Sontheim (Swabia)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ' N , 10 ° 21' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Swabia | |
| County : | Unterallgäu | |
| Height : | 620 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 26.55 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2698 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 102 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 87776 | |
| Area code : | 08336 | |
| License plate : | MN | |
| Community key : | 09 7 78 196 | |
| Community structure: | 8 parts of the community | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Main street 41 87776 Sontheim, Germany |
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| Mayor : | Alfred Gänsdorfer ( Free Association of Voters ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Sontheim in the Unterallgäu district | ||
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Sontheim is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu .
geography
Sontheim is located approx. 15 kilometers east of Memmingen in the Donau-Iller region in Central Swabia .
Expansion of the municipal area
The municipality consists of the districts Sontheim and Attenhausen .
The municipality has 8 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):
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The place name Lindenhöf was only granted on July 10, 2000 by decision of the Unterallgäu district office. Only Attenhausen is in the district of the same name, the other parts of the community in the district of Sontheim. Official maps show other parts of the community such as Bachweber (district Sontheim) or Holzbauer (district Attenhausen).
history
Until the church is planted
The earliest known trace of civilization in the Sontheim area is a stone ax that was found in 1971 by a farmer west of the village. The ax is dated around 1800 BC. Dated and attributed to the late Neolithic . However, this is an individual find, so that it cannot be assumed that it was a settlement.
The coin find from Sontheim , which consists of around 350 Celtic gold coins , so-called " rainbow bowls ", dates from the third to the first century BC . However, the find was made by a private probe in the spring of 1990 under ultimately unexplained circumstances. The alleged location east-northeast of the Sontheim hamlet Lindenhöfe could never be verified with certainty.
The first concrete traces of settlement date back to the Merovingian period . These are Alemannic row graves from the 7th century, which were found in 1890 and 1896 south of the village in a gravel pit, today's sports field. It is likely that a settlement existed within a maximum of 500 meters from the graves, but that it did not necessarily have to have been in the area of the present-day settlement.
The proven origins of Sontheim go back to the 8th and 9th centuries. One can assume a planned settlement and Christian missionary work by the Franks from Erkheim to the north : Westerheim is founded in the west and “Sundheim” in the south, with churches under the patronage of Martin von Tours being built in both places . There was also a Franconian Meierhof , which was probably near the Lindenhöfe.
The first documentary mention of Sontheim can be found in a document issued by Emperor Ludwig the Pious in the imperial palace of Nijmegen on June 14, 838 , in which Totto, abbot of the Kempten monastery , and a count Waning who presumably resides in Illergau agreed to swap areas. According to this, the places "reoda" and "eitraha" came under the rule of the count, the places "plezza", "pazcinhoua", "hoorwanc" and "sundheim". Peter Blickle interprets the fact of the certification by the emperor in such a way that the places mentioned must have been royal estates .
In 1002, the newly elected Emperor Heinrich the Saint came to Swabia as part of the king's ride . He made a deed of gift on July 1st in “Suntheim”. The same ruler gave the place "Suntheim im Duriagau " on November 1, 1007 to the diocese of Bamberg on the occasion of its foundation. In both cases, however, it has not been definitively clarified whether this is actually Sontheim in Swabia.
Sontheim later belonged to the imperial monastery Ottobeuren . Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 the place belongs to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipality of Sontheim was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .
Incorporations
On May 1, 1978, in the course of the municipal area reform, the southwestern neighboring municipality of Attenhausen was incorporated, which only consisted of the village of the same name. This increased the area of the municipality by 962.59 hectares and the population by 626 people (as of 1970 census).
Population development
- 1961: 1904 inhabitants
- 1970: 2087 inhabitants
- 1987: 2080 inhabitants
- 1991: 2136 inhabitants
- 1995: 2263 inhabitants
- 2000: 2439 inhabitants
- 2005: 2501 inhabitants
- 2010: 2496 inhabitants
- 2015: 2564 inhabitants
Between 1988 and 2018 the community grew from 2,078 to 2,702 by 624 inhabitants or by 30%.
politics
mayor
Alfred Gänsdorfer (* 1955) has been mayor since 2014. He was re-elected on March 15, 2020 with 74.1% of the vote.
Municipal council
The election on March 15, 2020 had the following results: CSU / Free electorate: 6 seats (45.6%) Free voter community Attenhausen: 3 seats (21.4%) Alliance 90 / The Greens : 3 seats (18.5%) Attenhausen citizens' block: 2 seats (14.6%). Compared to the 2014 to 2020 term of office, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen has one more seat, the CSU / Free electorate one less seat.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved on November 12, 1974 by the government of Swabia .
Blazon : “Divided by a silver slant of black and green; above a golden rose, below two slanting, slantingly crossed golden ears. "
The upper field is reminiscent of the coat of arms of the Ottobeuren monastery through tinging and rose, to whose territory the community belonged from the 12th century to 1803. The location of the village on the Günz is indicated by the wave bar, while the ears of grain refer to the fact that the local agriculture, which is characterized by arable farming, lies on the border with the Allgäu grassland.
The coat of arms was designed by the district home keeper Aegidius Kolb and designed by the heraldist Max Reinhart from Passau.
flag
The flag is yellow - green striped with the municipal coat of arms.
Community partnerships
Sontheim maintains a partnership with the Swiss municipality of Abtwil in the canton of Aargau .
Culture and sights
Most of the parish church of St. Martin dates from the 15th century and was redesigned in the Baroque style in 1762.
Markets , theater , cabaret and theater performances as well as industrial fairs are held regularly in the buildings of the former steam-powered Sontheimer sawmill , the Dampfsäg . The ensemble of the sawmill is well preserved. The main hall, built in wood in 1917, is one of the last cantilevered arched halls in Central Swabia and the neighboring Allgäu.
The Gasthaus Adler in Sontheim, built in the second half of the 15th century, is one of the oldest still operating inns in the area.
Economy and Infrastructure
Economy including agriculture and forestry
In 1998 there were ten in the field of agriculture and forestry , 162 in the manufacturing sector and 17 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors 35 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 857 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. There were 23 companies in the manufacturing sector and five in the construction sector. In addition, in 1999 there were 77 farms with an agriculturally used area of 1522 ha, of which 319 ha were arable land and 1203 ha were permanent green space.
Transport links
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Sontheim is close to the Federal Highway 96 . The federal autobahn 7 can be reached in a short time via the Memmingen junction .
Sontheim (Schwab) train station is on the Buchloe – Memmingen railway line . The German railway provides approximately every hour connections, wherein the trains usually directly between Memmingen one hand and Augsburg main station or München central station on the other hand operate. The station has been barrier-free since 2017.
The location is in the direct catchment area of Memmingen Airport . Since the expansion of the former air base of the 2003 disbanded fighter-bomber squadron 34 "Allgäu" to a commercial airport , scheduled and charter flights have been offered from there.
Education and Social
There are kindergartens in both districts . The three-group Sontheim kindergarten was attended by 66 children in 2005, the two-group Attenhausen kindergarten by 30 children.
Originally there were primary schools in both districts. After the number of pupils fell, the Attenhausen school was temporarily closed completely. With increasing class sizes towards the end of the 1990s, it was reactivated. In 2005, eight teachers and four specialist teachers taught at the Sontheim elementary school, with lessons being given for three years in Sontheim and one in Attenhausen. A total of 154 children attend primary school, 35 of whom are taught in Attenhausen and 119 in Sontheim.
The closest secondary school is in Erkheim . Secondary schools and grammar schools can be visited in the cities of Memmingen , Mindelheim or the market town of Ottobeuren .
Personalities
- Jakob Fickler (1909–1980), politician, member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1954 to 1974
- Andre Mairock (1902–1968), writer
- Richard Harzenetter (1933–2004), restorer and art historian
- Markus Harzenetter (* 1965), art historian
- Hans Dorr (1912–1945), SS-Obersturmbannführer of the Schutzstaffel and Waffen-SS in World War II
literature
- Günther Städele, Hubert Strobel: Sontheim and Attenhausen. Pictures from the past . Ed .: Municipality of Sontheim. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-89570-895-X .
- Günther Städele: 1150 years of Sontheim . Ed .: Municipality of Sontheim. Sontheim 1988.
Web links
- Entry on the coat of arms of Sontheim (Swabia) in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- Information on local history at http://www.sontheim-schwaben.de
- Sontheim (Swabia): Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF file; 1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "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 ).
- ^ Community Sontheim in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 15, 2019.
- ↑ parcel Einödacker
- ↑ a b c d e Städele: Sontheim and its history over the course of 1150 years . In: 1150 years of Sontheim . S. 15-45 .
- ↑ In the vicinity of Sontheim, two Stone Age settlements are known due to ceramic finds, at Dirlewang and at Buxheim .
- ↑ Hall number 412/39
- ^ Bernward Ziegaus: The coin find from Sontheim. A treasure trove of Celtic gold coins from the Lower Allgäu . Ed .: Hermann Dannheimer (= exhibition catalogs of the Prehistoric State Collection . Volume 24 ). Munich 1993, ISBN 3-927806-14-5 .
- ↑ Body graves from the Merovingian era in the Bavarian Monument Atlas (file number D-7-7928-0061)
- ↑ vineyards; Location not clearly known, probably Niederrieden or Rieden near Aichstetten
- ↑ Aitrach
- ^ Pless
- ↑ Batzenhofen; in Kirchdorf an der Iller located, departed
- ↑ Horwang; Location unknown, gone
- ↑ In older sources, the year 819 can be found as the time of the first documentary mention. In connection with the 1150th anniversary in 1988, attempts to verify this date were unsuccessful.
- ↑ Alternatively, Sontheim im Zusamtal and Sontheim an der Brenz are named, depending on the definition of Duriagau.
- ↑ a b c 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. 782 .
- ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
- ↑ Steam Saw Industrial Monument. Yuri Bilgram and Verena Schrei, accessed July 11, 2016 .
- ^ Bavarian Railway Company : Station profile Sontheim (Schwab). Retrieved November 25, 2017 .
Sontheim | Attenhausen | Miner | Grabus | Hochstetten | Laubers | Lindenhof | Ziegler
Amberg |
Apple trach |
Babenhausen |
Bad Grönenbach |
Bad Wörishofen |
Benningen |
Boars |
Boos |
Breitenbrunn |
Buxheim |
Dirlewang |
Egg an der Günz |
Eppishausen |
Erkheim |
Ettringen |
Fellheim |
Hawangen |
Heimertingen |
Holzgünz |
Kammlach |
Kettershausen |
Kirchhaslach |
Kirchheim in Swabia |
Kronburg |
Laughter |
Arbors |
Lautrach |
Legau |
Market Rettenbach |
Market forest |
Memmingerberg |
Mindelheim |
Niederrieden |
Oberrieden |
Oberschönegg |
Ottobeuren |
Pfaffenhausen |
Pleas |
Rammingen |
Salgae |
Sontheim |
Stetten |
Trunkelsberg |
Türkheim |
Tussenhausen |
Ungerhausen |
Unteregg |
Westerheim |
Wiedergeltingen |
Winter peace |
Wolfertschwenden |
Woringen
Municipality-free area in the district of Unterallgäu
Ungerhauser Wald