Riegsee (municipality)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Riegsee
Riegsee (municipality)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Riegsee highlighted

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Upper Bavaria
County : Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Management Community : Seehausen on the Staffelsee
Height : 668 m above sea level NHN
Area : 20.43 km 2
Residents: 1193 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 82418
Area code : 08841
License plate : Cap
Community key : 09 1 80 128
Community structure: 9 parts of the community
Association administration address: Am
Graswegerer 1 82418 Seehausen a.Staffelsee
Website : www.riegsee.de
Mayor : Jörg Steinleitner (community of voters)
Location of the municipality of Riegsee in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district
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View from Aidlinger Höhe to Aidling (in front) and Riegsee on the lake of the same name; beyond it Murnau, behind the Zugspitze and the Ettaler Manndl
Riegsee (town and lake) with Aidling (right) and Leibersberg (left) in the background, in the foreground the Froschhauser See

Riegsee is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and a member of the Seehausen am Staffelsee administrative community . The place is part of the tourist region Das Blaue Land .

geography

Riegsee is located in the Oberland region on the Riegsee of the same name .

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

history

Until the churches are founded

There is evidence that people lived in what is now the Riegsee municipality, cultivated the soil and were buried here as early as the Bronze Age (around 2000 to 1400 BC) and the late Hallstatt period (around 750 to 450 BC). Numerous barrows and grave goods are evidence of this.

The first written mention of the place Riegsee goes back to the year 1150. Riegsee belonged to the Munich Rent Office and the Weilheim district court of the Electorate of Bavaria . A Bavarian row grave field on the northern outskirts from the early Middle Ages as well as the remains of an old Romanesque building (around 1000 to 1270 AD) of St. Stephen's Church point to this.

The Aidling part of the community was first mentioned in 710 and was the seat of a Hofmark until 1716 .

In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the municipal edict of 1818 created the municipalities of Riegsee and Aidling, which belonged to the Weilheim district court .

District affiliation

On July 1, 1972, these municipal areas were added to the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district (previously Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ).

Incorporations

On January 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Aidling was incorporated as part of the municipal reform.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 1,017 to 1,197 by 180 inhabitants or 17.7%.

  • 1961: 0717 inhabitants
  • 1970: 0794 inhabitants
  • 1987: 1000 inhabitants
  • 1991: 1089 inhabitants
  • 1995: 1088 inhabitants
  • 2000: 1147 inhabitants
  • 2005: 1145 inhabitants
  • 2010: 1155 inhabitants
  • 2015: 1204 inhabitants

politics

mayor

Mayor is Jörg Steinleitner (community of voters).

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: “Divided into waves by silver and blue; above a red deer hull, below a golden pitchfork and a golden abbot's staff, crossed at an angle. "

Economy including agriculture and forestry

There were a total of 265 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were none in the manufacturing sector and three in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 53 farms with an agricultural area of ​​1074 hectares. Of this, 13 hectares were arable and 1059 hectares were permanent green.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments and ground monuments

The best known of the 16 monuments in the municipality of Riegsee are:

  • the Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Aidling, built in 1749
  • the Catholic branch church St. Stephan in Riegsee, built in the 15th century and redesigned in Baroque style in 1740
  • the Catholic branch church of St. Blasius in Hagen, built in 1734

There are also 19 archaeological monuments in the municipality of Riegsee, including burial mounds with burials from the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt Age, as well as a hilltop settlement from the Early and Middle Bronze Age, the Late Latène Age and the Roman Empire, as well as the castle stables from the High and Late Middle Ages ("Hagen").

The well-marked the third stage of the meditation path Ammergau Alps in the Blue Land leads from Murnau over Riegsee and Riegsee along the Aidlinger trail over moraines of Würm with a height of up to 792 m to Höhlmühle and back to Aidling.

education

  • Kindergarten with 25 places
  • The elementary school, a secondary school, a middle school and a grammar school are located in Murnau am Staffelsee, 4 km away .

Others

Public bookcase in front of the municipal office in Riegsee

In Riegsee there has been a public bookcase in a converted telephone booth in front of the municipal office since 2016 . In addition, there has been a ride-on bench since 2017 , which can be used as a self- carved local transport for carpooling to Aidling and Murnau am Staffelsee. Both projects were implemented as part of holiday programs by children from the community under the guidance of the writer Jörg Steinleitner and the paper artist Johannes Volkmann.

The working group history of the municipality of Riegsee has so far published three volumes of the Riegsee Ortschronik:

  • Volume 3: The Road to Democracy 1919 to 1949
  • Volume 5: The land in the "upper Ambt" - corridors of the Aidling and Riegsee districts and their management
  • Volume 8: The Aidlinger School - God for honor ', the students for teaching'

Web links

Commons : Riegsee (municipality)  - 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 Riegsee in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Riegsee - a pile dwelling settlement? Riegsee municipality, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  4. Hofmark Aidling and Lichtenegg Castle. Riegsee municipality, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ 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. 578 .
  6. Imprint of the municipality's website
  7. Architectural and ground monuments of the Riegsee community. (PDF; 309 kB) Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, July 28, 2018, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  8. Meditation Trail, 3rd stage (Murnau – Aidling). The Blue Land, accessed on July 8, 2019 .
  9. Kindergarten Zwergerlhaus Riegsee. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  10. Andreas Seiler: Unusual holiday project in Riegsee: mini village library in telephone booth: reading pleasure on one square meter. Münchner Merkur, August 24, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
  11. Birgit Schwarzenberger: Carpooling Initiative in Riegsee and Aidling: The slightly different local public transport. Art project by paper artist Johannes Volkmann. Münchner Merkur, August 25, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
  12. Johannes Volkmann: Lived art of carving. "Creating something together that is useful for everyone". Konstanz company, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
  13. Riegsee Ortschronik - so far 3 volumes published. Riegsee municipality, accessed on July 7, 2019 .
  14. ^ Roland Lory: Lessons back then: A teacher for all village children. Münchner Merkur, December 19, 2016, accessed on July 7, 2019 .