Gingen an der Fils

Went on the Fils is a municipality in Baden- Württemberg in the Stuttgart region and belongs to the district of Göppingen. It lies between the provincial capital Stuttgart and Ulm. After Stuttgart is 55 km, 38 km to Ulm.

2.1 Religion
2.2 Population development

3.1 Coat of Arms
3.2 municipal

4.1 traffic
4.2 Educational facilities

5.1 Structures
5.2 Regular events

6.1 freeman
6.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Went located in the Fils Valley in 384 (train station) to 701 ( Hohenstein ) meters in height.

Community structure

Went to an der Fils include the village Went on the Fils and the hamlet of Green Mountain and the town Outbound March Bach.

History

915 the place Ginga was first mentioned in a deed. Archaeological finds of late Iron Age (so-called Viereckschanze ), Roman (consecrated stones) and the Merovingian period (row graves ) evidence of a settlement in prehistoric times. Presumably it played the situation on the output of the Swabian Alb, where widens the Fils Valley and extensive arable land, offers an essential role. Since 1100 the place was in possession of the Lords von Helfenstein. Later it came into the possession of the imperial city of Ulm. In the Thirty Years' War Went was devastated by overhauling imperial troops.

Due to the media coverage due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss circuit Walked in 1803 was initially Bavarian, but fell in 1810 as part of an exchange field due to the Treaty of Paris to the Kingdom of Württemberg.

After the Second World War, the farms were less important, since the "economic miracle" years brought an economic structural change and Walked began to slowly lose its rural character. The old roads were gradually paved and a new school and even later, a sports hall, the Hohenstein hall built. In the 1980s, the community expanded to new residential areas and it emerged even small industrial area that grow more and more. Went today is a relatively modern village has preserved its rural character despite the innovations.

Religion

The Free Imperial City of Ulm headed in their field - and thus also in Went - in 1531 the Reformation. Since then, the place is known mostly Protestant. Since 1965 there is also a Catholic church.

Population Development

The population development of the village just between 1837 and 2010.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: Argent ( white) on a slant left blue wave beams a red single-tower church. - Flag: blue and white.

The wave bar represents the Fils, which flows through the town. Above it is the local church, in possibly the oldest church in Germany inscription has been preserved from the year 984. The coat of arms was adopted in 1922, the blue and white flag was presented on 5 December 1958 by the Ministry of Interior.

Parish council

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following distribution of seats:

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Went is connected through the Filstalbahn (Stuttgart -Ulm ) to the national rail network. On Walked station ( Fils) stops hourly on weekdays, on weekends every two hours, the regional train (Stuttgart ) Plochingen -Geislingen ( walkways). Bus of the transport association Stauferkreis connect Walked with Geislingen and sweet and Göppingen.

Through the municipal area the federal highway 10 Stuttgart- Ulm, which often leads to noise disturbance for residents and long traffic jams runs. The new B 10 is to run outside of the community, which would ease the old thoroughfare and residents to return their rest.

Educational institutions

Went has its own primary and secondary school that bears the name Hohenstein school since 2006. Nearest secondary schools and high schools are found in Sweet ( 3 km) and Geislingen ad Increase (5-6 km). For the smallest inhabitants, the municipality a children's garden. Two other kindergartens are run by the Catholic and the Protestant church.

Culture and sights

The station is the home office of Baranyaschwaben with traditional costumes and memorabilia of times gone by.

Structures

Evangelical Church of St. John

Late Gothic building with choir from 1463 and flachgedecktem nave of 1512.

About the north gate a dedicatory inscription from February 1 984; she is the oldest dated inscription Church in Germany (after Dionysian era).

During the renovation of 1964-66 whitewashed wall paintings were discovered in the choir ( 1487 ) and above the chancel arch. This monumental Last Judgment picture of 1524, which was donated by Obervogt Eitel Sigmund von Berg and his wife Ursula von Speth, is probably attributable to the Catholic Ulmer artist Martin Schaffner. There are many indications that it is intended to alert to Protestantism before the crossing, eg there are nobles ( nobles, bishops ) only for the blessed and no one in the damned.

The modern Gingener Town Hall, which is centrally located in Gingen and is the meeting point of the community, a further point of interest is, because there are often diverse art and cultural items are displayed.

Regular events

At an event from the 19th century, when Gingen the neighboring cake the rights to a well " snapped ", had reminded the congregation every two years, alternating with a Schnapperfest ( street festival, in odd-numbered years ) and a Schnapperball (dance event in straight years ). Each year there is a children's festival in June.

Personalities

Freeman

Hans Wimmer, Schulamtsdirektor iR, since November 18, 2005 " In recognition of his outstanding ministry to the local community ... "

Personalities who have worked on site

Jürgen Klinsmann (born 1964 ), former football coach, played as a child from 1972 to 1974 at a local club Went TB.
Karl Allgöwer ( born 1957 ), former German football player, who lives with his family in Gingen

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