Merching

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Merching
Merching
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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 59'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Aichach-Friedberg
Height : 529 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.81 km 2
Residents: 3218 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 130 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 86504
Area code : 08233
License plate : AIC, FDB
Community key : 09 7 71 145
Community structure: 4 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 26
86504 Merching
Website : www.merching.de
Mayor : Helmut Luichtl ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Merching in the Aichach-Friedberg district
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Church of St. Martin in Merching

Merching is a municipality in the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg .

geography

Merching is located in the Augsburg planning region .

There are the districts of Hochdorf, Merching and Steinach b.Mering.

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

The wasteland Putzmühle is not an officially named part of the municipality.

history

Until the church is planted

The first traces of settlement date from around 2500 BC. BC (Neolithic). From the time of the Roman province of Raetia there is a Roman settlement that was discovered in the Steinach district.

The name Merching is based on the Bavarian leader Mandicho, who founded the Maentichingen settlement ("among the people of Mandicho") in the 6th century . Until about 300 years ago, the name Manning or Bayermänching was still in use.

The first written records of merching date from the 12th century. It mentions a lower noble family "zu Mänching" and the ducal office Officium Mänchingen . The latter included 9 courtyards, 6 smaller courtyards (Huben) and the upper mill. The lower mill and several other courtyards belonged to the Augsburg cathedral chapter . There are no more traces of the castle that existed at the time. The Counts of Andechs also had properties in Merching. As their registers show, in 1157 Count Heinrich von Andechs-Wolfratshausen donated part of his property in Maentichingen to the St. Ulrich and Afra monastery in Augsburg. In 1391 the monastery owned four courtyards and a mill in Mänchingen.

After the division of Bavaria and the Electoral Palatinate between Heinrich XIII. and Ludwig II. the right of patronage of the Church of St. Martin zu Maentichingen fell to the Upper Bavarian part in 1310. Nothing is known about the genesis of the original parish church, but it is certain that it existed long before the Officium Mänchingen . The base of the tower with a Gothic vault and the remains of the surrounding walls of the choir are still preserved from this church. The patron saint of the church, St. Martin, main saint of the Franks, indicates the Franconian settlement of the place.

After a fire on October 6, 1704, which destroyed most of the village, including the parish church, the church was rebuilt in the baroque style in 1707–1737. Between 1705 and 1714, the annual request of the keepers of the Mering residence to the Bavarian elector to relieve the population of the grain taxes testifies to the privations of that time . This suffered badly from the burden of war, soldiers passing through, looting and pillage. Until 1746, the Ettal monastery installed secular priests for the church in Merching . From 1770 until the secularization in 1802, the parish was led by religious priests from Ettal . Merching was part of the Munich Rent Office and the Friedberg District Court of the Electorate of Bavaria .

When a French army crossed the Lech in the course of the Napoleonic Wars on August 25, 1796, Merching was robbed. Later the population suffered from a cattle disease.

In 1806 the postal route from Augsburg to Munich was put into operation. It corresponded to the course of today's B 2 and also led via Merching; 16 horses were kept in the local Gasthof zur Post. When the Augsburg-Munich railway line was opened in Mering in 1840, Merching was no longer an intermediate station.

In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

20th century

From 1978 to 1980 Merching was a member of the Mering administrative association.

Merching is located in the administrative district of Swabia and has belonged to the district of Friedberg , since the district reform that came into force on July 1, 1972, to the newly formed district of Augsburg-Ost, which has officially been known as the district of Aichach-Friedberg since May 1, 1973 .

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent communities of Hochdorf and Steinach bei Mering were incorporated.

Population development

year population
1961 1646
1970 1772
1987 2233
1991 2291
1995 2740
2000 2884
2005 3091
2010 3112
2015 3132
2018 3218
2019 3218

Between 1988 and 2019 the municipality grew from 2,229 to 3,218 by 989 inhabitants or 44.4%.

politics

mayor

1st Mayor has been Helmut Luichtl (CSU) since May 1, 2020.

His predecessor was Martin Walch (Free Voters), in office from May 2008 to April 2020, no longer running for the new term of office. After the 2008 local elections, Walch replaced Brigitte Meyer ( FDP / Free Party). Ms. Meyer held the office from 1996 to 2008; like her predecessor, she was full-time mayor. For the second term of office of Martin Walch, the municipal council changed the mayor's main office status back to honorary office.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the 1st mayor and 16 councilors.

Parties 2020
proportion of Seats
Free Voters Merching (FWM) 46.15% 8th
CSU 31.49% 5
Alliance 90 / The Greens 13.94% 2
Non-party citizens (PB) 8.42% 1

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

  • FWM: 9 seats
  • CSU: 4 seats
  • Greens: 2 seats
  • PB: 1 seat

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: shield divided; above in gold a blue eagle, below in black a golden clover leaf cross. The municipal coat of arms commemorates two important landlords who had the largest property in the municipality. The blue eagle in a golden field is taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Andechs in confused colors. In the 12th century the counts donated goods in Merching to the monasteries of Dießen and St. Ulrich in Augsburg. Both monasteries were able to keep their property in the place for a long time. The golden four-leaf clover in a black field is the coat of arms of the imperial abbey St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg and reminds of their manorial rule in the municipality.

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were four employees at the place of work in the field of agriculture and forestry, 184 in the manufacturing sector and 27 in trade and transport. In other areas of the economy 113 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 983 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There was one company in the manufacturing sector and eight companies in the main construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 43 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1689 ha, of which 1508 ha were arable land. The previously almost 30,000 square meter "Am Lerchenberg" commercial area directly on the B 2 was expanded by 40,000 square meters in 2010.

traffic

Rail transport

On the western outskirts of Merching, the single-track Ammerseebahn runs from Mering via Geltendorf and Dießen to Weilheim . It is managed by Deutsche Bahn as the route book route 985. The Merching stop is located on the Ammerseebahn in the south-west of the town and consists only of a side platform with a shelter on the main track.

The Ammerseebahn was opened on June 30, 1898 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways . The Merching stop was built at this point , originally half a kilometer from Merching. The population of Merching increased due to the construction of the railway. The area between the place and the stop was built on, so that the stop is now right on the edge of the town. Merching was only served by the simple passenger trains, express and express trains ran through the stop without stopping. The Ammerseebahn between Mering and Geltendorf was electrified by September 7, 1970. The stop was occupied until 1984, as there was a guard-operated level crossing south of the platform . In July 1984 the barrier post was lifted and the level crossing was equipped with automatic barriers. The gatekeeper's house was demolished. Since then, there has only been a ticket machine and a concrete shelter on the side platform , which was replaced by a glass shelter in 2000.

The stop is served every hour by the trains of the Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB) from Augsburg-Oberhausen to Schongau . In the rush hour , individual amplifier trains run between Augsburg and Geltendorf. Today, all trains that run on the route serve the stop. Long-distance trains have not been running on the Ammerseebahn since 1991 . At Mering station you can change to the trains on the Munich – Augsburg line in the direction of Munich .

Local transport

Merching is connected to the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (AVV). In addition to the connection to rail traffic, the place is served by an AVV bus line. The 106 bus runs from Mering train station via Merching, Steinach, Hofhegnenberg and Hausen to Steindorf . In Merching there are the stops Mandichostraße 14 , Kirchstraße and Steinacher Straße 4 , in the Merching district of Steinach there is the stop Steinach .

Education and leisure

In Merching there is an elementary school (elementary and middle school), secondary schools can be easily reached by bus and train. In the gyms, many leisure activities such as B. children's gymnastics, gymnastics, volleyball, etc. are offered. Youth and adult teams train on the soccer field. The Mandicho Lake recreation area offers a wide range of recreational opportunities.

Sons and daughters

  • Daniel Arnold (* 1978), multiple world, European and Paralympic champion in table tennis for the disabled

Web links

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

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. ↑ Merching community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Brandl, Emmi Federhofer: Sound + Technology. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
  4. ↑ Citizens' information for the Merching community, 2009
  5. ↑ 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. 788 .
  6. ↑ https://lra-aic-fdb.de/service/statistiken/einwohnerzahl/einwohnerzahl771.pdf
  7. ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 13-14 .
  8. ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 83-86 .
  9. ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 38 .
  10. ↑ Description of the Merching train station ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2013 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. on Ammerseebahn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ammerseebahn.de
  11. ^ Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 94 .