Large wood people

Large wood people City of Isny in the Allgäu
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	725  (723-1118)  m
Residents :	1400  (December 31, 2011)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	88316
Area code :	07562
Postcard from wood people (1908)

Großholzleute is one of four districts of the city of Isny im Allgäu in the Ravensburg district that were incorporated in 1972 .

geography

The district of the climatic health resort forms the extreme southeast of the state of Baden-Württemberg and borders the districts of Oberallgäu and Lindau .

history

The name of the place is derived from the former annual Großer Holzleite . The timber was transported from the wooded Adelegg mountain range via the two rivers Argen into Lake Constance by means of the rafting method .

The manorial rule over large wood people was in the 11th century with the Counts of Veringen and their ministerials from Trauchburg . From these it came to the princes of Waldburg-Zeil in 1258 . After a brief interlude in the imperial county of Quadt, the village became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 .

Group 47 met at the Adler country inn in Großholzleute from October 31 to November 2, 1958 . At the meeting, Günter Grass , who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, read from his novel The Tin Drum for the first time .

On July 1, 1972 Großholzleute was incorporated into the city of Isny.

Attractions

Hengelesweiher nature reserve

In Großholzleute there is the St. Wolfgang chapel, built in 1480 , whose community belongs to the dean's office Allgäu-Oberschwaben in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . The Landgasthof Adler is an inn built around 1500, where Maria Theresa and her daughter Marie Antoinette (on their bridal trip from Vienna to Versailles ) stopped by. The Großholzleute district is home to the Schwarzer Grat viewing mountain, the Überruh rehabilitation clinic, the Hengelesweiher nature reserve , the Hasenbergschanze and the Dürrenbach wooden chapel .

Cultural monuments

See: List of cultural monuments in Großholzleute

Hamlets and remote farms

• Altweg, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Anger, hamlet of Bolsternang
• Apply, hamlet
• Bad hamlet
• Bubble Mountain, Einödhof
• Bolsternang, parish hamlet
• Burkwang, hamlet
• Deschenacker, Einödhof in Bolsternang
• Dürrenbach, hamlet
• Endberg, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Gaistopf. Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Grstätte, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Haidlingshof, Einödhof
• Frequenlingshof, Einödhof
• Hengelesmühle, mill
• Hofacker, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Kleinholz people, hamlets
• Moss, hamlet
• Niederacker, Einödhof in Bolsternang
• Osterösch, Einödhof in Bolsternang
• Rain, hamlet
• Riedhof, Einödhof
• Riedacker, Einödhof in Bolsternang
• Rothenbach, hamlet
• Closing time, hamlet
• Simmerberg, hamlet
• Thoracker, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Ueberruh, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Wehrlang, hamlet
• Weidenhalden, Einödhof zu Bolsternang
• Wolfbühl, hamlet

literature

• Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume 7: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 .

Web links

Commons : Large wood people  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Isny ​​im Allgäu  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the city of Isny

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günther Bradler: Studies on the history of ministeriality in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia. Göppingen 1973. Page 242.
2. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/home_artikel,-Vor-50-Jahren-Guenter-Grass-liest-in-Grossholzleute-Die-Blechtrommel-_arid,2537440.html
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. 536 .