Hohenfels (near Stockach)

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Constancy
Height :	654 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.5 km 2
Residents:	2038 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	78355
Primaries :	07557, 07775, 07771
License plate :	KN
Community key :	08 3 35 096
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 30 ; 78355 Hohenfels
Website :	www.hohenfels.de
Mayor :	Florian Zindeler
Location of the community Hohenfels in the district of Constance

Hohenfels is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

geography

Geographical location

Hohenfels is located north of Lake Constance at the transition from the Hegau to the Linzgau . The Hohenfels districts of Liggersdorf, Mindersdorf, Deutwang and Kalkofen are part of the historic Hegau. The Selgetsweiler district (315 hectares) is part of the Linzgau.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Sauldorf and Wald and in the east on Herdwangen-Schönach , all three in the district of Sigmaringen , in the south on the city of Stockach and in the west on Mühlingen .

Community structure

The community consists of the districts Liggersdorf , the center and administrative seat of the community Hohenfels, Mindersdorf, Selgetsweiler, Kalkofen and Deutwang with a total of 24 villages, hamlets and farms. The districts are spatially identical to the formerly independent communities of the same name. The districts also form residential districts within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . The existing local constitutions have now all been dissolved.

The village of Deutwang and the farms Hahnenmühle, Hippenhof and Steighöfe belong to the district of Deutwang. The Kalkofen district includes the village of Kalkofen and the Hagendorn, Hohenfels, Knollenkratten, Loghöfe, Neumühle, Rappenhof, Schernegg, Vogelsang and Weiherhöfe farms. The Liggersdorf district includes the village of Liggersdorf, the Sattelöse farm group and the Grund and Reisch farms. The Mindersdorf district includes the village of Mindersdorf and the Eckartsmühle and Ratzenweiler farms, and the Selgetsweiler village and the Geyerhof farmstead are in Selgetsweiler. The hamlet of Mühlhausen , originally a Selgetsweiler exclave, is now part of Herdwangen-Schönach . In the district of Deutwang are the desert areas Annweiler and Langenberg. In the Liggersdorf district are the deserted areas of Butzenweiler and Sattelöse (same name as today's Hofgruppe). The Annenweiler desert lies in the Selgetsweiler district.

Protected areas

There are three protected areas , three natural monuments and various biotopes in the municipality :

Nature reserves " Waltere Moor " and " Schwackenreuter Baggerseen-Rübelisbach "
FFH area " Ablach, Baggerseen und Waltere Moor "
Natural monuments "Former Bischoff gravel pit" (FHD) and "Birkenallee" (FND / END)

history

Roman times

A former Roman estate has been found in the area of Liggersdorf from Roman times . In 1998, during sewer work, the stone foundations of a bathing building were found, which was archaeologically examined in 1999. In 2004, the stone-built main building with an inner courtyard was examined. In 2005, a smaller investigation took place in one of the extended road routes. In spring 2015, geophysical measurements were carried out, followed by the excavation of several sewer ditches and numerous foundation pits for wooden houses. An omega fibula allows dating between the middle of the first and middle of the third century AD.

middle Ages

Karl the Fat (839–888), son of Ludwig the German and grandson of Ludwig the Pious , stopped at Hohenfels several times. The place name of today's group of houses, “Sattelöse”, the oldest deserted area in Liggersdorf, can be traced back to these visits.

Modern times

The area of today's municipality belonged for centuries to the Hohenfels rule , which had belonged to the Teutonic Order since 1506 . The order had bought the small estate from the surviving sister of the Lords of Jungingen . The Hohenfels dominion belonged to the Kommende Altshausen and this to the Ballei Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy . Both were based in Altshausen.

As a result of the mediatization based on the Rhine Federation Act , Hohenfels then came to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1806 and, together with it, to Prussia in 1849 as the Hohenzollernsche Land .

From 1806, today's municipal area initially belonged to a Hohenzollern Oberamt , the Obervogteiamt Hohenfels , which became part of the Oberamt Wald in 1822. The Oberamt Wald also existed from 1850 to 1862 under Prussian rule, until the district reform in Baden-Württemberg in 1973 , the community then belonged to the Oberamt Sigmaringen , from which the Sigmaringen district emerged in 1925 .

Second World War

Plane crash in Mindersdorf

On December 30, 1940 crashed around 22:00 pm at the municipality of Mindersdorf a German twin-engined Heinkel He-111 - bombers from the West with course about 84 ° in a very shallow angle. The extremely low-flying machine grazed a few treetops in the forest west of Mindersdorf, had first contact with the ground north of today's district road K6105 (Tannenbergstraße) at the site of today's water reservoir , lost a propeller and motor, floated down the slope, touched a tree and stayed near the stream just before the (today's) Rosenwiesen street. The machine did not break apart, did not burn, and there was no explosion. The local Landwacht, alerted by the noise, suspected an enemy bomber and cordoned off the crash area 150 m south of the Josef Schuler farm. Survivors were not found: the crew of a maximum of five had apparently already parachuted off the aircraft. In the following weeks, some farmers in the village were obliged to dismantle, recover and transport the parts to the nearest train station in their horse-drawn sleighs . The crash and the circumstances surrounding it were covered up as the matter was not conducive to propaganda . No entry has yet been found in the official sources of the Hohenfels community. Decades later, the sequence could be reconstructed: The machine of the type He-111P2, works no. 2102, belonged to the II. Group of Kampfgeschwader 1 , which was stationed under Major Benno Koch in Münster-Handorf . was. During this flight, south of Paris via Orlean-Bricy, problems occurred so massive that the crew gave up the machine in flight and jumped off with a parachute. The Heinkel flew further east with the autopilot switched on, over the Vosges , the Rhine and the Black Forest , and then, when the fuel ran out, slowly losing altitude in Mindersdorf after 540 km, it hit relatively softly.

Radar display "Lori" in the lime kiln

One of the last of around 1500 produced FuMG 65 Würzburg giants with a 7.5 m radar mirror (on a simple concrete base) today in the Museum Berlin / Gatow

Shortly after the beginning of the Second World War , the Luftnachrichtentruppe (LN) , a unit of the Air Force , set up an "eye-to-ear" observation post in the Josenberg forest east of Kalkofen. The elevated location turned out to be ideal. With increasing progress in radio communications technology and the changed war situation, this was expanded with a newly built radio measuring station in the Hagedorn district , on the border between Kalkofen and Deutwang . It was a 2nd order position with the radio call name “Lori” of the 3rd medium flight reporting control company of the 215th regiment under Colonel Walter Dumke. It was under the 7th Fighter Division of the Luftwaffe Air Intelligence Force. The quite extensively developed position with many buildings, living barracks, kitchen and its own sewage treatment plant currently reported the air situation to the control center "Minotaur" of the 7th night hunting division in Oberschleißheim . It was an ultra-modern "radio measuring station" (today: radar station ) with two two-dimensional Freya survey devices with a typical range of around 120 km (in a radius), supplemented by two three-dimensional Würzburg fire control radar devices (typical range: approx. 60–). 90 km), a Seeburg air position table, a large searchlight, its own power supply from diesel generators and a fairly extensive workforce. The purpose of this position was concealed from the population: It was a southern part of the air defense system under General Josef Kammhuber, later known as the " Kammhuber Line " . The devices were used to detect bomber formations initially flying in from the west and later also from the south, primarily during night hunting. Two fighter control officers at the Seeburg air position table (red = enemy, green = own machine) led German interceptors and night fighters to the Allied bombers with the aim of shooting them down. The light anti-aircraft guns built in the position were only used for self-defense and gave the facility the wrong name "Flak position". The electronic part of the radar equipment in the position was blown up on the morning of April 22, 1945 at around 4:20 a.m. in front of the French troops advancing from Stockach under Colonel Lehr. The concrete foundations (type: V229) of the two Würzburg giants (type: FuMG-65), each weighing approx. 70 tons, remained intact for a few decades. Two motorcyclists were sent from Stuttgart to monitor the self-destruction operation. In the late morning they got caught in the fire of the approaching French troops near Ruhestetten and were buried on site next to the road. The many women, some of them very young, between 15 and 18 years of age in the position (" lightning girls ") were provided with civilian clothes in the surrounding farmsteads and, for fear of being raped, were hidden from the advancing troops as " maids and staff". The position "Lori" was apparently never exactly located despite many efforts. Since the system was also equipped with a powerful headlight for the “ Helle Nachtjagd ”, it was clearly recognizable from the air during a night raid by the RAF on Friedrichshafen : a bomber dropped a heavy air mine in the direction of “Lori”. However, this exploded north of the facility on Haselberg with such a strong pressure wave that damage to the roofs of buildings far away occurred. A perhaps lost on-board weapon attack in low flight on the neighboring Liggersdorf, which was insignificant during the war, on October 3, 1943, could actually have applied to this position.

Federal Republic of Germany

In the course of Baden-Württemberg's administrative reform, the previously independent municipalities of Liggersdorf, Mindersdorf and Selgetsweiler (all in the district of Sigmaringen until then ) merged on January 1, 1973 to form the new municipality of Hohenfels in the district of Constance. Today's community was formed on January 1, 1975 through the merger of this community with the communities of Deutwang and Kalkofen (both in the Sigmaringen district until the end of 1972).

Districts

Deutwang

	The village of Deutwang, with a municipal area of 336 hectares at an altitude of 640 meters, was first mentioned in 1245 when the Lords of Bittelschieß ceded the place to the Bishopric of Constance . In the 15th century, Hohenfels was ruled. Deutwang is crossed by the Scherneggerstraße from east to west and thus belongs to the settlement form of the street village .
Lime kiln
	The village of Kalkofen, with an area of 830 hectares at an altitude of 630 meters, was first mentioned in 1186. The name may indicate a lime kiln located there. To the south-west of Kalkofen (approx. 250 meters from the town center) there are shell limestone deposits on the slope to grinding traces . These could have been burned to lime earlier, as the kilns were usually not far from the mining sites. However, there are no clear sources for naming the town. The name could also be derived from Kahl Kofen (roughly: "barren place"). Since the 14th century the place belonged to the Hohenfels rule.
Liggersdorf
	Main article : Liggersdorf
Mindersdorf
	The village of Mindersdorf is situated on an area of 876 hectares at an altitude of 630 meters. Mindersdorf was mentioned for the first time in 883 in a document from Emperor Charlemagne . At that time it belonged to the Reichenau monastery . Since 1339 the place belonged to the Counts of Nellenburg , later it came to the rule of Hohenfels.
Selgetsweiler
	The village of Selgetsweiler is located with an area of 315 hectares at an altitude of 685 meters. Selgetsweiler was first mentioned in 1324. It has belonged to the Hohenfels dominion since 1441.

politics

The community belongs to the agreed administrative community of the city of Stockach. The tasks of the administrative community include the land-use planning (land use plan) as well as the fulfillment of the tasks of the building authority and the public order office.

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 67.9% (+ 5.2):

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-	Seats	+/-
Hohenfels Citizens List	56.1%	± 0	7th	+ 1
Free Independent Electoral Association	43.9%	± 0	5	- 1

mayor

On March 13, 1988, Hans Veit was elected mayor of Hohenfels for the first time with 64 percent of the valid votes. Inauguration was April 1, 1988. In the last re-election on January 14, 2004, he was confirmed with 95 percent of the vote for the third term. Deputy mayor are the council members Walter Benkler and Friedrich Bezikofer. In the mayoral election on January 29, 2012, he did not stand for election after 24 years.

The last mayoral election so far took place on November 29, 2015. In the first ballot, Florian Zindeler was elected the new mayor with 76.12 percent (voter turnout: 63.45 percent) of the valid votes.

1975–1988: Franz Moser (* 1944, CDU)
April 1, 1988 - March 31, 2012: Hans Veit (* 1950, CDU)
April 1, 2012 - September 30, 2015: Andreas Funk (* 1966)
January 1, 2016 - today: Florian Zindeler (* 1986, CDU)

Former Mayor of Lime Kiln

Richard Haidlauf (CDU)

Former mayor of Liggersdorf

Josef Haidlauf jg. (Hohenz. Center Party)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Hohenfels shows a straight-armed black paw cross in silver, covered with a green heart shield, inside with silver scissors.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is twelve kilometers east of the federal highway 98 (Stockach-Ost exit). An important connection is the state road 194, which leads from Stockach via Hohenfels to Pfullendorf , Ostrach , Saulgau and Biberach an der Riss .

Established businesses

In the past it was agriculture that was in the foreground in this municipality, today it is handicraft, trade and service businesses. Important companies or employers with a large number of employees are the companies Uniblech GmbH (sheet metal processing), Gäng-Case (special case construction), FGS GmbH (vehicle bodies), Paul Saum (gardening and landscaping), Otto Moser (agricultural machinery) and - until July 2017 - the Hohenfels Castle School as the lower level of the Salem Castle School.

Educational institutions

Hohenfels has its own elementary school, the Korbinian Brodmann School . Until July 2017, the lower level of the Salem Castle School was located at Hohenfels Castle . The educational offer is supplemented by a community kindergarten with three regular groups and two crèche groups.

Leisure and sports facilities

In 2005, the 30-year-old outdoor swimming pool in the Kalkofen district, which was then in need of renovation, was taken over by the community by an association that emerged from the citizens' movement “Hohenfels has a future”. The public bath was completely converted into a natural bath in 7,000 voluntary hours of work . The oil heating was replaced by solar collectors and the chlorination of the pool water by a mechanical-biological cleaning. Greenery was planted around the large basin. The natural pool is characterized by a controlled, good water quality and an open water slide.

Lake Constance water supply

From 1968 to 1970, an underground water pipeline from Sipplingen from Stuttgart was laid for the Bodensee water supply, also through the district of Hohenfels. It runs west of Kalkofen in a northerly direction. This line was supplemented in 1993/1994 by a parallel line from Stockach (Mahlspüren im Tal) via Hohenfels to Sigmaringen ( Laiz ). These lines now supply millions of people in the central Neckar area with high-quality drinking water from Lake Constance . Construction is prohibited on and a few meters away from the route .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Castles and Palaces

For a long time, the baroque Hohenfels Castle could only be viewed from the outside. The facility was owned by the Schloss Salem School , but has not been used for school purposes since July 2017. A year later, the property was sold to the non-profit association EOS-Erlebnispädagogik, which wants to establish a conference center there. In this co-creation project, a circle of friends of Hohenfels Castle is to be established in order to transform the former renowned boarding school into a public cultural site.

Churches

In the community of Hohenfels there are three church buildings that were built by the Teutonic Order builder Johann Caspar Bagnato in the Baroque style by the Teutonic Order Commander Altshausen:

Eulogius Chapel

Eulogius Chapel in Lime Kiln from the West (2007)

The Eulogius Chapel , built in 1696, can be found in the Kalkofen district . According to legend, the chapel was built as a thank you for successfully stopping a landslide on Josenberg ( 702 m above sea level ). The slope, a moraine of a glacier from the Würm Ice Age , was unstable, but could be successfully fortified by afforestation with mixed forest (conifers and beeches ). The unstable ground with his thrusts is a continuing problem of the village (600- 635 m above sea level. NHN ). Kalkofen is located directly on the edge of the Mahlspürer Aach valley near Mahlspüren in the valley (around 515 m above sea level ).

The chapel was rebuilt in 1760 under Franz Anton Bagnato and given good stucco work by an unknown plasterer .

The chapel itself is in good condition. Until the 1970s, the bell was rung three times a day by hand. Since the beginning of the 1980s, an electric bell took over . According to another legend, Eulogius is said to have helped an injured horse through a kind of miracle healing on the foot. This scene is part of the altarpiece in the chapel. The patronage for horses and riders also invokes this incident. Since Eulogius is also the patron saint of farriers , it was a matter of honor for the village blacksmith Paul Maier until his death in 1965 to cut and maintain the chapel without payment . Until the 1950s, the Eulogius Chapel was the meeting point for the Kalkofer Blutreiter groups. From there they rode to Weingarten for the blood kick. Today, in the age of horse trailers , this custom has come to life, also due to the distance.

St. Gallus Church

The St. Gallus Church in Deutwang, consecrated in 1718, was renovated in 2009 and received a new organ from the Überlingen organ building company Peter Mönch. The instrument consists of seven sounding registers and a pedal transmission with 367 pipes made of tin alloy and softwood. Of these, 218 pipes come from the previous organ from 1932.

Church of Cosmas and Damian

Catholic Cosmas and Damian Church in Liggersdorf from the west (2007)

In the church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Liggersdorf, built in 1715, there is a crucifixion group by Felizian Hegenauer .

The St. Oswald Church in Mindersdorf is also a specialty, which was decorated with neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau elements in the second half of the 19th century.

museum

In Hohenfels-Liggersdorf (Hauptstrasse 30) there is a museum that deals with the life and work of the neurologist Korbinian Brodmann, who was born here .

Regular events

The Liggersdorf Music Association and the Liggersdorf Sports Association alternately organize a large May Festival, which is supplemented by a trade exhibition every four years. In 2010 the farmers band Mindersdorf hosted an Oktoberfest for the 46th time and for the time being the last time, at which well-known greats from the folk music scene were often part of the program. Hohenfels Culture Days with concerts, exhibitions and readings take place every two years.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2019 Hans Veit (* 1950), Former Mayor

Sons and daughters of the church

Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), born in Liggersdorf, German neurologist and psychiatrist
Konrad von Jungingen (approx. 1355 / 1360–1407), probably born at Hohenfels Castle , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
Josef Schreiber (1919–1945, missing), sergeant major, bearer of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, has been missing from Posen since February 1, 1945. On May 27, 1967, the Bundeswehr barracks in Immendingen was named " Oberfeldwebel-Schreiber-Kaserne ".

People in connection with the community

Karl Lehmann (1936–2018), former chairman of the German Bishops' Conference , attended the primary school in Liggersdorf from 1942 to 1945.
Tankred Stöbe (* 1969), German internist, paramedic, author and since 2015 member of the international board of Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without borders). Lived from 1976 to 1989 in the Kalkofen district.

literature

Christian H. Freitag / Richard Haidlauf / Hermann Strohmaier: Kalkofen and Hohenfels. Data - pictures - cards. A collection of local history . Hohenfels 2000.
Christian H. Freitag / Richard Haidlauf / Hermann Strohmaier among others: Liggersdorf and Selgetsweiler. Data - pictures - cards. A collection of local history . Hohenfels 2003.
Walther Genzmer (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollern , Vol. 2, Stuttgart: W. Speemann 1948.

Web links

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

Internet presence of the community of Hohenfels

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↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

↑ Main statute of the Hohenfels community of February 18, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 18 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hohenfels.de

^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 789-793

↑ Excavations show sites from Roman times . In: Südkurier of July 6, 2015

↑ Summer tours: a hike gives an insight into Hohenfels history . In: Südkurier of July 29, 2015

↑ A. Neider: The Sattelöse, the oldest desertification of Liggersdorf . P. 93f.

↑ Hans Willbold “The aerial warfare between Danube and Lake Constance”, page 192, ISBN 3-925171-54-1 , Federseeverlag 2002

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Interview with resident and contemporary witness Josef Schuler, April 6, 2013

↑ Interview on April 6, 2013 with Herrmann Strohmaier, co-author of the homeland book "Hohenfels-Kalkofen"

↑ Thanks to: Aviation historian Horn from Dresden: Unit, execution and SN # of the Heinkel He-111

^ Kampfgeschwader 1 "Hindenburg" . In: The Luftwaffe, 1933–45 . Retrieved June 24, 2013.

↑ See the study by Christian H. Freitag, based on new archive studies in Germany and England: The "radio measuring station Lori" - a war story from northeastern Hegau , in: HEGAU. Yearbook of the Hegau-Geschichtsverein , 2018, ISBN 978-3-933356-93-2 , pp. 171-180. Here is u. a. a photo of the still intact position "Lori" reproduced, which was taken in 1945 by the Allied air reconnaissance.

^ Karl Otto Hoffmann “LN History of the LUFTNACHRICHTENTRUPPE” Volume II, Part 1, Kurt Vowinkel Verlag, 1968

↑ Georg Metzler: Secret command matter - rocket armor in Upper Swabia. The Saulgau satellite camp and V2 (1943-45) . ISBN 3-89089-053-9

↑ Sandra Häusler (saw): Minutes that decide everything . In: Südkurier of May 8, 2010

↑ According to the accounts of eyewitnesses and contemporary witnesses on site

^ Hans Willbold "The aerial warfare between Danube and Lake Constance", page 250, ISBN 3-925171-54-1 , Federseeverlag 2002

^ 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. 534 .

^ 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. 520 .

↑ dug and seen myself: petrified shells etc. (R. Dietz)

↑ on this see Christian H. Freitag: "Kalkofen - ein puzzling place name", in: Hohenzollerische Heimat, 2016, pp. 75–76

↑ On the person . In: Südkurier of February 26, 2009

↑ Matthias Biehler (bie): Mayor: There can only be one list . In: Südkurier of May 10, 2010

↑ Hans Veit . In: Südkurier of November 21, 2007

↑ Georg Exner: Veit successor wanted . In: Südkurier of July 16, 2011

↑ (ub): Natural pool opens soon. Eco oasis in Hohenfels . In: Südkurier of May 8, 2009

↑ Jörg Braun (jöb): Citizens bathe the financial misery . In: Südkurier of June 21, 2010

↑ Website conference center Schloss Hohenfels: https://schloss-hohenfels.de/

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alfred Dietz from Kalkofen

↑ F. Hossfeld, H. Vogel and W. Genzmer, Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollern: District Sigmaringen , p. 23

↑ http://www.korbinian-brodmann.de/

↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: That was the question of his life: How is the brain structured? (The Korbinian Brodmann Museum). In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 59-61, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9

↑ (ex): Hohenfels. Bauerkapelle cancels Oktoberfest . In: Südkurier of March 22, 2011

↑ Honor where honor is due. December 20, 2018, accessed on April 17, 2019 (German).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BW-1] State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).