Volkratshofen

Volkratshofen City of Memmingen Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	610 m
Area :	12.91 km²
Residents :	1364 (December 31, 2009)
Population density :	106 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	May 1, 1978
Postal code :	87700
Area code :	08331
	Location of Volkratshofen in Memmingen
	Volkratshofen church from the north

Volkratshofen is a parish village in Upper Swabia , about 6 km southwest of the center of Memmingen . The municipality of Volkratshofen, into which the municipality of Ferthofen was incorporated on April 1, 1971, was incorporated on May 1, 1978 and has belonged to Memmingen ever since. The places Volkratshofen, Brunnen, Ferthofen, Hitzenhofen, Illerfeld and Priemen have a total of 1379 inhabitants (as of 2007).

location

Volkratshofen is located at the foot of the so-called Hitzendorfer Feld directly on the A 96 , just under five kilometers west of Memmingen on the border with Baden-Württemberg .

The hamlets of Hitzenhofen, Brunnen, Priemen and Illerfeld belong to the community .

Hitzenhofen from the north with Kronburg in the background

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1168 as a parish that belonged to Memmingen. Around 1250 Volkratshofen belonged to Weingarten Monastery . In 1340 it was owned by Wilhelm Matz von Ravensburg , who sold it to the Truchsesse von Waldburg . In 1346 it was bought by the Memmingen patrician Marquard Ammann. The town later became the property of the Rot an der Rot monastery . Around 1400 it was sold to the Unterhospital in Memmingen for a total of 355 pounds of Heller . As a result of this affiliation to Memmingen, the village also accepted the evangelical confession during the Reformation. In 1551 the first citizen of Fertofens "Bartholomäus Diepolder" was mentioned. Diepolderstraße in Memmingen is named after him. After the Thirty Years' War , Volkratshofen expanded with many new settlers from Switzerland and Tyrol . With the secularization , Volkratshofen became an independent Bavarian municipality until it was incorporated into Memmingen as part of the municipal reform.

church

The church in Volkratshofen is a simultaneum due to the historical relationship to the Memmingen Kreuzherrenkloster . The old St. Stephen's Church was rebuilt in 1817. It houses some historical treasures such as an altar by Dominikus Zimmermann from 1713 and valuable paintings by Elias Friedrich Küchlin and the Sichelbein family of artists . There is also an atonement cross from 1458 and several prehistoric graves from the Hallstatt period . The cemeteries are church institutions.

Events

Most of the village's events take place in the festival hall on the western edge of the village. There has been a village square at the fire station since 2007. A new building or an extension of the festival hall / gym is being considered.

societies

The district has a large number of associations, such as the SG Volkratshofen, a music association, the horticultural friends Volkratshofen, the Evangelical rural youth and a YMCA .

Sons and daughters of the place

Christian Mayer (1700–1771), Baroque painter

Christoph Ludwig Köberlin (1794–1862), botanist and pastor, namesake of the Koeberlinia spinosa plant genus

Web links

Commons : Volkratshofen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The district on memmingen.de

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 521 .
^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 764 .
^ Diepolderstraße , street directory of the city of Memmingen.

[1] Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 521 .

[2] 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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 764 .

[daumillerweg-3] Diepolderstraße , street directory of the city of Memmingen.