Fischach

This article deals with the market in Bavaria, further meanings under Fischach (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '  N , 10 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Height :	495 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.21 km 2
Residents:	4856 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	161 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86850
Primaries :	08236, 08204
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 141
Market structure:	13 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 16 86850 Fischach
Website :	www.fischach.de
Mayor :	Peter Ziegelmeier ( SPD / Independent)
Location of the Fischach market in the Augsburg district

Fischach is a market in the Swabian district of Augsburg .

geography

location

Fischach lies in the tertiary hill country of the Western Forests nature park south of Augsburg . The place was created at the point where the Neufnachtal meets the Schmuttertal .

Community structure

The municipality has 13 officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

Aretsried ( parish village ) Elmischwang (castle) Fischach (main town) Heimberg ( hamlet ) Itzlishofen ( village ) Lehnersberg ( wasteland ) Riding book (village)

Sawmill (wasteland) Siegertshofen (parish village) Todtenschlule (village) Tronetshofen (village) Willmatshofen (parish village) Wollmetshofen (Kirchdorf)

There are the districts Aretsried, Fischach, Itzlishofen, riding book, Siegertshofen, Tronetshofen, Willmatshofen and Wollmetshofen.

history

Until the 14th century, Fischach was the seat of an old local noble family, the Lords of Fischach. These were ministerials to the Augsburg bishops, the Lords of Schwabegg . In the course of secularization , the place came to the Electorate of Bavaria in 1803 . From 1862 to 1929 Fischach 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 . The market survey took place in 1952.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, Aretsried , Willmatshofen and Wollmetshofen were incorporated. On July 1, 1975, parts of the dissolved Kreuzanger community were added. Siegertshofen followed on January 1, 1976. Finally, on May 1, 1978, part of the dissolved municipality of riding book was incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the community grew from 3,977 to 4,822 by 845 inhabitants or 21.3%.

politics

mayor

Peter Ziegelmeier (SPD / Independent) was confirmed in office in the mayoral election in 2014 and 2020 without an opposing candidate.

Municipal council

2014 to 2020

Allocation of seats from 2014 to 2020 in the 17-member municipal council:

• SPD / Independent: 7 seats
• CSU : 6 seats
• Free community of voters : 3 seats
• Alliance 90 / The Greens : 1 seat

From 2020

Distribution of seats from 2020 to 2026 in the now 16-member municipal council:

• SPD / Independent: 7 seats (unchanged)
• CSU: 7 seats (+1)
• Alliance 90 / The Greens: 2 seats (+1)

The free voter community is no longer represented.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In red a silver wavy bar accompanied by a silver fish swimming to the right at the top and a silver fish swimming to the left at the bottom."

Culture and sights

There is a Jewish cemetery in Fischach , which was founded in 1774 by the then Jewish community. Today it is maintained and maintained by the municipal administration and can be visited after consultation. There is also a former synagogue and a former Jewish community center with a school. In 1999, one was in Fischach Jews monument built that up to four hundred year history of Christian-Jewish coexistence in the municipality persecution of Jews in the Nazi era will remember. A painted sukkah (tabernacle for the Jewish festival of tabernacles ) from Fischach is now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The oldest surviving Mozart house is located in the Heimberg district, from which the direct ancestors of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can be proven . In 1486, the inconspicuous farmhouse was recorded as the residence of an Alter (Andreas) Mozart.

In Wollmetshofen there are two Mariengrotten , some of which are located on the Bavarian Jakobusweg .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Fischach

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  Mozart House in Heimberg

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  Market square in Fischach

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  Siegertshofen

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  Wollmetshofen

leisure

Since June 2008, a natural outdoor pool has been open in Fischach in the summer months.

Economy and Infrastructure

In January 2007, 404 businesses and around 2,200 jobs were counted.

The most important company in the community is the Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG (Müllermilch) dairy in Aretsried . The Raiffeisenbank Stauden is based in Fischach .

traffic

The Fischach (Schwab) train station ( DS100 : MFIS) is on the Perennial Railway from Gessertshausen to Markt Wald . The route is currently only used by individual special trains. Various AVV bus routes run several times a day in Fischach .

Schools and kindergartens

• Primary and middle school Fischach
• Kindergarten St. Michael Fischach
• Kindergarten St. Vitus Willmatshofen
• Well-being house Western Forests

Fire brigades

The Fischach volunteer fire brigade is the community's base brigade and works together with the six local brigades.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leonhard Thoma (* 1864 in Fischach; † 1921 in Jettingen ), well-known church painter
• Franz Liebl (* 1923 in Heiligenkreuz , † 2002 in Fischach), dialect author
• Isidor Bach (* 1849 in Fischach; † 1946 in Bern ), clothing entrepreneur

Personalities connected to the community

• Theo Müller (* 1940), entrepreneur

literature

• Michael Piller: Fischach - history of a central Swabian market community , Anton H. Konrad Verlag 1981, ISBN 3-87437-178-6

Web links

Commons : Fischach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fischach market
• Fischach: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.23 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. ^ Community organs . Congregation, accessed July 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Fischach community 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 and 768 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} results. Retrieved March 20, 2020 . 
7. ^ Entry on the Fischach coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History