Wehringen

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '  N , 10 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	augsburg
Height :	532 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.1 km 2
Residents:	2961 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	210 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	86517
Area code :	08234
License plate :	A , SMÜ, WHO
Community key :	09 7 72 215
Address of the municipal administration:	Northern main street 18 86517 Wehringen
Website :	www.wehringen.de
Mayor :	Manfred Nerlinger ( CSU )
Location of the municipality of Wehringen in the Augsburg district

Wehringen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg .

geography

location

Wehringen lies on the Wertach and is traversed by the Singold . The city of Augsburg is located about 15 kilometers north of Wehringen, and the Auwald district and the Augsburg-Western Forests nature park border to the west .

District

• Alluvial forest

history

Until the 18th century

As early as the 8th century BC There was a system of eight burial mounds on the "Hexenbergle". The mounds were discovered during construction work by the Hoechst company in 1960. The hill 8 represents the oldest known chariot grave of the Hallstatt period and contained bronze fittings of a chariot, 21 vessels, a bronze sword and a sheet gold bowl. Roman settlement in Wehringen can be proven for the period between 100 and 250 AD. During excavations in a gravel pit between 1961 and 1967, a Roman estate and a burial ground were discovered. Because of the grave goods, the graves could be dated to the period 100–250 AD. The grave of a doctor with surgical instruments (240 AD) and the grave of a wealthy family with a ten-meter-high burial tower and 176-piece additions, including Chinese silk and Rhineland glass (250 AD), were noteworthy.

Wehringen was first mentioned between 973 and 993 in the biography of St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg . Construction began on the Church of St. George in the 11th century. On December 20, 1372, Wehringen was burned down by an army of 1,500 men from the Dukes of Bavaria. In 1490, the Wehringer farmers refused to pay the Bishop of Augsburg a war tax, but submitted at the last minute when an armed army marched up.

The Leitenbad, founded around 1490, was first mentioned in 1499. The bathing establishment, which was thought to have healing properties due to its sulfur, bitumen and salty water, existed until the 17th century and was probably destroyed during the Thirty Years' War . In 1541 the tower of the parish church reached its current height of 33 meters. In 1600 a nursing office was set up by the Augsburg bishopric . In 1675 Wehringen was administered from here and completely assigned to it in 1720.

In 1730, which found the execution of Wehringer "witch" Brigitta Miehler in Schwabmünchen place of incest , infanticide , abortion , devil's bargain and host desecration had been accused.

19th century

From 1796 to 1806 Wehringen was directly affected by the Napoleonic campaigns. 1806 French hussars were in quartered , the money extorted from the population. As a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the place passed into the possession of Bavaria in 1803. In the following year, 1804, Wehringen was subordinated to the district court Schwabmünchen , from which after several administrative reforms on January 1, 1939, the district of Schwabmünchen emerged.

Due to the high costs of war and road maintenance in recent years, the municipality was faced with a mountain of debt of 50,000 guilders in 1818 . A debt repayment plan initiated in 1821 over 33 years rehabilitated the community finances. In 1834 the first school building was built in Wehringen. It had a classroom with 80 square meters, which was designed for 120 (!) Students. In 1847 the Augsburg – Buchloe railway line was built. On November 9, 1859, the community leased 100 days of community land to smallholders in order to improve their economic situation and reduce social tensions in the village. A correction was made between 1858 and 1860 in order to make the adjacent meadows usable for the cultivation of crops.

On October 11, 1870, Leo Fischer from Wehringer was killed in the fighting during the conquest of Orléans . He is the only fallen soldier in the "70s war" . On May 1, 1875, the Wehringen volunteer fire brigade was founded.

20th century

In 1913 the parish procured street lights for the main street and electrified the school and church. The night watchman was abolished at the end of 1916 due to the ongoing lighting of the side streets . Between 1914 and 1918 cattle were expropriated several times from the Wehringer farmers in order to feed the troops. 27 Wehringers fell during the First World War . In 1924, Singold regulation took place in the municipal area of ​​Wehringen in order to end the annual floods and to increase the water pressure in front of the two mills. In 1930 the central drinking water supply was built. On March 5, 1933, the Reichstag election took place with 226 votes for the BVP , 156 votes for the NSDAP and 76 votes for the SPD . In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936 , 20 of the 639 eligible voters dared to cast an invalid ballot. In terms of percentage, Wehringen is thus at the top of the district.

On March 16, 1944, the Allies bombed the dynamite plant in Bobingen , causing devastating damage to Wehringen, which is in the approach lane. Eleven people died, 60 to 70 percent of all houses were damaged, some seriously. On April 15, 1945, Wehringen was bombed again with incendiary bombs. Only four properties burn down because most of the bombs fall in the open. On April 28, 1945, the Americans marched into Wehringen, thereby ending the Second World War for the place. During the World War 30 Wehringer soldiers died at the front.

In 1957 the Pestalozzi School was rebuilt, which still houses part of the classrooms today. In 1960 construction began on a sewer system for Wehringen. In 1963, the Wehringen stop on the Augsburg – Buchloe railway line was closed. Wehringen lost its train station. In 1966 the sewage treatment plant was completed. In 1971 a new community building was completed, it houses the town hall, a school extension, a gym, a cellar, a shooting range and a fire station . In 1971 a kindergarten was set up in the rooms that had become vacant through the school expansion. In 1977 she moved into his current domicile on Römerstrasse.

The new sewage treatment plant went into operation on January 1st, 1990. The old one was increasingly overloaded by connecting the neighboring town of Großaitingen. In 1990 the municipality of Wehringen celebrated the 1000th anniversary with a historical village festival, the municipality got a new coat of arms and a local chronicle. In 1995 a fire station with a citizens' hall and club rooms was built. In 1997 a water treading facility was built on Leitenberg.

21st century

In 2001 the new town hall was opened.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 2,142 to 2922 by 780 inhabitants or 36.4%.

Administrative community

On July 1, 1972, as part of the district reform, the Schwabmünchen district was incorporated into the Augsburg district (initially called the Augsburg-West district ). In 1975 Wehringen was incorporated into the Großaitingen administrative community . On January 1, 1980, Wehringen was released from the Großaitingen administrative community and regained its independence as a community.

Outsourcing

On May 1, 1978, a part of the area with then about 25 inhabitants was assigned to the city of Bobingen.

politics

Allocation of seats in the 14-member municipal council due to the 2020 local elections :

• CSU : 7 seats
• Free voters : 5 seats
• SPD : 2 seats

Compared to the two previous terms of office (2008-2020), the Free Voters won an additional seat at the expense of the SPD.

Mayor of Wehringen since 1818:

Sebastian Wagner	1818-1830
Franz Eibler	1830-1838
Franz Gries	1839-1851
Bonaventure fisherman	1851-1857
Lorenz Morhard	1857-1866
Johann Egger	1866-1869
Ignaz Jedelhauser	1870-1881
Franz Morhard	1882-1899
Joseph Kienle	1900-1911
Albert Vonay	1912-1924
Firmus Schaflitzl	1925-1933
Alois Fischer	1933-1945
Franz Öschay	1945-1948
Georg Rott	1948-1967
Franz Geirhos (CSU-FWV)	1967-1978
Johann Merk ( CSU )	1978-2008
Manfred Nerlinger ( CSU )	since 2008

coat of arms

The coat of arms description for the current municipal coat of arms reads: "In red a silver triangle placed on top, on the crossbar of which two harrow-like teeth are attached, above a golden bishop's cap."

The new coat of arms was created in 1990 as part of the “1000 Years of Wehringen” celebrations. The community has had a coat of arms awarded by King Ludwig I since 1837. This showed "in blue a white-bordered, black triangle placed on its tip, on the crossbar of which two harrow-like teeth were attached."

traffic

• Federal highway 17 east of Wehringen
• State road 2035 & district road 28 Wehringen - Auwald
• AVV bus line 700 Augsburg-Schwabmünchen, 15 min. or 30 min. Timetable train station Bobingen
• AVV bus route 721 Augsburg-Straßberg-Auwald-Wehringen-Schwabmünchen
• AVV night bus route 797 Augsburg – Untermeitingen

economy

Interquell GmbH, Germany's second largest producer of pet food, is the largest employer in town with around 200 employees. There is also a branch in neighboring Großaitingen.

Events

A historic village festival has been held every five years since 1990. Among other things, the camp life of the Celts and the Celtic ore mining are recreated during the four-day festival.

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wehringen

• Catholic Church of St. George
• Renovated water tower
• Medieval ore mining area in the communal forest

literature

• Wolfgang Wüst / Siegfried Hasler (eds.): Wehringen: Römischer Vicus, prince-bishop's office, Bavarian community , Augsburg 1990.

Web links

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

• Entry on the coat of arms of Wehringen  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wehringen: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF file; 1.23 MB)

Individual evidence

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. ^ 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. 768 .