Überlingen

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Coat of arms of the city of Überlingen
Überlingen
Map of Germany, position of the city of Überlingen highlighted

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Lake Constance district
Height : 403 m above sea level NHN
Area : 58.67 km 2
Residents: 22,554 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 384 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 88662
Primaries : 07551, 07553, 07771, 07773
License plate : FN, TT, ÜB
Community key : 08 4 35 059
City structure: Core city and 7 districts

City administration address :
Münsterstrasse 15–17
88662 Überlingen
Website : www.ueberlingen.de
Lord Mayor : Jan Zeitler ( SPD )
Location of the city of Überlingen in the Lake Constance district
Bodensee Österreich Schweiz Bayern Bermatingen Daisendorf Deggenhausertal Eriskirch Frickingen Friedrichshafen Hagnau am Bodensee Heiligenberg (Bodenseekreis) Immenstaad am Bodensee Kressbronn am Bodensee Langenargen Markdorf Meckenbeuren Meersburg Neukirch (Bodenseekreis) Oberteuringen Owingen Salem (Baden) Sipplingen Stetten (Bodenseekreis) Tettnang Überlingen Überlingen Uhldingen-Mühlhofen Landkreis Konstanz Landkreis Konstanz Landkreis Ravensburg Landkreis Sigmaringenmap
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Überlingen ( Iberlingen in the Lake Constance dialect ) is a town on the northern shore of Lake Constance . After the district town of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Lake Constance district and a medium-sized center for the surrounding communities. The former imperial city was from 1939 to 1972 the district town of the then Überlingen district . Überlingen has been a major district town since January 1st, 1993 .

geography

Überlingen, view from Lake Constance
The lake promenade of Überlingen
Überlingen around 1900
Überlingen with Lake Constance

Geographical location

Überlingen is located on the Überlinger See , part of Lake Constance. The hinterland is a hilly moraine landscape that was formed by the last ice age .

climate

Monthly mean values ​​for Überlingen on Lake Constance, 1961 to 1990
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature ( ° C ) −0.4 0.8 4.3 8.3 12.6 15.9 18.0 17.2 14.3 9.3 3.9 0.6 O 8.8
Precipitation ( mm ) 55.9 51.2 50.8 69.8 93.2 110.9 103.6 104.4 75.7 62.4 70.5 56.6 Σ 905
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.3 2.8 4.2 5.6 6.5 7.5 8.1 7.2 6.0 3.4 1.9 1.2 O 4.6
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Source: DWD Climate Data Germany

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Überlingen. They are named starting in the west in a clockwise direction and, with the exception of Bodman-Ludwigshafen and Stockach, which belong to the district of Konstanz, belong to the Lake Constance district:

Sipplingen , Bodman-Ludwigshafen , Stockach , Owingen , Frickingen , Salem and Uhldingen-Mühlhofen .

The city has agreed an administrative partnership with the neighboring communities of Owingen and Sipplingen .

City structure

The municipality of Überlingen consists of the core town and the formerly independent municipalities of Bambergen , Bonndorf , Deisendorf , Hödingen , Lippertsreute , Nesselwangen and Nussdorf , which were incorporated as part of the municipal reform of the 1970s . The incorporated places are now also villages within the meaning of Baden-Wuerttemberg Municipal Code, that is, they each have one at each municipal election to be elected Ortschaftsrat with a mayor as chairman, in every village also runs the administration.

Almost all parts of the city and the core city have additional, spatially separated residential areas with their own names, which often have few residents, or residential areas with their own names, the designation of which has emerged in the course of development and whose boundaries are usually not precisely defined. Some of these are formerly independent municipalities or parts of municipalities that were incorporated into or merged with other municipalities in the first half of the 20th century. The following are to be mentioned in detail:

in the city ​​center: Altbirnau, Andelshofen, Aufkirch, Brachenreute, Brünnensbach, Goldbach, Höllwangen, Hohenlinden, Kogenbach, Rengoldshausen, Restlehof, Reutehöfe, Weiherhöfe
Bambergen coat of arms
to Bambergen: Forsthaus Hohrain, Heffhäusle, Neuhof, Ottomühle, Reuthemühle, Schönbuch

Blasonierung : Split of black and silver, three forwardly fallen golden wolfsangel, behind a green slumped Lindenblatt split-stem.

Bonndorf coat of arms
to Bonndorf: Buohof, Eggenweiler, Fuchsloch, Haldenhof, Helchenhof, Kaienhof, Negelhof, Talmühle, Walpertsweiler

Blazon: square with a red heart shield, inside three silver rings (2: 1); 1 divided by green and silver, 2 and 3 blue, 4 in gold a red double lily cross.

Deisendorf coat of arms
to Deisendorf: Hasenweide, Katharinenhof, Klammerhölzle, Königshof, Nonnenhölzle, Scheinbuch, Wilmershof

Blazon: In silver, a blue sloping beam, topped with a silver fish.

Coat of arms of Hödingen
to Hödingen : Länglehof, Spetzgart

Blazon: In silver with a blue cloud border surround a black H in fracture.

Coat of arms of Lippertsreute
to Lippertsreute: Bruckfelder Mühle, Ernatsreute, Hagenweiler, Hebsack, Hippmannsfelderhof, In der high Eich, Neues Haus, Oberhof, Schellenberg, Steinhöfe, Wackenhausen

Blazon: a floating red cross of St. John in silver, covered with a golden heart shield with a black lily.

Coat of arms of Nesselwangen
to Nesselwangen: Alte Wette, Fischerhaus, Hinterberghof, Katzenhäusle, Ludwigshof, Mühlberghof, Reutehof, Sattlerhäusle, Vorderberghof, Weilerhof

Blazon: A golden ploughshare in red.

Coat of arms of Nussdorf
to Nussdorf: Untermaurach

Blazon: A green walnut in silver on a green shield base.

Spatial planning

Überlingen forms a middle center within the Bodensee-Oberschwaben region, the upper centers of which are the cities of Ravensburg , Weingarten and Friedrichshafen (in addition to functions). The central area of ​​Überlingen includes the western area of ​​the Lake Constance district, in particular, in addition to Überlingen, the towns and communities Daisendorf , Frickingen , Hagnau , Heiligenberg , Meersburg , Owingen , Salem , Sipplingen , Stetten and Uhldingen-Mühlhofen .

Protected areas

There are currently four nature reserves in the city of Überlingen :

There are also three protected landscape areas :

  • "Württembergisches Bodenseeufer" (sub-area),
  • "Lippersreuter surrounding area" (sub-area),
  • "Drumlin Biblis",

and two extensive natural monuments :

  • "Eggenweiler Hof" and
  • "Steinbalmen".

There are also around thirty individual monuments of nature. (As of April 30, 2009)

history

Ancient and Middle Ages

The so-called Gunzoburg in Überlingen

Three Roman coins found near Überlingen from 364 to 378 AD date back to the time after the Romans withdrew to the Rhine border.

Überlingen was first mentioned in 770 or 773 as Iburinga villa publica in a deed of donation from Count Robert to the St. Gallen monastery . In the Vitae of St. Gallus from the first half, however, an Alemannic duke named Gunzo with his seat in Überlingen is documented as early as the 7th century . According to legend, he is said to have resided in a house in the upper town (village) , which is why it bears the name Gunzoburg . In fact, it is rather unlikely that there was an Alemannic fortification or castle here , as there is no fixed whereabouts of Gallus in the tradition. Gunzo's unproven mansion could also have developed into the later Fronhof (the villa publica ) of Iburinga . The most likely locations of the Fronhof could be the Gallerberg, named after St. Gallus, in what is now the Dorf district; in the Altdorf; or even in the middle of the lakeside settlement (in 1644 a Fronhof is mentioned on Luziengasse).

The original core of the Alemannic town of Iburinga was probably north of today's Dorf district in the area of ​​Aufkircher Straße, in Gewann Altdorf and the neighboring Breitle . The parish church of St. Michael was in Aufkirch, a few hundred meters inland from the Altdorf . A little further to the east, on today's Zahnstrasse, was the place's burial site. With the emergence of the lake settlement (today's old town) up to the year 1000 , the decline of the old village began . It was not until the 20th century that residential buildings were built there again.

Around 1180 Emperor Friederich Barbarossa granted the town market rights, and in 1211 Überlingen was granted city rights. With the death of the Duke of Swabia, Konradin IV, the last Staufer , Überlingen fell to the Holy Roman Empire in 1268 .

Free imperial city

At the end of the 14th century the city became a free imperial city . The Heiliggeistspital zu Überlingen came to large estates in the Upper and Lower Linzgau as well as in the Hegau . From 1500 Überlingen was also part of the Swabian Empire .

Thirty Years' War

After a coup d'état by the allied Swedes and Wuerttembergians under Major General Patrick Ruthven on Überlingen in July 1632 , the Swedish Army under General Gustaf Horn advanced two years later :

Cannonball from the siege in the Uberlingen Minster

“On April 23, 1634 the siege of the city of Überlingen began. General Horn let it run against the city walls with such force that the thunder of the guns and the many catapults against the walls amounted to a continued earthquake. "

- Father E. Geiger: Father Stanislaus Saurbeck : Schruns / Vorarlberg, around 1980, p. 5 f.

"Within the city walls, there was also Father Stanislaus Saurbeck , novice master, monastery governor and Sunday preacher in the Überlinger Münster." The city representatives refused the invitation to hand over.

In the tradition, the role of the priest is emphasized in various sources, who was already active at the beginning of the siege: “The inhabitants of the city of Überlingen were prepared for such warlike bravery and invincible confidence through the encouraging and fiery pulpit speeches of S. Stanislaus Saurbeck. "The priest also made a promise to the citizens of the city" and they would be freed from the Swedes in no time. "

“Although the Swede fought like a lion and tried to unnerve the besieged people with the thunder of the guns, all efforts of the enemy were in vain. The Swede had to give up the siege ring around the city on May 16, 1634 and leave the city of Überlingen. "

- Historia Prov. anter. AUSTR., P. 216. In: Geiger, p. 14 f.

In addition to the defense on the land side, Überlingen had the advantage of direct access to the lake and an imperial flotilla brought troops and supplies to the besieged city by water. (see Naval War on Lake Constance 1632–1648 ).

The effect of the preacher, who was considered a “brilliant pulpit speaker”, is also made plausible by the fact that “city representatives” did not yet appear publicly at that time, i. In other words, the only authority that could reach the citizenship as a whole was the church - in this case the Capuchins with Saurbeck as the “Sunday preacher in the Überlinger Münster ”. This committed role of the Father was confirmed by the highest authority:

“The news of the liberation of the city of Überlingen spread widely. The deed of the simple Capuchin was on everyone's lips; Most of the estates, even the illustrious Emperor Ferdinand II showered S. Stanislaus Saurbeck with praise. "

- Historia Prov. anter. AUSTR., P. 216. In: Geiger, p. 15.

"Unfortunately, the city of Überlingen did not sufficiently fulfill the conditions of the vow " and Stanislaus' efforts to redeem it remained in vain. Finally, he prophesied future disaster for Überlingen: “'You have the French in front of the city gates, they will throw you and your children who are inside you to the ground and plunder them. Foolish people, you do not want and do not want, but know that in the divine counsel, you treacherous, vengeance on the part of the French is already imposed on you. ' This prediction [...] came true: On January 29, 1643, the French troops conquered the city ​​of Überlingen, plundered it and returned to Tuttlingen laden with rich booty . "

The Viscount of Courval was then governor in Überlingen from March 1643.

“On April 5, 1644, Field Marshal Franz von Mercy and a 15,000-strong corps [the Imperial Bavarian Army] advanced over Waldshut and began the attack. […] On May 2, 1644, the strike barriers and the towers of the curtain wall of Mercy were enclosed. Courval accepted the offered surrender on May 10, 1644. [...] Field Marshal Mercy appointed the meritorious Quartermaster General von Holz as the commander of Überlingen and occupied the city with his own regiment. "

Only now - after May 1644 - did the people of Überlingen decide to follow Father Stanislaus' admonition and actually keep and carry out the vow.

Baden time

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Überlingen lost its imperial immediacy in 1803 and became part of the Electorate and later Grand Duchy of Baden . Überlingen became the seat of an office or district office. From 1918, after the abdication of the Grand Duke of Baden, Überlingen became part of the Republic of Baden .

In 1895 it was connected to the railway network . This connection was expanded to the east in 1901 with the opening of the Überlingen – Friedrichshafen line.

On November 16, 1911, a severe earthquake struck southern Germany. Lake Constance began to boil, chimneys buckled. The Überlingen landing site was literally torn open. In Lippertsreute, a finial fell from the church tower, damage that is still visible today because the work of art was never replaced.

time of the nationalsocialism

The Überlingen district was formed in 1939 .

During the Nazi era , prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp established the Aufkirch subcamp near Überlingen as one of the branch offices . The concentration camp prisoners worked there from October 1944 to April 1945 on extensive underground facilities. This was also the case at the Goldbacher tunnel , to which the Friedrichshafen armaments factories were to be relocated to protect them from bombing .

Of the at least 170 prisoners who perished during the construction of the Goldbacher tunnel, 97 are buried in the Birnau concentration camp cemetery near the Birnau pilgrimage church . The memorial is located about 200 meters northeast of the sanctuary, above the B 31 and can be reached on foot from the car park above the Birnau and the B 31st As far as is known, the names of the dead concentration camp inmates are listed in Oswald Burger's book “Der Stollen” as a memorial and for research by unknown relatives.

The memorial at the Goldbacher tunnel in the Oberen Bahnhofstraße near the level crossing can be visited once a month as part of a guided tour. You can see a barred access to the tunnels in the steep Molasse rock, memorial plaques for the city of Überlingen and the Italian resistance fighters, and an iron cross with barbed wire. The original entrance was blown up by the French occupation forces.

There were no deportations from Überlingen itself. However, to commemorate the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era, three stumbling blocks were laid in front of the former district office (today's building office in Bahnhofstrasse) in September 2005 . They remember the former District Administrator Hermann Levinger and his daughter Barbara , who committed suicide shortly before their deportation in December 1944. Another stumbling block was laid in front of the former hospital hospital (today Ortisei nursing home) in July 2008; this is reminiscent of Franz Klauser, who was arrested for “unnatural fornication” ( homosexuality ) and perished in 1944 in the Ladelund concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp .

On February 22, 1945 at 1:45 p.m., 20 people died in the only air raid on the city: eleven concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers in the tunnel, four members of the military construction crew and five residents of Obere Bahnhofstrasse. The air attack with 56 high-explosive bombs, including 7 with a long-term detonator, aimed at the Westbahnhof, completely destroyed six residential buildings, ten severely, seven moderately and 38 slightly damaged. The attack was part of Operation Clarion , a joint operation by the US and British air forces. The goal of the US 320th Bomb Group ("320th Bomb Group") with seven medium-range bombers of the type " B 26 Martin Marauder " from Épinal in Lorraine was the Überlinger marshalling yard ("Marshalling Yard"). The legend that the nearby concentration camp tunnel attracted the bombers had persisted for decades.

In the course of the preparatory work for the 2020 State Garden Show, a search for possible duds in the area of ​​the area between the railway line and Bahnhofstrasse (former "Graf" site) was carried out. After the start of the search, originally planned for the end of July 2015, was postponed to mid-September, the search then ran until the beginning of March 2016. No duds were found.

Überlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg

Überlingen

In 1972 the city of Überlingen was the first city in Germany to introduce a tax on second homes (“Überlinger Model”). Only in 1983 did the Federal Constitutional Court classify this tax as a “legally permissible local expense tax”. It is currently (as of 2018) 20% of the annual rent per year.

Until the district reform on January 1, 1973 , Überlingen was the district town of the Überlingen district , which then became part of the Lake Constance district. In 1990 the city's population exceeded 20,000. As a result, the city administration submitted the application for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg granted with effect from January 1, 1993.

The city made international headlines as a result of the plane crash on July 1, 2002 : a Russian passenger plane collided with a cargo plane in the airspace over the western Lake Constance region. The rubble fell in the hinterland of Lake Constance north of the city. 71 people died in the accident and no one was injured on the ground. To commemorate the victims, a memorial in the form of a torn string of pearls was erected near Brachenreuthe, a district of Überlingen near which parts of the wreckage of the passenger plane lay.

In 2003 the “Bodensee-Therme”, a swimming pool complex, was opened directly on the lake. The nearby Westbahnhof was subsequently renamed “ Überlingen Therme Station ”.

In 2005 the city, with the participation of the districts of Deisendorf and Lippertsreute, was awarded a gold medal in the competition Our city is blossoming .

Deck chair with advertising for the State Garden Show 2020

In June 2010 Überlingen was awarded the contract for the State Garden Show 2020. In a referendum, 59.6% of the voters were in favor of organizing this State Garden Show. The participation was 51.9%. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the state horticultural show has been postponed to 2021 (April 9 to October 17).

History of the districts

Andelshofen was first mentioned on July 6, 1234 in a document from the Salem monastery (Cod. Sal.I, 228). The place was partly owned by the Überlinger Johanniterkommende (see history of the Order of St. John ). The place burned down in 1552 and 1634 and was then rebuilt. The lower jurisdiction lay with the Kommende , the high jurisdiction with the county of Heiligenberg and from 1776 with the Free Imperial City of Überlingen. In the course of the Napoleonic reform, Andelshofen came to Baden in 1805 and initially formed its own municipality within the Überlingen district office. In 1927 the Baden state parliament decided to unite the municipality with the municipality of Überlingen. The association came into force on April 1, 1928. Hagenweiler, which belongs to Andelshofen, came to the municipality of Lippertsreute in 1924, and the hamlet of Schönbuch in 1928 to the municipality of Bambergen.

Aufkirch was first mentioned in 1242 as Ufkilche. The place was the location of the original parish church of Überlingen, St. Michael . The church and its location were transferred to Engelberg Abbey in 1311 and to the Teutonic Order on the island of Mainau in 1343 . He ceded the collection to Überlingen in 1557. After that, the church sank down to the branch and the associated place remained only a small hamlet belonging to Überlingen.

Bambergen was first mentioned in 1268. The place was probably in the 13./14. Century seat of those von Regentsweiler, whose property came to the hospital in Überlingen in 1352. The city of Überlingen exercised lower jurisdiction and sovereignty over Bambergen and some smaller hamlets, including Reuthemühle. In addition, the place was the seat of an office to which the surrounding hospital place belonged. In 1803 the place came to Baden and was assigned to the Überlingen district office.

Bonndorf could have been mentioned for the first time in 800 as Pondorf, although it is now suspected that this mention could have been more of Bonndorf in the Black Forest . Noble free von Bonndorf appeared in the 12th century, and were succeeded by the Lords of Hohenfels. In 1423 and 1479 the place was sold to the Überlingen Hospital. Thus the rule came to the city of Überlingen. In 1803 the place came to Baden and became a municipality in the Überlingen district office.

Deisendorf wasfirst mentionedin 972 and 1040 as a property of the Abbey "Meginradescella" ( Maria Einsiedeln ) in Switzerland as Tyzindorf. In the 13th century there was a local nobility. In 1202 a Count Mangold von Rohrdorf transferred his estate to the Reichenau Monastery as a fief. Later the Salem Monastery and in 1363 the Constance Cathedral Brotherhood bought goods on site. In 1402 the place came to the Überlingen Hospital. From 1469 to 1811 Deisendorf was the post office of the Austrian, later Thurn-und-Taxis- post line Stockach - Ravensburg and Vienna - Paris. In 1803 Deisendorf came to Baden and was assigned to the Überlingen district office.

Ernatsreute was mentioned in 1213 when a Conradus de Eradesriuti appears. In 1408 the place came to the Überlingen hospital and was part of the Bambergen office. The local rule was therefore with Überlingen, but the Teutonic Order House Mainau also had a feudal court. In 1803 the place came to Baden and was initially part of the municipality of Bambergen. In 1924 he was assigned to the community of Lippertsreute.

Hagenweiler was first mentioned as Hagenwiller in 1285 when the Lords of Bodman sold their property to the Order of St. John / Maltese. The place then belonged to the Andelshofen office, but the tax sovereignty lay with Überlingen. In 1803, Hagenweiler became Baden and initially belonged to the Andelshofen community. When it was incorporated into Überlingen in 1926, Hagenweiler was separated and assigned to the community of Lippertsreute.

Lippertsreute on a map from 1788

Haldenhof (Hohenfels): The name Hohenfels appears around 1148. There is certain evidence of a small ruling family from 1191 to 1408. Their castle was located in a settlement that was attested in 1479 as a Haldenhof. At that time, the Hohenfels rule had already come to an end. The Lords of Hohenfels originally owned the places Sipplingen, Mahlspüren and the settlements Bonndorf and Nesselwangen, which today belong to Überlingen. The property on Ittendorf was increased through marriage . In 1408 the rule was divided and the majority came to the Überlingen Hospital in 1479. Hohenfels Castle burned down in 1633 and 1644 and is only preserved as a ruin. The Haldenhof is now only a residential area in the Bonndorf district.

Hödingen was first mentioned in 1242 as Hedingen. In 1297 a swigger from Blankenstein sold the Kehlhof zu Hödingen to the Order of St. John / Maltese in Überlingen, later the place was owned by the Konstanz Hospital, which ruled the area. In more recent times Überlingen had suzerainty over Hödingen. In 1803 the place came to Baden and was assigned to the Überlingen district office.

Lippertsreute was first mentioned in 1159 as Luipendetisruti. In the 12th century the place was owned by St. Stefan in Konstanz, then by St. Johann in Konstanz. In 1217 the Salem Monastery acquired goods from the Lords of Bodman, who exercised local rule over Lippertsreute. In 1290 the place came to the Johanniter in Überlingen and in 1337 to the Teutonic Order Commander Mainau, with whose Landkomturei Altshausen the place remained until 1805. Then the place was assigned to Baden and the district office of Überlingen. In 1924 Ernatsreute (previously the municipality of Bambergen) and in 1928 by Hagenweiler (previously the municipality of Andelshofen) were incorporated.

Church of St. Peter and Paul in Nesselwangen

Nesselwangen was first mentioned in 1094 as Nezzelwanc. Initially, the place was owned by the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen . Later he was part of the Hohenfels dominion, from where he came to the Überlingen Hospital in 1479. In 1803 the place fell to Baden and was assigned to the Überlingen district office.

Nussdorf was first mentioned in 1134 as Nuzdorf. Through various nobles, including Count Palatine Rudolf von Tübingen, the properties of the place came to the Salem Monastery. In 1803 the place was assigned to Baden and the district office of Überlingen.

Schönbuch was first mentioned in the 13th century as a Schonbuch. Around 1260 the settlement of those von Gundelfingen came to the Johanniter in Überlingen, who enlarged the property in the 15th century. The Johanniterkommende thus had lower jurisdiction until 1803, the sovereignty lay with Überlingen. In 1803 the place came to Baden and became part of the Andelshofen community. When it was dissolved in 1928, Schönbuch was assigned to the municipality of Bambergen.

Walpertsweiler was first mentioned in 1160 as Waltprechtesweiler. The place belonged to the Salem monastery. In 1415 the place was sold to the Überlingen Hospital and after the transition to Baden it belonged to the Bonndorf community as a place to live.

Religious communities

Überlingen initially belonged to the diocese of Constance . The population was assigned to the parish of St. Michael (Aufkirch) .

Minster St. Nicholas

A church in Überlingen was built in the 10th century. Remnants of this church were found under today's St. Nikolaus Minster . The minster was built in the 14th century as a late Gothic basilica. The church, consecrated to St. Nicholas, was the town's parish church as early as 1360. From 1357 to 1557 she was incorporated into the Teutonic Order . After the transfer to the city, a collegiate monastery was established there in 1609. Überlingen remained Catholic even after the Reformation. In addition to the township, there were also several monasteries. A Franciscan church was consecrated in 1348, rebuilt in 1519 and redesigned in Baroque style in 1752 (today the Church of the Immaculate Conception). The monastery was dissolved in 1803. The citizens of Überlingen donated the Jodok Church , which was consecrated in 1462. A Capuchin monastery existed from 1619 to 1806. The monastery church, consecrated in 1658, was then profaned.

St. Michaelskirche in Aufkirch, parish church of the city until 1350

The Order of St. John founded a 1,257 Ueberlingen Coming . The Kommende Überlingen belonged to the Catholic Grand Priory of Germany of the Order of St. John, later the Order of Malta, with its seat in Heitersheim . The associated church was demolished in 1818. A Franciscan convent in St. Gallen existed from 1535 to 1803. The St. Gallen chapel, which was part of the fishermen's house board, was profaned in 1849 . The numerous chapels are worth mentioning: St. Lucia from 1462 (today Reichlin-Meldegg-Haus), St. Leonhard in den Egerden from 1437, Heinrich Suso chapel in the St. Ulrich retirement home from 1881, St. Joseph in the Seeburg hospital from 1938, St. Johann Vianney from 1954 and Holy Spirit 1960.

Furthermore, in 1974, Auxiliary Bishop Karl Gnädinger consecrated the Catholic St. Suso Church, including the community center and kindergarten, on the edge of what was then the new development area of Burgberg . St. Suso was built in exposed concrete in the typical architectural style of the time and shows characteristics of brutalism . In 1977, next to the parish church of St. Nikolaus ("Münster"), the second parish of St. Suso was to be established, but this was rejected by the Archbishopric of Freiburg .

Most parts of the city also have Catholic parishes and churches, or at least chapels. In Andelshofen there is a neo-Gothic church of St. Verena from 1885. The old parish church of the village was incorporated into the Johanniterkommende from 1462 to 1803. There is a 17th century Lady Chapel in Bambergen. Bonndorf has a parish church of St. Pelagius and Verena with a Gothic choir and an early Gothic tower. In Deisendorf there is a St. Andreas chapel with Romanesque elements. A separate parish existed there until the 14th century. Today the place belongs to Seefelden, and the pilgrimage church Birnau is the parish church of the places Deisendorf and Nussdorf, which together form the Catholic parish curate of Birnau. There was a St. Bartholomew's Church in Hödingen, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Then the church was rebuilt and set up as a pilgrimage to Mary. Lippertsreute has a church of the Assumption of Mary built in 1881, but a church is mentioned here as early as the 13th century. A church was mentioned in Nesselwangen as early as the 11th century. Today's St. Peter and Paul Church was rebuilt after being destroyed in the Thirty Years War and enlarged in 1861. Nussdorf has a late Gothic chapel of H. Kosmas and Damian. After the dissolution of the Diocese of Constance, the Catholic parishes came to the newly founded Archdiocese of Freiburg. Here they were assigned to the dean's office in Linzgau, whose seat is in Meersburg .

St. Sylvester Goldbach

At the beginning of the 19th century Protestants also moved to Überlingen and a small branch community of Meersburg was established. In 1861 a separate parish was established in Überlingen, the first Protestant church was built in 1867. At first she belonged to the deanery of Constance of the Evangelical Church in Baden . In 2012 the headquarters of the Überlingen-Stockach church district, which was newly founded in 1969, was relocated from Salem to Überlingen to the rectory on the lake in Grabenstrasse. In the same year the two Protestant parishes in Überlingen, the Resurrection parish and the Paul Gerhardt parish, were united into one parish. The two districts of Bonndorf and Nesselwangen belong to the Protestant parish of Ludwigshafen.

There are also several Evangelical Free Churches in Überlingen, an Evangelical Free Church ( Baptists ), a Methodist Church (Kreuzkirche), a Mennonite Congregation , an Adventist Congregation and a Mustard Seed Congregation . In the district of Bambergen there is an Evangelical Anabaptist Congregation, which belongs to the Federation of Evangelical Anabaptist Congregations .

Emmaus Church of the Christian Community

The Jehovah's Witnesses , a congregation of the Christian community and a New Apostolic congregation in Überlingen are also represented. Since 1983 there is also a branch of the Society of St. Pius X.

There was a Jewish community in the Middle Ages; it was first mentioned in 1226. In 1332 there was a pogrom in Überlingen because of an alleged ritual murder in which between 300 and 400 Jews were burned in the synagogue. In 1349 there was renewed persecution of Jews, only in 1378 there was a new settlement. In 1430 the Jews were expelled, and since then there has not been a new Jewish community in the city.

Incorporations

The following communities and districts were incorporated into the city of Überlingen. Before the district reform, they all belonged to the Überlingen district.

  • 1888: Burgberg
  • 1928: Andelshofen
  • July 1, 1971: Bamberg
  • April 1, 1972: Lippertsreute
  • April 1, 1974: Deisendorf
  • July 1, 1974: Hödingen and Nesselwangen
  • January 1, 1975: Bonndorf and Nussdorf
  • Ernatsreute was reclassified from Bambergen to Lippertsreute in 1924.
  • Hagenweiler belonged to Andelshofen from 1803 to 1926 and to Lippertsreute from 1928.
  • Steinhöfe belonged to Hohenbodman until 1954 , then to Lippertsreute.

Population development

Population development of Überlingen.svg Population development in Überlingen - from 1871 onwards
Population development of Überlingen. Above from 1496 to 2016. Below an excerpt from 1871

Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).

year Population numbers
1496 3,250
1676 2,338
1789 3.117
1802 2,645
1834 2,505
1861 3,280
December 1, 1871 ¹ 3,372
December 1, 1880¹ 3,999
December 1, 1900 ¹ 4,286
December 1, 1910¹ 4,550
June 16, 1925 ¹ 5,207
June 16, 1933 ¹ 5,613
May 17, 1939 ¹ 6,512
September 13, 1950 ¹ 8,348
year Population numbers
June 6, 1961 ¹ 10,501
May 27, 1970 ¹ 12,794
December 31, 1975 17,735
December 31, 1980 18,734
May 25, 1987 ¹ 18,729
December 31, 1990 20.102
December 31, 1995 20,494
December 31, 2000 20,791
December 31, 2005 21,417
December 31, 2010 21,818
December 31, 2015 22,408
December 31, 2016 22,573
December 31, 2017 22,636

¹ census result

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 65.6% (2009: 55.9%)
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+ 12.6  % p.p.
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Remarks:
a List for citizen participation and environmental protection / Bündnis90-Die Grünen
c Free Voter Association / Überlingen for All
d citizens for Überlingen
Distribution of seats
      
A total of 26 seats
  • BÜB + : 3
  • SPD : 3
  • LBU / G : 8
  • FDP : 3
  • FW / ÜfA : 4
  • CDU : 5th

Municipal council

The results of the local elections on May 26, 2019 are shown in the diagrams opposite.

mayor

At the latest since the transition to the Holy Roman Empire (1268), the Ammann and the council were at the head of the city of Überlingen . The Ammann was an administrative and financial officer and stood before the court, which was partially divided into an upper and a lower town court. The council initially only consisted of patricians (later referred to as the lion guild ), from the 13th century the craft guilds were also represented. A mayor is documented from 1308. Soon afterwards he was responsible for administration, while Ammann was only responsible for the court. In addition, the New and Old Councils emerged over time , which were later referred to as the Big and Small Councils.

Around 1350 the imperial city electoral mode was reformed: the Grand Council first appointed a ruling mayor, whereupon the guild masters, together with the mayor, elected the so-called "Elfer" ( lion council from the lion guild ) in the small council. According to the principle of majority voting, the magistrate (also in the Small Council) and four judges were elected . Based on the Freiburg city ​​law , a body of the "twenty-four" ruled the Small Council: eleven councilors, seven guild masters, four judges, an ammann and a ruling mayor. The law regulated further that two mayors points are at the top of the city, of its own motion - and the former mayor . The mayor was the ruling head of the city and the former mayor was his deputy and advisor ; he was also a member of the Small Council. Both held these positions on a voluntary basis and not for life, as was previously the case, but were newly elected every year. If a new candidate (or again the former mayor ) was elected mayor , the office of the former mayor automatically fell to the previously ruling and now replaced mayor . This electoral mode remained in effect without major changes until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss. Only in the second half of the 18th century was the number of members of the Small Council reduced and the judges' college dissolved; they were replaced by independent lawyers as they did not have a quorum in the Council .

Another major change took place in 1773: after considerable disputes in the Überlingen city government, the Prince-Bishop of Constance , Franz Konrad von Rodt , appointed by Emperor Joseph II as commissioner , established a new salary order. From then on, the mayors were no longer voluntary, but instead worked with a fixed salary. The first to work with this salary was the Fürstenberg Oberamtmann Konrad Freiherr von Lentz from Heiligenberg .

Since the transition to Baden, the city has been headed by a mayor, who has been named Oberbürgermeister (OB) since it was elevated to a major district town in 1993 . He is elected for a term of eight years and is chairman of the municipal council and head of the city administration. The Lord Mayor has a first deputy, the full-time deputy, who bears the official title of “Mayor”.

  • 1308 – XXXX: Ulrich on site
  • 1489–1510: Clemens Reichlin von Meldegg
  • 1510–1514: Johann Hain
  • 1514–1541: Jakob (or Jacob) Kessenring
  • 1600–1611: Jakob Reutlinger
  • 1644–1670: Johann Heinrich von Pflimmern
  • 1733–1770: Johann Leopold von Haubert
  • 1770–1773: Josef Aurel Freiherr von Pflimmern (as city administrator)
  • 1773–1793: Konrad Freiherr von Lentz
  • 1793–1799: Karl Enroth
  • 1799–1802: Johann Baptist Moser
  • 1802–1810: Karl Enroth
  • 1810–1814: Johann Baptist Moser
  • 1814–1830: Johann Baptist Kugel
  • 1830–1835: Konrad Magg
  • 1835–1847: Karl Müller
  • 1847–1849: Hofacker
  • 1849: Johann Sebastian Knöpfle
  • 1849–1858: Adolf Bernhard Schmalholz
  • 1858–1873: Mathäus Steib
  • 1873–1879: Wilhelm Beck
  • 1879–1885: Mathäus Steib
  • 1885–1919: Maurus Betz
  • 1919–1933: Heinrich Emerich
  • 1933–1945: Albert Spreng (NSDAP)
  • 1945: Karl Löhle (interim) ( SPD )
  • 1946–1948: Franz Hug (independent)
  • 1948–1969: Wilhelm Anton Schelle ( CDU )
  • 1969–1993: Reinhard Ebersbach (SPD)
  • 1993–2000: Klaus Patzel (SPD)
  • 2000–2008: Volkmar Weber (independent)
  • 2009–2017: Sabine Becker (since 2014 independent, previously CDU)
  • since 2017 Jan Zeitler (SPD)

In the Mayor election on November 27, 2016, Jan Zeitler was elected the new Mayor of the city of Überlingen in the second ballot with a turnout of 58.5% with 50.1% of the votes.

coat of arms

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The coat of arms of the city of Überlingen shows in gold a black eagle with a gold breast shield, inside a gold crowned and gold armored red lion. The coat of arms represents a golden crowned and armored red lion growing out of the spangenhelm with a golden helmet crown, who holds a bare sword with a golden hilt in his right paw . The helmet covers are red and gold. With the award of this coat of arms, the emperor reaffirmed the condemnation of the leaders of the Linzgau farmers in 1525, at the end of the peasant wars , by the council of the city of Überlingen. The Linzgau farmers had opposed the order of the imperial city Überlingen to fight the rebellious Hegau farmers ("Ernatinger mutiny").

The city flag is red and yellow.

The imperial eagle was featured in the seal as early as the 13th century. The current form of the coat of arms with the Habsburg lion as a breast shield was given by Emperor Charles V on February 3, 1528 in his imperial residence in Burgos (Spain). The upper coat of arms, which is extremely uncommon for a municipal coat of arms, was already described in 1528 and has therefore been retained until today.

Twin cities

city country since
Chantilly FranceFrance France 1987
Bad Schandau SaxonySaxony Saxony 1990

In 1990 the city of Überlingen entered into a partnership with the city of Bad Schandau in Saxony. Aid actions in particular stimulated the partnership in the first few years, from which friendly contacts have developed in the meantime.

The St. Valentin volunteer fire brigade on the Haide in South Tyrol and the Überlingen volunteer fire brigade have been partners since 1965 .

Economy and Infrastructure

Pier in Überlingen
View from Überlingen Minster to the old town and the lake

economy

With around 4,000 employees each, the manufacturing industry and the service sector (including tourism, including 60 restaurants and 33 hotels) are the city's largest employers. The retail trade has come together in the WVÜ. In addition to the pedestrian zone established in 1997, regular events are intended to strengthen the retail trade in relation to the outlying shopping centers.

Uberlingen was the largest grain marketplace in southern Germany until the 19th century.

Überlingen is a recognized Kneipp spa . Due to its location on Lake Constance, the city records more than 500,000 overnight stays per year.

Viticulture has been practiced in the Überlinger Felsengarten location for centuries. There are 80 small burners in the municipality of Überlingen (as of December 2011).

traffic

bus and train

Road traffic

  • At the east end of Lake Constance there is a connection to the A 96 in the direction of Memmingen at Lindau and then to Munich, or at the Memmingen motorway junction via the A 7 to Ulm.

Shipping

  • The Lake Constance shipping companies connect Überlingen with Dingelsdorf (near Konstanz), Unteruhldingen, Mainau and Meersburg.
  • The motorboat society Bodman mbH moves in passenger traffic of Ueberlingen on the Marienschlucht , Sipplingen and Ludwigshafen Bodman.
  • The Überlinger Schiffsbetriebe (merger of three private companies) connect Überlingen with the island of Mainau by shuttle service. They also offer excursions and tours in the summer months.
  • The passenger shipping company Giess & Giess GbR connects Überlingen with Wallhausen up to twelve times a day, depending on the season.

Biking and hiking trails

Local businesses

Manufacturing:

Service industry:

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the supraregional active organ building workshop Wilhelm Schwarz & Sohn was located in Überlingen . Organ building in Überlingen is still carried out today by the Mönch Orgelbau and Barrel Organ Building Raffin companies founded in 1875 .

The cooperative Lingen eG is a housing cooperative, which was founded in 1949 and has about 500 apartments in its portfolio.

media

The daily newspaper Südkurier reports in the local section Überlingen about what is happening in the city and its surroundings. Official notices are also published there. The free newsletter "Hallo Ü" provides information on local political, cultural and social issues.

Authorities and courts

Überlingen has a local court that belongs to the regional court district of Konstanz and the OLG district of Karlsruhe . There is also a tax office here .

Educational institutions

In Überlingen there is a municipal grammar school , a secondary school , a community school ( primary , secondary and industrial secondary school ) (Wiestor school), a special needs school (Franz Sales Wocheler school) and five independent primary schools (Burgberg school and one elementary school each in the districts of Deisendorf, Hödingen, Lippertsreute and Nussdorf), also a municipal music school , the adult education center ( VHS Bodenseekreis ) and the nursing school at the HELIOS Spital Überlingen.

Sponsors of the three vocational schools Constantin-Vanotti-Schule (commercial school with business high school ), Justus-von-Liebig-Schule (home and agricultural school with nutritional high school, social science high school and biotechnological high school) and Jörg-Zürn-Gewerbeschule (commercial-technical School with technical high school and BTA vocational college) is the Bodenseekreis.

The private schools Freie Heimschule Georgenhof, Freie Waldorfschule Überlingen, the Gymnasium Schloss Salem - Salem International College, the Heimsonderschule Brachenreuthe, the Janusz Korczak School Deisendorf and the Kaspar Hauser School for Educational Aid complete the range of schools in Überlingen.

Finally, there are various municipal, ecclesiastical (Protestant and Roman Catholic ) and free kindergartens on site.

Hospitals

Helios Hospital Überlingen, entrance

The Helios Clinics run the Helios Hospital in Überlingen. The Helios Hospital has a decompression chamber . The deep intoxication and decompression sickness of divers in diving accidents at Lake Constance can be treated here.

Social facilities

The Community Psychiatric Center (GpZ) Überlingen is the contact point for people with mental impairments who need support to lead an independent life. The GpZ offers assistance in this regard.

The Camphill School Communities e. V. runs a shop with a bistro in Überlingen through its SKID (social cultural integration services) project, in which people with disabilities can work under supervision.

The Überlingen camp of the Catholic Church offers a holiday camp for children at various locations in the Black Forest every summer .

Culture and sights

View of the old town of Ueberlingen with the St. Nikolaus Minster
City moat in Überlingen
Aufkirch city gate from 1452
The Franciscan Gate from 1494
The Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus

The city is a member of Cittaslow , a movement founded in Italy in 1999 to slow down and improve the quality of life in cities.

The ARD early evening series Sternenfänger from 2002 played mostly in the city.

In 2005 Überlingen, together with its two districts Deisendorf and Lippertsreute, took part in the nationwide competition Entente Florale Germany (“Blooming Together”) and received a gold medal. In the same year, the Bodensee-Therme Überlingen also won a gold medal in the international IOC / IAKS Award competition , the world's only architecture prize for sports and leisure facilities. The thermal bath, which opened in 2003, has a thermal and adventure area with a sports pool and slides, as well as a parent-child area, a wellness area and a sauna area. Überlingen is on the Swabian Baths Road .

dialect

Überlingen belongs to the Alemannic language area. Traditionally, Lake Constance is spoken in German.

City fortifications

Gallerturm

Überlingen acquired city rights in 1180. Around 1250 the city moat and ramparts were replaced by walls. The wall was defended in sections by the various guilds. Around 1300 an inner wall ring enclosed today's old town on the Franziskanertor - Rosenobel - St. Johann line. An outer wall ring was started in 1450 and completed in 1630. It also protected the fishermen's houses as well as the suburbs and the "village" and ran on the line Badturm - Aufkircher Tor - Wagsauterturm - Wiestor.

Today, of the original 15 defensive towers, there are still the Gallerturm (built around 1500), the Wagsauterturm (rebuilt in 1958), the Rosenobel (built in 1657 as a roundabout , previously the Roßnauerturm here ) and the St Johann Tower. The Galler and St. Johann towers are now used as club houses.

Cannon balls from the time of the Thirty Years' War have been preserved in Überlingen to commemorate the time of siege and are exhibited as monuments: in the cathedral and on a building in Friedhofstrasse.

Due to the high maintenance costs and the increasing wagon traffic, six of the seven city ​​gates of the outer ring had to give way in the 19th century (listed according to the year they were demolished): Scheerentor (at the eastern entrance of Friedhofstrasse in the village, demolished in the 18th century), Hell or Hölltor (at the eastern entrance of Münsterstrasse, outer 1823 broken off, inner 1837), Wiestor (outer 1828, inner 1843), Grundtor (in the Fischerhäuservorstadt, 1838), Fahrtor (near the hospital buildings, today Landungsplatz, 1858), the Obertor is in the year Collapsed in 1880. The only city gate of the outer ring still in existence today is the Aufkircher Tor. Of the three gates of the inner ring (Fiedlistor, Christophstor, Barfüßertor) is still (formerly the 1494 completed Franziskanertor Barfüßertor called).

The city moats improve the city climate. The fresh air of Lake Constance reaches the streets of the old town via the city ditches.

Museums

The Reichlin-von-Meldegg-Haus , one of the oldest Renaissance buildings in Germany, now houses the City Museum . The museum, founded in 1871 and housed here since 1913, shows art and everyday objects, dollhouses, cribs and general customs in the old patrician palace of the Reichlin von Meldegg, which is partly still fully furnished .

The Städtische Galerie, which regularly presents special exhibitions, is located on the lake promenade in a former ballroom from the 19th century. The gallery's cabinets adjoining the ballroom were part of the above-mentioned late medieval patrician house.

Buildings

The armory on the lake promenade
  • The city's landmark is the largest late Gothic building on Lake Constance, the St. Nikolaus Minster . The imposing church is adorned with a monumental wooden altar by the sculptor and carver Jörg Zürn from the late Renaissance period. On one of the pillars of the interior there is a figure of Jacob with a walking stick and a scallop shell. A cannonball from 1634 is attached to another pillar with the inscription (spelling as in the original): "Überlingen wanted to conquer. The Swedish Field Marshal HOX ... He lost Drey Stürm, after which he would have to give way, MARIA, this is your Sig Zaichen"
  • The New Year's Eve Chapel in the Goldbach district is one of the oldest church buildings in the Lake Constance area and contains frescoes from the “ Reichenau School ” from the 9th century.
  • The Überlingen town hall dates from the Renaissance and has a magnificent hall decorated with wood carved figures by Jakob Russ . The figures impressively depict hierarchies and classes of the empire (from the elector to the peasant) and thus bear witness to the power relations at the time of its creation (1490–1494).
  • The old city chancellery is one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in the Lake Constance area. As an extension of the neighboring town hall, the office was completed around 1600. In 1613, the representative building on Münsterplatz was given a framed city coat of arms, which bears the year 1599, but refers to the completion of the exterior. After it had been privately owned from 1822, it was bought back by the public authorities in 1893. The city archive has been located in the old office since 1913.
  • The former trading and grain store Greth has been one of the city's most striking cultural monuments since its renovation in 1998. The classical building, located between the landing and the market square, directly on the lakeshore, can be documented as early as 1421 through the enactment of the so-called “Gredordnung”. Construction researchers date the load-bearing oak pillars to around 1382. Remnants of the foundations even point to much older predecessor buildings. The current appearance of the Greth goes back to a renovation carried out by Franz Anton Bagnoto in 1788 and shows stylistic elements of the transition period from baroque to classicism. As early as 1936/37 it was placed under protection under the Baden state building regulations.
  • The Franciscan church from 1348 is characterized by its baroque furnishings.
  • In the pilgrimage church of St. Jodokus , which dates from the 15th century, there is a depiction of the legend of the " meeting of the three living and the three dead " from the period after 1424 on the south wall. Three elegantly dressed princes of different ages unexpectedly encounter their skeletons Fathers. The slogan above the dead says: "the ir there are the wier, the we are the weret ir".
  • The chapel of St. Michael (Aufkirch) outside the city was built around the year 1000 and was Überlingen's first parish church.
  • The listed Rauenstein Castle was built around 1900 by the Swiss privateer and Rittmeister a. D. Otto Ziesig built. In 1950 the castle area including the building was acquired by the then Überlingen district and became part of the Lake Constance district as part of the district reform. The premises have since been used for authorities as well as the educational and economic sectors. The park area with around 2.68 hectares is freely accessible to the public. In 2015, the city of Überlingen acquired the Rauenstein Castle with the park area from the Lake Constance district.
  • The Salmansweiler Hof was the care yard of the Salem monastery.
  • The Gunzoburg is a medieval mansion allegedly in the year 641 Duke Gunzo said to have resided. Today the "castle" is used as a gallery.
  • The Suso House is considered the birthplace of the mystic Heinrich Seuse (Suso) .
  • The armory on the lakeside promenade was since the destruction of the old armory in the Thirty Years War to the end of the imperial city time the armory of the city.

Überlingen also has the longest promenade on Lake Constance and a thermal bath , the Bodensee-Therme . Other sights are the Überlingen observatory and the Mantelhafen.

The so-called Obere Mühle Goldbach is located in the district of Goldbach . It was named Monument of the Month March 2008” by the Monument Foundation of Baden-Württemberg .

In the district of Lippertsreute, below the Steinhöfe in the Aachtobel nature reserve, lies the more than 500-year-old pilgrimage site of Maria im Stein .

Fountain

  • The Bodenseereiter fountain by the former potter and today's artist Peter Lenk . With the three women he represents his daughter, his wife and his mother-in-law as well as Martin Walser on his horse . See also: Seegfrörne
  • The sculptor Emil Stadelhofer created the war memorial for those who fell in the Wars of Unification , which was equipped as a fountain memorial with water-spouting lions' heads and was ceremoniously unveiled on June 10, 1900 on the occasion of the Congress of Deputies of the Baden Military Association. It stood in the same place as today's Bodenseereiter well on the landing site until it was demolished in 1934.
  • The Marienbrunnen on the corner of Krummebergstrasse and Obertorstrasse was rebuilt on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the successful defense against Sweden in 1634.
  • There is a “Hänselebrunnen” from 1934 in Aufkircher Straße, which is dedicated to “Hänsele”, the main character of the Überlinger Fasnet .
  • The Kaiserbrunnen (Charles V) on Hofstatt / Münsterstrasse was built in 1553 and is reminiscent of the 1528 “improved” coat of arms. Today there is a copy from 1983 on the square.
  • The Suso fountain in the Hofstatt was built in 1928 in honor of the mystic and theologian Heinrich Seuse or Suso, on the site of an old fountain.
  • The Neustadtbrunnen from 1847 on Aufkircherstraße was completely reconstructed in 2007 by the Überlingen Beautification Association and the surrounding area was redesigned. The fountain is a registered cultural monument and today, at a similar point, represents the continuation of an important part of Überlingen's water supply, as the system was already visible in the late medieval period as the Unterer Kehlhoferbrunnen in Merian's townscape , back then in the middle of Aufkircherstraße.
  • In the 1950s, two fountains in the old town, the fisherman and the boy with Tschake fountain, were redesigned by the Überlingen-based sculptor Werner Gürtner .
  • The so-called Olberbrunnen from 1842 was re-erected in the course of the renovation of Spitalgasse in 2011 on the newly designed location.

nature

Uberlingen City Garden 2007

The city garden with its old trees, exotic plants, cacti and a rose garden also houses a deer enclosure. Germany's most biodiverse farm, the Reutemühle pet farm , is located in the Bambergen district and has a publicly accessible zoo.

At Überlingen-Bonndorf there is a view of the Überlinger See from the height of the Haldenhof.

Natural monuments

  • Pear tree with a chest height circumference of 4.18 m (2013).

wine growing

From the 13th to the 16th century Überlingen experienced an economic boom, which can also be traced back to intensive viticulture. Wine was the main medium of exchange for other economic goods. Today there is only one single winery in the Überlinger Felsengarten with a cultivation area of ​​25  hectares . The following grape varieties are grown: Müller-Thurgau, Grauer Burgunder (Ruländer), Riesling, White Burgundy, Chardonnay, Traminer, Gewürztraminer as well as Blue Pinot Noir and Cabernet-Mitos.

Events

tradition

The Überlinger Hänsele

Überlingen is a stronghold of the traditional Swabian-Alemannic carnival . Together with the guilds from Rottweil , Elzach and Oberdorf forms the Narrenzunft Lingen the four collar . The Häs (the carnival costume), the "Überlinger Hänsele", is already mentioned in a council minutes from 1430.

To commemorate the successful defense of the Swedes in the Thirty Years' War , who attacked the city on July 11, 1632 and besieged it from April 23 to May 16, 1634, takes place twice a year on the second after a vow by the citizens of Überlingen in 1634 Sunday in May ( Mother's Day ) and July there is a church service and a Swedish procession. On the processional way, the Swedish Madonna is carried on shoulders by scouts. The town band, sword dance company, youth choir, acolytes, boy scouts and around 100 women in traditional costumes also take part in the procession to five altars. Following the second Swedish procession, the so-called "sword dance" will be performed by the sword dance company in the yard and in front of the archive .

Culture

The Suso house is in Überlingen; Readings, concerts and lectures are regularly held there independently.

The Bodensee Literature Prize has been awarded in Überlingen since 1954 - usually every two years . Professors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland sit in the jury.

In 1956, at the invitation of the Bodensee Club, the Second International German-Language Writers' Congress took place in Überlingen, which made headlines through a public controversy between Hermann Kesten and Ludwig Friedrich Barthel .

Since 2004, the so-called summer theater with various performances by the Konstanz City Theater has taken place in the Capuchin Church every year .

The WortMenue series of events is held every two years in April .

Sports

  • Since 2008, a world ranking tennis tournament in the lowest futures category has been taking place at the end of August , which the two tennis clubs TC Überlingen and TC Altbirnau organize together.
  • The since 1973 almost continuously from windsurfing club Ueberlingen organized Überlinger Windsurf Cup is one of the oldest regularly held windsurfing regattas in Germany.
  • From 2005 to 2012 September found each in July / the final of the German Boulder Cup held in the framework of which there is also a station since 2008 German Cup Speed was.
  • From 2005 to 2011 the "Festival of Trees", initiated by Wahlüberlinger bard and songwriter Jens Eloas Lachenmayr, took place in the Überlinger Stadtgarten. A songwriting festival, which was even recorded by the TV station ARTE in 2008 . The Überlingen band "Die Neuen Barden" (founded by Jens Eloas Lachenmayr & Frank Waldvogel) played as the main act there. The "Festival of Trees" has been a hiking festival since 2012 and takes place in a different city every year. It is currently being discussed whether the 2020 festival will return to Überlingen for the state horticultural show.

Walks by the lake

From Überlingen to Birnau

From the landing place for Lake Constance ships along the lakeshore via Nussdorf to Maurach, the route is closer to the lake than that of the official Lake Constance circular route that runs above the lake . This leads up through the vineyards to the Birnau pilgrimage church. From there you can take the bus ( Bundesstraße stop ) back to Überlingen.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Überlingen has granted the following personalities honorary citizenship

  • 1840: Franz Sales Wocheler (1778–1848), Catholic parish priest from 1820 to 1848. He is considered a pioneer of the “ Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek ” and made a name for himself by expanding the Überlingen school system.
  • 1928: Adolf Schwarz (1864–1940), Catholic parish priest from 1909 to 1940. His term of office mainly included the fundamental restoration of the Überlingen Minster St. Nikolaus (1908–1924).
  • 1963: Georg Siemens (1882–1977). The university professor lived in retirement in Überlingen and published several scientific papers. He was also a member of the municipal council and winner of the Lake Constance Literature Prize of 1968.

sons and daughters of the town

Well-known people who lived in Überlingen

Known residents

Remarks

  1. ^ Courval [Corval], Charles Christoph de Mazencourt, vicomte de; Lieutenants [-] Courval was commandant in Überlingen on Lake Constance in 1643, as the historiographer and Habsburg supporter Wassenberg reports in his “Florus”, which was reissued in 1647: “At the time [March 1643], Count von Corval was from the king in France to the governor in Vberlingen made. (WASSENBERG, Florus, p. 517.). “Quoted from: www.30jaehrigerkrieg.de .
  2. Martin Lang: From the Peace of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia (1635-1648). Diploma thesis for obtaining the master’s degree in philosophy, Vienna 2008, p. 42. online (PDF; 403 kB). Lang quotes Heilmann: The campaigns of Bavaria in the years 1643, 1644 and 1645. Leipzig 1851, p. 6ff. The mentioned crew in Überlingen of "12-13,000 men" seems far too high and cannot be confirmed otherwise.
  3. While the city of Überlingen's calendar of events no longer mentions the date of the start of the processions: Sweden Procession 2020 ( accessed January 5, 2020), the date 'from 1635' with the nine-year 'faithlessness' is still in circulation on various occasions: ' Bodensee-Veranstaltungen ' (Accessed January 5, 2020).

literature

Überlingen

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  • Otto Gruber : Überlinger secular buildings of the 15th and 16th centuries. Karlsruhe, 1914.
  • City of Überlingen (ed.): Überlingen. Image of a city. Looking back on 1200 years of history in Überlingen. 770-1970. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1970.
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  • Dieter Helmut Stolz: Beloved Überlingen. A walk through the history and culture of the city on Lake Constance. With city tour. With numerous Photos by Siegfried Lauterwasser. 2., revised. Edition. Verlag des Südkurier, Konstanz 1981, 91 pages.
  • Paul Baur (Ed.): ... small, ultra-modern but local! Überlinger Gewerbe im Wandel Association of Friends of the Jörg-Zürn-Gewerbeschule 2nd edition 1997, ISBN 3-921213-93-2 .
  • Bettina Bernhard: "Cure on and in the lake, including a view of the Alps". The Überlingen Kneipp spa. In: Wolfgang Niess, Sönke Lorenz (ed.): Cult baths and bath culture in Baden-Württemberg. Markstein, Filderstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935129-16-5 .
  • Michael Brunner, Marion Harder-Merkelbach (eds.): 1100 years of art and architecture in Überlingen (850–1950). Book accompanying the exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Überlingen. Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-032-1 .
  • Oswald Burger: The Stollen. Überlingen 2005, ISBN 3-86142-087-2 (documentation on the Aufkirch concentration camp, Goldbacher Stollen, short section on the Birnau concentration camp cemetery).
  • Oswald Burger, Hansjörg Straub: The Levingers. A family in Überlingen. Eggingen 2002, ISBN 3-86142-117-8 (the Überlingen clubs around 1900 and the time of the Grand Duchy and the State of Baden are also described).
  • Wilfried Enderle: Confession formation and council regiment in the catholic imperial city Überlingen (1500–1618) in the context of the Reformation history of the Upper Swabian imperial cities. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1990 (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B, Research. Volume 118), ISBN 3-17-011041-1 .
  • Jan Fornol et al .: it's burning! Überlingen a town and its fire brigade from 1853 to 2003 . Self-published, 2003
  • Alois Schneider, Regional Council Stuttgart, State Office for Monument Preservation, City of Überlingen (ed.): Archaeological City Register Baden-Württemberg Volume 34 Überlingen . Regional Council Stuttgart State Office for Monument Preservation 2008, ISBN 978-3-927714-92-2 .
  • Peter Höring, Ursula Horstmann and Hermann Keller: Chronicle of Andelshofen. Self-published, 2010, 248 pages
  • Eva-Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland: 50 exciting stories from Überlingen . Edition SÜDKURIER, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035898-2 .
  • Eugen Schnering, Society of Friends of Art Überlingen eV (ed.): Überlingen - city history in street names. Verlag der Gesellschaft der Kunstfreunde Überlingen eV, 1993
  • Alfons Semler: Überlingen - Pictures from the history of a small imperial city. Oberbadischer Verlag, Singen 1949

Überlinger Seealemannisch

  • (as) Wolfgang Lechler: I chat differently. Maritime values ​​and proverbs from Iberlings and around. Frickingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-938340-30-1

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