Hemmenhofen (Gaienhofen)

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Hemmenhofen
municipality Gaienhofen
Former municipal coat of arms of Hemmenhofen
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 57"  E
Height : 410 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.01 km²
Residents : 478  (1970)
Population density : 159 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1974
Postal code : 78343
Area code : 07735
Hemmenhofen am Untersee
Hemmenhofen am Untersee

Hemmenhofen is a district of the municipality of Gaienhofen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The place is on the northern bank of the Untersee , the western part of Lake Constance , in the south of the Höri peninsula .

history

Hemmenhofen was first mentioned as Hemminhovun in the year 882 in a list of goods from the St. Gallen monastery . However, it is believed that the settlement has existed since the 7th century.

In the 12th century, the place came into the possession of the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen (mentioned in the list of goods in 1150). In 1282 it was bought by the Feldbach Cistercian convent in Steckborn , on the opposite side of the Untersee in what is now the Swiss canton of Thurgau .

In 1804 Hemmenhofen, which had previously formed a Swiss exclave, was incorporated into the House of Habsburg . In 1806 it came to Württemberg and in 1810 to the Grand Duchy of Baden .

In the 1930s and 1940s, Hemmenhofen became a place of retreat for important artists who were defamed as " degenerate " by the National Socialists . Painters such as Max Ackermann , Curth Georg Becker , Otto Dix , Erich Heckel , Walter Herzger and Helmuth Macke lived and worked here.

Hemmenhofen's status as an independent municipality ended on October 1, 1974 when it was incorporated into today's municipality of Gaienhofen.

Today the former fishing village has the largest number of beds in the Gaienhofen community. The branch of the State Office for Monument Preservation is located in Hemmenhofen , which researches the excavations of the pile dwellings of Hornstaad-Hörnle , which have been on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2011 as part of the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps .

Attractions

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Hemmenhofen landing stage on the Untersee

Personalities

  • Julius Bahle (1903–1986), psychologist, musicologist and psychotherapist, died in Hemmenhofen
  • Otto Dix (1891–1969), painter, lived in Hemmenhofen from 1936
  • Erich Heckel (1883–1970), painter, lived in Hemmenhofen from 1944
  • Karl Kling (1910–2003), automobile racing driver, died in Hemmenhofen
  • Helmuth Macke (1891–1936), painter, lived in Hemmenhofen from 1933

Web links

Commons : Hemmenhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hemmenhofen municipality, leograph-bw.de , Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on April 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Population development Hemmenhofen, leograph-bw.de , Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, accessed on April 10, 2018
  3. ↑ a b leo-bw.de , Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, accessed on April 10, 2018
  4. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Constance district . In: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 1, Mohr, Freiburg i. Br. 1887, p. 72
  5. ^ Society of Scholars and Patriotic Friends (ed.): Universal-Lexikon vom Grossherzogthum Baden , 2nd edition, Macklot, Karlsruhe 1847, p. 542
  6. ↑ Hemmenhofen on the website of the municipality of Gaienhofen, accessed on April 10, 2018
  7. ↑ Stilt houses in Baden-Württemberg on the website of the State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council, accessed on April 10, 2018
  8. ^ Museum Haus Dix on the website of the community of Gaienhofen, accessed on April 10, 2018
  9. ↑ Church of St. Agatha and St. Katharina on the website of the municipality of Gaienhofen, accessed on April 10, 2018