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Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Aichach-Friedberg
Management Community :	Aindling
Height :	448 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.25 km 2
Residents:	1420 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86447
Area code :	08237
License plate :	AIC, FDB
Community key :	09 7 71 169
LOCODE :	DE TES
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the ; municipal administration:	St.-Afra-Straße 18 ; 86447 Todtenweis
Website :	www.todtenweis.de
Mayor :	Konrad Carl ( CSU / Free Voters )
Location of the municipality of Todtenweis in the Aichach-Friedberg district

Todtenweis (front) and Aindling

Todtenweis is a municipality in the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg and a member of the Aindling administrative community . The place is in the right Lechrain , about 20 kilometers northeast of Augsburg .

geography

Parish parts

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

Creek ( village )
Sand (village)
Todtenweis ( parish village )

Neighboring communities

Aindling ( Aichach-Friedberg district )
Langweid am Lech ( Augsburg district )
Meitingen (Augsburg district)
Rehling (Aichach-Friedberg district)
Thierhaupten (Augsburg district)

history

A settlement with a brick kiln is dated to Roman times. At that time, today's municipality was in the area of the Roman province of Raetia . The establishment of the place around the year 650 goes back to the Bavarian Tato . Todtenweis was mentioned in a document on June 26, 1033 in a deed of donation from Emperor Konrad II. Todtenweis belonged to the Munich Rent Office and the Aichach Regional Court of the Electorate of Bavaria . When the regional reform came into force in Bavaria , the originally Upper Bavarian municipality became part of the administrative district of Swabia on July 1, 1972 .

Population development

Between 1988 and 2019 the municipality grew from 1,222 to 1,420 by 198 inhabitants or 16.2%.

Religions

The Catholic parish Sankt Ulrich and Afra in Todtenweis belongs to the parish community Aindling in the deanery Aichach-Friedberg in the diocese of Augsburg. The parish also includes the villages of Bach and Sand. In 2013 the parish had around 1081 Catholics.

politics

mayor

Thomas Riss was elected to succeed Josef Kodmeir in 2008. Riss died on September 3, 2013 at the age of 59.
Konrad Carl has been mayor of Todtenweis since 2014; he was confirmed in office for a further six years on March 15, 2020 with 64.8% of the votes.

Municipal council

The local council consists of the 1st mayor and twelve local councilors. The municipal council election on March 16, 2014 led to the following result:

Parties
Parties	proportion of	Seats
CSU / Free Voters , Bürgerwille 2002	99.3%	12
voter turnout	61.9%

Two nominations were submitted for the municipal council election on March 15, 2020 . It accounted for

CSU / Free Voters , Bürgerwille 2002: 7 seats
Future for Todtenweis : 5 seats

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: In silver, a looped blue tip, inside a golden royal crown, in front a blue Ulrich cross, behind a floating, black cross, whose longitudinal bar is covered with a short bar at the bottom left.

traffic

Road traffic

Todtenweis is at the junction of the AIC8 district road to Aindling - Aichach from the St2381 state road to Augsburg or Thierhaupten.

Bus transport

line	Line course	Traffic Company
AST227	Call collective taxi Rehling - Todtenweis - Aindling - Aichach	Taxi Schmaus ( on behalf of DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB) )
227	Rehling - Todtenweis - Aindling - Aichach	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)
305	Aindling - Todtenweis - Rehling - Augsburg Hbf.	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)
306	Aindling - Todtenweis - Gersthofen - Augsburg North	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)
314	Aindling - Todtenweis - Railing - Mühlhausen	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)
315	Todtenweis Bach - Edenhausen - Aindling	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)
395	Night bus Augsburg Hbf. - Rehling - Todtenweis - Aindling (only runs on certain occasions after prior notice)	DB Regio Bus Bayern GmbH (DRB)

Attractions

Parish church of St. Ulrich and Afra

The townscape of Todtenweis is determined by the baroque parish church of St. Ulrich and Afra, which was built in 1737/38.

To the northwest of the place, the extensive earthworks of a presumably larger Hungarian defense castle have been preserved ( Pfarrerschanze , Römerschanze).

Above the district of Sand on the Lechrain, the earthen walls of the early to high mediaeval fortifications Burgstall Sand can still be seen, to the southwest of the district of Bach are the remains of the fortifications of Burgstall Bach, which were built around the same time .

To the west of Todtenweis-Sand are the Sander Lakes and the Aindlinger Baggersee .

Since 2013 there is a local museum in the listed "Gruin-Haus".

Architectural monuments

Personalities

Josef Riß (1883–1958), mayor 1912–1917, 1919–1933 (for the Bavarian People's Party ) and 1945–1948 ( CSU ), member of the state parliament 1946–1950.

literature

Todtenweis - From the royal court and monastery village to the modern community . Todtenweis 2008. (extensive local history)

Web links

Commons : Todtenweis - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Todtenweis in the location database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library
Entry on Todtenweis's coat of arms in the database of the House of Bavarian History

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 ).
^ Municipality of Todtenweis in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 23, 2019.
^ Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
↑ see Todtenweis gets its own museum , report from Augsburger Allgemeine, June 2013, accessed March 15, 2020
↑ Biography of Josef Riss

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BY-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] Municipality of Todtenweis in the local database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 23, 2019.

[3] Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)

[4] see Todtenweis gets its own museum , report from Augsburger Allgemeine, June 2013, accessed March 15, 2020

[5] Biography of Josef Riss