Inchenhofen

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Aichach-Friedberg
Height :	468 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.56 km 2
Residents:	2647 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86570
Area code :	08257
License plate :	AIC, FDB
Community key :	09 7 71 141
Market structure:	11 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Zisterzienserplatz 2 86570 Inchenhofen
Website :	www.inchenhofen.de
Mayor :	Anton Schoder ( CSU )
Location of the Inchenhofen market in the Aichach-Friedberg district

Inchenhofen ( Bavarian Leahad ) is a market in the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg .

geography

The place is on a ridge between the Donaumoos and the Paartal.

Community structure

There are 11 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement and the number of inhabitants (as of December 31, 2014) are given in brackets ):

Ainertshofen ( hamlet , 25 E.) Arnhofen ( Einöde , 5 E.) Inchenhofen (main town, 1811 E.) Ingstetten (hamlet, 29 E.) Oberbachern ( village , 58 E.) Reifersdorf (wasteland, 9 E.)

Ried , Sainbach (village, 37 E.) Sainbach ( parish village , 496 E.) Schönau (hamlet, 14 E.) Taxberg (Weiler, 33 E.) Unterbachern (village, 77 E.)

The districts are Inchenhofen, Oberbachern and Sainbach.

Neighboring communities

• Aichach
• Hollenbach
• Kühbach
• Poettmes

geology

With over 160 hectares, the Inchenhofener Rossmoos is one of the largest contiguous fens in the Aichach-Friedberg district. It owes its formation to high groundwater levels and numerous spring outlets in the valley of the Inchenhofen Moosgraben and the Schreierbach. The vegetation of the humid lowlands used to consist of dense reeds and sedges, which were surrounded on the edge by alder forests. Dead plant parts and roots could not completely decompose in the wet or water-covered soil. As a result, large amounts of organic matter accumulated as peat . Since the beginning of peat formation, less than 10,000 years ago, layers of peat up to 2.6 m thick have been deposited. With the intensive agricultural use and drainage of the swampy valley for about 200 years, the peat growth ended. Since then the moor has shrunk by more than a meter. Until the middle of the 20th century, the peat, a preliminary stage to lignite, was also dug up (pricked), dried and burned. Today the importance of the Roßmoos for nature and landscape protection is recognized more and more. Near-natural area design measures and limited moor regeneration are intended to improve the overall ecological situation of the Roßmoos and create a habitat for rare plants and animals again.

history

Until the church is planted

Inchenhofen was first mentioned in the 11th century as Imichinhouen and Imechenhouen . Cistercian monks from the Fürstenfeld monastery supervised the important pilgrimage on site from 1283 to 1803 . The Inchenhofen market belonged to the Munich Rent Office and the Aichach Regional Court of the Electorate of Bavaria . Inchenhofen had a market court with its own magistrate rights since 1400. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

The place was Upper Bavarian until 1972 . Only in the course of the regional reform was the municipality assigned to the administrative district of Swabia in 1972 .

The Inchenhofen administrative community existed from May 1, 1978 to December 31, 1993.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Oberbachern was incorporated. On January 1, 1978, Sainbach and areas of the dissolved communities Haslangkreit and Unterbernbach were added.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2019 the market grew from 1,954 to 2,647 by 693 inhabitants or 35.5%.

politics

Market council

The municipal council has 14 members. Another member and chairman of the municipal council is the first mayor.

The municipal council election on March 16, 2014 led to the following result:

Parties
	proportion of	Seats
CSU / Free Voters	60.0%	8th
Citizen Will '84	40.0%	6th
voter turnout	61.5%

In the term of office from May 2020 to April 2026, due to the election on March 15, 2020, the municipal council includes :

Parties
	proportion of	Seats
CSU / Free Voters	54.4%	8th
Citizen Will '84	28.0%	4th
ÖDP	15.8%	2
Alliance 90 / The Greens	1.6%	0
voter turnout	70.3%

mayor

In the election on March 15, 2020, Anton Schoder ( CSU ) was elected mayor for the term of office from May 2020 to April 2026 with 62.0% of the votes among three applicants. His predecessor was Karl Metzger from May 1996 to April 2020; he was last confirmed in the local elections in 2014 with 83.3% of the valid votes in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In gold over a shield with the Bavarian diamonds growing in silver, nimbly St. Leonhard in the black robe of the Benedictines, holding a chain on the right and a crook on the left; to his left is a pilgrim, dressed in red, kneeling with a staff and bag. "

Culture and sights

Pilgrimage Church of St. Leonhard

Architectural monuments

The defining building is the pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard , built between 1450 and 1457 , to which the dialectal name of the place, Leahad , goes back.

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Inchenhofen

Regular events

• Pilgrimages to St. Leonhard on Whit Monday
• historical market days
• Leonhardiritt on the first Sunday in November

Personalities

• Ignaz Baldauf (1715–1795), rococo painter

literature

• Rainer Roos: The air in the Inchenhofen market is poisoned because of the harmful exhalations from the graves . The relocation of the cemetery in 1803. In: Aichach-Friedberg district (ed.): Altbayern in Schwaben 2016 . Yearbook of history and culture. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9813801-4-9 , ISSN  0178-2878 , pp. 97-108 .

Web links

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

• Inchenhofen (municipality) in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
• Local government
• Inchenhofen: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Citizens Service> Municipal Council> Members. Inchenhofen community, accessed on August 24, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Markt Inchenhofen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 23, 2019.
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 415 .
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. 788 .
6. ↑ https://okvote.osrz-akdb.de/OK.VOTE_SW/Wahl-2020-03-15/09771114/inhouse/137/index.html
7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Inchenhofen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History