Allmendingen, Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg

Allmendingen is a municipality of the Alb- Donau district in Baden- Württemberg about 25 kilometers west of Ulm and 4 km north of the county town Ehingen (Donau).

3.1 municipal
3.2 Coat of Arms

4.1 traffic
4.2 Established businesses
4.3 Leisure and sports facilities

5.1 Amalgamations
5.2 center redevelopment
5.3 municipality Marketing

6.1 Structures
6.2 Regular events

7.1 freeman
7.2 Sons and daughters of the town
7.3 Other personalities

Geography

Geographical Location

The nucleus Allmendingen is on the Schmiech in a original eroded from the ancient Danube valley, which separates the easternmost Hochsträß from the rest of the Swabian Alb. The highest point on the Bergen Lutheran ( Ennahofen ) is 750 meters above sea level. NN.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by the city Schelkingen, to the east by Altheim, in the south and west by the city Ehingen. The exclave Niederhofen bordered to the north and east on the town of Erbach, to the south by Oberdischingen and Öpfingen.

Community structure

The community Allmendingen consists of the part locations Allmendingen ( 3304 inhabitants on April 30, 2009), Ennahofen (266 inhabitants), Grötzingen ( 296 inhabitants), Niederhofen (375 inhabitants) and Weilersteußlingen (249 inhabitants). For Teilort Allmendingen include the districts of Great Allmen things, small things Allmen and swivel hamlet, the hamlet of Hausen ob Allmendingen and the homestead Siegentalhof. The part places Ennahofen and Grötzingen each include only the villages of the same name. For Teilort Niederhofen include the hamlet Niederhofen Pfraunstetten and Schwörzkirch and the homestead brickyard. This little haven is an exclave, as is a city belonging to Ehingen strip between its surface and the remaining Allmendinger municipality. For Teilort Weilersteußlingen include the village and the hamlet Weilersteußlingen Ermelau.

Within the area are several Outbound, now-defunct villages. In the district Allmendingen north of Hausen is the deserted village Augsdorf. Likewise, an Outbound castle is suspected on the mountain guns. In the district Grötzingen are the waste places of high book, which is called 1152 as Hohonbuach first time, and Kaltinwil that is mentioned in 1200 as Caltiwil first time. High book is no longer mentioned in the 13th century and Kaltinwil in the 14th century.

History

Earliest evidence of human settlement is the discovery of a brick kiln from the period of Roman occupation in the district Niederhofen.

Policy

Allmendingen forms with Altheim an Agreed administrative matters.

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 led to the following distribution of the 19 seats in the municipal council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: Argent, under blue shield main, is three golden balls ( loaves ), a black, rotbezungtes, upright horse.

The coat of arms combines elements of the coat of arms of the lords of Freyberg (balls), whose history is closely connected with the Allmen thingy, and the bourgeois family Renner ( horse), which also had possessions in Allmendingen.

Economy

Traffic

Allmendingen is on the Donautalbahn from Donaueschingen to Ulm and regional rail stop. There are so hourly rail connections to Ehingen (Donau) and to Ulm. Allmendingen is incorporated into the Danube -Iller - Nahverkehrsverbund.

The municipality is situated on the main road 492 Ehingen - Blue Beuren, which leads to the village around.

Established businesses

The largest employer is the automotive Maier Burg. Other industrial enterprises are the mold manufacturer Rampf, who in his industry is the world leader according to own data, and the cement factory swivel them that even overlooks the village.

Leisure and sports facilities

Allmendingen site of the first church in the area and even before the city Ehingen an outdoor pool. There is also a tennis court, a gym and sports hall and the football stadium of the TSV Allmendingen.

Development of the municipality

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the formerly independent communities Ennahofen, Grötzingen, Niederhofen and Weilersteußlingen were incorporated.

Center redevelopment

The community Allmendingen leads since 2000 through a reorganization of their village. In addition to public and private activities will be supported. Within the rehabilitation section I was the old school house, built in 1885, converted into a community center. The state of Baden -Württemberg presented for the first phase of renovation total grants totaling 1.68 million euros. This corresponds to a total funding of 60 % of the total eligible costs of 2.8 million euros. These funds public and private measures were urban defects and deficiencies corrected and improved the living, working, and living conditions in the town center.

The following public construction phases have been implemented:

North Main Street (2001/2002)
Church Square (2003)
South Main Street ( 2004)
Design of the Town Hall Square (2006)

Community marketing

Since 1998 there has been in Allmendingen a working group community marketing, a group of dedicated and interested citizens from the community. Community marketing wants to be a bridge between local government, trade and industry, local associations and citizens.

Culture and sights

Structures

Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption of the 15th century
Castle of the Barons von Freyberg, 16th Century. For many hundreds of years the Barons von Freyberg -Eisenberg in Allmendingen are established and play an important role in the local history Allmen thingy. The Old Castle, a moated castle with two corner towers and a drawbridge that dates back to the period around 1593rd The New Palace that stands beyond the Schmiech and is connected with the Old Castle by a walkway, was built in 1782. The park behind the castle was created during the last third of the 19th century.

Regular events

Heimatfest " hard in the center ," short FiZ ( last from 30 to 31 July 2011)
Night parade
Christmas Market
Books flea market ( one of the largest in Southern Germany )
Allmendinger Health Days

Personalities

Freeman

The municipality has Allmendingen following people granted honorary citizenship:

Anton High ( factory director ) ( 1842-1919 ), Director of the cement factory of the Stuttgart real estate and construction business in Allmendingen, honorary citizen on November 21, 1913
Carl swivel (1852-1942), owner of the pivot 's cement factory in Allmendingen, honorary citizen in 1890?
Carl Schwenk ( junior) ( 1883-1978 ), owner of the company E. Schwenk Cement GmbH, Ulm (Donau), honorary citizen on October 26, 1952

Sons and daughters of the town

The following chart contains significant, born in Allmendingen personalities, listed by year of birth. For the nomination, it is irrelevant whether the people had their future spheres in Allmendingen or not.

Joseph von Sontheimer (1787-1846), royal Württemberg surgeon general, translator of Arabic remedies recipes from Avicenna
Helmut Braig ( b. 1923 ), painter, sculptor, graphic artist, filmmaker and author
Geprägs Ernst (1929-2011), born in the district Grötzingen, farmer, Vice- President of the German Farmers' Association

Other personalities

Here celebrities are listed, who have stayed in Allmendingen part of their lives or died in Allmendingen.

Karl Friedrich Ritter (1900-1986), poet, director of the elementary school in Allmendingen
Ernst von Freyberg ( b. 1958 ), Lord of the Manor of Castle Allmendingen, head of the Vatican Bank in Rome (since 2013)

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