Bad Schussenried

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	570 m above sea level NHN
Area :	55.01 km 2
Residents:	8734 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	159 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88427
Area code :	07583
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 014
City administration address :	Wilhelm-Schussen-Strasse 36 88427 Bad Schussenried
Website :	www.bad-ussenried.de
Mayor :	Achim Deinet
Location of the city of Bad Schussenried in the Biberach district

Bad Schussenried (until 1966 Schussenried , emphasis on 'reed') is an Upper Swabian town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg . In the census on May 9, 2011, the city had 8,318 inhabitants.

Bad Schussenried from the south

Otterswang from the east

Market square in Bad Schussenried

geography

location

Bad Schussenried is located between Ulm and Lake Constance on the Schussen River . The 48th parallel runs through the city.

City structure

The city consists of the core town of Bad Schussenried (with the districts Aichbühl , Kleinwinnaden , Kürnbach , Lauhaus , Lufthütte , Olzreute , Roppertsweiler and the residential areas Dunzenhausen , Enzisweiler , St. Martin , Sennhof , Wilhelmshütte) and the districts Otterswang (with the districts Atzenberg , Fünfhäuser, Hopferbach, Laimbach and the residential areas in Burg and Schwaigfurt), Reichenbach (with the residential areas Sattenbeuren and Torfwerk) and Steinhausen (with the residential areas in Eisenbahnhof ).

coat of arms	district	Inhabitants (rounded)	surface
	Bad Schussenried (city center)	6500	2287 ha
	Otterswang	800	1312 ha
	Reichenbach	700	1255 ha
	Steinhausen	400	648 ha

history

The gate building at Schussenried Abbey

prehistory

Archaeological finds provided evidence of prehistoric settlement in the region. In 1866 the Paleolithic camp site was found for hunters and gatherers. These were the first Paleolithic finds in Central Europe. Near Aichbühl, about 1.5 km north of the Schussen spring, during excavations in the Federseeried moor at the end of the 19th century, Neolithic pile and moor villages were discovered. Schussenried gave its name to the Schussenried group of the Young Neolithic .

In 2009 archaeologists discovered four Neolithic wheels during excavations in the Olzreuter Ried in the deposits of a former lake in a pile dwelling. The maple wood was dendrochronologically to around 2897 BC. Dated. The axis fragments belong to the find horizon of the Goldberg III group of the end neolithic . The unique finds are of the greatest importance for scientific research into the history of technology and transport.

Middle Ages and early modern times

For the first time Shuozenried documented 1,153th During the time of the tribal duchies , the city was in the Duchy of Swabia .

The history of the city is closely linked to that of the Schussenried monastery . In 1183 the local lords Konrad and Beringer founded the Premonstratensian monastery. The abbey received many privileges, for example in 1521 the high judiciary (blood ban), so that the abbots wore the sword in their coat of arms in addition to the crook. The canons directed the fortunes of the monastery community until secularization .

Württemberg time

On February 25, 1803, the Reichsabbey was secularized and ratified in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1802 and handed over to the Count of Sternberg-Manderscheid . Three years later, Schussenried was mediatized and came to the Kingdom of Württemberg . Schussenried was assigned to the Oberamt Waldsee in 1806 . In 1835, the counts decided to sell the monastery building to the Kingdom of Württemberg, which built a steelworks there in 1837 (today Wilhelmshütte of SHW Wasseralfingen GmbH).

In 1845 the State Psychiatric Hospital was built in the New Monastery (today the Center for Psychiatry). The Psychiatric State Hospital Schussenried , a state institution Württemberg, was 1940 to 1941 as part of the "euthanasia" - T4 interim institution for the systematic transfer of 561 patients and nursing home residents from Freiburg, Fußbach, Liebenau, Zwiefalten in the Nazi death camps Grafeneck and Hadamar . A memorial plaque on the prison cemetery has been commemorating these victims of Nazi terror since 1983 .

The peat was until the mid-20th century an important industry in Schussenried.

During the district reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , Schussenried became part of the Biberach district in 1938.

post war period

After the Second World War, Schussenried fell into the French zone of occupation and thus became part of the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

In 1947 the place was raised to a city.

The state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern became the administrative district of Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern in the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952 , to which the district of Biberach (from 1973 in the administrative district of Tübingen ) and thus the city of Schussenried belong since then.

Since April 26, 1966, Schussenried has been allowed to use the title “ Bad ”.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , Otterswang and Steinhausen were incorporated into the city on January 1, 1972, and Reichenbach on January 1, 1974.

politics

Municipal council

The following distribution of seats resulted in the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2019 on May 26, 2019:

• Common Voter List (BWL) - 40.8%, 9 seats (2014 BL: 13.0%, 2 seats)
• Free voter association - 52.8%, 11 seats (2014: 26.5%, 5 seats)
• Schussenried citizens - 6.5%, 1 seat, (2014: 0%, 0 seats)
• Free Independent Citizens (FUB) - 0%, 0 seats (2014: 25.7%, 5 seats)
• CDU - 0%, 0 seats (2014: 34.8%, 7 seats)

mayor

Achim Deinet has been the mayor of Bad Schussenried since March 20, 2010. He prevailed on February 7, 2010 in the second ballot against Alexander Eisele. In the first ballot held two weeks earlier, the incumbent mayor Georg Beetz also ran, but withdrew his candidacy after he had achieved the worst result of the three applicants.

• 1952–1970: Josef Handgretinger
• 1970–1986: Hubert Kohler
• 1986–1994: Lothar Frank
• 1994–2010: Georg Beetz
• since 2010: Achim Deinet

badges and flags

The coat of arms was probably determined by the Schussenried Abbey. The blazon of the coat of arms shows: "In silver a left-turning, double-tailed red lion." The lion is considered to be the apocryphal coat of arms of the Lords of Schussenried. After it was already included in the coat of arms of the Schussenried Premonstratensian Abbey as a reference to the monastery donors, it has long appeared in the community seals. After the elevation to the city in 1948, the current shape of the coat of arms was confirmed by the local council.

The Bad Schussenried city colors are red and white, including the flag.

Culture and sights

Kürnbach open-air museum

The city is located on the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse and the Schwäbische Bäderstrasse .

Museums

• Beer mug museum: The Bad Schussenried beer mug museum is widely known as Germany's first museum of its kind. It shows beer mugs from the Ott Collection in all sizes from five centuries. The Schussenried Brewery Ott , which also exhibits the third largest rock crystal in the world, can be visited on guided tours .
• Upper Swabian Museum Village Kürnbach : The Upper Swabian Museum Village , founded in 1969, is located in the district of Kürnbach, to which Upper Swabian farmhouses were moved that could no longer be preserved in their original location. In the meantime, a real village with 31 buildings and furnishings from six centuries has grown around the thatched roof house from 1664, the only one at the place of origin. From the Swabian Railway Association e. V. operates the 1.1 km long "Kürnbach Steam Railway" there.
• Pilgrimage museum "Alte Schmiede" in Steinhausen
• Ailinger adventure mill with over 400 years of tradition in the Reichenbach district
• Carriage museum of the Mayerföls family
• Central Württemberg dialect archive and museum
• Bad Schussenried Monastery Museum

Buildings

Schussenried Monastery

Library hall in the former Schussenried monastery

Interior view of the St. Magnus monastery church

Choir room and choir stalls of the St. Magnus monastery church

Worth seeing are the surviving buildings of the company founded in 1183 schussenried abbey , a former Norbertine - Empire pin . In 1748 the new construction of the entire monastery complex began, of which hardly half could be carried out. Dominikus Zimmermann provided the plans for this ; a wooden model has been preserved. The construction manager was Jakob Emele , who was appointed monastery builder in 1750 and ousted Zimmermann. The building project followed the example of the Wiblingen Abbey . Both monasteries are characterized by their towering library halls in the north wing of the monastery complex. A chapter house in the east was demolished in the early 19th century.

From the Middle Ages, shortly before the new monastery was built, St. Magnus Church , a three-aisled basilica with Baroque furnishings, including the choir stalls by Georg Anton Machein and ceiling frescoes by Johannes Zick, has been preserved . The monastery church should have been replaced by a new building based on plans by Emele; it never came to that.

Pilgrimage Church Steinhausen

Pilgrimage Church of St. Peter and Paul in Steinhausen

The pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul , built between 1728 and 1731 in the Steinhausen district, is one of Dominikus Zimmermann's main works and, as a cheerful and playful landmark of the Upper Swabian Baroque, is also a destination for many tourists. The term most beautiful village church in the world, which is often heard , is rather misleading, since the "village church" was built as a pilgrimage church by the wealthy Schussenried monastery and, as a pure parish church, would be completely oversized for a village of this size. The building owner, Abbot Didakus from the Schussenried Monastery, was born in Biberach and was reprimanded and punished by a clerical court of his order because of the considerable construction cost overruns. The historic Jakobspilgerweg , which ends in Santiago de Compostela , Spain , leads through Steinhausen . Steinhausen is a station on the Ulm-Konstanz section. Since 2009 the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route has also led through the town. Today, many people visit Steinhausen again on foot on a long-distance hiking trail .

Church in Otterswang

St. Oswald Church in Otterswang

The late baroque church of St. Oswald in the Otterswang district, which is also splendidly furnished , was built in 1770 and extensively renovated in 1972. It is particularly popular around the Thanksgiving Festival in autumn, as it is decorated every year with a splendid Thanksgiving carpet made of field and garden fruits. The baroque rectory has also been preserved.

Church in Reichenbach

The Church of Saints Sebastian, Blasius and Agatha, built in 1460, was completely redesigned in 1704 and later restored several times.

Castles

Castle Hervetsweiler , castle Kürnbach , ruin Otterswang , castle Reichenbach , castle Rudersberg , castle Schussenried (Old Pharmacy) , Castle Schussenried (New Pharmacy)

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bad Schussenried

music

The Schwabenrock groups Grachmusikoff and Schwoißfuaß come from Bad Schussenried . The brass music publisher Alfred Burger is also based in Bad Schussenried.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bad Schussenried station is on the Württemberg southern railway line . Trains to Ulm and Friedrichshafen run every hour. The northern section to Ulm can be used in local public transport with the tariff of the Donau-Iller local transport network (DING), the southern section with the tariff of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (bodo).

In 1896, the first section of the Schussenried-Riedlingen narrow-gauge railway - the Federseebahn - from Schussenried to Buchau was opened. In 1915 the line was extended to Dürmentingen and in 1916 again to Riedlingen . Between 1960 and 1969, operations were suspended on all routes. Today the section to the peat mill (converted to standard gauge) still exists as a freight track, and this line has also been closed since 2002.

Established businesses

A large local employer is the Center for Psychiatry , a hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics with 256 beds. Other major employers are the Schwäbische Hüttenwerke (SHW) and the concrete mixer division of the Liebherr Group.

Educational institutions

Bad Schussenried has the Georg-Kaeß-Grundschule and the Drümmelberg-Werkrealschule , the Jakob-Emele - Realschule and the Caspar-Mohr-Progymnasium . In addition, a facility of the Humboldt Institute for German as a Foreign Language has been based in the city since 2011 .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Lutz (around 1500), master builder
• Johann Baptist Allgaier (1763–1823), chess player
• Johann Georg Käß (1823–1903), entrepreneur, councilor and founder
• Anton Arnold (1872–1945), former and works council member, member of the state parliament of Württemberg (SPD)
• Wilhelm Schussen (actually W. Frick ; 1874–1956), Swabian writer
• Paul Konrad Kurz (1927–2005), writer
• Alex Köberlein (* 1951), rock musician and singer
• Rolf Gölz (* 1962), professional cyclist and Olympic participant in Los Angeles in 1984, sporting director of the Gerolsteiner racing team
• Bernd Gnann (* 1973), actor, cabaret artist, grew up in Reichenbach
• Michael Kranz (* 1983), actor, grew up in Bad Schussenried

Personalities who have worked on site

• Paul Atzler (1889–1972), editor of correspondence courses in law, worked and died in Schussenried
• Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849), composer and conductor, attended the pin Schussenried school
• Oswald Metzger (* 1954), politician and publicist, grew up in Schussenried

literature

• Paul Beck, Bernard Ruess: Contributions to the history of Schussenried . Federsee-Verlag, Bad Buchau 1981
• Erler Blasius: The home book of Schussenried . Rudolf Abt Publishing House, Schussenried 1950
• Hubert Kohler (Ed.): Bad Schussenried. History of an Upper Swabian monastery town . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-4060-1
• Joachim Angerer, Otto Beck, Anton Schmid (eds.): Bad Schussenried experienced. A picture sheet from Upper Swabia . Fink, Lindenberg 1997, ISBN 3-931820-34-3 (illustrated book)
• Johann Daniel Georg v. Memminger: Community of Schussenried , from description of the Oberamt Waldsee . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1834 ( full text at Wikisource )

Web links

Commons : Bad Schussenried  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Bad Schussenried  - travel guide

Wikisource: Bad Schussenried  - in the description of the Oberamt Waldsee from 1834

• City website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Barbara Waldvogel: "Open Monument Day". Where the wheel of time turns . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from September 10, 2010
3. ↑ Helmut Schlichtherle: When the first wheels rolled ... Wheels from the Neolithic Age from the Olzreuter Ried near Bad Schussenried. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 39, 2010, Issue 3, pp. 140–144 ( PDF ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
4. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation, Vol. I, Bonn 1995, p. 23, ISBN 3-89331-208-0
5. ^ 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. 525 and 544 .
6. ↑ https://www.museum.de/museen/bierkrugmuseum
7. ^ Upper Swabian Museum Village Kürnbach . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 12.
8. ↑ Sabine Kraume-Probst, Michael Ruhland: In the shadow of the church tower. Three rural rectories in Upper Swabia. [Dürnau, Otterswang, Eberhardzell] In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 32nd year 2003, issue 2, pp. 173-181 ( PDF ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
9. ^ Franz Sylvester Weber: Hans Lutz von Schussenried - a story from the days of the Bozener Thurmbaue written in five lifts for the stage . Bolzano: Catholic Masters Association 1898.