Billafingen (Owingen)

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Billafingen
municipality Owingen
Former municipal coat of arms of Billafingen
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 528 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.17 km²
Residents : 728  (Dec. 31, 2006)
Population density : 79 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 88696
Area code : 07557

The village of Billafingen is a district of the Baden-Württemberg community of Owingen in the western Lake Constance district in Germany .

geography

Geographical location

Billafingen is located in the so-called Billafinger Valley , around three and a half kilometers northwest of the center of Owingen.

Expansion of the area

The total area of ​​the district Billafingen is 917 hectares .

structure

To Billafingen include the village Billafingen, the hamlet Höllsteig, the courtyards Benklershof (In Menzenmösle) Beurenhof, Hippshof, Nassental, Neubaurenhof (Thumshof) Neuhäuserhof, Neuhof, Oberfrickhof (Breitehof and Raithaldenhof) Simonshof (Bishop, Voglershof) and Unterfrickhof and the houses Drechslerhaus, Häuptlehaus, Im Hasenbühl (Akzisorhaus), Im Nägelsee (Küferhaus, Martinshof), Sattlerhaus, Wagnerhaus and Weierhaus.

Protected areas

In the district of Billafingen there is the Sielmann pond with three small islands that offer protected breeding opportunities for numerous bird species.

history

Billafingen

In 1684 Billafingen came into the possession of the Roth von Schreckenstein family .

Billafingen was an independent municipality in the Überlingen district . When this was dissolved in the course of the district reform on January 1, 1973 , Billafingen came to the Bodenseekreis. As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , the municipality of Billafingen was incorporated into Owingen on January 1, 1975.

In the national competition " Our village has a future " in 2010, Billafingen was awarded silver.

Population development

Billafingen had 360 on June 6, 1961, 401 on May 27, 1970 and 728 on December 31, 2006.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality of Billafingen shows a silver bar with two red rings in red and a red-tongued silver unicorn body in the black heart shield. The unicorn is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Roth von Schreckenstein family .

Culture and sights

In Billafingen there is a village and nature trail with 33 stations.

On the Lower Frickhof, which is in the public hands, there has been a variety conservation garden for pears since 1987, with more than 400 different mostly old varieties. These are cider, distilled, dried and edible pears. This project is also funded by the Heinz Sielmann Foundation as part of the Sielmann Biotope Association Bodensee . The biotope network began with the Heinz-Sielmann-Weiher project, which was created in 2004. This is located in the Billafingen district, has a size of 1.5 ha and forms the center of a wetland biotope of approx. 10 ha in size.

Buildings

Regular events

  • A highlight of the local scene is the Swabian-Alemannic carnival , it is actively designed by the “Narrengesellschaft Billafingen” with the fool's figure “Unicorn”.

Personalities

Remarks

  1. ↑ District area 917 ha 3 a 43 m².

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 547-626
  2. ↑ a b c Eva-Maria Bast: Owingen. "I feel right at home here" . In: The region introduces itself. We are here . Special supplement to Südkurier from November 19, 2010, p. 8.
  3. ^ 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. 546 .
  4. ↑ Lake Constance District Variety Conservation Program
  5. ↑ Orchard conception Baden-Württemberg - City of Waiblingen
  6. ↑ The must pear variety garden “Unterer Frickhof”, Owingen-Billafingen / Thomas Hepperle, Weingarten, State Property Office Ravensburg, 1994
  7. ↑ Sebastian Pantel: The keeper of the pears . Südkurier, August 30, 2012; accessed January 15, 2017
  8. ↑ District of Konstanz Technical students on the way
  9. ↑ 10 years of successful nature conservation work 2004-2013 (PDF) Heinz Sielmann Foundation
  10. ↑ Parish Church of St. Mauritius Billafingen . se-owingen.de; Retrieved July 15, 2011
  11. ^ Theodor Lachmann: The Zwingenburg near Billafingen . In: Anton Birlinger (Ed.): Überlinger Sagen . In: Alemannia , Volume XVIII. Peter Hanstein, 1890, pp. 179–181 ( Wikisource )
  12. ^ Archives of the barons Roth von Schreckenstein ; Retrieved July 14, 2011