Nesselwang

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '  N , 10 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Ostallgäu
Height :	867 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.52 km 2
Residents:	3753 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	127 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87484
Area code :	08361
License plate :	OAL, FÜS, MOD
Community key :	09 7 77 153
Market structure:	17 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 18 87484 Nesselwang
Website :	www.nesselwang-buergerservice.de
Mayor :	Pirmin Joas ( CSU )
Location of the Nesselwang market in the Ostallgäu district

Nesselwang, view from the B 309 from the west (summer 2017)

Nesselwang is a market in the Bavarian-Swabian district of Ostallgäu . The state-approved climatic health resort is located in the south-west of Bavaria and is part of the hilly foothills of the Alps. It is characterized by farms, trade, craft and industry and numerous tourist facilities.

geography

location

The market Nesselwang and the districts are located at around 900 m above sea level at the foot of Alpspitz (1575 m above sea level) and Edelsberg (1630 m) near the upper Wertach and the Grüntensee in the center of the Allgäu. The area is 29.5 km². The cities of Kempten (Allgäu) , Füssen , Marktoberdorf and the Austrian border to the Tannheimer Tal are each approx. 20 km away, as are the famous sights of the region such as Neuschwanstein Castle and Hohenschwangau .

Districts

The municipality has 17 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Attlesee ( village ) Bayerstetten (village) Gschwend (village) Hammer mill ( hamlet ) Hertingen (village) Hörich (hamlet)

Laughter (village) Nesselwang (main town) Niederhöfen (village) Reichenbach (village) Rindegg (village) Send (hamlet)

Schneidbach (village) Thal (village) Voglen (hamlet) Wank (village) Widdumhof ( wasteland )

history

General view from the Alpspitz

Zinkenbichl Chapel and St. Andreas Parish Church in Nesselwang, November 2001

Nesselwang 2006

Until the 19th century

In the years 16/15 BC BC Tiberius and Drusus , the step-sons of the Roman emperor Augustus , began to conquer the Alpine foothills as far as the Danube. Since about 500 BC This area was populated by Celts. A main artery was for the Romans the Via Claudia was applied, the 46/47 n.. Chr. This Roman military road led from Verona over the Fernpass, Reutte in Tyrol, past Füssen and on to Augsburg . A connecting road was laid out near Vils, which led through the later settlement area of ​​Nesselwang and further into the Roman Cambodunum , today's Kempten (Allgäu) . The last Romans withdrew from what is now Bavaria in 487/488.

Around the middle of the 8th century the wandering monk Magnus came to convert the pagan Alemanni through the Nesselwanger area; he is said to have set up a prayer cell there. Politically, Nesselwang and its surrounding area belonged to the East Franconian dominion at this time . The place became the center of an administrative district, which also included a royal court.

Nesselwang had one of the most decisive turning points in its history in the years 1310 to 1313. King Henry VII planned an Italian campaign to acquire the imperial crown , which began in 1310. In order to be able to finance this company, the rulership rights between Füssen and Nesselwang had to be pledged to the Bishop of Augsburg. King Henry was crowned emperor, but died near Siena in 1313 . So it came about that this Reich deposit was never redeemed. Nesselwang stayed with the bishopric of Augsburg until secularization .

During this time, the Augsburg bishops were the sovereigns in and around Nesselwang. The Nesselburg, possibly built in the 11th century, and the rule of Nesselwang initially received the barons of Rettenberg as a fief. After several changes, the bishops took over Nesselwang in their own administration in 1425 and appointed a bailiff on the Nesselburg. Since it burned down in 1595, the episcopal government bought an office building in 1601 (demolished in 1976).

In the 18th century the Tyrolean cartographer Peter Anich referred to the place as Groß Nesselwang , to distinguish it from Nesselwängle in the Tannheimer mountains, which he called Klein Nesselwang .

In 1429 Nesselwang received from King Sigismund , a son of Charles IV , the right to hold a five-day fair every year and a weekly market. This market right was linked to a property right for market visitors and traders. Decisive for the granting of market rights were mainly economic motives of the episcopal sovereign, as he was able to collect a considerable sum of market taxes and customs duties.

Due to its location on an important thoroughfare, Nesselwang inevitably suffered from almost all major wars of modern times, with the exception of the two world wars. In the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 Nesselwang, like almost all of the Allgäu, came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and since 1837 has belonged to the administrative district of Swabia .

20th century

After the Second World War , tourism began to develop in the municipality.

Population development

The following figures refer to the territorial status on May 25, 1987.

year	1840	1900	1939	1950	1961	1970	1987	1991	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	1641	1652	1996	3090	2857	2765	3068	3624	3478	3561	3518	3487	3541

From 1988 to 2008 Nesselwang grew by 391 inhabitants or approx. 13%. Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 3,118 to 3,654 by 536 inhabitants or 17.2%.

politics

Market council

The municipal council has 16 members. Following the local elections on March 15, 2020, the following parliamentary groups are represented in the municipal council:

CSU	FW	SPD	Together for Nesselwang
6 seats	6 seats	2 seats	2 seats
38.30%	34.72%	13.22%	13.77%

mayor

Pirmin Joas (CSU) has been mayor since May 1, 2020; he was elected on March 15, 2020 with 59.8% of the vote. His predecessor was Franz Erhart (CSU) from May 2008 to April 2020.

coat of arms

Description : Split by red and silver; on it three green nettle branches growing from a golden mountain of three.

Nesselwang received its own coat of arms in 1582. It shows the highly penal colors red and white , three nettles referring to the place name, as well as the Dreiberg, a reference to the Rettenbergers, the former feudal lords. The decisive factor was that the award of the coat of arms was combined with the award of a seal. For the Nesselwangern it was mainly about the seal money, about additional income that they received for seals. Today this work is usually done by notaries.

Economy and Infrastructure

The state-approved climatic health resort counted over 300,000 overnight stays in 2018. In addition to tourism, industry, trade, handicrafts and agriculture are other important pillars of the local economy.

traffic

A 7 junction Nesselwang

Nesselwang is centrally located in the Allgäu and is connected by the Ausserfernbahn , a railway line, with Kempten, the Austrian Reutte and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The longest motorway in Germany, the A 7 , leads from the north to Nesselwang and on to Füssen . Since the existence of the motorway, the volume of traffic on the former B 309 (downgraded to State Road 2520 on January 1, 2016 ) in the village has decreased significantly. The highest point of all motorways in Germany is 914 m above sea ​​level near the Nesselwang junction.

Culture and sights

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Nesselwang

Museums

Home house

Hometown in Nesselwang

The Nesselwang home house "Beim Glaser" in Füssener Straße is an old half-timbered house (built in 1807), which is largely equipped with original furniture (parlor, chambers, glazier workshop, agricultural Sölde, discharge chamber and more). In the attic there is an exhibition of a carpenter and shoemaker's workshop. Stables and threshing floors are reserved for agriculture, alpine farming and forestry. The stable themed area was recently completed. The Heimathaus was built with a lot of personal commitment and commitment from the citizens of Nesselwang and is professionally looked after by the authoritative side.

Ski museum

With the exhibition Ski History Nesselwang in the Ski Museum, the Allgäu mountain village is commemorating its top athletes. Long before the multiple biathlon Olympic champion and world champion Michael Greis , it was Franz Keller who increased the awareness of his home community in the Nordic Combined with Olympic gold and a silver World Cup medal. A total of around a dozen Nesselwanger have taken part in world championships and Olympic Games so far. In addition to these winter sports enthusiasts, other top athletes returned with many national championship titles. In the exhibition, which was inspired by the Nesselwang legendary sports reporter Bruno Moravetz ("Where is Behle?"), They show their trophies, their partly historical sports equipment and many photos from the founding years of skiing. Michael Greis's equipment is also represented in the collection of biathlon rifles.

Easter egg museum

Around 2,700 eggs in various sizes, colors and decorations can be found in the showcases of the Easter Egg Museum under the direction of Monica Nusser.

Churches

The parish church of St. Andreas in neo-baroque style was rebuilt from 1904 to 1906 because of its dilapidation and its small size. The furnishings were created in the style of the neo-coco. Halfway up the mountain, in a clearing, stands the most famous Marian pilgrimage church in the Allgäu, Maria Trost , with its rich baroque interior. It was built in 1725 in the hermitage of Baron Rudolf von Grimming, who erected a miraculous image of Our Lady under a wayside shrine. The picture survived a fire unscathed and attracted numerous pilgrims to the mountain. Today a baroque high altar with light rococo elements surrounds the copy of the painting. The linden tree in the clearing is over 350 years old. The church can be reached on foot via the Kreuzweg or a toll road. Every year in May the traditional costume pilgrimage of the Allgäu Gauverband to Maria Trost takes place.

Leisure and sports facilities

• Alpspitzbahn Nesselwang
• Alpspitz bathing center
• Trend sports center
• Mini golf course
• Adventure playground in the spa park
• Playhouse in the holiday village Reichenbach

Regular events

• The traditional costume pilgrimage of the Allgäu Gauverband takes place every year in mid-May to the Maria Trost church halfway up the Alpspitze.
• The E + H Wetzer company and family run in June is a running event for company employees and private individuals.
• In the summer months of July and August, the individual groups of the Trachtenverein Alpspitzler perform with traditional music and dance on the forest festival area every Wednesday.
• At the annual “Viehscheid” (cattle drive) on September 16, the young cattle that have spent the summer in the mountain alps are ceremoniously returned to their owners, decorated with flowers. The Viehscheid is accompanied by a festival lasting several days below the Alpspitzbahn.

One-time events

The first Alpine World Ski Championships for the deaf took place in Nesselwang from February 23 to March 2, 2013 . The patronage was the former successful ski racer Irene Epple-Waigel and the former Federal Minister of Finance Theodor Waigel .

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Nesselwang

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  Alpspitze and Edelsberg

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  Attlesee

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  Bayerstetten

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  Schneidbach

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  Wank

Personalities

Sons and Daughters of the Market

• Maximilian von Lingg (1842–1930), Bishop of Augsburg
• Joseph Probst (1852–1899), teacher and local researcher for the city of Germersheim
• Ludwig Böck (1902–1960), skier
• Helmut Böck (* 1931), skier
• Josef Ripfel (* 1938), Swedish racing cyclist
• Herbert Hindelang (* 1940), biathlete
• Franz Keller (* 1945), skier

People related to the place

• Sigmund Riefler (1847–1912), physicist, watchmaker and manufacturer
• Bruno Moravetz (1921–2013), sports reporter
• Michael Greis (* 1976), biathlete

literature

• Wilhelm Liebhart (Ed.): Nesselwang. A historic market in the Allgäu. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-4126-8 .

Web links

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

• Tourist site of the Nesselwang market
• Entry on the coat of arms of Nesselwang  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Nesselwang: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF; 1.05 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. ↑ Nesselwang community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019.
3. ↑ Manfred Hailer in the village newspaper August 2013 ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Announcement of the final result of the election of the municipal council on March 15, 2020. (PDF) Retrieved May 11, 2020 . 
5. ^ Christoph Kölle: Easter Egg Museum Nesselwang. In: allgaeu.life. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag GmbH, April 18, 2019, accessed on November 4, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Homepage of the 1st Alpine World Ski Championships ( memento of the original from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.