Dotternhausen

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Zollernalb district
Height :	666 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10 km 2
Residents:	1871 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	187 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	72359
Area code :	07427
License plate :	BL, HCH
Community key :	08 4 17 016
Address of the municipal administration:	Main street 21 72359 Dotternhausen
Website :	www.dotternhausen.de
Mayor :	Alfons Kühlwein ( Administrator )
Location of the community Dotternhausen in the Zollernalb district

Dotternhausen seen from Plettenberg

Dotternhausen is a municipality in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg . It consists solely of the village of the same name.

geography

Geographical location

Dotternhausen is at 1002 m above sea level. NN high Plettenberg , the most prominent mountain on the western edge of the Swabian Alb . The municipality extends over 10.02 km² with an altitude of 550 to 1002 m above sea level. NN.

Waters

The community is located on the northern edge of the Upper Schischem valley . The Schischem runs on the southern border of the Dotternhausen markings.

The partly ruined Katzenbach flows through the village. However, it runs northeast and flows into the Eyach in Balingen .

Neighboring communities

The neighboring communities of Dotternhausen are (starting in the north):

• Balingen (districts of Erzingen and Roßwangen )
• Hausen am Tann
• Ratshausen
• Schömberg (Zollernalbkreis)
• Dormettingen

Historical geography

In the east of the Dotternhausen community lies the Degenhard desert . Alemannic graves from the 7th century belong to it. 1409 a farm is mentioned, which is considered to be the last remnant of the hamlet.

In the Burgstall corridor on the Plettenberg there was a medieval castle, Burg Plettenberg . In the 16th and 17th centuries it was called the Plaikten estate.

history

Dotternhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1064 (Doderenhusen), when Emperor Heinrich IV bequeathed several Habsburg- owned villages to the Ottmarsheim monastery in Alsace . The community was under the rule of Front Austria until the 19th century and was handed over to Württemberg in 1805 , where it belonged to the Württemberg Oberamt Spaichingen until 1842 , then to the Oberamt Rottweil . During the district reform in 1938, the municipality was assigned to the Balingen district, which merged with the Hechingen district to form the Zollernalb district in 1973 .

At the southern end of the Plettenberg there are still moat remains of the Plettenberg Castle from the 12th century.

Population development

year	1789	1791	1805	1823	1871	1880	1890	1900	1910	1939
Residents	890	768	500	692	815	774	694	669	653	706
year	1950	1956	1964	1970	1979	1982	1983	1990	1995	2000
Residents	950	1000	1110	1209	1202	1313	1401	1633	1735	1764
year	2005	2010	2015
Residents	1865	1862	1835

religion

Dotternhausen's residents are predominantly Roman Catholic.

politics

mayor

The mayor is elected for an eight-year term. The incumbent has been Ms. Monique Adrian since February 1, 2005. She replaced Hartmut Steinacher, who had not stood for election after 16 years. Monique Adrian's term of office ends on January 31, 2021.

Dotternhausen town hall

• 1909–1919: Zephir Effinger
• 1919–1933: Johann Hahn
• 1933–1945: Franz Rebstock
• 1945–1965: Josef Waller
• 1965–1973: Erwin Kästle
• 1973–1989: Norbert Majer
• 1989–2005: Hartmut Steinacher
• since 2005: Monique Adrian
• since 2019: Alfons Kühlwein (elected administrator)

Town twinning

France: Val d'Oison

Culture and sights

music

St. Martinus Church Dotternhausen

Werkforum

An exhibit from the Werkforum

Knocking place in front of the Werkforum

Holcim GmbH cement plant

Material ropeway from Holcim GmbH over the B 27

• Headquarters of the Zollernalb youth music school (founded in 1966)
• Musikverein Dotternhausen (founded 1879)
• Liederkranz Dotternhausen (founded 1844)

Culture

• Narrenzunft Dotternhausen e. V. (founded 1938), fool figure: Mondstupfer
• Swabian Alb Association Local group Dotternhausen e. V. (founded 1896)

Buildings

• Dotternhausen Castle of the Barons von Cotta family from the 18th century
• St. Martinus Church from 1886
• St. Anna Chapel
• Ten sculptures from "Terrament" in the "Sculpture Street Dotternhausen"
• On Plettenberg, which belongs to Dotternhausen, there has been a 158 meter high telecommunications tower of Deutsche Telekom AG made of reinforced concrete ( 48 ° 13 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 53 ″  E ).

Museums

The local company Holcim (formerly Rohrbach Zement ) has been running a fossil museum under the name Werkforum with an adjacent knocking area since 1990 . In the publicly accessible space where the cement works dumped a few trucks full of oil shale , you can use a hammer and chisel to search for ammonites . The fossil museum houses over 1,000 exhibits of Jurassic fossils from the western Alb with a focus on ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, fish, sea lilies, ammonites and small fossils from the oil shale of the Lias Epsilon . The Fossil Museum has been the information point of the UNESCO Geopark Swabian Alb since July 2006 .

Natural monuments

The " Plettenkeller " nature reserve is a former quarry below the Plettenberg eaves .

Sports

Societies:

• Sports club Dotternhausen 1918 e. V .: two active soccer teams (regional league and regional league B), gymnastics and athletics department with running club
• Dotternhausen tennis club (founded 1986)
• Sport fishing club Dotternhausen (founded 1981)
• Chess community Dotternhausen (founded 1996)

Sports facilities:

• 2 sports fields (one of which is artificial turf)
• Large sports hall with visitor stands and sports center
• 3 tennis courts

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

At Dotternhausen there are two large quarries and a large cement plant operated by LafargeHolcim Ltd. The broken limestone is transported with the help of the Dotternhausen – Plettenberg cable car . It is considered a landmark of the Dotternhausen community. It crosses the B 27 and is known for its distinctive wagons . Every day, 3,000 tons of limestone are transported from nearby Plettenberg to the plant.

The construction of the cement works was financed during the Third Reich with funds from the Württemberg economic thanks of Gauleiter Wilhelm Murr . The then NSDAP Gauamtsleiter Rudolf Rohrbach , whose family owned the cement plant until 2004, was appointed personally liable managing director .

traffic

Streets

On the western edge of the town runs the federal road 27 , which connects Dotternhausen to the north with Balingen - Tübingen - Stuttgart and to the south with Rottweil - Villingen-Schwenningen - Switzerland or Lake Constance . The federal motorway 81 (junction Rottweil) is around 17 kilometers away.

Rail and bus transport

Dotternhausen is on the Balingen – Schömberg railway line , which is used by freight trains on weekdays and by passenger trains (bike-hiking shuttles) every two hours in the summer months.

In 1914, ready-to-build plans for a Heubergbahn from Sulz via Rosenfeld to Dotternhausen were not implemented.

The next major train stations:

• Balingen ( regional express trains, train connections to Tübingen, Stuttgart and Sigmaringen / Aulendorf ), 8 km
• Rottweil ( Intercity train station, train connections to Stuttgart and Zurich ), 15 km

The public transport system is the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in Wabe 334.Bus
routes:

• Line 7440: Balingen-Schömberg-Rottweil (daily)
• Line 15: Frommern-Roßwangen-Dotternhausen-Dormettingen-Dautmergen (on school days)

education

• Primary and secondary school: Schlossbergschule Dotternhausen

Honorary citizen

• Rudolf Rohrbach: Entrepreneur, founder of the company Rohrbach-Zement (today Holcim )

Web links

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

Wikisource: Dotternhausen  - in the description of the Rottweil Oberamt from 1875

• Official website of the municipality
• Information and photos about the Sculpture Street Dotternhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ 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. 245-246
3. ↑ Cool wine
4. ↑ Report on the excursion on June 13, 2010 to Dotternhausen to the fossil museum with a knocking hour . In: Scroll. Bulletin of the municipality of Krauchenwies with the districts Ablach, Bittelschieß, Ettisweiler, Göggingen and Hausen from June 18, 2010
5. ^ Frank Bajohr: Parvenus and Profiteurs - Corruption in the Nazi Era. Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 113
6. ↑ Nils Horst: - Dreams of the Heubergbahn In: Schwarzwälder Bote from September 19, 2010