Bolsters

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Bolsters
City of Bad Saulgau
Former municipal coat of arms of Bolstern
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 637 m above sea level NN
Area : 12.06 km²
Residents : 412
Population density : 34 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 88348
Area code : 07581

Bolstern is a district of the city of Bad Saulgau in the Baden-Württemberg district of Sigmaringen in Germany .

geography

location

Bolstern is located around five kilometers southwest of Bad Saulgau, surrounded by forests, at the beginning of the Fulgenstadt Valley, and is traversed by the small Wagenhauser Bach .

Sub-locations

The suburbs of Wagenhausen-Holzmühle, a former grinding and oil mill with an estate, and Heratskirch belong to the village of Bolstern .

history

The place is likely to be a clearing settlement of the high medieval country development . It is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 817 and formed a separate office of the County of Friedberg , which was also called the Office of Sießen because it included the possessions of the Monastery of Sießen . The former local nobility lived on the road to Heratskirch in a tower hill castle, the remains of which are still clearly visible in the forest. Around 1086 the strange place name Bolstara appears, the origin of which is still hidden today.

Another mention comes from a deed of donation: In 1101 Bolstern ( Pulster , Polster or Bolstari in the pagus Heregowa) came from the older Counts of Nellenburg to the Allerheiligen monastery near Schaffhausen and the Sankt Georgen monastery in the Black Forest . It is questionable whether Berchtold von Bolstern, who was named a Saulgau citizen in 1265, belonged to the nobility. In 1268 the right of patronage passed from the Wartenberg to the German Order . The property of the place was divided early; a part had been bought by Austria in 1299 with Saulgau and Friedberg ; Another owned the Sießen monastery with seven fiefdoms and Selden until the allodification in the middle of the 19th century . The patronage and bailiff of the church formerly had the Counts of Landau ; from them these rights came to the Heiligkreuztal monastery . In the Second Coalition War (1798–1802), Bolstern, occupied by French troops, was liberated on March 21, 1799 by the Austrians under their commander Archduke Karl von Österreich-Teschen . Under Austrian rule, the place belonged to the Friedberg-Scheer county for a long time , until it finally came to Württemberg in 1806 and the newly created Oberamt Saulgau . In 1816 Heratskirch, previously a branch of the Sießen monastery, came to Bolstern as a suburb. Wagenhausen, formerly a hamlet whose name goes back to the nearby sawmill of the Sießen monastery, also belongs to Bolstern.

On March 15, 1944, Bolstern narrowly escaped disaster when an English Lancaster bomber loaded with incendiary bombs was pushed aside by night fighters during an attack on Stuttgart and crashed near the village, killing all seven crew members.

As part of the community reform in Baden-Württemberg, Bolstern was incorporated into the city of Saulgau on January 1, 1975. Land consolidation was carried out in Bolstern between 1983 and 1993 .

politics

Mayor

The mayor is currently Anton Störk (as of 2009).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the former municipality of Bolstern shows two green fir trees with roots in gold, accompanied by a six-spoke red wheel at the top.

Culture and sights

Buildings

church

The parish church of St. Gallus in Bolstern was first mentioned in 1268. After the old church was completely destroyed by storms and storms, the church was rebuilt in 1817. It was not quite finished when the tower collapsed again and ten workers were killed, two of whom were killed. In 1881/82 Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1794–1872) built an organ that is almost completely original. The church was recently renovated, the altar consecration and reopening took place on April 3, 2011 with Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Kreidler .

societies

The Bolstern sports club was founded in November 1969. The active men's soccer team plays in the district league A - Danube district.

Not only the sports club, but also the Liederkranz Bolstern, founded in 1859 (owner of the Zelter badge) and the Bolstern Narrenverein (founded in 1993), help shape village life.

Economy and Infrastructure

For centuries, the large forests around the village provided raw materials for charcoal burning and resin processing.

traffic

Bolstern is on the state road 280 from Bad Saulgau to Ostrach .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neugart CD No. 193
  2. ↑ In an old border description occurs: "the old castle on the way from Bolstern to Weiler".
  3. ↑ Cop. 17th century
  4. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg: official description by districts and communities, Volume 7: Administrative region of Tübingen . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1978. p. 852. ISBN 3-17-004807-4
  5. ↑ The Seldner was a day laborer, originally without his own house and without a share in the community rights. He lived as a back seat with the fiefdom farmer.
  6. ↑ Karl von Blazekovié: Chronicle of kk 31 Line Infantry Regiment, presently Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, 1867. pp. 257f.
  7. ↑ Memorial "Per Ardua Ad Astra" on the dirt road east of Bolstern; March 15, 2014
  8. ^ 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. 550 .

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