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Coat of arms of the municipality of Rückholz
Backwood
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Rückholz highlighted

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Ostallgäu
Management Community : Seeg
Height : 869 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.23 km 2
Residents: 878 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 87494
Area code : 08369
License plate : OAL, FÜS, MOD
Community key : 09 7 77 168
LOCODE : DE RKH
Community structure: 25 parts of the community
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Ortsstrasse 10
87494 Rückholz
Website : www.rueckholz.de
Mayor : Franz Erl (no party affiliation)
Location of the municipality of Rückholz in the Ostallgäu district
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Backwood from the northeast

Rückholz is a municipality in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu and a member of the Seeg administrative community .

geography

Rückholz is located in the Allgäu region in the lake district at the foot of the Allgäu Alps .

The municipal area is around 900  m above sea level. NHN high and has a number of idyllic ponds, including the Grundweiher, Luimooser Weiher, Neuweiher, Schönewalder Weiher, Schwaltenweiher and Trollweiher .

There is only the district Rückholz.

The municipality has 25 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Around 450 people live in the main town, and another 400 people live in the 24 surrounding towns.

history

Until the church is planted

In the Middle Ages, Rückholz was the seat of a lordship that had belonged to the Sankt Mang monastery since 1474 . The seat of an upper and lower court fell to the princes Oettingen-Wallerstein in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, the municipality of Rückholz came into being with the municipal edict of 1818 .

The rule of Falkensberg, owned by Emperor Maximilian around 1512 , also comprised part of what is now the municipality of Rückholz until its dissolution in 1610. The castle itself was demolished in 1593, a picture and a memorial stone at the castle builder court.

Population development

  • 1961: 590 inhabitants
  • 1970: 600 inhabitants
  • 1987: 726 inhabitants
  • 1991: 776 inhabitants
  • 1995: 820 inhabitants
  • 2000: 827 inhabitants
  • 2005: 837 inhabitants
  • 2010: 790 inhabitants
  • 2015: 845 inhabitants

Backwood grew by 60 inhabitants or around eight percent from 1988 to 2008. Between 1988 and 2018, the municipality grew from 746 to 877 by 131 inhabitants or 17.6%.

  • Grundweiher

  • Wood people

  • Dandelion blossom at the Troll pond

  • Luimoos pond

  • Otten

  • Backwood

  • Castle courtyard

  • Schönewalder Weiher

  • Schwaltenweiher from the east

  • Troll pond

politics

mayor

Franz Erl has been the first mayor since 2014 (no party affiliation).

coat of arms

Rückholz coat of arms
 Blazon : "In red, agolden abbot's staff growingout of a silver three-mountain ."

Attractions

Rückholz, church
Rückholz seen from Hollen
  • Catholic parish church of St. Georg (built before 1465, expanded in 1740) and rectory
  • Mariengrotte (built in 1893)

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 90 people in the manufacturing sector and no employees in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. There were a total of 259 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were four in the manufacturing sector and no companies in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 68 farms with an agriculturally used area of ​​1447 ha, of which 1446 ha were permanent green space.

education

In 2009 the following institutions existed:

  • Kindergartens: 27 kindergarten places with 24 children

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Hans Angerer (* around 1620; † 1650 in Turin), lute maker

Web links

Commons : Rückholz  - 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. ^ Community of Rückholz in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 17, 2019 .. Incorrectly 26 districts there. A district of Brost does not exist.
  3. ^ Entry on the Rückholz coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History