Hoppetenzell

Hoppetenzell City of Stockach
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	553 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4 km²
Residents :	590
Population density :	148 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	78333
Area code :	07775
Location in the city area

Hoppetenzell is a district of Stockach in the Baden-Württemberg district of Konstanz in Germany .

geography

location

The formerly independent municipality of Hoppetenzell is located around four kilometers north of the Stockach town center in the Stockacher Aach valley .

Neighboring places

In the north and east, Hoppetenzell borders the Mühlingen districts of Berenberg , Mühlweiler and Zoznegg and in the south on the Stockach district of Zizenhausen .

structure

Hoppetenzell includes the village of Hoppetenzell, the Deserhof , Neusegge , Christreute , Schachen , Schallberg and Wolfholz farms and the Altsegge residential area .

geology

In and around Hoppetenzell only layers of deposits from the Mesozoic ( Mesozoic Era) and the Cenozoic Era (New Earth Era) appear on the earth's surface.
Upper Jurassic , as in older literature White Jurassic or Malm referred kicking among others, the mouth of Affoltern Bach in the Aach to light. The "Landschneckenkalke von Hoppetenzell" are stored on it as the lowest layer of the lower freshwater molasse. These can be dated to an age of around 25 million years through eleven fossil snail species found .

history

Hoppetenzell is mentioned in a document for the first time in 777 in the will of the abbot Fulrad of the St. Denis monastery near Paris . Accordingly, the monastery owned a patch in Hegau, which is called "Adelungcella" (or "Adelungscella" or "Adalongo cella", from the personal name Adalun ). There is evidence that it is the present-day town of Hoppetenzell. 856 "Adalungicella", 866 "Hadalongcella", 1275 "Celle", 1420 and 1456 "Zell im Madach ", 1493 "Hoppentzer Zell im Madach". The place was given to Fulrad by Adalung , Bishop of Eichstätt. Later apparently in the possession of a duke. In 1448 the Lower Court owned the Johanniterkommende Überlingen, probably from a donation from the Lords of Bodman. All other rights were with the Landgraviate of Nellenburg .

In 1465, Hoppetenzell became Austrian through sale to Archduke Sigismund . During the Austro-Spanish War of Succession (1701-1714), Hoppetenzell was in the middle of the deployment area of ​​the enemy armies.

In 1805, after the Peace of Pressburg, Hoppetenzell was assigned to the newly formed Kingdom of Württemberg , then in 1810 it was annexed to the new Grand Duchy of Baden .

On March 26, 1972, 253 citizens of Hoppetenzell cast their votes: 43 voted for, 210 against a unified municipality with Zoznegg.
On January 1, 1975, Hoppetenzell was incorporated into Stockach.

Surname

Since it was first mentioned in the 8th century as "Adelungcella" / "Adelungscella" / "Adalongo cella", the following versions of the place name have been known: "Hoppenczerzell" (1491), "Hoppentzerzell" (1543), "Hoppentzenzell" (1545), " Hoppitzerzell "(1629)," Hoppenzeel "(1685)," Hoppenter Zell "(1722) and for the first time" Hoppetenzell "(1789).

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a silver cross of St. John, beheftet with a golden shield, is a four-ended blue Hirsch rod.

With the allocation to Württemberg (1805), the stag's pole was added to the previous coat of arms ( Maltese cross ) .

Economy and Infrastructure

Postal services

Additional postmark
"Hoppetenzell over Stockach" (1938)

Stockach was already an important post office in the 16th century. For centuries, large, interstate equestrian and postal courses on the Ulm - Basel , Stuttgart - Zurich and Vienna - Paris routes converged here. In 1845 the local post office still had 60 horses.

Before 1821, private individuals had to hand in their mail at the Stockach post office themselves. Then the establishment of an official messenger establishment made it possible for private individuals to hand over their mail to an official messenger. Initially, he brought the post to the Stockacher Post Expedition twice, later three times a week. In the 1850s, due to the steadily increasing correspondence, the Amtbotenanstalt was abolished, its services were transferred to the post office and on May 1, 1859 the rural postal authority was brought into being. Among other things, the following messenger district was set up in the Stockach district:

• Messenger District No. I, Monday / Wednesday / Friday: Stockach – Hindelwangen – Zizenhausen – Mahlspüren – Raithaslach – Münchhöf – Hoppetenzell – Stockach

Items of mail that had been thrown into the respective letter tray on site were given a clock wheel stamp by the postman , in Hoppetenzell with the  6th , before being forwarded .

traffic

Hoppetenzell is on the federal road 313 ( Plochingen → Stockach) and on the former Radolfzell – Mengen railway line .

Hiking trails

In addition to some hiking trails signposted by the city of Stockach, the “ Heuberg-Allgäu-Weg ” , which runs over 185 kilometers from Spaichingen on the western Swabian Alb through Upper Swabia and along Lake Constance to the Black Ridge in the Württemberger Allgäu, runs through Hoppetenzell .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• In mid-October 1969, the parish granted former pastor Alois Sartory as the first citizen honorary citizenship in recognition of his services to research into the parish history .

Web links

• District Hoppetenzell at www.stockach.de
• Private internet presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Thum: Geological structure and development of the landscape around Hoppetenzell. In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance. Volume 45, self-published by the Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V., Singen (Hohentwiel) , 1988. pp. 241-253.
2. ↑ Johannes Thum: Hoppetenzell - A contribution to the early history and the name of the place in Hegau , Volume 46, 1989, page 251.
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Volume VI. P. 779f
4. ↑ Home chronicle . In: Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . Self-published by the Hegau history association Singen e. V. Yearbook 1992/93, p. 287.
5. ↑ Description of the coat of arms in "Heraldy of the world"
6. ↑ Information board at today's Stockach post office in Schillerstraße
7. ^ Edwin Fecker: The rural postal district of Stockach in circular no. 140 of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baden" in the Bund Deutscher Philatelisten eV (BDPh), autumn 2004; Page 1713ff