Buxach
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Buxach
City of Memmingen
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 31 ″ E
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| Height : | 598 m |
| Residents : | 668 (Dec. 31, 2009) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 87700 |
| Area code : | 08331 |
 Location of Buxach in Memmingen
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Buxach is a parish village and a south-western district of Memmingen .
geography
location
The parish village of Buxach is about three kilometers west of the city center of Memmingen. In 1972 the village of Buxach and the neighboring hamlet Hart , which had formed a community with Buxach since 1638, were incorporated into the city of Memmingen.
climate
Buxach is at the average annual temperature and the amount of precipitation in the average zone of the temperate zone , whereby the precipitation is usually somewhat higher and the lowest temperatures somewhat lower. In spring and autumn, due to the nearby Iller and the Buxach flowing through the village, thick fog is quite frequent in the corridors and within the village. The coldest month is January with an average daily low temperature of −5 ° C and an average daily high temperature of 2 ° C. The warmest months are July and August with an average minimum temperature of 12 ° C and an average maximum temperature of 24 ° C.
geology
Buxach's soil is different. While in the valley it consists of the loamy, often flooded bank zone of the Buxach , it is fertile in the upper areas.
Place name
There are differences of opinion about the meaning of the word Buxach . What the syllable ach means seems relatively certain. Ach or Aach means flowing water (see also Memminger Ach = Stadtbach).
However, the syllable bux is controversial. So it could be called curved (Buxach = curved brook). But it could also be derived from the Old French Buxerias or Old Gaelic Boxum , which means something like bush (Buxach = bush water).
history
The first mention of the place was around 1270. The Elsbethenkloster zu Memmingen acquired the property of the Schenken von Schmalegg in Buxach. In the past, a much earlier date was assumed. A forged certificate from the Kreuzherrenkloster in Memmingen speaks of the year 1010. However, various contradictions in this document indicate that it is a forgery. Another documented mention of the place was in 1289, when the Kreuzherrenkloster or the Oberhospitalstiftung bought the Spitalhof (later named that way) and the Spitalmühle zu Hardt from the Knights of Rettenberg for 50 silver marks . In a log from 1392 it can be read that Buxach was owned by the Rupp patrician family from Memmingen. This remained so until 1459. The Rupp family invested in their property. In a purchase agreement from 1404, three farms, a hammer forge and a grinding mill are already mentioned. On April 4, 1459 the village was sold for 2500 guilders to Hans Lechmayer, court master of the needy in Memmingen. Due to the many watercourses in the Buxach district, it was mainly the metalworks that flourished there in the late Middle Ages.
In 1523 the council of the Free Imperial City of Memmingen offered a coppersmith a loan to build a hammer mill. It is not known whether he accepted it. May 22, 1594 was a decisive day in terms of the merging of the villages of Buxach and Hart. In a minutes of the council it is mentioned that the Ammann von Buxach, Jörg Moser and the Ammann von Hardt, Melchior Schalk, the blacksmith von der Buxach, Hansen Göger, approved both blacksmiths in Buxach and Hardt. The same should forge on Mondays and Thursdays for the six citizens of Hardt, on the other days for the citizens of Buxach.
In 1598 Buxach was raised to a parish . From then on the village had its own pastor, but his parsonage was in Memmingen. The processions of the main parish of St. Martin moved to Buxach on the great day of prayer (St. Markus, April 25).
In 1683 the hamlet of Hardt was added to the parish of Buxach under canon law. Since then the two villages have formed a unit.
In the 16th u. A copper or brass hammer was created in the 17th century. The guards from Memmingen owned a second copper hammer in Buxach and delivered to Switzerland. Above all, scythes for mowing grass were made.
Since the old church had become too small, the Trinity Church was built in 1710 . As early as 1711, the next large building in the community took place with a new school building. The villages of Buxach and Hart were first depicted in a copper engraving in 1720. 27 emigrants from Salzburg were settled in Buxach in 1732. The town of Memmingen resulted in their field often visitations by the schools. While in other schools the teachers could sometimes not even read or write, there were no complaints in Buxach. In 1742 there were 43 students registered at the Buxacher School.
The village has always been the target of enemy armies advancing towards the city of Memmingen, especially because of its proximity to the city and also because it could only be attacked from the west. In May 1800, Buxach and Hart were the scene of a battle in which the French defeated the imperial troops.
On October 1, 1818, the village formed a political unit with Hart. The first joint mayor was Johann Jakob Schieß from the hamlet of Hart. In 1832 a total of 102 citizens lived in Buxach, 43 of whom were male and 59 female. At that time there were 36 citizens living in Hart. In 1890 the community built a new schoolhouse, which opened in the summer. On June 9, 1895, the local council decided to sell the old schoolhouse from the 18th century. It was numbered 4 1/2. The debts of the new school building were still high in 1917. In the minutes of the municipal council on November 18, 1917, it is noted: “Debt due to the new school building”. The end of the approximately 170 years of independence was decided in the course of the municipal area reform . Buxach was incorporated into the city of Memmingen with Hart on July 1, 1972.
Inhabitants of Buxach and Hart
- Status 12/2004: 671
- Status 12/2005: 678
- Status 12/2006: 671
- Status 12/2007: 669
- Status 12/2008: 663
- Status 12/2009: 668
Club life
There are numerous clubs in Buxach, including the voluntary fire brigade , a shooting club and a hunting association . A citizens' association has set itself the task of reviving and maintaining village life. For this purpose, the former schoolhouse, the so-called old school, was made available free of charge by the city of Memmingen and renovated by the citizens' association.
religion
After the Memmingen Reformation , the previously purely Catholic place became Evangelical-Lutheran. In the then Michael’s Chapel and with the first new Protestant building in the imperial city of Memmingen, the Dreieinigkeitskirche , only Protestant services are held. The Protestant part of the population belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Memmingen . Roman Catholic citizens migrated through the new development areas on the edge of the Buxach Valley. Today these belong to the Christ Church Community in the west of the city of Memmingen, which is subordinate to the Roman Catholic Dean's Office of Memmingen. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , since 2014 Council Chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany, spent part of his childhood in Buxach ; his father Albert Strohm was a pastor here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Archives Memmingen StadtA MM D 33/2
- ↑ Kiesling: The city and its country year book fol. 67R; Westermann, altars 47
- ^ Beckh, Nürnberger Drahtindustrie Zorn, trade and industrial history
- ↑ City Archives Memmingen, StadtA MM A RP January 2, 1732
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