Pfaffenhausen

This article describes the Pfaffenhausen market in Bavaria. For other meanings, see Pfaffenhausen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Pfaffenhausen
Height :	563 m above sea level NHN
Area :	21.14 km 2
Residents:	2626 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	124 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87772
Area code :	08265
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 187
Market structure:	7 parts of the community
Market administration address :	Hauptstrasse 34 87772 Pfaffenhausen
Website :	www.pfaffenhausen.info
Mayor :	Franz Renftle (CSU / FW, Independent Citizens' Community)
Location of the Pfaffenhausen market in the Unterallgäu district

Pfaffenhausen from the south

Pfaffenhausen is a market in the Upper Swabian district of Unterallgäu and the seat of the Pfaffenhausen administrative community .

geography

Pfaffenhausen is located about 35 kilometers northeast of Memmingen in the Donau-Iller region in the Upper Swabian Mindeltal .

Expansion of the municipal area

The municipality consists of the districts Pfaffenhausen, Egelhofen, Schöneberg and Weilbach.

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

• Egelhofen ( Kirchdorf )
• Heinzenhof ( hamlet )
• Hertlehof ( wasteland )
• Mindelberg (hamlet)
• Pfaffenhausen (main town)
• Schöneberg ( parish village )
• Weilbach (Kirchdorf)

The places Hechenberg , which was mentioned in 1422 and was still run as a fief in 1741, have gone. The settlement is said to have been in the direction of Breitenbrunn. Raffenweiler and Schweinling were mentioned in 1428 and were near Pfaffenhausen. Übermütingen was between Weilbach and Pfaffenhausen. The name suggests Saxon naming. Since 1420 the name has only appeared as a field name without an associated place.

history

Until the 19th century

Pfaffenhausen was probably created due to the ending hausen in the Swabian settlement phase of the 8th century. It is certain that the place was composed of three early settlements. The village settlement around the parish church and the so-called Maierhof is the oldest part of the market. The castle settlement was later attached to the place. The settlement consisted of the castle and the farm buildings, which stood on a small hill. Only then was the market settlement, which was connected to the village settlement. The street, which is atypical for villages and markets, was laid out deliberately by the local lord in order to be able to hold market days later. The priests of Pfaffenhausen is likely to be surfaced later in the name, as a pastoral minister, in the Swabian priest called, settled in the town. The place was first mentioned in 1167 with the Ottobeurer reliquary donation of the abbot Isingrim . Pfaffenhausen belonged to the Alemannic tribal princes first. In the 12th century the place came under the Swabian ruling family of the Guelphs . As the so-called Milde Welf Welf VI. died in his nearby main town Memmingen , Pfaffenhausen also came to the Staufer . What is certain is that ownership passed to the Margraves of Burgau as early as 1293. In 1295 Pfaffenhausen came to the Bishop of Augsburg. At the same time he acquired the patronage rights of the parish church of St. Stephen . The Augsburg bishop Wolfhard von Roth donated the Pfaffenhausen market to the bishopric of Augsburg during his tenure from 1288 to 1302 . In 1360 the place was given market rights. Until around 1690 the fair was held at St. Mang and St. Michaeli. The market was added later on Whit Monday. It was not until 1811 that the third fair, the so-called fasting market , was held on the third Sunday of Lent. Pfaffenhausen was first referred to as Markt und Flecken in 1391 . To protect it, the market was surrounded by a wide moat. Since earlier times there was a lower local nobility in Pfaffenhausen, who named themselves after the place of Pfaffenhausen . They were ministers, chamberlains, knights and servants. These gentlemen are likely to have finally left their traditional seat as early as 1360. 1487 was Pflegamt Pfaffenhausen created. In addition to the lower , Pfaffenhausen also had the high jurisdiction . Under Emperor Maximilian I , an executioner also had his seat in the market. Despite various pledges, the bishopric kept the market in its possession until secularization . Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place has belonged to Bavaria, the large holdings of the Hochstift Augsburg was transferred. The heyday of the place ended with the Bavarian occupation. However, the economic structure was largely retained. The Pfaffenhauser Schloss was demolished in 1808. In 1809 the place still had 80 craftsmen, including seven bakers, five brewers, eight weavers and one bricklayer. The market received its first school building in 1894.

20th century

A hospital was opened in Pfaffenhausen in 1907. In 1909 Pfaffenhausen received a railway connection with the Pfaffenhausen – Kirchheim branch line, which was shut down in 1966. In 1910 the Mittelschwabenbahn to Krumbach was opened. In 1937, the number of craft businesses in 36 different trades increased to 95. This structure lasted up to the present day and survived the two world wars. The number of farms has been falling steadily since the Second World War. In 1958 and 1959 a new school house was built, which in 1969 became the association school of the Pfaffenhausen School Association.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent community of Weilbach was incorporated. On May 1, 1978 Egelhofen and Schöneberg were added.

Population development

• 1961: 2101 inhabitants
• 1970: 2050 inhabitants
• 1987: 1997 inhabitants
• 1991: 2240 inhabitants
• 1995: 2264 inhabitants
• 2000: 2264 inhabitants
• 2005: 2367 inhabitants
• 2010: 2360 inhabitants
• 2015: 2525 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 2,032 to 2,590 by 558 inhabitants or 27.5%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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Gains and losses

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mayor

Mayor is Franz Renftle. In 2017 he succeeded Roland Krieger (UBG).

Municipal council

The election on March 15, 2020 had the following result:

• CSU / Free Voters: 8 seats (53.6%)
• Independent civic community : 6 seats (46.4%)

Compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office, the nomination by CSU / Free Voters won a seat from the Independent Citizens' Community.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by King Ludwig I of Bavaria on March 31, 1836 .

Blazon : “In a field divided by silver and blue; a diamond divided by black and silver. "

The raised diamond comes from the seal image of the former local lord, knight Jakob von Pfaffenhausen , (certificate dated June 21, 1333) and was placed on a field in the Bavarian national colors.
The market in Pfaffenhausen followed the instructions of the Bavarian King Ludwig I, according to which "memorable or uplifting local moments" should be taken into account when awarding the coat of arms. Regardless of the field color black replaced by blue, the royal administration was wrong here. So the diamond of the coat of arms model was not (vertically) "split", but (horizontally) "divided", which did not correspond to the historical seal of nobility.

flag

The black-white-blue striped flag with the municipal coat of arms was approved on December 9, 1971 with a decision by the government of Swabia.

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Stephan

The catholic parish church St. Stephan and the former seminary building and today's home for the blind are worth seeing . The former Zehentstadel, the large box house , serves as the house of the clubs and fire station. The old town hall is also one of the sights of the market. The Pfaffenhauser Moos nature reserve is located north of Pfaffenhausen .

See also : List of architectural monuments in Pfaffenhausen

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998 there were 47 employees in agriculture and forestry, 750 in manufacturing, 96 in trade and transport and 241 in other economic sectors at the place of work. There were a total of 740 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were eight companies in the manufacturing sector and seven in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 77 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1580 hectares, of which 486 were arable land and 1093 were permanent green areas.

Some automobile enthusiasts are familiar with Pfaffenhausen through the local vehicle manufacturer RUF Automobile GmbH . The company, founded in 1939 by Alois Ruf senior, deals exclusively with the production of high-performance sports cars based on Porsche vehicles, which are built from the body shell. The company was granted manufacturer status in 1981 by the Flensburg Federal Motor Transport Authority .

traffic

Location map of Pfaffenhausen

In Pfaffenhausen the B 16 and the state road St 2037 cross . Pfaffenhausen is connected to the federal motorway 96 Memmingen - Munich by the B 16 . Pfaffenhausen has a train station on the Günzburg – Mindelheim railway line . Pfaffenhausen is connected to air traffic with Memmingen Airport, which is around 35 kilometers away, and Munich Airport, around 80 kilometers away .

education

The Pfaffenhausen elementary school is the seat of the Pfaffenhausen School Association, which was founded in 1969/1970. It consists of the school association communities Breitenbrunn , Oberrieden , Pfaffenhausen and Salgen . The school association has branches in Breitenbrunn and Loppenhausen . In 1999 the school had 37 teachers and 683 students. There is also a kindergarten with 100 kindergarten places in Pfaffenhausen. The community maintains a community library.

Sons and daughters

• Ludwig Schöpf (1843–1918), long-time mayor of the market town of Pfaffenhausen, member of the Reichstag and state parliament

Web links

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

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

• www.pfaffenhausen.info
• Pfaffenhausen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF file; 1 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. ^ Parish Pfaffenhausen in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 15, 2019.
3. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 524 .
4. ↑ ^{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. 782 .
5. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018