Durach

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Oberallgäu
Height :	714 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.74 km 2
Residents:	7244 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	349 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87471
Area code :	0831
License plate :	OA
Community key :	09 7 80 120
Community structure:	27 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 1 ; 87471 Durach
Website :	www.durach-allgaeu.de
Mayor :	Gerhard Hock
Location of the municipality of Durach in the Oberallgäu district

Durach is a municipality in the Swabian district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria . The place is four kilometers south of Kempten (Allgäu) .

The community also includes the individual farms and hamlets in front of the Kempter Wald , the more modern district of Weidach and the more rural mountain village Bodelsberg (at 900 m).

Probably Durach - formerly Duraha - is of Celtic origin and means "oh flowing through".

geography

Durach is located on the former federal road 309 (now state road 2520 ), the Ausserfernbahn and the federal autobahn 7 .

location

The place Durach is traversed by the tributary of the same name of the Iller , the Durach .

Community structure

Durach has 27 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Bachtel ( hamlet )
Peasantry (hamlet)
Bechen ( village )
Bodelsberg ( parish village )
Bubenberg (hamlet)
Castle ( wasteland )
Dorfberg (wasteland)
Durach (parish village)
Dürrenberg (hamlet)

Fahls (hamlet)
Felben (wasteland)
Wasting fire (hamlet)
Fridays (wasteland)
Furtenbach (hamlet)
Dump (hamlet)
Heberlings (village)
Heidach (wasteland)
Hermannsberg (hamlet)

Running (hamlet)
Linggen (hamlet)
Miesenbach (village)
Oberhof (hamlet)
Oberkottern (parish village)
Rothen (village)
Straßösch (village)
Weidach (village)
Wenglings (wasteland)

Through the west
Durach in the foreground and Kempten from the southeast
Durach from the north
Durach from the northeast

history

As early as the 1st century AD, the Romans led a road through today's Durach area and also built a small settlement here. The Kempten Monastery was founded in 752 , and Durach belonged to its domain for more than a millennium until the secularization of 1803 .

The "place Durach" was first mentioned in 1170. Around 1300 a lower court was built, the village linden probably dates from this time. Friedrich III. renewed this lower jurisdiction by an imperial decree in 1455. In 1525 Georg Truchsess von Waldburg had 18 peasant leaders executed on a hill in Durach, thus ending the Upper Swabian Peasants' War .

In 1527 Durach became an independent parish for the first time . The plague raged during the Thirty Years' War between 1628 and 1635 in Durach as well, and the number of inhabitants fell to around 100 to 300 people. In the Kingdom of Bavaria , Durach became an independent municipality as a result of the municipal edict of 1818 .

In 1895 the Kempten – Pfronten ( Ausserfernbahn ) railway was built with a station in Durach. This railway line led to neighboring Tyrol .

Between 1943 and 1945, the Kottern-Weidach subcamp , a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, was located in the Weidach district of the municipality .

During the territorial reform in 1972 , Durach remained an independent municipality, although Kempten made efforts to incorporate Durach in the 1930s and 1940s.

Between 1988 and 2018, the municipality grew from 5448 to 7202 by 1754 inhabitants or by 32.2%.

politics

2014 local elections, Durach local council

Turnout: 66.72%

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

41.98%

27.63%

13.25%

17.15%

Gains and losses

compared to 2008

% p

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

-10

-8.52 % p

+ 4.53 % p.p.

-0.45 % p

+ 4.45 % p

Local elections 2014

The municipal elections in Bavaria in 2014 on March 16, 2014 led to the following results:

Municipal council

CSU : 8 seats (41.98%)
FW : 6 seats (27.63%)
ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS : 3 seats (17.15%)
SPD : 3 seats (13.25%)

mayor

Gerhard Hock was elected First Mayor with 65.8% of the valid votes. His opponent Richard Wucherer received 34.2% of the vote.

The second mayor is Herbert Kiechle.

District Administrator

Toni Klotz CSU (54.3%)
Dr. Philipp Prestel FW (22.0%)
Ulrike Hitzler GREEN (9.8%)
Jörg Hilbert SPD (8.2%)
Michael Finger ÖDP / Independent Citizens (5.6%)

Local elections 2008

The local election on March 2, 2008 resulted in the following distribution of the 20 seats in the local council:

CSU : 11 seats
Free voters Durach : 5 seats
SPD : 2 seats
GREEN : 2 seats

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Quartered; 1: red, 2: in silver a red gate tower, 3: blue, 4: in gold a sloping blue wave bar. "

Community partnerships

The three partner communities of Durach are Saint-Michel (Charente) in the French region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (since 1981), Faver , since 2016 part of the newly created Italian community Altavalle in the region of Trentino-South Tyrol (since 1986) and Pivka in Slovenia (since 2000).

Architectural monuments

leisure

landscape

The landscape with the climatic stimuli of the altitude between 660 and 936 meters and many natural beauties offers a diverse field of activity for leisure activities. Hikes in the Bachteltobel of the Durach z. B. to Neuchâtel Castle and in the vastness of the Kempter Forest are possible.

Sulzberger See

Two kilometers to the south is the point in the territory of the market Sulzberg the Sulzberger Lake (Öschlesee). In addition to a lido there you will also find free bathing facilities and sunbathing areas for relaxation. The Sulzberger See is, like many other lakes in the Oberallgäu, a dead lake , which slowly melted from a large piece of glacier ice that had been left behind after the rapid fall of the ice in the outgoing glacial, while the meltwaters of the Iller glacier framed it all around with gravel.

Airfield

Kempten-Durach airfield

The highest airfield in Germany, the Kempten-Durach airfield , offers good opportunities to get a bird's eye view of the high mountains and foothills from a 710 meter long grass runway.

Scenes from the film Quax, the break pilot with Heinz Rühmann in the title role were filmed on the airfield .

economy

The rather leisurely tourism industry has recently been joined by the solar boom. Solarstocc AG, which belongs to the Centrosolar Group, has its headquarters here.

Due to the good transport links of the community to the federal autobahn 7 die, federal autobahn 980 and federal highway 12 and the proximity to Kempten and the Allgäu Alps, many companies have settled here. Logistics companies like Noerpel or Lebert have branches here. In addition to numerous small, medium-sized handicraft businesses, Oberall Bau GmbH has its headquarters here, the Sinz country bakery, with over 10 branches throughout the Upper and Eastern Allgäu , also comes from Durach and belongs to the Feneberg grocery chain from Kempten.

Manufacturing is also located in Durach. The PPS Pfennig Reinigungstechnik GmbH develops, produces and distributes cleaning systems for cleaning in hospitals, industrial or public buildings. Solidarity agriculture has also been practiced since 2016 .

Personalities

Johann Baptist Kuhn (1810–1871), painter, lithographer and entrepreneur, born in Durach
Lisa Brennauer (* 1988), racing cyclist, grew up in Durach and lives there