Pleas

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Pless
Pleas
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Pleß highlighted

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Unterallgäu
Management Community : Boos
Height : 558 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.39 km 2
Residents: 859 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 87773
Area code : 08335
License plate : MN
Community key : 09 7 78 188
Association administration address: Fuggerstrasse 3
87737 Boos
Website : www.vgem-boos.de
Mayor : Anton Keller
Location of the municipality of Pleß in the Unterallgäu district
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Pleß is a municipality in the Bavarian district of Unterallgäu and a member of the Boos administrative community .

geography

Pleß is located about 14 kilometers north of Memmingen an der Iller in the Unterallgäu district and is therefore part of the cross-border planning region Danube-Iller .

Municipal area

The municipal area consists only of the district Pleß.

Population development

  • 1840: 0527 inhabitants
  • 1900: 0656 inhabitants
  • 1931: 0646 inhabitants
  • 1946: 1028 inhabitants
  • 1952: 0974 inhabitants
  • 1961: 0757 inhabitants
  • 1970: 0730 inhabitants
  • 1991: 0728 inhabitants
  • 1995: 0832 inhabitants
  • 2000: 0839 inhabitants
  • 2004: 0891 inhabitants
  • 2010: 0847 inhabitants
  • 2015: 0838 inhabitants
  • 2017: 0861 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 702 to 861 by 159 inhabitants or by 22.7%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017
 %
70
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
52.6%
8.7%
16.6%
7.7%
5.4%
2.3%
2.9%
3.8%
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2013
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-12
-14
-13.1  % p
-0.9  % p
+ 10.4  % p
+ 2.7  % p.p.
+1.0  % p
+ 0.6  % p
+1.4  % p
-2.2  % p
Otherwise.

Mayor and City Council

The farmer Anton Keller (* 1958) has been the mayor since May 2014; he was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with 57.5% of the vote.

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

  • CSU : 4 seats (52.3%)
  • Non-partisan voter association: 4 seats (47.7%).

In the 2014 to 2020 term of office, there was only the election proposal of the non-partisan voters' association, which received all 8 seats.

Community finances

In 2009 the gross expenditure of the municipality amounted to 1.7 million euros with 0.464 million euros in municipal tax income.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the government of Swabia on March 24, 1987.

Description : “Split by silver and blue, topped with a lowered wave bar split by black and gold; in front a black patriarchal cross on which a narrow silver double bar cross is placed, behind a golden heraldic lily over a lying silver crescent moon. "

The cross in the front part of the coat of arms is reminiscent of the pilgrimage to the Holy Cross near Pless, which has been one of the most popular pilgrimages in the Central Swabian region since the 17th century. The silver cross is the symbol of the Lower Hospital of Memmingen, which has been wealthy in the municipality since the Middle Ages. In 1542 the Unterhospital acquired the entire rule of Pleß, but sold it to Anton Fugger in 1547. The lily from the Fugger coat of arms commemorates the new rulers who sold the village to the Buxheim Charterhouse in 1719. The moon is taken from the crest of the Charterhouse. The silver-blue tinging of the coat of arms reminds of the very early rights of the dukes and electors of Bavaria in the municipality, for example as fiefs of the village court in Pless. The wave bar indicates the location of the municipality on the Iller, which is the border river between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Theodor Goerge from Freising.

flag

The flag is striped blue and yellow with the municipal coat of arms.

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

  • Pleß is a rural village. In 1999 there were 39 farms and in 2008 there were 25 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1118 hectares, 722 hectares of which were permanent green.
  • In 2009 there were 52 employees in the manufacturing sector and no employees subject to social insurance contributions in the trade and transport sector.

traffic

Pleß is on the Iller cycle path , a long-distance connection for cyclists between Ulm and Oberstdorf along the river.

The Neu-Ulm – Kempten railway line runs east of the town . However, the stop on this railway line was closed, so that no more trains stop here. In the course of the Regio-S-Bahn Donau-Iller , however, a reopening of a stop in Pless is planned.

education

  • Kindergarten: 50 kindergarten places with 25 children (2009)
  • Primary school: closed in 1985

Worth seeing

South facade of St. Gordian and St. Epimachus
  • Parish church of St. Gordian and Epimach from 1766/67, probably the most important village church in the Memmingen area
  • Pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross from 1665; the so-called Kreuzkapelle with statues by Ignaz Waibl is located on a formerly open floor between Pless and Fellheim. The expiatory foot pilgrimage to the Holy Cross of Pless was reintroduced in 1973. It begins in the parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Fellheim to an allegedly miraculous cross in the Kreuzkapelle, three kilometers away, in the district of Pless. The pilgrimage, in which up to 3,000 pilgrims from the Illertal and the surrounding area take part, takes place on the second Monday evening before sunset from May to October.

literature

  • Municipality of Pleß (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the municipality of Pleß in the district of Unterallgäu. On the history of a Swabian village. without year.
  • Hans Jochemko: 1150 years of Pless - A community through the ages. 1988

Web links

Commons : Pleß (Unterallgäu)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
  3. ↑ SMA / Intraplan: Regio-S-Bahn Donau-Iller results of the main study (PDF; 2.4 MB), November 27, 2012, accessed on November 19, 2013