Ostallgäu

The county Ostallgaeu located in the southeast of the Bavarian administrative region of Swabia. Neighboring districts are in the north of the county Lower Allgäu and the district of Augsburg, in the east the Upper Bavarian Counties Landsberg, Weilheim -Schongau and Garmisch- Partenkirchen, in the south of the Austrian state of Tyrol and the west of the county Oberallgaeu. The independent city Kaufbeuren is completely surrounded by the district Ostallgaeu.

• 3.1 Kreistag
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 6.1 License Plate
• 6.2 Road traffic
• 6.3 Rail

Geography

The area of ​​the district includes the South East Allgäu Alps and their foothills. In the north of the Swabian-Bavarian plateau joins. Here is Lamerdingen with 578 m of the lowest point of the district. The alpine area extends up to the plate high ( 2082 m) in the Oberammergau Alps. The foothills of the Alps has to around 800 m height a variety of ponds and lakes, of which the Forggensee, a -carrying of Lech reservoir is around 16 km ², the largest. The Lech River flows through the south-eastern district area. In the center pervades the Wertach, a left tributary of the Lech river, which flows near Augsburg, Ostallgäu from south to north. On the west rise to the long-drawn Riedel plateaus, the western and the eastern Günz and Mindel, which flow into the Danube at Günzburg.

History

Until 1803 included large parts of the eastern Allgäu region to the high- Bishopric of Augsburg. After the area of Bavaria had fallen, 1804, the District Courts RST, feet, Kaufbeuren, Oberndorf and Oberguenzburg were built. 1809 Kaufbeuren was a circular immediate city. This was as much as the county courts first to Iller circle in 1817 to the upper Danube circle of Swabia and Neuburg ( only later Swabia ) was renamed in 1838.

1862, the District Courts Kaufbeuren and Buchloe to the district office Kaufbeuren and the District Courts Oberndorf and Oberguenzburg were (later Marktoberdorf ) united to the district office Oberndorf, from the District Court of feet was the same county. In 1939, the district offices were renamed in district offices and associated districts in counties.

As part of local government reform in Bavaria on July 1, 1972, the new county market Oberndorf was formed from the counties Kaufbeuren, market Oberndorf and feet, which was renamed in 1973 in Ostallgäu. Kaufbeuren was an independent city. The eastern part of the district Kaufbeuren however, was the increased Landkreis Landsberg am Lech affiliated and thus came to Upper Bavaria. In addition, a municipality of the district of Oberdorf market came to the district Weilheim -Schongau.

Population Development

The 1972 newly created district Ostallgaeu won by 2005 more than 28,000 inhabitants and added grew by 26.6 %. As of 2006, the population declined slightly; they stagnated since 2008 at around 134,000. After the district of Garmisch -Partenkirchen, the district Ostallgaeu is the least populated county in southern Bavaria. One third of the county 's population lives in the three cities Buchloe ( 9%), feet ( 11%) and market Oberndorf ( 13%), two-thirds in the 42 rural communities. The proportion of foreigners is 5.1 %.

Policy

Council

The local elections in 2008 and 2014 led to the following seat distribution in the council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: ". Under blue shield head, in a border, golden crowned and golden -reinforced silver lion, split of red and silver, front a slumped silver sword, behind a growing red Abtstab "

The emblem should symbolize the emergence of new local authority; so by the fact crest symbols of the former counties Kaufbeuren, market Oberndorf and feet find.

For the county Kaufbeuren is the silver lion of the former Benedictine Monastery Irsee and at the same time the Marquis of Ronsberg.

The Martin sword comes from the former county of Arms Marktober village and refers to the seat of the administration of the district Ostallgaeu. St. Martin of Tours is local and patron of market Oberndorf.

For feet is the Abtstab, it refers to the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang, the former dominion of the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg, which was represented mainly by Buchloe and feet, is shown in red and silver colors through the field.

→ list of all municipal coat of arms in the district Ostallgaeu.

Economy and infrastructure

The district occupies according Focus Money magazine in 2013 when the economic power among 388 surveyed districts and cities in Germany the 15th Place. In " Atlas of the Future " by the forecasters Ostallgaeu is under the front 20 % of 402 districts and cities.

Major companies in the district are the tractor manufacturer AGCO Fendt market in Oberndorf, the Karwendel -Werke in Buchloe, a subsidiary of Nestlé SA in Biessenhofen and the company Deckel Maho Pfronten.

While in the southern district of Tourism ( " King's Nook " ) plays a major role in the center and north alongside numerous medium-sized businesses even stronger agriculture ( dairy farming ) are marked.

Unemployment is traditionally low ( January 2014: 3.2%).

Cities and Towns

The county has Ostallgaeu 45 municipalities, 3 cities and 7 markets.

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Cities

Markets

Communities

Management Communities

Traffic

License Plate

With the administrative reform in Bavaria, the license plate MOD and FÜS ran out, which were replaced by OAL. Since 10 July 2013, this distinctive characters are output as license plates again.

Road

At the German motorway network, the county Ostallgaeu is connected via the Federal Highway 7, which has been extended since 1992 in several phases by the county to Füssen. Also crosses the north, the federal highway 96 in Buchloe the circle. Other main roads are State Road 12 and State Road 16 Other main roads are State Road 17, State Road 309 and State Road 310 in the southern district. In Marktoberdorf also ends the federal highway 472 which leads from Deer Mountain above Mies Bach, Bad Tolz and Schongau the Allgäu.

Rail traffic

Already in 1847 led the Ludwig South-North train their distance from Augsburg south to Kaufbeuren and 1852 continue to Kempten. The east-west line of the Bavarian State Railroad from Munich to Memmingen was added in 1872/74 and made Buchloe an important junction.

From the south-north railway branches since 1876 in Biessenhofen a branch line to the city of Oberndorf market from which continued throughout his Lech Bruck 1899. Another branch line into the foothills of the Alps, from market Oberndorf on to feet, had already been taken in 1889 by the local railway Aktien-Gesellschaft München in operation.

The extreme south of the circle crosses the line Kempten -Reutte of the Bavarian State Railroad, which reached 1895 Pfronten -Ried and was performed in 1905 over the border to Tyrol. 1913 this connection ( Außerfernbahn ) has been extended to the Upper Bavarian Garmisch -Partenkirchen.

A connection between the endpoint and the feet just four kilometers away therefrom breakpoint Ulrichsbrücke - feet of Außerfernbahn was always planned but never built.

A final addition of the railway network provided 1922/23, the connection Kaufbeuren -Schongau by the German Reichsbahn ago. This route was decommissioned again in 1972, while the web market Oberndorf -Lech Bruck was back in 1963 disappeared from the course book. The network, which had a maximum of 153 km includes, had been reduced by almost a third to at least still 111 km.

In the former railway lines market Oberndorf -Lech Bruck and Kaufbeuren -Schongau today runs a popular cycle route, the 80 km long " steam locomotive round ".

Monuments

See monuments in the district Ostallgaeu

Geotopes

The district is 43 (as of September 2013) are the Bavarian State Office for Environmental designated geological sites. See the list of geological sites in the district Ostallgaeu