Glashütte (forest)

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Glassworks
community forest
Former municipal coat of arms of Glashütte
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 34"  E
Height : 645 m above sea level NN
Area : 1.79 km²
Residents : 107  (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 60 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 88639
Area code : 07578
West view of Glashütte
West view of Glashütte

Glashütte is a suburb of the municipality of Wald in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

geography

Geographical location

The village of Glashütte is about six kilometers northwest of Pfullendorf .

Expansion of the area

The total area of ​​the Glashütte district is 178.66 hectares (as of December 31, 2014).

history

Chapel of St. Joseph

Finds of stone axes and vessels near Glashütte suggest that as early as the end of the third millennium BC BC and in the late Neolithic period people lived in this area.

Glashütte was founded in 1701 on the property of the Wald monastery. The gentlemen von Schmidsfeld were the owners and sponsors of the glassworks . In that year the abbess Maria Jacobina Freifrau von Bodmann allowed the glass master Abraham Schmid from Liptingen to build a glassworks near the cheap quartz sand deposits in the moraine landscape on the Otterswang district. With the consent of the hunting lord Meinrad II. Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , Schmid was allowed to use the wood from the forest areas. The hut was the only pre-industrial operation in the entire Oberamt Wald . Operation lasted, with interruptions, until 1881.

The settlement of the same name developed in the vicinity of the glassworks. In 1785 the village had twelve houses. The village was only raised to a municipality in the legal sense in 1830. At that time it belongs to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , which annexed the forest territory in 1806 in the course of secularization . In 1850, Glashütte and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen came to Prussia as the Hohenzollernsche Lande . From 1806, Glashütte belonged to the first princely and from 1850 to 1862 to the Prussian Oberamt Wald , since then to the Oberamt and from 1925 to the Sigmaringen district .

On January 1, 1975, the previously independent community was incorporated into Wald. The last mayor was Liberat Schlachter.

Population development

was standing Residents
Dec 31, 2010 97
Dec 31, 2014 107

politics

Mayor

  • until 2004: Willi Halmer
  • 2004–2014: Eugen Krall
  • since 2014: Thomas Loch

coat of arms

In a split shield in front in black a double row of red and silver slanting bars, in the back a goblet-shaped red glass in gold.

The Cistercian bar expresses the former affiliation to the Wald monastery. The glass makes the coat of arms " talking ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Glashütte on the website of the community of Wald
  2. ↑ Passed on! Did you know that… . In: Südkurier of November 23, 2011
  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. 550 .
  4. ↑ Information from Werner Müller, Mayor of the Wald community, dated January 11, 2011.
  5. ^ A b Anthia Schmitt: Eugen Krall will succeed Willi Halmer as head of the village . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from September 4, 2004
  6. ↑ Mayor Thomas Loch on the website of the community of Wald

literature

  • Wolfgang Wiese: Glassworks - From the factory settlement to the farming village . Ed .: Community of Wald. 2001, ISBN 3-9807918-0-7 .
  • Wald community (ed.): 800 years of forest . Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023978-6 .
  • Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 : Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.

Web links

  • Glassworks on the website of the community of Wald