Irsee

This article deals with a market in Ostallgäu, for a lake in Austria see Irrsee .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Ostallgäu
Management Community :	Pforzen
Height :	755 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.47 km 2
Residents:	1532 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87660
Area code :	08341
License plate :	OAL, FÜS, MOD
Community key :	09 7 77 139
Market structure:	6 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Meinrad-Spieß-Platz 1 87660 Irsee
Website :	www.irsee.de
Mayor :	Andreas Lieb ( Citizens' Forum )
Location of the Irsee market in the Ostallgäu district

Irsee monastery church

Irsee is a market in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu . The place of the same name is both the capital and the seat of the municipal administration.

geography

Irsee is located in the Allgäu region in the Ostallgäu district, around 4.5 km northwest of Kaufbeuren . There is only the district Irsee. The altitude of the market town is 666 m above sea ​​level to 822 m above sea level.

The municipality has 6 officially named municipality parts :

• Bickenried ( wasteland )
• Eiberg ( hamlet )
• Haslach (wasteland)
• Irsee (main town)
• Oggenried (village)
• Wielen (hamlet)

history

Originally the name of the place was Ursin . It was first mentioned in a document in 982. The feudal lords who initially lived here, who called themselves von Ursin , built a castle and founded the Irsee monastery in the 12th century .

The Irsee market belonged to the Irsee Imperial Abbey until secularization in 1803 . Irsee owned the market rights with important proprietary rights. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria .

The following population figures were determined in the area of ​​the municipality:

Population development

year	1840	1871	1900	1925	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	574	965	1091	1082	1092	1616	1509	1324	1248	1304	1332	1350	1385	1412	1481

From 1988 to 2008 Irsee grew by 166 inhabitants or approx. 14%. Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 1219 to 1507 by 288 inhabitants or 23.6%.

politics

The community is a member of the Pforzen administrative community .

City council and mayor

The election on March 15, 2020 had the following result:

• Citizens' forum: 6 seats (50.81%)
• Free voter community: 3 seats (26.80%)
• Open list: 3 seats (22.39%).

The distribution of seats has remained unchanged from the 2014 to 2020 term of office. The turnout was 70.77%.

Mayor is Andreas Lieb (* 1963; Bürgerforum (. He succeeded Rudolf Scharpf ( CSU / Independent Citizens) in 2002. In the 2014 local elections, he was confirmed in office with 93.5% of the valid votes and on March 15, 2020 elected for a further six years with 89.04% of the votes.

Community finances

In 2013 the municipal tax revenue amounted to 1,137,000 euros, of which 256,000 euros were trade tax revenues (net).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red, two silver lions one above the other, the upper one turned to the right, the lower one to the left." The design for the coat of arms with the two lions leads the coat of arms figures from the coat of arms of the Lords of Ramschwag , the last bailiffs. The coat of arms was awarded by King Ludwig I in 1837.

Community partnerships

Since 1987 the French commune of Montsûrs in the Mayenne department has been the partner commune of Irsee.

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  Irsee monastery church

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  Oggenried pond

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  Lotti pond at the Forstanger with turtle trap

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

August 1979

August 2006

Irsee from the south

In 2009 there were three employees in the field of agriculture and forestry, 32 in the manufacturing sector and 98 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors, 44 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were 389 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of residence.

In 2007 there were 30 farms with an agricultural area of ​​more than two hectares. The total agricultural area was 979 ha. Of this, 121 ha were arable land and 836 ha were meadows and pastureland.

In 2010 there was one company in the construction industry.

education

The following institutions existed in 2010:

• A kindergarten with 75 places attended by 63 children
• An elementary school with four classes, four teachers and 61 children (school year 2010/11)

Culture, sport and leisure

Peter Horton in the ALTBAU , 2008

Events in the Irsee Monastery

The Irseer Pegasus is an annual literary event held in January by the Swabian regional group of the Association of German Writers (VS) and the Irsee Schwabenakademie.

From 1993 to 2011 the Klang & Raum festival took place annually at the end of August / beginning of September under the direction of the conductor Bruno Weil . It was dedicated to the music of the 18th and 19th centuries and their performance on historical instruments.

ALTBAU gallery and cabaret

The small, privately run cultural center has existed since 1978. It is the oldest facility of its kind in the Allgäu and one of the oldest cabaret theaters in Bavaria.

Organic market

An organic market has been held every Friday in the historic village center of Irsee since 1998 .

Nature and recreational facilities

The Oggenrieder Weiher on the western outskirts is a popular bathing water.

Architectural monuments

Irsee monastery church

Euthanasia memorial near the monastery

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Irsee

Irsee Monastery

→ Main article : Irsee Monastery

→ Main article : Irsee monastery church

Located in the eastern part of the village Kloster Irsee is a former convent of Benedictine . The monastery consecrated to Saint Mary was founded in 1186 by Margrave Heinrich von Ronsberg on the Irseer Burgberg , but was rebuilt in 1190 at the current location at the foot of the mountain. The chief bailiffs were the Habsburgs from 1390 to 1803.

In 1849, a “ county mental asylum ” was set up in the former monastery , which was abused to kill “life unworthy of life” during the Nazi regime . From 1939 to 1945 over 2000 children, women and men were either deported to the Hadamar , Grafeneck and Hartheim killing centers or killed in Irsee by administering “ E-Kost ” ( food “freed” from certain essential components ) or by injections . The then head of the institution and psychiatrist Valentin Faltlhauser was responsible for this . Since 1981 a sculpture by the sculptor Martin Wank has been a reminder of this event in the former institution.

In the mid-1990s, a memorial for the victims of Nazi “euthanasia” was set up in the former morgue of the Irsee sanatorium and nursing home. In the hall, the large format is Triptych I would ask you kindly not to answer the following questions (1996) the Munich artist Beate Passow issued. She combined three photographs of victims made by perpetrators with excerpts from the correspondence between Valentin Faltlhauser and Georg Hensel , who was senior physician at the children's health center in Mittelberg near Oy in the Allgäu from 1939 to 1946 and who carried out TB tests on disabled children in Kaufbeuren-Irsee.

In 2009, three stumbling blocks by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig were laid in front of the Irsee Monastery. Maria Rosa Bechter , Anna Brieger and Ernst Lossa are named as representatives of all patients murdered in Irsee .

Today the monastery is a conference and education center for the Swabian district , the seat of the Irsee Swabian Academy.

Monastery brewery and brewery museum

Irsee is the seat of the Irseer Klosterbräu brewery , whose brewery museum documents the centuries-old brewing tradition of the place.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

• Josef Guggenmos (1922–2003), poet and children's book author

Personalities

• Ulrich Weiß (Benedictine) (1713–1763), pastor of Irsee
• Johann Georg Specht (1721–1803) designed the monastery economic building in Irsee.
• Meinrad Spieß (1683–1761) was a father in the Benedictine Abbey of Irsee , a nationally recognized music theorist, composer, organ and bell expert.
• Valentin Faltlhauser (1876–1961) was a German psychiatrist and involved in euthanasia crimes as an institution director and assessor .

Stumbling block for Ernst Lossa

• Ernst Lossa (1929–1944) murdered as a half-orphan in the “sanatorium and nursing home” as part of the Brandt campaign
• Curate Christian Frank (1867–1942), chaplain of the sanatorium from 1894 to 1942, was a pioneer in local research in the Allgäu.

Web links

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

• Local government
• Irsee: 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. ^ Municipality of Irsee in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
3. ^ Map: The Allgäu in the 12th century. Retrieved October 21, 2016 . 
4. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann : History of the Allgäu, first volume, publisher of Jos. Kösel'schen Buchhandlung in Kempten, Kösel, 1883-1894, p. 485
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistics municipal - Irsee (PDF; 1.3 MB)
6. ↑ Mayor. Municipality of Irsee, accessed on August 26, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Irsee  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
8. ↑ House of Bavarian History - Irsee Market ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2009 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. 
9. ↑ OLD BUILDING homepage
10. ↑ Harald Lachmann: Heaven and Hell in Irsee. In the Allgäu, culture and the horrors of Nazi crimes come together in one village. In: Neues Deutschland from December 19, 2016, p. 13
11. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 , p. 151
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Agency for Civic Education: Places of Remembrance - detail page - bpb. In: bpb.de. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .