Wettstetten

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '  N , 11 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Upper Bavaria
County :	Eichstatt
Height :	422 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.47 km 2
Residents:	5105 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	409 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	85139
Primaries :	0841, 08406
License plate :	EGG
Community key :	09 1 76 167
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 10 85139 Wettstetten
Website :	www.wettstetten.de
Mayor :	Gerd Risch (FW)
Location of the municipality of Wettstetten in the Eichstätt district

Wettstetten is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

geography

Wettstetten is located in the Ingolstadt region, but belongs to the Eichstätt district.

Community structure

The municipality has three officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is indicated in brackets ):

• Adlmannsberg (weekend house settlement)
• Echenzell ( Kirchdorf )
• Wettstetten ( parish village )

Only the Wettstetten district exists .

Neighboring places and communities

Bohmfeld	Stammham
Rackertshofen (Gaimersheim)		Lenting
Gaimersheim	Etting (Ingolstadt)	Oberhaunstadt (Ingolstadt)

history

Jurassic rectory , built in the 17th century

Wettstetten panorama

Saint Martin Church

The traces of human existence in the corridor of Wettstetten go back to the last glacial period (60,000 to 70,000 years). Later it was the Celts and Romans who left visible evidence of their former settlement activities. From a geological perspective, Wettstetten belongs to the Jura, which slopes down to the Danube to the south. The oldest documented mention dates back to 821, when Abbot Siegfried von Ilmmünster donated his inheritance in Wettstetten to St. Emmeram in Regensburg. It is also assumed that the bishops of the Eichstätts diocese were founded around the middle of the eighth century. The rulership was initially exercised by the Counts of Hirschberg . In 1305 the Hirschberg property went to the bishop of Eichstätt as a result of a will from the last Hirschberg count, Gebhard VII.

Wettstetten (also Echenzell) belonged from this point in time to the secularization in 1802 to the Hochstift Eichstätt , which from 1500 was part of the Franconian Empire . Thereafter, the place was in the territory of the Grand Duke and Archduke Ferdinand III. of Tuscany . In 1806 Wettstetten came to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1808 the Wettstetten tax district was formed from Wettstetten, Adlmannsberg and Echenzelle . Until December 1817 this was part of the Eichstätt Regional Court. With the consolidation of the Leuchtenberg property , this union was assigned as a political municipality to the Ingolstadt district court , later the district of Ingolstadt , in December 1817 . This remained so until the district reform , which came into force on July 1, 1972. Since then, the municipality of Wettstetten has been part of the Eichstätt district, which moved from Middle Franconia to Upper Bavaria on the same day.

For centuries, villages of this type were characterized by peasant labor, although it can also be said that according to early records (e.g. 1447/48) in Wettstetten there had been a higher proportion of so-called small estates for a long time, a kind of rural proletariat that grew more and more looked for employment outside of agriculture. The final and profound change came after the end of World War II . The nearby Ingolstadt grew out of the old fortress walls and achieved industrial expansion mainly through the Audi company (formerly DKW). Wettstetten has become a coveted community for many to this day.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 3,624 to 4,989 by 1,365 inhabitants or 37.7%.

year Residents 1840 581 1861 482 1933 880 1946 1214 1961 1382 1970 1788 1980 3175

year Residents 1990 3946 1995 4194 2000 4424 2005 4703 2010 4821 2015 4851

politics

mayor

The first mayor has been Gerd Risch from the Free Voters since May 1st, 2014. He was confirmed in office for another six years on March 15, 2020 with 74.69% of the vote.

Municipal council

The council of Wettstetten consists of 20 elected members and the first mayor.

The 2020 municipal council election with a turnout of 65.02% resulted in the following distribution of mandates:

• CSU 5 seats
• SPD 3 seats
• Free voters 6 seats
• Bourgeois voter community (BWG) 6 seats

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms, adopted in 1980, reads: “In red a silver oblique left bar; above a growing, vertical silver abbot's staff, below a golden ear of wheat placed at an angle to the left. "

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wettstetten

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

According to official statistics, there were a total of 584 jobs subject to social security contributions in 2014, 114 of them in manufacturing, 139 in trade, transport and hospitality and 233 in business service providers. In other economic sectors, 98 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 2044 employees at the place of residence subject to social insurance contributions. The number of out-commuters was 1462 higher than that of in-commuters. In 2010 there were 25 farms. 809 hectares of the municipal area were used for agriculture, 772 hectares of which were arable land.

education

There are the following institutions (as of 2015):

• Day care centers: 188 places with 147 children in care in two institutions
• Elementary schools: one with nine teachers and 173 students

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality of Wettstetten
• Entry on the coat of arms of Wettstetten  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wettstetten: 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. ^ Municipality of Wettstetten in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on September 13, 2019.
3. ^ Rieder: On the prehistory and early history of Wettstetten.
4. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 134 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ Wahl.info. Passauer Neue Presse GmbH, accessed on May 28, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Municipal Council. Wettstetten municipality, accessed on May 28, 2020 .