Schmiechen
Schmiechen is a municipality in the Swabian district Aichach -Friedberg and a member of the administrative community Mering.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 monuments
- 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Rail transport
- 5.1.2 transport
Geography
Schmiechen is located about six kilometers south of Mering between the lower mountains and Heinrichshofen. The town has a station on the approximately one kilometer east of the village running Ammersee Railway. At the station in 1961 was created a development area.
The part of the municipality village under mountains with some 400 inhabitants, is located about two and a half kilometers north- west of Schmiechen on the road between Mering and Prittriching.
Under Mountains lies mostly below the edge of the slope of the Lech Leite, the edge of the glacial valley of the Lech river, hence the name of the village found. The barrage 22 of the Lech river is about a mile west; between Lech and lower mountains flows the Hagenbach, a part of the Friedberger Ach.
History
Schmiechen was before 1800 Headquarters and a closed Hofmark the Count Fugger -Kirchberg. 1818 was founded by the municipality edicts in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the community Schmiechen. Hofmark and patrimonial were dissolved after the revolution in 1848.
Incorporations
On 1 May 1978, until then independent municipality under mountains was incorporated.
Policy
Parish council
The council is made after the local elections 2008 composed of the first mayor and twelve councilors.
Coat of arms
The blazon is: About a silver sign foot in a blue gold -winning, ermine- occupied silver Stulphut which is sullied with three golden ostrich feathers.
Culture and sights
Monuments
- Pilgrimage Church of Maria Kappel
- Castle Schmiechen ( Fugger Castle )
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Rail transport
East of Schmiechen the single-track railway Ammersee von Mering runs over Geltendorf to Weilheim. It is run by Deutsche Bahn as a Route number 985. At the Ammersee train in the middle between Schmiechen and the neighboring village of stone village of Schmiechen ( Schwab ) station, which is only one breakpoint today. It is located about 800 meters from the town center Schmiechener away to the east of incurred only after the railway was built residential area.
The Ammersee railway was opened on 30 June in 1898 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways. At her Merching the station was built. The station received a two-storey reception building in native style with interlocking stem and annexed goods shed, which was rebuilt in the 1930s. The railway tracks of the station passed from the main track through the house platform and a loading track. By the railway construction, the population of Schmiechen increased. To the east of the station, a new residential area was built. Until 7 September 1970, Ammersee Railway between Mering and Apply village was electrified. In April 1986 loading track and signal equipment was dismantled and sold to the reception building. The station was unoccupied for breakpoint.
Today, the Schmiechen station consists only of the continuous main track at the house platform. The station building is privately owned and is preserved to this day. Since 29 September 1995, the Schmiechen station on the Ammersee Railway is the southernmost station in the Augsburg Transport Association ( AVV). The station is served hourly by the trains of the Bavarian Regiobahn ( BRB ) of Augsburg -Oberhausen to Schongau. In the rush hour drive single amplifier trains between Augsburg and Geltendorf. Today operate all trains operating on the line, the breakpoint. Since 1991, no long-distance trains run more on the Ammersee Railway.
As part of the planned S -Bahn Augsburg a traveling in hourly train from Augsburg -Oberhausen to end in Schmiechen.
Transport
Schmiechen is connected to the Augsburg Transport Association ( AVV). In addition to connecting to the railway network of the city is served by a bus service of the GCU. The 108 bus runs from the station Mering over the Schmiechener the district of Bergen to Schmiechen. In the Schmiechener town center bus stops and ring road church exist.