Bonstetten (Swabia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Management Community :	Welden
Height :	495 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.75 km 2
Residents:	1462 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	217 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86486
Area code :	08293
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 126
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 4 86486 Bonstetten, Germany
Website :	www.bonstetten.de
First Mayor :	Anton Gleich (CSU)
Location of the municipality of Bonstetten in the Augsburg district

Bonstetten with Staufersberg from the south

Bonstetten is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg and a member of the Welden administrative community .

geography

The community is located almost 20 kilometers northwest of Augsburg on the southern slope of the Stauffersberg in the Laugna valley , in the middle of the Augsburg nature park - Western forests , surrounded by extensive forests (45 percent of the community area is wooded).

history

From the term of office of the Augsburg bishop Heinrich II (1040-1063) an original notice on the transfer of several properties in "Bonestetten" has been preserved. This is dated to the time immediately before the bishop's death - i.e. to the year 1063. This is the first written mention of the place, which was then in the Duchy of Swabia .

In 1231 the Benedictine Abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra acquired the right of patronage in Bonstetten. In general, this monastery and the Cistercian convent Oberschönenfeld gained influence as landlords in the 12th and 13th centuries until the secularization of 1803. This is also reflected in today's coat of arms with the two golden clover-leaf crosses (St. Ulrich and Afra) and the white-red sloping beam (Oberschönenfeld) . Until the 16th century, most of Bonstetten's land and jurisdiction lay with the St. Ulrich and Afra monastery. In addition to the Oberschönenfeld monastery, smaller parts were also owned by the Augsburg cathedral chapter , the Heiligkreuz monastery and the hospital in Augsburg; until 1612, the property of the last three monasteries mainly went to the first two monasteries. At this time, the sovereignty of Bonstetten lay with the Margraviate of Burgau . The monasteries St. Ulrich and Afra and Oberschönenfeld each had their own Vogt and their own tavern in Bonstetten. It stayed that way until secularization.

In the course of secularization, Bonstetten fell to the then Electorate of Bavaria through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 and was subordinated to the district court of Zusmarshausen .

From 1862 to 1929 Bonstetten belonged to the district office of Zusmarshausen and from 1929 to the district office of Augsburg , which from 1939 was called the district of Augsburg .

In recent history, the transition from the once purely rural settlement to today's preferred residential community with local recreational character has been reflected in particular.

population

From 1840 to 1939 the Bavarian State Office for Statistics recorded a fairly constant population of around 400 inhabitants. The diocese of Augsburg also reports 378 residents in 67 houses in 1850. In the same document, 64 houses are reported for 1599.

From 1939 to 1950 the number rose by almost half to almost 600 inhabitants - probably due to the influx of large numbers of refugees. After the number fell again to 475 inhabitants during the 1950s, a continuous increase began in 1961 and continues to this day. In 1970, with 571 inhabitants, the level of 1950 was almost reached again, only 17 years later 939 people lived in Bonstetten. In 2011 it was 1216, in 2018 the official number is given as 1404.

Between 1988 and 2018 the community grew from 968 to 1,404 by 436 inhabitants or 45%.

Population development

year	Residents
1840	366
1850	378
1871	376
1900	383
1925	401
1939	404
1950	583
1961	475
1970	571
1987	939
2011	1,216
2015	1,331
2018	1,404

politics

Anton Gleich (CSU) has been 1st Mayor since 1996; on March 15, 2020, he was confirmed in office for a further six years with two competitors with 50.8% of the votes.

In the municipal council of the 2020 to 2026 term of office due to the local election on March 15, 2020

• CSU / Independent voters: 6 seats (47.9%),
• Free voter community : 4 seats (32.1%) and
• Alliance 90 / The Greens : 2 seats (20.1%).

Compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office, the Free Voter Community has one more seat; the CSU has lost a mandate.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black, a sloping bar made of silver and red in two rows, each with a golden four-leaf clover."

religion

The population is predominantly Roman Catholic. While 744 Catholics were still living in Bonstetten at the census of May 25, 1987, this number rose to 835 by the census on May 9, 2011. Since the total population grew even faster in the same period (from 939 inhabitants to 1,216), the percentage decreased The proportion of Catholics fell from 79.2% to 68.7%. The number of Evangelical Lutheran Christians increased from 126 to 122 over the same period, and their share of the total population fell from 13.4% to 10.0%. In total, almost 80% of the population belonged to one of the two large Christian churches in 2011.

The center of the Roman Catholic parish is the parish church of St. Stephen . The Evangelical Lutheran Christians belong to the widely ramified diaspora community of Zusmarshausen- Adelsried - Dinkelscherben -Welden, based in Zusmarshausen. The nearest church is in the neighboring municipality of Adelsried.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Bonstetten

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Bonstetten

traffic

Bonstetten is on the federal autobahn 8 Stuttgart - Munich (connection Adelsried).

Other connections:

• District road A 5 (Adelsried-Heretsried)
• State road 2032 (Augsburg-Wertingen)

The hiking and biking trails include

• "Around Bonstetten" (6.5 km)
• "Geological teaching and landscape path" (5.3 km)
• "LandArt Art Path" (5.7 km)
• "To Ganghoferhütte" (2.7 km)
• Many other paths and ways, etc. a. with connection to the large hiking trail "Lueg ins Land from Türkheim to Wertingen" (91.5 km)
• Neusäß – Welden cycle path on the route of the Augsburg – Welden railway line, which was closed in 1986

Web links

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

• Bonstetten community
• Bonstetten (Schwaben): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.23 MB)

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. ↑ Municipal Council. Bonstetten community, accessed on May 31, 2020 . 
3. ↑ This was elected in 2020 from the CSU / Independent Voters list.
4. ↑ "Sankt Stephan in Bonstetten - Festschrift for the consecration of the church on October 17, 1982" Ed. Heide Weißhaar-Kiem on behalf of the church foundation
5. ^ Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Augsburg, Ed. Anton Steichele, Domkapitular
6. ↑ https://www.statistik.bayern.de/mam/produkte/statistik_kommunal/2018/09772126.pdf
7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Bonstetten (Swabia)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
8. ↑ https://www.statistik.bayern.de/statistikkommunal/09772126.pdf
9. ↑ http://www.gemeinde-adelsried.de/www/html/user_de_Evangelisch_lutherische_Kirche.html