Rain (Lech)

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Rain
Height :	402 m above sea level NHN
Area :	77.12 km 2
Residents:	8891 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86641
Primaries :	09090, 08276 , 08432
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 201
City structure:	24 parts of the community
; City administration address :	Hauptstrasse 60 ; 86641 Rain
Website :	www.rain.de
Mayor :	Karl Rehm ( PWG )
Location of the city of Rain in the Donau-Ries district

Memorial for the general Tilly († 1632) on the town hall square

Main street in Rain

View over the Danube to Rain

Rain is a town in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and the seat of the Rain administrative community .

geography

location

It is located about 40 kilometers north of Augsburg , near the confluence of the Lech and the Danube . Before the district reform on July 1, 1972, the city belonged to the district of Neuburg an der Donau .

Community structure

The municipality consists of 11 districts and has 24 officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement and the number of inhabitants as of December 31, 2014 are given in brackets ):

District Bayerdilling (730 Ew.) With Bayerdilling ( Pfarrdorf )
District Etting (198 Ew.) With fountain ( wasteland ), Etting ( Kirchdorf ), Kopfmühle (wasteland) and Tödting ( hamlet )
District Gempfing (421 Ew.) Gempfing (parish village), Schlagmühle (desert) and Überacker ( village )
District Mittelstetten (121 Ew.) With Mittelstetten (Kirchdorf) and Neuhof (hamlet)
District Oberpeiching (216 Ew.) With Oberpeiching (Kirchdorf) and Sägmühle (wasteland)
District Rain (6.435 Ew.) With Rain (main town)
District Sallach (181 Ew.) With Sallach (Kirchdorf)
District Staudheim (437 Ew.) With Staudheim (parish village)
District Oberpeiching, corridor Unterpeiching (92 Ew.) With Unterpeiching (Kirchdorf)
District Wächtering (116 Ew.) With Hausen (wasteland), Holzmühle (wasteland), Nördling (wasteland), Strauppen (wasteland) and Wächtering (Kirchdorf)
District Wallerdorf (467 Ew.) With Agathenzell (desert), Hagenheim (village) and Wallerdorf (Kirchdorf)

Neighboring communities

	Niederönenfeld
Genderkingen		Burgheim
Muenster	Holzheim	Poettmes

history

Until the 19th century

Illustration of the city by Matthäus Merian from 1665

The city was first mentioned in a document from the Niederschönenfeld Monastery on July 4, 1257, where it is referred to as "civitas nostra", the ducal city. It is very likely that Rain owes its foundation between 1248 and 1253 to the Bavarian Duke Otto II. , At the latest, however, to Duke Ludwig II. Before 1257. For this purpose, the town of Brucklach, located a little further south in the direction of Bayerdilling, was relocated. Today only the Brucklacher Strasse bears witness to this lost village . Economic and strategic reasons such as securing the Duchy of Bavaria to the northwest were likely to have been essential for the city's foundation . The city of Rain took the ducal customs on the Lech Bridge.

In 1372 Rain was given lower jurisdiction and became the seat of a ducal Bavarian regional court .

In 1394 the city received the right to change money from the salt defeat . The salt, wine, cattle, iron and bridge tariffs brought Rain the third highest income within Bavaria after Ingolstadt and Friedberg . They were lost in the Landshut War of Succession in 1505. During the war, Pfalz-Neuburg was founded , so Rain became a border town in three directions. Only in the south and southeast was no foreign country.

In the Battle of Rain am Lech in the Thirty Years War tried on 14./15. April 1632 Count von Tilly and the army of the Catholic League in vain to prevent King Gustav Adolf of Sweden from crossing the Lech to Bavaria. The general of the League Army was transported to Ingolstadt seriously wounded at the beginning of the battle and died there on April 30, 1632 as a result of a gunshot wound to the leg. The defeated army had to retreat to Ingolstadt, losing its artillery, and the Swedish army devastated Bavaria on its way to Munich.

In 1806 Rain and the surrounding area were assigned to the new Altmühlkreis , in 1810 to the Upper Danube District .

As a result of the reform initiated by King Ludwig I on November 29, 1837 , the city lost its lower jurisdiction. The district court Rain changed in 1838 to the new administrative district of Upper Bavaria , was assigned to the new district office of Aichach in 1862 and in 1880 to the Swabian district office of Neuburg an der Donau .

20th and 21st centuries

The Rain District Court fell victim to austerity measures in 1932.

On July 1, 1972, with the regional reform in Bavaria, the last change in the district membership took place. The originally old Bavarian town of Rain and its surrounding area became Swabian and belonged to the new district of Nördlingen-Donauwörth, which was given its current name on May 1, 1973, district of Donau-Ries .

Rain celebrated the 750th anniversary of the first documentary mention in 2007 with a year-round program, concerts, exhibitions, lectures, entertainment, parties and activities.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Gempfing , Oberpeiching , Sallach and Staudheim were incorporated. On January 1st, 1975 Bayerdilling , Etting , Wächtering and Wallerdorf were added. Mittelstetten was incorporated on January 1, 1977. Unterpeiching followed on May 1, 1978. The city grew considerably by incorporating these places.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 6,805 to 8,836 by 2,031 inhabitants or 29.9%.

politics

City council

The local elections on March 15, 2020 led to the following result for the composition of the city council:

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	+/-
CSU	24.30%	5	± 0
SPD	13.59%	3	± 0
Voter association Rainer districts	18.92%	4th	- 1
PWG (party-free voter group)	15.71%	3	+ 1
JBU (Young Citizens - Independent)	15.81%	3	± 0
Free voters / FW Rain	11.68%	2	+ 1
total	100%	20th
voter turnout	62.47%

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: Divided; above in black the looking, red crowned head of a golden lion, below awakened by silver and blue.

mayor

The mayor is Karl Rehm (PWG), who was elected with 55.54% of the valid votes in the mayoral election on March 29, 2020. He succeeded Gerhard Martin (SPD), who had held this office since 1990. Rehm's competitor, Claudia Marb (CSU), received 44.46% of the vote. The turnout was 68.03%.

Mayor since 1945:

Otto Spreitler, acting (1945)
Josef Müller (1945–1948)
Carl Faig (1948–1966)
Karl Würmseher, PWG (1966–1990)
Gerhard Martin, SPD (1990-2020)
Karl Rehm, PWG (since 2020)

Town twinning

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso : Rain has had a partnership with the city of Tougan in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta ) since January 18, 1974 . Tougan is a provincial capital near the Sahel zone .
Hungary Hungary : On May 20, 2012, the partnership with the Taksony municipality in Hungary was officially sealed.

Culture and sights

Museums

The Lachner Brothers Museum, the Jean Daprai Museum and a local history museum are located in the city .

Buildings

The rococo town hall stands exposed in the city center and was built between 1759 and 1762. Under the direction of the Munich architect Erwin Schleich and the local architect Anton Fuchs, today's town hall complex was created through the extension (1985–1987) and the general renovation of the Rococo building and the so-called Altherr House (1987–1989). Also worth seeing are the Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist with late Gothic frescoes (around 1480), the Schwabtor, the hospital with All Saints' Chapel and the former castle . The Tilly monument, which was donated by the Augsburg Citizens' Congregation and unveiled on the Rathausplatz on July 19, 1914, is also in Rain .

town hall
Schwabtor
City parish church
lock

Architectural monuments

nature

As part of the Lechtal habitat project , the Fohlenweide nature trail was created. The Dehner Flower Park was also artificially created. From May 29th to August 23rd 2009 the Bavarian regional garden show Nature took place in Rain .

Regular events

The Rainer City Festival takes place every second weekend in July. There have been four annual fairs since the 14th century. The dates, each with the afternoon of the retail trade open, are the last Sunday in April (Maimarkt), the last Sunday in July (Jakobimarkt), the second Sunday in September (Autumn Market) and the second Sunday in November (Martini Market). The Rainer Castle Christmas is on the second weekend in Advent (Thursday to Sunday).

societies

Georg Weber Stadium

The TSV 1896 Rain offers numerous sports and has some 1,300 members. In football, he will be represented with his 1st team in the Regionalliga Bayern from 2019 , in which it played from 2012 to 2014. The soccer team plays its home games in the Georg Weber Stadium . The first women's team of the bowling department became champions in the regional league Swabia / Upper Bavaria in the 2007/08 season and rose to the regional league south.

The larger of the 50 or so clubs in the city center include the tennis club (TC Rot-Weiß Rain), the carnival club (FCR), the curling club (ESV Rain), the royal-privileged shooting society and the fishing club (ASV Rain). There are volunteer fire brigades in the city center and in ten districts; there are five rifle clubs in the districts, the Bayerdilling sports club and the Staudheim football club.

Economy and Infrastructure

Commercial establishments

Rain is the headquarters of the Dehner garden center chain . It employs over 1100 people there.

The German subsidiary of the Dutch company Aviko, a manufacturer of potato products, and the Potato Center Bavaria are also located here. This not only organizes the entire supply of raw materials for the Aviko company, but is also Bavaria's largest potato marketer for agriculture in the region.

Along with Ochsenfurt and Plattling, Rain is one of three Südzucker plants in Bavaria with around 240 to 280 employees. The catchment area includes Swabia, Upper Bavaria and parts of Baden-Württemberg. In the IT sector, 4Sellers, founded in 1999, is based in Rain with around 130 employees. IFA Technology, manufacturer of industrial weighing, mixing and dosing systems, was founded in 1980 in the city.

The larger employers also include the production facility of terrasan Haus- + Gartenbedarf GmbH, which was taken over by the Compo group , Krämer GmbH (industrial containers) and the branches of Sparkasse Neuburg-Rain and VR Bank Neuburg-Rain .

traffic

The city lies on the B 16 ( Ulm - Regensburg ) as well as on the Ingolstadt – Neuoffingen railway line , the Bavarian Danube Valley Railway. Rain train station is served every hour during the week in each direction, and every two hours on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

The south-east bypass was completed on October 15, 2010, relieving the urban area of Rain from through traffic. The first construction section from Bundesstraße 16 to Neuburger Straße (with the connection of the district road to Staudheim and the state road to Gempfing) was handed over on September 15, 2007, the second section from Neuburger Straße to Unterpeiching was realized in 2010.

Rain (Lech) has been on the Romantic Road since 2009 due to a change in the route .

education

The Johannes-Bayer-Volksschule ( primary school ) has 18 classes with 443 students including the branch in Genderkingen with two classes. The all-day class, extended lunchtime care and the after-school care center during the holidays ensure that parents of elementary school children can combine work and family. The Lachner Brothers Middle School (with M-Zug and all-day class, 21 classes with 380 students) and the Staatliche Realschule (33 classes with 902 students) are housed in the school center. The closest grammar schools are in Donauwörth and Neuburg an der Donau . There are six day-care centers , four of them in the city center (Am Schloss, Bei der Klause, Krippe Am Rathaus and Waldkindergarten Lechfasane) and one each in Bayerdilling and Gempfing. 282 children are looked after from the first year of life to school enrollment (as of 2014), booking times are offered from four to nine hours including lunch.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

More people

Georg Tannstetter , called Collimitius (scholar and humanist, 1482–1535)
Caspar Lagus (jurist and professor, 1536 / 33–1606)
Georg Mayr (Jesuit, linguist, 1564–1623)
Johannes Bayer (lawyer and creator of the uranometria , 1572–1625)
Joseph von Weber (scientist and clergyman, 1753–1831)
Richard Anton Nikolaus Carron du Val (lawyer and mayor of Augsburg, 1793–1846)
Theodor Lachner (court organist and music teacher, 1795–1877)
Ernst Kaiser (landscape painter, 1803–1865)
Franz Lachner (musician, 1803–1890)
Ignaz Lachner (musician, 1807–1895)
Vinzenz Lachner (musician, 1811-1893)
Ludwig Wilhelm Fischer (district judge and local researcher, 1817–1890)
Johann Pollak (sculptor, 1843–1917)
Anna Maria Brandmaier (lover of the painter Franz von Stuck , 1875 in the Bayerdilling district − 1944 in Munich)
Heinrich Huber (church composer, 1879–1916)
Michael Raucheisen (pianist and accompanist, 1889–1984)
Otto Stickl (hygienist and university professor, 1897–1951)
Georg Weber (entrepreneur, 1910–1986)
Hans-Georg Andreae (farmer and agricultural functionary, 1934-2014)
Dieter Reiter (* 1958), graduate in administrative management and local politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Munich since May 2014
Johann Evangelist Hafner (* 1963), theologian and philosopher
Bernd Meier (professional footballer, 1972–2012)

Filmography

The director Franz Xaver Bogner shot the exterior shots of his series Der Kaiser von Schexing in the Rainer Rathaus .

literature

Markus Würmseher u. a .: Rain am Lech in the Middle Ages. 750 years of Rain 1257–2007. City of Rain, Rain 2007.
Ludwig Dorn: History from Rain. Summary and new edition of the city history works. Rain 1985.
Ludwig Wilhelm Fischer : Topographical history of the city of Rain. Munich 1858. Digital collection .
Franz Dionys Reithofer : Chronological history of the Bavarian cities of Dillingen , Lauingen and Rain; collects materials on the history of the former University of Dillingen , and notes from strange Lauingen residents from unused handwritten sources. DILLINGEN 1821 ( E-copy ), in particular page 112 et seq. ,