Balgheim (Möttingen)

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Balgheim
community Möttingen
Coat of arms of Balgheim
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 427 m
Residents : 542  (2008)
Incorporation : May 1, 1978
Postal code : 86753
Area code : 09083

Balgheim is a parish village and district in the Swabian Möttingen in the district of Donau-Ries ( Bavaria ).

geography

Balgheim is located in the Nördlinger Ries , around three kilometers west of Möttingen and seven kilometers southeast of Nördlingen . The trout stream flows through the place.

Balgheim (Möttingen), aerial photo (2016)
Church of St. Aegidius

history

The first mention of the place was in 1147 by the ministerial of the bishop of Bamberg , Konrad von Balgheim. In the Middle Ages, the parish village was under the sovereignty of the Count of Oettingen , but many estates were subject to other manors . By 1760 there were six. Of the 88 properties at the time, 44 belonged to the Oberamt Alerheim , 27 to the Teutonic Order , eight to the Zimmer monastery , and five to Nördlingen . In the southern district, in the direction of Merzingen, there was the hamlet of Lambertshofen , which is mentioned in documents from the 13th century and later became desolate.

Since 2008 the village community has been renovating the Vogelbauernhof , a listed farm, and converting it into a community center. The bird farmer's house dates from the beginning of the 17th century. A clay tablet with the year and the Nördlinger Reichsadler refers to the former affiliation of this farm to the Nördlingen Scholarship Foundation .

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality, to which the main town also belonged the Betzenmühle and the Donismühle, was incorporated into the municipality of Möttingen.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms of the former municipality of Balgheim reads: In blue a two-storey silver pinnacle tower with a golden flag, followed by a round-arched piece of silver wall .

traffic

The district road DON 7 leads to the north running federal road 25 and thus to Nördlingen, the DON 11 to Möttingen.

Sons and daughters of the village

Web links

Commons : Balgheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 792 .
  2. ↑ Depiction of the coat of arms of the former municipality , accessed on June 16, 2020