Mönchsdeggingen

Mönchsdeggingen is a municipality in the Swabian district of Donau-Ries and Ries member of the administrative community based in Nördlingen.

• 5.1 monuments

• 6.1 Economy, agriculture and forestry
• 6.2 Education

Geography

Mönchsdeggingen located in the Augsburg region on the southern edge of the Ries. In the south, it borders on the district of Dillingen.

There are the following districts: Merz Willingen, Mönchsdeggingen, Rohrbach, Schaffhausen, lower leg and lean Ziswingen.

Geologically, the area belongs to Riesalb, the easternmost, only more foothills of the Swabian Alb.

History

→ on the history of the monastery, see: Monastery Mönchsdeggingen

Deggingen was first mentioned in 1007 in a charter of Emperor Henry II, in the place - until then presumably Reich and Otto African family possessions - was passed as Gründungsaustattung the Bishopric of Bamberg. The upper suzerainty Bamberg remained despite changing factual power relations undisputed until the end of the Old Kingdom.

The monastery had extensive properties and numerous rights ( inter alia, the patronage of the parish church of St. George) in the village. After the Counts of Oettingen followed the Lords of Hürnheim as Klostervögte, monastery and place increasingly slipped away from the high pin considerable influence - Mönchsdeggingen was integrated into the county Oettingen. The divisions of the house Oettingen the bailiwick remained as legal in the Catholic line Oettingen -Wallerstein, the village itself was one of Oettingen- Oettingen. The latter led spot in the 16th century, the Reformation; the monastery, however, remained unaffected. This had curious consequences, since the monastery as a patronage Lord now had appointed Protestant minister.

In the Thirty Years' War was Mönchsdeggingen v. a result of the Battle of Nördlingen badly damaged. To compensate for the loss of population in 1684, driven out of the Palatinate- Neuburg Jews were settled. In the following two centuries, this exerted a lasting influence on the economy, culture and the site of the village. 1879 - as a result of Migration to the overseas and to Nördlingen - broke up the Jewish community.

1802, the monastery was dissolved. With the Act of Confederation in 1806, the location and the secularized convent passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria. Created in 1818 with the municipality edict today's political community. 1950 took over the Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill the old convent building as a novitiate for their future priests.

On 11 December 1930, the name of the municipality was officially changed from Deggingen in Mönchsdeggingen.

In 2007, the city celebrated its 1,000 th anniversary.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, the formerly independent communities Merz Ingen, Schaffhausen and Ziswingen were incorporated. Under lean leg was added on 1 January 1976. Rohrbach eventually followed on 1 May 1978.

Population Development

Coat of arms

The trays remember the coat of arms Oettinger, the goose is for the St. -Martin- patronage of the monastery church, the Tatzenkreuz for the Cross of St. George (St. George as patron of the parish ).

Coat of arms of districts

Rohrbach

Schaffhausen

Under lean leg

Ziswingen

Policy

Mayor Karl Wiedenmann (CSU ).

The municipal tax revenue amounted to the equivalent of € 595,000 in 1999, which amounted to the trade tax revenues ( net) converted € 12,000.

Culture and sights

• Monastery Mönchsdeggingen
• Postal Thurneck
• Former synagogue and mikveh
• Jewish Cemetery
• Prelate pond
• Evangelical Church of St. Nicholas in sub- lean leg
• Evangelical Church of St George

Evangelical Church of St. Nicholas in sub- lean leg

Evangelical Church of St George

Monuments

Economy and infrastructure

Economy, agriculture and forestry

It was in 1998 according to official statistics in the field of agriculture and forestry eight, in the manufacturing sector and 52 in the area of ​​trade and transport nine social insurance contributions at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 51 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 552 in the manufacturing sector, there were two, three companies in the construction industry. In addition, in 1999, there were 71 farms with an agricultural area of 1,300 ha, of which 1,022 hectares of arable land.

Education

There are the following facilities (as of 2011 ):

• Kindergartens: 50 kindergarten places with 28 children
• Elementary schools: 1 with 18 teachers and 251 students