Sewing Memories

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Sewing Memories
City of Noerdlingen
Coat of arms of Nähermemmingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 26 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 436 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 702  (Jan. 1, 2011)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 86720
Area code : 09081
View from the south of Nähermemmingen
View from the south of Nähermemmingen
Nähermemmingen, aerial photo (2016)

Nähermemmingen is a district of Nördlingen in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria .

geography

The village has 702 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011) and is at an altitude of 436  m above sea level. NN on the western edge of the Nördlinger Ries on the Eger stream . Its corridor is used almost exclusively for agriculture.

history

When the place Nähermemmingen was founded cannot be clearly determined. Finds from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age already show early settlement. The remnant of a Roman column right by the village linden is a testimony from Roman times. The local ending -ingen indicates an Alemannic local foundation. The name Memmingen is derived from the Alemannic name Mammo . This means something like gentle, kind. The closer probably refers to the proximity to Nördlingen, in contrast to Utzmemmingen, which is a little further away .

In the Middle Ages, the local nobility ruled in a castle ( ⊙ ). Of this, only the castle wall can be seen today. Ownership often changed during this time. Most of them were owned by Nördlingen. But the Counts of Oettingen also owned some farms. In the Thirty Years War , Nähermemmingen was burned down to the parish church and the rectory.

In 1803, Nähermemmingen became Bavarian. On the night of November 12th and 13th, 1834, a fire burned 20 farms to the ground.

On July 1, 1972, Nähermemmingen joined the city of Nördlingen together with the neighboring towns of Holheim , Kleinerdlingen and Herkheim as part of the municipal reform .

In 1975 Nähermemmingen received silver in the competition " Our village should be more beautiful ".

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Nähermemmingen in Nördlingen
 Blazon : "In a shield split by red and silver, a pair of buffalo halls split by silver and black."
Justification for the coat of arms: The buffalo horns were the shield image of the former lords of Näher-Memmingen. The field colors create a reference to the former local lords, the princely house of Oettingen and the imperial city of Nördlingen. The coat of arms was designed by the Nördlingen painter and graphic artist Rudolf Mußgnug.

religion

Marienkirche in Nähermemmingen

Today, Nähermemmingen is predominantly Protestant. The parish of Nähermemmingen-Baldingen belongs to the deanery district of Nördlingen, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Augsburg and Swabia. The Marienkirche has a Gothic ground floor and choir. The laying of the foundation stone is dated April 4, 1426. In the Middle Ages there was a second church. The St. George's Chapel no longer exists today.

literature

  • Helmut Seitz: Nähermemmingen - then and now. Publishing house F. Steinmeier, Nördlingen 1998.

Web links

Commons : Nähermemmingen  - Collection of images
Wikisource: Nähermemmingen , in: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Probst: Germany in the Early Bronze Age . Grin Verlag, 2011, ISBN 3-656-02383-2 , pp. 145 .
  2. ↑ Entry on Nähermemmingen in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 602 .
  4. ↑ Sonja Zollner: Competition "Our village should become more beautiful - our village has a future". (PDF; 45 kB) Winning villages in the state decisions 1961–2009. October 19, 2010, archived from the original on June 17, 2012 ; Retrieved September 3, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Heraldry of the World