Wolfertschwenden

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Bavaria
Administrative region :	Swabia
County :	Unterallgäu
Management Community :	Bad Groenenbach
Height :	678 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.48 km 2
Residents:	2070 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	87787
Area code :	08334
License plate :	MN
Community key :	09 7 78 218
Community structure:	5 parts of the community
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 87730 Bad Grönenbach
Website :	www.wolfertschwenden.de
Mayor :	Beate Ullrich (CSU / Citizen Active)
Location of the municipality of Wolfertschwenden in the Unterallgäu district

Wolfertschwenden is a municipality in the Swabian district of Unterallgäu and a member of the Bad Grönenbach administrative community .

geography

Wolfertschwenden is 15 kilometers south of Memmingen in the Donau-Iller region in Central Swabia .

Expansion of the municipal area

The municipality consists of the districts Wolfertschwenden, Dietratried and Niederdorf.

Wolfertschwenden has 5 officially named municipal parts (the type of settlement is given in brackets ):

• Bossarts ( hamlet )
• Dietratried ( Kirchdorf )
• Klessen (hamlet)
• Niederdorf ( parish village )
• Wolfertschwenden (parish village)

Ehwiesmühltal

At Wolfertschwenden, the Illertal opens into a narrow side valley with steep slopes, the so-called Ehwiesmühltal. The idyllic valley has always been a popular destination. The many mills on the stream used to be an important economic factor. Today, groundwater resources are important for the drinking water supply in many communities.

Geological organs

To the northeast of Niederdorf on the upper slope edge close to the hamlet of Bossarts are the so-called geological organs . These are naturally formed tubes (weathering chimneys) in the ground. When the wind is strong, the air vibrates in these tubes and you can hear organ-like tones.

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Panorama picture Wolfertschwenden, viewed from the west

history

Until the church is planted

Excavation finds near the village of Wolfertschwenden document settlement activity as early as Roman times . Wolfertschwenden was mentioned in a document as early as the middle of the 9th century and Niederdorf was founded in Wolfertschwenden in the 11th century. The brothers Hawin, Albrecht and Kuonrad, sons of Hathos von Wolfertschwenden, founded the Benedictine monastery in Ochsenhausen in 1093 and handed it over to the monastery of St. Blasien . Her sister Hemma von Wolfertschwenden, the heir to Hathos, was married to a baron von Sagogn (in Surselva in Rätien), who died before the foundation of Rot an der Rot (1126), and is married to her son Chůno von Sagogn in 1137 called. The family's annual foundations regularly went to Rot an der Rot . The Ottobeuren monastery had been wealthy in Wolfertschwenden since 1145. Wolfertschwenden Castle on today's Schloßberg was the seat of Ottobeur servants. Dietratried was first mentioned in a document in 1365. From 1699 Wolfertschwenden belonged almost completely to the imperial monastery of Ottobeuren and came to Bavaria with the imperial deputation principal in 1803. In 1818 the political municipality was established.

Administrative community

In April 2007 , an application was made to leave the Bad Grönenbach administrative community in the Bavarian state parliament. This was rejected.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, as part of the regional reform in Bavaria , the municipalities of Dietratried and Niederdorf that were established in 1818 were voluntarily joined .

Population development

• 1961: 1083 inhabitants
• 1970: 1117 inhabitants
• 1987: 1440 inhabitants
• 1991: 1574 inhabitants
• 1995: 1653 inhabitants
• 2000: 1744 inhabitants
• 2005: 1855 inhabitants
• 2010: 1861 inhabitants
• 2015: 1960 inhabitants

Between 1988 and 2018, the community grew from 1,483 to 2,051 by 568 inhabitants or 38.3%.

politics

Bundestag election 2017

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46.5%

11.4%

11%

11.6%

7%

3.4%

3.8%

5.3%

CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2013

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+ 7  % p

+ 7.5  % p

+1.6  % p

+1.1  % p

-2.1  % p

-2.3  % p

CSU

SPD

AfD

FDP

Green

left

FW

Otherwise.

Wolfertschwenden local council: Share of voters and local councils since 1978
	CSU		Free voters		total		electoral participation
Electoral term	%		%		%		%
1978-1984			100.00	12	100	12	80.6
1984-1990			100.00	12	100	12	78.8
1990-1996			100.00	12	100	12	77.0
1996-2002	44.72	5	55.28	7th	100	12	70.7
2002-2008	53.06	6th	46.94	6th	100	12	65.3
2008-2014	52.47	6th	47.53	6th	100	12	70.6
Percentages rounded. Sources: Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing

mayor

From 1990 to 2020 the mayor was Karl Fleschhut (* 1952) (non-party voter group). Beate Ullrich (* 1966) (CSU / active citizen) has been mayor since May 1st, 2020.

Municipal council

The distribution of seats in the 2014 municipal council elections was as follows:

• CSU / citizens active: 7 seats
• Non-party voter group: 5 seats

Since 2020, 14 (instead of the previous 12) councilors have belonged to the council. The distribution of seats in the 2020 municipal council elections is as follows:

• CSU / citizens active: 7 seats
• Non-party voter group: 5 seats
• GREEN: 2 seats

tax income

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of 7,200,000 euros in 2014, with a tax rate of 3,551 euros per inhabitant and a total debt of 235,000 euros.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior on January 11, 1960.

Blazon : “Divided; above in blue a growing golden lion, below in silver on a green three-mountain a green deciduous tree. "

The coat of arms was the personal coat of arms of the abbot Honorat Göhl von Ottobeuren, who headed the imperial monastery of Ottobeuren from 1767 to 1802. The monastery had owned the church in Wolfertschwenden and most of Niederdorf (Nieder-Wolfertschwenden) since the 12th century. The abbot's coat of arms was attached shortly after 1767 in connection with a restoration of the tower of the church in Wolfertschwenden, directly below the dial.

The design and the design of the coat of arms come from Nördlinger Rudolf Mussgnug.

St. Vitus in Wolfertschwenden

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Wolfertschwenden

• Catholic parish church of St. Vitus
• Former rectory

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy including agriculture and forestry

In 1998, according to official statistics, there were six in the field of agriculture and forestry, 844 in the manufacturing sector and 46 in the trade and transport sector at the place of work. In other economic sectors 31 people were employed at the place of work subject to social security contributions. There were a total of 622 employees at the place of residence subject to social security contributions. There were no companies in the manufacturing or construction industries. In 1999 there were 34 farms with an agricultural area of ​​788 hectares, of which 196 were arable land and 591 were permanent green areas.

Largest employers:

• pester pac automation
• Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller
• Andreae-Noris Zahn AG, Allgäu branch
• TEXTOR Slicing Technology
• Mammut Basecamp

traffic

The next motorway junction is two kilometers away: junction no.131 Bad Grönenbach on federal motorway 7 . There is a railway connection with public transport via the Bad Grönenbach train station on the Neu-Ulm – Kempten railway line, around two kilometers away.

education

There are the following facilities: a day-care center with 85 kindergarten places (status: 2014) and a primary school with four classes - 60 children (status: 2014).

Personalities

• Albrecht and Chuonradt Hawin, von Wolfertschwenden brothers, sons of Hatos, founders of the Ochsenhausen Benedictine monastery in 1093.
• Theodor Henkel (1855–1934), pioneer of milk science.
• Johann Fleschhut (* 1956), Mayor of Grönenbach 1987 to 2002, District Administrator in the Ostallgäu district from 2002 to 2014.

literature

• Karl Schnieringer: settlement and court history Wolfertschwenden . Ottenbeuren: K. Schnieringer, 1937, 67 Bl.
• Anna Maria Wrzesinski: It mustn't be - the report of an Allgäu maid about a life-threatening love - recorded by Erdmuthe von Baudissin , Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2007, 128 pages

Web links

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

• Wolfertschwenden
• Wolfertschwenden corporate film
• Entry on the Wolfertschwenden coat of arms  in the database of the House of Bavarian History

• Wolfertschwenden: Official statistics of the LfStat (PDF file; 1 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. ^ Community Wolfertschwenden in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 15, 2019.
3. ↑ Source: Nuber, Studies
4. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 521 .
5. ↑ Second votes, according to the source www.wahlen.bayern.de, accessed on March 4, 2018
6. ↑ municipal council elections ; Election results for the municipality code 09778218
7. ↑ Local elections in Bavaria on March 16, 2014 - results in Swabia , accessed on November 18, 2017.
8. ↑ [1] , accessed on July 28, 2020.