Emersacker

Emersacker is a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg and a member of the administrative community Welden.

Geography

Emersacker, approximately 25 kilometers north-west of Augsburg on the edge of the wood angle in the Natural Park Augsburg Western Woods. By Emersacker the Laugna, ( a tributary of the cooperation ), the pond brook and the John creek flows.

Neighboring communities

Emersacker is surrounded by the district of Augsburg in the north by the district of Dillingen on the Danube, in the east, south and west. Due to the north-south direction very elongated municipality borders many communities in the Emersackerer hallway.

The following neighboring municipalities in Augsburg bordering the municipality (whereby the east beginning and the clockwise following): - Heretsried with the hamlet of Lauterbrunnen, ( east ) - Bonstetten ( Southern) - Welden ( west ) - Old cathedral with the districts co Zell and Hegnenbach ( west )

In addition, limits nor the communities of the district of Dillingen on the Danube - Zusamaltheim with the district Marzelstetten ( north ) - Laugna with the districts Bockberg, Model Hausen, Kaag and background book ( north ) to the community.

History

Emersacker ( 's field of Emheri ) grew out of a farmstead - perhaps from a Franconian manor. Proven Emersacker appears for the first time in 1169, when Henry of Emersacker as a witness signed a certificate. In another document of the Bishopric of Augsburg on February 23, 1361 appeared as a witness Chuntz the Schrag of Emersacker. 1606 Emersacker went over to Hans Friedrich Schertlin Burtenbach, who sold it in 1613 to the Fugger. 1658 came Emersacker to the foundations of the Fugger house and was sold in 1672 to Rudolf von and zu Schaumburg. 1688 Emersacker was sold to the Augsburg Math cooking of Gaillenbach, H. Sulzer and HJ Friedrich Lange coat. In 1700 came Emersacker finally to the Fugger foundations. Since the Imperial Diet of 1803 the place belonged to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.

In the center of the town is still the Fugger Castle, where the Fugger Foundation brewery was housed until 1966. This building has acquired the town in 1989 and already partially rebuilt and renovated. Since 1993, the new Town Hall, a club house and the music practice room, housed the new fire station and since 2005 the youth center since 1999.

In the course of municipal reform Emersacker joined in 1978 as an independent municipality in the administrative community Welden.

Policy

The council has 12 members. In the 2008 election accounted for Impartial electoral association 9 and to the swimmers citizens 3 seats.

Michael Muller ( UWV) is since 2008 the mayor of Emersacker. Its predecessor was Alois Home ( UWV) ( 1984-2008 ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by gold and blue in the clouds cut sign board; in silver next to each other a red ear and a blue lily. "

Flag: Yellow-Blue - White

Monuments

→ List of monuments in Emersacker

Clubs

The biggest club in the city is founded which was next to the gun club " Alpenrose Emersacker " in 1905, the FC Emersacker with the departments of football, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, theater, Taekwondo. The club was founded in 1924. Following the music club looks back on a long tradition. Re- established in 1977, he received in 1989 for his contributions to the care of the instrumental music-making in more than 175 years of tradition, the Pro Musica plaque from the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker. In 2004, the boys club Emersacker was revived.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Maximilian arbitrator (* 1988), member of the rock band Killer Mushrooms