Niederönenfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '  N , 10 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Rain
Height :	396 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.34 km 2
Residents:	1515 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86694
Area code :	09090
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 192
Community structure:	4 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Schulweg 1 86694 Niederschönenfeld
Website :	www.niederschoenenfeld.de
Mayor :	Stefan Roßkopf ( Free Association of Voters in Niederschönenfeld)
Location of the community of Niederschönenfeld in the district of Donau-Ries

Aerial view of Niederschönenfeld

Niederschönenfeld is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and a member of the Rain administrative community .

Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary , former monastery church

Interior view of the monastery church of the Assumption

geography

Geographical location

Niederschönenfeld is about eleven kilometers east of Donauwörth and about 39 kilometers north of Augsburg as the crow flies . The community extends to approximately 390 405  m above sea level. NHN in the flat Donauaue on the left and especially on the right of the lowest Lech , which runs through its last reservoir in the municipality and flows into the Danube at its northern border ; smaller, uninhabited areas are also north of the current course of the Danube. Alluvial forests with oxbow lakes and other small bodies of water accompany the Lech and Danube, so that in the part of the municipality to the left of the Lech there is only the Kleinweiler Wörthen with three farms, while the other places and settlement areas are to the right of the Lech, the two parish villages of Feldheim and Niederschönenfeld each in at least half Kilometers of distance from the two major rivers. To the right of the much larger Lech, the Friedberger Ach also runs through the municipality and the eponymous capital on the northern course and turns to the east in the Danube floodplain forest to its confluence only outside the municipality.

Parish parts

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

• Feldheim ( parish village ) with Wörthen ( hamlet ) and Lechbrücke ( desert )
• Niederschönenfeld (parish village)

The Hunzenhof wasteland belongs to Niederschönenfeld and has been inhabited since 1933 and is not an officially named part of the municipality.

There is only the district of Feldheim, which encompasses the entire municipality.

Neighboring communities

In turn, it borders on Niederschönenfeld: in the east the Burgheim market in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen ; in the south-east and south the town of Rain , in the west the community of Genderkingen , in the north Markt Kaisheim and the community of Marxheim , all in their own district of Donau-Ries .

history

Until the church is planted

Feldheim and Niederschönenfeld belonged to the domain of the Counts of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach. Count Berthold III. Founded the local Niederschönenfeld monastery in the 13th century , to whose Hofmark from the 15th century until the secularization in Bavaria in 1803 both places belonged. After Tilly's defeat near Rain am Lech in 1932, the monastery was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . When the convent returned in 1634, the monastery was poorly rebuilt, but destroyed again in 1646 by the French and Swedes. With the end of the Thirty Years War, the convent was able to return in 1648. The movements of the city of Rain to set up the monastery for protection in the city of Rain failed because the abbess successfully campaigned with the elector to rebuild the monastery on the old site. The abbess M. Euphemia Fatiga took care of the reconstruction of the monastery buildings and the improvement of the economic situation, who is therefore the second monastery founder. Her personal coat of arms shows a crowned mermaid who, together with the coat of arms of Count Berthold III. and three ears of corn form the municipal coat of arms. The ears of corn stand for Feldheim , where most of the craftsmen and day laborers of the monastery lived and operated additional small farms.

Treaty of Niederschönenfeld

After the occupation of Bavaria by the Austrians, the Treaty of Niederschönenfeld of June 27, 1743 stipulated the withdrawal of the army of Emperor Karl Albrecht. During the 2-year occupation, the monastery had to pay huge sums of money.

District affiliation

Until July 1, 1972, Niederschönenfeld belonged to the district of Neuburg an der Donau and was then added to the district of Donau-Ries as part of the regional reform in Bavaria , which was called the district of Nördlingen-Donauwörth until it was renamed on May 1, 1973 .

Incorporations

The current community of Niederschönenfeld was established on May 1, 1978 from the merger of the communities of Feldheim and Niederschönenfeld, which have been independent since 1818 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,124 to 1,475 by 351 inhabitants or by 31.2%.

politics

mayor

• May 1, 1978 to April 30, 1996: Johann Höringer, Niederschönenfeld
• May 1, 1996 to April 30, 2002: Manfred Rümmer, Feldheim
• May 1, 2002 to April 30, 2020: Peter Mahl, Niederschönenfeld
• From May 1, 2020: Stefan Roßkopf, Niederschönenfeld

Municipal council

Distribution of seats in the 2014 and 2020 local elections :

• Independent citizen block Feldheim: 6 seats
• Free community of voters in Niederschönenfeld: 6 seats

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: Split; divided in front five times by gold and blue; behind in blue a golden crowned natural mermaid with golden fish tail and golden hair, holding three golden ears of wheat in her hands.

The municipal council accepted the coat of arms on June 1st, 1981, the government of Swabia approved it with the decision of March 4th, 1982. The municipal flag has the colors yellow-blue-yellow.

The coat of arms of the municipality of Niederschönenfeld goes back to the time of the monastery:

• Front five times divided by gold and blue: coat of arms of the Counts of Lechsgemünd / Graisbach (monastery founder)
• crowned mermaid: personal coat of arms of Abbess M. Euphemia Fatiga, under which woman the reconstruction of the monastery was carried out after the Thirty Years War
• three ears of corn: Feldheim, where most of the day laborers and farmers lived

Community partnerships

Since 1997 there has been an official partnership with Plestin les Grèves in Brittany , France . The relationship began in 1975 with youth exchange trips. Friendly ties have existed since the reunification with Feldheim-Schwabeck, a district of Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg .

Architectural monuments

• Niederschönenfeld Monastery
• Catholic parish church and former monastery church of the Assumption

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Niederschönenfeld

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Niederschönenfeld

economy

There are 64 jobs subject to social security contributions in the municipality (2017); the official positions in the penal institution are not included here. In the same year there were 547 employees at the place of residence. 11 residents were unemployed. In 2017, the municipal tax revenue amounted to 1,451,000 euros, of which 590,000 euros were trade tax (net). In 2016, the utilized agricultural area was 905 ha, of which 201 ha were grassland and 704 ha arable land. Mainly grain (310 ha), silage and green maize (156 ha) and plants for green harvest (249 ha) were grown.

Public facilities

State institutions

• Correctional facility

Community institutions

• Three-group municipal day-care center in Feldheim with 50 kindergarten and 12 crèche places; In March 2018, 56 children attended the day care center
• City house Niederschönenfeld
• Feldheim municipal building yard
• Feldheim and Niederschönenfeld volunteer fire departments

Personalities

• Sebastian Fend (1850–1918), Dean
• Johann Höringer (* 1933), 1st Mayor from 1966 to 1996, honorary citizen and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

literature

• Joseph Baader , History of the Frauenkloster Niederschönenfeld in Antonius Steichele (Ed.): Archive for the History of the Diocese of Augsburg , Volume I. Augsburg 1856. (Digital copies: from page 173 )
• Johann Georg Scheifele, statistics and topography of the municipal district and the village of Niederschönefeld in royal Bavaria. Administrative districts of Upper Bavaria, Regional Court Rain in Upper Bavarian Archive , Volume 21, Munich 1861, pp. 251-276 (this article is missing in the digital version)
• Richard Dertsch : The German settlement of eastern Bavarian Central Swabia presented in its historical features , in: Archive for the history of the Hochstift Augsburg vol. VI (1929), pp. 297–432, here especially p. 383 ff. With regard to the Schwaighöfe (Wörthen ).
• Adalbert Riehl, Werner Schmidt, Franz Müller a. a., Niederschönenfeld and Feldheim - 750 years of eventful history , Rain 1990.

Web links

Commons : Niederschönenfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Niederschönenfeld  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Niederschönenfeld: Official statistics of the LfStat
• Niederschönenfeld in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library

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. ^ Municipality of Niederschönenfeld in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 1, 2019.
3. ^ Page from the House of Bavarian History about Niederschönenfeld
4. ^ 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. 794 .
5. ↑ https://www.niederschoenenfeld.de/niederschoenenfeld/index2.php?id=32
6. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing: Statistics communal http://www.statistik.bayern.de/statistikkommunal/09779192.pdf .