Dunningen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Dunningen was also the name of the French commune of Donnelay in the Moselle department from 1915 to 1918 .

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '  N , 8 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Rottweil
Height :	666 m above sea level NHN
Area :	48.45 km 2
Residents:	6305 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	130 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	78655, 78713
Primaries :	07403, 07402, 07422
License plate :	RW
Community key :	08 3 25 014
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 25 78655 Dunningen
Website :	www.dunningen.de
Mayor :	Peter Schumacher (independent)
Location of the community of Dunningen in the Rottweil district

The community of Dunningen is located about ten kilometers northwest of Rottweil in the Rottweil district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Dunningen is centrally located in a strip of open land that runs through the Rottweil district from north to south and is mainly used for arable farming. Dunningen is located in the area of ​​the shell limestone and thus between the geographical units of the Black Forest and Swabian Alb . It still belongs to the area of ​​the eastern roofing of the Middle Black Forest , which is replaced by the Upper Gau in the east.

Dunnen's geographical location is favorable, as the community is on the B 462 , an important connecting axis between Rottweil and Schramberg . You can reach Switzerland in about an hour and Austria in about two hours. The nearby Alsace is also not far. It takes about an hour to drive to Stuttgart and less than an hour to Lake Constance . The Eschach , a tributary of the Neckar, flows through the districts of Seedorf and Lackendorf and through Dunningen itself .

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on the Schramberg district of Waldmössingen , in the east on the Oberndorf district of Beffendorf as well as on Bösingen and Villingendorf , in the south on the Gewann Hochwald belonging to Rottweil, Zimmer ob Rottweil and Eschbronn and in the west on the Sulgen district of the city of Schramberg .

Community structure

The community of Dunningen consists of the three districts Dunningen, Seedorf and Lackendorf . The Dunningen district includes the village of Dunningen, the hamlets Auf der Stampfe and Frohnhof (Berghof), the farms Eichhof, Gifikenmoos , Stittholz, Staudenrain and Beckenwäldle and the residential area Hinterburg. Only the villages of the same name belong to the districts of Lackendorf and Seedorf. The abandoned village of Händelbrunner Hof is in the Lackendorf district .

history

antiquity

The beginnings of the village go back to the Romans . Proof of this is the discovery of a Roman road and a Villa Rustica , a Roman estate. Moreover, there were in neighboring Waldmössingen the fort Waldmössingen . After the Romans, the Alemanni settled the area. With the archaeological find of two women's graves (1965/68) in the underground of the St. Martin Church - at least one was probably consciously integrated into the construction of the wooden church built around 630/640 on the area of ​​today's Martinskirche, the early documented mention 786, the extraordinary large markings, the naming of the place name and, last but not least, the Martins patronage of the mother parish encompassing a wide area, Dunningen is considered to be the central location of the oldest Alemannic settlement history.

middle Ages

In 786 Dunningen was first mentioned in a deed of gift from Count Gerold († 799) to the St. Gallen monastery . Dunningen was initially an empire-free village with its own bailiff , mayor and judge. In 1435, the imperial village placed itself under the protection of the imperial city of Rottweil . Dunningen Castle , built in the 11th century, has declined over the centuries.

Modern times

Severe fires broke out in the village in 1736 and 1786. In 1803 Dunningen became part of Württemberg through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . When the new administrative structure was implemented in the Kingdom of Württemberg , which was founded in 1806 , Dunningen was assigned to the Land Oberamt and in 1808 to the newly created Oberamt Rottweil . The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the Rottweil district in 1938 .

During the Second World War, Seedorf had one of fourteen heavy anti-aircraft positions on the upper Neckar as the location of the West Air Defense Zone .

In 1945 the place became part of the French occupation zone and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg in the 1970s, the communities Lackendorf were incorporated on August 1, 1972 and Seedorf on January 1, 1974. Seedorf used to belong to the imperial city of Rottweil and, after mediatization , was added to the Oberndorf Oberamt in the course of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . After its dissolution in 1938, the place fell to the Rottweil district.

The cultural history museum in the town hall has been in Dunningen since May 1st, 1988 .

Religions

St. Martin Church

Even after the Reformation , Dunningen remained Roman Catholic . So to this day there is only one Catholic parish with the parish of St. Martin. The Protestant believers are parish in the Evangelical parish Locherhof in Eschbronn .

politics

Municipal council

Dunningen town hall

The local elections on May 26, 2019 in Dunningen led to the following result with a turnout of 62.5% (2014: 54.9%):

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
Free list	59.9%	- 0.5	100	- 1
CDU	26.7%	+ 1.7	5	+ 1
SPD	13.4%	- 1.3	2	- 1

^{+/–: Difference to the municipal council election on May 25, 2014}

Lackendorf has its own local council .

mayor

In July 2014, a new mayor was elected in Dunningen after Gerhard Winkler, who was in office for four terms, did not resume. In the second ballot, Stephan Hans Kröger won the election with 39.3% (944 votes). The turnout was 50.2%.

After Mayor Kröger was sick for almost a year, the municipal council appointed Peter Schumacher, the previous head of the municipality of Aichhalden, as administrative administrator of the municipality on July 25, 2016. Section 48 (2) of the Baden-Württemberg Municipal Code, who took office on August 24, 2016. The district office dismissed Kröger from his position as mayor with effect from December 31, 2016. On April 9, 2017, Peter Schumacher was elected Dunningen's new mayor with 98.91% of the vote.

Administrative community

Coat of arms of Dunningen

Dunningen forms an agreed administrative community with Eschbronn .

coat of arms

Blazon : In a shield diagonally divided by silver and red, above and below a gold-covered rose each in mixed colors with green sepals, growing on a stem from the red and silver field.

Culture and sights

Local museum

The Dunninger Heimatmuseum is located in the town hall:

• Replicas of the archaeological excavations found in St. Martin's Church (1965/66) are on display. One was on a wooden previous church with Merovingian nobility and donor graves from the 5th – 6th centuries. Century. You can see a gold leaf cross of what is probably the first Christian woman in the area and a gold disc brooch. The gold leaf cross is now part of the holdings of the Württemberg State Museum .
• A section is also dedicated to the classicist artist Landolin Ohnmacht (1760–1834). From 1803 he lived and worked mainly in Strasbourg. There he created important monuments of famous personalities of the city and the surrounding area. His most famous work is the portrait of the Frankfurt banker's wife Susette Gontard , who went down in literary history as Diotima Hölderlin.
• The museum also has a section that deals with the life and work of Jacob Mayer . He is considered to be the founder of the Bochum cast steel industry. In the 1840s he invented a method for casting steel in molds (steel mold casting). In addition to bells, he made iron rails and wheels in particular. Together with Eduard Kühne he founded the Bochum association for mining and cast steel production. His biggest competitor was the Krupp company in Essen. Mayer was born in Dunningen in 1813 and died in Bochum in 1875. There he has a grave of honor in Kortumpark .
• The life and work of the SPD politician Emil Maier is presented. He was an SPD politician in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic and made it to the position of Minister of the Interior in Baden. He was particularly active in local politics in Mannheim and Heidelberg.

Erich Hauser crab-apple mask, Erich Hauser Art Foundation, sculpture park

• Crab apple mask by the sculptor Professor Erich Hauser , who in 1964 as a resident Dunninger developed the first masks made by the wood sculptor Hans Maier in a style-defining and creative way. Erich Hauser also played a key role in the style and design of the fool's clothes.

Regular events

Every year in Advent, the Christmas concert by the Musikverein 1900 Dunningen e. V. instead. Alternating with the Seedorf district, a large village festival takes place every year on the last weekend in June.

The museum in the town hall is open every first Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with free admission.

Carnival with light cleaning scissors on Carnival Sunday and visit of the poor and sick on Carnival Tuesday.

Economy and Infrastructure

Junghans Microtec is an important employer in Dunningen . This is owned by the Nuremberg Diehl Group and the French Thales Group and is a major manufacturer of detonators .

traffic

Dunningen is connected to the national transport network via the federal highway 462 ( Rastatt - Rottweil ).

Dunningen is in the area of ​​the Rottweil transport association . Several bus routes serve the municipality. Line 9 of the Rottweil city ​​bus operated by Energieversorgung Rottweil and the Südbadenbus line 7478 go to the Rottweil intercity train station, about 14 km east of Dunningen. Line 7478 also goes to the Schiltach train station on the Kinzigtalbahn ( Freudenstadt, 23 km north-west) - Hausach ). The district of Seedorf is served by the Südbadenbus line 7477 to Oberndorf (Neckar) station about 15 km northeast , which, like Rottweil, is on the Gäubahn (Stuttgart – Singen) .

Public facilities

The quality test center of the Bundeswehr Oberndorf is located in Dunningen .

Educational institutions

The community of Dunningen has a community school (Eschachschule) in Dunningen and a primary school in the Seedorf district. High schools can be attended in Rottweil and Schramberg . There is a community kindergarten in all three districts, and a Roman Catholic kindergarten in the core town . With the Dunninger Forum, the community has an adult education institution that operates far into the surrounding area. There is a music school and a youth art school for the children and young people.

Sports

The community's sports clubs are FC Dunningen (soccer), TSV Dunningen (including gymnastics and handball), TC Dunningen (tennis), TTV Dunningen (table tennis), the shooting club, SpVgg Stetten-Lackendorf 1963 eV, SV Seedorf and the TTC Seedorf (table tennis). The SV Seedorf is the club with the largest number of members in the entire community. In addition to soccer , gymnastics and handball, the clubs offer various types of leisure sports ( volleyball , gymnastics , badminton and dancing ). There is for lovers of skiing the ski club Seedorf e. V., who has its own ski hut, the SCS-Alpenhaus in Braz / Austria.

Personalities

• Gottfried Christoph von Zimmer (1524–1570), canon in Strasbourg and Constance
• Landolin Ohmacht (1760–1834), classicist sculptor who worked mainly in Strasbourg, creator of the bust of Diotima, Holderlin's lover
• Jacob Mayer (1813–1875), manufacturer and inventor of cast steel , founder of the Bochum association for cast steel production
• William Sohmer (1852–1929), insurance pioneer and politician in New York City
• Hugo Sohmer (1854–1913), piano manufacturer, founded Sohmer & Co. in New York City in 1872
• Emil Maier (1876–1932), SPD politician in the Grand Duchy of Baden and later in the state of Baden (from 1919), Minister of the Interior in Baden in 1932, who resolutely fought against the National Socialists
• Walter Straub (1925–1986), circus performer, was the tallest European of his time with a body length of 238 cm
• Erich Hauser (1930–2004), sculptor, resident in Dunningen 1959–1970

literature

• R. Loose, EE Weber, H. Zoche and others: Dunningen. In: The Rottweil district, vol. 1 . In: Landesarchivdirektion in connection with the district of Rottweil (Hrsg.): Baden-Württemberg - The country in its circles . 2nd Edition. Thorbecke, Ulm 2004, ISBN 3-7995-1365-5 , p. 378-399 .
• V. Beer brewers: Alemannic noble cemetery and early ma. Church buildings of St. Martin in Dunningen. In: Home on the Eschach. Dunningen, Seedorf, Lackendorf, Sigmaringen 1986, p. 19ff.
• Stefan Biermeier: The St. Martin church excavation in Dunningen, Rottweil district. Term paper to obtain the master’s degree at the LMU Munich. Reviewer: Prof. Dr. V. Brewers. June 26, 1997.

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 VI: Freiburg District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 , pp. 471–473.
3. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: Dunningen. Diversity of the old order. In: The Rottweil district, vol. 1 . In: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Rottweil (Hrsg.): Baden-Württemberg - The country in its circles . 2nd Edition. Thorbecke, Ulm 2004, ISBN 3-7995-1365-5 , p. 384 .
4. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 26.
5. ↑ Friedrich Wein: An important component of the entire air defense system. Local history | The "Flak-Halle" in Seedorf - A historical look back / -Many older people still remember . In: Schwarzwälder Bote Medienverlag GmbH (Ed.): Schwarzwälder Bote R 2 . No. 166 , July 21, 2020.
6. ^ 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. 515 and 532 .
7. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office: Results of the 2019 municipal council elections - Dunningen , accessed on April 3, 2020
8. ^ Discharge: Kröger waives objection , Schwarzwälder Bote , article from December 21, 2016
9. ↑ Mayor election Dunningen , Neue Rottweiler Zeitung , April 9, 2017; Almost 99 percent for the new mayor Schumacher , Schwarzwälder Bote , April 10, 2017.
10. ↑ Jochen Schultheiß: Dunningen. Catholic parish church St. Martinus, Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle, St. Christophorus-Kapelle, Mariahilf-Kapelle . Ed .: Catholic parish Dunningen. 1st edition. Dunningen 2020, p. 15 .
11. ↑ Andrea Hahn-Weishaupt, Christian Gildhoff, Andreas Schaub and others: The district of Rottweil . In: Rottweil district (Hrsg.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany . tape 29 . Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1143-4 , pp. 165 .
12. ↑ Dr. Mechtild Ohnmacht, Landelin Ohnmacht, Fink-Verlag 2012
13. ^ Baden-Württemberg . In: Max Miller and Gerhard Taddey (eds.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . 2nd Edition. tape 6 . Alfred Körner, Ludwigsburg 1965, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 155 .
14. ^ William Sohmer in the English language Wikipedia
15. ^ Hugo Sohmer in the English language Wikipedia
16. ↑ Dr. Thomas Emden-Weinert: The world of Erich Hauser. Retrieved June 24, 2018 . 

Web links

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

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

• Official website of the community of Dunningen
• Holzäpfelzunft.de