Oberopfingen

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Oberopfingen
Coat of arms of Oberopfingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 43 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 565 m above sea level NN
Residents : 678  (2011)
Incorporation : 1st October 1974
Postal code : 88457
Area code : 08395

Oberopfingen is a part of the municipality of Kirchdorf an der Iller in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

description

The community is located on the Iller and the state road 300. To the south the place has a common border with Tannheim , to the west with Berkheim and to the east it borders on Heimertingen in the Unterallgäu district .

The Illerkanal flows through the area around the town in a north-south direction , crosses Europastraße 43 / Bundesautobahn 7 and Bundesstraße 312 . The B 312 passes the motorway feeder and joins the federal highway 300 in the area of ​​the administrative district of Swabia .

History and Buildings

In 1182 the location on the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes was in a document from Pope Lucius III. mentioned. For centuries, parts of the place or sometimes the entire place belonged alternately to the spiritual territory of the Reichsabbey Ochsenhausen or the Reichsabbey Rot an der Rot .

Town hall, fire station and church

In the middle, a little to the east, is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Vincentius, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1721 during the term of office of the Ochsenhausen abbot Beda Werner . A funeral or funeral hall and the cemetery of the place belong to the church. Both buildings are enclosed by the cemetery wall. The parish belongs to pastoral care unit 1 Illertal in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .

On October 1, 1972, Oberopfingen was incorporated into Kirchdorf an der Iller.

Immediately next to the church is the former school building and fire station . The upper floors are used by the local associations. The local administration is located on the ground floor, with the Wilhelm-Sailer-Kindergarten a little below in an easterly direction .

economy

Oberopfingen is predominantly agricultural. In 2009 the Liebherr company acquired a 37 hectare property, conveniently located on the B 312 , near the A7 . There, in 2015, with a construction sum of approx. 115 million euros, a new logistics center responsible for all divisions of the group based in continental Europe. During the same period, a new administration building was also opened on the site. a. the central IT units of the group. Since the spring of 2016, construction work has been developing the southern part of the site, on which infrastructure and buildings for part of the components division previously located in Kirchdorf an der Iller were built.

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold a slanted red abbot's staff , covered by a blue oblique left-hand wave bar. The abbot documents the centuries-long membership in the Reichsabbey Rot an der Rot .

literature

  • The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume VII: Tübingen District, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 545 .
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Bauzeitung: Liebherr opened new logistics center on August 3, 2015, accessed on September 26, 2015
  3. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Liebherr logistics center can now grow from July 17, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2013