Eggingen

The title of this article is ambiguous. For a district of Ulm see Eggingen (Ulm) ; for a desolation with this name see Büsingen am Hochrhein

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Waldshut
Height :	459 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.95 km 2
Residents:	1704 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79805
Area code :	07746
License plate :	WT
Community key :	08 3 37 124
Address of the municipal administration:	Bürgerstrasse 7 79805 Eggingen
Website :	www.eggingen.de
Mayor :	Karlheinz Gantert (CDU)
Location of the community Eggingen in the district of Waldshut

Eggingen is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

geography

location

The municipality of Eggingen is located between the southern Black Forest and Klettgau directly on the border with the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen at 430 m to 680 m above sea level.

Untereggingen lies on the Wutach , a tributary of the Rhine .

Obereggingen is located in a side valley of the Wutach.

Community structure

The municipality of Eggingen consists of the former municipalities of Obereggingen and Untereggingen. The village of Obereggingen belongs to the former municipality of Obereggingen. The village of Untereggingen, the Schönbrunnen settlement and the houses Grafenwiesen, Greutwiesen and Im Heidelbach belong to the former municipality of Untereggingen.

Neighboring places

• Ofteringen (municipality of Wutöschingen ),
• Unter- and Obermettingen (municipality of Ühlingen-Birkendorf ),
• Mauchen and Eberfingen (both town of Stühlingen ),
• and the hamlet of Wunderklingen in the Swiss community of Hallau (Canton Schaffhausen)

history

Early history

Eggingen was first mentioned in a document from Heinrich IV in 1071. The community area was settled 4800 years ago (stool graves). In Roman times there was an early Roman military camp and a Roman estate . There was a castle on the Burghalde. The ruin is still visible from the air. This was about 75 meters long and 25 meters wide. From the keep it was quite possible to monitor the Wutach valley. The view of the Küssaburg was clear. Many houses were built with the stones from the castle ruins, not only along the winter path, but also in Waldshuter Straße. The old chapel stood on a ledge and was built and consecrated in 1454. This was aligned with the tower to the east. It stood for almost 500 years and fell victim to an earthquake. The chapel was demolished in 1913 and the current chapel was built about ten years later. The cross of the old chapel has been restored in the present chapel.

Incorporations

Today's community was formed on December 1, 1971 by the union of the communities Obereggingen and Untereggingen.

Coats of arms of the earlier municipalities

• 

  Obereggingen

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  Untereggingen

politics

Administrative community

Eggingen has joined forces with the neighboring municipality of Wutöschingen to form an agreed administrative community.

Municipal council

The municipal council in Eggingen has 10 members. It consists of the voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the local council was elected by majority vote. Majority voting takes place if no or only one nomination has been submitted. The applicants with the highest number of votes are then elected. The turnout was 64.76%.

mayor

The mayor of Eggingen is Karlheinz Gantert.

Culture and sights

Eggingen Church

Buildings

• The Catholic parish church of St. Gallus is located in Obereggingen and was completed in 1869 - after the major fire of 1854.

Economy and Infrastructure

Underpass in the southern part of Eggingen

traffic

Eggingen is on the B 314 , which connects the Hochrheinautobahn A 98 with the Singen (Hohentwiel) ( A 81 ) junction .

The well-known Wutach Valley Railway runs through the Untereggingen district , and there are shuttle services to the museum railway to Weizen . Since December 15, 2014, a regional train has also been running once a day shortly after 1 p.m. from Waldshut to Eggingen, which is primarily intended for schoolchildren.

media

The monopoly newspaper Südkurier is represented in Eggingen with its branch Alb-Bote . There are also the advertising papers “WOM” and “Anzeiger Hochrhein”.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ferdinand Hasenfratz (born July 7, 1858 in Untereggingen; † May 1, 1943), local poet
• Friedrich Haas (born July 13, 1896 in Untereggingen; † May 8, 1988 in Munich), lawyer and politician (CDU), Senator in Berlin
• Anton Hilbert (born December 24, 1898 in Untereggingen; † February 16, 1986 in Stühlingen), politician (CDU), member of the state and Bundestag
• Karl Raatz (born December 13, 1930 in Kolberg; † February 5, 2020 in Eggingen) multiple European champion in ship model building

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Nomination event for local elections on May 26, 2019 | CDU district association Waldshut. Retrieved May 17, 2019 . 
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 1049-1050
4. ^ 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. 505 .
5. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
6. ↑ Ship model builder Karl Raatz. Retrieved February 9, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Eggingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Eggingen community