Gerlenhofen

Gerlenhofen Large district town of Neu-Ulm
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 50 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 10 ″  E
Residents :	2544  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	89233
Area code :	07307
Gerlenhofen's heritage-protected train station

Gerlenhofen is a district and parish village of the district town of Neu-Ulm in the west of Bavaria .

geography

The parish village is 6 to 7 km south of the city center, at an altitude of about 480  m above sea level. NN , between Ludwigsfeld and the neighboring town of Senden (on the Iller) , from which it is separated by the B 28 (the former A 80 ).

History and Development

Gerlenhofen was first mentioned in a document as Gerilehova in 973, only 120 years after Ulm, on the other side of the Danube , was expanded into a royal palace. The Saint Ulrich of Augsburg stayed here with his entourage when he at a business trip on the way to his office in Augsburg was (Source: Vita s Udalrici, from Augsburg chronicler Gerhard.) . Is Gerlenhofen so from the date of the first written mention here the oldest district of Neu-Ulm and one of the oldest places in the district.

Gerlenhofen was probably owned by the Counts of Dillingen until the 11th century . Then it came into the possession of the Counts of Fugger-Kirchberg . At that time, today's Senden district of Freudenegg still belonged to Gerlenhofen, but was only a larger homestead.

After the plague in the Middle Ages, only 28 citizens are recorded in Gerlenhofen. This corresponded to only a quarter of the 101 inhabitants previously living in Gerlenhofen.

Gerlenhofen has since developed from an originally small settlement of a few farms to a place and is still growing. Since July 1, 1972, Gerlenhofen is no longer an independent municipality in the course of the municipal area reform and became a district of Neu-Ulm. Freudenegg came to Senden.

religion

Until the middle of the 19th century, the population in Gerlenhofen was purely Catholic . Protestant citizens are mentioned for the first time in 1857. There is a Catholic church and an evangelical chapel where services are held regularly.

politics

The local branch of the SPD in Gerlenhofen has existed since 1947. 1965 has its own local chapter was CSU founded.

Culture

societies

There are numerous clubs in Gerlenhofen, including the Arbeiterwohlfahrt , the Gerlenhofen 1932 football club. V. , the music band Gerlenhofen e. V. , the nature and environmental protection association GAU - Protection Association for Neu-Ulmer Lebensraum e. V. , tennis club TC Gerlenhofen 1980 e. V. and the Friends of the Neu-Ulm Volunteer Fire Brigade Fire Brigade Gerlenhofen e. V.

Attractions

• The chapel “St. Wolfgang ”is used by Protestant Christians for worship.
• Catholic Church “Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth”.
• Fountain on the former village square
• Listed station building
• Plessenteich nature conservation project
• Protected landscape component "Illerschleife north of Gerlenhofen"

education

Gerlenhofen has a primary school and a kindergarten .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Gerlenhofen train station

View of the B 28,
Gerlenhofen exit

Gerlenhofen has its own double-track station on the Illertalbahn , which is currently only served by individual regional trains between Ulm and Memmingen . The reception building is a listed building. An hourly service every weekday from December 2013, announced by the SWU , was not implemented. As part of the expansion and improvement measures of the Danube-Iller S-Bahn project, Gerlenhofen station is to be relocated further south to the center of the village in a few years, and trains will then be used more frequently.

Connection to the transport networks:

• Railway line Neu-Ulm – Kempten
• close to the A 7 and A8 motorways (both via the B 28 )
• four bus stops, which are served every half hour on weekdays and every hour on weekends all day including three night connections by buses in the direction of Ulm and Senden
• Danube (navigable from Ulm) and Iller (boats), Danube Cycle Path

Bigger companies

• Corbion plant Gerlenhofen (formerly BakeMark )

literature

• Gerlenhofen: Contributions to history in the 19th and 20th centuries , published by the Neu-Ulm City Archives (Barbara Treu) on the occasion of Gerlenhofen’s 25-year membership in the city of Neu-Ulm 1997 Volume 8, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Ulm

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the city of Neu-Ulm: residents
2. ↑ The districts of Neu-Ulm on nu.neu-ulm.de
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 540 and 602 .
4. ^ District Administrator FJ Schick: Ordinance of the District Office Neu-Ulm on the protected landscape component "Illerschleife north of Gerlenhofen". District Office Neu-Ulm, October 17, 1995, accessed on May 12, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Cities and counties are striving to expand local rail transport. Article in the Südwest-Presse. December 23, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2016 (German). 
6. ↑ DING timetable information. Line 73 and night SAM 5b. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 (German). 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.