Welden

This article deals with the community of Welden in Swabia. For further meanings see Welden (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Management Community :	Welden
Height :	466 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.98 km 2
Residents:	3853 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	214 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86465
Area code :	08293
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 216
Market structure:	3 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Am Marktplatz 1 86465 Welden
Website :	www.markt-welden.de
Mayor :	Stefan Scheider (FWV / WiR)
Location of the Welden market in the Augsburg district

Welden is a market in the Swabian district of Augsburg and the seat of the Welden administrative association . Since the municipal reform in 1978, the market has included the main town of Welden, the parish village of Reutern and the hamlet of Ehgatten.

geography

Welden is the center of the Holzwinkel in the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder nature park .

Welden and spouses are located on the Laugna, a tributary of the union . Reutern is located on a hill between the Zusam and Laugna valleys.

The municipality has 3 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

• Spouses ( wasteland )
• Reutern ( Kirchdorf )
• Welden (main town)

history

Until the 19th century

The place name of Welden means "settlement on the forest". The place was laid out as a clearing settlement at the end of the 9th century, when the Laugna valley was cleared and settled from the north . The first documentary mention of the place took place in the 1156th Welden was the ancestral seat of the knightly family of the Lords of Welden , who were feudal takers of the Margraves of Burgau . It was raised to market in 1402. In 1597 the Fuggers acquired control of Welden, which remained in their hands until the Fugger-Wellenburg line died out in 1764. The place was then part of Austria for a few decades ( Welden nursing office ) before it came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 .

20th century

Since December 5, 1903, Welden was the end point of a railway line from Augsburg , which was operated in passenger and freight traffic until 1986. Today there is a cycle path on the railway line.

From 1862 to 1929 Welden belonged to the district office of Zusmarshausen and from 1929 to the district office of Augsburg , which from 1939 was then referred to as the district of Augsburg .

From 1937 to 1940 a production facility for the manufacture of explosives precursors was built under the cover name “Z-Hiag” on 40 hectares of forest. The operator was Paraxol GmbH, Frankfurt, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt ( Degussa ). Pentaeryhritol and methanol explosive products were manufactured. In 1944, production was switched to rocket fuel. After the war the bunkers were blown up. The area was used by the Bundeswehr as a depot.

Incorporations

As part of the municipal reform , the municipality of Reutern was incorporated into Welden on May 1, 1978 . The hamlet of Ehgatten, which belonged to the community of Streitheim (which is now in the Zusmarshausen market ), also came to the Welden market. In terms of school and parish, spouses belonged to Markt Welden even before 1978. In 2002 the entire village community celebrated a great historical festival to mark the 600th anniversary of the market survey.

View from Theklaberg to the wintry Welden

View from Theklaberg to Welden

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 2,994 to 3,808 by 814 inhabitants or 27.2%.

politics

mayor

Mayor since the municipal reform in 1978:

Election year	mayor	Nomination
2020	Stefan Scheider	FWV / WiR
2014	Peter Bergmeir	SPD / FWV
2008	Peter Bergmeir	SPD / FWV
2002	Peter Bergmeir	SPD / FWV
1996	Peter Bergmeir	SPD
1990	Peter Bergmeir	SPD
1984	Hermann Schmid	CSU
1978	Hermann Schmid	CSU / SPD

Gerhard Groß (FWV) has been the second mayor since 2002; he was confirmed in 2008 and 2014.
The third mayor has been Günter Lewentat (BGM) since 2014. His predecessor from 2008 to 2014 was Markus Hodapp (CSU).

Municipal council

Municipal council elections since the municipal reform in 1978: Status after the respective election.

Election year	SPD	CSU	Citizens' Community Welden / Reutern	FWV Welden / Reutern	REP	List WiR - For Welden and Reutern	Home and Environment / ÖDP	AfD	total
2020	-	5	4th	3	-	2	1	1	16
2014	5	4th	4th	3	-	-	-	-	16
2008	4th	5	4th	3	-	-	-	-	16
2002	5	4th	4th	3	-	-	-	-	16
1996	4th	4th	5	3	-	-	-	-	16
1990	4th	6th	3	2	1	-	-	-	16
1984	3	5	3	3	-	-	-	-	14th
1978	2	6th	2	4th	-	-	-	-	14th

Partner communities

• Nové Strašecí , Czech Republic

Culture and sights

• early medieval ring wall snow castle
• high medieval castle stable Welden on the Theklaberg
• Catholic parish church Mariae Annunciation with frescoes (early works) by Matthäus Günther
• Votive church of St. Thekla next to the castle stables, since 1931 monastery church of the Carmelites
• late Gothic cemetery chapel for the fourteen helpers in need
• Former “ Lower Castle ” (baker's host) next to the parish church
• Welden Monastery
• Ganghofer Allee

• 

  Votive Church of St. Thekla

• 

  Parish Church of the Annunciation

• 

  Parish church St. Leonhard in Reutern

• 

  Ganghofer-Allee on Theklaberg in winter

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Welden

Personalities

• Joseph Maria Graf Fugger von Wellenburg (1714–1764), landlord, founded the Votive Church of St. Thekla in Welden in 1756.
• Ludwig Ganghofer (1855–1920), writer, spent most of his childhood from 1859 to 1865 in Welden.

literature

• Langenmair, Ludwig: Welden: A market with a rich past , ed. from the market in Welden. Welden 1986, without ISBN.
• Marktgemeinde Welden (Ed.): 600 years of market law - Welden celebrates its history . Welden, 2002

Web links

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

Wikisource: Welden  - Sources and full texts

• Official homepage of Markt Welden
• Official homepage of the Welden administrative association
• Entry on the Welden coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Welden: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.2 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. ^ Community Welden in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 19, 2019.
3. ↑ Hermann Endrös (Ed.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Swabia, Volume 1: Archaeological walks around Augsburg , p. 115
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. 767 f .