Koenigseggwald

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Local government association:	Altshausen
Height :	661 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.85 km 2
Residents:	675 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	99 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88376
Area code :	07587
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 053
LOCODE :	DE KGG
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 17 ; 88376 Königseggwald
Website :	www.koenigseggwald.de
Mayor :	Roland Fuchs
Location of the municipality of Königseggwald in the Ravensburg district

Church in Königseggwald

Königseggwald is a municipality in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

Since 1972 she has been a member of the Altshausen community administration association based in Altshausen .

geography

Neighboring communities

Königseggwald borders, starting clockwise from the northeast, on the following communities: Hoßkirch , Guggenhausen and Riedhausen in the Ravensburg district and Ostrach in the Sigmaringen district .

history

The place Wald was important around 1000 as the burial place of the bailiffs of the Reichenau monastery . Later the place was probably connected with the castle Königsegg (today to Guggenhausen ).

On January 4, 1083, the nobles Hezelo and Hesso founded a monastery in Heratskirch in honor of St. George , of whom they owned relics . At the same time, Hezelo gave the village of Wald (Königseggwald) under the protection of Count Mangold von Alshausen , so that he could place the monastery in it under the Apostolic See. Hezelo planned to build the monastery in Upper Swabia , but the Hirsau abbot Wilhelm (1069-1091) insisted on relocating the foundation in order to largely withdraw the new monastery from secular influence. Finally they agreed on a place in the Black Forest as a place for the foundation of the monastery: Kloster Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest .

Around 1174 the place came under the control of the ministerial family of the Lords of Fronhofen , who later named themselves after the Königsegg castle. In 1311 they acquired the place as their property, in 1681 the family of Königsegg-Aulendorf, who had meanwhile risen to become imperial counts, moved their residence from the family castle to Königseggwald. Due to the mediation due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the area came to the Kingdom of Württemberg at the beginning of the 19th century , where it was assigned to the Oberamt Saulgau , the later district of the same name . When the district was dissolved in 1973, Königseggwald came to the Ravensburg district.

politics

Municipal council

Königseggwald is one of the municipalities in Baden-Württemberg in which the municipal council was elected by majority vote. There are no lists or groups in the majority vote. The municipal council consists of eight members. Since the local election on May 25, 2014, there has been a woman among them . The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

mayor

In October 2015, Roland Fuchs was re-elected for a fourth term.

coat of arms

The municipality of Königseggwald has a coat of arms awarded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior on April 21, 1975, which incorporates the coat of arms of the Count's family of Königsegg-Aulendorf (roughened red and gold) and, in connection with the fir tree as a symbol of the name -wald, a talking coat of arms represents.

Blazon : "In the split shield in front of red and gold (yellow) roughened diagonally, behind in gold (yellow) a green fir tree with roots."

Culture and sights

Buildings

Königseggwald Castle

Castle of the Counts of Königsegg , built on the site of a previous medieval building from 1765–1770 with the advice of the French architect Pierre Michel d'Ixnard
Catholic parish church of St. Georg , built in 1481 (late Gothic)
Former Franciscan convent . Convent building from 1711 (today used as the archive of the Count's House in Königsegg-Aulendorf, rent and forest office and for residential purposes)

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Around 1820, a count's brewery was founded in Königseggwald , which, after being taken over by Fridolin Härle from 1900 to 2003 , traded as the Härle brewery (not to be confused with the Clemens Härle brewery , a brother of Fridolin Härle in Leutkirch or the Gräflich run by another brother Königsegg'schen Brewery in Aulendorf). From 2002 to 2003 the brewery was saved from closure by a citizens 'initiative, renamed Königsegger WalderBräu AG and since then has been extensively modernized on the basis of "citizens' shares" (registered shares with restricted transferability), the dividends of which are paid in beer. Former master brewer was Martin Härle, a great-grandson of Fridolin Härle.

Personalities

Joseph Staader von Adelsheim (* 1738 in Königseggwald; † November 12, 1808 in Vienna), officer ( Feldzeugmeister ) during the coalition wars

Carl Härle (born August 26, 1879 in Königseggwald; † August 26, 1950 in Mülheim an der Ruhr), industry manager and works director at August Thyssen & Co

Anna Bertha Königsegg (born May 9, 1883 in Königseggwald; † December 12, 1948 in Salzburg ), Catholic nun and resistance fighter during the National Socialist era