Welden is a community in the Augsburg district

Augsburg (district)

Augsburg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by the city of Augsburg and the districts of Aichach-Friedberg, Landsberg, Ostallgäu, Unterallgäu, Günzburg, Dillingen and Donau-Ries...

 of Bavaria

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, Germany

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, and is the seat of the commune of Welden. Since the local government reform in 1978 it comprises Welden, Reutern and Ehgatten.

Geography

Welden lies at the centre of the Holzwinkel landscape in Augsburg-West forestry natural park.

Welden and Ehgatten are situated on the Laugna

Laugna (river)

Laugna is a river of Bavaria, Germany....

 which supplies the Zusam. Reutern is on a hill between the Zusam and Laugna vallies.

History

During the local government reform of 1978, the commune of Reutern was added to Welden as was Ehgatten, which belonged to the commune of Streitheim (now belonging to Zusmarshausen

Zusmarshausen

Zusmarshausen is a municipality in the district of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. The 1648 Battle of Zusmarshausen took place here.It is a part of the Naturpark Augsburg-Westliche Wälder...

 community). Before 1978, Ehgatten's parish and school was governed by Welden.

Mayor

Mayors since the local government reform of 1978:

Year	Mayor	Candidate
2002	Peter Bergmeir	SPD/FWV
1996	Peter Bergmeir	SPD
1990	Peter Bergmeir	SPD
1984	Hermann Schmid	CSU
1978	Hermann Schmid	CSU/SPD

Since 2002, Gerhard Groß (FWV) has been the deputy mayor.

Local Council

Local council elections since the 1978 reform:

Year	SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany...	CSU Christian Social Union of Bavaria The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...	Bürgergemeinschaft	Free voters	REP Republicans (Germany) The Republicans is a national conservative political party in Germany. The primary plank of the program is opposition to immigration. The party tends to attract protest voters who think that the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria are not sufficiently conservative...	Total
present	5	4	3	4	-	16
2002	5	4	4	3	-	16
1996	4	4	5	3	-	16
1990	4	6	3	2	1	16
1984	3	5	3	3	-	14
1978	2	6	2	4	-	14

Culture and Places of Interest

• St. Thekla church
• Mariä Verkündigung church contains early fresco
  Fresco
  Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
  
  es by 18th Century painter Matthäus Günther
  Matthäus Günther
  Matthäus Günther was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era....
  
  

Notable Citizens

The author Ludwig Ganghofer

Ludwig Ganghofer

Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels.-Biography:Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works...

spent a significant part of his childhood (1859–1865) in Welden.