Wallerstein

Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Danube Ries
Management Community :	Wallerstein
Height :	441 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.44 km 2
Residents:	3390 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	174 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86757
Area code :	09081
License plate :	DON, Lower Austria
Community key :	09 7 79 224
LOCODE :	DE JAW
Market structure:	6 parts of the community
; Market administration address :	Weinstrasse 19 ; 86757 Wallerstein
Website :	www.markt-wallerstein.de
Mayor :	Joseph Mayer (party-free voter group )
Location of the Wallerstein market in the Donau-Ries district

Wallerstein is a market in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and the seat of the Wallerstein administrative community .

geography

Wallerstein is located in the Augsburg region near Nördlingen in the Ries formed by a meteorite impact . The 65 m high Wallersteiner Burgfelsen is the central point in the village.

The municipality has six officially named municipality parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

Birkhausen ( parish village )
Ehringen ( Kirchdorf )
Pheasantry (wasteland)
Fish mill (wasteland)
Munzingen (parish village)
Wallerstein (main town)

There are the districts of Birkhausen, Ehringen, Munzingen and Wallerstein.

history

Until the church is planted

The place was first mentioned as Steinheim in 1238. He and the nearby Wallerstein Castle were part of the Hohenstaufen power . Around 1250, ownership of the castle and the village passed to the House of Oettingen (Franconian-Swabian noble family) . In the 15th century, the noble family expanded the place into their residence and renamed it Wallerstein. In 1500 the right to market was granted by Emperor Maximilian I. From the same year the place was also part of the Swabian Empire .

In 1648 the castle was destroyed by the Swedes and the ruling family built a new residence below the residential wing, which was given its current classicistic appearance in 1804. With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria, today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent communities Ehringen and Munzingen were incorporated. Birkhausen was added on July 1, 1972.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the market grew from 3,015 to 3,327 by 312 inhabitants or 10.4%.

Wallerstein around 1961

year	1961	1970	1987	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	2856	2935	2943	3286	3310	3464	3396	3379

The details refer to the area of today's municipality.

politics

Municipal council

Since the last local election on March 16, 2014 with a turnout of 62.3%, the local council has been composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats	Share of votes
CSU	4th	22.1%
SPD	2	12.4%
Non-party voter group	3	18.8%
Birkhausen voter community	3	18.3%
Munzingen community of voters	2	15.0%
Voting community Ehringen	2	13.4%

In the term of office from May 2020 to April 2026, based on the result of the local election on March 15, 2020 , the municipal council is composed as follows:

Party / list	Seats	Share of votes
CSU	3	16.4%
SPD	2	11.8%
Non-party voter group	4th	24.7%
Birkhausen voter community	3	18.5%
Munzingen community of voters	2	15.1%
Voting community Ehringen	2	13.5%

The turnout was 64.4%.

mayor

Mayor is Joseph Mayer (party-free voter group). He was the successor to Manfred Schürer (CSU / PWG) in 2002 and re-elected in 2008, 2014 and 2020, most recently with 90.6%.

coat of arms

Municipal coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided; Above in red an overturned, below in gold an upright silver rafter , which meet with the tips at the dividing line. "

Coats of arms of the municipality

Birkhausen
Ehringen
Munzingen

Parish partnership

The partner municipality of Wallersteins is Couches in the French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté .

Culture

Attractions

Main street with plague column and parish church; St. Roch on the left, St. Sebastian on the right

East wing of the castle with the castle church in the background

Wallerstein Castle
Plague Column or Trinity Column, Wallerstein's landmark in the center of the village.
Count Anton Karl von Oettingen-Wallerstein had the Wallerstein plague column built by the sculptor Johann Georg Bschorer from Oberndorf am Lech based on the model of Bohemian plague columns and the Viennese plague column on Graben from 1722–1725 . The rich figural decoration of the column shows at the feet of the Trinity Mary and the Saints Rochus , Sebastian and Antonius of Padua . A Latin inscription (Hic Canis…) means: “Here the dog watches, defends the arrows, [and] the lilies heal; thus lilies, arrows, [and] the dog help. ”The chronogram means“ The wild plague is far from home and home ”and gives the year 1722.
The Jewish cemetery in the direction of Nördlingen is a reminder of the former presence of Jewish life in the village. The grave of a concentration camp prisoner who was shot and killed , probably from a death march in spring 1945, is located in the cemetery .

Houses of worship

Catholic Church of St. Alban Wallerstein
Evangelical Lutheran Church Ehringen-Wallerstein
Maria-Hilf-Chapel Wallerstein

Further architectural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

According to official statistics, there were no employees at the place of work in the field of agriculture and forestry, 484 in the manufacturing sector and 112 in the trade, transport and hospitality sector. In other economic sectors 188 people were employed at the place of work subject to social insurance contributions. There were a total of 1379 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were three companies in the manufacturing sector and four in the construction sector. In 2010 there were also 61 farms with a total of 2148 hectares of agricultural land, of which 2013 hectares were arable land.

traffic

The Wallerstein stop is on the Nördlingen – Dombühl railway line . Seasonal special trips of the Bavarian Railway Museum take place here in summer .

education

The following institutions existed in 2015:

1 day care center with 128 places for 127 children from crèche to school age
2 elementary schools with a total of 17 teachers and 236 students in 13 classes
Realschule: Maria Ward Realschule with 12 teachers and 181 students in 6 classes
Antonio Rosetti Music School

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Prince Ludwig of Oettingen-Wallerstein

Jomtow Lipmann Heller (1579-1654), Talmudist
Georg Strobel (1735–1792), portrait painter
Joseph Beer (1770-1819), clarinetist
Ignaz von Jaumann (1778–1862), cathedral dean of Rottenburg and archaeologist
Josef Wintergerst (1783–1867), painter
Maria Barbara Wintergerst (1791–1861), portrait, genre and miniature painter
Prince Ludwig zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1791–1870), Bavarian statesman and prince
Josef Franz von Weckert (1822–1889), Bishop of Passau
Georg Gentner (1877–1940), seed researcher
William Berczy (1744–1813), painter, colonist and architect, co-founder of Toronto
One of the Rieses' greatest sons is Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll, who was born in Wallerstein. Under his name William Berczy he gained a great reputation as a painter, architect, town planner and road builder. He led 220 German settlers from Altona via the USA to Canada, founded the city of Markham and is considered a co-founder of Toronto.
Johannes Volkenau (October 23, 1786 - October 1, 1854), doctor of medicine. 1810 studied surgery at the University of Würzburg, 1811–1812 (or 1813) studied and 1814 Dr. med. at the University of Dorpat. From autumn 1810 in Russian service as a doctor, later a division staff surgeon in Moscow and an operator in the military hospital in Riga, then a doctor in the engineering department, from 1836 at the main engineering school in St. Petersburg, lastly a doctor in the palace of Tsar NIKOLAJ I (1796 -1855). Holders of high Russian honorary titles and awards: 1825 "Hofrat", 1835 "Staatsrat", "Real Russian State Council", 1841 nobility diploma, knight of the St. Vladimir Order 4th class and the St. Anne Order 3rd class. [1]

Other people associated with Wallerstein

Johann Georg Hitzelberger (1714–1792), German master builder, from 1769 until his death he was court master builder in Wallerstein.
Ignaz von Beecke (1733–1803), composer and pianist, worked in Wallerstein from 1759 until his death.
Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792), composer, double bass player and conductor in the Wallersteiner Hofkapelle and namesake of the local music school founded in 1978
Joseph Reicha (1752–1795), composer and cellist, lived in Wallerstein until 1785.
Anton Reicha (1770–1836), composer and music teacher, lived in Wallerstein from 1781 to 1785.
Hans Hermann Adler (1891–1956), newspaper scholar and professor at the University of Heidelberg, lived in Wallerstein for the last years of his life and died there.

literature

Ludwig Brutscher: Wallerstein. Market and residence. Contributions to local and county history. Wallerstein market 1996.
Günther Grünsteudel : Wallerstein. Swabian Mannheim. Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the Augsburg University Library, Wallerstein, Neues Schloss, June 1 - July 9, 2000. Rieser Kulturtage, Nördlingen 2000, ISBN 3-923373-43-0 ( excerpt ( memento from November 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today ) ).
Günther Grünsteudel: The "Swabian Mannheim". On the history of the Wallersteiner Hofkapelle. In: Rosetti Forum. 2, 2001, pp. 19-28 ( digitized version ).