Koesching

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Eichstatt
Height :	389 m above sea level NHN
Area :	55.67 km 2
Residents:	9808 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	176 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	85092
Area code :	08456
License plate :	EGG
Community key :	09 1 76 139
Market structure:	5 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Marktplatz 1 85092 Koesching
Website :	www.koesching.de
Mayor :	Ralf Sitzmann
Location of the Kösching market in the Eichstätt district

Kösching ( Bavarian Kesching ) is a market in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt and is located northeast of Ingolstadt . The market in Kösching extends over a total area of ​​more than 5550 hectares, of which 279 hectares are built on. It has around 10,000 inhabitants.

geography

Town hall of Kösching

Community structure

Since the municipal reform , the Kösching market has consisted of five officially named municipal parts , the main town of Kösching, the parish villages of Bettbrunn and Kasing , the hamlet of Desching and the wasteland of Hellmannsberg .

Neighboring communities

Stammham		Altmannstein
Hepberg Lenting		Mindelstetten Oberdolling
	Ingolstadt	Großmehring

history

Until the church is planted

Although there are references to even older Germanic settlements, the founding of Kösching is officially dated to the year 80 AD. The Romans crossed the Danube and founded the “ Castellum Germanicum ” in order to secure this natural border against the attacks of the Teutons . Later the "Castellum Germanicum" supported the Limes , which ran a few kilometers further north in the forest. This fort was abandoned around 245 . Germanic settlements on the northern Eixelberg continued to exist. Around 895 the place was first called "Cheskingen" and around 1000 the forest was already called "Keschinger Forst". In 1293 Kösching Castle and the forest fell to the Wittelsbach family. A considerable part of the forest is still owned by the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund (WAF).

In 1310 Kösching was mentioned for the first time as a market in the deed of division of the country by Duke Ludwig IV of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine (later Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian). In 1366 the rights of the ban market were confirmed. Since then, Kösching has held the title of market . In 1649/50 Kösching was hit by a plague epidemic. In 1651, after the end of the plague, the "Brotherhood of Saint Sebastian" was made according to a pledge. Since then, the brotherhood has made an annual pilgrimage (apart from a few interruptions) via Schambach to the Church of St. Sebastian in Arnsberg.

In 1838 the place had 193 houses and 1133 inhabitants, in 1861 510 buildings and 1277 inhabitants (including 7 Mennonites ).

20th century

Kösching survived the Second World War without suffering too much damage to property. However, the market was subsequently challenged in its social skills by around 1200 displaced persons , mostly from the Sudetenland and Hungary. In the following decades, Kösching grew into a larger town.

With the station of the same name, Kösching had a railway connection on the Ingolstadt – Riedenburg railway line . Passenger traffic existed between May 1, 1903 and the final cessation of operations on May 28, 1972.

Incorporations

On October 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Kasing was incorporated. Bettbrunn was added on July 1, 1972.

Population numbers

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 5,994 to 9,695 by 3,701 inhabitants or by 61.8%.

place	Residents
Koesching	8611
Kasing	1388
Bettbrunn	270
Interpark	8th
As of June 1, 2019

Main and secondary residences

politics

Municipal council

The market council consists of the first mayor and 20 members. The municipal council election on March 15, 2020 resulted in the following distribution of mandates:

• CSU 6 seats
• SPD 6 seats
• Independent constituency (UW) 6 seats
• Greens 2 seats

mayor

The first mayor is Ralf Sitzmann (UW). He has been in office since May 1, 2020. In the runoff election on March 29, 2020, he won against the incumbent mayor Andrea Ernhofer (SPD).

coat of arms

Blazon : Split; in front white-blue roughened (Bavarian Wecken ), behind in silver on a green arched base a deciduous tree in natural colors.

The tree was in a red field until a few years ago, but the coat of arms has been changed according to the latest historical aspects.

Attractions

Market square of Kösching with Easter fountain and church "Maria Himmelfahrt"

The exhibition in the Museum Kösching illustrates the continuous settlement history of the district as well as the life of its people from the Paleolithic to the present.

There are five churches in the Kösching area: the baroque church “Maria Himmelfahrt”, the Peterskirche from the 16th century, the church “St. Martin ”in Kasing and the pilgrimage church“ St. Salvator ”in Bettbrunn with the oldest host pilgrimage since 1125. In 2018, the Protestant Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church was inaugurated. From Bettbrunn, the East Bavarian Way of St. James leads from Regensburg through the Köschinger Forest towards Eichstätt . The path is lined with various artistically designed resting and rest stations.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Kösching

Sports

• The largest club in Kösching is TSV Kösching 1897. The following sports are offered: football, badminton, judo, cycling, chess, skiing, tennis, gymnastics / gymnastics and volleyball.

The marching band and the accompanying wind orchestra are also part of TSV 1897 Kösching eV

• There is also the DJK Kösching, which functions purely as a table tennis club.
• there is also the shooting club FSG Kösching
• as well as the riding and driving club Kösching
• In Kösching there is also an indoor swimming pool and a triple gymnasium.

Social and economic infrastructure

Four kindergartens are available for children in Kösching, the Stegbach kindergarten and the kindergartens “im Bogen”, Schlehenstein and Kasing. There is also a Montessori day nursery and a day nursery. There are three schools in the village, the Rudolph Winterstein elementary school, the Montessori elementary school and the Kösching secondary school.

In addition to a senior citizens' home with a care station, there is a Caritas social station in Kösching, an ambulance station of the Bavarian Red Cross and the district hospital for the district of Eichstätt, which has the status of a clinic.

In addition, there are a large number of shops and discount markets in Kösching. Kösching has been part of the Ingolstadt transport association INVG since 1990 and was classified as an economic sub-center in 2005 together with the neighboring municipality of Großmehring.

Personalities

• Wolfgang Walcher (around 1459 - June 18, 1518), Benedictine and abbot in Salzburg, estate manager, cellar master and translator in Dornbach
• Theodor Grünberger (1756–1820), composer, organist, Augustinian monk, priest born in Bettbrunn
• Ferdinand Ott (1851–1928), painter, Kösching chronicler, Roman and Limes researcher
• Josef Maier (1881–1957), bricklayer, Roman researcher, first honorary citizen of Kösching
• Richard Scheringer (1904–1986), communist politician
• Knut Schnurer (1920–2007), painter
• Rudolf Winterstein (1920–2000), home nurse
• Johann Scheringer (* 1936), politician ( Die Linke )
• Edmund Stöhr (* 1956), former soccer player and former soccer coach
• Johanna Scheringer-Wright (* 1963) politician (Die Linke), member of the state parliament in Thuringia
• Andreas Hartmann (* 1977), ancient historian and university professor
• Serkan Atak (* 1984), German-Turkish soccer player
• Cüneyt Köz (* 1992), German-Turkish soccer player

Ortneckname

The place name of the Köschinger is Mantelflicker .

Web links

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

• Entry to the insignia of Kosching  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Market Kösching: Koesching.de
• Kösching: 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. ↑ Markt Kösching in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on December 28, 2017.
3. ↑ Josepf Lipf (Editor): matrikel bishopric of Regensburg . Ed .: Diocese of Regensburg. Pustet, Regensburg 1838, p. 204 ( digitized version ).
4. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 133 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized ).
5. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 492 .
6. ↑ Population figures | Market Koesching. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/