Dürnau (Biberach district)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	597 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.26 km 2
Residents:	453 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88422
Area code :	07582
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 036
Address of the municipal administration:	Town hall 88422 Dürnau
Website :	www.duernau-bc.de
Mayor :	Bernhard Merk
Location of the municipality of Dürnau in the Biberach district

Dürnau is a municipality in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

The community is located four kilometers from the Federsee and the city of Bad Buchau , in a flat, hilly ground moraine landscape and touches the Federseeried.

history

Presumably founded in the High Middle Ages as an expansion settlement, the place was first mentioned in 1171 as Dornon . Local nobility is mentioned in 1171 and 1239, when the lords of Dornon were ministerials of the Counts of Veringen and the Counts of Württemberg-Grüningen, respectively. In the 14th century, the place was under the rule of the Counts of Hornstein , who sold it in 1387 to the abbess of Buchau Abbey. As a legacy, the place came to the Buchau Abbey . In the Thirty Years War , many of the resident genders - especially the male line - died out. Until 1700 there was a strong influx of immigrants from Switzerland. This is still preserved in two court names: Zurich and Schweizer's house . With the secularization , Dürnau, like the monastery, came to the princes of Thurn and Taxis in 1803 . From 1806 the Kingdom of Württemberg had state sovereignty and administered Dürnau from 1810 as part of the Riedlingen District Office . In 1938 the place came to the district of Saulgau , on January 1, 1973 to the district of Biberach (see also Dürnau Castle ).

Population development

• 1827: 307 inhabitants
• 1871: 371 inhabitants
• 1910: 375 inhabitants
• 1939: 294 inhabitants
• 1950: 343 inhabitants
• 1961: 285 inhabitants
• 1970: 311 inhabitants
• 1991: 388 inhabitants
• 1995: 441 inhabitants
• 2005: 457 inhabitants
• 2010: 454 inhabitants
• 2015: 416 inhabitants

Religions

The parish is the seat of the Catholic parish of St. John Baptist . Church and parish are documented as early as 1275. From 1313 they belonged to the Salem monastery , from 1353 to the Kröwel of Ravensburg, from 1390 to the Saulgau hospital, which the parish affiliated in 1430. In 1694 the Dürnau parish was given to the Buchau Abbey as a pledge and was finally taken over by the latter in 1745. Today the parish of St. Johannes Baptist belongs to the Riedlingen deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

The Protestant Christians belong to the Bad Buchau parish in the Riedlingen deanery of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

politics

town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dürnau has eight members. It consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The turnout was 71.2% (2014: 73.6%).

mayor

• 1866–1869 Mayor Josef Lutz
• 1869–1885 Mayor Joh. Georg Laub
• 1886–1893 Mayor Konrad Laux
• 1893–1917 Mayor Johann Strohm
• 1918–1925 Mayor Vinzenz Huckle
• 1925–1936 Mayor Joseph Widder
• 1936–1945 Mayor Karl Kohler
• 1946–1961 Mayor Wendelin Straub
• 1961–1977 Mayor Emil Huckle

• Karl Sontheimer (senior) was mayor in Dürnau from 1977 until his retirement in January 2007
• Jürgen Köhler was mayor from February 1, 2007 to August 31, 2014
• Bernhard Merk has been mayor since September 2014

coat of arms

Coat of arms 1968–1992

The municipality had the following coat of arms from 1968 to 1992:

A black thorn branch in gold, was awarded in 1968 and managed by the community until 1992.

Since then it has had the following coat of arms:

In a split shield in front a golden tin tower in red, behind in silver a blue wave pole (source: GABl 419/1993).

Culture and sights

Half-timbered house in Dürnau

Buildings

• Worth seeing townscape with stately half-timbered houses from the time after an extensive village fire in 1746 to the first half of the 19th century.
• Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist , built at the beginning of the 18th century in place of a previous building
• Former rectory from the early 18th century with:
  • Rectory , probably before 1725, with numerous baroque stucco ceilings
  • Barn , built in 1678, reduced in size in 1851, collapsed in 1979, rebuilt as a morgue
  • Wash house with two ovens, built in 1755

Farm names

Many farm names are still in use. In F. X. Müller's writing, 37 names are listed, each with a brief description of the farm and its owners. The farm names are: Oberes Bastes, Kaprals, Jergenbauern, Zürchers-, Schmidhansen-, Kaspers-, Mesmers-, Sylvesters-, Lenzenbauern-, Nehers-, Käsers-, Ostriches, Hepplers-, Fischers-, Michlers-, Peters-, Wagner-, Kreuzwirts-, Schweizers-, Bäckers-, Schultesentonis-, Theisen-, Bäuerles-, Neubauer-, Obern Bachbauern-, Unteren Bachbauern-, Huckles Franzen-, Wohlebe-, Alte Schultese-, Karls-, Joben -, Alte Lehrers-, Strohms-, Huckles-, Hirten- and Lippe-Haus.

societies

Dürnau has a band with around 45 active musicians, they usually play spa concerts in Bad Buchau and Bad Saulgau, and occasionally light music at festival events in the spring and summer months, and the highlight is an annual concert on the eve of the first Advent. In addition, during the carnival season, the Gugga music Xälzbära with its around 40 amateur musicians is active at evening events and parades of the surrounding fools' guilds. It was founded in 1987 mainly by members of the band who were active at the time. A youth center, fire brigade, baking association, women's gymnastics association and an association of landmarks can be named as further associations.

Economy and Infrastructure

Dürnau was characterized by agriculture until after the Second World War. Since there was no division of inheritance, the farms were relatively large. The stately half-timbered houses still bear witness to this. As part of the land consolidation , some resettler farms were built.

traffic

The last narrow-gauge line in Württemberg , the Federseebahn Bad Schussenried - Buchau - Riedlingen , was extended to Dürmentingen in 1915 . From there, the last remaining piece to Riedlingen was completed in 1916. In 1960 the line was closed. There was no stop for Dürnau.

education

There is a Catholic kindergarten in Dürnau. The students from Dürnau visit the schools in Bad Buchau .

Public facilities

There has been a community hall in the kindergarten building since 1973.

A youth center has been set up in the basement of the town hall since 1979.

Notoriety through television

The filmmaker Eva Witte made two films about village life 13 years apart. The second film was made in 2008 and released in January 2009.

literature

• Hans Willbold: Dürnau then and now . Dürnau community, Dürnau 1987
• Sabine Kraume-Probst, Michael Ruhland: In the shadow of the church tower. Three rural rectories in Upper Swabia. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. (PDF; 9.7 MB) 32, No. 2, 2003, pp. 173-181
• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Dürnau community. In: Description of the Oberamt Riedlingen. Cotta, Stuttgart 1827 ( full text at Wikisource )

Web links

Commons : Dürnau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Dürnau  - in the description of the Oberamt Riedlingen from 1827

• Website of the community of Dürnau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ FX Müller: The old house and farm names in Dürnau, self-published by the author, 1937
3. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
4. ↑ IMDb