Burggen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '  N , 10 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Weilheim-Schongau
Management Community :	Bernbeuren
Height :	745 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.94 km 2
Residents:	1698 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86977
Area code :	08860
License plate :	WM, SOG
Community key :	09 1 90 118
Community structure:	12 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 4 86975 Bernbeuren
Website :	www.burggen.de
First Mayor :	Josef Schuster ( list of citizens )
Location of the municipality of Burggen in the Weilheim-Schongau district

Burggen is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau and a member of the Bernbeuren administrative community .

Burggen in the evening sun

geography

location

The community is located in the western part of the district in the Swabian-Bavarian border area of Lechrain . The rural village is located near the originally preserved Lech (nature reserve "Litzau Loop"). The Roman road Via Claudia Augusta , which served long-distance trade from Augsburg to Verona and Venice , leads through it.

Districts

There are 12 officially named municipal parts :

Bernried ( wasteland ) Borzenwinkel (wasteland) Burggen ( parish village ) Dessau (wasteland) Engenwies (wasteland) Forchenmühle (wasteland)

Haslach ( village ) Hausenried (wasteland) Rossau (wasteland) Climb (wasteland) Tannenberg (parish village) Ziegler (wasteland)

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  Bernried from the east

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  Burggen from the northeast

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  St. Anna near Burggen

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  Chapel in Tannenberg

history

Until the church is planted

Grave finds testify to the first settlement around the year 550. The place name is mentioned for the first time in 1188 and is likely to come from an Alemannic clan called Buro, Burin or Buring. This later resulted in Purgo, Burggau and then Burggen. In 1796, a devastating fire destroyed entire streets. The place was then rebuilt. The municipality was established in 1818 through the municipal edict.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, parts of the dissolved community of Tannenberg were incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,307 to 1,703 inhabitants or by 30.3%.

politics

mayor

Josef Schuster (* 1953, citizen list) has been the mayor since May 2008.

Auerbergland

Burggen is a member municipality of the inter-communal association Auerbergland, which crosses the borders of the administrative districts of Swabia and Upper Bavaria .

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In pewter cut divided by silver and blue with a pole in confused colors, on which a green pine branch is placed below."

Community partnerships

• Since 1991 there has been a partnership with the municipality of Nesmy in the Vendée in western France.

Agriculture

The 2494 hectare area of ​​the municipality including private property is mainly used for agriculture, with the farmers exclusively operating in dairy farming. Any other use is unprofitable due to the climate and soil conditions.

tourism

There are many marked, easily accessible circular hiking trails for cycling and hiking. Due to the location in the western Pfaffenwinkel in front of the Bavarian mountains, tourism is also operated.

Burggen is also on the long-distance cycle path , which runs as the Via Claudia Augusta along the ancient Roman road of the same name .

Attractions

• Ensemble St.-Anna-Strasse
• Parish church of St. Stephan with figures by Anton Sturm
• Former pilgrimage church of St. Anna in the field with a coffered ceiling and grisaille paintings
• Parish church of St. Oswald in Tannenberg, built from 1814 to 1826 in Empire style

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

Culture and events

13 clubs are active in the village.

Every two years on the second Sunday in September, Burggen organizes a special kind of local festival, Rosstag. Here, over 300 horses of various races and types in all possible tension as well as cultural and historical equipment from agriculture and trade are shown as a living museum.

literature

• Franz Wittmann: The new ones are 200 years old . Farmhouses in Burggen. In: Bayerisches Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt , Volume 207, Issue 9, ISSN  0005-7169 . Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich March 3, 2017, pp. 66–68

Web links

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

• Burggen community
• Burggen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.24 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. ^ The members of the parish council. Municipality of Burggen, accessed on June 3, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Burggen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 5, 2019.
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. 596 .
5. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Burggen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History