Illmensee

This article deals with the community of Illmensee, for the lake see Illmensee (lake) , for the Austrian biologist see Karl Illmensee .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '  N , 9 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Sigmaringen
Height :	692 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.92 km 2
Residents:	2029 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88636
Area code :	07558
License plate :	SIG
Community key :	08 4 37 056
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 5 88636 Illmensee
Website :	www.illmensee.de
Mayor :	Michael Reichle
Location of the community Illmensee in the district of Sigmaringen

Illmensee is a municipality in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg, around 17 kilometers north of Lake Constance . Illmensee is also known as the three-lake community with its 100 hectares of lakes . Illmensee has been a state-approved resort since 1987 .

geography

Geographical location

The Ruschweiler lake

In addition to the Illmensee lake of the same name , the Ruschweiler See and the Volzer See also lie within the boundaries of the municipality . All three lakes were created together towards the end of the last ice age , the so-called Würme Ice Age . The Illmensee is a popular swimming lake, there is a campsite there.

Also on the municipality is 833 meters above sea level. NN. the highest elevation in the Sigmaringen district that does not belong to the Swabian Alb , the highest . The summit is around five kilometers south of Illmensee. Another peak in the municipality is the Sturmberg .

Neighboring communities

Ostrach , Wilhelmsdorf , Deggenhausertal , Heiligenberg , Pfullendorf .

Community structure

The community of Illmensee is made up of the village of Illmensee (with the houses Berghalden , hardness [Herden-] bühl , Im Langenwegacker , Im Sandbühl , Reute and Weiher , the hamlet of Krumbach and Lichtenegg and the abandoned farm Altlichtenegg in the hamlet of Lichtenegg), the village Illwangen (with the farms Birkhof , Höchsten , Rutscherhaus and Waldhäusle , the Zinken Glashütten , the houses Zum Schwanen and the departed Betzenreute ) and the village of Ruschweiler (with the Gampenhof , the houses Im Kläfflerösch , Im Pfisteri , Im Sturmberg , In den Bachäckern , In the Furtäckern [Hungerberg] , the villages Judentenberg and Neubrunn , the Volzenhöfen as well as the departed Ruschried and Seligenstatt near Judentenberg).

coat of arms	District	Residents	surface
	Illmensee (core town)	~ 600	?
	Illwangen	?	?
	Ruschweiler	~ 600	?

history

While the present-day villages of Illmensee, Illwangen and Ruschweiler are all foundations from the expansion period , the shallow water zones of the lakes were already settlements in the Neolithic Age . The Pfyn-Altheimer group (4000 to 3500 BC) and the Horgen culture (3000 to 2500 BC ) at the Illmensee can be verified by ceramic finds at the Ruschweiler See .

An artificial dam and the homestead name "Weiher" or "Weiherhöfe", west of Illmensee and south of Volzen, as well as "Krumbach" provide information about the role that fish farming and fishing have played on Andelsbach and Krumbach since the Middle Ages. The villages were located in the county of Heiligenberg until mediatization and became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden in the 19th century . From 1939 to 1972 the places were assigned to the district of Überlingen .

As part of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg on September 1, 1971, the two communities Illwangen and Ruschweiler were incorporated into Illmensee. After the formation of the new Wilhelmsdorf community on January 1, 1973, the Baden districts of Höhreute (with the farms Sack and Wanne ), Niederweiler and Tafern , which were formerly part of the Illwangen community, were assigned to the new Wilhelmsdorf community and thus to the Ravensburg district with effect from May 1, 1973 .

Illmensee came to the district of Sigmaringen through the district reform in 1973 .

Religions

The majority of the population of Illmensee is Roman Catholic . The Catholic parish on Illmensee has been documented since 1275 and belongs to the pastoral care unit Oberer Linzgau in the dean's office Sigmaringen-Meßkirch of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . There is also an evangelical minority that belongs to the evangelical parish of Pfullendorf. This belongs to the Evangelical Church in Baden via the Überlingen-Stockach church district . There has been a free Christian community in Illmensee since 1993 .

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following result, with a turnout of 66.4% (2009: 65.3%):

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	Result 2009
Free voters	73.9%	9	51.9%, 7 seats
CDU	26.1%	3	43.2%, 5 seats

mayor

Mayor of Illmensee is Michael Reichle.

Bernhard Stadler was mayor of Illmensee until 2011. He did not stand for mayor election on October 9, 2011. Since this election did not result in an absolute majority for any of the three candidates, a second ballot was necessary on October 23, in which Jürgen Lasser was elected mayor with 58.1 percent of the votes. The official inauguration took place on January 10, 2012. Michael Reichle, who took office in January 2020, was elected in the mayoral election on October 20, 2019.

• Thomas Braun
• until 1987: Xaver Reis
• 1988–2011: Bernhard Stadler
• 2012–2019: Jürgen Lasser
• since 2020: Michael Reichle

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Illmensee shows a jumping silver fish in red over a golden three-mountain.

Culture and sights

The municipality of Illmensee, together with the city of Pfullendorf and the municipalities of Ostrach , Wald and Wilhelmsdorf, form the “Northern Lake Constance” holiday region, which was founded in 1999.

Buildings

• The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Illmensee shows stylistic means of the late Gothic and dates in its present form from 1860. The altar leaves are by the well-known Swiss church painter Melchior Paul von Deschwanden .
• The Vitus Chapel , a path chapel donated in 1611, is located in the hamlet of Krumbach .
• The Chapel of St. Martin is located in the Judentenberg district, a chapel that was first mentioned around 1051 and is in the late Gothic style. The frescoes date from the 14th century and the pews from the 16th century.
• The Catholic Loretto Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is located in the hamlet of Mariahof near Illwangen . In the context of the counter-Reformation Loretto cult during and in the decades after the Thirty Years' War, the chapel, built in 1670 in Illwangen, a suburb of Fürstenberg at the time, goes back to a foundation of the wealthy Salemian feudal farmer Blasius Fetscher on the grounds of his court. However, according to the will of the founder, which was not documented until 1727, masses for the salvation of the Fetscher family are to be celebrated regularly in the chapel, the pilgrims for the rapidly blossoming Marian pilgrimage await bread and wine as a strengthening and should distribute the foundation surpluses to the poor and sick in the area. While the pointed arch and the barrel vault refer to earlier art epochs, the interior shows itself in a simple baroque robe. An expressive crucifixion group, probably from the 18th century, has been preserved from the original furnishings of the chapel.
• In Ruschweiler there is a chapel of the Catholic parish of Illmensee-Ruschweiler, which was built in 1908 and consecrated to the "Maria, Mother of Perpetual Help" and has been available for Protestant services for years.
• The St. Michaels Chapel from 1908 is located in Neubrunn .
• Around 500 meters southwest of the Illmenseer district of Lichtenegg there are small remains of the wall of the high medieval Alt-Lichtenegg castle in the spur . The late medieval Neu-Lichtenegg castle , from which remains of moats have been preserved, was also located around 300 meters west of the village .
• In the direction of Birkhof there is a stone that is maintained as a war memorial together with the city of Illmensee in Russia.
• Two out of three farms belonging to the Pfullendorf Spitalfonds are located in the Illmensee district. The Hofgut Lichtenegg is the second largest hospital estate with 67.6 hectares. It has been owned by the hospital fund since 1412 and is leased. The Hofgut Mariahof has belonged to the Spitalfonds since 1899. With 68.55 hectares, it is the largest Hofgut owned by the Spitalfonds. Another hospital estate is located in Wattenreute .

Others

• The “hydrant hiking trail” is unique in Germany: hydrants painted by artists represent figures that lead hikers on two different routes through the community. The southern route is five kilometers long. It leads from Illmensee to Illwangen and back on the banks of the Illmensee. On this route, for example, a teacher, a colorful clown, a police officer, a pirate as well as grandma and grandpa are posted. The northern route - around eight kilometers long - leads from Ruschweiler via Judentenberg back to Ruschweiler. Here you can meet sporty racing drivers, Indians, forest witches, hunters and riders, for example.
• From the lookout point at the Höchst , a wooden pavilion, you have a good view of the Lake Constance region and the Alpine chain from Zugspitze to the Bernese Oberland when the view is clear. In a cloudless night, the scattered light of the surrounding cities is so low at this altitude that stars can be seen very well from here. From the lookout point, the “Swabian-Alemannic dialect path ” , a circular route showing sculptures and panels with typical Swabian-Alemannic idioms, leads 200 meters to the mountain inn Höchst and back again.

Sports

Destination region StoppOmat

The Stoppomat , the first permanent system for cycling mountain time trials in Germany, is located in the municipality . The facility is at the highest point , which at 833 meters is the highest point in the Lake Constance area . The destination station is 830 m above sea level. NN at the Glashütten district.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality of Illmensee is shaped by tourism and belongs to the “Northern Lake Constance” holiday region. In 2014 Illmensee and its suburbs recorded 29,399 overnight stays.

traffic

The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in honeycomb 448. It is the southernmost of the transport association. Since January 1, 2009 Illmensee has also been part of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association (bodo).

The most important bus route 7538 connects Illmensee with Pfullendorf to the west and Ravensburg to the east every hour. The 7380 bus allows you to travel to Heiligenberg and from there to Überlingen on Lake Constance. Line 41 serves school traffic to Wilhelmsdorf. In addition, the Emma 680 on-call bus supplements the offer within the community and between Pfullendorf and Heiligenberg every two hours.

telecommunications

On the highest there is a transmission mast of the Deutsche Telekom AG ( transmitter Ravensburg ).

Wind power

Since February 1997 3 Nordex N 54 wind turbines have been put into operation in the "Sturmberg wind farm".

The regional association Bodensee-Oberschwaben has identified the Judentenberg site as one of only three priority areas in the subregional wind energy plan for important wind turbines .

Established businesses

Illmensee has a relatively large industrial area. A total of 420 people are employed in the community, 280 of them in manufacturing and 140 in the service sector.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1951, September 7: Wendelin Rauch (1885–1954), Catholic theologian; was Archbishop of Freiburg from 1948 to 1954
• 1988, January 8th: Xavier Reis, retired mayor D.
• 2013, April 11: Bernhard Stadler, retired Mayor D.

literature

• Juro Marcinkovic: Home on the three lakes. The story of Illmensee . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, ISBN 3-7995-4086-5 .
• Olaf Brandt (Ed.): Illmenseer Erzählungen - Stories from young and old . Illmensee municipality, 2010,

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ See administration area Pfullendorf . In: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 , pp. 843-845. ( Illmensee )
3. ↑ See Illmensee . In: The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. ed. from D. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . P. 843ff.
4. ↑ See Badischer Denkmalrat, Department for Prehistory and Early History (Ed.): Badische Fundberichte. Official news bulletin for prehistoric and early historical research. 14th year 1938.
5. ↑ List entry Illmensee - Ruschweilersee ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on UNESCO World Heritage Site " Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps "
6. ↑ List entry Illmensee - Illmensee ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on UNESCO World Heritage " Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps "
7. ↑ ^{a b} From Illmensee to the highest . In: Wanderbar ... the most beautiful routes. Experience the Sigmaringen district . District Office Sigmaringen , Druckerei Schönebeck, Meßkirch 2004. pp. 34–36.
8. ^ 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. 503, 531 and 549 .
9. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office  ( 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.  
10. ↑ Second ballot necessary in Illmensee . In: Südkurier of October 9, 2011.
11. ↑ Jürgen Hoffmann becomes the new mayor . In: Südkurier of October 23, 2011.
12. ↑ Siegfried Volk (siv): A real friend comes citizens . In: Südkurier. dated December 22, 2011.
13. ↑ A local mayor for Illmensee: That was the mood after the announcement of Michael Reichle's election victory , accessed on 2020-01-30
14. ↑ Together for tourism . In: Südkurier of December 5, 2011.
15. ↑ Gudrun Beicht (at): Meeting of History Friends . In: Südkurier from June 26, 2008.
16. ^ Löbe: Concert in Loretto Chapel . In: Südkurier of May 12, 2010.
17. ↑ Kapellenplatz in Neubrunn should finally become more beautiful . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from May 20, 2010
18. ↑ Tenants want to extend . In: Südkurier from May 3, 2005
19. ↑ Forest witches, pirates and police officers - the hydrant path . In: Wanderbar ... the most beautiful routes. Experience the Sigmaringen district . District Office Sigmaringen, Druckerei Schönebeck, Meßkirch 2004, p. 32f.
20. ↑ Barbara Baur: Ostrach attracts most visitors . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of May 22, 2015
21. ↑ Timetable Emma 680. Accessed on April 13, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Gerd Ahrendt (ahr): Controversial areas . In: Südkurier of July 10, 2010.
23. ↑ Gerd Ahrendt (ahr), Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Headwind in Upper Swabia . In: Südkurier of July 10, 2010.
24. ↑ Brief information on business in Illmensee. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 
25. ^ Sabine Hug (hug): Monument for honorary citizens . In: Südkurier of October 27, 2011.
26. ^ Sabine Hug (hug): Memorial for Wendelin Rauch . In: Südkurier of December 13, 2011.
27. ↑ Steffan: "Xavier Reis honorary citizen of the three-lake community". In: "Südkurier" from January 11, 1988
28. ^ Gudrun Beicht: Bernhard Stadler made an honorary citizen . In: Südkurier of April 12, 2013

Web links

Commons : Illmensee  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality