Harbatshofen

Harbatshofen Community Stiefenhofen Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 26 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  E
Height :	770 m
Residents :	105  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1970
Postal code :	88167
Area code :	08383
Former Harbatshofen train station

Harbatshofen ( Westallgäuerisch Harbatshof e ) is a village in the municipality of Stiefenhofen in the district of Lindau and part of the Westallgäu region . In the course of the municipal reorganization of Bavaria in 1972, the previously independent municipality of Harbatshofen was incorporated into the municipality of Stiefenhofen.

history

Harbatshofen belonged to the Holy Roman Empire of the court Grünenbach the rule of Bregenz in Vorarlberg (then part of Vorderösterreich ) to. Since the peace treaties of Brno and Pressburg in 1805 , the place has belonged to Bavaria . First to the district court of Weiler , which was later converted into the Lindau district. With the parish edict of 1818 , the former parish came into being. In the middle of the 19th century the railway line was built through the town by means of an excavation . Harbatshofen got a train station on what is now the Allgäu Railway , which was opened on October 12, 1853 with the first train run on the Oberstaufen - Aeschach section . Demands for a railway line from Harbatshofen to Isny station came up at the end of the 19th century, but were not implemented. In 1919 the construction of a district road from Harbatshofen via Grünenbach and Maierhöfen to Isny ​​began. This was completed in 1923. 1925 was Kraftpost line Isny-Harbatshofen furnished, they reversed three times a day between the two stations. At the end of the Second World War there were repeated attacks on the railway line, sometimes between flak trains and fighter bombers . During the occupation , the French- occupied place was on the zone border with the neighboring American- occupied Stiefenhofen. This border remained closed until August 20, 1948.

In 1968 a government report found that merging Stiefenhofen and Harbatshofen seemed sensible. The merger was decided by the municipal councils by means of a referendum (95% in favor of amalgamation). However, the fact that the community of Stiefenhofen was in the district of Sonthofen and the community of Harbatshofen in the district of Lindau posed a problem, because each community wanted to remain in its previous district. A dispute broke out between the citizens within the municipalities which municipality should change the district. The districts were also interested in not losing a community. The district of Sonthofen feared a precedent, the district of Lindau would have been too small with one less municipality to be able to continue with the upcoming regional reform in Bavaria . In the meantime, the establishment of an administrative community with other municipalities was also discussed. The Augsburg Administrative Court decided: “The communities of Stiefenhofen and Harbatshofen are to be merged. The localities of Buflings, Saneberg and Sinswang are incorporated into the Oberstaufen market. The new district, which takes on the name Stiefenhofen, is assigned to the district of Lindau. ”On January 1, 1972, Stiefenhofen was integrated into the district of Lindau and the two communities were merged.

Harbatshofen station was shut down in 1985.

Districts

The former municipality of Harbatshofen consisted of the following districts:

• Balzhofen
• Burkatshofen
• Gschwend
• Harbatshofen
• Jungensberg
• Mittelhofen
• Oberthalhofen
• Rutzhofen
• Unterthalhofen
• Berbruggen
• Wood people
• Isenbretshofen
• Lautenberg
• Hertnegg

Architectural monuments

See: List of architectural monuments in Harbatshofen

literature

• Herbert Mader: Grünenbacher Chronicle from the beginning to the present

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria - territorial status: May 25, 1987 Munich 1991, p. 440.
2. ^ Ludwig Scheller: Contributions to the local history of the community Grünenbach; The great technical miracle
3. ↑ Armin Dorner: Merging Harbatshofen (district of Lindau) and Stiefenhofen (district of Sonthofen) 40 years ago was long contested. Der Westallgäuer, July 30, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Historical Atlas Bavaria