Meßstetten

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Meßstetten
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '  N , 8 ° 58'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Zollernalb district
Height : 907 m above sea level NHN
Area : 76.82 km 2
Residents: 10,653 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 139 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 72469
Primaries : 07431, 07579, 07436
License plate : BL, HCH
Community key : 08 4 17 044
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		Hauptstrasse 9
72469 Meßstetten
Website : www.stadt-messstetten.de
Mayor : Frank Schroft ( CDU )
Location of the city of Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district
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View over Meßstetten (2017)
Rauer Bühl water tower , a landmark of Meßstetten.

Meßstetten is a town in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Meßstetten is located on the Swabian Alb on the Heuberg at an altitude of 737 to 988 meters. The suburb of Heinstetten is at 917 meters the highest place in the Swabian Alb. Measured by the elevation of the parish churches, the city is higher than Furtwangen in the Black Forest , which claims to be the “highest city in Baden-Württemberg”. Meßstetten is satisfied with the statement that it is "one of the highest cities in the Federal Republic of Germany".

City structure

The formerly independent communities of Hartheim , Heinstetten , Hossingen , Oberdigisheim , Tieringen and Unterdigisheim , which together with the former community of Meßstetten, form the city's districts , were incorporated after Meßstetten . The core city of Meßstetten and 19 other villages, hamlets, farms and (individual) houses belong to the seven districts. The former military settlement Bueloch, for example, which is structurally separated from the main town, has a primary school, gym, kindergarten and a house of the church, but as a settlement of this type it is still not an official district, but only one of the city's 18 residential areas.

With the exception of the Meßstetten district, all of the other six districts have localities within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code, each with its own local council and local mayor as its chairman.

In the urban area there are several abandoned , no longer existing villages. In the east of the Hossingen district was the Riedhof, built around 1800 and demolished in 1918. In the district of Meßstetten there was a castle and farmyard on the Schlossberg in the military training area . In the military training area there is a historic storage area for traveling traders, carters and craftsmen at the three-spell mark. With sophistication it was possible to find an advantage between the customs borders that existed until 1835. After the shooting lanes went into operation, a meadow on the edge of the restricted area was allocated as a storage area up to the Porajmos . The Flur Freithof and the Kirchlesfels, mentioned in 1600, indicate a lost village, as does Immishofen, a courtyard in the Eichhalde, which probably existed until the 15th century and is documented as a field name in 1496. In the Oberdigisheim district are the desert areas of Ägelkofen and the hamlet of Geyerbad ( sulfur bath ). Ägelkofen was named in 1253 and ceased to exist in the 14th century. Beuren, mentioned in 1654 as Beyrental , existed north of Wolfenhof in the Unterdigisheim district . Unterdigisheim is located southwest of Meßstetten and has about 650 inhabitants.

history

prehistory

The area of ​​today's Meßstetten was already settled in the Neolithic . There are finds from the hollow rock in the Heuberg military training area. The reason for this could be the very old connection route Bschorner Weg , which led from the Schmiechatal via the Meßstetten Castle into the Danube valley . The earliest of the documented settlements was on the Lochen and dates from the 9th century BC. BC, when the Celts increasingly populated the Swabian Alb. Celtic burial mounds were researched in the corridors Weichenwang , Wangen , Frankenreis and Hofen .

Antiquity

Due to the Roman conquests in the south of today's Germany, which took place in 15 BC. Began, the Celts were subjugated by the Romans . Several finds from this period, including the Celtic Gräbelesberg castle , and road construction have been documented. Meßstetten was located in the Roman Empire in the hinterland of the Alblimes, which was protected by the Lautlingen fort . In the area of ​​the city of Meßstetten, pastor Alfred Ludwig Oetinger (from 1856 to 1868 pastor in Meßstetten and Hossingen) initially had extensive excavations carried out on his own account, and later on account of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities. The extensive finds of grave goods indicate an early settlement of the region by the Celts . The Heuneburg and a spring in Egesheim also provide rich finds. A Hunnish metal mirror was made from an extraordinary metal alloy (59% copper , 40% tin , 1% lead ). Corresponding workshops have been identified on the Gräbelesberg and the Meßstetter Talbach in Lautlingen.

middle Ages

In the year 854, Meßstetten was first mentioned in a deed of donation from a high Franconian nobleman named Adelhard. Messstetten was a transit area and settlement area for Celts and Romans until the Alamanni invaded the area after 260.

The partial name "-stetten" indicates the Alemannic settlement. The "stetten" places on the Heuberg - such as Meßstetten, Heinstetten , Stetten am kalten Markt and Frohnstetten - were probably founded by Ebingen as shepherds' settlements in the 4th century. In the center of Meßstetten, the local pastor of Meßstetten, Oetinger, explored three Alemanni cemeteries between 1864 and 1867.

In the early Middle Ages, Meßstetten belonged to the Scherragau , the name Scherra means rock. Most of it was owned by the Counts of Hohenberg in the 12th century , who were also local lords of Meßstetten and some of today's districts. The gentlemen of Meßstetten were a noble family of servants and had their seat in a castle. In Meßstetten there used to be several castles and residential towers. Four larger castle stables are located on the historic Bschorner Weg in the Danube Valley in the restricted area with the Meßstetten Castle , the moated castle in Oberdigisheim , the castle in Tieringen and on the Burgsteige in the direction of Unterdigisheim with the Hossingen Castle on the Hossingen district.

The current district of Unterdigisheim was part of the Werenwag rule , which also belonged to the Hohenberg county .

Just like the lords of Hohenstetten (Heinstetten), the lords of Meßstetten emigrated to Ebingen in the 13th century in order to form a military leadership class in the young town. Your coat of arms, a silver cup on a red background, is today's local coat of arms of Meßstetten. In 1376 it was still run by the Ebingen mayor "Hans von Meßstetten".

From an ecclesiastical point of view, the Heuberg belonged to the St. Martins parish in Ebingen and to the cemetery church in Nusplingen until Meßstetten received a church. The St. Lamprechts Church was first mentioned in 1275. In 1360 the Tierbergers donated a year in the Church of St. Lamprecht in Meßstetten, in whose crypt several Tierbergers are buried.

In the 14th century three more altars, each with a chaplain, were donated. The parish was also endowed with the patronage rights of Meßstetten and Frohnstetten and formed a small monastery with its four clergy in 1354 . Georg von Werenwag ceded tithe in Meßstetten to the Beuron monastery on October 14, 1477 . In 1557, independent churches were built in the Nusplingen branches of Hartheim and Unterdigisheim.

Around 1300 Count Friederich von Zollern owned land and serfs in Meßstetten.

Count Heinrich von Hohenberg sold the village to Heinrich von Tierberg in 1347 , who together with the Hossingen acquired at the same time, Tieringen, which Hohenberg also bought in 1345, and the individual property in other places, formed a separate estate of Meßstetten. In 1370 the rule of Meßstetten came to the Wildentierberger line .

Through the marriage of a Wildentierberger daughter Anna von der Wildentierberg with Conrad von Hölnstein , the rule of Meßstetten came to this. The three Tierberger lines died out in the 14th and 15th centuries and the husband of the last heir, Konrad von Hölnstein, sold the estate of Meßstetten to Württemberg in 1418 . This united them with the rule Schalksburg acquired in 1403 to form the office of Balingen.

Württemberg time

Financial difficulties of Count Ulrich V. von Württemberg led to the fact that in 1461 he pledged Messstetten, Tieringen, Oberdigisheim and Hossingen for 17,500 guilders to Wolf von Bubenhofen .

Bauernjörg on February 29, 1525 with an army in Bäratal in Meßstetten, woodcut by H. Burgmair the Elder. Ä.

Meßstetter farmers were involved in the peasant war . The pastor of Oberdigisheim was considered one of the leaders. Right at the beginning of the year, the rebels plundered the Schalksburg . The badge of the farmers around Balingen was a black and red flag with a white cross. According to oral tradition , the castle in Hossingen was damaged during the Peasants' War . When Duke Ulrich had moved against Balingen, Germanus Kopp, the priest and chaplain of Meßstetten, had also joined him. On February 29th, 1525 the soldiers reached the Lochenpass from Bauernjörg via Meßstetten in Bäratal . Fighting broke out below the holes .

When Duke Ulrich von Württemberg recaptured his land in the battle of Lauffen am Neckar in 1534 , he introduced the Reformation throughout the Duchy in the same year . Much changed in Meßstetten as well. The chaplains were abolished, the patronage rights fell to the Duke of Württemberg. The large fortune of the monastery, like all church property, went to the Württemberg spiritual administration in Balingen. Although Hossingen was added as a branch, the parish lost its importance.

In 1514 there was a dispute about free stalking. A Hans Löffler was banned from carrying the weir after his brother Stefan had shot a forester . The border between the free stalking and the forest ran from Ehestetten over the Langenstein at the Meßstetten game reserve to Hartheim and Obernheim. The city of Ebingen was represented by a lawyer from Tübingen. In 1559 Albrecht of Bavaria brokered a contract. In 1583 boundary stones with the inscription Pirsch (Bürsch) and Forst (Vorst) were set. In 1709 the free stalking in Meßstetten is abolished and reintroduced as a ducal mercy hunt from 1713 to 1806.

In the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 the place was largely destroyed. The residents fled to the town of Ebingen in 1635. Numerous baptisms and weddings are recorded in the oldest church book in Ebingen. In 1630, Meßstetten still had 82 houses; in 1655, seven years after the end of the war, there were only 27 again. The population decreased from 350 in 1602 to 149 in 1654. Reconstruction took longer than in the neighboring towns: even in 1810, shortly after the establishment of the Kingdom of Württemberg , there were still only 152 residential buildings. This remained so until 1840. Only then did the town grow rapidly in the course of the general economic and demographic upswing in the second half of the 19th century.

Since 1854, cotton fabrics in tricot weave have been produced in Meßstetten .

Extensive cultivation of hemp and flax and extensive sheep breeding provided the raw material for fabric, stocking and cloth makers. The Ebingen business owners gave the Meßstetter farmers homework. In 1790 Ebingen had 100 cloth makers and 80 stocking weavers. Later the homeworkers became independent small businesses. Single-cylinder gas engines , powered by naphthalene , a waste product of gas generation , drive the first transmission waves in the halls attached to the houses. From 1910 to 1914, Meßstetten was connected to the alternating current network. Electric motors are now being used in the workshops. Since 1854, the "came jersey " called knitwear industry with cotton to it.

In the book Pfarrhannale by Johanna Michel-Lörcher, the founder of the Gnadau Brazil Mission , who was born in Meßstetten in 1873 , the industrialization of the village is also described. From 1798 on, fabric remnants, later also felt, were used to make Seelband- (end shoes) at home. The companies had set up private water supplies for equipment . From the Burteltal below Hossingen Castle , the water was pumped past the Weichenwang into the Meßstetter dye works in the industrial area (today the Heubergpassage) . In order to reduce the wastewater pollution of the Bära to a tolerable level, special sewage treatment plants had to be built in Hossingen Meßstetten and Unterdigisheim for the wastewater contaminated with dyes and chemicals. At present, nettles are grown as fiber plants in Meßstetten and processed into yarn.

Mining

Iron ore was mined in pits. The ore concretions are almost completely free of sulfur and phosphorus. At the Geppert in Oberdigisheim around 1738, iron ore was mined for the blast furnaces of the iron and steel works in Württemberg on a large scale, especially in the winter months with little work. Investigations of the slag from historical iron smelting show a type of small smelting furnace that has been able to smelt all ores in the area since the 13th century. The Harras smelter was shut down in 1832. There are reports of roe-shaped thone iron stones , of which there was “a seam of 1-2 shoe thickness” in the Heuberg.

The miner with wedge hoe and ass leather (1568)

After the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, mining in Meßstetten quickly came to an end.

In Tieringen, limestone was quarried on the road to Laufen on a large scale. In addition to blocks and gravel, lime kilns were also charged.

In the hamlet of Michelfeld, sand was extracted from an old arm of the ancient Danube. Christian Kiesinger (1876–1969), father of Kurt Georg Kiesinger , used it to make bricks mixed with clay.

20th century

In order to set up the Heuberg military training area , the neighboring town of Meßstetten had to surrender almost 40 percent of its municipal area. In 1909 the place was bought by the Reich Treasury and opened in May 1914 shortly before the start of the war. On November 16, 1911, the church and rectory were badly damaged in an earthquake in the Albstadt shear zone and had to be removed. In 1995 the city bought back the outdoor fire place in Gewann Blumersberg.

From 1918/19 to 1933, Meßstetten was part of the free state of Württemberg .

During the district reforms in Württemberg during the Nazi era , Meßstetten moved from the Balingen regional office to the Balingen district in 1934 and to the enlarged Balingen district in 1938 .

In April 1945, Lieutenant Oskar Riegraf from Nürtingen set up a free corps in the Heuberg military training area. While courageous citizens wanted to hand over the place with white flags , contrary to orders to the contrary , the French soldiers were shot at from the cemetery. Many of the men gathered in the town hall managed to escape from the volunteer corps through a rear window into a hiding place in the vaulted cellar of the church. On April 21, 1945, two people were shot dead by a court martial in the town hall . After the end of the war, a cooperative built a settlement in the direction of Hossingen for 1,000 refugees in the shortest possible time.

After the Second World War, the city of Meßstetten fell into the French occupation zone and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947 , which in 1952 became the administrative district of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Through the district reform , Meßstetten was assigned to the new Zollernalb district on January 1, 1973 .

Incorporation and city elevation

As part of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the following previously independent municipalities were incorporated into Meßstetten:

  • September 1, 1971: Heinstetten (until then in the Stockach district ) and Hossingen
  • July 1, 1972: Unterdigisheim
  • January 1, 1974: Hartheim and Tieringen
  • January 1, 1975: Oberdigisheim

Historical coats of arms of the earlier municipalities

Hartheim
Hartheim coat of arms 		Heinstetten
Heinstetten coat of arms 		Hossingen
Coat of arms Hossingen 		Oberdigisheim
Coat of arms Oberdigisheim 		Unterdigisheim
Unterdigisheim coat of arms 		Tieringen
Tieringen coat of arms

On July 1, 1978, Meßstetten was raised to the rank of town.

21st century

In 2015, rent-free use of all buildings and the renovation of the Zollernalb barracks , which were then occupied by 3,500 refugees, were agreed. The Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) as owner left the Zollernalb barracks to the state of Baden-Württemberg. That accommodated up to 3800 refugees in the former Bundeswehr barracks. The contract agreed between the federal agency and the state ran until March 31, 2017. Meßstetten was one of the first small towns in Germany to accommodate so many refugees. This presented the city and its citizens with great challenges. Under the title “Every sixth is a refugee. 1000 asylum seekers as neighbors ”, the Südwestrundfunk accompanied the handling of this.

Nicknames

The Meßstetter are nicknamed "calf dyers". One day a Meßstetter farmer drove to the market in Stetten ak M. and had a beautifully spotted “calf” with him. When prospective buyers had already arrived, it began to rain. The beautiful spots disappeared - the skin pattern of the calf turned out to be colored. The fraud was uncovered and the farmer had to go home with shame and ridicule.

politics

mayor

The following people were mayors of Meßstetten:

Municipal council

In Meßstetten, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following official final result. The turnout was 48.3% (2009: 56.9%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Party / list Share of votes Seats Result 2009
Free electoral association 47.6% 12 41.0%, 11 seats
CDU 29.6% 7th 41.0%, 10 seats
Citizen List 15.9% 4th -
Independent list of Meßstetten 6.9% 2 7.9%, 2 seats
FDP - - 10.1%, 2 seats

Town twinning

A town partnership with the municipalities of Savigné-sur-Lathan and Luynes in the Indre-et-Loire department in France was sealed in May 1985.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Lamprechtskirche Meßstetten

Meßstetten is on Hohenzollernstrasse .

Buildings

  • The Lamprechtskirche was supported by Heinrich and Burkhard von Tierberg . In 1360 Heinrich donated a year for himself, his ancestors and descendants, where his mother, his wife and three sisters are buried. The ensemble from 1913 has Art Nouveau elements . The church is shaped as a basilica . In 2016, graves were found and documented in the lamprechtskiche church during the installation of hot air heating.
  • Former Wirtshaus zum Schwarzen Adler, Zeurengasse 10, historic half-timbered house with a cottage garden in front of the building.
  • In Meßstetten there is a Bundeswehr radar system, the "radar ball" , on the 988  m high Weichenwang .
  • The historic bricklayer mill Unterdigisheim is a hydropower-powered grain mill , the millstone of which is still in operation today. The mill was first mentioned in 1394, further dates are 1680 and 1720. A great earthquake in 1911 required major renovations, especially in the masonry of the mill. The bricklayer's mill belonged to the lordship mill of the Princely Administrative Area of Werenwag Castle . The Mühlkanal led from the Burtelbach ( Burtel Castle ) to the Bära because there are no streams in the upper areas of the Werernwag rule . The water supply came to this area via dykes in the Middle Ages , and the power supply was set up in 1914.
  • Water tower, built in 1966 on the Rauhen Bühl, 29.25 m high tower, which is also accessible as a lookout tower .

Natural monuments

  • The Kleine Hohle Fels and the Große Hohle Fels are characteristic of the geological development from the Jurassic Sea to today's karst mountains with its caves, sinkholes and dry valleys . The Kleine Hohle Fels was once used by shepherds. Inside the cave of the Great Hollow Rock there is a sculpture of St. Barbara, the patron saint of miners and artillery, which is now called the Barbara Grotto. explained. The caves are located on the Heuberg military training area .

Sports

In winter, trails for ski hikers are created in different degrees of difficulty and lengths. Starting with the train station in Lautlingen built in 1899, Meßstetten developed into a winter sports resort. As early as 1920, the German-Austrian Alpine Association , Section Tübingen, built accommodation for hikers and snowshoeers on the Lauen. The driving force behind this institution was the Messstetter honorary citizen Professor Karl Bohnenberger. He used the Lauenhütte as accommodation for the young students from Tübingen. Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Horn (1886–1960) always went on skis to church services in the Hossingen branch. A demanding slalom route was prepared from Weichenwang all the way to the Lautlinger Tal. In the years between the world wars, there was an increased number of winter sports enthusiasts on the Zollernalbbahn . Today the part under the county road to Hossingen can still be rolled for cross-country trails. The cross-country ski trails and snowshoe trails are now also approached by car. A large parking lot ( 48 ° 12 ′ 12.33 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 20.17 ″  E ) will be cleared on the district road from Tieringen to Hossingen, and there is a wax hut in Meßstetten ( 48 ° 9 ′ 43.48 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 46.09 ″  E ) for the tourists who often come from the Tübingen and Stuttgart area. Dog sled rides are also offered. Meßstetten has several ski lifts, including the Meßstetten ski lift with a length of 400 meters, the Täle ski lift with 600 meters and floodlights, and in the Tieringen suburb the Oberstocken ski lift with 400 meters and floodlights. In addition, Meßstetten has three ski jumps , the so-called Heubergschanzen : ski jump (K 60, jumping distances up to 70 meters), a summer matte jump (K 40, year-round hill for young people, inrun with ceramic track) and a school jump (K 20, jumps up to 20 meters wide allowed). It is integrated next to the 40 meter hill and covered with matting; thus it is available all year round.

Hiking and biking trails

Meßstetten has an extensive network of hiking trails , which is looked after by local departments of the Swabian Alb Association . As early as 1896, the paths were advertised as seven-day hikes with train journeys. The Swabian Alb North Edge Path as well as circular hiking trails and cycle paths are signposted. Three natural circular hiking trails in the Meßstetter districts of Hossinger Hochalb , Felsquellweg Oberdigisheim and Tieringer Hörnle meet the high requirements of the premium hiking trails according to the criteria of the German hiking seal . The trails were certified in 2013 ( predicate hiking trail ) and consistently signposted. Today, on Sundays and public holidays in summer, the Schischem-Rad-Wander-Bus 17/38 from Balingen and Schömberg offers free bicycle transport to Tieringen. In Balingen and Schömberg, the bus offers connections to Tübingen with the bike-hiking shuttles of the Zollern-Alb-Bahn.

Guided hikes are offered by NABU and the Swabian Alb Association . The historical traffic route Siebenkreuzlesweg could be preserved in its original state in the area of ​​the second hairpin curve ( 48 ° 12 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 12.52 ″  E ). The ruts of the carts carved into the rock and, according to legend , seven crosses carved into the rock after an accident can be hiked. Since a Roman settlement was discovered at the Ebinger Kreuz, a Roman origin of the channels can no longer be ruled out. The channels are currently being researched and measured using scientific methods.

Messstetten game reserve

The Meßstetten game reserve was founded in 1972. The park is located south of the Zollernalb barracks .

Various animal species such as peacocks , African dwarf goats , fallow and red deer , wild boars and mouflons live in largely natural enclosures on the site. A playground and barbecue area as well as a small educational forest trail have been set up.

Economy and Infrastructure

Water supply

The water supply is guaranteed by the water supply association Hohenberggruppe, which is based in Meßstetten. Part of the historic water supply is still in operation today and supplies the Upper Fountain in Talstrasse with fresh spring water. Below the church, a hiking trail leads to the well room.

traffic

The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in Wabe 335. City tariff 35 applies to the city itself. With the bus routes 61, 62 and 63 you can reach Meßstetten from Obernheim, Tieringen, Oberdigisheim, Schwenningen and Ebingen.

Historic footpath from Hossingen to Lautlingen train station

In order to secure a freight stop for Meßstetten at the Zollernalbbahn Tübingen – Sigmaringen in Lautlingen, the municipalities of Pfeffingen and Burgfelden also participated in the construction of Lautlingen station in 1899 in addition to Meßstetten. A footpath, the Hossinger Ladder , leads from the train station over ladders through a rocky gorge to Hossingen . With grants from the Royal Württemberg State Railways , the two originally wooden Hossingen ladders with stairs, spars and bridges made of steel and a handrail were renewed. An unsecured Bergweg leads the right of the conductor for Hossinger Lauterbach Brunen ( 48 ° 11 '41.87 "  N , 8 ° 55' 43.43"  O ). This is the unsecured medieval path of the Hossinger Ladder before the steel bridges were built. This shortest connection from Oberdigisheim and Hossingen to the Zollernalbbahn used to be used daily by numerous commuters. Today the “Hossinger Ladder” is a premium hiking trail.

For an own railway connection in Meßstetten, plans and calculations for a railway line Nusplingen – Ebingen were commissioned from government building master Wallersteiner in 1908 as part of an extension of the Heubergbahn Spaichingen –Nusplingen for 6,000 gold marks. The price rose to 8,000 gold marks. From the industrially developed Ebingen with its 10,000 inhabitants at the time, the railway was supposed to lead via Meßstetten to Nusplingen. It was already clear in a very early planning phase in 1913 that the connection from Ebingen to the civil and military station in Meßstetten would not be realized in this way.

The Kaiseringen material funicular was built from the Zollernalbbahn to supply the Heuberg military training area. The fault-prone facility was shut down in 1921. Since the Heubergbahn was only built as far as Reichenbach am Heuberg , a meeting of 200 people took place in Nusplingen on July 30, 1928. Stadtschultheiß Winkler from Spaichingen saw an obligation of the empire from the railway contract with Württemberg from 1920 to continue the railway to Nusplingen. Starting from Ebingen via Meßstetten to Nusplingen, the construction of a connecting railway was considered again. All mayors of the neighboring towns, municipal councils of Spaichingen and Meßstetten and the senior government councilor Binder from Spaichingen were appointed to a commission to continue working on the continuation of the railway, and a corresponding working committee was appointed. In 1985 a different solution was implemented with a tank loading station in Storzingen .

Meßstetten is on Landesstrasse 433 and Kreisstrasse 7143. The Swabian Albstrasse , an approximately 200 km long holiday route, runs through Meßstetten.

In the future, a crossing-free connection to the federal highway 463, which has been laid in the direction of Meßstetten, with a bridge over the Meßstetter Talbach about three kilometers north of the city is planned.

Military installations

Radome on the side of the switch

Public facilities

Feriendorf Tieringen , Unterdorf (2018)
  • Haus Bittenhalde in the Tieringen district, a conference venue for music and choral societies, church choirs, families, senior citizens, training groups and others.
  • Holiday village in the Tieringen district, open all year round.
  • There is a game reserve in Meßstetten.

education

In Meßstetten there are several schools, seven primary schools, a general high school, a secondary school, a secondary school, and a special school for students with learning difficulties. The Burgschule in Meßstetten consists of a primary school, secondary school and special needs school.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Walther Groz (1903–2000), industrialist and politician
  • Karl Bohnenberger (1863–1951), university professor, honorary citizen since 1932.
  • Erwin Gomeringer (1914–2006), mayor, politician (CDU) and member of the state parliament, honorary citizen since 1984

Born in Meßstetten

People with a relationship to the city

literature

  • Sigrid Hirbodian et al. a. (Ed.): A city through the ages. The history of Meßstetten and its districts Hartheim, Heinstetten, Hossingen, Oberdigisheim, Unterdigisheim and Tieringen . City of Meßstetten 2019 (Community in Transition, Vol. 19), ISBN 978-3-00-064226-5 .

Web links

Commons : Meßstetten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Meßstetten  - travel guide
Wikisource: Meßstetten  - in the description of the Oberamt Balingen from 1880

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ^ City of Furtwangen in the Black Forest. City info. In: furtwangen.de. City administration of Furtwangen in the Black Forest, accessed on June 29, 2011 : “Furtwangen is the highest town in Baden-Württemberg. Between 850 m and 1,150 m. ü. M. it is in an attractive landscape in the upper Bregtal of the Central Black Forest in the headwaters of the Danube. "
  3. ↑ City of Meßstetten - Worth knowing ( Memento from August 27, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) City of Meßstetten: At up to 989 meters above sea level, Meßstetten is one of the highest cities in the Federal Republic of Germany.
  4. ↑ Bueloch leo-bw.de
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