Rammingen
Rammingen is a municipality in the Alb -Donau-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ).
- 2.1 religions
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical location
Rammingen located 23 km north-east of Ulm, 512 m to 545 m above sea level on the Swabian Alb on the eastern edge of the Alb- Donau district. The place Rammingen with the hamlet of " Lindenau " was first mentioned in 1286. The hamlet " Lindenau " is located approximately 2.5 km north of the community and is located very near the Lone Valley. The Lone Valley has many peculiarities and beauties such as Floodplains, valley meadows, groves, forest layers, rock formations and juniper heaths, thus it is a beautiful recreation area.
The district area is 1404 ha and is bordered on the southern edge of the district by a state boundary ditch to the district of Günzburg and thus also to the Free State of Bavaria. From Rammingen you overlook because of the high, completely free location, the whole Danube Valley to the west and south. Around 60-70 villages with the Bavarian cities Gundelfingen, Lauingen, Dillingen, down to Blenheim and up to Günzburg, form a beautiful panorama, which limit the visible around 100 km from the Tyrolean mountains in bright weather.
Neighboring communities
The municipality is bordered to the north by the district of Bissingen the city Herbrechtingen in Heidenheim district, on the east by Asselfingen, on the south by the city Leipheim in Bavaria and in the west on the town Langenau and Öllingen.
History
In 1127 carried our place nor the name Rammungun and belonged to the county Albeck. This was in 1383 the supremacy of Ulm. Local nobility as Albecker vassals were the masters of Rammingen since 1127th They were helfensteinische since 1286 vassals, and later citizens in the Upper Swabian imperial cities and into the 17th century in Württemberg services. 1286 gave Margrave Heinrich of Burgau, the church and various goods to the monastery Kaisheim that the basic rule largely acquired in the course of time, so even five yards in 1665 and 17 of Sölden monastery Oberelchingen. As a result of this ownership Ulm was in the 16th century did not reform the place. That's why our community has remained the tribe of her Catholic confession, while all the surrounding villages Protestant denominations are.
In 1286 Margrave Heinrich of Burgau had ( originally a parish village ) given to the monastery of Lindenau with the Church of the Monastery Rammingen Kaisheim. The Parish Church was mentioned here the Sanctuary for Our Lady of Sorrows. She was an independent parish church, but had a low income and was therefore connected at the request of the Abbot of Bishop Marquard von Augsburg already in 1350 with the Church of Rammingen, resulting disputes to the end of the Roman Empire emerged.
Religions
In contrast to the evangelical neighboring towns Rammingen is still dominated Catholic. This stems from the fact that a large part of the town to the monastery belonged Kaisheim and thus the influence of Ulm was not sufficient to reform also Rammingen.
Policy
Rammingen belongs to the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Langenau.
Coat of arms
The crest is an erect, silver - white, black horned ram on red constitute grounds
Since 1938 the coat of arms of the former local noble family of the lords of Rammingen is detected in the seal of the municipality of the same name.
It shows the " Ramm " - old name for a ram - as crest -talking figure. Since 1954 also the colors of the municipality coat of arms are defined according to the model of the noble coat of arms. The District Office Alb - Donau - circle has the coat of arms along with the flag on June 4, 1982 awarded.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Rammingen has a breakpoint at der Brenz Railway, which is operated by the trains running every two hours regional trains on the route from Ulm to Aalen. Seven kilometers west of the town runs the A7, seven kilometers south of the A8.