Weissenhorn
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ' N , 10 ° 10' E |
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| State : | Bavaria | |
| Administrative region : | Swabia | |
| County : | New Ulm | |
| Height : | 501 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 53.71 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,521 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 252 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 89264 | |
| Primaries : | 07309, 07306 | |
| License plate : | NU, ILL | |
| Community key : | 09 7 75 164 | |
| City structure: | 13 parts of the community | |
City administration address : |
Schlossplatz 1 89264 Weißenhorn |
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| Mayor : | Wolfgang Fendt (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Weißenhorn in the Neu-Ulm district | ||
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Weißenhorn is a town in the Swabian district of Neu-Ulm in Bavaria .
geography
Geographical location
The city is located on the Roth , around 22 kilometers southeast of Ulm and 35 kilometers north of Memmingen . It belongs to the Donau-Iller region in Central Swabia . Other rivers in the city are the Biber and the Leibi .
Neighboring communities
Weißenhorn borders the following municipalities (clockwise, starting in the southeast): Roggenburg , Buch , Illertissen , Bellenberg , Vöhringen , Senden , Pfaffenhofen and the municipality-free area of Stoffenrieder Forst, to which the municipalities of Waldstetten and Ellzee in the Günzburg district adjoin to the east .
City structure
The community has 13 officially named community parts . As of February 1, 2017, the total of 13,599 inhabitants of the city are distributed over the following districts:
| district | Residents |
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| Attenhofen with Kuttenthalmühle | 936 |
| Biberachzell with ash | 707 |
| Bubenhausen | 694 |
| Emershofen | 157 |
| Grafertshofen | 471 |
| Hegelhofen | 417 |
| Oberhausen | 389 |
| Ober- and Unterreichenbach | 335 |
| Wallenhausen | 521 |
| Weißenhorn with Eschach * | 8972 |
climate
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Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Weißenhorn
Source: de.climate-data.org
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history
Until the 18th century
Archaeological finds prove that there must have been settlements in various cultural epochs in what is now the city of Weißenhorn. In addition to Alemannic finds , Roman and Stone Age settlement finds indicate constant settlement in the region around Weißenhorn.
Weißenhorn was first mentioned in 1160 as "villa Wizzenhorn". From the 13th century it was the seat of a line of the lords of Neuffen . When this expired in 1342, it came into the possession of the Dukes of Bavaria , who almost constantly loaned the city and pledged it to others. In 1473, however , Duke Ludwig the Rich held court in Weißenhorn. During the Landshut War of Succession , it came into the possession of Emperor Maximilian I and in 1504 became a provincial town in the Upper Austrian province of Burgau . Maximilian transferred the property to Jakob Fugger in 1507 , but due to the traditional and confirmed privileges of Weißenhorn, the sovereign rights remained with Austria. The Fuggers , who ruled the city for centuries, supported the local barch weaving and made Weißenhorn a flourishing trading town. Besides Augsburg , Weißenhorn is the only city that is still allowed to use the name “Fuggerstadt”.
During the German Peasants' War , the city was attacked by around 12,000 men on April 1, 1525 under the leadership of the Ingstetter farmer Jörg Ebner. The Weißenhorn citizens successfully defended their city, whereupon the farmers withdrew and attacked the neighboring Roggenburg monastery .
The robber and murderer Matthias Klostermayr , the "Bavarian Hiasl", who was up to mischief in the 18th century, also stopped in Weißenhorn and narrowly escaped arrest by the gendarmes of the Roggenburg district court .
19th century
After the Peace of Pressburg in 1805, Weißenhorn became Bavarian again.
On February 22, 1859, the Gothic church collapsed in baroque style, killing eleven people. The cause was presumably a later built-in holy water font on a supporting main column of the nave. The discussion about building a new church lasted until 1864. On the recommendation of the Bavarian King Ludwig II , the Munich city planning officer August von Voit received the design contract. The large parish church of the Assumption of Mary was built in the neo-Romanesque style until 1872 . For this, the remaining city wall and the Pfaff tower were demolished.
In 1862, with the establishment of the Illertissen district office, the Roggenburg district court and the associated gendarmerie post were relocated to Weißenhorn. This strengthened Weißenhorn's central position as the only town in the Rothtal. With the opening of the railway line to Senden in 1878, a brisk structural and economic development began.
20th century
During the Second World War , Weißenhorn remained unscathed apart from two air raids on the Wehrmacht depot in the Eschach Forest. It escaped destruction by the American armed forces due to the surrender, which Oskar Mareis initiated by raising a white flag on the church tower of the parish church, which was not agreed with the Wehrmacht .
Incorporations
On July 1, 1970, the previously independent municipality of Oberreichenbach was incorporated. On October 1, 1970, Biberachzell and Bubenhausen were added. Emershofen, Oberhausen and Wallenhausen followed on October 1, 1971, Attenhofen and Grafertshofen on July 1, 1972. The series of incorporations was completed with the incorporation of Hegelhofen on May 1, 1978.
Population development
Between the two official censuses of 1987 and 2011, the number of residents in Weißenhorn grew by more than a fifth. In the last 10 years, however, the population has remained largely stable. The following table shows the population development in the city from 1840.
| year | population |
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| 1840 | 5,043 |
| 1871 | 4,913 |
| 1900 | 5,049 |
| 1925 | 5,732 |
| 1939 | 5,904 |
| 1950 | 9,844 |
| 1961 | 9,773 |
| 1970 | 10,295 |
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| 1987 | 10,856 |
| 1991 | 11,716 |
| 1995 | 12,224 |
| 2005 | 13,280 |
| 2010 | 13,252 |
| 2015 | 13,329 |
| 2016 | 13,428 |
| 2019 | 13,521 |
Between 1988 and 2019, the city grew from 10,980 to 13,521 by 2,541 inhabitants or 23.1%.
Religions
64.7 percent of the population are Roman Catholic (as of 2014). In 1987 it was 81.5 percent. 13.4 percent are Evangelical Lutheran. The remaining 21.9 percent are Muslims , atheists or followers of small religious groups.
politics
City Councilor and Mayor
After the local elections on March 15, 2020, the 24 seats of the Weißenhorn City Council will be distributed among the parties and electoral associations as follows:
- CSU : 9 seats
- Alliance 90 / The Greens : 2 seats
- Free voters Bavaria / Weißenhorn non-partisan voters (WüW): 6 seats
- SPD : 4 seats
- FDP : one seat
- ÖDP : 2 seats
Mayor of Weißenhorn has been Wolfgang Fendt (independent) since August 2006. He is supported by the SPD and the WüW. On June 17, 2012, Fendt was re-elected with 97.8% of the votes, and again on March 15, 2020 with 91.8%.
District council
In the district council of the Neu-Ulm district , Weißenhorn is currently represented by 4 councils of the Free Voters, 3 of the SPD, 2 of the CSU, 1 non-party council, 1 councilor of the FDP and 1 councilor of the Greens.
Town twinning
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Villecresnes , France (since mid-2010) -
Valmadrera , Italy (since June 4, 2017)
Weissenhorn also maintains good contacts to the market town of Prad am Stilfser Joch / South Tyrol through the partnership of the district of Neu-Ulm .
Culture and sights
theatre
The historical city theater was established in 1876 by the renovation of a tenth barn from the 16th century. It was renovated in 1922 and 1979 and is one of the few well-preserved small-town town theaters from the 19th century. With around 150 seats, it is the smallest theater in Bavaria that has been preserved in its historical state and is used by amateur groups and the Weissenhorn Southern German Chamber Opera . The building used to be used as a zehentstadel, fire props store, workshop of the gliding club and as the location of the community hearse.
Tourism and leisure
Weissenhorn recorded slightly more than 27,800 overnight stays by guests in 2015, an increase of 12.5% compared to 2010. Around 4,400 of the overnight stays were from foreign guests. The guests spent an average of 1.9 days in the city. There is a forest ropes course in the Wallenhausen district .
Museums
- Weißenhorn local history museum , collection on town and regional history , founded in 1908, redesigned 1992–1996
- Weissenhorn Archaeological Collection , small museum with prehistoric and early historical finds from the area around the city
Buildings
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The old town is largely preserved in its historical condition. Medieval town houses , some in half-timbered construction , stately inns and buildings from the 19th century bear witness to the tradition as a trading town . The medieval city fortifications were dismantled by 1837, but the Upper Gate, the Lower Gate and the beatings tower remained. The course of the city wall can still be seen on the eastern promenade and on the city moat. A piece of the wall including a moat was reconstructed in front of the castles. The two castles in the old town were extensively renovated and restored by July 2013. Since 2013 they have been the seat of the Weißenhorn city administration.
- The church square is framed by numerous sights :
- Upper gate with two round towers, built around 1470
- Town hall, built in 1761
- Neuffenschloss (Old Castle), built in 1460, modified in Baroque style in 1735, renovated by 2013
- Fugger Castle (New Castle), built in 1513, redesigned in 1735, renovated by 2013
- Fuggersches Bräuhaus , built in 1565
- City parish church of the Assumption of Mary , built 1864–1872 in the neo-Romanesque style by August von Voit
- Other buildings worth seeing are:
- Schranne (Old Town Hall), built around 1390, expanded in 1584
- Heilig-Geist-Kirche, built around 1470, modified in Baroque style around 1720–1730, with an onion dome from 1729
- Lower gate, built around 1470
- Beatings Tower, formerly part of the city wall; built between 1470 and 1500; served as a city prison for minor offenses
- Fugger's wool and weighing house, built in 1534 (houses the local history museum)
- St. Bartholomäus, cemetery church built in 1727 with Fugger's grave monuments
- Fugger's garden palace
- Fuggerhalle, an event and sports hall opened in 2014
Regular events
- Leonhardi-Ritt, equestrian procession in honor of St. Leonhard
- Old town festival on the second Saturday in July
- Parish celebration of the Catholic parish in June
- Evangelical parish festival on the last Sunday before the summer holidays
- Street carnival on "Gumpigen Thursday"
- Carnival Tuesday parade
- Old town run
- European weeks
- Culture night in spring
- Weekly market on Saturday on the church square
Public facilities
- Clinics of the Kreisspitalstiftung Weißenhorn
- Municipal swimming pool
- Small urban swimming pool
- Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Catholic parish church)
- Christophorus-Haus (catholic community center)
- Catholic kindergarten
- Kreuz-Christi-Kirche (Protestant Church)
- Augustana Center (Protestant community center)
- Protestant Montessori Kinderhaus (Protestant kindergarten)
Economy and Infrastructure
Economic life was shaped by a small-town craft structure until after 1945. It was only after 1945 that large industrial companies began to settle here. The largest employer is PERI GmbH , founded in 1969 , world market leader in formwork and scaffolding . In addition to PERI and the Oetinger aluminum smelter, there are many medium-sized and small companies.
In 2015, an average of 162 people were registered as unemployed in Weißenhorn. Compared to 2009 this is a decrease of around 40%.
traffic
Weißenhorn is on the A 7 (junction 123 Vöhringen ).
The Weißenhorn – Senden branch line (length: 9.6 km) was opened on September 15, 1878 and connects Weißenhorn in Senden with the main Ulm – Memmingen line . Passenger traffic, which had been thinned out since the early 1960s, was discontinued in 1966. Since then, the route has only been used in freight traffic. After DB Netz AG actually wanted to sell or shut down the line, Stadtwerke Ulm / Neu-Ulm (SWU) managed to conclude a lease agreement.
After renovation by the SWU, regional traffic from Alb-Bodensee resumed passenger traffic on December 15, 2013. Since then, direct trains have been running every hour between Weißenhorn and Ulm. A bus junction was set up at the train station in Weißenhorn. The bus routes connect Weißenhorn to Vöhringen and other places in the region. The entire public transport offer is part of the Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund (DING).
The Weißenhorn airfield with a grass runway, suitable for powered aircraft up to 5.7 tonnes gross vehicle weight, motor gliders, helicopters and gliders, is located two kilometers southwest of the city center.
Established businesses
- PERI GmbH , manufacturer of formwork and scaffolding
- Oetinger, aluminum smelter
Educational institutions
- 2 primary schools
- secondary schools
- special school
- Municipal secondary school (nationalization applied for)
- Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Gymnasium
- Private Montessori school in the building of the former Claretiner College
- Municipal music school
- Municipal library
Agencies and public authorities
- Municipality of Weißenhorn
- Branch of the Agricultural Office Krumbach / Swabia
- Weissenhorn Forestry Office (Bavarian State Forestry Administration), responsible for the Neu-Ulm, Günzburg, Dillingen districts
- Weissenhorn Police Station
- Waste management company of the district of Neu-Ulm
- Weissenhorn volunteer fire brigade : Base fire brigade for the eastern district of Neu-Ulm, location of the hazardous goods train of the district of Neu-Ulm
Personalities
- Nikolaus Thoman (around 1457 – around 1545), chaplain and chronicler ( Weißenhorn history )
- Eitelhans Langenmantel (* around 1480 in Leitershofen ), Anabaptist , executed on May 11, 1528 in Weißenhorn on the basis of his beliefs
- Georg Rieder II (around 1510–1564), painter and cartographer
- Georg Rieder III (around 1540–1575), painter and cartographer
- Ferdinand Luidl (1670–1736), sculptor
- Sebastian Sailer (1714–1777), Premonstratensian canon, preacher and Swabian dialect poet
- Franz Martin Kuen (1719–1771), painter
- Andreas Dahlweiner (1734–1758 / 1759), painter
- Konrad Huber (1752–1830), painter
- Cölestin Spegele (1761-1831), theologian
- Johann Nepomuk Baur (1826–1902), farmer and center politician
- Anton von Henle (1851–1927), Bishop of Passau and Regensburg
- Anton Müller-Wischin (1865–1949), professor, elementary school teacher, painter
- Claire Bauroff (1895–1984), dancer
- Karl Wezler (1900–1987), physiologist and university professor
- Hans Ils (1906–1988), social democratic politician and anti-fascist resistance fighter
- Jakob Streitle (1916–1982), national soccer player
- Karl Hugo Schmölz (1917–1986), photographer
- Anton Hubert Konrad (* 1937), publisher
- Wilfried Hiller (* 1941), composer
- Isabelle Konrad (* 1998), film director and media artist
Referendum
- A referendum in July 2012 dealt with the question of whether two supermarkets can be built on the so-called Hasenwiese, a square in the city center. Some citizens rejected the planned move to a discount supermarket and founded a citizens' initiative . The city supported the building project. In the vote, 68% of Weissenhorns spoke out in favor of the development and thus against the criticism of the citizens' initiative.
literature
- Erich Mennel, Wolfgang Ott (ed.): Weißenhorner Profile 1160–2010. Contributions and studies on the history of the city (catalogs and publications of the Weißenhorn Heimatmuseum 5), Weißenhorn 2010
- Joseph Holl: History of the city of Weissenhorn . Kempten 1904. Reprint: Konrad, Weißenhorn 1983, ISBN 3-87437-208-1
- Hans Burkhardt: History of the city of Weissenhorn and its districts . Weissenhorn 1988.
- Wolfgang Ott, Monika Kolb: Weissenhorn 1945 to 1965, The series archive pictures Erfurt 2006, Sutton Verlad GmbH, ISBN 3-89702-972-3
- Nicolaus Thoman: Weissenhorn History . Reprint. Weißenhorn 1969 (partial reprint of the edition by Franz Ludwig Baumann (ed.): Sources on the history of the peasant war in Oberschwaben . Stuttgart 1876 with additions and afterwords by Horst Gaiser and Anton K. Konrad)
Web links
- City of Weißenhorn
- Entry on the coat of arms of Weißenhorn in the database of the House of Bavarian History
- Historical lexicon of Bavaria: Kirchberg-Weißenhorn, Herrschaft (Sarah Hadry)
- Weißenhorn: 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 Weißenhorn in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 21, 2019.
- ↑ Population of the city of Weißenhorn . Website of the city of Weißenhorn.
- ↑ climate-data.org . Weissenhorn climate table.
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 540 .
- ^ 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. 790 .
- ↑ a b Municipal statistics 2013 . Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing in June 2014
- ↑ https://www.citypopulation.de/de/germany/bayern/09775__neu_ulm/
- ↑ Result of the city council election March 15, 2020 . Retrieved March 16, 2020.
- ^ Neu-Ulmer Zeitung: Wolfgang Fendt remains mayor . Retrieved August 2, 2014
- ^ Results of the mayoral election of Weißenhorn. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Sister city partnership on www.weissenhorn.de (accessed April 19, 2014)
- ↑ [1] on www.leccoonline.com (accessed June 5, 2017)
- ↑ a b Statistics communal 2015. In: A selection of important statistical data for the respective regional unit, presented in tables and graphics. Bavarian State Office for Statistics, July 31, 2016, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
- ^ Martin Kluger : The Fuggers around Augsburg, Munich and Ulm. Nobility, castles and churches . 1st edition. Context Verlag Augsburg, Augsburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939645-43-6 .
- ↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Fuggerhalle opened with a celebration | Südwest Presse Online . October 20, 2014 ( swp.de [accessed October 30, 2016]).
- ↑ See Bahn-Report, issue 2/2010, p. 70, editor: Interest group rail transport e. V., Rohr, ISSN 0178-4528
- ↑ Südwestpresse Ulm: Ulm-Weißenhorn railway line opened. , accessed December 16, 2013
- ↑ Neu-Ulmer Zeitung: Aldi buys the Hasenkeller . Retrieved August 2, 2014
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