Buchloe
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ' N , 10 ° 44' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Swabia | |
| County : | Ostallgäu | |
| Management Community : | Buchloe | |
| Height : | 627 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 36.17 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,273 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 367 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 86807 | |
| Area code : | 08241 | |
| License plate : | OAL, FÜS, MOD | |
| Community key : | 09 7 77 121 | |
| City structure: | 7 parts of the community | |
City administration address : |
Rathausplatz 1 86807 Buchloe |
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| First Mayor : | Robert Pöschl (CSU) | |
| Location of the city of Buchloe in the Ostallgäu district | ||
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Buchloe [ ˈbuːxloːə ; Swabian : ˈbuəxlə ] is a town in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu . Together with the neighboring communities of Jengen , Lamerdingen and Waal, it forms the Buchloe administrative community . Buchloe is a railway town and, with over 13,000 inhabitants, is the third largest town in the district after the district town of Marktoberdorf and the town of Füssen .
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geography
The place is in the Gennachtal in the Allgäu planning region in Central Swabia. That is why Buchloe is also known as the gateway to the Allgäu .
There are seven officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement and the approximate number of inhabitants in 2019 are given in brackets ):
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history
Until the 19th century
Buchloe is located on a once wooded ridge that slopes gently down to the Gennach Valley. It was created in the second half of the 8th century by clearing a large landlord with originally about Reutgenossen on the outskirts of Urmark Wiedergeltingen and was first mentioned in 1150. The name Buchelon means "in the light beech forests".
The elevation of the site to the city was probably at the request Volkmarsdorf of the Elders of Kemnat by King Rudolf von Habsburg between 1273 and 1283. A decisive turning point in the history Buchloes was the replacement market and patronage rights in Buchloe and Dillishausen by the monastery Stams with the Hochstift Augsburg against goods and rights of the same in Seeg and Mieming in Tyrol in 1311. Buchloe remained in the possession of the Hochstift from then until the secularization (1802) . In the course of the 15th century Buchloe lost the rank of town, probably because the citizens of Buchloe could not assert this against the Augsburg bishop.
In 1771 Matthias Klostermayr , known as the Bavarian Hiasl , was imprisoned for a short time in the Buchloer breeding and work house (built 1722–1725, used as a prison until 1955 and demolished in 1962) after his arrest .
Buchloe was often hit by serious fire accidents. In the German Peasants' War the Buchloer sided with the insurgents, led by the Buchloer Sebastian Bader. Duke Ludwig von Baiern , who was expecting an attack by the Buchloe heap on his town of Landsberg , had the market in Buchloe plundered on April 20, 1525 as a preventive measure and buried in ashes. As early as 1533, eight years after the Peasants' War, another conflagration raged in Buchloe, which again cremated half the place and also destroyed the parish church of Our Lady . In 1546, during the Schmalkaldic War, Schertlin came from Burtenbach to Buchloe, had the place plundered and a fire started. In the course of the following centuries Buchloe developed from the 20 farms of Guelphic settlement on the mountain above the Gennach to the size and importance it is today. The town had 717 inhabitants in 1820 and around 2,500 in 1920.
20th century
After the Second World War (1939–1945) the population in Buchloe doubled to 5,250 due to the influx of displaced persons from the eastern regions . This increase in population and its importance as a railway junction were ultimately decisive for the fact that on April 20, 1954, Buchloe was re-awarded the designation "city" by the Free State of Bavaria with the colors red and silver as the city's coat of arms - once a late Gothic top sign of the Augsburg monastery . Today more than 12,000 people live in the city.
Population development
Thanks to the good transport connections and the proximity to Munich and Augsburg, Buchloe grew by 3245 inhabitants or around 37% between 1988 and 2000. Between 1988 and 2018 the population grew from 8,810 to 13,132 by 4,322 or 49.1%.
The population figures from 1840 onwards relate to today's municipality area (status: 1987).
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| year | 1840 | 1900 | 1939 | 1950 | 1961 | 1970 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 |
| Residents | 1,548 | 2,879 | 3,809 | 6,818 | 6,919 | 7,845 | 8,640 | 9,475 | 10.092 | 11,798 | 12,021 | 12,167 | 12,568 | 13,302 |
Incorporations
On July 1, 1971, the previously independent community of Lindenberg was incorporated. On July 1, 1972, Honsolgen was added.
politics
In Buchloe there is a local association of the CSU , the Greens , the Free Voters' Association and the FDP as well as a local association of the SPD . There is also the independent citizens' initiative for Buchloe, Lindenberg and Honsolgen ( UBI Buchloe for short ).
City council
The city council consists of 24 councilors. Since the last local election on March 15, 2020, they have been distributed among the individual parties and lists as follows:
| CSU | FW | UBI | GREEN | SPD | FDP | AfD |
| 8 seats | 4 seats | 4 seats | 3 seats | 2 seats | 2 seats | 1 seat |
mayor
- List of First Mayors
| Surname | Term of office |
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| Anton Zech | 1886-1912 |
| Johann Bosch | 1912-1919 |
| Adolf Popfinger | 1919-1920 |
| Johann Strauss | 1920-1938 |
| Albert Eser | 1938-1945 |
| Johann Mayer | 1945-1947 |
| Josef Uebele | 1948-1962 |
| Jakob Förg | 1962-1966 |
| Franz Motzer | 1966-1973 |
| Gert Daisenberger | 1974-1991 |
| Franz Greif | 1991-2003 |
| Josef Schweinberger | 2003-2020 |
| Robert Pöschl | 2020– |
coat of arms
The coat of arms is "split between red and white" . The coat of arms, which has been in use since around 1500, changed over time. In 1643 it shows the right half of the shield being damaged. From 1834 to 1950 the coat of arms was "split by gold and silver with beech leaves" . Red and silver were the colors of the Augsburg bishopric.
partnership
- Cesson ( France ) has been Buchloe's twin town near Paris since 1985 .
- In 1960 the sponsorship for the expelled Sudeten Germans from the community of Saubsdorf in the Freiwaldau district in the Jeseníky Mountains was taken over.
- We have friendly relations with Kőszeg in Hungary .
Culture and sights
Local museum
In 1997 the Buchloe local history museum was opened in the former building of the Raiffeisenbank Buchloe. It shows several old church tower clocks , liturgical objects, paintings by the baroque painter Joseph Schwarz (1709–1766), traditional costumes from Buchlo, local and exotic butterflies, models of the old station building that was demolished in 1968 and the breeding and work house, and paintings by Eduard Bechteler (1890 -1983). A separate cabinet is dedicated to Erwin Neher , the 1991 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physics who grew up in Buchloe.
Buildings
- South of Buchloe is the Buchloe public observatory, where public sky observations take place on a regular basis.
- Schwabenhalle: An agricultural center in the Swabian region for cattle auctions
- City parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption with furnishings from the 18th century.
- House of Encounter: Catholic rectory in the western part of the city with eye-catching architecture in the form of a wave
- Rio Castle : built 1901–1903 in the historicizing style, located in the southwest of Buchloe (towards Lindenberg)
- Lindenberg : The Catholic parish church of St. Georg and Wendelin with baroque furnishings is located on a mountain and can be seen from afar.
- Water tower at the exit towards Lindenberg
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The city is located directly on the federal motorway 96 ( Munich - Buchloe - Memmingen - Lindau ) with a junction to the federal highway 12 ( Lindau via Munich and Passau to Philippsreut ) and describes itself as the gateway to the Allgäu . The state road 2035 also performs Buchloe.
The Buchloe Station is the junction of the three railway lines Munich-Kempten (Allgäu) -Lindau (Allgäu Railway) , Augsburg Buchloe and Buchloe-Memmingen-Lindau with IC port and EC -Direktverbindungen in Switzerland . From the 1930s to 1972, Buchloe had an independent depot .
Established businesses
Well-known companies are the automobile manufacturer Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH and Co. and the Karwendel-Werke Huber.
The Moksel Group, Fristo Getränkeemarkt GmbH and Rudolf Hörmann GmbH & Co KG (Hörmann Allgäuer Stallbau) also have their headquarters in Buchloe, as does the Xaver Riebel construction group .
Public facilities
Buchloe has its own police station , a hospital and an ambulance station of the Bavarian Red Cross . There is also a local group of the water watch (founded in 1947), four kindergartens, two retirement and nursing homes, assisted living and a social station. The Buchloe volunteer fire brigade has existed since 1871 (interrupted by the Second World War).
education
In Buchloe there is the Meinrad-Spieß and the Comenius elementary school, a middle school , a secondary school , an adult education center and a vocational school for nursing, which has now been merged with the Kaufbeurer nursing school.
The Buchloe grammar school started operations in the 2011/12 school year and moved into a new building in the south of the city in September 2013.
Leisure and sports facilities
In the southeast there is a tennis court, a squash court, an ice rink, an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. These facilities are located directly at the schools or in their immediate vicinity. Buchloe also owns a soccer stadium, several soccer fields, three fitness studios, a shooting range, a youth center and a library.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Ostberg (1890–1935), police officer and Nazi functionary
- Rudolf Dörr (1928–2010), District President of Swabia
- Ria Endres (* 1946), writer
- Bertram Meier (* 1960), Catholic clergyman and theologian, Bishop of Augsburg
- Manuel Strodel (* 1992), ice hockey player
- Klaus Hofmann (* 1967), football official, entrepreneur and president of FC Augsburg
- Thomas Holzmann (* 1987), ice hockey player with the Augsburg Panthers
- Marco Zanoni (* 1991 ), German-Italian feature film editor and colorist .
Personalities who have worked in the city
- Erwin Neher (* 1944 in Landsberg am Lech , grew up in Buchloe), physicist, Nobel laureate for medicine and physiology (1991)
- Emil Vogel (* 1930 in Lindenberg ), sculptor, designer of the Marienbrunnen in Buchloe
- Werner Hartmann (* 1959 in Mindelheim), track and field athlete, German champion in 1979 discus throw , member of the team of the Federal Republic of Germany planned for the 1980 Summer Olympics , was a member of VfL Buchloe.
- Loomit (* 1968 in Celle ), German graffiti artist. His career began in 1983 in Buchloe, where he painted the water tower.
Honorary citizen
- Alexander Moksel (1918-2010), entrepreneur
- Antonie Moksel (1924–2016), wife of Alexander Moksel
- Erwin Neher (* 1944), biophysicist
- Horst Seehofer (* 1949), politician
Web links
- City administration
- Buchloe: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 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 ).
- ↑ Mayor. Buchloe City Council, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
- ^ Municipality of Buchloe in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
- ↑ Heimatverein Buchloe und Umgebung eV (Ed.): Buchloe - Volume 1 , printing and publishing house Hans Obermayer, Buchloe 1996, ISBN 3-927781-10-X , pp. 12-13
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 492 .
- ^ Website of the CSU local association Buchloe
- ↑ GRÜNEN website in Buchloe , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Website of the Free Voters Buchloe , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Website of the FDP Buchloe , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Website of the SPD Buchloe , accessed on May 1, 2020
- ^ Website of the Independent Citizens' Initiative Buchloe , accessed on October 28, 2011
- ↑ City council election 2020 City of Buchloe
- ↑ City Council
- ^ Entry on Buchloe's coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- ^ Chronicle of the Buchloe fire brigade , accessed on October 28, 2011
- ↑ Website of the Meinrad-Spieß-Grundschule Buchloe ( memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 28, 2011
- ^ Website of the Comenius primary school in Buchloe , accessed on October 28, 2011
- ^ Website of the Buchloe Middle School , accessed on October 28, 2011
- ^ Website of the Buchloe Adult Education Center , accessed on October 28, 2011
- ^ Award: Horst Seehofer is made an honorary citizen in Buchloe. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
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