Beilngries

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Beilngries
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′  N , 11 ° 28 ′  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Bavaria
County : Eichstatt
Height : 368 m above sea level NHN
Area : 100.07 km 2
Residents: 9867 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 99 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 92339, 92345
Area code : 08461
License plate : EGG
Community key : 09 1 76 114
LOCODE : DE BGR
City structure: 24 parts of the community

City administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 24
92339 Beilngries
Website : www.beilngries.de
Mayor : Helmut Schloderer (BL / FW)
Location of the city of Beilngries in the Eichstätt district
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Beilngries from the Hirschberg

Beilngries [ ba͜ilnˈgriːs ] is a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and a state-approved resort . It is the second largest municipality in the district.

geography

location

The city is located in the Altmühl-Jura region. The Altmühl flows along the southern edge of the city, the Sulz flows through the city and the Main-Danube Canal runs north of the city.

It is the northernmost municipality in the administrative district of Upper Bavaria . Your area borders on the districts of Roth in the administrative region of Middle Franconia and Neumarkt in the administrative region of Upper Palatinate .

Community structure

There are 24 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Neighboring communities

Greding Berching
Haunstetter Forst
(unincorporated area) 		Neighboring communities Dietfurt an der Altmühl
Kinding
Kipfenberg 		Denkendorf Altmannstein

history

In 1007 the village was first mentioned as "Bilingriez". The place belonging to the diocese of Eichstätt received market and customs rights in 1053 at the instigation of the bishop and later Pope Viktor II . The church of St. Walburga was completed around 1300, and in the late Middle Ages the town was fortified with a wall and moat, which prevented the town from being destroyed during the Peasants' War .

At least two women from Beilngries were accused of being witches during the witch hunt in the Hochstift Eichstätt and sentenced to death in 1623 and 1625 respectively.

In 1633 the city surrendered to Bernhard von Weimar's troops without a fight . In 1802 the last Eichstätt prince-bishop abdicated and Beilngries was occupied by Bavarian troops . Under Bavarian administration, Beilngries became the seat of a regional court , from which the district office emerged after 1862 and the district of Beilngries in 1939 .

The Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , built from 1835 to 1846, ran through Beilngries and there was a loading point (annex) there for cargo handling . This was mainly used for the timber and cattle trade. In 1950 the Ludwig Canal was opened again. The land and the buildings there, like lock 22, have been preserved as architectural monuments , but are now dry.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipalities of Amtmannsdorf, Aschbuch, Eglofsdorf, Hirschberg, Kevenhüll, Litterzhofen, Oberndorf, Paulushofen and Wiesenhofen were incorporated. Irfersdorf and Wolfsbuch were added on July 1, 1972. Biberbach, Grampersdorf and Kottingwörth followed on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the city grew from 7,152 to 9,768 by 2,616 inhabitants or 36.6%.

politics

City council election 2014
Turnout: 67.8%
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
55.4
11.8
32.8
BL-PB / FW
Gains and losses
compared to 2008
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+5.7
-1.4
-4.3
BL-PB / FW
Beilngries town hall

City council

The city council consists of 20 members. In the local elections on March 16, 2014 , the following distribution of seats resulted:

List: CSU SPD BL / PB * total
Seats : 11 2 ** 7th 20 seats

* Citizens' list / non-party bloc

** As of May 2015: CSU: 11 seats; SPD: 1 seat; BL / PB: 7 seats, independent: 1 seat

In the election on March 15, 2020, the composition of the city council was the same as in the election on March 16, 2014:

  • CSU 11 page
  • SPD 2 seats
  • Citizen List-Non-Party Block / Free Voters 7 seats

mayor

coat of arms

Description of coat of arms

Until 2006: Old coat of arms of Beilngries Split by blue and silver. Front and back an upright, turned away ax in mixed up colors.

In 2007 a new coat of arms was introduced. It represents a red shield with a vertical, golden crook in the middle, in front of which two axes cross. This coat of arms was valid until shortly before secularization, but was superseded by the coat of arms described above in 1819.

Coat of arms adoption

The coat of arms was awarded to the city by resolution of the Bavarian Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs of March 18, 1819. Before that, Beilngries had a coat of arms with two diagonally crossed axes, behind which a vertical bishop's staff. The oldest imprint of this city seal dates from 1406. However, the use of one's own seal is attested as early as 1378. In 2007 the original coat of arms was reintroduced for marketing reasons:

"In red, two obliquely crossed and turned away silver axes with a black handle, behind a vertical, growing golden bishop's staff."

- House of Bavarian History : Official description of the coat of arms (blazon)

Foundation of the coat of arms

The city coat of arms is a talking coat of arms , because the axes in the coat of arms allude to the first word component of Beilngries . In reality, however, “Bilingriez”, which was first mentioned in 1007 in connection with the furnishing of goods in the newly created diocese of Bamberg , can be derived from the gravel (= sandy alluvial debris) of the Bilo . By exchange, Beilngries got to the bishops of Eichstätt in 1016 , who had already been given by Emperor Heinrich III in 1053 . Market and customs rights obtained. The bishop's staff in the original coat of arms was a reminder of the prince-bishop's rule, after the end of which (1803) it was omitted from the city's coat of arms in 1819. Since the introduction of the original coat of arms in 2007, the bishop's staff has been back in the coat of arms.

Town twinning

City partnerships exist with

There is another partnership relationship with the counts of the

  • AustriaAustria Khevenhüller in Austria.
  • SpainSpainSince June 18, 1994, Beilngries has been a partner of the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park in Spain .

Economy and Infrastructure

The Bavarian Raiffeisen-Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft has its seat in the city.

There is an airfield in Beilngries and a marina on the Main-Danube Canal .

railroad

From 1888 to 1987, Beilngries was accessible by passenger on the Neumarkt – Beilngries railway line (–Dietfurt until 1967) . From 1929 to 1957 there was a connection through the Altmühl valley to Kinding in the direction of Eichstätt via the standard gauge Eichstätt – Beilngries railway . Until 1988 there was still the own train station , which was used for freight traffic . In July 2020, the railway line was newly included in the VDV position paper as a railway line to be reactivated. In addition, a new line and connection to the Nuremberg-Ingolstadt railway line was indicated.

Attractions

One of the sights in the city is located in the Kottingwörth part of the municipality: an excellent cycle of medieval wall paintings has been preserved in a chapel in the basement of the tower of St. Vitus' church . Among other things, the Last Judgment and various legends of saints are shown.

Hirschberg Castle is located on a hill above the town of Beilngries . It was transformed into a diocese house in the 20th century, including through extensions such as a chapel designed by Alexander von Branca . Karljosef Schattner built the new building from 1987 to 1992.

St. Walburga Church

In Beilngries is the neo-baroque Catholic parish church of St. Walburga , which was rebuilt after the previous church was torn down in the years 1912 to 1913 according to plans by the Munich architect Wilhelm Spannagel . The north tower is medieval and was raised in the 16th century. The two 50 meter high towers are covered with colored glazed bricks. There are large wheel windows in the side walls . The vestibule has arcades . In the church there is a Bittner organ from 1913.

The Frauenkirche was built in 1683. In 1753 it was considerably enlarged by a new building by Mauritio Pedetti .

The former Franciscan monastery church of St. Trinitas was built between 1725 and 1736. The entrance to the Beilngries toy museum is located in the courtyard of the Franciscan monastery.

The Gothic Catholic Gottesackerkirche St. Lucia (Bühlkirche) was originally a parish church built from 1469 to 1576, which was converted to Baroque style in 1740. Since 1995 it has been equipped with a neo-Gothic main altar again .

The Catholic Chapel of St. Johann is located in the town's cemetery. It was built in 1496 and contains a memorial book for the fallen and missing in the city.

The Herrgottswieskapelle in Kelheimer Straße is equipped with a new Passion picture, the Savior on the scourge column, and a banner on sheet metal panels from the 18th century. This church was once a station of the baroque Beilngries Good Friday procession . An original sculpture of Jesus on the scourge column is now in the Frauenkirche.

The chapel Seefigur from around 1700, which has a new picture of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is located on the city's sports grounds .

A wall around the place from the Middle Ages has been preserved from the fortification . There are also two square towers and one round tower.

Several houses on the main street have attractive facades and stepped gables, for example the Kaiserbeckhaus. In addition to houses with the typical flat sloping lime-slab roofs of the Altmühl-Jurahaus, there are also buildings with steeper roofs and half-timbered houses in the center , as are often found in Franconia .

The Beilngries town hall was built between 1740 and 1742 according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli .

The airfield Beilngries also houses several historic aircraft.

Sights in the districts

Architectural monuments

education

There is a primary school and a special school in the city. A middle school, the Altmühltal-Realschule and the grammar school Beilngries are available as secondary schools. There is also an adult education center , the Academy of Bavarian Cooperatives and the Hirschberg Castle diocese.

Others

In Beilngries and its districts there are over 100 clubs, associations and institutions that z. Some of them are also networked nationwide. There is a swing golf club in the Paulushofen district , which has already hosted German championships four times and European championships twice.

media

A transmitter with a frequency of 105.4 MHz is coordinated for Beilngries. Radio IN is broadcast from Ingolstadt.

There is also a local edition of the daily newspaper Donaukurier (B-edition for Beilngries and Riedenburg) from Ingolstadt. The Mittelbayerische Zeitung has a small correspondence office in Beilngries that collaborates editorially with the Neumarkter Tagblatt, the local newspaper for the Neumarkt district in the Upper Palatinate . That stems from the time when Beilngries belonged to the Upper Palatinate.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Michael Koller (born September 3, 1809 in Lam, † October 18, 1861 in Augsburg), district court doctor, member of the state parliament
  • Hans Weckler (born April 8, 1864 in Nördlingen, † March 13, 1955 in Beilngries), District Office Assessor, founder of the Beautification Association
  • Theodor Thenn (born January 28, 1842 in Augsburg, † November 4, 1919 in Beilngries), medical advisor, local researcher
  • Traugott Erich-Maria Buchner (born March 3, 1850 in Lauingen, † April 30, 1922), teacher, choirmaster
  • Max Prinstner (born October 15, 1864 in Beilngries, † January 28, 1942 in Beilngries), councilor, entrepreneur
  • Heinrich Prinstner (born March 25, 1857 in Beilngries, † February 17, 1923 in Beilngries), councilor, entrepreneur
  • Georg Hafner (born February 10, 1859 in Rohr, † July 18, 1935 in Beilngries), parish priest
  • Ernst Schmidtlein (born February 26, 1871 in Ansbach, † December 4, 1942 in Beilngries), Senior Medical Officer
  • Wilhelm Rose (born July 17, 1892 in Munich, † January 25, 1965 in Beilngries), entrepreneur
  • Johann Nepomuk Schneider (born January 31, 1889 in Beilngries, † September 22, 1960 in Beilngries), Sparkasse Manager
  • Josef Pilland (born November 7, 1881 in Eichstätt, † November 3, 1959 in Beilngries), parish priest
  • Anton Brems (born July 20, 1903 in Ziegelhof / Eichstätt, † August 10, 1984 in Berching), parish priest
  • Hans Schöpf (born April 20, 1907 in Regensburg, † November 5, 1976 in Beilngries), headmaster, home nurse
  • Siona Lantenhammer (born February 11, 1909 in Aspertsham, † 1989 in Beilngries), superior of the hospital
  • Michael Harrer (born July 3, 1931 in Solar / Hilpoltstein), parish priest

sons and daughters of the town

literature

Web links

Commons : Beilngries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Beilngries  - travel guide
Wikisource: Beilngries in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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. ↑ Mayor. Beilngries community, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Beilngries in numbers. Beilngries community, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Beilngries community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on September 14, 2019.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 433 .
  6. ^ 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 599 .
  7. ↑ City council election March 16, 2014 ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 18, 2014
  8. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Beilngries  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  9. ↑ Altmühlnet
  10. ^ City of Beilngries - town twinning
  11. ^ VDV: reactivation of railway lines. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Memorial plaque in the church. According to this table, the Church on August 13, 1913 consecrated .