Horgau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Height :	465 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.48 km 2
Residents:	2889 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86497
Area code :	08294
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 159
Community structure:	8 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Martinsplatz 7 86497 Horgau
Website :	www.horgau.de
Mayor :	Thomas Hafner (Rothtal Citizens' Association)
Location of the municipality of Horgau in the Augsburg district

Horgau is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg . The place of the same name is both the capital and the seat of the municipal administration.

geography

Geographical location

Horgau is located in the Augsburg - Western Forests nature park , approx. 17 km west of Augsburg . The Roth flows through Horgau , which then crosses the Rothsee and flows into the Zusam after Zusmarshausen .

Landscapes and parts of the municipality

The municipality consists of 3 districts and has 8 officially named municipality parts :

• Main town, parish village and district Horgau with the church village Bieselbach, the hamlets Herpfenried and Schäfstoss and the desert Ziegelhauserhof
• Kirchdorf and district Auerbach with the hamlet Lindgraben
• Kirchdorf and district Horgauergreut

history

Until the church is planted

Around 5,000 year old tools such as burins, blades and arrowheads were found in the community area, and bronze objects around 3,000 years old were found in further excavations. Burial mounds from the time of the Celts can still be found.

King Otto I is said to have set up his last marching camp in the Horgau area on the night of August 9-10, 955, before he moved on to Augsburg with his army for the decisive battle against the Hungarians, the famous Lechfeld Battle .

Some traditions suggest that there have been settlements in the Horgau area since the 8th century. The first documented mentions of goods in Horgau have been there since 1126.

On January 26, 1462, soldiers from Augsburg destroyed the towns of Horgau and Horgauergreut . The reason: At that time, Horgauergreut belonged to the Augsburg citizen Hans Nördlinger. But he stood on the side of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria , against whom the Augsburgers were just taking the field. Both villages fell victim to the militant Augsburgers.

In the summer of 1632, during the Thirty Years' War , the Catholic priest Martin Maxilla was slain in an attack by Sweden .

Horgau gained sad fame on May 17, 1648. On this day, the last retreat battles of the Thirty Years' War took place first in Herpfenried and then on a road east of Horgau. General Peter Melander Count von Holzapfel , who fled the Swedes and French with the Imperial troops , was able to leave Zusmarshausen in the direction of Augsburg. In Horgau he was fatally wounded around noon. He was transported to Augsburg. 2,000 imperial soldiers were killed. A painting with burning buildings from this time can be seen in the Horgau main altarpiece - probably as a reminder to peace.

At the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, several baroque churches and chapels were built in the Horgau municipality , which were inaugurated on October 11, 1735.

In the years 1771/72 there was a terrible epidemic in Horgau, a kind of pulmonary plague that claimed many victims. The community of Horgau was established in 1818 .

20th century

From December 5, 1903, there was an intermediate station on the Augsburg – Welden railway line in Horgau , which was operated in passenger and freight traffic until 1986. Today there is a cycle path on the railway line.

From 1862 to 1929 Horgau belonged to the district office of Zusmarshausen and from 1929 to the district office of Augsburg , which from 1939 was called the district of Augsburg .

As in many villages in the Augsburg area, at the end of the Second World War there was a branch of the Dachau concentration camp in Horgau , where prisoners worked for the Reichsbahn and the Messerschmitt works.

Incorporations

The municipality of Horgau was expanded to include Horgauergreut on January 1, 1971 and Auerbach on July 1, 1972. On May 1, 1978 it was dissolved in the course of the regional reform and incorporated into Zusmarshausen .

After years of resistance from the population, Horgau became an independent municipality again through the judgment of the Bavarian Constitutional Court on October 27, 1983 . The newly elected local council began its work on May 1, 1984.

Population and community development

Status according to the census results from

December 1, 1875

Total community	District	Residents	Residential buildings	Area (ha)
Horgau	---	582	121	---
---	Horgau	407	---	---
---	Bieselbach	94	---	---
---	Herpfenried	50	---	---
---	Sheep push	31	---	---
Auerbach	---	262	53	---
---	Auerbach	242	---	---
---	Lindgraben	20th	---	---
Horgauergreuth	---	320	67	---
total	---	1,164	241	---

December 1, 1900

Total community	District	Residents	Residential buildings	Area (ha)
Horgau	---	540	117	1,043.94
---	Horgau	380	86	---
---	Bieselbach	90	21st	---
---	Herpfenried	43	7th	---
---	Sheep push	27	3	---
Auerbach	---	271	50	451.88
---	Auerbach	253	48	---
---	Lindgraben	18th	2	---
Horgauergreuth	---	293	63	373.77
total	---	1.104	230	1,869.59

June 25, 1925

Total community	District	Residents	Residential buildings	Area (ha)
Horgau	---	579	118	1,044.11
---	Horgau	410	88	---
---	Bieselbach	121	21st	---
---	Herpfenried	26th	6th	---
---	Sheep push	22nd	3	---
Auerbach	---	259	47	451.88
---	Auerbach	243	45	---
---	Lindgraben	16	2	---
Horgauergreuth	---	325	65	373.60
total	---	1,163	230	1,869.59

September 13, 1950

Total community	District	Residents	Residential buildings	Area (ha)
Horgau	---	805	127	1,044.12
---	Horgau	613	99	---
---	Bieselbach	123	18th	---
---	Herpfenried	33	7th	---
---	Sheep push	36	3	---
Auerbach	---	382	59	451.89
---	Auerbach	352	55	---
---	Lindgraben	30th	4th	---
Horgauergreuth	---	513	75	373.58
total	---	1,700	261	1,869.59

June 6, 1961

Total community	District	Residents	Residential buildings	Area (ha)
Horgau	---	717	140	1,044.30
---	Horgau	552	111	---
---	Bieselbach	112	19th	---
---	Herpfenried	35	7th	---
---	Sheep push	18th	3	---
Auerbach	---	306	63	450.12
---	Auerbach	286	59	---
---	Lindgraben	20th	4th	---
Horgauergreuth	---	460	96	364.49
total	---	1,483	299	1,858.91

May 27, 1970 (territory already including the incorporations of January 1, 1971 and July 1, 1972)

Total community	District	Residents
Horgau	---	1,591
---	Horgau	597
---	Bieselbach	110
---	Herpfenried	21st
---	Sheep push	9
---	Ziegelhauserhof	5
---	Auerbach	306
---	Lindgraben	18th
---	Horgauergreuth	525

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,034 to 2,834 by 800 inhabitants or 39.3%.

politics

Municipal council

Allocation of seats in the 14-member municipal council (as of local elections in Bavaria 2020 ):

Rothtal Citizens' Association	CSU	Free voters	Environment Alliance	SPD
5 seats	3 seats	3 seats	2 seats	1 seat

mayor

Thomas Hafner has been full-time mayor since 2002; this was elected for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 84.8% of the votes. His predecessor was Franz Fischer, his predecessor Walter Michale (all Rothtal Citizens' Association).

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split, in front in silver, on a green base two green reed stalks with black cobs, behind in blue two silver tips decorated with silver roses." Explanation: The coat of arms contains symbols that refer partly to the name and partly to the history of the place. The name Horgau is derived from the Old High German word "horo", "Horaw" which means mud, swamp floor; As a symbol for this interpretation , the cattail found its way into the municipal coat of arms. From the end of the 15th century, a branch of the family of the Augsburger was patrician of Rehlingen as a basic rule with Horgau and the belonging to the municipality Pfarrdorf Bieselbach connected and named after his possessions "by Horau and cycling". A tomb in the Horgau parish church and paintings on the historically valuable Bieselbach carved altar keep the memory of this family alive, which had two rose-studded silver tips in their family coat of arms; These silver tips document in the municipal coat of arms the longstanding close relationship between the municipality and the old local nobility.

Community partnerships

In 1990 a partnership was entered into with the municipality of Bundenthal . Both communities had experienced similar things through the territorial reform of the respective country. During the struggle to regain independence for the communities, many contacts arose between citizens and associations. In the new development area “north of Bahnhofstrasse” one of the two streets is called “Bundenthaler Weg”.

Attractions

Parish church of St. Martin; on the right the town hall in the former rectory

• Catholic parish church of St. Martin : The choir dates from the 2nd half of the 15th century. The tower was built around 1620, the nave around 1675/80. It was extended in 1715/20. A bronze figure of the Mother of God was made around 1850.
• Bieselbacher Altar : 'It is housed in the Franz Xaver Chapel, which was built around 1747 in the Bieselbach district. The altar was carved in 1510 by the Ulm sculptor Daniel Mauch . In the middle picture he shows the Holy Kinship, i.e. Maria, St. Anna, St. Joseph and in the background the three spouses of St. Anne, namely Joachim, Cleophas and Salomas. In the predella, the figure of David's father Jesse was reworked as Saint Francis Xavier in 1756. From this it is concluded that this altar came to Bieselbach from the Rehlingen castle chapel in Horgau around this time.
• Hallstatt burial mound field: In the Horgau basin there are several groups of burial mounds (over 70 burial mounds ). These are cemeteries (necropolises) from the Hallstatt period (750–450 BC). The barrows are silent witnesses to a very old custom. The dead were buried with the grave goods in wooden burial chambers that were covered with earth until a hill was formed. The burial mounds are well preserved in the protective forest at Horgau train station.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Horgau

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

Since January 2009, Horgau has had a voluntarily organized library under local authority. This also organizes other cultural events.

education

There is a partially two-class elementary school, a kindergarten with a crèche and lunchtime care. The elementary school is a partner school of Lechwerke AG. The Volkshochschule Augsburger Land eV offers courses for adult education. The Zusmarshausen-Horgau Singing and Music School organizes musical educational opportunities.

traffic

Horgau is located on State Road 2510 (formerly Bundesstraße 10 ) and close to Federal Motorway 8 between the Zusmarshausen and Adelsried junctions.

The former Horgau station was on the now disused Neusäß – Welden railway line and served as a connection for the Horgau subcamp .

literature

• Anton Hildensperger u. a .: Horgau, Auerbach, Bahnhof, Bieselbach, Herpfenried, Lindgraben, Schäfstoss as it used to be. Horgau 1998.
• Hans G. Siegel: Horgau - true to home. Six years of public protest against reform mistakes . Documentation on the resistance to the dissolution of the community of Horgau, Rothtal Citizens Association 1984.

Web links

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

• Local government
• Horgau: 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. ↑ The mayors of the community. Horgau municipality, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
3. ^ Community Horgau in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 20, 2019.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 424 .
5. ^ 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 .
6. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Horgau  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
7. ^ [1] Horgau library
8. ^ [2] vhs Horgau
9. ^ [3] Singing and Music School Zusmarshausen-Horgau