Thingers

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Thingers
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 9 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 678 m
Residents : 4646  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 87439
Area code : 0831
Thingers (Kempten (Allgäu))
Thingers

Location of Thingers in Kempten (Allgäu)

Thingers is a district of Kempten (Allgäu) with around 8,000 inhabitants. The place mentioned as Tegans in 1394 belonged from 1818 to 1935 to the municipality of Sankt Lorenz , which was finally incorporated into Kempten in 1972 with its last parts. Thingers is made up of Thingers I and Thingers II.

geography

Thingers is located at an altitude of 678 meters on the northern outskirts of Kempten. Thingers is surrounded by green landscape, here the Schwabelsberger Weiher are to be mentioned. Thingers is divided by a ravine formed by the left Iller influx Rottach emerged.

history

View of Thingers
from Mariaberg (2003)
Full view of
St. Hedwig's Church in Thingers (2012)

One of the first mentions of Thingers as Tegans took place in 1394, when in the Salbuch of the prince monastery Kempten that was arranged by the prince abbot Friedrich von Hirschdorf . The aim of this book was to record all credits that had to flow to the prince monastery in the form of a levy. In this case a degan or tegan was obliged to pay taxes.

In the following years there were numerous different spellings; In 1451 a Töngast, in 1463 a Tegers, 1526 Tagers and 1533 Tingers was named. Dingarz was mentioned in 1734.

In 1818 Thingers was added to the new parish of Sankt Lorenz ; this was one part of the main team Mariaberg , the other part to Hofammannschaft . Thingers I temporarily became Heggers or Lämmlings, Thingers II was understood as Prestlings.

On April 1, 1935, Thingers and many other places were reclassified to Kempten. From the 1960s onwards, Thingers was planned to become an area with a fast construction pace and a high construction density. In 1961, according to a census, there were less than 100 inhabitants in Thingers I and II. In 1973 there were almost 4,000 apartments in the Thingers area, including the areas of the neighboring districts of Lotterberg and Halden . In 1975 a shopping center was opened for the district to ensure local supplies. The rapid population growth therefore also required the construction of new churches, in 1971 a rectory with a kindergarten was opened, and in 1967 the associated St. Mark's Church was inaugurated. Other churches in the area were the Michaelskirche , built in the 1960s, and the Hedwig's Church, completed in 1986 .

In Thingers there is a particularly high concentration of foreign citizens compared to the urban average, which also resulted in conflicts among each other and discharged. The majority of Russians and Turks among foreign citizens is particularly striking. In the 1990s in particular, there was a gang war between the two groups in Thingers , which had given the district a lasting bad reputation.

Culture and public institutions

In Thingers there are several churches and kindergartens, the Astrid Lindgren School for physically and motor impaired people and the North School as an elementary school.

In order to accelerate the will of the foreign population to integrate, citizens joined together in the Ikarus Thingers eV . He undertakes cultural, sport and integration events in Thingers. The Stadtjugendring Kempten set up its own youth center for Thingers in 1995. Thingers has had its own district office since 2003.

literature

  • Jochen König: Why “Thingers” is actually called “Thingers” ... In: Ikarus Thingers eV (Ed.): Thingers Zeitung , April / May 2011, p. 5.

Web links

Commons : Thingers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of Thingers on the website of the Thingers district office (accessed on August 17, 2019)
  2. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 245 f .
  3. ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 62 f .
  4. ↑ Freddy Schissler: How Kempten stopped the gang war. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de , March 26, 2014 (accessed on August 17, 2019)
  5. ↑ Website of the ikarus.thingers eV (accessed on August 17, 2019)
  6. ↑ Website of the Thingers Youth Center (accessed on August 17, 2019)