind Ice Age.

Land use

Land use 2014	Area in ha
Building and open space	284
Operating area	67
of which mining land	63
Recreation area	6th
including green spaces	4th
traffic area	158
of which streets, paths, squares	153
Agricultural area	2616
Forest area	1031
Water surface	35
Areas of other use	6th
total area	4202

The rural area of ​​Bad Grönenbach, at 62.3 percent, has a significantly higher proportion of agricultural land than the Bavarian average of 49 percent. The forest area covers around a quarter of the area and is around 10 percent less than the national average of 35 percent. The largest contiguous forest area extends directly on the outskirts southwest of Bad Grönenbach. In addition to other smaller patches of forest spread across the municipality, the southeast corner on the border with the Oberallgäu district is wooded.

The water area with 35 hectares or 0.8 percent of the area is statistically less than half as large as the national average with 2 percent. The building and open spaces as well as the proportion of traffic areas are roughly in line with the national average.

Waters

There are various natural and man-made bodies of water in the municipality. At the northern exit of the village is the Bad Clevers natural swimming pool and further north there are two other smaller lakes in the area of ​​the hamlet of Ziegelstadel. To the west and south below the High Castle there are several ponds, some for fish farming. There are other bodies of water in the Grönenbach Forest after the Rothenstein district. The Zeller Bach rises shortly after the border with the Oberallgäu district and flows through the municipality in a northerly direction and flows into the Kressenbach just before Memmingen. The stream is fed by a number of small tributaries. A quarry pond was created east of the village of Zell through gravel mining . Part of the Iller belongs to Bad Grönenbach . The right bank of the river stretches from the south from the hamlet of Au to the Illerkraftwerk of Iller level 6 near Sack in the municipality. At the height of the Rechberg desert, the Iller forms a loop with an impact slope that drops around 78 meters. All waters belong to the Danube river basin district .

climate

Bad Grönenbach has a moderate climate, but compared to the data for the normal period from 1961–1990, it is rather cool for Germany. In February, the statistically driest month, there is still 55 mm of precipitation, the annual average is 995 mm. The hottest month is July with an average of 16.3 ° C (Germany-wide average is 16.9 ° C), January is the coldest with an average of −2.0 ° C, while the average for the same month in Germany is one The temperature is −0.5 ° C. The annual average temperature is 7.2 ° C, the mean of the normal period for Germany shows an average temperature of 8.24 ° C.

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Bad Grönenbach Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 1.4 3.1 7.3 11.4 16.3 19.7 21.5 20.7 17.7 11.9 6.1 2.2 O 11.6 Min. Temperature (° C) −5.3 −4.6 -1.8 1.6 5.8 9.3 11.1 10.3 7.5 3.2 -0.6 −3.9 O 2.8 Temperature (° C) −2.0 -0.8 2.7 6.5 11.0 14.5 16.3 15.5 12.6 7.5 2.7 -0.9 O 7.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 62 55 59 76 101 120 120 117 85 64 66 70 Σ 995 T e m p e r a t u r 1.4 −5.3 3.1 −4.6 7.3 -1.8 11.4 1.6 16.3 5.8 19.7 9.3 21.5 11.1 20.7 10.3 17.7 7.5 11.9 3.2 6.1 -0.6 2.2 −3.9 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec N i e d e r s c h l a g 62 55 59 76 101 120 120 117 85 64 66 70   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: Climate: Bad Grönenbach. AmbiWeb GmbH, accessed on August 30, 2015.

history

→ Main article : History of Bad Grönenbach  and the Reformation in Bad Grönenbach

Prehistory and early history

The area of ​​today's market town was already settled in prehistoric times, which is evident from a depot find near Ittelsburg from the Bronze Age from 1800 to 1200 BC. Occupied. The find, consisting of several rag axes, is kept in the Memmingen City Museum. The ramparts on the Falken above Ittelsburg date from the Iron Age , more precisely the La Tène period . The Romans settled the area after 15 BC. The Vindeliker had defeated and founded the province of Raetia . After the fall of the Roman Empire, Germanic Alemanni and Thuringians settled in the area in the 6th century . A local nobility of their own probably formed in the 8th century and existed until the beginning of the 13th century.

11th to 17th centuries

Rothenstein castle ruins

The first written mention of Grönenbach was in 1099, when the local nobility ruled in Grönenbach. The line of the so-called nobles of Grönenbach died out in 1260 with the nun Adelheid von Grönenbach in the Ottobeuren monastery . As a result, the Lords of Rothenstein took over the rule of Grönenbach as a fiefdom of the prince monastery Kempten . These had their ancestral castle west of Grönenbach in the district of the same name. The Princely Monastery of Kempten had previously held secular and ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Rothenstein Castle and the properties belonging to it and, with the permission of Otto II , incorporated Grönenbach into the rule. The Rothensteiner ruled over Grönenbach from the end of the 13th century until 1482. Their rule was briefly interrupted during this time when Grönenbach fell to Hans Rizner von Memhölz and Hans the Syrgen von Syrgenstein. In 1384 it was taken over again by the Rothensteiners. The last central person for Grönenbach was the Rothensteiner Ludwig von Rothenstein . He founded the collegiate foundation, the Heilig-Geist-Spital and the St. Leonhard Church in neighboring Ittelsburg. With him, the Rothenstein line died out and the rule passed to his nephew Heinrich von Pappenheim. As a result, there were disputes between the other lines of the Rothensteiner and the Pappenheimer about the inheritance regulation of Ludwig, which was settled in 1508 by a judgment of the government of Innsbruck. The Rothensteiners finally renounced Grönenbach. Emperor Friedrich III. granted Grönenbach market rights in 1485 . The Pappenheimers lived in Grönenbach until 1612. During their rule in 1559, Philipp von Pappenheim introduced the Evangelical Reformed Confession in Grönenbach. By marriage, Grönenbach passed to the Fugger von der Lilie . These led Grönenbach during the Thirty Years War and in 1632 saw the High Castle being plundered by the Swedes. The Grönenbach fiefdom fell back from the Fuggers to the Prince Abbey of Kempten in 1695.

18th and 19th centuries

Coat of arms of the Princely Monastery of Kempten and Rupert von Bodmann on the tower of the collegiate church of St. Philipp and Jakob

The prince abbots of the monastery in Kempten set up a nursing office in the high castle and until 1803 occupied it with noble monastery canons as carers. With the secularization of 1803 the fiefdom was abolished and Grönenbach fell to the Bavarian state under the rule of Elector Maximilian I. At the end of the 19th century the pastor Sebastian Kneipp stayed in Grönenbach for around two years.

20th and 21st centuries

The two world wars of the 20th century claimed many victims in Grönenbach. In the First World War 72 and fell WWII 244 persons or were missing. In the course of the expulsion of the German population from the eastern areas , Grönenbach and the associated hamlets had to take in over a thousand displaced persons . The spa system was expanded at the beginning of the 20th century. Because of this and Sebastian Kneipp's stay, Grönenbach was recognized as a Kneipp spa in 1954 . The title Kneipp therapeutic bath and the addition to the name Bad were awarded to Grönenbach in 1996. In 2004 the health resort was awarded the "Premium-Class-Kneipp-Spa" certificate by the Association of German Kneipp Spa.

The previously independent municipality of Zell with 12 districts was incorporated into Bad Grönenbach on July 1, 1972 as part of the municipal reform.

population

Age pyramid of Bad Grönenbach (2011 census)

Men	Age level	Women
6th	> 90	40
75	80-89	145
221	70-79	260
299	60-69	274
379	50-59	370
433	40-49	453
309	30-39	295
276	20-29	287
351	10-19	306
239	0-9	244

According to the 2011 census , 5262 people lived in the market town, of which 2588 (49 percent) were male and 2674 (51 percent) were female. 242 people had foreign citizenship, which corresponds to 4.6 percent. The Polish population group made up the largest proportion with 47 people, followed by Italians with 30 and Turks with 29. According to the age structure , 19 percent of the population were 65 years or older, and almost 22 percent were younger than 20 years.

Population development

Population development of Bad Grönenbach from 1840 to 2018 according to the table below

In the area of ​​the municipality of Bad Grönenbach there were 2213 inhabitants in 1840, 4399 in 1987, 5091 in 2000 and 5272 in 2009. In the post-war years from 1945 to 1947, around 1000 people were accepted into the community due to their expulsion from Silesia , the Sudetenland , East Prussia and other areas.

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 4,460 to 5,665 by 1,205 inhabitants or 27%.

Population statistics by place of residence:

Population numbers	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Bad Groenenbach	3,592	3,581	3,508	3,456	3,386	3,354	3,325	3,316	3,294	3,286	3,295
Cell	980	982	974	977	962	942	941	934	922	909	896
Ittelsburg	357	352	332	321	307	309	285	276	272	258	252
Ziegelberg	159	160	156	160	163	156	152	163	154	149	140
Herbisried	155	154	154	148	146	139	132	135	128	126	129
Hamlet + wasteland	422	403	389	389	387	388	380	378	378	376	377

year Residents 1840 (December 1) 2213 1871 (December 1) 2094 1900 (December 1) 2223 1925 (June 16) 2676 1939 (May 17) 2626 1950 (Sep 13) 3992

year Residents 1970 (May 27) 4221 1987 (May 25) 4399 1991 (Dec. 31) 4782 1995 (Dec. 31) 5065 2000 (Dec. 31) 5091 2005 (Dec. 31) 5135

year Residents 2010 (December 31) 5274 2015 (Dec. 31) 5528 2018 (Dec. 31) 5665

religion

Of the 5801 (5649) residents of Bad Grönenbach, 3081 (previous year 3092) (53.11 percent) committed to the Roman Catholic Church in 2016 , followed by 697 (714) members (12.02 percent) of the Evangelical Lutheran creed. 576 (592) people (9.93 percent) were Protestant Reformed . No information was available for 1404 (1198) people (24.2 percent) and 37 (48) people belonged to another religious community. The Old Catholics had 6 (5) members (0.1 percent). The previous year's values ​​from 2015 are given in brackets.

politics

Municipal council

Bundestag election 2017

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CSU

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AfD

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left

FW

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Gains and losses

compared to 2013

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FDP

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FW

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The council Bad Groenenbach Bach sits down since 1996 from 20 members. The last municipal council election took place on March 16, 2014. The CSU achieved the largest group strength with 8 seats, followed by the free voters with 6 seats. The SPD and the Greens were able to achieve three seats each. The municipal council is elected for six years. The turnout has steadily declined since the mid-1980s, from 75 percent in 1984 to nearly 53 percent in 2014. In the last election to increase the voter turnout was observed again, this rose to around 62 percent. The following table shows the municipal council election results from 1978:

Bad Grönenbach municipal council: share of voters and municipal councils since 1978
	CSU		SPD		Green		FDP		Free voters		Joint nominations		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
1978-1984	67.05	12	11.08	1			6.14	1	15.73	2			100	16	69.10
1984-1990	59.33	10	14.16	2					26.51	4th			100	16	75.00
1990-1996	52.93	9	16.30	2					25.18	4th	5.59	1	100	16	71.40
1996-2002	47.46	10	16.09	3					29.05	6th	7.40	1	100	20th	66.50
2002-2008	50.67	10	19.16	4th					23.39	5	6.78	1	100	20th	60.80
2008-2014	41.34	9	16.19	3	8.05	1			34.41	7th			100	20th	56.30
2014-2020	39.07	8th	17.32	3	12.37	3			31.24	6th			100	20th	52.89
2020-2026	37.12	8th	15.50	3	22.23	4th			25.15	5			100	20th	62.28
Percentages rounded.

mayor

The first mayor is Bernhard Kerler (CSU). He is supported and represented by the second mayor Ilse Dorn (SPD) and the third mayor Martin Angerer (FW).

badges and flags

Town hall from 1936/37

The coat of arms was approved on January 26, 1838 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria .

Blazon : "In green, a silver diagonal wave bar."

Founding of the coat of arms: In 1836, the town, which had previously not had a coat of arms, wanted the two castles and parts of the family coats of arms of previous landlords, the Rotensteiner and the marshals of Pappenheim , as the coat of arms, while the district government wanted a heraldic reference to the former affiliation of Grönenbach to the Kempten monastery proposed. Since the Reichsheroldamt rejected both solutions, two more drafts were submitted in 1837. The community applied for the "knight's castles of the former militum de Grunenbach on a green hill from which two springs arise, one of which represents a bath spring". But again, the community was unlucky. The Reichsheroldamt decided with an expert opinion of October 16, 1837 in favor of the design by Bernhard Zoer from Immenstadt, who provided a green coat of arms as the "talking" local coat of arms through which a silver stream meanders from the upper right to the lower left corner. After several attempts, but even earlier than most other municipalities, Grönenbach had a municipal coat of arms.

See also : List of coats of arms in the Unterallgäu district

The flag was approved on March 9, 1936 by decree of the Reich Governor. It is striped green and white and shows the municipal coat of arms.

Town twinning

Bad Grönenbach has had a partnership with the central Italian municipality of Castilenti in the province of Teramo since August 25, 1981 . With around 1500 inhabitants (as of 2013), Castilenti is significantly smaller than Bad Grönenbach. In order to promote the partnership, the association Friends of the Bad Grönenbach - Castilenti e. V. founded.

Culture and sights

Historical buildings

Architectural monuments

In the list of monuments in Bad Grönenbach , all listed monuments are listed according to the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . A number of other small land monuments in the Bad Grönenbach area are included in the list of land monuments in the Bad Grönenbach administrative community .

High castle

High Castle in Bad Grönenbach

The landmark of Bad Grönenbach is the High Castle , built in the 12th century . It forms a unit with the Schlossberg. From 1384 it was the seat of the Lords of Rothenstein, from 1482 of the Lords of Pappenheim. In 1613 the High Castle became the property of the Fuggers. From 1695 until the secularization it belonged to the prince abbey of Kempten. After the secularization, from 1803 a royal Bavarian district court was housed in the Hohen Schloss. Dominikusringenisen later bought the castle and the Ursberg sisters lived there. In 1996 it was bought by Markt Bad Grönenbach and since then it has been used for exhibitions and civil weddings. The castle can be visited on guided tours.

Lower lock

Lower castle in Bad Grönenbach

The Lower Castle was built by four von Pappenheim brothers in 1563 as a widow's residence . Later, local officials and officials from the Kempten prince monastery were housed there. With the secularization, the castle was confiscated by the Bavarian state in 1803 and later came into private ownership, where it is still located today.

Rothenstein Castle

The castle Rothstein was built in the 11th century and the headquarters was the von Rothstein. Later the castle passed into cardboard home ownership. During the Thirty Years' War it was the headquarters of the Swedish Field Marshal Carl Gustav Wrangel . It collapsed on March 9, 1873, presumably due to subsidence . Only one ruin remains of the castle on the border between the Allgäu and Upper Swabia.

Collegiate Church of St. Philip and Jacob

St. Philipp and Jakob in Bad Grönenbach

The Roman Catholic Collegiate Church of St. Philip and James was first consecrated on May 27, 1136. This was followed by a new Gothic building, which was consecrated on October 15, 1445. The Romanesque crypt of the previous church has been preserved. At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century the collegiate church was used as a simultaneous church, and in 1663 it was redesigned in Baroque style . In the church there are a number of ornate epitaphs of the former local nobility.

Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit

The hospital church was donated by Ludwig von Rothenstein in 1479. In 1633 the church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. From 1649 it was left to the Reformed believers after lengthy disputes. It was rebuilt and services were held there from 1723. The church tower was built in 1880. The hospital church is used by the Evangelical Reformed parish of Bad Grönenbach.

Kollegiatstift

Kollegiatstift (west view)

Next to the collegiate church of St. Philipp and Jakob is the collegiate foundation donated in 1479 by Ludwig von Rothenstein and his wife Jutta von Hürnheim . The coat of arms of the donor couple is attached to the western outer facade. On February 25, 1572, a fire destroyed the building. After that it was rebuilt. The collegiate monastery, which was dissolved in the secularization, is today the vicarage of the Roman Catholic community.

Office building Rothenstein

The Office House Rothenstein was an administrative building of the Rothensteiner and Pappenheimer. It was built in the 16th or 17th centuries during the late Mannerism period. Like the high castle, the administrative building was owned by the prince monastery of Kempten until secularization in 1803. In the meantime, it was acquired by the Catholic school community and later served as a service and residential building for the rural police. The building at the beginning of the access road to the High Castle is now privately owned.

societies

The royally privileged shooting club Grönenbach / Allgäu is the oldest club in Bad Grönenbach. The chronicle of the association reports that already in the years 1579 to 1615 participants from Grönenbach took part in shooting competitions. The official founding year of the club is 1685. Originally there were four separate rifle clubs in Grönenbach, which were combined into one club during the National Socialist period from 1936 to 1938. During the Second World War, the association's activities came to a standstill until it was banned after the war ended in 1945. The occupying powers withdrew all rifles and pistols. It was not until 1951 that the shooting company was re-established.

From the merger of the soldiers' association founded in 1860 and the warrior comradeship founded in 1871, the Grönenbach warrior and soldier comradeship emerged in 1904. On March 4, 1938, it was incorporated into the NS-Reichskriegerbund ( Kyffhäuserbund ) by ordinance . Due to the Control Council Act No. 2 of October 10, 1945, the NS-Reichskriegerbund was banned and dissolved, and with it the warrior and soldier comradeship. It was re-established in 1953. Seven years later, in 1960, the third club flag was purchased. The first club flag was acquired in 1872 by the war comradeship at the time, the second after the merger in 1904.

The voluntary fire brigade in Bad Grönenbach was founded in 1873 at the suggestion of the royal family. In the 19th century, a horse-drawn manual pressure syringe was purchased. In 1928, the club acquired the first gasoline-powered motorized sprayer. This had to be used by hand. The first fire engine was acquired in 1952 and supplemented by a tank fire engine in 1973 . As a result, more vehicles were purchased to supplement the fleet or to retire obsolete vehicles.

The fruit and horticultural association in Grönenbach was founded in 1885 as a beekeeping and fruit growing association; this also included the branches in the neighboring communities of Zell and Woringen. The beekeeping division was spun off into its own beekeeping association after the Second World War. In 1937 the association planted around 380 fruit trees in the municipality, which also contributed to the fact that Grönenbach was named an Allgäu model village.

The gymnastics club Grönenbach was founded in 1894. In the period that followed, the sports facilities were constantly expanded and expanded, so the gymnasium was built in 1925, the sports field in 1956 and the ice rink in 1968.

At the suggestion of the royal family, the Heimat- und Beautification Association, under the then name Beautification Association, was founded in 1896 with the aim of promoting tourism.

There is also the traditional costume and local history association (since 1921), the Kneipp association (since 1950) and the music association (since 1954).

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest gravel mining area in southern Germany is located in the northern municipality .

Companies

The agriculture is strong in Gronenbach with a zoning of 62 percent. The official statistics show 98 keepers of livestock for 2010. In 2013, the manufacturing industry consisted of six companies and employed 352 people; in 2014 there were eleven companies in the construction industry with 109 employees. The total number of employees subject to social security contributions increased by around 18 percent in five years to 1803 in 2013 compared to 1530 in 2008. The business registrations were in the same year with 47 slightly beyond the deregistrations of the 44th

To the east of the main town, between the A7 and the railway line, the Thal industrial area extends with branches of various companies such as Rapunzel Naturkost and the Nagel freight forwarder . In addition, a number of other, small companies in the production of foils, mechanical engineering and the manufacturing industry have their headquarters there.

Tourism and tourism

Tourism is a decisive economic factor . In 2013, 19,372 guests with 167,353 overnight stays were counted. This corresponds to an average length of stay of a little more than eight days per guest. There were 934 guest beds, around 43 percent of which were occupied.

Healthcare

Health care is very well represented in Bad Grönenbach. The Helios Clinic Group operates two clinics in town, a rehabilitation clinic for hearing impairment , tinnitus , dizziness , internal medicine , orthopedics and trauma surgery . The second rehabilitation clinic is dedicated to acute treatment and rehabilitation in psychosomatic medicine . The Helios Private Clinic Allgäu for psychosomatic medicine is located on the Stiftsberg. The Kneipp sanatorium Bad Clevers, the private clinic & health hotel am Schlossberg and the F.-X.-Mayr-Kur-Zentrum Bad Grönenbach are dedicated to naturopathic treatments and the Kneipp cure . In the Thal district is the Villa Thal for naturopathy and regulatory diagnostics as well as for tumor therapy and immunology .

The Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Grönenbach was founded by Konrad Stauss and headed as medical director from 1979 to 2000. This work is continued today in the Psychosomatic Private Clinic Bad Grönenbach.

Public facilities

The St. Dominikus retirement and nursing home, built in 2005, is located in the center of the village in the immediate vicinity of the High Castle. It offers 50 care places in single and double rooms. It is managed by the Liebenau Foundation .

Logo of the St. Nikolaus children's hospice

In March 2007 the St. Nikolaus Children's Hospice was opened. It cares for children with an incurable life-shortening disease and their families. The hospice is a member of the German Children's Hospice Association . It has 16 rooms, half of which are available to sick children and the other half to family members.

education

Sebastian Kneipp primary school in Bad Grönenbach

The Sebastian-Kneipp-Volksschule with elementary and middle school has had her name since December 1998. In the 2010/2011 class 311 and in the 2014/2015 class 283 pupils attended classes. The school is a member of the Bad Grönenbach, Wolfertschwenden and Woringen school association.

Bad Grönenbach has three kindergartens, a Catholic, an Evangelical Reformed and a forest kindergarten. Another kindergarten is located in the Zell district. In 2016, 224 children attended these facilities.

The community and spa library is located in the building of the old people's and nursing home below the High Castle. In 2014, the inventory comprised around 7,800 media, consisting of novels, children's and non-fiction books as well as electronic media. The library has 17 employees; in 2014 there were around 17,400 loans.

traffic

Bad Grönenbach is located on the district road MN 19 , which runs north of Memmingen via Woringen and Zell through Bad Grönenbach to Wolfertschwenden in an easterly direction. District road MN 24 begins in the center of Bad Grönenbach and leads to the border of the Oberallgäu district in the south. From the west, the MN 21 district road leads from Legau via the hamlets of Au and Rothenstein to Bad Grönenbach, where it joins the 24 district road.

The A 7 motorway runs east of Bad Grönenbach . Junction 131 Bad Grönenbach is around two kilometers east on the edge of the Thal industrial area.

The station Bad Grönenbach is located outside the village in the district of Thal, about 2.5 km from the center of the Iller Valley Railway . Originally the railway line was supposed to go directly past Bad Grönenbach, but in 1862 it was rescheduled to the existing route.

The Iller cycle path between Ulm and Oberstdorf and the Kneipp cycle path , which was established in 1997 to mark the 100th anniversary of Sebastian Kneipp's death and are around 50 kilometers long, run through Bad Grönenbach and connect the Kneipp health resorts of Bad Grönenbach, Ottobeuren and Bad Wörishofen . The longest of the signposted cycle paths through Bad Grönenbach is the Swabian bathing cycle path with almost 250 kilometers from Überlingen on Lake Constance to the Kneipp spa town of Bad Wörishofen. There are almost continuous cycle path connections from Bad Grönenbach to the communities of the administrative community of Woringen and Wolfertschwenden.

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  Route sign for the Iller cycle path

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  Signs for the Swabian bathing cycle path

The east route of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route , the Swabian Baths Route and the Bavarian-Swabian Way of St. James lead through the town.

Personalities

Notker Wolf at the Leipzig Book Fair on March 19, 2011

Honorary citizen

• 1887: Rösch, Royal District Administrator from Memmingen
• 1906, September 16: J. Schatz, Protestant pastor for 40 years of pastoral care
• 1923, May 18: Ludwig Eberle , sculptor and painter, awarded on the occasion of the unveiling of the war memorial
• 1930, January 9th: Josef Rauh, awarded because of his services as a councilor and mayor
• 1948, June 30: Alois Eß, Catholic pastor, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the priesthood
• 1963, October 9th: Matthäus Wiedenmayer, merits as mayor
• 1972, July 1st: Jakob Epp, in recognition of his services as councilor and mayor
• 1997, May 8th: Alfonsa Leberle, for her services as headmistress and superior on the Schloßberg
• 20./21. Century: Stefan Ried, Catholic pastor
• 2010, September 17th: Notker Wolf , Abbot Primate of the Benedictines

Sons and Daughters of the Market

• Hans Häberlin (15th century – 1526), ​​reformatory lay preacher, was hanged near Leubas
• Alexander von Pappenheim (1530–1612), Imperial Hereditary Marshal and Imperial Councilor
• Franz Lubricant OSB (1679–1728), Benedictine in Ottobeuren Abbey; Professor of Canon Law and Rector of the University of Salzburg .
• Benedikt Schmier OSB (1682–1744), Benedictine in Ottobeuren Abbey; Professor of philosophy, later of theology, at the University of Salzburg .
• Hans Jakob Pestalozzi (1707–1782), founder of the silk manufacturing and banking house Frey & Pestalozzi
• Johann Michael Holzhey (1729–1762), painter and fresco artist
• Johann Gottlieb Prestel (1739–1808), engraver and painter
• Julius Stief (1827-1896), publisher and politician
• Maximilian Huber (1833–1919), Catholic theologian, writer and Jesuit priest
• Hubert von Grashey (1839-1914), psychiatrist
• Ludwig Eberle (1883–1956), sculptor and painter
• Hugo Deiring (1920–1999), journalist and long-time editor-in-chief of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Xaver Höger (1930–2014), athlete and participant in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome
• Luitpold Dorn (1935–2007), journalist and author
• Notker Wolf (* 1940), Abbot Primate of the Benedictines
• Michael Habeck (1944–2011), actor, voice actor, singer

Personalities associated with the place

• Ludwig von Rothenstein (14th / 15th century – 1482) made several foundations in Grönenbach, such as the collegiate foundation and the Heilig-Geist-Spital
• Philipp von Pappenheim (1542–1619) introduced the Evangelical Reformed denomination in Grönenbach in 1559
• Paul Fugger von Kirchberg and Weißenhorn (1637–1701), Lord of Grönenbach, under him in 1695 the reign of Grönenbach was returned to the prince monastery of Kempten
• Johann Heinrich Ulrich (1665–1730), Protestant Reformed pastor from 1691 to 1699
• Johann Ludwig Nüscheler (1672–1737), Protestant Reformed pastor from 1699 to his escape to Switzerland in 1703
• Christoph Ludwig Koeberlin (1794–1862) was the local pastor and botanist in Grönenbach
• Matthias Merkle (1816–1881), chaplain in Grönenbach for several years, Sebastian Kneipp's Latin teacher during this time
• Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897) was in Grönenbach in 1842 and 1843 to learn Latin
• Dominikus Ringsisen (1835–1904) acquired the High Castle in 1901 and set up a branch of the St. Joseph's Congregation there
• Wilhelm Cronenberg (1836–1915), German photographer and pioneer of photographic technology, headed a practical teaching institute for photography in the High Palace from 1858 or 1881 to 1901
• Armin Gehret (1923–2019), cartoonist, draftsman and painter
• Karl Braun (1930–), later Bishop of Eichstätt, previously worked as a deacon in Grönenbach for several years

literature

• Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959.
• Maximilian Dietrich (ed.): The district of Memmingen . Maximilian Dietrich Verlag Memmingen, Memmingen 1971, ISBN 3-87164-059-X .
• Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 .
• Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach . Ed .: Historical association for the overall promotion of local history of the Allgäu. Kempten 1910.

Web links

Commons : Bad Grönenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Bad Grönenbach  - Sources and full texts

Wikisource: History of the market town of Grönenbach  - sources and full texts

Wikivoyage: Bad Grönenbach  - travel guide

• Official website of the Bad Grönenbach community
• Bad Grönenbach: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1 MB)
• Entry on the coat of arms of Bad Grönenbach  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

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