Leipheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Gunzburg
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.13 km 2
Residents:	7307 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	227 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89340
Area code :	08221
License plate :	GZ, KRU
Community key :	09 7 74 155
City structure:	3 parts of the community
City administration address :	Marktstrasse 5 89340 Leipheim
Website :	www.leipheim.de
Mayor :	Christian Konrad ( CSU )
Location of the city of Leipheim in the district of Günzburg

Leipheim is a town in the Swabian district of Günzburg . Their motto is: "Leipheim - City on the Danube". Together with the neighboring district town of Günzburg , it forms a dual regional center .

geography

location

The city is located in the Donauried on the northeastern border of the district of Günzburg in Bavaria, in the Swabian Baroque angle and Central and Upper Swabia . It is also part of the Donau-Iller region , a cross-border planning region between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

It is located approx. 18 kilometers east of Ulm and 50 kilometers west of Augsburg .

Natural structure

Leipheim lies in the area of ​​the transition from the Donauried to the Donau-Iller-Lech-Platte . The Roth flows into the Danube near the border with the municipality of Nersingen . In the urban area north of the Danube runs the Leipheimer Moos , which as part of the Swabian Donaumoos borders directly on the Langenauer Ried .

Municipal division

Sculpture on the Stadtberg

The municipality has three parts of the municipality (type of settlement in brackets), which are also the three subdivisions of the municipality:

• Leipheim (main town)
• Riedheim ( parish village )
• Weißingen ( village )

Neighboring communities

In the north Leipheim borders on Langenau ( Alb-Donau district ) in Baden-Württemberg , in the east and south on the large district town of Günzburg , Bubesheim and Bibertal (all district of Günzburg ), and in the west on the municipality of Nersingen ( Neu-Ulm district ) in Bavaria .

history

antiquity

The oldest finds in Leipheim attest to the settlement of today's urban area with the beginning of settling in the Stone Age. Excavations in the city center in 2018 revealed finds from the Neolithic Age . Ceramic shards and remains of a mine house date back to approx. 5000 BC. Chr.

Until the church is planted

The founding of Leipheim is dated between 500 and 550 AD. The founders were probably Alemanni . A deed of donation from the knight Gumprecht von Liebheim in 1063 shows that there was already a castle near Leipheim around this period, presumably to overlook the important Danube crossing.

From 1143 the parish church of St. Veit and the surrounding lands were owned by the Elchingen Monastery , confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1225 .

Leipheim and the casts

The coat of arms of the noble family Güß von Güssensberg

Leipheim came into the possession of Gerwig I. Güß von Güssenberg in 1267 . As early as 1315, the casts founded the hospital foundation that still exists today. Under the rule of the Gusses, the village grew considerably and was granted market rights on May 29, 1327 by Emperor Ludwig IV (Ludwig der Baier) and town rights on November 17, 1330. Then the construction of walls for the upper town began. Today's coat of arms is also inspired by the noble family of the Gusses.

From 1373 the Count of Württemberg gradually acquired the city.

Peasants' War and Ulm rule

In 1453 the free imperial city of Ulm bought the city from Count Ulrich V. von Württemberg for 23,200 guilders . Thus Leipheim was owned by the imperial city of Ulm.

Around 1524, as a result of Protestant sermons by the Leipheim pastor Hans Jakob Wehe , unrest broke out in the area of ​​the cities of Leipheim and Günzburg. The city council of Günzburg forbade citizens to travel to Leipheim. In 1525, the Ulm city council decided to arrest him. Near Leipheim, under the leadership of Wehes, in the German Peasants' War of 1525, the Leipheimer Haufen (approx. 5000 farmers) rose against the city of Ulm and was defeated by the army of the Swabian League , which was led by Ulm.

In 1531 Ulm became Protestant, as did Leipheim. In 1559 the construction of today's Leipheim Palace began on the western edge of the city.

During the Thirty Years War , the residents fled to Ulm in 1643 . Imperial Austrian troops looted and set fire to the city. The city was then rebuilt.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, the place came to Bavaria. Leipheim was one of the few possessions of the free imperial city of Ulm that remained with Bavaria after 1810 when Bavaria had to surrender border areas to Württemberg as part of an exchange of territory ; 350 years of belonging to the city of Ulm ended. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , today's municipality was created with the municipal edict of 1818 .

Modern and present

Leipheimer Schloss on a postcard from 1925

The city ​​suffered greatly from the famine of 1816/17 caused by a volcanic eruption . That is why the people of Leipheim have been celebrating the Leipheim Children's Festival since 1818 , which has taken place every year on the 2nd weekend in July ever since.

With the construction of the Ulm-Augsburg railway line in 1853, the Leipheims was first connected to the national railway network, which it still has today.

In 1937 the motorway bridge, part of today's A 8 , was completed. In the same year, flight operations began at Leipheim Air Base . Its existence and development significantly influenced the city of Leipheim and a large part of the northern district. On July 18, 1942, the Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first jet aircraft ready for series production, took off from Leipheim Air Base on its maiden flight. From 1945 to 1950 a camp for "displaced persons" was set up on the site occupied by the Allies . With the resulting influx of 900 people, the city regained its population and wealth. Gottfried Wanzl, founder of Wanzl Metallwarenfabrik , was one of them.

After the end of World War II , the airfield acted as Leipheim Air Base, as a base for the United States Army Air Forces , until it was decommissioned on September 25, 1992. Then the Bundeswehr took over the air base; it was dissolved in 2008.

Leipheim, Günzburg and Bubesheim founded the special purpose association Areal Pro in 2010 with the district of Günzburg and acquired the 256 hectare air base. In addition to the construction of the bypass road for Leipheim, civil re-use is planned. 90 hectares of commercial space are to be created there.

Incorporations

Coat of arms of Riedheim

On January 1, 1971, the previously independent municipality of Riedheim was incorporated.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the city grew from 5,183 to 7,209 by 2,026 inhabitants or 39.1% - the highest percentage increase in the district in the period mentioned.

politics

City council

The city council has 20 members. Since the local elections on March 15, 2020 , the seats have been divided into the following lists:

Party / list	Seats	Share of votes
CSU	7th	36.5%
SPD	3	14.8%
Green	2	11.3%
Independent voter community (UWG)	7th	34.6%
The left	1	2.9%
total	20th	100%

Mayor is Christian Konrad (CSU). He was succeeded Gerhard Hartmann (SPD) in 2002 and was confirmed in his office in 2008. In the 2014 local elections he was re-elected with 93.6% of the valid votes. In the 2020 election he received 79.0% of the vote.

Community finances

In 2012, the municipal tax revenue was € 9,130,000, of which € 5,533,000 was trade tax revenue (net).

coat of arms

The city coat of arms goes back to the family coat of arms of the Güß von Güssensberg, under whose rule the city charter was granted. The use of today's city coat of arms, which has been handed down for the first time, dates from 1404, although at that time it still had only one star in the crossbar. Today's modification with the blue background, yellow crossbar and 3 six-pointed stars dates back to the early 19th century.

Town twinning

•  Hungary : There has been a partnership with the Hungarian city of Fonyód on Lake Balaton since 1993 , which is maintained with regular visits.

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Leipheim

• Leipheim
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  Leipheim, gate to the Zehntstadl

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  Leipheim Castle and Church and Hirschbräu

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  Leipheim Castle and Church with city wall

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  Leipheim, new city gate and church

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  Leipheim, new city gate

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  Leipheim Castle and Church

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  Leipheim Castle

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  Leipheim Castle

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The largest employer with over 1,600 employees at the site is Wanzl . Since 1947 the family business has developed from a small craft business to a world market leader in several areas. In addition to products and services for the retail sector, airports, hotels and numerous online retailers are supplied with luggage and logistics vehicles. There are now three plants at the global headquarters. These have been steadily expanded in recent years. Another globally operating family company is Oechsle System GmbH with around 160 employees.

There was also an air force base since 1935, but it was closed at the end of 2008 for cost reasons. On the site of the former air base , an intermunicipal industrial park has been under construction under the name Areal Pro since 2010 , in which the cities of Günzburg , Leipheim, the municipality of Bubesheim and the district of Günzburg participate.

Britax Römer , a global manufacturer of child safety products, has had its headquarters in Leipheim since the end of 2016 .

In 2012 there were 49 employees in the field of agriculture and forestry, in 1991 in manufacturing and 513 in the field of trade, transport and hospitality. 403 people were employed in other economic sectors. There were a total of 2670 employees at the place of residence. There were four companies in the manufacturing sector and nine in the construction sector. In 2010 there were 36 farms with an agricultural area totaling 1735 ha, of which 1217 ha were arable land and 436 ha were permanent green space.

traffic

Leipheim has a motorway exit from the A8 . It is located approx. 7 km east of the Ulm-Elchingen motorway junction on the A8 and A7 .

Leipheim has a double-track stop on the Augsburg – Ulm railway line , which is served every hour by the regional express line Fugger-Express between Ulm and Munich and by agilis trains between Ulm and Ingolstadt or Regensburg . At the weekend, the agilis trains only run every two hours. The reception building is no longer used and is empty.

Leipheim is connected to the international long-distance Danube Cycle Route and to the European EuroVelo Cycle Route EV 6 river route (runs from the Atlantic to the Black Sea).

education

Cultural events take place in the Zehntstadel in Leipheim

Stand 2013:

• Four kindergartens
• Two primary schools with around 500 students
• The branch of the Volkshochschule Günzburg

societies

• The Leipheim City Band was founded in 1913 and is now an integral part of many cultural events with over 40 musicians in the field of big band sound, traditional Bohemian brass music, evergreens and classics for wind orchestras.
• The BC Leipheim was until 2008 a basketball club from 1995 with approx. 80 active and passive members.
• In the carnival society Leipheimer Haufen from around 1974 the dance sport group Güssengarde , Jugendgarde , Kindergarde, Elferrat, Showmix and Gugga music are. It has over 200 members. She is a member of the Carnival Association of the Seven Swabians , the State Association of Württemberg Carnival (LWK) and the Bavarian-Swabian Carnival Association (BSF).
• VfL Leipheim 1898 is the largest sports club with around 1,100 members in popular sports in the boxing, football, handball, athletics, chess, tennis, gymnastics and volleyball departments.

Leipheim Air Base Museum

The Leipheim Air Base Museum from 2005 has been located in Building 361 of the former Leipheim Air Base since 2010 with the purpose of building a museum with a permanent exhibition. After the merger of the soldiers' association and the Air Base Museum, the number of members rose to around 90.

Leipheim volunteer fire brigade

The Leipheim volunteer fire brigade from 1865 in the fire station and clubhouse Steingasse 5 (formerly Schlosshof) has around 140 members. To secure the next generation, the Leipheim fire brigade operates a youth fire brigade and, for some years now, a children's fire department .

German Life Saving Society

The district association Leipheim / Günzburg of the German life-saving society with approx. 450 members emerged from the local group Leipheim from 1970 and is the responsible DLRG organization for the districts Günzburg and Neu-Ulm. As part of the disaster control, the DLRG Leipheim / Günzburg is involved with a diving team in the KAT water rescue train Schwaben Süd. The new training and operations center was inaugurated in 2008. The DLRG Leipheim / Günzburg maintains a youth deployment team (JET team) to secure the next generation

Special events

The Leipheim Children's Festival has been held once a year since 1818, to commemorate the end of the famine that struck the city of Leipheim in 1816/17. The cause of the famine was the eruption of the Tambora volcano in Indonesia in April 1815.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Hans Karg (1551– approx. 1610), Swabian painter
• Christoph Pfautz (1645–1711), mathematician, astronomer, geographer and librarian
• Johann Peter Miller (1725–1789), Protestant clergyman and professor at the University of Göttingen
• Ernst Führich (* 1948), Professor of Law at Kempten University
• Bernd Oberdorfer (* 1961), Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the University of Augsburg

See also

• Leipheimer Linde

literature

• Wolfgang Wüst: Günzburg (Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Part Swabia, Günzburg I / 13) Munich 1983, p. 160 ff. (Regarding Leipheim), ISBN 3-7696-9933-5 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Leipheim  - Sources and full texts

• Homepage of the city of Leipheim
• Entry on the coat of arms of Leipheim  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Leipheim: Official statistics of the LfStat

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. ↑ Bavaria Atlas. In: Bayern Atlas. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Homeland, accessed on June 10, 2020 . 
3. ^ Working group Swabian Donaumoos. Retrieved June 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Sensation: Leipheim is significantly older than expected In: Augsburger Allgemeine March 9, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} City history of Leipheim. Retrieved June 10, 2020 . 
6. ^ Willi Lorenz: Günzburger Mosaik - results of urban history research and findings of a city archivist . Ed .: Historischer Verein Günzburg e. V. Band 3 . Günzburg 2003, p. 11 .
7. ↑ ^{a b} Augsburg Programming: mpunkt media marketing services: AREAL Pro | Administration union. Retrieved July 25, 2020 . 
8. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 476 .
9. ^ City of Leipheim 09 774 155 A selection of important statistical data. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, 2018, accessed on September 15, 2019 . 
10. ↑ City council election Leipheim March 15, 2020
11. ↑ http://www.wahlen.bayern.de/kommunalwahlen/
12. ↑ https://www.leipheim.de/wahlen/buergermeisterwahl.html
13. ^ City of Leipheim an der Donau - Air Base
14. ^ Britax Römer's change of location secures production - Günzburg - B4B Schwaben. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Danube Cycle Path. Retrieved April 27, 2017 . 
16. ↑ EuroVelo 6 Atlantic - Black Sea. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Stadtkapelle Leipheim e. V.
18. ↑ Homepage of the Air Base Museum Leipheim