Missen-Wilhams

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Missen-Wilhams
Missen-Wilhams
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '  N , 10 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Oberallgäu
Management Community : Weitnau
Height : 860 m above sea level NHN
Area : 34.96 km 2
Residents: 1442 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 87547
Area code : 08320
License plate : OA
Community key : 09 7 80 127
Community structure: 9 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 45
87547 Missen
Website : www.missen-wilhams.de
Mayoress : Martina Wilhelm ( CSU / UWG)
Location of the municipality of Missen-Wilhams in the Oberallgäu district
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Missen-Wilhams is a municipality in the Swabian district of Oberallgäu and a member of the Weitnau administrative community .

Missing from the west

geography

Landscapes and parts of the municipality

The municipality consists of the districts of Missen and Wilhams. The municipality has 9 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Neighboring communities

Grünenbach Weitnau
Stiefenhofen Neighboring communities Immenstadt in the Allgäu
Oberstaufen

history

Until the church is planted

Wilhams was part of the Austrian rule of Bregenz-Hohenegg. Missen and the county of Königsegg-Rothenfels were swapped to Austria in 1804. Since the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg in 1805, the places have belonged to the newly formed Kingdom of Bavaria .

On January 1, 1959, the previously independent municipalities of Missen and Wilhams were merged to form the new municipality of Missen-Wilhams .

Population development

  • 1961: 1225 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1139 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1135 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1284 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1383 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1385 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1405 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1410 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1433 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1131 to 1454 by 323 inhabitants or by 28.6%.

politics

mayor

Martina Wilhelm (CSU / UWG) has been mayor since May 1, 2020; she was elected from two candidates with 81.8% of the vote. Her predecessor was Hans-Ulrich von Laer (CSU / Free Voters / ÖDP), in office from 2008 to 2020.

Municipal council

In the election on March 15, 2020 , only the joint nomination of the CSU, Free Voters, ÖDP and UWG with 20 applicants was available; the twelve candidates with the most votes entered the municipal council. The turnout was 71.12%.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “In gold a black boundary stone, two shields placed on top of each other; in the upper silver one a three-lobed red flag, in the lower red one a silver bar. "

Culture and sights

Buildings

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were no employees subject to social security contributions in the field of agriculture and forestry 13, in the manufacturing industry 91 and in the field of trade and transport. There were a total of 409 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were 28 companies in the manufacturing sector and four in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 75 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1682 ha.

education

The municipality of Missen-Wilhalms maintains a kindergarten and an elementary school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Carl Hirnbein (also Karl Hirnbein ; * 1807; † 1871), large farmer and politician
  • Auguste Städele (* 1879; † 1966), farmer and photographer
  • Michael Lerpscher (* 1905, † 1940), religiously motivated conscientious objector, victim of National Socialism
  • Gudrun Brug (* 1949), writer
  • Joseph Hauber (* 1766; † 1834), painter, etcher and lithographer.
  • Wilhelm Widmann (* 1858; † 1939), born on October 31, 1858 in Missen; Primiz on August 22, 1883 in Missen; Royal Spiritual Council; Music Prefect in Neuburg 1884–1887; Cathedral Vicar and Cathedral Kapellmeister in Eichstätt 1887–1927; Music prefect at the episcopal seminary 1887–1891; died on October 31, 1939 in Eichstätt

Honorary citizen

  • Johann Baptist Aichele (* 1907; † 1987), Catholic priest, theologian, monsignor, religion teacher; Savior of the Augsburg Cathedral
  • Heinz Dröge (* 1936), former mayor

Personalities

  • Dieter Salomon (* 1960), politician (Greens) and former mayor of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, spent parts of his youth in Missen.
  • Hans-Georg von der Marwitz (* 1961), farmer and member of the Bundestag, spent a large part of his youth on his parents' property near Wilhams.
  • Ulrike Müller (* 1962), member of the European Parliament, lives in the community.

Web links

Commons : Missen-Wilhams  - 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. ^ Missen-Wilhams community in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 571 .
  4. ↑ 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. 165
  5. ↑ Alpkönigblick - the viewing platform on the Hauchenberg ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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 the website of the Weitnau market @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weitnau.de
  6. ↑ Brief portrait of Auguste Städele
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ Allgäuer Advertisement Sheet, July 6, 2011 - An original with rough edges