Senden

Send is a town in the Swabian district of Neu-Ulm. The municipality belongs to the Danube-Iller region in central Bavaria. It is located 12 kilometers south of Ulm and 45 km north of Memmingen.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 community partnership
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 monuments
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 6.1 educational institutions
  • 6.2 Leisure and sports facilities

Geography

Geographical Location

The city is sending an der Iller and is adjacent to Baden- Württemberg. The city belongs to the Danube -Iller - Nahverkehrsverbund. To the west of the Iller, the suburb bottom lock, the road a short distance beyond the territory of the neighboring community Illerkirchberg what makes this district into a functional exclave.

Neighboring communities

Send borders the municipalities ( clockwise starting from the north ): Neu- Ulm, Oberpfaffenhofen, White Horn, Vöhringen and Illerkirchberg.

History

On June 7, 1975 the market sending were awarded city rights.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1970, the formerly independent communities Hittistetten and Wullenstetten were incorporated. On 1 July 1971 Ay was added to the Iller. Witzighausen and the district Freudenegg the community Gerlenhofen were added on July 1, 1972. Aufheim followed on 1 January 1978.

Policy

Parish council

The council is divided according to the local elections of March 2, 2008 as follows: The CSU holds 12 Free Wählergemeinschaft 7, 6 SPD, the Greens 3 and the BISS ( citizens' interests town sending) 2 seats.

Coat of arms

In gold under an elevated blue wave bar a blue heraldic lily. The wave bar indicates the geographic location on the Iller, the local history is connected to the fugger between Kirchberg rule since the Middle Ages 300 years - this comes through the lily expressed.

Community partnership

Since 1998, the city maintains a sending twinned with the Italian city Piove di Sacco ( Padua province ).

Already since 1977, the municipality Uffholtz in a partnership in Alsace with Aufheim and after the incorporation Aufheims 1978, the city sent.

Moreover, since 1975, there is a cordial relationship with the community in sending Westphalia ( Coesfeld ).

Culture and sights

Cultural events take place mainly in 2002 opened Mansion. In addition, wear different non-profit organizations in the cultural events in the respective districts.

Structures

  • Rococo chapel Maria Hilf, Ay
  • Sanctuary of Mary's birth, Witzighausen
  • Parish Church of St. John Baptist, Aufheim
  • Mansion ( built in 2002 ) with a 5600 years old bog oak and a penitential cross of 1320
  • The St. Jodok church in sending the old cemetery, which was built in the 18th century

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Senden ( Bavaria )

Economy and infrastructure

In sending the largest employer is the self-proclaimed biggest furniture store in Europe, the furniture Inhofer GmbH & Co. KG. The ESTA Apparatus GmbH & Co. KG with Dr. Peter Kulitz the Ulm Chamber of Commerce President and this also is at the forefront of the Baden- Württemberg of Commerce and Industry Chambers. Furthermore, the former spinning and weaving Send -Ay and the watch factory sending GmbH was settled in the community.

Traffic

The railway line Ulm -Kempten, called the Iller Valley Railway, divides the city. With her ​​there every hour ride both ways to Ulm and Memmingen. In sending the railway Submit Weißhorn branches off, it has a length of 9.6 km along. The line was opened on September 15, 1878 and tied white horn on to the main line Ulm -Memmingen. The thinned since the early 1960s, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1966. Freight transport will continue to operate on the route. Since December 2013, this route is operated again regularly in regional rail transport every hour ..

The city is sending, traverses in a north-south direction from the state road in 2031, the former state highway 19. Send has a connection to the signposted as a motorway trunk road 28, which in turn flows with Hittistetten on the same motorway junction in the Federal Highway 7.

Send also lies on the Iller bike path, a remote connection for cyclists between Ulm and Oberstdorf.

Public institutions

Educational institutions

In the urban area sending are the four primary schools Aufheim, Ay, sending and Wullenstetten as well as the main school sending. The next time vocational school is the Urban Economy School Send. In addition, the school Lindenhof Send a private support center with a program focusing on mental development exists.

Leisure and sports facilities

In the urban area there are, among others, sending a skating rink, a lake and swimming pool with sauna and physiotherapy practice, various lakes and the city park with mini-golf, children's playground and Kneipp facilities for treading water. In the first two weeks of vacation in the summer is the Stadtranderholung Send, a children's camp in the city park, instead.

Famous people

  • Therese Studer (1862-1931), first full-time secretary of the Catholic workers' movement in southern Germany
  • William Turner (1892-1969), born in Ay ad Iller, politician ( NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
  • Hans Mayr (1921-2009), born in Freudenegg, German union and SPD member of parliament
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