Höchstädt on the Danube

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Dillingen on the Danube
Management Community :	Höchstädt on the Danube
Height :	416 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.45 km 2
Residents:	6774 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	181 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89420
Area code :	09074
License plate :	DLG, WHO
Community key :	09 7 73 139
City structure:	7 parts of the community
; City administration address :	Herzog-Philipp-Ludwig-Str. 10 ; 89420 Höchstädt adDonau
Website :	www.hoechstaedt.de
Mayor :	Gerrit Maneth ( Free Voters )
Location of the city of Höchstädt adDonau in the district of Dillingen an der Donau

Höchstädt an der Donau (officially Höchstädt adDonau ) is a town in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau and the seat of the administrative association Höchstädt an der Donau .

Höchstädt Castle on the Danube from the west

Southwest side of the castle

Herzogin-Anna-Strasse with the parish church of the Assumption in Höchstädt on the Danube

geography

The city is located seven kilometers northeast of Dillingen and about 40 kilometers northwest of Augsburg .

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

Höchstädt on the Danube (main town) with Galgenmühle ( wasteland ) and Hofmadschwaig (wasteland)
Deisenhofen with Mittelmühle (no longer an independent part of the municipality)
Oberglauheim ( parish village )
Schwennenbach (parish village)
Sonderheim (parish village)

history

The name of the place first appears in a document in 1081. After the end of the Staufer period , Höchstädt joined Bavaria . From 1505 to 1808 the city belonged to the Principality of Pfalz-Neuburg ("Young Palatinate"). Under Palatine Ottheinrich , Höchstädt became Protestant in 1542 with the Palatinate-Neuburg area. The Counter Reformation was carried out in 1616/17 . Then the territories of the Palatinate and Bavaria united under the Wittelsbachers .

The city gained fame in 1704 when the decisive battle in the War of the Spanish Succession , the so-called Second Battle of Höchstädt , was fought outside its gates . Behind this world-famous battle, the two other armed conflicts in the vicinity of the city often receded into consciousness. The First Battle of Höchstädt brought - also in the War of the Spanish Succession - a success of French-Bavarian troops against Austrian-Brandenburg units in 1703. The third battle occurred almost 100 years later. In the Second Coalition War in 1800, after crossing the Danube with the French Rhine Army, Jean-Victor Moreau won a victory over an Austrian armed force and the Württemberg - Bavarian troops allied with it .

Höchstädt Castle, symbol of the city

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipalities Deisenhofen, Oberglauheim, Schwennenbach and Sonderheim were incorporated as part of the municipal reform. The Goldbergalm part of the community was reclassified to the Lutzingen community in 1980 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 4,701 to 6,756 by 2,055 inhabitants or 43.7% - the highest percentage increase in the district in the period mentioned.

politics

City council

The city council has 20 members. Since the local elections on March 16, 2014 , the seats have been divided into the following lists:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats
CSU / Independent Citizens	24.17%	5
Free voters	19.52%	4th
SPD	15.80%	3
Citizens' block Deisenhofen	10.97%	2
FDP	6.18%	1
Oberglauheim electorate	4.95%	1
Young Höchstädt	4.88%	1
Schwennenbach voters' association	4.80%	1
Bürgerliste Sonderheim	4.49%	1
Höchstädter Forum	4.25%	1

Compared to the 2008 local elections, the CSU lost one seat and the SPD gained one seat. The rest of the seating has remained the same.

mayor

Gerrit Maneth (FW) has been the first mayor since March 1, 2018. Since Stefan Lenz (FW), Mayor from May 2014 to February 2018, retired due to health reasons, the by-election on February 25, 2018 was necessary. Lenz had replaced Hildegard Wanner (CSU / Independent Citizens) in a runoff election in March 2014, who had been the only female mayor in the district since 2002. Since May 2014 Stephan Karg (CSU) as second and Hans Mesch (Free Voters) as third mayor have been deputies.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a crenellated red round tower with three blue pointed roofs, which is topped with a leaning diamond plate and surrounded at the bottom by a red crenellated wall."

Partner communities

Höchstädt is in partnership with the German communities of Reinsdorf-Friedrichsgrün in Saxony (since 1991) and Ruppertsberg in Rhineland-Palatinate (since 1935/1987).

Attractions

Market square with parish church Maria Himmelfahrt

The Höchstädter Castle is a building from the late Renaissance. It was built between 1589 and 1603 at the request of Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig von Neuburg .

In the local history museum in the neo-Gothic old town hall from 1853, the battle of Höchstädt is presented to the visitor in two dioramas with around 10,000 tin figures . Since the art theft by Reichsleiter Rosenberg's operational staff in World War II, the museum has also had Easter eggs (pysanka) from Ukraine, which were restituted in 2011.

The Gothic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt has a relic of Adolph Kolping . Although it was built in the 15th century, the hall church has a baroque interior .

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Sonderheim has ceiling paintings and stucco decoration from the 18th century.

The Catholic parish church and former pilgrimage church of Maria Immaculata in Schwennenbach is decorated in the Rococo style with frescoes by Johann Anwander and stucco by Bartholomäus Hoiß.

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus in Deisenhofen is decorated in the Rococo style with frescoes by Johann Anwander.

The former box house Höchstädt (for storing grain) has baroque gables on the north and south sides. The former Kastnerhaus of the manager of the Kastenhaus is provided with a richly structured three-storey gable with S-steps (typical of the transition style between Gothic and Renaissance).

economy

Höchstädt is the seat of Grünbeck water treatment .

traffic

Road traffic

Federal highway 16 ( Regensburg - Füssen ) runs through the city . The A7 motorway ( Würzburg - Ulm) can be reached via the Giengen / Herbrechtingen junction and the A8 ( Munich - Stuttgart ) via the Burgau junction .

Rail transport

The Höchstädt station is located on the Ingolstadt – Neuoffingen railway line and is served by regional trains from the Agilis railway company. During the day there are hourly connections to Ingolstadt and Ulm.

Bike paths

The city is on the international Danube Cycle Route and the European EuroVelo Cycle Route 6, which runs from the Atlantic to the Black Sea .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deissenhausen (1731–1804), auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the diocese of Augsburg
Franz Xaver Bronner (1758–1850), publicist
Magnobonus Markmiller (1800–1879), founder and Provincial of the Brothers of Mercy of Saint John of God , in Bavaria
Franz Xaver Eggert (1802–1876), glass painter
Hermann Beckler (1828-1914), a doctor , who as naturalists and expedition in Australia had
Theodor Scherer (1889–1951), German officer, most recently lieutenant general
Josef Donsberger (1898–1963), politician (CSU)
Georg Winter (* 1951), politician (CSU)
Doris Meyer (1957–2012), master miller, politician (CSU), member of the Bundestag
Irmgard Sinning (* 1960), biochemist and university professor
Marco Konrad (* 1974), soccer player and coach
Ramona Bernhard (* 1988), photo model

Personalities who have worked in Höchstädt

Ulrich Tengler (* around 1447; † after 1511), bailiff in Höchstädt an der Donau, wrote the Laienspiegel here, first printed in 1509 , one of the most famous legal books of the early modern period .

Honorary citizen

Georg Strobel (1925–2013), municipal home administrator of Höchstädt, honorary citizenship in 2002

literature

Heinrich Letzing, Sonderheim, in: Adolf Layer (Ed.), Höchstädt an der Donau. A small town with a big name . Festival book for the 900th anniversary of the city of Höchstädt, Höchstädt 1981, pp. 395–399
Photo book working group 1704/2004 of the city of Höchstädt: 1704-2004, The battle near Höchstädt / Blindheim . Festival book for the commemorative year 2004, ISBN 3-00-016329-8

Web links

Commons : Höchstädt adDonau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Höchstädt an der Donau - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).

↑ organs. Municipality of Höchstädt an der Donau, accessed on August 19, 2020 .

^ Municipality of Höchstädt an der Donau in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 31, 2019.

^ 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. 770 .

↑ VG Höchstädt - City Council Elections Höchstädt 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2
^ Entry on the coat of arms of Höchstädt an der Donau in the database of the House of Bavarian History
↑ City of Höchstädt - partner communities ( memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Ulrike Hartung: Abducted and Lost - a documentation of German, Soviet and American files on Nazi art theft in the Soviet Union (1941–1948). Bremen: Temmen, 2000 ISBN 3-86108-336-1 , p. 269
↑ Greetings on the occasion of the handover of 210 Easter eggs and ceramic plates to the Ukrainian side and signing of the handover protocol ( memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth , German Embassy Kiev @1@ 2

↑ webmaster: EuroVelo 6: Explore the European rivers by bike! - EuroVelo. Retrieved April 29, 2017 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] organs. Municipality of Höchstädt an der Donau, accessed on August 19, 2020 .

[3] Municipality of Höchstädt an der Donau in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 31, 2019.

[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. 770 .