Meitingen

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Height :	433 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.88 km 2
Residents:	11,727 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	392 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86405
Area code :	08271
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 177
Market structure:	9 parts of the community
; Market administration address :	Schlossstrasse 2 ; 86405 Meitingen
Website :	www.meitingen.de
Mayor :	Michael Higl ( CSU / JBU)
Location of the Meitingen market in the Augsburg district

Meitingen from the southwest

Meitingen is a market in the Augsburg district .

geography

location

Meitingen is located in the Lech Valley , halfway between the cities of Augsburg and Donauwörth .

Parish parts

The market has 9 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Meitingen (main town)
Ostendorf ( Kirchdorf )
Waltershofen ( village )
Zeisenried ( hamlet )

Neighboring communities

Biberbach (Augsburg district)
Ellgau (Augsburg district)
Kühlenthal (Augsburg district)
Langweid am Lech (Augsburg district)
Thierhaupten (Augsburg district)
Todtenweis ( Aichach-Friedberg district )
Wertingen ( District of Dillingen on the Danube )
Westendorf (Augsburg district)

history

Until the 19th century

Meitingen is first mentioned in a document in 1231. In Herbertshofen and in the hamlet Ehekirch , the cathedral monastery of Augsburg held the land and local authority. Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place belonged to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 . In 1844 the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn reached Meitingen.

20th century

The completion of the Lech Canal in 1920 put an end to a series of devastating floods through the Lech River .

In 1928 the ecumenical-pacifist Catholic pastor Max Josef Metzger founded the Christkönigs-Institut Meitingen ( Christkönigshaus ) at St.-Wolfgang-Straße 14. Because of his involvement in the international peace movement, he was a thorn in the side of the Nazi rulers. After being denounced, he was murdered in Brandenburg-Görden in April 1944 . His body has been resting in the local cemetery since 1968. His tombstone, a plaque on the Christ the King's House, a street name and a school name remind of his work.

With the completion of the Lech Canal hydropower plant in 1923, the foundation stone for the industrialization of Meitingen was laid. After the construction of the Catholic Church of St. Wolfgang in 1931, Meitingen became a parish in 1941. Until June 30, 1972 Meitingen belonged to the district of Wertingen .

As a result of the growth and importance for the surrounding area, Meitingen was raised to the market in 1989.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform, the previously independent municipality of Erlingen and Waltershofen, which had previously belonged to the municipality of Westendorf, were incorporated. On July 1, 1972, Herbertshofen and Ostendorf were added. Langenreichen followed on May 1, 1978.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 9,202 to 11,637 by 2,435 inhabitants or by 26.5%.

politics

Market council

In the local elections on March 15, 2020 , 24 local council members were to be elected; the following distribution of seats resulted:

Christian Social Union in Bavaria e. V. (CSU): 8 seats (31.9%)
Free voters / Free voter community Meitingen: 3 seats (13.9%)
Alliance 90 / The Greens (GREEN): 3 seats (10.1%)
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 2 seats (9.2%)
Free Lechtal voter community (FLW): 2 seats (9.1%)
Independent electoral community Erlingen (UWG): 2 seats (8.0%)
Young Citizens Union (JBU): 2 seats (7.7%)
Alternative for Germany : 1 seat (5.4%)
Free voter group Meitingen (FWG): 1 seat (4.8%)

Mayor has been Michael Higl (CSU / Junge Bürger Union) since May 2008; it was confirmed on March 15, 2020 with 92.4% for a further six years.

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : The coat of arms shows a silver bear with a gold collar over a silver cross river on a red background. The coat of arms was based on the coat of arms of the old local nobility of Meitingen, who also had the same name as the place. Instead of a black bear with a gold background, the colors white and red were chosen to remind of the earlier territorial affiliation to the margraviate of Burgau (until 1802). The colors white and red also dominate this coat of arms.

Community partnerships

France France : Meitingen has had a municipal partnership with the town of Pouzauges in the Vendée department since 1973 .

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

A nationally important company is the SDAX company SGL Carbon with its location in Meitingen, which dates back to 1923. Products are graphite electrodes and ceramic brake discs .

Another company is Lech-Stahlwerke, founded in 1970 in today's Herbertshofen district, as a manufacturer of bar steel, semi-finished products and reinforcing steel .

education

In the municipality of Meitingen there are the following schools: Meitingen elementary school, Herbertshofen elementary school, middle school, state secondary school ( Dr.-Max-Josef-Metzger- School).

traffic

Meitingen is located directly on the federal highway 2 between Donauwörth and Augsburg. The Augsburg – Nördlingen railway runs parallel to this . The Meitingen and Herbertshofen stations are only served by regional trains.

energy

The substations of what was then Bayernwerk AG and Lech-Elektrizitätswerke AG were built as early as the 1920s through the construction of the hydropower plant on the Lech Canal . With the construction of a 380 kV switchgear in the 1980s, the region was connected to the high voltage network of RWE AG. Today, Meitingen, with the transformer station of the transmission system operator Amprion, is an important network junction in the 380 kV high-voltage network and the Lechwerke transformer station is an important junction in the 110 kV distribution network of the Lechwerke. The overhead line to Memmingen begins here.

leisure

A multiplex cinema with 800 seats and 200 parking spaces was built near Meitingen in the Westendorf area in 2017 . It opened in March 2018.

Personalities

Fabian Mehring (* 1989), member of the Bavarian State Parliament, lives in the Waltershofen district .

Web links

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

Entry on the coat of arms of Meitingen in the database of the House of Bavarian History

Meitingen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ "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 ).
↑ Markt Meitingen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 20, 2019.
↑ 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. 164.
^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 594 .
^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 767 .
↑ The history of the partnership. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 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. to: part Partnerschaftskomitee-meitingen.de @1@ 2
^ Elli Höchstätter: The construction work for the new cinema in Meitingen begins. Augsburger Allgemeine, October 16, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2017 (German).
↑ Gerald Lindner: The construction work for the new cinema in Meitingen begins. Augsburger Allgemeine, March 21, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2018 (German).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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 Meitingen in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 20, 2019.

[3] 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. 164.

[4] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 594 .

[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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 767 .

[6] The history of the partnership. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 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. to: part Partnerschaftskomitee-meitingen.de @1@ 2

[7] Elli Höchstätter: The construction work for the new cinema in Meitingen begins. Augsburger Allgemeine, October 16, 2016, accessed on July 26, 2017 (German).

[8] Gerald Lindner: The construction work for the new cinema in Meitingen begins. Augsburger Allgemeine, March 21, 2018, accessed on May 22, 2018 (German).