Horseheads

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Ostallgäu
Management Community :	Horseheads
Height :	816 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.05 km 2
Residents:	2234 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87672
Area code :	08367
License plate :	OAL, FÜS, MOD
Community key :	09 7 77 166
Community structure:	25 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Main street 10 ; 87672 Roßhaupten
Website :	www.rosshaupten.de
Mayor :	Thomas Pihusch ( Free Association of Voters )
Location of the community of Roßhaupten in the Ostallgäu district

Roßhaupten, Ostallgäu

Ussenburg towards Forggensee and Säuling

Roßhaupten from the Auerberg with Füssen in the background

Roßhaupten ( dialect : Rosopta ) is a municipality in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu and the seat of the administrative community Roßhaupten .

geography

Roßhaupten is located on Lake Forggensee in the Allgäu region . Roßhaupten extends over an area of 3910 hectares . The altitude is 745 (Premer Lechsee) to 1055 m above sea level (Zwieselberg or Buch). The municipality has 25 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Bischofswang ( hamlet )
Egelmoosen (hamlet)
Fischhaus ( wasteland )
Freßlesreute (hamlet)
Grünten (wasteland)
Gurremarren (wasteland)
Hinterzwieselberg (wasteland)

Hochegg (wasteland)
Huttler (wasteland)
Huttlermühle (wasteland)
Kögel (hamlet)
Langenwald (hamlet)
Lusse (wasteland)

Mangmühle (wasteland)
Nepfen (wasteland)
Rieder (hamlet)
Riedle
Roßhaupten ( parish village )
Salach (hamlet)

Sameister ( Kirchdorf )
Schwarzenbach (wasteland)
Tiefenbruck (hamlet)
Ussenburg (Kirchdorf)
Front Sulzberg (hamlet)
Vorderzwieselberg (hamlet)

The following districts exist : Roßhaupten (with the places Bischofswang, Egelmoosen, Fischhaus, Freßlesreute, Gurremarren, Hochegg, Huttler, Huttlermühle, Kögel, Langenwald, Lusse, Mangmühle, Nepfen, Rieder, Riedle, Roßhaupten, Salach, Sameister, Tiefenbruck) and Zwieselberg (with the towns of Grünten, Hinterzwieselberg, Schwarzenbach, Ussenburg and Vorderzwieselberg)

history

Until the church is planted

Around 895, the place where the dragon was killed was called "caput equi" in the Magnus legend . This Latin place name (translated head of the horse ) should be the explanation for the later German name "Roshoubet", which was first mentioned in 1206. Roßhaupten has belonged to the rulership of the Augsburg bishopric since the beginning of the 13th century . Roßhaupten has been an independent parish since 1449.

In 1459 and 1525 there were riots among the Roßhaupten farmers against the prince-bishop of Augsburg, but the place remained in the possession of the bishopric until secularization . With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place came to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in the Kingdom of Bavaria , the municipality of Roßhaupten came into being with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1969, the formerly independent community of Zwieselberg was incorporated.

Population development

1961: 1507 inhabitants
1970: 1547 inhabitants
1987: 1768 inhabitants
1991: 1871 inhabitants
1995: 1968 inhabitants
2000: 2075 inhabitants
2005: 2193 inhabitants
2010: 2120 inhabitants
2015: 2209 inhabitants

Roßhaupten grew by 349 inhabitants or approx. 19% from 1988 to 2008. Between 1988 and 2018, the municipality grew from 1807 to 2207 by 400 inhabitants or 22.1%.

politics

mayor

Mayor has been Thomas Pihusch (Free Voting Association) since May 1, 2008. On March 15, 2020, he was confirmed in office for a further six years with 94.5% of the votes without competitors.

Municipal council

For the election on March 15, 2020 , only the nomination of the Free Voting Community with 21 applicants was available. The 14 applicants from this group of voters with the highest number of votes form the local council for May 2020 to April 2026 together with the mayor. The turnout was 63.75%.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In red over two silver wavy bars, a silver horse's head.

Auerbergland

Roßhaupten is a member municipality of the inter-municipal alliance " Auerbergland ", which crosses the borders of the administrative districts of Swabia and Upper Bavaria .

Architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were 250 in the manufacturing industry and no employees in the field of trade and transport who were subject to social security contributions at the place of work. In other economic sectors, 103 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 754 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were four companies in the manufacturing sector and five in the construction sector. In 1999 there were also 82 farms with an agriculturally used area of 2345 ha, of which 2341 ha were permanent green space.

traffic

The federal highway 16 Günzburg - Füssen runs through Roßhaupten .

The Marktoberdorf – Lechbruck railway line had a train station in Roßhaupten (about two kilometers north of the town center in the hamlet of Lusse ). It was dismantled in the spring of 1974 and is now part of the steam locomotive circuit , a cycle path that has often been rebuilt on railway lines. The closest station is now Seeg on the Biessenhofen – Füssen railway line .

Roßhaupten is also on the Via Claudia Augusta - long-distance cycle path along the ancient Roman road of the same name .

education

In 2015 the following institutions existed:

two day-care centers with 75 places and 59 children
two primary schools with a total of 23 teachers and 345 children in 18 classes

Personalities

Roman Anton Boos comes from Bischofswang . As a court sculptor in the royal seat of Munich , he created the ancient gods and the ornamental vases in the garden ground floor of the Nymphenburg Palace Park , grave monuments and numerous works in the sacred area.

A bust with the portrait of Roman Anton Boos (1733–1810) is on the church wall of St. Stephan (Munich) .

Andreas Jäger (1704–1773), organ builder
The famous family of lute makers, the Tieffenbruckers, comes from Tiefenbruck with personalities such as
- Hans von Tieffenbruck (before about 1485–?), Lute maker in Roßhaupten
- Caspar Tieffenbrucker (around 1514–1571), lute maker in Füssen, Lyon, Bologna , Italy and Roßhaupten
- Jakob Tieffenbrucker (around 1500–1564), son of Ulrich (I.), lute maker in Genoa and Roßhaupten
- Magnus Tieffenbrucker (I.) (1514 – around 1595), Magnifico Mastro leutaro, lute maker in Venice and Vicenza
- Magnus Tieffenbrucker (II.) (Before 1565 – before 1577), son of Magnus (I.), lute maker in Brescia , Perugia and Roßhaupten
- Magnus Tieffenbrucker (III.) (Before 1581 – after 1629, probably 1580–1631), son of Ulrich (II.), Lute maker in Venice
- Michael Tieffenbrucker (I.) (around 1485 – around 1556), lute maker in Roßhaupten
- Michael Tieffenbrucker (II.) (Around 1520–1585), son of Michael (I.), painter, table owner, lute maker in Roßhaupten
- Wendelin Tieffenbrucker (before 1551 – after 1611), also Vendelio Venere, son of Leonhard, lute maker in Padua, father-in-law of Michael Hartung (before 1593 - after 1640), lute maker in Padua, Roßhaupten and Venice
Hans Münch (1911–2001), resident doctor in Roßhaupten; During the Nazi era, camp doctor in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps
Thomas Greiss (* 1986), ice hockey goalkeeper , grew up in the village of Roßhaupten

Legend

Dragon statue at the Tiefentalbrücke

The defeated dragon:

In the eighth century there should have been a dragon near Roßhaupten who terrified the inhabitants and loved to eat horses. He devoured the whole animal except for his head, whereupon Roßhaupten got his name. The Roßhauptner now asked Saint Magnus for help. Magnus went out against this monster alone, in one hand only a long staff that ended in a cross, in the other hand a pitch-covered wreath. The Roßhauptner wanted to stop Saint Magnus because they feared that without weapons he could do nothing against this dragon, but Magnus returned victorious. He had killed the dragon by throwing the wreath of pitch into the wide open mouth of his mouth and it died on it. In this legend, the dragon is probably an image for paganism that the missionary Magnus fought in the area around Rosshaupten in the eighth century. However, there is still a dragon to be admired in Roßhaupten. Although this is only made of stone and does not emit this fear-spreading violence, like his predecessor from the legend, he guards the road to Roßhaupten. It is on the B 16 coming from Füssen shortly after the Tiefentalbrücke.