Welden

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Welden is a market in the Swabian district of Augsburg and office of the Management Community Welden. Since the municipal reform in 1978, the market comprises the main town Welden, the parish of Reutern and the hamlet Ehgatten.

  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 municipal
  • 4.1 monuments

Geography

Welden is the center of the wood angle in the Natural Park Augsburg Western Woods.

Welden and Ehgatten be due to the Laugna, a tributary of the co. Reutern situated on a hill between co- and Laugnatal.

History

The name of Welden means " settlement on the forest ." Created the place was clearing settlement as early as the end of the 9th century, as the Valley of Laugna from the north was berodet and colonized. The first written mention of the town took place in 1156. Welden was the ancestral seat of the knightly family of the Lords of Welden, the Lehnsnehmer the Margrave of Burgau were. It was in 1402 raised to market. The Fugger acquired in 1597 the rule in Welden, which remained in their hands until the extinction of the line Fugger Wellenburg 1764. In 1806 Welden to the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Since December 5, 1903, Welden end point of a railway line from Augsburg, which was operated until 1986 in passenger and freight transport. Today, a bike lane is on the railway line.

1862 to 1929 belonged to the district office Welden Zusmarshausen and from 1929 to the district office of Augsburg, which was then called from 1939 as the district of Augsburg.

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform the church Reutern was incorporated into Welden on 1 May 1978. Also came the hamlet Ehgatten, who belonged to the community Streitheim ( which today is in the market Zusmarshausen ), the market Welden. Extracurricular and pfarrlich Ehgatten belonged to the market Welden before 1978. In 2002, a great historical festival was celebrated the 600th anniversary of the market survey of the entire village community.

Policy

Mayor

Mayor since the municipal reform 1978:

Deputy Mayor since 2002 Gerhard Gross ( FWV ) and was confirmed in 2008. Third mayor since 2008 Mark Hodapp (CSU ).

Parish council

Municipal elections since the municipal reform 1978: Stand on the particular choice.

Culture and sights

  • Early Medieval hillfort snow castle
  • High Medieval castle stables Welden on the mountain Thekla
  • Parish Church of the Annunciation with frescoes ( early works ) Matthäus Günther
  • Votive Church of St. Thekla next to the castle stables, since 1931 the monastery church of the Carmelites
  • Late Gothic cemetery chapel to the Fourteen Holy Helpers
  • Former "Lower Castle " ( Bäckerwirt ) near the parish church
  • Monastery Welden
  • Ganghoferstrasse Avenue

Parish Church of the Annunciation

Parish Church of St. Leonhard in Reutern

Ganghofer Thekla Avenue on the mountain in winter

Monuments

Personalities

The writer Ludwig Ganghofer spent from 1859 to 1865 most of his childhood in Welden.

Zusam Laugna (river) Augsburg (district) Adelsried Allmannshofen Aystetten Bonstetten, Bavaria Diedorf Ehingen, Swabia Ellgau Emersacker Fischach Gablingen Gersthofen Graben, Bavaria Heretsried Hiltenfingen Klosterlechfeld Meitingen Mickhausen Oberottmarshausen Stadtbergen Untermeitingen Wehringen Westendorf (Schmutter)
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