Hörschwag

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Hörschwag
City of Burladingen
Former municipality coat of arms of Hörschwag
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 55 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 48"  E
Height : 701 m above sea level NN
Residents : 317  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation : July 1, 1974
Postal code : 72393
Area code : 07124

Hörschwag is a village in the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg . It is 701  m above sea level. NN and has 319 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Hörschwag has belonged to the city of Burladingen since 1974 . It's ten kilometers northeast of it.

history

Hörschwag looking west

The place is first mentioned in a document in 1304. With the dissolution of the County of Gammertingen , the place came to the Lords of Ransberg and from these to the Count Palatine of Tübingen . In the 13th century the place was temporarily Hohenbergisch and then came to Württemberg . In the 14th century, Hörschwag was largely owned by the Lords of Hölnstein. In 1304 the Kirchberg monastery received possessions in Hörschwag from the knight Anselm von Hölnstein as a gift. Towards the end of the 14th century was the manorial Claus Angelter, a patrician in Reutlingen , as well as to the monastery Maria Berg . In 1473 Count Jobst Nikolaus bought most of the village. From 1584 Hörschwag belonged to the Counts of Zollern and was assigned to the Burladingen office .

Hörschwag had 142 inhabitants in 1790, 223 in 1842 and 228 in 1890.

Hörschwag was part of the Reutlingen district from January 1, 1973 to June 30, 1974 . On July 1, 1974 it was incorporated into Burladingen.

Personalities

  • Johann Evangelist Maier (born February 18, 1833 in Hörschwag; † August 2, 1899 in Sigmaringen), Catholic clergyman and member of the German Reichstag
  • Karl Lehmann (born May 16, 1936 in Sigmaringen; † March 11, 2018 in Mainz), theologian, Bishop of Mainz, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, lived in Hörschwag from 1937 to 1941.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 540 .
  2. ↑ http://www.swp.de/hechingen/lokales/burladingen/Ein-Sohn-Hohenzollerns-wird-80;art5604,3835362