Langenenslingen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	571 m above sea level NHN
Area :	88.37 km 2
Residents:	3526 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88515
Area code :	07376
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 067
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 71 88515 Langenenslingen
Website :	www.langenenslingen.de
Mayor :	Andreas Schneider
Location of the municipality of Langenenslingen in the Biberach district

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

geography

Langenenslingen is located on the northern edge of Upper Swabia in the Altmoränenland at an altitude of 549 m to 800.8 m. The lowest point is on the Biberbach near Andelfingen, the highest, which is the highest point in the Biberach district , on the Rotreiß near Ittenhausen.

history

Langenenslingen was first mentioned in a document in 935. It originally belonged to the County of Veringen , with whom it was sold to the Habsburgs in 1291 and thus became part of Upper Austria . In 1313 Count Heinrich von Veringen owned a vineyard in Langenenslingen. In 1399 the Counts of Werdenberg acquired the county as a fiefdom; In 1535 it came into the possession of the County of Hohenzollern .

After the Thirty Years' War, in the mid-1630s, a catastrophe of almost apocalyptic dimensions occurred with subsequent refugee movements, which in terms of its dimensions and consequences need not shy away from comparison with the mass migrations of the 20th century. Plague , hunger and war transformed the entire area into a largely depopulated and devastated landscape in a very short time.

In 1806 Langenenslingen fell under constitutional law to the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , where it was assigned to the Oberamt Sigmaringen , later the district of Sigmaringen , and thus from 1850 belonged to the Prussian administrative district Hohenzollernsche Lande . Already in 1945 the place came like the entire Hohenzollern Land to the newly formed Land Württemberg-Hohenzollern ; since 1952 it has belonged to the state of Baden-Württemberg . During the district reform in 1973, it merged with several independent communities in the Biberach district that were formerly part of the Riedlingen district .

Incorporations

• February 1, 1972: Egelfingen
• January 1, 1975: Andelfingen, Billafingen, Dürrenwaldstetten, Emerfeld, Friedingen , Ittenhausen and Wilflingen

Districts

Andelfingen

Church of St. Cyriakus in Andelfingen

See also: Andelfingen Castle

The place Antolvinga was mentioned in documents as early as 854, when goods from the monastery of St. Gallen were ceded to the Bishop of Constance . In the 13th century, most of the town was bought and donated to the Cistercian monastery Heiligkreuztal , after which it was dissolved in 1803 to the Duchy of Württemberg.

Billafingen

Alemannic grave finds indicate settlement as early as the 7th century. In the 13th century the place came as Pilofingen to the Counts of Grüningen-Landau , later to Habsburg. The Habsburgs pledged the place to Württemberg, which passed it on to the Counts of Werdenberg. In 1535 the place came to Count Karl von Zollern as an Austrian fief. During the district reform in 1973, the place was assigned to the Biberach district, although it was formerly Hohenzollern. In 1975 the place was incorporated into Langenenslingen.

Dürrenwaldstetten

Dürrenwaldstetten is a village in the Swabian Alb, which has belonged to the municipality of Langenenslingen since 1975. However, due to its location in the Biberach district or, previously, in the Saulgau district, Dürrenwaldstetten is oriented towards Upper Swabia and Riedlingen.

The village was first clearly mentioned in 1273 in a document from the Heiligkreuztal monastery. The parish of Dürrenwaldstetten was first mentioned in a document two years later in 1275, which suggests that a church or chapel was soon to be built. The oldest still existing church bell in Dürrenwaldstetten was cast as early as 1350 (weight: 349 kg).

The Bailiwick of Dürrenwaldstetten was sold in 1350 by the brothers Barthold and Friedrich Kaib the Elder to the Zwiefalten monastery. This did not mean that the monastery was finally the local ruler. Until the 15th century, Dürrenwaldstetten was written as Walstetten or Waltstetten. Another, the largest church bell in Dürrenwaldstetten to date, still preserved today, was cast by Hans Eger in Reutlingen in 1471 . In 1564 the parish and church set with large and small tithes were purchased by the Zwiefalten monastery . The seller was Philipp Dietrich von Späth.

Like many others, the place was not spared from the plague . It claimed 95 dead in Dürrenwaldstetten in 1611/12 and 43 dead in 1635/36. This is evident from records in the church book. During the Thirty Years' War in 1644, Dürrenwaldstetten was affected by the invading Swedish troops.

After the Thirty Years War, a wooden belfry was installed in the church tower in 1665, which is still in use. The parish church was rebuilt in 1781, but the tower was retained. The painter Januarius Zick from Munich designed the ceiling paintings on behalf of the Zwiefalten monastery . In 1803 the Zwiefalten monastery was secularized and the monastery property came to Württemberg . The monastery parishes, including Dürrenwaldstetten, came to the diocese of Constance . Six years later in 1809 Dürrenwaldstetten came to the Oberamt Riedlingen .

In 1881 a new high altar was erected on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the parish church. Dürrenwaldstetten was connected to the electrical power grid of the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke (OEW, later EVS, now EnBW ) in 1922 . In the course of the district reform, the Saulgau district was dissolved in 1972 , and Dürrenwaldstetten became part of the Biberach district . In 1975 the previously independent municipality was dissolved and the place became part of the municipality of Langenenslingen. In 1999 the land consolidation process was ended, and in 2003 the renovated parish church was consecrated.

The village was dominated by agriculture for a long time, but in recent times the importance of agriculture has decreased significantly . There are only a few farms left in the village, one of well over 10 full-time farms has remained. Almost all residents are employed outside the village in the tertiary or secondary sector.

Since 1972, the so-called floating festival has been held annually on the last weekend in July, attracting many visitors from the near and far.

Egelfingen

At the end of the Middle Ages, Egelfingen belonged to the knighthood of Wilflingen, who were vassals of the Counts of Veringen . In 1487 the place was sold by the Counts of Hornstein to Hans Mulflingen zu Sigmaringen, whose heirs sold it together with Schatzberg Castle to the Schenk von Stauffenberg.

On July 23, 1611, Waldburga Millerin from Egelfingen was beheaded for witchcraft in Veringenstadt and then burned. Only a few years later, on June 1, 1617, Christina Lacherin from Egelfingen was beheaded and burned for witchcraft. This is said to have had "the largest body and the smallest head".

Emerfeld

Parish Church of St. Pankratius in Emerfeld

See also : Habsberg Castle

Emerfeld was formerly part of the imperial rule of Gundelfingen, later the Prince of Fürstenberg. In 1133 the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Constance. It belonged to the St. Blasien monastery for a long time , then to the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest , before it was sold to the Counts of Helfenstein. For a long time iron ore was mined in the village, which was smelted in the nearby Sigmaringischen Laucherthal .

Friedingen

1278 gave Countess Sophia of Veringen the Kloster Heiligkreuztal a Good to Friedingen. In 1286 Count Heinrich von Veringen sold all his properties in Friedingen with all rights to the Kreuztal monastery for 130 silver marks. Friedingen has belonged to the Heiligkreuztal monastery through purchases and donations since the 13th century, which was dissolved in 1803 and fell to Württemberg.

Ittenhausen

Ittenhausen once belonged to the Counts of Veringen , after their extinction the Counts of Rechberg and for a short time in 1447 the Counts of Württemberg, who sold it again in 1465. In 1564, Baron von Spät sold the area to the Zwiefalten monastery, with the dissolution of which in 1803 the community with 200 inhabitants fell to the Duchy, later the Kingdom of Württemberg . In the district of Ittenhausen near the Rotreiß corridor , near the hamlet of Pistre, at 801 meters, the highest elevation in the district is located.

Wilflingen

Wilflingen Castle

First mentioned in a document around 1086, Wilflingen once belonged to the Counts of Veringen and the Counts of Grüningen-Landau . Many of the goods there were bought or donated to the Heiligkreuztal monastery . In 1437, the Counts of Hornstein sold their castle there and the towns of Groß- and Klein-Wilflingen to Hans von Bichishausen. Werner Schenk von Stauffenberg came into possession through his marriage to his daughter . In Wilflingen, the writer Ernst Jünger lived in the Stauffenbergschen Forsthaus from 1951 until his death in 1998.

politics

mayor

Mayor of Langenenslingen is Andreas Schneider. He won the election in March 2015 in the first ballot and has been in office since May 15, 2015.

Former mayors:

• Anton Waldner (1842–1921)
• Moritz Waldner (1872–1931)
• Adolf Waldner (SPD)
• Walter Wachter (1924–2013), (CDU)
• Werner Gebele (* 1948), Mayor from May 15, 1975 to May 14, 2015 (FWV)

coat of arms

Blazon : In divided blade golden top in red on green Dreienberg three Rehfüße, red gold three below stag antlers above the other.

The upper half of the shield corresponds to the seal of Heinrich von Enslingen from 1341. The stag sticks in the lower half of the shield refer to the Counts of Veringen , as the place belonged to the County of Veringen in the 14th century . The coat of arms was awarded on January 28, 1949 by the Württemberg-Hohenzollern Ministry of the Interior.

Municipal council

In Langenenslingen, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection process . The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The turnout was 65.2% (2014: 61.5%).

grouping	be right	Seats
Citizen List	65.1%	13
New list	34.9%	7th

Community partnerships

A partnership with the Polish municipality of Brzesko has existed since 1997 .

Educational institutions

Langenenslingen has its own primary school .

Culture and sights

The community is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road .

Museums

Forsthaus (Ernst Jünger's house) in Wilflingen

Ernst Jünger's desk

The writer Ernst Jünger lived in the Stauffenberg forest house in Wilflingen, a baroque building from 1728, from 1950 until his death in 1998 . Through him, the place received repeated visits from distinguished personalities from politics and culture. The Federal Presidents Theodor Heuss and Roman Herzog , the French President François Mitterrand , Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the poets Jorge Luis Borges and Heiner Müller came to Jünger in Wilflingen. In 1999 the Ernst-Jünger-Stiftung set up the house as a museum and memorial in Marbach am Neckar in conjunction with the office for literary museums, archives and memorials in Baden-Württemberg . It is still in the possession of the Barons von Stauffenberg.

Wilflingen Castle

The Stauffenberg taverns have owned Wilflingen Castle since 1464 . Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg converted it into a hunting lodge in 1710, whereby the current furnishings of the rooms with cast-iron stoves and stucco ceilings and the external appearance of the house were created. The Reichstag vice-president Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg and his son, the Reichstag member and founder of the OEW Dr. Franz Schenk Freiherr von Stauffenberg founded a private library that today comprises around 30,000 volumes. During the Second World War, the castle served as a princely exile and residence for the resigned ministers of the Vichy government . Numerous literary encounters took place there.

Buildings

Interior of the parish church of St. Jakob in Dürrenwaldstetten

• Parish Church of St. Jakob (St. Jacobus Maior) in Dürrenwaldstetten, baroque church from 1781/1782 with frescoes by Januarius Zick
• The Church of St. Mauritius in Langenenslingen was first mentioned in 1266, enlarged and rebuilt in 1736/36. In 1751 the interior was structured and painted. The core of the organ , built in 1840 by Vitus Klingler , an organ builder from Ennetach , has been preserved.

• The church of St. Konrad in Langenenslingen was built between 1889 and 1893.
• The Maria refuge chapel on the Eichberg near Langenenslingen was built by those returning from the war in 1947/48 as a place of prayer and remembrance of the fallen and missing of the Second World War .
• Town hall Langenenslingen (former hunting lodge of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen )
• The old castle , a Celtic hilltop settlement, is probably an outlying settlement of the Heuneburg that was built between the seventh and fifth centuries before Christ.

The wall discovered in 2015 in the Alte Burg is the largest Celtic wall north of the Alps

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) writer, honorary citizen of the former community of Wilflingen.
• Jaroslav Kuboec (1918–1997) monsignor / pastor, honorary citizen of the former parish of Dürrenwaldstetten.
• Walter Wachter (1921–2012), Mayor of Langenenslingen from 1960 to 1975, chairman of the brass band
• Wilfried Steuer (* 1933), politician (CDU), district administrator of Saulgau and, after the district reform of Biberach, then chairman of the board of EnBW
• Werner Gebele (* 1947), Mayor of Langenenslingen from 1975 to 2015

Sons and daughters of the church

• Michael Helding (1506–1561), Catholic bishop, scholar, writer and humanist
• Johann Evangelist Götz (1815–1893), brewer
• Michael Lehmann was born on February 5, 1827 in Langenenslingen, he died in Hechingen in 1903. Lehmann was a pedagogue, writer and composer as well as organ player.
• Benedikt Sauter (1835–1908), Benedictine monks in Beuron, 1st Abbot of Emaus / Prague (1885–1908)
• August Pollich (1865–1940), member of the Württemberg state parliament, born in Willigen
• Hugo Koch (1869–1940), Catholic theologian and church historian, born in Andelfingen
• Fidelis Böhler (1887–1954), car designer, born in Friedingen
• Adalbert Neuburger (1903–1968), educator and university lecturer born and buried in Egelfingen
• Marcel Hepp (1936–1970), leading functionary of the CSU, close collaborator of Franz Josef Strauss and publisher of the Bayernkurier
• Robert Hepp (* 1938), sociologist and right-wing extremist author; is considered a representative of the New Right
• Ulrich Engler (* 1961 in Andelfingen), investment fraud

Other personalities

• Ernst Jünger lived from 1950 to 1998 in the Stauffenberg forest house in the Wilflingen district. In addition to many awards, he was an honorary citizen of Langenenslingen, still awarded by the Wilflingen district when it was still an independent municipality.
• Joschka Fischer's ancestors on his father's side most likely come from the Friedingen district of Langenenslingen. Ex-Foreign Minister Fischer chose the colors of the city arms of Fridingen an der Donau for his coat of arms, adopted in 1999 , because he assumed that his family came from this Fridingen. In the meantime, however, it has been proven that the genealogy company commissioned had researched incorrectly and that Fischer's ancestor Jakob Fischer had certainly not emigrated to Hungary from Fridingen on the Danube, but rather from Friedingen near Langenenslingen.
• Cardinal Karl Lehmann's parents come from Langenenslingen.

literature

• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Chapter Dürrenwaldstetten with Ohnhülben ; Egelfingen ; Emerfeld with Warmthal ; Friedingen ; Ittenhausen with Ensmad ; Wilflingen with Ehnhofen and Eisighof . In: Description of the Oberamt Riedlingen. Cotta, Stuttgart a. a. 1827 ( full text at Wikisource ).
• Gerd Wunder : The Stauffenberg taverns. A family story. Müller and Gräff, Stuttgart 1972 ( Writings on Southwest German Regional Studies 11, ZDB -ID 500514-0 ).
• Karl Werner Steim: Langenenslingen. Federsee-Verlag, Langenenslingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-925171-77-2 .

See also

• Territorial peculiarities in southwest Germany after 1810

Web links

Commons : Langenenslingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality
• Younger House
• Official website of Schloss Wilflingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: Tyrol in Swabia. Immigration after the Thirty Years War using the case study of the parishes of Veringen and Bingen. Lecture on July 6, 1996 in Veringenstadt.
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. 533 .
4. ^ 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. 545 .
5. ↑ StiASG , document A4 A4. Online at e-chartae , accessed June 12, 2020.
6. ↑ Thomas Fink: Materials on the history of the city of Veringen. Volume 20: 1600 - 1699. Veringenstadt City Archives. Quoted from S. Locher: unpublished. Manuscripts undated; P. 216.
7. ↑ Thomas Fink: Materials on the history of the city of Veringen. Volume 20: 1600 - 1699. Veringenstadt City Archives. Quoted from S. Locher: unpublished. Manuscripts undated; P. 221.
8. ↑ Sebastian Locher: Regesten on the history of the counts of Veringen. Sigmaringen 1872.
9. ^ State descriptions of the Sigmaringen State Archive, Baden-Württemberg State Archives Directorate in connection with the Biberach district (ed.): Der Landkreis Biberach Volume II. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1990, p. 193
10. ↑ https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/langenenslingen/
11. ↑ ^{a b} leo-bw.de: Karl Friedrich Waldner (son of Anton Waldner and brother of Moritz Waldner, both mayors of Langenenslingen)
12. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
13. ^ ^{A b} Karl Werner Steim: Langenenslingen. Federsee-Verlag, Langenenslingen 2008,  ISBN 978-3-925171-77-2 .
14. ↑ Short biography ( memento of the original from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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