Benningen

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Coat of arms of the community of Benningen
Benningen
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Benningen highlighted

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Unterallgäu
Management Community : Memmingerberg
Height : 601 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.18 km 2
Residents: 2042 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 183 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 87734
Area code : 08331
License plate : MN
Community key : 09 7 78 118
LOCODE : DE BJN
Community structure: 3 parts of the community
Association administration address: Benninger Str. 3
87766 Memmingerberg
Website : www.benningen-allgaeu.de
First Mayor : Martin Osterrieder ( CSU / Free Voters )
Location of the community of Benningen in the Unterallgäu district
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Benningen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu and a member of the Memmingerberg administrative community . The place is mainly known because of the Benninger Ried with the world's only occurrence of the sedge carnation .

geography

Benningen is located directly on the city limits of Memmingen in the Danube-Iller region in Upper Swabia . The municipality consists of the Benningen district and part of the Hawangen district (the other part of the district forms the Hawangen municipality ).

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

history

Until the church is planted

Benningen, first mentioned in a document in 1152, but already mentioned in a chronicle in 961, belonged to the Ottobeuren imperial monastery . In 1218 the Ried Chapel was built, which, along with the very shrunken Benninger Ried, is one of the sights of the community. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the place belongs to 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: 1528 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1935 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1761 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1824 inhabitants
  • 1995: 2004 inhabitants
  • 2000: 2090 inhabitants
  • 2005: 2094 inhabitants
  • 2010: 2032 inhabitants
  • 2015: 2058 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,809 to 2,021 by 212 inhabitants or by 11.7%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017
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39.2%
10.4%
17%
10.5%
7.7%
3.5%
3.6%
8.2%
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2013
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Otherwise.
Town hall in Benningen

mayor

First mayor has been Martin Osterrieder (CSU / Free Voters) since 2013; he was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with 92.2% of the vote. His predecessor Meinrad Bernhard (CSU / non-partisan voter community / free voters) died on July 28, 2013.

Municipal council

The allocation of seats after the municipal council election on March 15, 2020 for the term of office from May 2020 to April 2026 is as follows:

Already in the 2014 to 2020 term of office, both nominations each received 7 seats.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the government of Swabia on July 4, 1975.

Blazon : “Split by black and silver; in front a growing golden abbot, behind three green sedge carnations with red flowers growing from a stick. "

The abbot symbolizes that the place belonged to the old property of the imperial monastery of Ottobeuren up to secularization. The gold-black color scheme in the front half of the shield also refers to this, based on the Ottobeurer convent coat of arms. The sedge carnations indicate the occurrence of this otherwise rare plant in the Benninger Ried nature reserve .

The design of the coat of arms comes from the monastery archivist and district home administrator Aegidius Kolb, and the design was done by Ewald Kühlinger from Balgheim.

flag

The flag is yellow - black - white (1: 1: 1) striped; it can also be carried with the municipal coat of arms on it.

Attractions

Parish church in Benningen
Benningen and Memmingen from the southeast

The parish church of St. Peter and Paul with baroque furnishings, which was built by Simpert Kraemer from 1725 to 1729, is one of the local attractions .

The reed chapel was built because of the Benninger Host miracle .

The Benninger Ried nature reserve - the only place in the world where the sedge carnation grows - is the town's largest attraction in terms of area.

See also: List of architectural monuments in Benningen and List of ground monuments in Benningen

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998 there were none in the field of agriculture and forestry, 552 in the manufacturing sector and 135 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. There were a total of 752 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and one company in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 25 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​612 ha. Of this, 218 ha were arable land and 394 ha were permanent green areas.

Nature reserve: Benninger Ried

education

In the community of Benningen there is a kindergarten with 75 kindergarten places and a primary school. Secondary schools exist in the nearby town of Memmingen and in the Ottobeuren market .

Web links

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

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. Benningen community, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  3. ^ Community Benningen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
  5. ↑ https://www.benningen-allgaeu.de/de/gemeinde/dorfchronik_geschichte.php
  6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Benningen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History