Mertingen

Mertingen is a municipality in Bavarian Swabia, district of Donau -Ries, near the town of Donauwörth and located about 35 km north of Augsburg. The village lies on the Schmutter shortly before its confluence with the Danube.

  • 4.1 Mayor
  • 4.2 municipal
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.4 Town twinning
  • 5.1 Music
  • 5.2 Museum
  • 5.3 monuments
  • 6.1 traffic 6.1.1 Road Traffic
  • 6.1.2 Public transport (PT )

Geography

Mertingen lies in the planning region of Augsburg.

Community structure

  • Main town, district and parish of Mertingen ( 3,234 inhabitants) with the Kirchdorf Heißesheim (185 inhabitants), Mertingen train station, the hamlet Überfeld settlement, the Good courtyards and the desert Hagenmühle
  • District and Kirchdorf Druisheim (453 inhabitants)

History

The earliest traces of human settlement date back to the Paleolithic. This is the rare find of a single hand ax on the ridge southeast of Mertingen. In the year 15 BC, the Romans conquered in the time of Emperor Augustus the Alps and penetrated to the Danube before. They occupied this newly acquired territory which was initially called Vindelicia and later as the Roman province of Raetia to the main town and military camp of Augsburg (Augusta Vindelicorum ) was organized. The Romans secured both the Danube frontier in space Mertingen as well as strategic in the first century outstandingly important fork in the road at the castle courtyards in the period 41-54 and 259/260 through the construction of two forts one after the other. Here ended the built around 44 AD from Italy Augsburg coming Roman highway Via Claudia Augusta. It led near the castle courtyards (then Latin Submuntorium ) in the Danube River near the south bank of accompanying Roman military road, called by historians Donausüdstraße. The Danube formed the section of Mertingen between 15 BC to about 95 AD, the northern border of the Roman Empire to the hitherto unoccupied Germania. After the border crossing the Danube was moved to the north (see Rhaetian Limes ). Around the year 260 AD ( limit case ) was the imperial frontier in this area, at least de facto due to the pressure of the Germanic tribes taken back to the south shore of the Danube and fixed (Donau -Iller -Rhine- Limes ). The Romans were ousted in the 5th century by the invading from the north of Germania Alemanni. In the hallway " Worth the" 1969 series 32 graves were discovered from the Merovingian along with rich grave goods ( weapons and jewelry ) in years. This and other findings can be assumed that the villages, the community Mertingen form after the withdrawal of Celtic-Roman population at the Conquest by the Alemanni after many years of neglect and oblivion were established today.

For the first time the place " Mardinga " is mentioned in 969 in a deed of foundation of the Bishop Ulrich. 1634 heavy devastation was by 15,000 -strong Swedish troops under King Gustav II Adolf in the Thirty Years' War.

In the years 1796 and 1800, French troops invaded Mertingen. When Napoleon crossed the Danube in 1805, attracted 200,000 men for three days by Mertingen. Including six Mertinger - During his Russian campaign in the year 1812 30.000 Bavarian soldiers died.

In 1870 settled in Heißesheim many Mennonites from Baden down.

Incorporations

The district Druisheim was incorporated on May 1, 1978 at the regional reform.

Population Development

The population development of Mertingen (including the suburbs), in numbers.

Policy

Mayor

Parish council

Coat of arms

Description: About cleaved by silver and red split sign foot; front in red a silver cross with two transverse arms, back in three rows iron hat of blue and silver.

Meaning: The colors silver and red in the sign point to the Bishopric of Augsburg, which in Mertingen in the 11th century had possession. The silver cross represents the cross of particles of the congregation of Holy Cross Donauwörth and stands as a canting symbol for the rule in the municipality. The iron hat reminiscent of the marshals of Pappenheim, who were lords in 1280 in Mertingen and led these characters in their coat of arms.

Twinning

  • Sainte- Pazanne in the department of Loire -Atlantique (France)

Culture and sights

Music

Due to the concerts of the Cultural Committee Mertingen is widely known beyond the region as a platform for young, gifted musicians at the beginning of their careers. An event with violinist Veronika Eberle, or a reading with Peter Härtling, accompanied by pianist Hartmut Holl and born in Mertingen bassist Peter Lika, a recital with KS Prof. Francisco Araiza (tenor ) are successes of this dedicated work.

Museum

The Museum Friends Mertingen have three old vernacular buildings in many years of work - a farmhouse, a barn and an old school house - restored, extended and converted into a museum. Keep it on key evidence of the past and give a vivid picture of the life in a North Swabian village in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Road

On the outskirts of Mertingen the four-lane national highway 2, which leads north over Danube Worth to Nuremberg and Augsburg south to the Federal Highway 8 Stuttgart -Munich runs.

Public transport (PT )

Mertingen railway station is on the railway line between Nuremberg and Augsburg. Between the Danube and the Wörth Augsburg run at 30- minute intervals, the local trains of Deutsche Bahn in the Augsburg Transport Association ( AVV) with a stop in Mertingen. This made ​​very good connections to Munich and Nuremberg.

As of 2015, the regional traffic is to be operated as an S -Bahn -like rail transport.

Until 1997 Mertingen was the starting point of the railway line Mertingen value Ingen. The passenger traffic came to a halt in 1981.

Economy

For the approximately 3,800 inhabitants, there are 2,550 jobs right on the spot.

The following well-known companies are located in Mertingen:

  • Zott ( dairy products)
  • Sigel (office products )
  • Fendt Caravan (caravans and campers)
  • Karger - galvanizing Mertingen (lowest horizontal boiler in Europe)

Education

  • Elementary school Mertingen (188 pupils in the school year 2010/2011)
  • Daycare Mertingen with 197 places in nursery, kindergarten and Hort (2011, occupied by 198 children)

Recreation and Sports

  • The FC Mertingen was founded in 1929 and has, among other departments for football, table tennis, gymnastics and archery.

Personalities

  • Anton Steichele (1816-1889), Archbishop of Munich and Freising, born in Mertingen
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