Ettringen (Wertach)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Height :	581 m above sea level NHN
Area :	41.5 km 2
Residents:	3492 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	84 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86833
Area code :	08249
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 137
Community structure:	11 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Siebnacher Str. 1 86833 Ettringen
Website :	www.ettringen.de
Mayor :	Robert Sturm ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Ettringen in the Unterallgäu district

Ettringen - center of the village

Ettringen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu .

geography

Ettringen lies in the Danube-Iller region on both sides of the Wertach . The greater part of the settlement is west of the river.

Parish parts

There are 11 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Aletshofen ( hamlet ) Ettringen ( parish village ) Ettringermühle ( wasteland ) Felderhof (wasteland) Forsthofen ( village ) Courtyards (village)

Kirch-Siebnach (hamlet with church) Ostettringen ( good ) Siebnach (parish village) Traunried (village) Brick barn (wasteland)

There are also individual courtyards on Markt Walder Strasse, Augsburger Strasse and Höfener Strasse.

Expansion of the municipal area

The municipality is made up of the districts Ettringen, Siebnach and Traunried.

history

Mariengrotte near the district of Felderhof

Until the church is planted

At least one brick kiln has been localized from the Roman era based on archaeological findings.

Ettringen was first mentioned in a document in 1056. The settlement is said to have been founded as early as the 5th century during the conquest . The von Ostheim patrician family can be traced as the landlord in the village from 1386 to 1490. Ettringen belonged to the Schwabegg lordship and since 1705 to the ancestral regions of Bavaria.

In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of Ettringen was created with the municipal edict of 1818.

19th and 20th centuries

In order to avert the danger of flooding, the Wertach was straightened in the middle of the 19th century. The western settlement was built from 1957.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities Siebnach and Traunried were incorporated.

Population development

• 1961: 2892 inhabitants
• 1970: 2919 inhabitants
• 1987: 2993 inhabitants
• 1991: 3232 inhabitants
• 1995: 3391 inhabitants
• 2000: 3468 inhabitants
• 2005: 3335 inhabitants
• 2010: 3247 inhabitants
• 2015: 3380 inhabitants

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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45.2%

10.9%

15.4%

9.6%

4.9%

4.2%

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5.5%

CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2013

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+ 5.6  % p

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+ 0.6  % p

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CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

mayor

Robert Sturm (* 1965) (CSU) has been mayor since 1996. He was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 87.4% of the vote.

Municipal council

In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the following distribution of mandates in the local council resulted:

• CSU / non-party voters: 7 seats
• Free Voters eV: 5 seats
• Siebnach community of voters: 2 seats
• Traunried village community: 2 seats

There was no change in the distribution of seats compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on May 16, 1967 by decision of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior.

	Blazon : "In silver, a growing red abbot's staff and a growing black grave stone, covered at the bottom with a blue wavy bar."

The historical development is represented symbolically in the municipal coat of arms of Ettringen by the symbol from the coat of arms of the Augsburg patrician family von Ostheim, the grave stone, because in the late Middle Ages this noble family was connected to the place for a long time through larger land holdings and from 1386 to 1490 the lordship in Place. The crook reminds of the church patron St. Martin in the parish church and St. Ottilia in the crypt chapel. Finally, the wavy bar symbolizes the Wertach flowing through the municipal marker.

The design and design of the coat of arms was carried out by Rudolf Mussgnug from Nördlingen.

flag

The flag was approved by the government of Swabia on September 2, 1975.

The flag is striped white - blue - white with the municipal coat of arms.

Interior view of the parish church in Ettringen

Culture and sights

Ziegelstadel district

• About the Ettringer Gemeindeteil Siebnach is on the book mountain in the High Middle Postal Siebnach .
• Brunnenplatz: Brunnenplatz was built right on time for the 950th birthday of the community in 2006. It is a popular meeting place for citizens. The fountain festival takes place every 2 years at Brunnenplatz.
• Parish Church of St. Martin and St. Nikolaus: The base of the tower dates back to the 2nd half of the 15th century, the tower was raised in 1711/12. While maintaining the tower and the old choir walls, master mason Martin Stiller from Ettringen and carpenter Franz Anton Prestele from Türkheim built the new church in 1785–87. Hyazinth Stechele created the early classical altar in 1790, the painting of the Last Supper was created by the painter Konrad Huber in 1811. In 2018 the outside of the church was renovated.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Ettringen  and List of land monuments in Ettringen

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998 there were 18 employees in the field of agriculture and forestry, 716 in manufacturing and 86 in trade and transport at the place of work. In other economic areas, 67 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 1146 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were five in manufacturing and eleven in construction. In addition, in 1999 there were 100 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​2647 hectares, of which 1604 hectares were permanent green space. Part of the Wertachtal shortwave transmitter, which was demolished in 2014, was located on Ettringer Flur.

The largest local company is the UPM Ettringen paper mill (also known as Lang Papier ) with a capacity of 570,000 tons of paper per year and 470 employees.

traffic

In 1908 Ettringen was given a railway connection to Türkheim, which was then expanded to become a perennial railway . In the 1980s and 1990s, passenger traffic on the route was gradually shut down and freight traffic was largely shut down. Since 2001 there has been passenger traffic on sections of the route again, but Ettringen is not served. However, freight trains run between Ettringen and Türkheim-Bahnhof.

Ettringen has had a bypass road since 2005 , which relieves the town of through traffic. A new Wertach bridge was specially built for the railway connection of the local paper mill.

education

In 1999 the following institutions existed:

• Kindergarten: 141 kindergarten places with 94 children
• Elementary school: one with 26 teachers and 432 students

Sons and daughters of the church

• Michael Stiller (* around 1690; † around 1758/1759), plasterer, builder and bricklayer
• Michael Lang (1862–1932), paper manufacturer and honorary citizen of the Ettringen community

literature

• Martin Kleint: Three Swabian villages tell a story - From the history of the communities Ettringen-Siebnach-Traunried . Ed .: Municipality of Ettringen. Holzmann-Druck-Service, Bad Wörishofen 1977.

Web links

Commons : Ettringen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Ettringen (Wertach)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Ettringen (Wertach): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1 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. ↑ Mayor. Ettringen municipality, accessed on June 27, 2020 . 
3. ^ Municipality of Ettringen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
4. ^ Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
5. ↑ https://www.hdbg.eu/gemeinden/web/index.php/detail?rschl=9778137
6. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 782 .
7. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
8. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
9. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Ettringen (Wertach)  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
10. ↑ The second patronage of St. Nicholas is mentioned in the official list of monuments
11. ↑ Church history on ettringen.info , accessed on January 20, 2019
12. ^ UPM Ettringen. UPM, accessed March 4, 2012 .