Jettingen-Scheppach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Gunzburg
Height :	474 m above sea level NHN
Area :	54.14 km 2
Residents:	7131 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	132 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89343
Area code :	08225
License plate :	GZ, KRU
Community key :	09 7 74 144
Market structure:	10 parish parts
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 55 89343 Jettingen-Scheppach
Website :	www.jettingen-scheppach.de
Mayor :	Christoph Böhm (Free Independent Voting Community)
Location of the Jettingen-Scheppach market in the Günzburg district

Jettingen-Scheppach is a market in the Swabian district of Günzburg and is located between Ulm and Augsburg . The main town and seat of the municipal administration is Jettingen .

geography

The municipality is located in the Donau-Iller region . The Mindel flows through the municipality . The highest point at 529  m is in the Ettenbeurer forest.

The municipality has 10 officially named municipality parts (former municipalities with their districts) :

• the main town Jettingen
• the parish village of Scheppach with the pilgrimage church of All Saints , the Scheppachermühle factory and Unterwaldbach Castle
• the parish village of Freihalden
• the parish village of Ried
• the parish village of Schönenberg with Klingenburg Castle
• the church village Eberstall (from the dissolved municipality of Oberwaldbach )

The districts are Freihalden, Jettingen, Ried, Scheppach, Schönenberg and Eberstall.

history

Jettingen Castle , formerly the seat of Count Schenk von Stauffenberg

Aerial view of Jettingen-Scheppach from the west

Until the founding of the forerunner churches

Jettingen received market rights in 1363 . The place in today's Swabia district was the seat of a lordship and belonged to the lords, later Barons vom Stain , since 1460 , and Count Schenk von Stauffenberg since 1747 . With the Rheinbund act 1806 the place came to Bavaria. Scheppach was part of the margraviate of Burgau in front of Austria and fell to Bavaria in the Peace of Pressburg (1805).

In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipal edict of 1818 created the political communities.

Incorporations

The municipality Jettingen-Scheppach created by the voluntary association of the market and the community Jettingen Scheppach on 1 January 1970. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria , the community Schoenberg were on 1 January 1972, on 1 January 1976, the municipality of Ried and on 1 May 1978 the community Freihalden incorporated and the district Eberstall of the community Oberwaldbach reclassified.

Population development

• 1961: 5333 inhabitants
• 1970: 5746 inhabitants
• 1987: 5744 inhabitants
• 1991: 6125 inhabitants
• 1995: 6556 inhabitants
• 2000: 6631 inhabitants
• 2005: 6746 inhabitants
• 2010: 6712 inhabitants
• 2015: 6945 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 5,768 to 7,038 by 1,270 inhabitants or 22%.

politics

Mayor and City Council

The first mayor has been Christoph Böhm (Free Independent Voting Association) since May 1, 2020; this was elected on March 15, 2020 with 64.7% of the votes. His immediate predecessor was Hans Reichart (CSU) from May 2002 to April 2020. Reichhart (* 1952) is the father of Hans Reichhart (from November 2018 to January 2020 Bavarian State Minister for Housing, Construction and Transport in the Söder II cabinet, since May 2020 District Administrator of the Günzburg district). Before that, Peter Ploeckl (CSU) was mayor for 26 years from 1976 to 2002.

The market council has 20 seats (excluding the First Mayor), which have been distributed as follows since May 1, 2020 ( election on March 15, 2020 ):

• CSU : 8 seats
• Free Independent Community of Voters (FUW) : 7 seats
• Young Citizens (JB) : 3 seats
• Alliance 90 / The Greens : 2 seats

In the 2014 to 2020 term of office, the municipal council was composed as follows:

• CSU: 9 seats
• Free Independent Community of Voters (FUW): 6 seats
• Young citizens: 5 seats

Community partnerships

•  France : The Freihalden suburb has been in partnership with the French pilgrimage site of Ars-sur-Formans since 1976 .
•  Hungary : Jettingen-Scheppach's partnership with the Hungarian municipality of Csolnok has existed since 1992.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver with a black Wolfsangel three pedestrian-shaped Asked red eagle feet."

Founding of the coat of arms: This new market coat of arms, created after the merger of the Jettingen market and the municipality of Scheppach, combines symbols from the old coats of arms of the two communities. The Wolfsangel comes from the coat of arms of Jettingen and is proven in a market seal as early as 1637. It was taken from the family coat of arms of the local rulers , the Knights of Stain , and the three red eagle feet from that of the Lords of Scheppach .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Catholic pilgrimage church of All Saints
• Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in the Ried district
• Catholic parish church of the Assumption in the district of Scheppach

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Jettingen-Scheppach

Infrastructure

education

• Scheppach primary school
• Jettingen Middle School
• Mindeltal Schools Scheppach
• Mindeltal wind school

traffic

Jettingen-Scheppach is conveniently located at the Burgau junction of the A 8 motorway (Stuttgart - Munich section). In the districts of Jettingen and Freihalden there are stops on the Ulm – Augsburg railway line , at which the regional express line Fugger Express from Ulm to Munich stops every hour.

The Mindeltal cycle path crosses the community from north to south.

Quarry ponds

On the Mindel between Jettingen and Schönenberg, south of the GZ 16 district road , there are numerous quarry ponds, many of which are suitable for swimming. The Jettinger Baggersee (also called Heiligmannsee) is known. It was created in 2002 from a former gravel pit. The four and a half hectare bathing lake with sunbathing lawn can be reached via the GZ 16 and the Mindeltal cycle path. At Leitenmaier-See , a club is involved in surfing.

Sons and daughters of the place

Dominikus Boehm

• Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (* 1907, † 1944), member of the military resistance during the Second World War, who carried out the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler .
• Johann Ernst Eberlin (* 1702; † 1762), composer and organist .
• Isabella Braun (* 1815; † 1886), author of children's books
• Dominikus Böhm (* 1880; † 1955), German architect and important church builder

Web links

Commons : Jettingen-Scheppach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local government
• Jettingen-Scheppach: 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. ^ Jettingen-Scheppach community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 30, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 475 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 774 and 775 .
5. ↑ Mayor. Jettingen-Scheppach community, accessed on August 26, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Coat of arms of the Jettingen-Scheppach market. Retrieved August 21, 2017 . 
7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Jettingen-Scheppach  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
8. ^ Community website - leisure opportunities