Rettenberg
Rescue is a municipality in the Bavarian- Swabian district of Upper Allgäu region.
- 3.1 Mayor
- 3.2 municipal
- 5.1 " brewery village " Save Mount
- 6.1 Churches and chapels
- 6.2 Regular events
- 8.1 Born in Mountain Rescue
- 8.2 freeman
Geography
Save mountain is 807 m at the foot of Gruenten (1738 m). On the northern side of this mountain, the elongated 1115 meter-high Rottachberg is upstream. Between them is a large part of its territory. The upper valley is drained to the northeast from the rim Eggerbach and to the southwest by the Agatha Zellerbach and from Rossbach.
In addition to the main town of the mountain rescue community consists of five major districts:
- Kranzegg
- Rottach
- Untermaiselstein (formerly independent municipality )
- Vorderburg (formerly independent municipality )
- Wagneritz
In addition, following Weiler exist: Acker, Altach, Batzers, Barking, Bichel, Binzeler, Bitterli, Bommen, Brackenberg, Brosisellegg, book mountain, Emmereis, Engelpolz, leisure village, Gerats, Gindels, Goimoosmühle, Gregg Mayrhofen, Great Village, Behind Mountain, Humbach, Kalchenbach, Keller, Morning, rich, Rieder, Sterklis, ponds, Wolfi.
History
The name of the place is derived from the rock conglomerate rock. This rock is colored red by iron oxide. Einstein called this place also Rötenberg (of Red Mountain ).
Rescue Mountain Rescue Mountain was the seat of power. Since the beginning of the 12th century until the death of Henry of Rettenberg to 1350, the Lords of Mountain Rescue were one of the most influential families in the Upper Allgäu. Their property included there large parts of the east of the Iller. Your headquarters was the castle mountain rescue.
The name originally stood for two mountain rescue about five kilometers distant places. To distinguish between the name of the modern village Rettenberg was supplemented with the parish to Stephen's Mountain Rescue and refers to the other village with mountain rescue in front of the castle. From the name Vorderburg, which is the official designation since 1905 developed in the 19th century.
With the ruins of the castle Finkelnburg and castle stables at Emmereis there are other former castles in the municipality.
Save mountain belonged to the Bishopric of Augsburg. Since Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and the secularisation of 1803 the place belonged to Bavaria.
Incorporations
On January 1, 1976, a small part of the dissolved municipality Petersthal was incorporated with at that time about 25 residents. Untermaiselstein, which received this name on February 26, 1927 (previously Untermaiselstein ), and Vorderburg were added on 1 May 1978.
Population Development
Policy
Official results of the local elections on 2 March 2008
Mayor
- Oliver Kunz (CSU )
Parish council
- Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU ): 3 seats
- Free electorate Rettenberg (FW -R ): 5 seats
- Alliance '90 / The Greens (Greens): 2 seats
- Free electoral group Save Mount Untermaiselstein (FW -U): 2 seats
- Free Save voters mountain Vorderburg ( FWV ): 2 seats
- Independent group of voters Rettenberg ( UWR ): 2 seats
Coat of arms
The Coat of Arms description is: battlements shaped split of silver and red; above a floating Red Five mountain, down above the other two silver iron hats.
Economy
Save Berg is a member of the Holiday Region Alpsee - Gruenten project, a consortium of the five municipalities Blaichach, Save Mountain, Sonthofen, Castle Hill and Immenstadt to strengthen the tourism infrastructure.
"Brewery village " Save Mount
Save mountain is also known as Brewery village because there are two traditional breweries are established with the brewery Engelbräu as well as with the private brewery Zötler that act simultaneously as a large employer in the municipality. The municipality promotes entitled southernmost brewery village in Germany and crowns the Rettenberger beer queen.
Culture and sights
- Ruins of Castle Mountain Rescue
Churches and chapels
- Save Berg: St. Stephan - built 1728-1730, opened 1754 Local Artists, three generations of mainly white (father Franz Anton, son Nicholas, grandson Ludwig Caspar ) are active as a painter, sculptor and gilder. . Despite several epochs the baroque harmony was maintained.
- Vorderburg: Chapel ( privately built ) - built in 1954 by Hans Jörg Bernhard.
- Vorderburg St. Blaise - built in 1737, while maintaining the choir of the previous building, inaugurated in 1754 altarpiece and side altar paintings by Franz Anton White, Pointed tower of 62 meters, including 30 meters in wood construction..
- Kranzegg: Catholic St. Mary's Chapel with choir fresco " Annunciation " by Johann Heel.
Regular events
- Vorderburger herbal market - in May
- Full moon festival of Zötler Brewery - always full moon (except when it falls in Holy Week and Christmas)
Education
- Kindergarten ( Kranzegg and Untermaiselstein )
- Elementary school (1st - 4th grade)
Personalities
Born in Mountain Rescue
- Martin Ertle (* 1641, † 1712), abbot of the monastery of Rot
- George Gregg Hofer ( * 1719, † 1779), the court architect
- Joseph Anton Steiner ( * 1728 † 1801), Catholic theologian
- Hofmiller Josef (* 1872, † 1933), writer and critic
- Gerhard Prinzing (* 1943), skier
- Christa Prinzing (1944 or 1945), alpine skier
- Tungsten book Berg ( born 1962 ), composer
- Petra maintenance Mayr ( * 1975), alpine skier
Freeman
- Herbert Zötler sen. (* April 15, 1924, † 23 April 2010), brewmaster, was until his death a senior leader of the private brewery Zötler (formerly Eagle Brewery ), a longtime member of the municipal council
Literature and links
- Commons: Rescue Mountain - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website of Mountain Rescue
- Save Berg: Coat of history from HdBG
- Save Berg: Official Statistics of LStDV
- Josef Stadelmann: Front castle and manor Rettenberg. Kösel -Verlag, Kempten ( Allgäu) 1948.