Hamlet-Simmerberg
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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ' N , 9 ° 56' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Swabia | |
| County : | Lindau (Lake Constance) | |
| Height : | 632 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 31.3 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 6325 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 202 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 88171 | |
| Primaries : | 08387, 08384 | |
| License plate : | LI | |
| Community key : | 09 7 76 129 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WZS | |
| Market structure: | 39 parts of the community | |
Market administration address : |
Kirchplatz 1 88171 Weiler-Simmerberg |
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| Mayor : | Tobias Paintner (CSU / JA WSE) | |
| Location of the Weiler-Simmerberg market in the Lindau district (Lake Constance) | ||
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Weiler-Simmerberg is a market in the Swabian district of Lindau (Lake Constance) , which consists of the districts of Weiler im Allgäu, Simmerberg and Ellhofen. The market is part of the Westallgäu region .
geography
location
The market in the Westallgäu borders directly on the Bregenzerwald region in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The wide view shows a gentle pre-alpine landscape while in the densely wooded narrow ravines in many rugged and steep rock faces, the geological peculiarity of the area, a layer of sandstone , emerges.
Community structure
The municipality has 39 officially named parts of the municipality (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):
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The hamlets of Burgmühle and Salmersberg and the wasteland Hammerschmiede are not officially named districts.
The community consists of the districts (local areas) Ellhofen, Simmerberg and Weiler im Allgäu. The districts of Weiler im Allgäu include the districts of Altenburg, Au, Bremenried, Buchenbühl, Dressen, Eyenbach, Hagelstein, Kapfreute, Krähnberg, Lachershof, Oberscheiben, Obertrogen, Riegen, Ruppenmanklitz, Salmers, Schreckenmanklitz, Siebers, Tobel, Untertrogen and Weissen; the districts of Buch, Hasenried, Nagelshub, Unterberg and Oberfolk belong to the Simmerberg area; the districts of Blättla, Burg, Gunta and Moos belong to the local area of Ellhofen.
Neighboring communities
| Lindenberg in the Allgäu | Röthenbach (Allgäu) | Grünenbach |
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Stiefenhofen |
| Sulzberg (Vorarlberg) | Oberreute |
history
In spring 2005, the community celebrated the 1111th anniversary of the first documentary mention.
Before 1805, the Weiler-Simmerberg market was the seat of an upper and lower court and belonged to the Austrian rule of Bregenz-Hohenegg . Since the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg in 1805 , the place has belonged to Bavaria. In the course of the administrative reforms in Bavaria , the municipal edict of 1818 created the municipalities of Simmerberg and Weiler. The local company with the richest tradition is the Post Brewery Weiler, with a history dating back to 1650.
On September 1, 1968, the previously independent municipalities of Simmerberg and Weiler im Allgäu (officially Weiler i. Allgäu ) were merged to form the new municipality of Weiler-Simmerberg. On January 1, 1972, Ellhofen was added.
Population development
Between 1988 and 2018 the municipality grew from 5,274 to 6,284 by 1,010 inhabitants or 19.2%.
politics
Municipal council
Distribution of seats in the municipal council after the last four local elections :
| Election year | CSU | SPD | FW | ÖDP / Greens | YES WSE * | EB | total |
| 2002 | 8th | 4th | 6th | - | - | 2 | 20th |
| 2008 | 7th | 4th | 9 | - | - | - | 20th |
| 2014 | 9 | 3 | 8th | - | - | - | 20th |
| 2020 | 6th | 3 | 6th | 2 | 3 | - | 20th |
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* Young Active WSE
The turnout in 2020 was 60.6 percent.
mayor
Karl-Heinz Rudolph of the Free Voters had been Mayor of Weiler-Simmerberg since 2002. He was re-elected in 2008 with 70.2% of the vote. In 2014 he achieved a share of 77.1% of the valid votes.
In the 2020 local elections, Tobias Paintner (CSU) was elected as his successor with 64.9 of the valid votes. The incumbent Karl-Heinz Rudolph received only 27.8% and Markus Wipper received 7.4% from the ÖDP.
coat of arms
The coat of arms assigned in 1969 is divided diagonally in the cloud section by silver and red. Above it shows the golden fringed red storm flag with three golden rings from the Vorarlberg coat of arms .
Relations with foreign communities
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Italy : Weiler-Simmerberg has a partnership with Valmontone in Italy. There were first official visits in 2002 and further visits in 2004/2005 to sign the charter for town twinning (“official” engagement). The partnership agreement was agreed in spring and autumn 2008. -
France : Another partnership is maintained with Ollioules in France. These relationships, which have been friendly for decades, are mainly based on a private basis. -
Spain : A third partnership is maintained with Benifaió in Spain 's Valencia province .
Sights and events
Landscape and nature
Hausbachklamm
Weiler shares its most famous geotope with Oberreute . The ravine section (lower entrance: ⊙ ) is about three kilometers long and impresses with erosion and swirl pots in the sandstone and Nagelfluh rock.
Enschenstein
The Enschenstein ⊙ is a Nagelfluh rock that nature has carved out of the surrounding sandstone. At the most exposed places, 15 to 20 meters high, vertical walls rise from the surrounding forest floor. It is even made with trees. The entrance is quite steep and the trees that have grown up from below hide the edge of the break. From the memorial stone on the highest point it is just three meters to the abyss.
“On the Enschenstein [Enzen prehistoric giants] around 500 BC. Illyrian rock castle, around 300 AD. in the Alemanni storms Fliehburg d. Romans "
Ellhofer Tobelbach
The geotope (middle (Tobelmühle): ⊙ ) is an approximately 6.5 km long branched hiking area with varied, very different path sections. From almost flat meadows and pastures, the path leads uphill and downhill past historical and geological witnesses and suddenly changes to alpine conditions. The sandstone that emerged from the Tobelbach was in great demand as a building material (including for the Ulm Minster and the railway bridge over the Tobelbach) and for the extraction of whetstones because of its high quality .
Wild rose moss
The biotope (location: ⊙ ) is the headwaters of the Eyenbach (not, as often read, the Hausbach) and lies directly on the border with Sulzberg (Vorarlberg) .
Trogen moss
Location: ( ⊙ ) Journalists with a local patriotism point out the rare flora and fauna of the high moor and that the protected adder , native to this area, is rarely found in the Allgäu. The situation in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, shown in detail, contradicts this.
Erratic block
To the north-east of Weiler is an erratic block , which, with an original volume of 4,000 cubic meters, is considered the largest boulder in Europe, around half of its original mass has been preserved. This geological peculiarity (location: ⊙ ) arose during the recent Ice Age, when the Rhine Glacier with its eastern foothills advanced far into Upper Swabia. He transported a boulder from the massif of the "Three Sisters" in Liechtenstein (location: ⊙ ) 65 km to Weiler. In ignorance of its geological significance, the erratic block was used as a quarry in the 18th century; in the 19th century the main dolomite block served as a cheap source of material for burning lime.
Museums
Weiler-Simmerberg has several small museums and display collections that are well worth seeing
Westallgäu local history museum
In 25 rooms, spread over 4 floors, it shows everyday items from common and farm parlors in the Western Allgäu, paintings and sculptures from Gothic to modern times, the kitchen, living room and bedroom as well as the fully furnished shop, traditional costumes, clocks and Musical instruments, documents and exhibits about local history and deserving and famous citizens.
Herbal collection
It was founded by Professor Karl Hummel from Weiler and shows the different symmetries and the variety of shapes of the Westallgäu character plants in a herbarium comprising more than 100 exhibits made of pressed flowers and plants. Depending on the season, up to 80 short-lived plants with appropriate care and maintenance instructions can be seen in three shop windows. Separate departments are dedicated to local orchids as well as minerals and rocks.
Kornhaus Museum
The granary was built in 1791 following a famine as a granary to supply the citizens with bread grain in times of need. The Westallgäuer Heimatverein saved the historic building from being demolished and is now using it as the community's second local history house for changing exhibitions and events such as the international Kornhaus seminars.
Brewing and fountain museum
It is housed in the rooms of the Post Brewery Weiler & Siebers Mineralquelle and shows the history of the brewery and fountain tradition in Weiler.
building
In the townscape, there are some buildings that are often related to the history of the hamlets of Weiler, Simmerberg or Ellhofen.
Am Hausbach (main street)
The road leads along the Hausbach. In addition to the town's two main museums, it offers access to the church square and the town hall via the Nepomuk Bridge.
Fridolin-Holzer-Strasse
The Widmann -Haus, built in 1911 as an administration and laboratory building for the teaching and research institute for Emmental cheese making, as well as the Sennhof, the building used from 1930 to 1970 as the school building for the teaching and research institute for Emmental cheese making, is located in this local street, which runs parallel to the Hausbach .
Alois-von-Brinz-Strasse
The former courthouse in Weiler im Allgäu was originally built as a factory for muslin and calico production.
The Bahnhofsviertel, a work by Georg Bufler
With the opening of the Weilerer Bahnhof and the connecting line to Röthenbach on the Bavarian Allgäu Railway , the station district around Bahnhofsstraße and Bahnhofsplatz developed into an upscale residential and business location in the period of economic upswing before the First World War. The market builder and entrepreneur Georg Bufler (1878–1950) planned and built several buildings here with an Art Nouveau-oriented facade in 1906, the uniformity of which gives the station square its own character, such as the Inama and Stromeyer villas, the residential and commercial buildings Herz, Baldauf and Stadelmann . Bufler's plant outside the station area includes the Milz and Karg straw hat factory, the post office building, the residential and commercial buildings Heim and Eschenlohr and the Sennhof, the teaching and research institute for Emmental cheese making, set off somewhat to the center of the town on Fridolin-Holzer-Strasse, and the major renovations or extensions in the complex of the Zur Post brewery inn .
Stromeyerstrasse
The Kreuzkirche in Stromeyerstraße 25 belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Scheidegg and Weiler. The two-story structure with a gable roof does not have a church tower. In the interior there is a blue altar cross and fourteen stones of the cross.
Events
Salt festival
It reminds of the importance of the place Simmerberg and its salt factory in the medieval and modern salt trade (salt transport) between Bad Hall in Tyrol and Bad Reichenhall / Berchtesgaden and over Lake Constance to Switzerland and the Baden region. The highlight of the event is the historic salt train with horse-drawn wagons, load horses and an audience on a section of the old Tyrolean salt route from Oberstaufen to Simmerberg.
Personalities
Sons and Daughters of the Market
Sorted by year of birth
- Jacob Ernst Thomann von Hagelstein (also Nestus Thomann ; * around 1588 in Hagelstein, † 1653 in Lindau), German Baroque painter
- Anton Schneider (* 1777 in Untertrogen, today part of the market town of Weiler-Simmerberg; † 1820 in Fideris / Graubünden), lawyer, freedom fighter, 1809 commander in chief of the Vorarlberg people's uprising
- Otto von Langenmantel (* 1816 in Weiler im Allgäu, † 1875 in Munich), civil engineer and master builder of the Liberation Hall near Kelheim
- Friedrich Ritter von Lössl (* 1817 in Weiler im Allgäu, † 1907 in Vienna), engineer, outstanding pioneer of railway line construction in the 19th century in Bavaria and Austria, inventor of the autodynamic clock system
- Alois von Brinz (* 1820 in Weiler; † 1887), studied law, university career, teaching in Erlangen, 1857 in Prague (also politically active there, member of the Bohemian state parliament), 1866 Tübingen, 1871 Munich (taught Roman civil law there and became Rector of the University). 1872 Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and Nobilitation
- Hieronymus Fäßler (* 1823 in Weiler; † 1903), in the USA a technical pioneer in the construction of agricultural machinery and underground trains and an important entrepreneur
- Ignaz Dornach (* 1868, † 1945), tobacco manufacturer (his grandfather of the same name (* 1795, † 1861) manufactured chewing tobacco in Röthenbach, then Simmerberg, and finally in Weiler, who had the company in today's Alois-von-Brinz-Straße 1850 24 workers); Local researcher, collector of antiquities and works of art, bequeathed his large private collection to the Westallgäuer Heimatverein, and set up the first local museum in the town hall with his friend, Mayor Fridolin Holzer . Honorary citizen of the former community of Weiler im Allgäu
- Georg Bufler (* 1878 in Weiler; † 1950), master builder and building contractor, 50 years market builder of the town, shaped the townscape, especially in the period of economic upswing before the First World War, with Art Nouveau-oriented residential and commercial buildings and public buildings
- Karl Hummel (* 1902 in Weiler; † 1987 ibid), pharmaceutical botanist, specializing in Iranian flora, professor of pharmacognosy (science of comparative plant anatomy). Founder of the scientific institute at Lindlich Castle in Hechingen.
- Ludwig Scheller, elementary school teacher and local researcher, great contribution to the local history museum
- Ernst Jakob Henne , called "Schneller Henne" (* 1904 in Weiler im Allgäu, † 2005 in Gran Canaria), motorcycle and car racer and entrepreneur.
- Gottfried Döhler (* 1938 in Weiler im Allgäu), emeritus for physics
- Toni Gruber (* 1943 in Weiler im Allgäu), motorcycle racing driver and entrepreneur
- Wolfgang Hartung (* 1946 in Weiler-Simmerberg), historian, medievalist
- Claudius Magnus Pfanner (* 1952 in Simmerberg im Allgäu), master hairdresser, known regionally as an accordionist and keyboard player, came with his formation "Allgäu Duo C & E" at the 1997 and 1998 Allgäu Grand Prix music competition in the final selection of the 13 best Allgäu folk music bands
- Eberhard Rotter (* 1954 in Simmerberg), member of the CSU in the Bavarian state parliament for the Lindau-Sonthofen constituency
- Nikolaus Pfanner (* 1956 in Simmerberg im Allgäu), physician with a focus on biochemistry and cell biology; received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG in 2004
- Jockel Tschiersch (* 1957 in Weiler-Simmerberg), actor and cabaret artist
- Karl-Heinz Riedle (* 1965 in Weiler im Allgäu), successful former soccer player (striker) (Bundesliga and national team)
- Joachim Baldauf (* 1965 in Weiler im Allgäu), photographer and publisher
Other personalities
- Josef Aurel Stadler (* 1778; † 1837), agricultural reformer and pioneer of Allgäu hard cheese production according to the Swiss style (Emmentaler), first successful attempts in 1821 in Weiler with the help of two dairymen from the Emmental.
- Franz von Miller (* 1783 in Weitnau, † 1842 in Darmstadt); Business lawyer, economist, companion and finisher of Friedrich List's work; made a contribution to the German customs union and its predecessor organizations. After the collapse of the Vorarlberg popular uprising in 1806, he saved the place from planned destruction by Napoleon as head clerk at the district court of Weiler im Allgäu.
- Johann Conrad Blank (* 1757 in Sulzberg (Vorarlberg), † 1827 in Vienna); Austrian Abbé, kk councilor and mathematician.
- Nicolò Inama came from a family of whip makers from the Non Valley in Trentino and had master builder Georg Bufler build an exclusive villa with Art Nouveau elements on the Bahnhofsplatz for his whip and wine trade (today Villa Lessing Bahnhofstrasse 14).
- Josef Widmann (* 1833 in Cham (Upper Palatinate); † 1899); Engineer, farmer, politician and pioneer of the Allgäu dairy industry; founded the training and research institute for Emmental cheese making in Weiler
- Max Hartmann (* 1876 in Lauterecken near Kusel; † 1962 in Buchenbühl (branch of the Weiler area)), biologist and philosopher.
- Udo Dammert (* 1904 in Baden-Baden; † 2003 in Simmerberg) pianist, piano teacher, author and art collector.
- Hans Edgar Jahn (* 1914 in Neustettin; † 2000 in Bonn) journalist, publicist, PR consultant, publisher and politician retired to Eyenbach, a branch of the Weiler-Simmerberg market, while still writing in his retirement.
- Gertrud Wiedra (* 1921 in Jagerndorf in Silesia; † January 8, 2014 in Weiler) reverse glass painter and art collector.
- Ernst Wilfer (* 1923 in Asch near Eger in the Sudetenland, today Aš near Cheb, Czech Republic; † 2014); German engineer and inventor, who made a name for himself in the construction, construction management and operation of aerial cableways, lived in Simmerberg since his retirement.
- Harry Pross (* 1923 in Karlsruhe; † 2010 in Weiler-Simmerberg) social scientist and publicist; initiated and directed the first 10 “International Kornhaus Seminars in Weiler im Allgäu” from 1984 to 1993; lived in Weißen since the 1980s (branch of the hamlet area).
- Frank Crüsemann (* 1938 in Bremen) Old Testament scholar, known for his publications on the Torah, Elijah and the social history of the Old Testament as well as his participation in the Christian-Jewish dialogue and his participation in the German Evangelical Church Congress, spent part of his school days in Weiler in the Allgäu.
- Jörg Steinleitner (* 1971 in Immenstadt im Allgäu) writer, lawyer, mayor of Riegsee in Upper Bavaria, lived in Weiler im Allgäu from 1980 to 1990.
literature
- Gerd Zimmer: Georg Bufler - An important West Allgäu master builder , in the yearbook of the Lindau district 1992, Wilfried Eppe publishing house, Bergatreutre, pages 49–58, ISBN 3-89089-025-3
- Georg Wagner, Gerd Zimmer: Heimatbuch Weiler im Allgäu. Verlag Buchdruckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgäu 1994. Publisher: Markt Weiler-Simmerberg (on the occasion of the 1100 anniversary of the first documentary mention).
Web links
- The Hausbachklamm with Enschenstein and Wildrosenmoos
- Entry on the coat of arms of Weiler-Simmerberg in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- Westallgäuer Heimatmuseum and the other exhibition collections
- Weiler-Simmerberg: Official statistics of the LfStat
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 ).
- ^ Community Weiler-Simmerberg in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on August 18, 2019.
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 513 .
- ↑ See Ulrich Joger, Ralf Wollesen (Ed.): Distribution, ecology and protection of the adder (Vipera berus). Mertensiella 15, 2004.
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