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Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	537 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.71 km 2
Residents:	1385 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89194
Area code :	07346
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 110
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 17 ; 89194 Schnürpflingen
Website :	www.schnuerpflingen.de
Mayor :	Michael Knoll
Location of the municipality of Schnürpflingen in the Alb-Danube district

Schnürpflingen is a municipality in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Schnürpflingen located in the forest area of wooden poles on the river dedication , about 15 kilometers south of Ulm and 10 km east of Laupheim .

structure

In addition to the main town, Ammerstetten and Beuren also belong to the municipality.

history

Schnürpflingen had to serve many gentlemen and therefore has a very eventful and eventful history. However, nothing precise is known about the founding time and the early settlement history of the village. However, from the name and the location of the place it can be concluded that it is one of the oldest in the Alb-Danube district , because the place names with the ending -ingen usually come from the Carolingian period at the latest , if not from the migration or migration the Merovingian period , were founded long before the year 1000.

In the district of Ammerstetten there are traces of Roman times . Here a Roman road led to the Rommelsberg, about a quarter of an hour east of Bihlafingen. The districts of Ammerstetten (1193) and Beuren (1275) are mentioned in documents early on. The main town Schnürpflingen, which can possibly be traced back to the personal name snurtilo or snurf , was first mentioned historically in 1260.

The then Herr von Schnürpflingen, Otto Besserer , son of the Ulm city calculator Heinrich Besserer , is said to have been the founder of the Church of Schnürpflingen. Better was one of those noblemen who had a manor with the associated village as a free fiefdom within a county. Such knights were in a certain relationship of dependence on their counts. The Castle of the Better stood on the site of the former brewery. So Schnürpflingen was subordinate to the County of Kirchberg and was closely linked to its fate in the following years. Schnürpflingen also followed the path of the Dukes of Bavaria with the Counts of Kirchberg and thus temporarily incorporated them into the Upper Austrian regional association until the county was acquired by the Augsburg merchant family of the Fuggers (1507).

Consecration at Beuren

Hill near Beuren

Church of the Immaculate Conception

From the years that followed, some documents have been received that regulated the relationship between the gentlemen of Schnürpflingen and the Fuggers. The most famous document comes from the year 1572 from Christoph Fugger and Eitel Hans Besserer . This regulates the question of lower jurisdiction, forage and other things.

The place Beuren also belonged to Schnürpflingen as a free imperial fief. In the following time tensions arose between the Fuggers and the better, as the latter introduced the Reformation in Schnürpflingen.

In 1617, through marriage, the von Berlichingen families came to the place as owners of Schnürpflingen. In 1669 the Besserer lost control of Schnürpflingen, all they had left was the Beuren fiefdom. In 1694 Johann Philipp Besserer sold this imperial loan to the abbot of Wiblingen. With the sale of Beuren, the better ones had lost their last possessions, nothing is known about their further fate. The Counter-Reformation also fell into this epoch. The Schnürpflingen area remained Lutheran until 1656. Count Albert Fugger von Kirchberg then restored the old creed in Schnürpflingen. The residents were given the choice of either accepting the Catholic faith again or selling their house and farm and emigrating. According to tradition, all residents should be relocated to the neighboring towns. Since the village was now without inhabitants, people from different districts, from Switzerland, Tyrol and Bavaria moved here.

In 1694 Beuren and in 1701 Ammerstetten became Fuggerian. In 1762 a Vogt from the County of Fugger took up residence in Schnürpflingen. In 1810 the county of Kirchberg and with it Schnürpflingen came to Württemberg.

In the course of its history, the Schnürpflingen community has faced several wars and disasters. Although nothing has survived from the time of the Thirty Years' War , the famine in 1771 is described in the parish register. Details about the actions of the Napoleonic troops in the place are also handed down. On April 24, 1852, 21 buildings were destroyed in a fire within half an hour .

There were 36 dead and three missing in World War I, 25 dead and 16 missing in World War II. American armored vehicles drove into the town on April 24 at around 9.45 a.m., later American and French soldiers marched through lace-ups, with the white flag hoisted on the church tower. In the first years of the occupation, the border between the American and French zones ran through the forest between Schnürpflingen and Bihlafingen.

Religions

Schnürpflingen is predominantly Roman Catholic and the seat of the parish of the Immaculate Conception , which is part of the Deanery Ehingen-Ulm . Was born in Schnürpflingen Francis Xavier Renner, religious name Father Frumentius Renner OSB (2 May 1908 to 18 December 2000), of the Benedictine - St. Ottilien Archabbey was organist, Zelerar, archivist, Latin teacher and chronicler. Among other things, he recorded the chronicle of the order “The five-armed candlestick”.

politics

Administrative association

The community belongs to the Kirchberg-Weihungstal community administration association based in Illerkirchberg .

Municipal council

The local council in Schnürpflingen has ten members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The municipal council consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

mayor

1945–1976: Alfred Jans
1976–1986: Jürgen Guse
1986–2010: Manfred Häberle
On February 28, 2010 Michael Knoll from Laupheim - Untersulmetingen was elected as the new mayor. Knoll was re-elected in March 2018 with 91.5% of the vote.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows silver deer antlers on a red background, from which a silver fir tree grows. The coat of arms should point to the wooded surroundings of the place. The colors white and red indicate that it was part of Austria. The municipality Schnürpflingen was given the authority in 1956 to use this coat of arms.