Donau-Ries district
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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ' N , 10 ° 45' E |
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Basic data | |
State : | Bavaria |
Administrative region : | Swabia |
Administrative headquarters : | Donauwörth |
Area : | 1,274.68 km 2 |
Residents: | 133,783 (Dec 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 105 inhabitants per km 2 |
License plate : | DON, Lower Austria |
Circle key : | 09 7 79 |
NUTS : | DE27D |
Circle structure: | 44 municipalities |
Address of the district administration: |
Pflegestrasse 2 86609 Donauwörth |
Website : | |
District Administrator : | Stefan Rößle ( CSU ) |
Location of the Donau-Ries district in Bavaria | |
The district of Donau-Ries is the northernmost district of the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia and lies on the state border with Baden-Württemberg .
geography
location
The district of Donau-Ries includes the Nördlinger Ries in the northwest , an almost circular basin landscape sunk into the low mountain range of the Swabian-Franconian Jura, whose diameter is about 22 km. The Ries owes its existence to a meteorite impact , the so-called Ries event .
The Franconian Alb joins the Ries in the east . In the south it falls to the Danube-Lech area, which geologically belongs to the Riesalb . The Danube brushes the southern district area from west to east. There lies the large district town of Donauwörth , in whose urban area the Zusam and Schmutter coming from the south and the Wörnitz flowing from the north flow. The Wörnitz flows through the district from north to south and takes in the Eger from the west at Heroldingen (city of Harburg ) . In the south-east of the district near Marxheim , the Lech flowing in from the south flows into the Danube.
Neighboring areas
Neighboring districts are the district of Ansbach and the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the north, the district of Eichstätt in the northeast, the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen in the east, the districts of Aichach-Friedberg , Augsburg and Dillingen an der Donau in the south and the districts of Baden-Württemberg in the west Heidenheim and Ostalbkreis .
history
Regional courts
Before 1800, today's Donau-Ries district was largely part of the Principality of Oettingen and the imperial city of Nördlingen . In 1803 and 1806 the area became part of Bavaria. In 1803 the Monheim Regional Court, the Nördlingen Regional Court and the Oettingen Regional Court in 1805 and the Donauwörth Regional Court in 1807 were established. From 1808 they belonged to the Altmühlkreis or Oberdonaukreis and from 1810 to the Oberdonaukreis. In 1809 Nördlingen became a city in the immediate vicinity of a district. From 1838 onwards, all regional and sovereign courts belonged to the district of Schwaben and Neuburg, today's administrative district of Swabia . In 1850 Donauwörth also became a city in the immediate vicinity of a district. In 1852 the regional court of the same name was formed from the Oettingen court .
District Offices
In 1862 the Donauwörth and Monheim districts became the Donauwörth district, the Donauwörth district court became the Donauwörth district and district court and the Nördlingen and Oettingen districts became the Nördlingen district. In 1879/80 the Donauwörth district was changed slightly by adding seven communities to the Neuburg an der Donau district. The area south of the Danube and east of the Lech, which was incorporated into the new district in 1972, belonged to the Aichach district from 1862 to 1879 and to the Neuburg an der Donau district from 1880.
Counties
On January 1, 1939, as everywhere in the German Reich, the designation district was introduced. The district offices became the districts of Donauwörth and Nördlingen.
In 1940 the immediate district towns of Donauwörth and Nördlingen were incorporated into the districts, but this was reversed in the case of Nördlingen in 1949.
Donau-Ries district
As part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the new district of Nördlingen-Donauwörth was formed on July 1, 1972 from the following components :
- Until then independent city of Nördlingen, the status of a district after losing the freedom district town received
- All communities in the district of Nördlingen
- All municipalities in the district Donauwörth , except the municipalities Ellgau and Nordendorf that for the district of Augsburg came and the communities Gundelsheim and carrots , which the district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen in the administrative region of Middle Franconia came
- The city of Rain as well as the communities Bayerdilling , Bergendorf , Etting , Feldheim , Gempfing , Holzheim , Mittelstetten , Münster , Niederschönenfeld , Oberpeiching , Pessenburgheim , Riedheim , Sallach , Stadel , Staudheim , Unterpeiching , Wächtering and Wallerdorf from the district of Neuburg an der Donau
- The municipality of Tapfheim from the district of Dillingen an der Donau
- The Steinhart community from the Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia
On May 1, 1973, the new district was renamed the Donau-Ries district . The provisional district seat was Nördlingen, but in 1973 Donauwörth was established as the district seat.
On May 1, 1978, the Ensfeld community moved from the Donau-Ries district to the Eichstätt district and was incorporated into Mörnsheim . On the same day, the communities Ammerfeld and Emskeim moved to the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen and were incorporated into the market town of Rennertshofen .
On January 1, 1998, Donauwörth was also declared a major district town, as this town was also independent until 1940.
Population development
The Donau-Ries district gained around 12,000 inhabitants between 1988 and 2008, or grew by around 10%. From 2006 onwards, the trend was down, and since 2010 it has increased again slightly.
The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.
Population development | |||||||||||||||
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year | 1840 | 1900 | 1939 | 1950 | 1961 | 1970 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2018 | 2019 |
Residents | 77.032 | 78,953 | 82,217 | 122.161 | 111,949 | 116,709 | 117,483 | 122,867 | 127,632 | 129,865 | 130,969 | 128,867 | 131,345 | 135,000 | 133,783 |
Economy and Transport
In the 2016 future atlas , the Donau-Ries district was ranked 150th out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix”.
In October 2018, the unemployment rate in the Donau-Ries district was 1.5%. In December 2019, the district had the third-lowest unemployment rate in Germany after Eichstätt (1.4%) and Pfaffenhofen (1.5%) with 1.6%.
Streets
The district has no share of motorways. The most important traffic axes are the federal highways.
In a north-south direction, the B 2 crosses the district, coming from Nuremberg (connection to the A 6 ) north of Monheim, reaching the district area and leaving it past Buchdorf, Kaisheim, Donauwörth and Asbach-Bäumenheim south of Mertingen in the direction of Augsburg (Connection to A 8 ).
The most important west-east connection is the B 16 . It reaches Günzburg from the west (connection to the A 8) near Tapfheim and passes Donauwörth, Asbach-Bäumenheim and Genderkingen, before continuing east of Rain towards Ingolstadt (connection to the A 9).
North of Donauwörth, the B 25 branches off from the B 2 . It runs first in a north-westerly direction past Harburg through Möttingen and then on via Nördlingen, Wallerstein, Marktoffingen and Fremdingen to the north in the direction of Dinkelsbühl (connection to the A 7 ).
From the south-west (from Heidenheim an der Brenz ) to the north-east (towards Ansbach ) the B 466 runs through the district and touches Ederheim, Nördlingen, Oettingen and Hainsfarth.
The B 29 runs from Nördlingen in a westerly direction via Aalen (connection to the A 7) to Waiblingen .
train
The north-south railway line Augsburg – Gunzenhausen – Nuremberg, built by the Bavarian state, reached Donauwörth in 1844 and was extended in 1849 via Nördlingen to Gunzenhausen .
The Württemberg -Bad Cannstatt – Nördlingen railway and the Nördlingen – Dombühl railway were opened in 1876.
With the Ingolstadt – Neuoffingen railway line , which was opened to Donauwörth in 1874, an important railway junction was also created here; the route was continued to Höchstädt in 1877.
State local railway lines were built in 1903 from Nördlingen to Wemding and in 1905 from Mertingen train station to Wertingen .
The direct route from Treuchtlingen to Donauwörth over the Alb with the Fünfstetten – Monheim branch has only been used since 1906. This created a rail network with a length of 166 km.
Passenger traffic on five local railways with a length of 68 km was stopped relatively late:
- 1960: Fünfstetten – Monheim 6 km
- 1981: Mertingen train station – Wertingen 5 km and Nördlingen – Wemding 17 km
- 1985: Gunzenhausen – Nördlingen 23 km and Dombühl – Dinkelsbühl – Nördlingen 17 km
After all, almost 100 km of important routes have been preserved; furthermore, there will be tourist traffic on 40 km of railways - e.g. Sometimes with steam trains - offered.
Donauwörth is the only train station in the district that is connected to the ICE and IC networks. Since the opening of the high-speed line Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich , however, there have been significantly fewer high-speed trains .
power supply
In 2017, the district covered 97% of its own electricity consumption from renewable energies in the region. All renewable energy sources taken together - solar power, wind power, biomass and hydropower - are generated in the district 6,275 kWh per inhabitant of renewable electricity. The CO₂ emissions in the Donau-Ries are 30 percent below the Bavarian average per capita. The district's energy use plan aims to further expand renewable energies.
politics
District Administrator
- July 1, 1972 to April 30, 1984 Andreas Popp (PWG), was district administrator of the Donauwörth district from 1958 to 1972
- May 1, 1984 to April 30, 2002 Alfons Braun ( SPD )
- Since May 1st, 2002 Stefan Rößle (CSU)
District council
Distribution of seats in the district council of the Donau-Ries district ( local election 2020 ):
CSU | 21 seats |
GREEN | 8 seats |
FREE VOTERS | 6 seats |
AfD | 3 seats |
SPD | 7 seats |
FDP | 1 seat |
Party-free voter group PWG e. V. | 6 seats |
Active List / Young Citizens e. V. | 4 seats |
Donau-Rieser Frauenliste e. V. | 1 seat |
ÖDP | 2 seats |
LEFT | 1 seat |
Distribution of seats in the district council of the Donau-Ries district ( municipal election 2014 ):
CSU | 23 seats |
SPD | 10 seats |
Free voters | 3 seats |
GREEN | 5 seats |
Party-free voter group PWG e. V. | 7 seats |
Active List / Young Citizens e. V. | 5 seats |
Donau-Rieser Frauenliste e. V. | 2 seats |
LEFT | 1 seat |
ÖDP | 2 seats |
50plus active | 1 seat |
FDP | 1 seat |
Debt Free County
Since the end of October 2017, the Donau-Ries district is the only one in Bavaria that has been completely free of loans, securities debts or obligations from legal transactions similar to credit. The district levy has been gradually reduced since then.
coat of arms
Blazon : "Divided: above in gold a growing red armed black eagle, split below, in front in red a gold St. Andrew's cross , behind the Bavarian diamonds." | |
Communities
(Residents on December 31, 2019)
Unregulated areas (21.18 km²)
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Other communities
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See also
Protected areas
There are six nature reserves , 22 landscape protection areas , 17 FFH areas and at least 43 geotopes designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (as of August 2016) in the district.
See also:
- List of nature reserves in the Donau-Ries district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Donau-Ries district
- List of FFH areas in the Donau-Ries district
- List of geotopes in the Donau-Ries district
License Plate
On August 5, 1974, the district was assigned the DON , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Donauwörth district. It is still issued today.
Until the 2000s, vehicles from the old district of Nördlingen received license plates with the letter pairs NA to ZZ and the numbers from 1 to 99, later also 100 to 999.
Since July 10, 2013 , the distinctive sign of Lower Austria (Nördlingen) has also been available.
literature
- Walter Barsig , Hermann Keßler, Bernd Lerch, Emmeran Meyer, Klemens Stannek u. a .: Landkreis Donau-Ries , Donauwörth 1991, 832 pages, ISBN 3-403-02118-1
- Lutz Simon: Watercolors from the Donau-Ries , Rain 1994, ISBN 3-927496-24-3
- Wilfried Sponsel u. a .: District of Donau-Ries, nature and culture in a unique landscape , Donauwörth 2008, ISBN 978-3-935438-60-5
Web links
- Official website of the district
- Regional portal of the district
- Literature from and about the Donau-Ries district in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on the coat of arms of the Donau-Ries district in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- District of Donau-Ries: Official statistics of the LfStat
- Castles and palaces in the Donau-Ries district
- Holiday region Donau-Ries
- Family portal Donau-Ries
- Ries Geopark
- Article in the Donau-Ries district In: GenWiki.de
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 ).
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 97 .
- ^ Ordinance on the reorganization of Bavaria into rural districts and independent cities of December 27, 1971
- ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 602 .
- ↑ Population development in the Donau-Ries district
- ↑ Population development in the Donau-Ries district
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Article in Wirtschaftsleben Schwaben on October 18, 2018 , accessed on March 18, 2020.
- ↑ Local election 2020 on the website of the Donau-Ries district office. Retrieved March 18, 2020
- ^ Election to the district council in 779 Donau-Ries . Internet offer of the Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing. Retrieved March 28, 2014
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 16, 2017 , accessed on March 18, 2020
- ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the Donau-Ries district in the database of the House of Bavarian History , accessed on August 29, 2017 .
- ↑ "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 ).