Argenbühl

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '  N , 9 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Height :	670 m above sea level NHN
Area :	76.37 km 2
Residents:	6527 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88260
Area code :	07566
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 094
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchstrasse 9 88260 Argenbühl
Website :	www.argenbuehl.de
Mayor :	Roland Sauter
Location of the municipality of Argenbühl in the Ravensburg district

Argenbühl is a municipality in the Ravensburg district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

location

The community is located in the Württemberg Allgäu between the cities of Wangen and Isny . The source rivers of the Argen , the Lower and the Upper Argen , partly form the municipal boundaries. The highest point is at Isnyberg (district Eglofs) with 761 m above sea level.

Community structure

The community consists of the following localities with the associated living spaces.

• Christazhofen (957 inhabitants, 15.44 km²)
• Eglofs (1645 inhabitants, 23.40 km²)
• Eisenharz (1639 inhabitants, 13.38 km²)
• Göttlishofen (518 inhabitants, 7.22 km²)
• Ratzenried (1309 inhabitants, 13.77 km²)
• Siggen (212 inhabitants, 3.17 km²)

(Residents: as of January 1, 2016)

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  Christazhofen

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  Eglofs

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  Iron resin

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  Göttlishofen

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  Ratzenried

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  Siggen

Neighboring communities

Kisslegg		Leutkirch in the Allgäu
Wangen in the Allgäu		Isny in the Allgäu
Heimenkirch	Röthenbach (Allgäu)	Gestratz

history

The community was created on January 1, 1972 through the merger of the previously independent communities Christazhofen, Eglofs, Eisenharz, Göttlishofen, Ratzenried and Siggen. The name Argenbühl is a combination of Argen and Bühl. The second part of the name Bühl (= hill) is intended to express the hilly landscape in which the community is located. Its history is described in great detail in the description of the Oberamt Wangen from 1841. In 1810 all of the aforementioned municipalities were assigned to the Oberamt Wangen in the Kingdom of Württemberg . The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the district of Wangen in 1938 . In 1945 the places fell into the French zone of occupation and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. In 1973 the district reform took place in Baden-Württemberg , when Argenbühl was assigned to the Ravensburg district .

	For centuries, Christazhofen belonged to the Trauchburg rule , which initially belonged to the Counts of Veringen . Therefore Christazhofen has the Veringian deer antlers in the coat of arms . Then it came into the possession of the counts and later the princes of Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg.
	Eglofs , occasionally also notarized as Meglofs and Megletz, can boast that for a long time it had no rule other than the emperor. In 1661 Eglofs was left to the Counts of Abensperg and Traun and bought in 1804 by the Princes Windisch-Graetz . In 1806 the area around Eglofs was assigned to the Kingdom of Württemberg .
	Eisenharz came into the possession of the Truchsessen von Waldburg through purchase in 1301 and ultimately, like Christazhofen, became part of the Trauchburg rule.
	Goettlishofen came like Eglofs to the princes of Windisch-Grätz. See also : Affenstein Castle
	Siggen also came to the princes of Windisch-Grätz in a similar way to Eglofs.
	Ratzenried was a former imperial knighthood rule that died out in the 14th century. After that, the ownership changed several times, and for a long time the place was divided, which is evidenced by two castles that existed in parallel. Most recently, Paul Joseph von Beroldingen inherited Ratzenried in 1813 . In 1806 the area came to the Kingdom of Bavaria , but also to Württemberg in 1810 due to the border treaty of 1810 . see also Castle Ratzenried , castle Neideck , castle Schwenden , castle Valleray

Religions

There are six Roman Catholic parishes in Argenbühl . The parish in Wangen im Allgäu is responsible for the few Evangelical Lutheran believers .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. In Argenbühl, the municipal council is elected using the false sub-district election. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipality council in Argenbühl has 16 members after the last election (2014: 17). The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result.

0Political party	be right	Seats	2014 result
0CDU	65.8%	11	58.8%, 10 seats
0The Independents (UA)	34.2%	5	41.2%, 7 seats

mayor

In June 2015, Roland Sauter was elected to succeed Josef Köberle with 53.2 percent of the vote; he had held the office since 1996.

Community partnerships

• Capannoli Municipality , Tuscany , Italy
• Cieszanów Municipality , Subcarpathian Region , Poland
• District of Berbisdorf von Radeburg , Saxony

Capannoli and Cieszanów have also entered into a partnership with each other.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is connected to the surrounding cities by several bus routes , including Leutkirch , Isny ​​im Allgäu and Wangen im Allgäu, and belongs to the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association ( bodo ). In Ratzenried there used to be a stop on the Kißlegg – Hergatz railway line .

education

In Eglofs and Ratzenried there is a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school . In Christazhofen and Eisenharz there are pure elementary schools. There are four kindergartens in the community for the youngest residents.

Culture and sights

Eglofs around 1900

The village of Eglofs is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road .

Museums

Ratzenried houses the local history museum , while Eglofs houses the museum with music, history and geology with the Allgäu-Swabian music archive . A museum room was opened in Eisenharz in 2009, which deals with the history of the place and the historical industrial milk processing by the Wunderlich dairy and Nestlé AG .

building

Ratzenried in winter

• The baroque church in Eglofs is located on the Oberschwäbische Barockstraße .
• Ratzenried Castle, seat of the Humboldt Institute - Association for German as a Foreign Language e. V.
• Eisenharz round chapel , medieval chapel and the destination of a horseman procession

Others

• Lawn cross in Meggen

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gebhard Razenried / Ratzenried (1583–1652), Jesuit , 1621–1631 rector of the Jesuit college in Eichstätt, from 1637 of the Jesuit college in Augsburg
• Maria von Beroldingen (1853–1911), painter, born and died in Ratzenried
• Konstantin Rösch (1869–1944), theologian
• Anton Kulmus (1900–1989), developer and manufacturer of agricultural vehicles
• Anton Morent (1924–2006), bus operator
• Helmut Maucher (1927–2018), Manager (Nestlé)

Other personalities

• Hermann Kinkele (1892–1956), mayor, Catholic and pacifist; lived in iron resin
• Melanie Leupolz (* 1994), soccer player, grew up in the village of Ratzenried

literature

• August Friedrich Pauly: Community of Eglofs . In: Description of the Oberamt Wangen. Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1841 ( full text at Wikisource )
• Peter Kissling: Free farmers and rural citizens. Eglofs in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period . Epfendorf: biblioteca academica Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-928471-53-8
• Berthold Büchele: Ratzenried. An Allgäu local history . Volume I, Leutkirch 1986, ISBN 3-9801361-0-8
• Berthold Büchele: Ratzenried. An Allgäu local history . Volume II, Leutkirch 1988, ISBN 3-9801361-1-6
• Berthold Büchele: Ratzenried. An Allgäu local history . Volume III, Leutkirch 1990, ISBN 3-9801361-2-4
• Berthold Büchele: Ratzenried. An Allgäu local history . Volume IV, Leutkirch 1993, ISBN 3-9801361-3-2
• Reinhart Kempter: History of the parish Eisenharz in the Allgäu . with drawings by Andreas Sammet, Kempten - Verlag für Heimatpflege - 1966
• Wolfram Benz: Argenbühl - municipality in the sunny Allgäu . Josef Fink Verlag, Lindenberg, 2008, ISBN 3-89870-541-2

Web links

Commons : Argenbühl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Eglofs in the description of the Oberamt Wangen from 1841  - sources and full texts

• Web presence of the municipality of Argenbühl
• Argenbühl at LEO-BW
• Private website about Eglofs
• Private website about iron resin
• Heimatverein Ratzenried e. V. - Information about Ratzenried

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 536 .
3. ^ Description of the Oberamt Wangen . ( Wikisource )
4. ^ Günther Bradler: Studies on the history of ministeriality in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia. Göppingen 1973
5. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office, result of the 2019 municipal council elections - Argenbühl
6. ↑ Line 7572 ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
7. ^ The music museum in Eglofs / Argenbühl in the Westallgäu. In: www-old.eglofs.de. Retrieved February 3, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Museum room in the "Sun"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Franz Sales Romstöck: On the statistics of the Jesuit college in Eichstätt . Eichstaett, 1902, p. 8; Bernhard Duhr : History of the Jesuits in the countries of the German tongue. 2nd volume, 1st part. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1913, pp. 228, 239, 610.