Ehingen am Ries

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Oettingen in Bavaria
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.64 km 2
Residents:	776 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86741
Area code :	09082
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 138
LOCODE :	DE EAR
Community structure:	7 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Schlossstrasse 36 ; 86732 Oettingen i. Bay.
Website :	www.ehingen-am-ries.de
Mayor :	Thomas Meyer ( New Common List )
Location of the municipality of Ehingen a. Ries in the Donau-Ries district

Ehingen am Ries (officially Ehingen a. Ries ) is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries . The community is a member of the Oettingen administrative community in Bavaria .

geography

The parish village of Ehingen am Ries is the main town and lies on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries , the community is part of the Augsburg planning region .

The municipality consists of two districts that are congruent with the former municipalities and has seven officially named municipality parts :

the parish village of Ehingen with the desert Beutenmühle , Jägerhaus and Schaffhausen
the parish village of Belzheim with the desert Riedmühle and Weihermühle

history

Until the church is planted

Ehingen am Ries emerged from an Alemannic foundation and belonged to the Principality of Oettingen . About half of the village (like Erlbach to the north ) belonged to the Protestant line of this house and therefore adopted the new faith in 1539. In addition to the other half of the village, Niederhofen also remained Catholic. The parish church of Ehingen has been a simultaneous church since the Reformation - next to Illschwang in the Upper Palatinate one of the few in Bavaria. With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

The first written mention of Belzheim took place in 1053 as Villa Bellesheim . At the time of the Old Kingdom, the place belonged almost exclusively to the Teutonic Order .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent community of Belzheim was incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the population decreased from 802 to 792 by 10 inhabitants or by 1.3%.

1961: 891 inhabitants
1970: 890 inhabitants
1987: 834 inhabitants
1991: 816 inhabitants
1995: 829 inhabitants
2000: 814 inhabitants
2005: 809 inhabitants
2010: 788 inhabitants
2015: 799 inhabitants

politics

On March 15, 2020, Thomas Meyer (New Joint List) was elected 1st Mayor, the term of office began on May 1, 2020. Erhard Michel (Free Voting Association) was Mayor from November 24, 2009 to April 30, 2020; its predecessor was Paul Fackler (Free Voting Community).

Due to the election in March 2014 and the election in March 2020 , the municipal council consists of eight members, the distribution of seats is the same in both terms of office:

Free voter community Ehingen 3 seats
New Common List (NGL) 3 seats
New community (NG) 2 seats

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Square of red and gold, topped with a silver fortified church in front view with curtain wall and gate." since 1961; the church building represents the parish church of Ehingen.

Attractions

St. Stephen in Ehingen

Fortified church St. Ulrich and St. Stephan
Antonius Chapel in Belzheim

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of € 259,000 in 1999, of which € 17,000 (net) was trade tax revenue. According to official statistics, in 2010 there were 43 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work. There were 334 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were 42 farms with an agricultural area of 1302 ha, of which 1183 ha were arable land.

education

In 2011 there were the following institutions:

Kindergarten: 50 kindergarten places with 30 children

Personalities

Georg Bickel , pastor for painter (1862–1924)
Anton Jaumann (1927–1994), lawyer and politician (CSU), from 1970 to 1988 Bavarian State Minister for Economics and Transport, and from 1958 to 1990 member of the Bavarian State Parliament
Johannes Hanselmann (1927–1999), 1975 to 1994 regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria

literature

Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 541 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).