Breitenbrunn (Swabia)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Pfaffenhausen
Height :	552 m above sea level NHN
Area :	41.91 km 2
Residents:	2361 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87739
Area code :	08263
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 121
Community structure:	18 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Main street 34 ; 87772 Pfaffenhausen
Website :	www.breitenbrunn-schwaben.de
First Mayor :	Jürgen Tempel (voter communities Bedernau, Breitenbrunn-Höenberg and Loppenhausen)
Location of the municipality of Breitenbrunn in the Unterallgäu district

Breitenbrunn from the east

Breitenbrunn is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu and a member of the Pfaffenhausen administrative community .

geography

The community is located in the Donau-Iller region in Central Swabia , 25 kilometers east of Memmingen and 15 kilometers north of Mindelheim .

Expansion of the municipal area

There are 18 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Axisried ( hamlet )
Baumgärtle ( Kirchdorf )
Bedernau ( parish village )
Blatte (hamlet)
Brandstetten (hamlet)
Breitenbrunn (parish village)

Fürbuch (Kirchdorf)
Hohenschlau ( village )
Kaisersmoos (hamlet)
Basket (hamlet)
Kunzach ( wasteland )
Loppenhausen (parish village)

Oberberghöfe (hamlet)
Staudenberg (hamlet)
Steinbach (wasteland)
Straßberg (wasteland)
Unterberghöfe (hamlet)
Weiherhof (hamlet)

The hamlet of Köck is not an officially named part of the municipality.

history

Until the church is planted

Before 1800, the place Breitenbrunn was the seat of an upper and lower court and belonged to the rule of Mindelheim of the Electorate of Bavaria . In the area of today's municipality of Breitenbrunn is also the former rule of Bedernau of the barons v. Castell . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities of Bedernau and Loppenhausen were incorporated.

Population development

1961: 2291 inhabitants
1970: 2262 inhabitants
1987: 2081 inhabitants
1991: 2139 inhabitants
1995: 2317 inhabitants
2000: 2330 inhabitants
2005: 2306 inhabitants
2010: 2277 inhabitants
2015: 2314 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,101 to 2,342 by 241 inhabitants or by 11.5%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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Gains and losses

compared to 2013

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Farmhouse in Breitenbrunn

mayor

Jürgen Tempel has been mayor since May 2014 (voter communities Bedernau, Breitenbrunn-Höenberg and Loppenhausen); he was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with 90.2% of the votes without any competitors.

Municipal council

The election on March 15, 2020 had the following result:

Voting community Breitenbrunn-Höhenberg: 6 seats (42.9%)
Loppenhausen voter community: 4 seats (30.9%)
Bedernau voter community: 4 seats (26.2%)

The allocation of seats in the previous municipal council election in 2014 was as follows:

Voting community Breitenbrunn-Höhenberg: 6 seats
Loppenhausen voter community: 4 seats
Bedernau voter community: 4 seats

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the government of Swabia on May 8, 1974 .

Blazon : “Split by silver and black; in front a blue wave pole, covered by a mill wheel in mixed up colors, behind a silver notched double cross. "

With the double cross in the back half of the shield, the coat of arms reflects the historical relationship between the place and the Kreuzherrenkonvent Memmingen , which had a branch in Breitenbrunn from the 14th century to the year of secularization in 1803. The location of the community on a brook that has been driving several mills since ancient times is indicated by the corresponding heraldic symbols.

The design and design of the coat of arms was carried out by Rudolf Mussgnug from Nördlingen.

flag

The flag was approved by the government of Swabia on March 20, 1991. The flag is black - white - blue (1: 1: 1) striped with the municipal coat of arms.

Town twinning

France Plouigneau ( Brittany )
Hungary Görcsöny in southern Hungary

Attractions

Bedernau Castle
Parish Church of St. Georg in Bedernau

statistics

In 1998 there were four in agriculture and forestry, 205 in manufacturing, 20 in trade and transport and 38 in other economic sectors at the place of work. There were 770 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in manufacturing and six in construction. In addition, in 1999 there were 134 farms with an agriculturally used area of 2,445 hectares. Of this, 478 hectares were arable land and 1967 hectares were permanent green areas.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

Kindergartens: 98 kindergarten places with 87 children
Elementary schools: branches of the Pfaffenhausen secondary school in Breitenbrunn and Loppenhausen

Personalities

Matthias Merkle (* 1816 in Bedernau; † 1881 in Wörishofen), theologian and politician, also Latin teacher of the young Sebastian Kneipp

Others

The area where crude oil and natural gas was produced between 1964 and 1995 near Bedernau is partly in the municipality of Breitenbrunn. The borehole, from which the 29 ° C warm water for the Bedernau natural thermal baths is now drawn , was originally one of the boreholes for oil production.

Web links

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

Breitenbrunn community
Breitenbrunn (Swabia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
↑ Municipal Council. Breitenbrunn municipality, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
^ Municipality of Breitenbrunn in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c 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. 782 .
↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
↑ Local elections in Bavaria on March 16, 2014 - results in Swabia , accessed on November 18, 2017.
^ Entry on the coat of arms of Breitenbrunn (Swabia) in the database of the House of Bavarian History

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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. Breitenbrunn municipality, accessed on May 31, 2020 .

[3] Municipality of Breitenbrunn in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-4] 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. 782 .

[5] Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018

[6] Local elections in Bavaria on March 16, 2014 - results in Swabia , accessed on November 18, 2017.

[7] Entry on the coat of arms of Breitenbrunn (Swabia) in the database of the House of Bavarian History