Ursberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Gunzburg
Height :	508 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.41 km 2
Residents:	3262 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	128 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86513
Primaries :	08281, 08282 (Mindelzell)
License plate :	GZ, KRU
Community key :	09 7 74 116
Community structure:	5 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Premonstratenserstr. 20 86513 Ursberg
Website :	www.gemeinde-ursberg.de
Mayor :	Peter Walburger ( CSU / Free)
Location of the municipality of Ursberg in the district of Günzburg

Ursberg Monastery

Ursberg is a municipality in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Günzburg .

geography

The community is located five kilometers east-northeast of Krumbach on the western slope of the Mindel in the Danube-Iller region . The village of Ursberg is located on the Kleine Mindel , a left tributary of the Mindel. Ursberg has been structurally connected to the neighboring town of Bayersried since around the 1950s.

Ursberg consists of five parts of the municipality, which are also localities :

• Bayersried ( Kirchdorf )
• Mindelzell ( parish village )
• Oberrohr (Kirchdorf)
• Premach (Kirchdorf)
• Ursberg Monastery

history

In 1104 Ursberg was first mentioned in connection with a Wernher von Ursberg. The place name means mountain of the great or aurochs . The medieval translation ursus (lat.) = Bear, from which the heraldic animal also comes, is probably a misinterpretation. Ursberg was u. a. Headquarters of the noble free from Schwabegg, Lutzelburg, Hairenbuch and Waltenhausen. The former Ursberg castle probably stood on the Michelsberg.

In December 1802 the secularization took place and Ursberg came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . Until 1827, the place was the seat of the later Royal Bavarian District Court Krumbach. On November 1, 1905, the previously independent communities Bayersried and Ursberg were merged to form the new community Bayersried-Ursberg.

Action T4 under National Socialism

In the course of the T4 campaign , described by the National Socialists as “the destruction of life unworthy of life ”, between September 1940 and August 1941 519 residents of the Ursberg institutions were relocated to other institutions. 199 of them were gassed in killing centers , 180 others died from starvation or lethal injections .

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, Mindelzell was incorporated into Bayersried-Ursberg as part of the municipal reform. Premach was added on January 1, 1976, and Oberrohr followed on May 1, 1978. On October 3, 1978, the municipality was officially renamed Ursberg .

Population development

• 1910: 1742 inhabitants (census on December 1, 1910)
• 1961: 3718 inhabitants (census on June 6, 1961)
• 1970: 3503 inhabitants (census on May 27, 1970)
• 1991: 3574 inhabitants
• 1995: 3540 inhabitants
• 2000: 3580 inhabitants
• 2005: 3506 inhabitants
• 2010: 3346 inhabitants
• 2015: 3175 inhabitants

The village of Ursberg had 1,164 inhabitants on February 1, 2017.

Between 1988 and 2018, the population decreased from 3,593 to 3,224 by -369 inhabitants or by -10.3%.

politics

The municipal council has 16 members. In the 2008 local elections, the CSU / Free Voters received ten seats and the Independent Voters' Association six.

In the 2014 election, the CSU achieved 9 seats and the Independent Voters' Association 7 seats.

In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , eight seats each fell on the nominations CSU / Free (52.8%) and Independent voters (47.2%).

Mayor has been Peter Walburger (CSU / Free) since May 1, 2008; he was confirmed in office for a further six years in the local elections on March 15, 2020 with 96.3% of the vote.

Architectural monuments

• Ursberg Monastery
• Monastery church of St. Johannes Evangelist, baroque with late Romanesque crucifixion group
• Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Cross in Mindelzell
• Church of St. Pankratius in Oberrohr, in which a number of remarkable late Gothic sculptures can be seen
• Church of the Visitation of Mary in Premach

See also : List of architectural monuments in Ursberg

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Ursberg

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 2017, according to official statistics, there were 3941 employees subject to social security contributions in the municipality, of which 3651 were employed by public and private service providers. Of the resident population, 1,283 people were in an employment subject to compulsory insurance. This means that the number of in-commuters was 2,658 higher than that of out-commuters. 15 of the inhabitants were unemployed. In 2016 there were 26 farms; In 1999 there were 44.

traffic

In east-west direction, the federal road 300 runs from Krumbach to Thannhausen through the municipality. The district roads GZ 35 and GZ 12 lead through the Mindeltal.

education

In 2018 there were the following institutions:

• A daycare center with 118 approved places and 77 children
• An elementary school with five teachers, four classes and 90 students
• Dominikus -ringenisen-Werk , facility for the handicapped, church foundation under public law, including three support centers with a total of 532 students
• Ringsisen-Gymnasium of the St. Joseph Congregation with 60 teachers and 778 students (as of the 2017/18 school year)

Personalities

• Burchard von Ursberg (12th / 13th centuries), a medieval historian
• Konrad von Lichtenau (von Ursberg), Premonstratensian, Canon in Constance, abbot in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Ursberg from 1226; † Dec. 10, 1240. He gave his home parish Mindelzell the cross particle, which is venerated to this day by the “Brotherhood of the Holy Cross”.
• Dominikusringenisen (1835-1904) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and founder of the Ursberger Anstalt (today Dominikus -ringenisen-Werk ).
• Joseph Bernhart (1881–1969) was a Catholic theologian, religious scholar and writer. He is considered one of the great thinkers of Catholic origin in the 20th century.
• Fridolin Rothermel (1895–1955) was a Bavarian politician and representative of farmers' associations.
• Theo Waigel (* 1939 in Oberrohr), longstanding Federal Finance Minister and CSU Chairman

literature

• Gert Tröger: Dominikusringenisen and his work. For the centenary of the Ursberg disabled facilities . Self-published by the St. Joseph Congregation, Ursberg 1984

Web links

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

• Entry on the Ursberg coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Ursberg: Official statistics of the LfStat

Individual evidence

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. ^ Community Ursberg in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 22, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} story on the parish website
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 502 .
5. ↑ Hans-Ludwig Siemen: The Bavarian sanatoriums and nursing homes during National Socialism . In: Michael von Cranach , Hans-Ludwig Siemen (ed.): Psychiatry in National Socialism. The Bavarian sanatoriums and nursing homes between 1933 and 1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1999, pp. 417-474, here p. 439, ISBN 3-486-56371-8
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register 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. 774 f .
7. ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints