Madach (landscape)
The landscape north and northwest of Stockach in the south of what is now the German state of Baden-Württemberg used to be called Madach .
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An exact boundary description of the Madach is not known. Its center was probably the Madachhof , today a hamlet of the municipality of Mühlingen , which was one of the largest farms in the whole of Hegau . The wealth came from the wealthy Salem Monastery , which had large estates in Madach.
The area of the Madach extended from Heudorf in the west, Meßkirch in the north, Bietingen , Boll and Waldsberg in the east and Stockach in the south to Münchhöf in the south-west. In Stockacher Hauptstrasse, a boundary stone marks the southernmost point of the Madach, here the border with Hegau.
On the threshold from the Middle Ages to the early modern period (16th / 17th century), the places Hoppetenzell and Heudorf (15th / 16th century), Schwackenreute (1528), Gallmannsweil (16th century) and Mühlingen (17th century) were established .) as "located in the Madach". Later, during the Austrian period, there was the Madacher Amt in the Landgraviate of Nellenburg . The villages of Holzach , Ober- and Unterschwandorf and Volkertsweiler belonged to him .
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The name Madach is said to be derived from the Latin madidus = "moist". The Madach was therefore probably an area that was criss-crossed by swamps, lakes and streams.
At the Schwackenreutere train station there are still the so-called Madachwiesen .
literature
- Wolfgang Kramer: The Madach and the Madachhof . In: Mühlingen, a common local history of the Madachdörfer Gallmannsweil, Mainwangen, Mühlingen, Schwackenreute and Zoznegg (= Hegau library . Volume 135 ). MarkOrPlan Hegau-Bodensee, Singen (Hohentwiel) 2007, ISBN 978-3-933356-48-2 , p. 23 ff .