Manzell

Manzell City of Friedrichshafen Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 25 ′ 50 ″ E
Height :	418 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1 205 km²
Postal code :	88048
Area code :	07541

Manzell is a district of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance .

history

Manzell was first mentioned in a document in 897 as Manuncella. The second mention comes from the year 1229. The existing chapel was owned by the Lords of Summerau, who donated it to the Weißenau monastery , which owned it in the 14th / 15th centuries. Century increased. The local rule always remained with Weißenau, the high authority was incumbent on the Austrian Landvogtei Swabia . The place belonged from 1854 to the municipality Schnetzenhausen and was reclassified with this in 1937 to Friedrichshafen.

Manzell domain

In 1827, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg had various owners buy a larger area in Manzell for his private property. Exemplary livestock farming and modern fruit growing were practiced on this royal private estate. With other property in Friedrichshafen and the surrounding area, Manzell came to the Hofdomänenkammer in 1838 as the private asset manager of the regent family. For decades the domain was run by the court domain chamber, which employed an estate manager. The estate had been leased since 1910. Due to rapid industrialization and the transfer of land to the Zeppelin works, the domain area shrank.

Heavy air raids destroyed the buildings of the domain in 1944. After the end of the Second World War, the tenants built an orchard and ran a chicken hatchery. However, the urban area of Friedrichshafen grew more and more. After a larger building area on the domain was developed in 1970 and the Lake Constance School was founded as a Catholic private school, the court chamber of the House of Württemberg dissolved the lease at the end of 1974.

Industry

Zeppelin swimming pool in Manzell Bay (1907)

Manzell played a major role in the industrial history of Friedrichshafen in the “Manzell Decade” from the turn of the century to 1910.

The airship assembly hall for the zeppelins , which was put into operation in 1899, was located in Manzell Bay - first as a swimming pool about 600 meters from the shore area and a few workshops and from 1904 on the shore with a permanent (land) hall that burned down in 1918.

The first ascent of LZ 1 ( airship Zeppelin 1 ) also took place in Manzell Bay on July 2, 1900. After Theodor Kober had produced naval aircraft in Manzell during the First World War, Claude Dornier founded the Dornier-Werke there , a company that produced aircraft there until the end of the Second World War. After the factories were destroyed by Allied air raids, the company relocated. Later the company Porsche-Diesel Motorenbau built tractors there.

Today, MTU Friedrichshafen's Plant 2 is located here , where final assembly of diesel engines is carried out.

traffic

Manzell is on federal highway 31 . There is also the Friedrichshafen-Manzell stop on the Radolfzell-Friedrichshafen railway line .

literature

Ernst Haller (ed.): 1250 years of Fischbach am Bodensee, Manzell and column stone. On the trail of history . Friedrichshafen 2014. pp. 92-105.
Eberhard Fritz: The Manzell domain is owned by the House of Württemberg. In: Friedrichshafen Yearbook for History and Culture 6/2014. Pp. 142-175.

Individual evidence

^ Eberhard Fritz: The domain Manzell owned by the House of Württemberg. In: Ernst Haller, 1250 years of Fischbach am Bodensee, Manzell and column stone, pp. 92-105.

[1] Eberhard Fritz: The domain Manzell owned by the House of Württemberg. In: Ernst Haller, 1250 years of Fischbach am Bodensee, Manzell and column stone, pp. 92-105.