Balzhausen

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Gunzburg
Management Community :	Thannhausen
Height :	516 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.63 km 2
Residents:	1200 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86483
Area code :	08281
License plate :	GZ, KRU
Community key :	09 7 74 115
LOCODE :	DE BZA
Community structure:	2 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Christoph-v.-Schmid-Str. 7 ; 86470 Thannhausen
Website :	www.balzhausen.de
First Mayor :	Daniel Mayer ( CSU / Free Voters)
Location of the municipality of Balzhausen in the district of Günzburg

Parish church in Balzhausen

Gasthaus Krone in Balzhausen October 2004

Balzhausen is a community and a parish village in the Swabian district of Günzburg and a member of the Thannhausen administrative community .

geography

Balzhausen is located in the Donau-Iller region.

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

Balzhausen (parish village)
Kirrberg ( hamlet )

Only the Balzhausen district exists .

history

Until the church is planted

Archaeological evidence shows that there was a brick factory in Balzhausen during Roman times.

Balzhausen was first mentioned in a document in 956. Since the Middle Ages, the margravate Burgau was sovereign, to which the local rule Seifriedsberg belonged. During the Peasants' Wars , farmers conquered Balzhausen and several small towns, including Thannhausen, in February 1525 . An army campaign from Ulm inflicted a devastating defeat on this heap of farmers on May 31, 1525, as a result of which the towns of Burg and Balzhausen were burned down. Balzhausen belonged to the Counts of Oettingen-Wallerstein . It is part of the Seifriedsberg rule since 1751. With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Population development

1961: 0901 inhabitants
1970: 0930 inhabitants
1987: 0971 inhabitants
1991: 1034 inhabitants
1995: 1123 inhabitants
2000: 1224 inhabitants
2005: 1209 inhabitants
2010: 1184 inhabitants
2015: 1234 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 964 to 1,209 by 245 inhabitants or 25.4%.

politics

mayor

Mayor was Gerhard Glogger (CSU / Free Voters) from 1996 to 2014. The new mayor is Daniel Mayer. He has been in office since 2014 and was elected on March 15, 2020 as the only candidate with 71.6% of the vote for a further six years.

Municipal council

In the local council elections in 2002, all twelve seats went to the single nomination, the list of CSU / Free Voters.

Since the last election in 2014, the municipal council has been composed as follows:

Eight seats are allocated to the CSU / FW parliamentary group, local councilors are: Adelinde Baur (2nd mayor), Wolfgang Neu, Herbert Wieser, Stefanie Schütz, Christian Haugg, Michaela Leinweber, Wolfgang Bollinger and German Knoll.

Four seats are allocated to the BNL (Balzhauser Neue Liste) parliamentary group, local councilors are: Klaus Langhans, Monika Ritter, Herbert Scheffler and Robert Wank.

In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , only nominations were submitted, jointly by CSU / Free Voters, who received all 12 seats in the local council.

badges and flags

	Blazon : “Split by a golden pole in green and red; in front a silver house with a golden roof, behind a floating silver paw cross. " The white-green-yellow municipal flag approved at the same time is not used.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 286 in the manufacturing industry and in the trade and transport sector no employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work. In other economic sectors 33 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 404 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in the manufacturing sector and two in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 44 farms with an agriculturally used area of 975 ha, of which 402 ha were arable land and 574 ha were permanent green space.

The trade tax multiplier is currently 310%.