Oberndorf am Lech

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '  N , 10 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Height :	407 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.36 km 2
Residents:	2572 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	133 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86698
Area code :	09090
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 196
Community structure:	5 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Eggelstetter Str. 3 86698 Oberndorf a.Lech
Website :	www.oberndorf-am-lech.de
Mayor :	Franz Moll (community of voters Oberndorf)
Location of the municipality of Oberndorf a.Lech in the Donau-Ries district

Oberndorf am Lech (officially: Oberndorf a.Lech ) is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries .

geography

East side of the Herrgottsruh Chapel (consecrated 1719)

Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Oberndorf a. Lech is located in the Augsburg region just before the Lech flows into the Danube .

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

• Eggelstetten ( Kirchdorf )
• Flein ( village )
• Wood mill ( wasteland )
• Moorsiedlung (settlement)
• Oberndorf a.Lech ( parish village )

There are the districts Eggelstetten and Oberndorf a.Lech.

history

High Middle Ages

Oberndorf was first mentioned in a deed of donation in 1093.

A Heinrich von Oberndorf is listed as a witness.

It can be assumed that Heinrich von Oberndorf is the son of Berta and the Count Palatine of Tübingen. However , it is not known whether there was a castle or a palace in Oberndorf at that time . The first documentary mention was translated by Walter Wolf from Donauwörth . The wording of the certificate is printed in the book on the occasion of “900 years of Oberndorf * Eggelstetten * Flein 1093–1993 - Pictures from our homeland” with 300 years of house chronicle from 1992 on page 27.

The marshals of Oberndorf

Pastor Heinrich Heldwein writes in his book "From the past days of the parish of Oberndorf" that there was already an episcopal marshal's office in Oberndorf around the year 1000 , because Mangold von Werth (Donauwörth) held the bailiff over the fiefdoms of this marshal's office. Adam Horn writes that Oberndorf was settled and named as an upper village from Genderkingen . It appears early on as the seat of a noble family, whose oldest representative is Marchward von Oberndorf in 1127, who soon appears as the episcopal ministerial .

Bishop Siegfried II was made Bishop of Augsburg by King Heinrich in 1077 . Friedrich Zoepfel's book states that it is conceivable that he belonged to the same sex from which the high estates' Truchessen von Donnersberg and Kühlental and the Reichsmarschalle von Rechberg branched off. In the document 198 of the Diocese of Augsburg , which reports on the possession of the church in Flein, a Salmann Siegfried von Donnersberg is also mentioned.

The Oberndorfer local nobility had been marshal of the bishops of Augsburg since 1150, and from 1386 they also held the office of truchess. Until the 15th century Oberndorf was owned by the family, in 1533 Wolf von Donnersberg sold Oberndorf with all accessories to the Fuggers . Oberndorf am Lech became the Obervogtamt of Count Fugger-Glött .

General view of the castle (picture photographed from the information board for Tillyweg)

Schlossallee in autumn

Rule of the Fuggers

With the purchase of Oberndorf Castle in 1533 by Anton Fugger , negotiations and disputes with the surrounding towns kept coming up. The Fugger family acquired the right of patronage and the church statute of Eggelstetten in 1537, that of Oberndorf in 1539. In 1576 a contract was signed between the lordship of Oberndorf and the city of Rain . The introduction to the contract can be read from an original document; the translation into today's script follows below.

"To knowledge and customer it is general that between the well-born Mr. Marx Fugger, formerly in Kirchberg and Weißenhorn , as owner of the Oberndorf lordship on the one hand, and the mayor and the council of the town of Rain, on the other hand, on the other hand, on both sides, the confusion that followed and amicable contract to an always irrevocable end was established, negotiated and resolved. "

In this contract, the Oberndorf rulership describes the boundaries of Bayerngrieß and the Fuggerwald. The so-called milestones are a “coupled Felber”, the Mühlbach, a “twelfth pear tree with a cross carved into it”, three oak mark points, which a “Kröde to over the Lech on a Koppedes pear tree calls”. In addition to Bayer semolina, the so-called quarrel grit is also reported. The rule of Oberndorf also had jurisdiction . This should have been the reason for the erection of a quick gallows. The place where this gallows was erected is not apparent from the letter from Elector Ferdinand to Count Fugger. The introduction to the letter is reproduced from an original print in the 1992 translation of the Chronicle on page 36.

Thirty Years' War

At the Battle of Rain am Lech on 14./15. In April 1632, the troops under King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden fought in Oberndorfer municipality area around the Lech crossing, which succeeded after the wounded and retreat of the League-Catholic troops led by Field Marshal Count von Tilly . Oberndorf, Eggelstetten and Flein were for the most part destroyed during the invasions of Sweden from 1632 to 1634 and 1645 to 1648.

Bavarian rule

With the Rheinbund act 1806 the place came to Bavaria . This line of Fuggers voluntarily submitted in 1806. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, with the municipal edict of 1818, today's municipality of Oberndorf am Lech was created, consisting of the districts of Oberndorf am Lech, Eggelstetten and Flein.

Incorporations

On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Eggelstetten was incorporated as part of the municipal reform.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the community grew from 1,943 to 2,565 by 622 inhabitants or 32%.

• 1961: 1652 inhabitants
• 1970: 1850 inhabitants
• 1987: 1907 inhabitants
• 1991: 2050 inhabitants
• 1995: 2198 inhabitants
• 2000: 2312 inhabitants
• 2005: 2376 inhabitants
• 2010: 2366 inhabitants
• 2015: 2442 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Since May 1, 2020, Franz Moll (Oberndorf Voting Association) has been at the head of the community due to the result of the election on March 15, 2020 .

Its predecessors were:

• May 1978 to April 1996: Franz Döschl (1941–2016)
• May 1996 to April 2002: Stefan Rößle (CSU); he has been the district administrator of the Donau-Ries district since 2002
• May 2002 to April 2020: Hubert Eberle

Municipal council

After the election in March 2014, the municipal council has this composition:

• Eggelstetten village community: 4 seats
• Alliance 90 / The Greens: 3 seats
• Oberndorf voter community: 7 seats

At the election on March 15, 2020, the following distribution of seats resulted:

• Oberndorf voter community: 7 seats
• Eggelstetten village community: 4 seats
• Committed citizens - Oberndorf, Eggelstetten, Flein: 3 seats

tax income

The municipal tax income amounted to € 1,689 thousand (2012), of which the trade tax income (net) amounted to € 464 thousand.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In silver, three blue bars pinned to the top, all covered with a heraldic golden lily.

Community partnerships

• Costermano in Italy (since 1989)
• There is a close friendly relationship with the Kainuu Brigade in Kajaani, Finland (no official partnership).

St. Margareta Church, Eggelstetten

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Oberndorf am Lech

Natural monuments

• "Kirchenallee"

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were 426 employees at the place of work in Oberndorf in 2013 and 947 employees subject to social security contributions at the place of residence. The number of out-commuters outnumbered 521 people. In 2010 there were 30 farms. Of the municipal area with 1936 hectares, 1299 hectares (67.1%) were used for agriculture. The forest area was 295 ha (15.2%), building and open space were 135 ha (7.0%).

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2014):

• two day-care centers with 73 places and 62 supervised children
• a primary school with four classes and 79 students

Personalities

• Johann Georg Bschorer (1692–1763), sculptor
• Franz Kratter (1758–1830), writer and stage manager
• Theodor Fugger von Glött (1823–1850), freedom fighter in the Bavarian Rhine Palatinate in 1849
• Stefan Rößle (* 1964), District Administrator

literature

• Heinrich Heldwein, From bygone days of the parish Oberndorf with Eggelstetten and Flein , 1st edition Donauwörth, 1928, 2nd extended edition Oberndorf, 1980
• Heimatverein Oberndorf-Eggelstetten-Flein e. V., 900 years of Oberndorf Eggelstetten Flein 1093–1993 | Pictures from our home with 300 years of house chronicles , 1992
• Mina Cyrus and Franz Wagner, The building status in God's hand | Dialect poems from the Roiner Lechschpitzländle , 1982

Web links

Commons : Oberndorf am Lech  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the coat of arms of Oberndorf am Lech  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Oberndorf am Lech: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ^ Oberndorf community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 1, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{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. 794 .
4. ^ Biography in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon