District of Constance
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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ N , 9 ° 11 ′ E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg |
| Region : | Upper Rhine-Lake Constance |
| Administrative headquarters : | Constancy |
| Area : | 817.97 km 2 |
| Residents: | 285,325 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 349 inhabitants per km 2 |
| License plate : | KN, (BÜS) |
| Circle key : | 08 3 35 |
| NUTS : | DE138 |
| Circle structure: | 25 municipalities |
| Address of the district administration: |
Benediktinerplatz 1 78467 Konstanz |
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| District Administrator : | Zeno Danner (independent) |
| Location of the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg | |
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The district of Konstanz is a regional authority in the legal form of a district and is located in the south of Baden-Württemberg with a border with Switzerland . The district belongs to the Hochrhein-Bodensee region in the Freiburg administrative region .
geography
location
The district of Konstanz has a share in the Hegau , a landscape that is already part of the Alpine foothills. The district town of Konstanz is located on the south-eastern edge of the district on Lake Constance , which merges into the Untersee here . The landscape between Untersee and Überlinger See is called Bodanrück . The district area also includes the islands of Reichenau (own municipality) and Mainau (part of the city of Constance).
places
The list of places in the district of Konstanz contains approximately 456 places ( towns , villages , hamlets , Zinken , farms and living spaces ) of the district of Konstanz in the geographical sense.
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2015.
Nature reserves
There are 58 (as of September 2015) nature reserves in the district .
Neighboring areas
The district borders clockwise in the west, beginning with the districts of Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis , Tuttlingen , Sigmaringen and Bodenseekreis . It also borders on Lake Constance itself and the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and Schaffhausen . The Büsingen exclave on the Upper Rhine , which belongs to the district , also borders the Swiss canton of Zurich on a stretch of several hundred meters .
history
The district of Konstanz goes back to the old district office of Konstanz, which was established after the transition to Württemberg in 1805/06 (or from 1810 Baden ). The administrative structure of Baden in the Konstanz area was changed several times in 1809 (Seekreis), 1832 (Seekreis) and 1864 (District of Konstanz). In 1872 the Radolfzell district office was assigned to the Konstanz district. In 1936 the Engen district office was transferred to the Konstanz district office. In 1939 the district was changed slightly again and Konstanz itself became an independent city, but was reintegrated into the district in 1953. In 1969 the Hohentwiel Fortress and in 1967 the Bruderhof residential area in Singen came from the Tuttlingen district to the district area.
During the district reform in the state of Baden-Württemberg , the district of Konstanz was enlarged to its present size on January 1, 1973 to include most of the places in the dissolved Stockach district , three communities in the Sigmaringen district and Stetten in the Donaueschingen district . The west bank of Lake Constance , Höri and Hegau belong to the heterogeneously composed district . The election to the district council with 65 district councilors took place on April 8, 1973, the election of the district administrator on July 26, 1973.
Since the completion of the community reform , the district of Konstanz has comprised 25 communities, including seven cities, of which Konstanz , Radolfzell on Lake Constance and Singen (Hohentwiel) bear the title of large district town . The largest city is Konstanz, the smallest municipality is Büsingen am Hochrhein . As a German exclave, this is located between the Swiss cantons of Schaffhausen, Thurgau and Zurich, is a Swiss customs connection area and has its own distinctive sign for a vehicle .
Population development
The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).
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politics
The district is administered by the district council and the district administrator.
District council
The district council is elected for five years by those entitled to vote in the district. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Parties and constituencies | % 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
% 2009 |
Seats 2009 |
% 2004 |
Seats 2004 |
% 1999 |
Seats 1999 |
% 1994 |
Seats 1994 |
% 1989 |
Seats 1989 |
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| CDU | Christian Democratic Union | 27.8 | 20th | 34.4 | 23 | 30.3 | 22nd | 35.3 | 26th | 37.9 | 29 | 32.5 | 28 | 33.4 | 25th |
| GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 24.9 | 18th | 16.0 | 11 | 17.8 | 10 | 17.6 | 9 | 13.0 | 7th | 16.7 | 11 | 12.2 | 7th |
| FW | Free electoral association | 19.4 | 14th | 21.0 | 14th | 18.8 | 15th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Flat share | Electoral associations | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19.7 | 14th | 21.1 | 15th | 19.2 | 17th | 20.3 | 15th |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 13.2 | 10 | 15.5 | 11 | 16.5 | 11 | 18.3 | 13 | 19.4 | 13 | 22.6 | 18th | 23.3 | 16 |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 7.8 | 6th | 7.2 | 5 | 10.1 | 7th | 7.0 | 5 | 7.5 | 5 | 7.0 | 5 | 7.8 | 5 |
| LEFT | The left | 3.8 | 3 | 2.8 | 2 | 2.8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 3.1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| NL | Neue Linie eV | - | - | 2.57 | 2 | 3.77 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| REP | The Republicans | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.7 | - | 1.4 | - | 2.4 | 1 |
| Otherwise. | Others | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.1 | - | 0.4 | - | 0.7 | - | 0.5 | - |
| total | 100 | 73 | 100 | 68 | 100 | 68 | 100 | 67 | 100 | 69 | 100 | 79 | 100 | 69 | |
| voter turnout | 57.6% | 47.1% | 46.9% | 47.5% | 48.8% | 61.7% | 53.0% | ||||||||
- WG: Voter associations, as the results from 1989 to 2004 cannot be broken down into individual groups of voters.
District administrators
The district administrator is the legal representative and representative of the district as well as the chairman of the district council and its committees. He heads the district office and is an official of the district. His area of responsibility includes the preparation of the district council meetings and its committees. He calls meetings, chairs them and implements the resolutions passed there. He has no voting rights in the committees . His deputy is the first state official.
The senior officials or district administrators of the district office or district of Konstanz from 1807 until today:
- 1807–1809: Josef Edler von Chrismar
- 1810–1819: Johann Ignaz Georg Hütlin
- 1819–1836: Karl von Ittner (1832–1836 represented by Friedrich Stähle)
- 1836–1842: Franz Pfister
- 1843: August Eichrodt
- 1843–1844: Carl Honsell
- 1844–1847: Demeter Messmer
- 1847–1849: Melchior Fieser
- 1849: Josef Böhler
- 1849–1856: Ludwig Schaible
- 1856–1862: Josef von Chrismar
- 1862–1866: Franz Ludwig Stösser
- 1866–1870: Wilhelm Heinrich Lang
- 1870–1871: Rudolf Bekk
- 1871–1876: Otto Flad
- 1876–1886: Adolf Ostner
- 1886–1889: Karl Heinrich Baader
- 1889-1893: Max Föhrenbach
- 1893–1902: Albert Jung
- 1902–1911: Wilhelm Groos
- 1911–1924: Heinrich Belzer
- 1924–1926: Martin Hartmann
- 1926–1927: Alexander Schaible
- 1927–1932: August Pfützner
- 1932–1935: Alfred Franck
- 1935–1937: Carl Engelhardt
- 1937–1938: Sigmar Schühly
- 1938–1945: Friedrich Kauffmann
- 1945: Herbert Hassencamp-Fischer (clerk)
- 1945–1946: Marcel Nordmann
- 1947–1948: Josef Astfäller (acting)
- 1948–1954: Rudolf Belzer
- 1954–1968: Ludwig Seiterich
- 1968–1973: Heinz Göbel
- 1973–1997: Robert Maus
- 1997–2019: Frank Hämmerle
- 2019 -...: Zeno Danner
Sovereignty symbols
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the district of Konstanz shows a four-sided shield in fields 1 and 4 in blue an upward sloping silver fish ( whitefish ), in field 2 in silver a continuous red cross and in field 3 in gold three blue deer sticks. The coat of arms was awarded to the district of Konstanz on April 25, 1974 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior .
The coats of arms symbolize the former rulership structures in the district: the prince-bishopric of Constance and the imperial abbey Reichenau (cross) as well as the Hegau counts and landgraviate Nellenburg (Hirschstangen). The fish are supposed to symbolize the abundance of fish in Lake Constance.
Before the district reform, the district of Constance had a different coat of arms, which was almost identical to today's one. It only showed the cross in field 3 instead of the stag sticks, as in field 2. This coat of arms was awarded to the district of Constance on July 26, 1957.
partnership
The district of Constance and the region of Istria , a county of 41 municipalities and almost 210,000 inhabitants in Croatia , have been partners since April 2015.
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
In the district there are production facilities of the companies Amcor , Constellium , Maggi / Nestlé, Takeda Pharmaceutical , Schiesser and the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . Next are structurally giving small and medium enterprises of the manufacturing sector , from trade , hotels and restaurants , transport , services and agriculture.
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Konstanz was ranked 53rd out of 402 districts and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the places with "high future opportunities". In the 2019 edition, it was ranked 81 out of 401.
District facilities
The district of Konstanz is responsible for the following vocational schools : Zeppelin-Gewerbeschule Konstanz, Wessenberg-Schule (commercial schools) Konstanz, Vocational School Center (commercial, commercial, home and agricultural schools) Radolfzell on Lake Constance, Mettnau School (home economics schools) Radolfzell on Lake Constance, Hohentwiel-Gewerbeschule Singen (Hohentwiel), Robert-Gerwig-Schule (commercial schools) Singen (Hohentwiel), vocational school center (industrial, commercial and home economics schools) Stockach and technical school for agriculture in Stockach also the following special education and advice centers : Rainbow School Konstanz ( Promotional focus on mental development and physical-motor development), Haldenwang-Schule Hohentwiel (promotional focus on mental development and physical-motor development), Sonnenland School Stockach (promotional focus on language) and the special educational and advisory center for schoolchildren he in long hospital treatment in Konstanz.
The district of Konstanz is a partner in Hegau-Bodensee-Hochrhein-Kliniken GmbH, which operates the Singen (Hohentwiel) hospital, the nucleus of the Hegau-Bodensee- Kliniken . Other locations of this clinic in the district of Constance are Engen and Radolfzell on Lake Constance. The company also operates a senior citizens 'and nursing home in Engen and the Friedrichsheim in Gailingen am Hochrhein, a nursing home and senior citizens' residence and the Hegau youth welfare office, a neurological hospital and rehabilitation center for children and young people.
traffic
Transportation
The district-wide Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee (VHB) was founded in 1995. It is a mixed association of the transport companies operating in the district and the district. In 2007, a total of 15.1 million passengers drove within the network tariff.
rail
The district area is accessed by five active railway lines. In detail these are
- the Black Forest Railway from Singen to Offenburg in the Singen– Engen section
- the Gäubahn (Stuttgart – Singen) in the Engen– Singen section (Hohentwiel)
- the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen railway in the Stahringen– Ludwigshafen section (Lake Constance)
- the Radolfzell – Mengen railway line in the Radolfzell– Schwackenreute section ( traffic has ceased between Stockach and Sauldorf )
- the Hochrheinbahn from Konstanz to Basel Badischer Bahnhof in the section to Bietingen
The Singen train station , where there is an intercity connection to Stuttgart and Zurich, is particularly important for the district . Two pairs of trains a day go to Constance. There are also isolated intercity connections via the Black Forest Railway in the direction of Cologne - Münster . From Constance, Swiss inland intercity trains run to Lucerne with a stop at Zurich Airport . In transport, there are the most hourly over the Black Forest Railway or Gäubahn trains running regional train , which crosses the county between Constance and Engen, the two hourly Inter-Regio-Express stops from Basel to Ulm, in Radolfzell and singing. There are also the following regional train connections: The Seehas from Konstanz to Engen, the Seehäsle operated by HZL from Radolfzell to Stockach, the regional train from Singen to Schaffhausen with stops in Gottmadingen and Bietingen and the regional train from Radolfzell to Friedrichshafen with a stop in Ludwigshafen .
Street
The federal autobahn 81 Stuttgart - Singen (Hohentwiel) ends in the district area . Furthermore, the A 98 runs in a west-east direction from the Hegau motorway junction to Stockach . Federal roads in the area of the district are the B 14 , B 31 , B 313 , B 314 , B 33 , B 34 and B 491 . Otherwise, several state and district roads open up the district of Constance. There is a ferry connection from Constance across Lake Constance to Meersburg .
Communities
(Residents on December 31, 2018)
District and national border with Switzerland
Between the district of Konstanz and the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland there is an 84-kilometer border on the land side . Over 900 boundary stones mark their course. They are set so that one stone can be seen from the next. In 1893 the regulation was introduced that every six years German and Swiss officials conduct a joint inspection (cf. Schnadegang ). As a result, around ten to twenty copies are replaced, placed vertically again, cleaned or repainted. The border between the former state of Baden and Switzerland was regulated at the Congress of Vienna and marked in 1839. A boundary stone is 1.5 meters high, weighs 300 kilograms and has a cross-section of at least 30 cm.
There are various peculiarities in connection with the district of Büsingen .
The "old" district of Constance
Before the district reform in 1973 or before the community reform , the (old) district of Konstanz had a total of 66 communities since 1936 , including six towns , whereby the district town of Konstanz and the second largest town of Singen (Hohentwiel) had been large district towns since April 1, 1956 .
On March 7, 1968, the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg set the course for a community reform . With the law to strengthen the administrative power of smaller municipalities , it was possible for smaller municipalities to voluntarily unite to form larger ones. The beginning in the old district of Konstanz was made on January 1st, 1970 by the municipality of Duchtlingen, which merged with the municipality of Hilzingen . Further parish mergers followed, and on January 1, 1971, the parish of Nordhalden left the district of Constance because it merged with the city of Blumberg in the district of Donaueschingen . On April 1, 1972, the municipality of Beuren an der Aach was reorganized from the Stockach district and incorporated into the town of Singen (Hohentwiel) .
In the period that followed, the number of communities steadily decreased. On January 1, 1973, the new, enlarged district of Constance was established.
The largest municipality in the old district of Konstanz was the large district town of Konstanz . The smallest community was Talheim .
The old district of Konstanz last covered an area of 519 km² and had a total of 189,651 inhabitants at the 1970 census .
The table shows the population development of the old district of Konstanz up to 1970. All population figures are census results.
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The following is a list of the communities in the old district of Konstanz before the community reform. With the exception of Nordhalden, which is now part of the Schwarzwald-Baar district , all communities still belong to the district of Constance.
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinguishing mark KN when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is still issued today.
On January 1, 1968 to facilitate the work of the customs officers who received exclave Büsingen with OMS an own distinctive character . To this day it is only issued with the letters A and Z. Vehicles with a BÜS license plate are treated like Swiss vehicles when entering Switzerland and in road traffic there.
Until the 1990s, vehicles from the old Stockach district received license plates with the letters SC to ZZ and the numbers from 100 to 999.
The distinctive sign STO ( Stockach district ) at that time has not yet been reintroduced when the license plate was liberalized .
literature
- The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg - official description according to districts and municipalities (in eight volumes); Edited by the Baden-Württemberg State Archives Department; Volume VI: Freiburg administrative region; Stuttgart, 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2
Web links
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- Official website of the district of Konstanz
- Literature from and about the district of Konstanz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Link catalog on the topic of the district of Konstanz at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Survey of land according to type of actual use in 2015
- ↑ a b c 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. 497 f. and 518 ff .
- ↑ Wolfgang Kramer: The time of conquests. In: Südkurier of April 2, 2013, p. 23
- ↑ https://www.statistik-bw.de/Wahlen/Kommunal/02043000.tab?R=KR335 Local election results May 26, 2019
- ↑ [1] ( 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. Distribution of votes in the district elections 1989–2009
- ↑ [2] ( 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. Distribution of seats in district elections 1989–2009
- ↑ "District of Konstanz strengthens partnership with the region of Istria" ( Memento from August 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at www.lrakn.de, accessed on August 6, 2017
- ^ Frank Hämmerle: An attractive district in the four-country region of Lake Constance. In: Südkurier of April 5, 2015, special supplement Economy, p. 4.
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ PROGNOS future atlas. Handelsblatt, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Matthias Biehler: At the limit, not everything is in balance. In: Südkurier of April 12, 2013.
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