Baindt

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Local government association:	Middle Schussental
Height :	483 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.06 km 2
Residents:	5223 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	226 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88255
Area code :	07502
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 012
Address of the municipal administration:	Marsweilerstraße 4 88255 Baindt
Website :	www.baindt.de
Mayoress :	Simone Rürup
Location of the municipality of Baindt in the Ravensburg district

Baindt is an Upper Swabian municipality in the Ravensburg district of Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

The name is derived from biunta, ahd. "Around what the fence winds around" (= closed farmland or garden).

The municipality, which is part of the Mittleres Schussental municipal administration association and covers an area of ​​23.07 km², has around 5,000 inhabitants.

geography

Baindt is part of the “Mittleres Schussental ” settlement area , which extends from Eschach , a southern district of Ravensburg, through the two cities of Ravensburg and Weingarten to Baienfurt and Baindt in the north. It is located a few kilometers west of the Altdorf Forest on a small north-eastern tributary of the Schussen , which is a northern Lake Constance or Rhine tributary.

In the municipality of Baindts there are two nature reserves : the Annaberg , on the border to Baienfurt, and the Schenkenwald in the Schussental, on the border to Fronreute. (As of May 1, 2010)

History up to the 19th century

Baindt was first mentioned in a document in 1240 in connection with the foundation of the local Cistercian monastery by Konrad von Winterstetten . The monastery was dissolved in 1802 and the area came to the Württemberg Oberamt Ravensburg in 1806 , the forerunner of today's district of the same name . In 1826 Baindt became its own municipality, the current borders date from 1848.

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  Former Baindt Monastery

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  Eberhard Emminger : View from the Schussenthal (19th century; view over Baindt to Weingarten and Ravensburg)

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  Monastery complex (1908)

Population development

year	1848	1871	1910	1939	1950	1970	1991	1995	2005	2010	2015
Residents	512	643	987	1079	1281	2562	4511	4551	4701	4884	5088

Religions

In Baindt there is a Roman Catholic church, the St. Johannes Baptist Church . The parish of Baienfurt-Baindt is responsible for the spiritual care of the Protestant part of the population .

politics

Allocation of seats from 2019 in the Baindt municipal council

7th

4th

3

7th 4th 3 

A total of 14 seats

• FW : 7
• CDU : 4th
• Greens : 3

Municipal council

The council consists of Mayor Rürup as chairwoman and 14 councilors. The election of May 25, 2019 resulted in the following:

1. FWV : 50.8% - 7 seats (- 2)
2. CDU : 24.7% - 4 seats (- 1)
3. Alliance 90 / The Greens : 24.6% - 3 seats (+ 3)

mayor

In December 2018 Simone Rürup was elected as the new mayor.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Baindt is directly connected to the national road traffic by the federal highway 30 .

In addition, the municipality is connected to Baienfurt , Weingarten and Ravensburg , among others, by a number of bus routes and is part of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association ( bodo ).

Parish Church of St. John Baptist

“Baindter Pestkreuz”, around 1350, in the Catholic parish church

education

• Kindergartens: sun, moon and stars , rainbow , St. Martin and Waldorf kindergarten
• Primary school (Klosterwiesenschule)
• private home special school for the blind and visually impaired of the St. Franziskus Heiligenbronn Foundation
• Branch of the adult education center Ravensburg

Culture and sights

Baindt is on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road , which leads past many sights.

Buildings

• Parish Church of St. Johannes Baptist (built 1240–1241), former abbey and monastery church of the Cistercian Sisters of Baindt Patronage of the Assumption (August 15). 1560 Gothic reticulated vault. 1675, 1724–1729, 1742 and 1764 Baroque changes to the abbey church and the monastery (1729 construction of the guest house, 1764–1766 high altar - Baroque- Rococo ). In 1817 the former abbey church of the Cistercians became the parish church of Baindt Patronage of St. John the Baptist - St. John the Baptist (June 24th).

Regular events

Fool figure "Waldschrat" of the fool's guild Raspler

• The music association Baindt organizes the annual village festival around the summer solstice. It is celebrated from Saturday to Monday in the school yard under the arcades.
• Every year in August, the Baindt riding club organizes its riding tournament with dressage and jumping competitions.
• Another highlight is the annual wine festival, which takes place in late July and early August.
• The Raspler fool's guild maintains the Swabian-Alemannic carnival . The fool call of the Rasplers is: "Raspler - Ratsch Ratsch". Every two years there is a fool's leap.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Friedrich Seifriz (1849–1912), landowner and politician
• Sirg Schützbach (* 1980), motorcycle racer (Speedway): European champion, German champion, Grand Prix winner

literature

• Edgar Schaz, Waltraud Weidisch (Ed. And Red.): Baindt in pictures of bygone days. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-903-4 .
• Benedikt Schützbach: Chronicle and homeland book of the Baindt community. Hortus floridus. Sauter, Kißlegg 1981.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Baindt in the Topographia Sueviae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Baindt in the description of the Ravensburg Oberamts from 1836  - sources and full texts

• Internet presence of the municipality of Baindt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal council election Baindt. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 30, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ staatsanzeiger.de