Pforzen
Pforzen is a municipality in the Swabian district Ostallgaeu and office of the Management Community Pforzen.
The name of the municipality is the name Forzheim ( probably home by the ford ' ) whose spelling has changed over the years several times. In its present form it is occupied as early as 1481 ..
- 3.1 City Council and Mayor
- 3.2 Gemeindafinanzen
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 Education
Geography
Pforzen lies in the Allgäu region.
There are the districts Ingenried, Pforzen. Also belongs to the municipality of the district of Leinau.
History
1992 burials were (around 1500 BC) found in the barrows Bronze Age. The excavations are unique of high scientific value and in this form in the Allgäu. In Pforzen a silver belt buckle was found in an Alemannic grave from the late 6th century, whose inscription is one of the oldest alliteration in a West Germanic language.
Pforzen belonged to the Imperial Abbey Irsee. Since the Imperial Diet of 1803 the place belonged to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in the Kingdom of Bavaria was born with the congregation of 1818, the current community.
On September 1, 1847 Section Kaufbeuren was - Augsburg the Royal Bavarian Ludwig South - North Railway opens and Pforzen received a rail connection. The corresponding station Pforzen is in today Zellerberg, but is dissolved.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1971, until then independent municipality Ingenried was incorporated.
Population Development
Policy
City Council and Mayor
The municipal election held on 2 March 2008 with a turnout of 70.18 % showed the following distribution of seats:
Mayor Hermann is hot ( CSU / CDU community).
Gemeindafinanzen
Coat of arms
Description: Shared by silver and blue; top of a red double Springer, where a red arrow is highlighted at the bottom, below a border of golden deer.
The contents of the crest and its significance: The Double Springer is the coat of arms of the lords of Pforzen taken which are called in the 12th century and their possession came after their extinction in the 14th century to the monastery Irsee. In the inserted my finished after Pforzen Ingenried and his Sebastiankapelle to the arrow as an attribute of St.. Sebastian point. In the lower part of the municipal coat of arms was another noble family which Leinauer mentioned since the 12th century, considered. They had their headquarters in the town Leinau in the municipal area and resulted in their coat of arms a border deer.
Monuments
→ List of monuments in Pforzen
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
There were 2010 in the field of Agriculture and Forestry four, in the production sector and 156 in the area of trade and transport 51 persons work at the workplace. In other areas, were employed to social security at the workplace 59 people. Social insurance contributions at residence, there were a total of 781 in the manufacturing sector (as well as mining and quarrying and earth ) there were none, in construction operations 6. In addition, there were 40 farms with an agricultural area of at least 2 ha, who farmed a total of 1299 ha. Of these, 427 hectares of arable land and 873 ha of permanent grassland.
Education
In 2011 the following educational institutions were:
- A kindergarten with 100 kindergarten places in which 87 children are served by 12 teachers
- An elementary school in the 12 teachers in 8 classes taught 160 students ( school year 2010 /11)
Personalities
- Karl Linder (1849-1905), a brewery owner in Leinau and member of the Reichstag
- Adolf Eberle ( born September 8, 1886 in Pforzen ), Professor Dr. phil., Dr. theol., Monsignor, Episcopal clergyman Council, 1931-1947 Rector of the Philosophical- Theological College, Dillingen