Baienfurt
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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ' N , 9 ° 39' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
| County : | Ravensburg | |
| Local government association: | Middle Schussental | |
| Height : | 459 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 16.01 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 7247 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 453 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 88255 | |
| Area code : | 0751 | |
| License plate : | RV, SLG , ÜB , WG | |
| Community key : | 08 4 36 011 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BFT | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Marktplatz 1 88255 Baienfurt |
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| Mayor : | Günter A. Binder | |
| Location of the municipality of Baienfurt in the Ravensburg district | ||
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Baienfurt is an Upper Swabian municipality in the Ravensburg district of Baden-Württemberg in Germany . The community with a good 7000 inhabitants belongs to the community administration association Mittleres Schussental .
geography
Geographical location
Baienfurt is part of the Mittleres Schussental settlement area , which extends from Eschach , a southern district of Ravensburg, through the two cities of Ravensburg and Weingarten to Baienfurt and Baindt in the north. It is located a few kilometers west of the Altdorf Forest on the edge of the valley of the Schussen , which is a northern Lake Constance or Rhine tributary, and is traversed by the Wolfegger Ach, a tributary of the Schussen .
history
Celtic traces of settlement in the municipal area are documented by soil finds . There is a burial mound from the Hallstatt era . There were Roman estates in the area of today's suburbs Rain and Kickach .
The Baienfurt settlement was probably built in the 9th century . The name Baienfurt, also spelled Baier , Beierfurt or Paigerfurt in early documents , goes back to a ford through the Wolfegger Ach. Baien is derived from baie, beige (= opening), other sources indicate an origin of Bai (= sedge).
Probably before 1090 under Welf IV. The Lords of Waldburg received the place as a fief. In 1143 the place Binningen is mentioned for the first time as property of the Weingarten monastery , Kickach is mentioned for the first time in 1148. In 1278 a Blasius chapel was built in Briach. In 1525, Baienfurt and its surroundings were the scene of the German Peasants' War . The Waldburg Truchsessen ruled until 1587, when they transferred sovereignty in a comparison to the Upper Austrian Bailiwick of Swabia with its seat in neighboring Altdorf (now Weingarten ). Baienfurt became the camera location of the Landvogtei, but the Weingarten and Baindt monasteries also owned real estate . In 1806 Baienfurt and the Landvogtei Swabia became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg ( Oberamt Ravensburg , Amt Um-Altdorf ).
In 1826, the place was combined with other parts of the former Um-Altdorf office and the settlement around the Baindt monastery to form the municipality of Baindt , the seat of which was Baienfurt. 22 years later, however, the constant efforts of the Baienfurters to achieve independence were successful when the community was appointed an independent mayor on September 20, 1848.
In 1850, Baienfurt and the neighboring Niederbiegen railway station on the Württemberg Südbahn were connected to the Württemberg railways network .
With the establishment of a paper mill in 1870, the village, which had been dominated by agriculture until then, became an industrial location and has grown steadily ever since.
In 1934 the upper office Ravensburg was renamed in Ravensburg and 1938 as part of the administrative reform during the time Nazi in Württemberg in the district of Ravensburg transferred. After the Second World War, Baienfurt and the district of Ravensburg fell into the French occupation zone and thus became part of the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which in 1952 became the administrative district of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
From 1970 to 1977 a modern town center was built with a town hall, community hall, market square and indoor swimming pool. An initially planned merger of the community with Ravensburg, Weingarten and Baindt in the course of the community reform in 1975 did not materialize due to a lack of consent from the population in the Schussental.
| Population development | ||||||||||||||
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| year | 1849 | 1888 | 1910 | 1939 | 1959 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 1999 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | ||
| Residents | 800 | 1200 | 1750 | 2900 | 4100 | 7000 | 6620 | 6883 | 7200 | 7293 | 7194 | 7138 | ||
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council election on May 26, 2019 in Baienfurt led to the result shown in the adjacent diagrams.
mayor
List of the mayors of Baienfurt from 1848 until today:
| from ... to: | Surname: | Annotation: |
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| 1848-1870 | Johann Baptist Mehrle | |
| 1870-1872 | Alois Mangold | |
| 1872-1919 | Gebhard Mehrle | 1911 Connection to the Ravensburg-Weingarten tram |
| 1919-1929 | Otto Mehrle | |
| 1929-1938 | Leo Lacher | |
| 1938-1945 | Emil Teufel | used, not elected democratically |
| 1945-1946 | Karl Kurz | Military government under French occupation |
| 1946-1949 | Johann Mehrle | |
| 1949-1961 | Karl Rittler | |
| 1961-1989 | Maximillian "Max" Brenner | (1929–2007), honorary citizen in 1989, mayor for 28 years |
| 1989-2013 | Robert Wiedemann | FWV, term of office until December 2013, since December 2013 honorary citizen of the Baienfurt community |
| since 2013 | Günter A. Binder | CDU, former head of the office in Bodnegg , elected on September 22, 2013 with 93.1% |
The previous mayor Robert Wiedemann did not stand for re-election in December 2013 after 24 years. There were only two possible successors in 2013, one of them being a candidate for the “NO! Idea Party”, which the local press more or less classified as a “fun candidate”.
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms : A golden (yellow) weaver's card in green.
From 1850 to around 1918 cardel ( weaver thistle ) were grown in Baienfurt . Kardeln were used to roughen linen cloth and were sold at a separate Kardelnmarkt in Baienfurt, which was announced by hanging up blue and white flags. In July 2000, a bronze monument was placed on the Kardel in front of the Protestant church.
Since January 2011 the bronze memorial has stood in front of the "Neunerbeck" in Baienfurt, which is one of the oldest houses in the municipality and in which there is a cardel museum, matching the memorial.
Community partnerships
Baienfurt's partner communities have been Martonvásár in Hungary since 1993 , Goito in Italy since 2006 and Pirna in Saxony since 2010 . As early as 1989, various places in the Schussental joined forces with Brest in Belarus to provide project-related support .
Culture and sights
Art, music, theater
- In the listed Speidlerhaus from 1673, the Manufaktur cultural association has been organizing concerts, theater performances, cabaret events and exhibitions since 1997.
- In 2011 Uli Boettcher opened the Hoftheater cabaret in a converted barn in the Hof district .
Buildings
- The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary (Marienkirche) was built in 1925–1927 by Otto Linder . The reinforced concrete building with its characteristic parabolic vault is a unique example of the expressionist church architecture of the 1920s , not least because of the well-preserved, dark blue tones of the atmospheric painting by Alois Schenk . The tower was not completed until 1953.
- The Blasius Chapel (13th / 17th century) in the hamlet of Briach is significantly older .
- The Wegkapelle in Hof is a stop for the annual Weingartner Blood Kick .
Regular events
- The Baienfurters' enthusiasm for the Swabian-Alemannic carnival since the beginning of the 20th century is probably influenced by the nearby carnival strongholds of Bad Waldsee and Weingarten . A fool's jump takes place in Baienfurt on Carnival Saturday. The flower and bird masks of the Baienfurt fools' guild "Hangman's House" founded in 1936 were recreated after the Second World War . For the 60th anniversary of the guild in 1996, the “Kardelhannes” was another historical carnival figure. Since 2004 she has been a member of the Association of Swabian-Alemannic Fools' Guilds . The guild was named after the historic hangman's house of Weingarten's imperial abbey . When the Landvogtei Swabia pledged the high jurisdiction over Baienfurt in the late 17th century against a loan for twenty years to the Weingarten abbot, the abbot built a gallows and a spacious house for the executioner. As early as 1705, the executioner moved back to the Altdorf settlement below the Weingarten Monastery, and clerks moved into the executioner's house - that's why the location is still called the “servant house” today. The house itself fell victim to a fire in 1972.
- The Weingartener Blutritt on the day after Ascension , a rider procession with almost 3000 horses, also leads through Baienfurt.
- Market Square Festival , annually in July.
Economy and Infrastructure
In addition to a few farms (with permanent grassland, arable land and fruit growing) and forestry (around 20% of the municipal area is forest), the place is largely characterized by industry, craft and trade.
As early as the 13th century, three mills were in operation on the Wolfegger Aach. In the 19th century, the river was the basis for the establishment of a paper mill (1870–1873). It belonged to the Feldmühle Group from 1968 and has been part of the Finnish-Swedish Stora Enso Group since 1990 . At the end of 2008, the group completely closed the Baienfurt plant, with the exception of one cutting center.
A cigar factory and an iron and metal foundry were also built towards the end of the 19th century.
traffic
- Baienfurt is on the federal highway 30 Ulm - Friedrichshafen , the most important north-south connection in Upper Swabia (see also the plans for the federal highway 89 ). After the quality of life in the community was increasingly impaired by the through traffic on this busy road in the middle of the town in the 20th century, the traffic situation has noticeably relaxed since 2001 with the opening of the B30 bypass .
- In the suburb of Niederbiegen there is a stop of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn on the Südbahn . In Niederbiegen, the Niederbiegen – Weingarten railway (partly closed) branches off from the southern railway, from which the Baienfurt freight railway in turn .
- The community is with some bus lines u. a. connected with Bad Waldsee , Weingarten and Ravensburg . It belongs to the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund ( bodo ).
- In 1911, a 2.4 km long extension of the Ravensburg – Weingarten electric tram (opened in 1888, 4.2 km long, gauge 1000 mm) to Baienfurt was opened. On February 23, 1959, the Ravensburg – Weingarten line was closed, and the remaining line from Weingarten – Baienfurt followed in June 1959.
education
In Baienfurt there has been a community school with the Achtalschule since 2013 (previously a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule ). There are two parish, two Roman Catholic and one Protestant kindergartens for the youngest residents . There is also a branch of the adult education center in Ravensburg-Weingarten .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1957, December: Alfons Maria Haug (1887–1981), director of the Baienfurt AG paper mill
- 1989, October: Maximilian Brenner (1929–2007), Mayor of the Baienfurt community, 1961–1989
- 1990, June: Berta Braun (1916–2008), doctorate, local politician
- 2003, February: Max Gögler (1932–2011), politician ( CDU ), district president in Tübingen
- 2013, December: Robert Wiedemann, Mayor from 1989 to 2013 of the Baienfurt community (FWV)
Sons and daughters of the church
- Max Gögler (1932–2011), District President
- Karl Dodrimont (* 1939), wrestler, bronze medalist at the 1965 Bantamweight World Cup
literature
- Baienfurt St. Maria . Art Guide No. 1427. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1983
- Baienfurt. Pictures from days gone by . Geiger, Horb 1986, ISBN 3-924932-84-0
- Baienfurt. Through the ages . Geiger, Horb 1989, ISBN 3-89264-336-9
- Siegfried Diercks: Traces left behind. Encounter with a thousand years of Baienfurt history. 900 years of Köpfingen. Festschrift for the anniversary . Baienfurt municipality, Baienfurt 1994
- Hubert Krins: The Marienkirche in Baienfurt, Ravensburg district - a building of Expressionism . In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, born 1977, issue 3, pp. 97-102 ( PDF )
- Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Baindt community . In: Description of the Oberamt Ravensburg. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1836 ( full text at Wikisource )
- A. Spectator: The new church in Baienfurt near Weingarten . In: Archives for Christian Art . 44th year 1929, pp. 82–93 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg - Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections: Baienfurt , accessed on September 19, 2019
- ↑ Telephone conversation with BM Wiedemann on November 28, 2013
- ↑ Telephone conversation with BM Wiedemann on November 28, 2013
- ↑ SZ Ehrenbürger Brenner http://www.schwaebische.de/region/oberschwaben/ravensburg/rund-um-ravensburg_artikel,-Eine-Tafel-fuer-Ehrenbuerger-doch-wo-soll-sie-haengen-_arid,5410076.html
- ↑ Mayor election Baienfurt ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Message in www.Staatsanzeiger.de
- ↑ Photo albums ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Official journal of the Baienfurt municipality for election
- ↑ SZ: Robert Wiedemann listens to http://www.schwaebische.de/region/oberschwaben/ravensburg/rund-um-ravensburg_artikel,-Baienfurt-sucht-einen-neuen-Buergermeister-_arid,5438674.html in December 2013
- ↑ http://www.nein-idee.de/ The official website of the "NO! -Idee Party"
- ↑ Partner communities of Baienfurt , accessed on June 21, 2020
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung, local edition Ravensburg, September 11, 2008
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