Oberstdorf

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Oberstdorf
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Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 17'  E

Basic data
State : Bavaria
Administrative region : Swabia
County : Oberallgäu
Height : 813 m above sea level NHN
Area : 229.84 km 2
Residents: 9696 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 87561
Area code : 08322
License plate : OA
Community key : 09 7 80 133
Market structure: 44 districts

Market administration address : 		Prinzregenten-Platz 1
87561 Oberstdorf
Website : markt-oberstdorf.de
Mayor : Klaus King
Location of the Oberstdorf market in the Oberallgäu district
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Oberstdorf is a market in the Bavarian district of Oberallgäu in Germany .

The climatic health and Kneipp health resort with its alpine ski areas on the Nebelhorn , the Söllereck and the Fellhorn / Kanzelwand , the cross-country ski trails, the ice stadium and also the ski jumping hill and the ski jumping hill serves as a winter sports area and is also a popular destination for mountaineers.

geography

View of Oberstdorf (summer)
View of Oberstdorf (winter)
The Nebelhorn, Oberstdorf's local mountain

Geographical location

Oberstdorf, the southernmost municipality in Germany, is located in the Oberstdorf Basin in the Illertal , in the Allgäu Alps . The Iller origin is near Oberstdorf. With an area of ​​230 km², Oberstdorf is the third largest municipality in the Free State of Bavaria after the state capital Munich and Lenggries . It is 813 meters above sea level (measuring point at the Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist ). The highest peak in the village and in all of Swabia is the Hochfrottspitze .

The Haldenwanger Eck , the southernmost point in Germany, is located 17 kilometers southwest of the town center . Because of this fact, Oberstdorf is a member of the Zipfelbund .

Community structure

Oberstdorf has 44 districts :

Five localities are to be highlighted:

  • Kornau is 915 meters above sea level. The Söllereckbahn and the St. Fabian and St. Sebastian Chapel, rich in art treasures, are nearby .
  • In Reichenbach (226 inhabitants) there is the 450 year old St. Jakobus chapel and the moor water bathing establishment.
  • The small town of Rubi has 175 inhabitants.
  • The farmhouses around the baroque onion dome of the parish church are typical of Schöllang . Nearby is the castle church from 1531.
  • The village of Tiefenbach takes its name from the mountain pines that occur there . The village lies on a terrace above the Breitach. Tiefenbach can prove a centuries-old spa tradition, which it owes to its sulfur spring. As early as the late 15th century, counts and other high-ranking personalities cured their suffering here.

Valleys

View from Gaißalphorn to Oberstdorf

A number of high valleys can be reached from Oberstdorf, which are not only very attractive in terms of landscape, but are often also at the beginning of an extensive mountain hike. The list shows the great valleys with their side valleys.

Oytal and Dietersbachtal are separated by Höfats and Rauheck . Gerstruben , Germany's highest village, lies at the beginning of the Dietersbach valley.

The Rappenalptal is the longest of the valleys and leads past Germany's southernmost town, Einödsbach , near Haldenwanger Eck , the southernmost point in Germany. At the end of the valley, the Schrofen Pass leads to Austria .

mountains

The Allgäu Alps reach a height of over 2600 meters in the Oberstdorf area and belong to the Northern Limestone Alps . The most famous peaks in Oberstdorf are:

Lakes

Oberstdorf has numerous lakes at different altitudes:

climate

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Min. Temperature (° C) −5 −4 -1 3 7th 10 12 12 9 4th 0 −4 O 3.6
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Precipitation ( mm ) 125.8 111.8 127.6 121.0 139.9 210.1 229.1 199.8 145.2 114.6 141.8 134.5 Σ 1,801.2
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history

prehistory

Traces of Mesolithic hunters can be found near Oberstdorf up to an altitude of 1400 m above sea level.

Roman times, settlement by Alemanni

After the Limes was abandoned as the border of the Roman Empire around 260 , settlement by Alemanni north of the Danube began in the decades that followed. South of the Danube, however, this settlement did not begin until the second half of the 5th century. The upper Illertal between Sonthofen and Oberstdorf was one of the main settlement areas.

Until the 18th century

Oberstdorf was first mentioned in a document in 1141 by the dedicatory inscription in the church. The district of Kornau is first mentioned as Corneja in an Isny monastery document. The church set in Obrostdorf was sold to the Heimhofen family in 1351 by Adelheid von Waldburg . Ulrich von Heimhofen receives lower jurisdiction over Oberstdorf in 1422 . A few years later, in 1440, the Heimhofen family sold half of their property to the Augsburg bishopric . In 1477 the rest of the property in Oberstdorf passed to the Augsburg prince-bishop Johann II von Werdenberg . King Maximilian , who later became emperor , granted Oberstdorf market rights and high jurisdiction in 1495 .

When the Narrow Kaldic army was in the Allgäu in July 1546 , preachers in Oberstdorf were asked to fight the Anabaptists. The Schwenckfeldians inherited their inheritance in Swabia . Count Hugo von Montfort built a bath at the sulfur spring in Tiefenbach, which is considered to be the forerunner of today's spa business. In his Cosmographia , Sebastian Münster mentions the sulfur bath in "Teuffenbach", which is beneficial for the "Feber" (fever). The bath house was renovated in 1644 by Count Hugo von Königsegg . During the Thirty Years' War the place suffered from Swedish soldiers who plundered it several times, for example in 1632, 1634 and the last time in 1647. Around 700 people died of the Black Death in 1634/1635 . After Gustav Adolf's victory near Rain am Lech (April 15, 1632), Duke Bernhard von Weimar advanced with Swedish troops to Oberstdorf. But by 1635 the Protestant troops had to evacuate the Allgäu, which remained untouched by the war for the next few years.

In 1787 the Oberstdorfers built their first schoolhouse.

19th century

On May 5 and May 6, 1865, a conflagration raged, which killed 146 houses. Two thirds of the building stock was destroyed and the town hall had to be rebuilt. In 1885 there were already 2,353 spa guests in town. The Sonthofen- Oberstdorf railway connection was put into operation in 1888. The tourism has significant economic factor.

Oberstdorf around 1900

20th century

The Breitachklamm opened to visitors in 1905. The Schattenbergschanze experienced its first ski jumping in 1926 with the longest measured distance of 35 meters. The Nebelhornbahn has been transporting visitors to the Alpine world since 1930 . In 1937 the community became a climatic health resort and since 1964 it has been an efficient Kneipp health resort .

In 1950 the Söllereckbahn was built on the Söllereck mountain . In the same year the first week of ski flying took place on the new ski flying hill.

The Fellhornbahn started operating in 1972. Furthermore, the construction of the Heini-Klopfer ski flying hill was started. One year later the first ski flying world championships took place in Oberstdorf.

In 1992 the town center was closed to car traffic. Those arriving by car can use around 1,000 parking spaces at the entrance to the village and take a bus to get to the center of the village. A pedestrian zone covers large parts of the village center, the remaining areas are largely traffic-calmed.

Population development

Between 1988 and 2018, the population of the market town was the only one in the Oberallgäu district to decline, from 10,029 to 9,707, or by 3.2%.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Tiefenbach near Oberstdorf and the places Schöllang, Reichenbach and Rubi were incorporated into the former municipality of Schöllang.

religion

Parish Church of St. Johannes Baptist in Oberstdorf
Inside the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist

During the Reformation , the Anabaptist movement found a strong response in Oberstdorf. However, the movement was strongly persecuted and the Anabaptists' property was confiscated. For centuries Protestants were no longer tolerated, so that there was only the Roman Catholic Church in Oberstdorf.

Today Oberstdorf belongs to Region IV (Kempten) or to the deanery Sonthofen of the Diocese of Augsburg . It is the seat of a parish and several subsidiary churches and curatia. The Catholic parish “St. Johannes Baptist ”is one of the largest in terms of area in the diocese of Augsburg .

It was not until 1873 that the first Protestant church service was held for spa guests in Oberstdorf. In 1905 the foundation stone was laid for the Evangelical Lutheran church designed by the Berlin architect Ludwig von Tiedemann ; today's Christ Church . Since 1942 there has been an independent parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in Oberstdorf . The surrounding places are partly affiliated with the Protestant parish.

The independent parish of Fischen im Allgäu as well as the parish vicariate of Kleinwalsertal with the Kreuzkirche Hirschegg and thus an extensive diaspora area also belong to the Evangelical Christ Church Community of Oberstdorf . The Protestant parish of Oberstdorf itself has 1,500 parishioners with primary residences and 700 with secondary residences. A parish priest and a guest chaplain also take care of the numerous mountain worship services on the surrounding peaks during the hiking season - in ecumenical cooperation .

In addition to the Catholic and Protestant churches, there are a number of churches and chapels in Oberstdorf.

politics

Municipal council

Since the local election on March 16, 2014 with a turnout of 62.1%, the Oberstdorf municipal council has been composed as follows:

Party / list Share of votes Seats
CSU 29.6% 6th
SPD 04.4% 1
Alliance 90 / The Greens 08.8% 2
Free voters Bavaria 31.9% 6th
Independent Oberstdorf List (UOL) 13.3% 3
Alliance for Oberstdorf / FDP (AO / FDP) 12.2% 2

In addition, the directly elected mayor belongs to the municipal council.

mayor

A list of the Oberstdorf mayors since 1795. The official designation, however, was judicial administrator until 1806, community leader until 1869 and mayor since then.

Period mayor
1795-1815 Franz Xaver Huber
1815-1833 Joh. Martin Brutscher
1833-1839 Lukas Brack
1840-1845 Ignaz Gschwender
1845-1854 Alois Rietzler
1854-1869 Jos. Anton Dünsser
1869-1888 Franz Paul Brack
1888-1902 Ludwig Vogler
1902-1911 Ludwig Fischer
Period mayor
1912-1919 Fritz Gschwender
1919-1924 Ludwig Hochfeichter
1925-1929 Magnus Haas
1930 – March 1933 Thomas Neidhart
1934-1945 Ludwig Fink
May 1945 – Sep. 1945 Thomas Neidhart
Sep 1945 – Oct. 1945 Otto Kerle
Oct. 1945 – Aug. 1946 Johann Gehring
1946-1948 Josef Braxmair
Period mayor
1948-1952 Otto Kerle
1952-1960 Hermann Schallhammer
1960-1973 Dr. Paul Dreher
1973-2002 Eduard Geyer
May 2002-2008 Thomas Müller
May 2008-May 2020 Laurent Mies
from May 2020 Klaus King

Partnerships

  • FranceFranceThere is a partnership with the French community of Megève in Haute-Savoie . Just like Oberstdorf, it is a tourist village with a lot of skiing and hiking tourism.
  • GermanyGermanyGerman partner communities of Oberstdorf are the other tip communities of the Federal Republic of Germany, i.e. the communities that are furthest north, east and west. These are the Schleswig-Holstein List on Sylt , the Saxon Görlitz and the North Rhine-Westphalian Selfkant . The first meeting of all mayors of this city partnership on May 9 and 10, 1998 in Selfkant was initiated and organized by the journalist Hartmut Urban. After this meeting, the Zipfelbund was concluded on the occasion of the central celebrations for the Day of German Unity in 1999 in Wiesbaden .

Culture and sights

Worth seeing

Soul chapel
Memorial for children in the spa gardens
“Wilde Mändle” statue in Oberstdorf at the train station

Architectural monuments

Wilde Mändles dance

The Wilde Mändle is a symbolic figure from the Wilde Mändles dance . It is performed every five years.

It is also known to drive in Klaus , a custom on Christmas Eve every year.

Regular events

Economy and Infrastructure

Pedestrian zone

tourism

With 17,000 beds and 2.4 million overnight stays per year, the place is one of the tourist magnets in Germany. Contributing to this are 200 kilometers of hiking trails at three different altitudes, 76 kilometers of cross-country ski trails, 20 ski lifts on Fellhorn , Nebelhorn and Söllereck and, through the union of the winter sports destinations Oberstdorf and the neighboring Kleinwalsertal , 130 kilometers of alpine downhill runs. About 75 percent of the municipality is under landscape or nature protection.

Sports

Oberstdorf ski jumping hill on the Schattenberg ( Audi Arena )
Heini-Klopfer ski jumping hill

Sports, especially winter sports, are of particular importance in Oberstdorf. Through the Oberstdorf - Kleinwalsertal ski alliance , a total of 130 kilometers of slopes can be reached via the various mountain railways ( Nebelhorn , Fellhorn / Kanzelwand , Söllereck , Walmendingerhorn and Ifen ). There are also 140 kilometers of prepared winter hiking trails and 75 kilometers of trails available. The sports of curling , figure skating , cross-country skiing and ski jumping are promoted through an ice sports center with an Olympic base and sports boarding school . The two-time German figure skating champion from 2001 and 2003 Silvio Smalun , the world figure skating champion from 2012 Carolina Kostner and the European curling champions 2002 and 2004 around Skip Sebastian Stock train there.

Four Hills Tournament

Every year the Four Hills Tournament in ski jumping starts in Oberstdorf . The competition has existed since 1953. At that time, however, Oberstdorf was the second stop after Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The jump takes place on the Schattenberg in the Audi Arena .

International ski flying weeks

In the years 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1976 and 1979 international ski flying weeks were held in Oberstdorf .

Ski flying

Oberstdorf is one of the few places in the world that can host competitions in ski flying . The competitions are held on the Heini-Klopfer ski flying hill . In 1984, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010 and in February 2011 and 2017 Oberstdorf hosted the Ski Flying World Cup. In 2018, after 1973, 1981, 1988, 1998 and 2008, the location hosted the ski flying world championships for the sixth time .

Nordic World Ski Championships

Oberstdorf was the venue for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 and 2005 . When applying for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2019 , Seefeld in Tirol was defeated in the third ballot.

At the FIS Congress 2016 in Cancún / Mexico, Oberstdorf was awarded the contract for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2021 .

Other sports

  • Cross-country World Cup: 1986, 1996, 2004

2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 stage of the Tour de Ski

  • Curling
    • 1987 - European Curling Championship
    • 1992 - Curling Junior World Championships
    • 1994 - World Curling Championships
    • 2000 - European Curling Championship
  • Snowboard World Cup: 1998, 1999, 2001
  • Others
    • 1999 - Short-Track EM
    • 2002 - Freestyle World Cup on the mogul slope
    • 2004 - Nordic Combined World Cup
    • 2005 - Freestyle World Cup on the mogul slope ( Fellhorn )
    • 2007 - Tour de Ski , two World Cups in ski jumping (as a replacement for the planned ski flying), World Cup Nordic Combined
    • 2008 - World Ski Flying Championships

Well-known athletes from Oberstdorf

Long-distance hiking trail

The European long-distance hiking trail E5 leads in a north-south direction through Oberstdorf. The first crossing of the Alps on a mountain bike by Andreas Heckmair started here and has since been a popular entry point for a transalp (see Heckmair route ). A newer variant of the route is the Joe Route , which also leads from Oberstdorf over the Alps by mountain bike.

Via ferrata and high-altitude trails

traffic

Oberstdorf train station

The Oberstdorf train station is the end point of the single-track and non-electrified railway from Immenstadt . It was named the best small-town train station of 2006 by the Pro Schiene Alliance . In the immediate vicinity of Oberstdorf also runs the federal highway 19 , which has been expanded to four lanes further north from Sonthofen . The only way to get to the Austrian neighboring valley, the Kleinwalsertal, is via the B19 . The city center of Oberstdorf has been car-free since 1992.

Oberstdorf has two aerial tramways , the Fellhornbahn and the Nebelhornbahn , which goes to the starting point of the Hindelang via ferrata , as well as two circulating gondolas, the Fellhornbahn II and the Söllereckbahn . Due to its location near the border, Oberstdorf is the starting point for numerous two-country mountain tours between Germany and Austria.

The Iller cycle path between Ulm and the Allgäu ends in Oberstdorf .

Energy supply with renewable energies

Power house of the hydroelectric power stationaltenbach (near Oybelestadion)

With a total of 12 hydropower plants , in particular the completed in 2011 hydroelectric plant Faltenbach, and a variety of photovoltaic - solar systems , Oberstdorf can be about 50 percent of its electric energy needs with renewable energies cover.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Personalities who were born in the place

Johann Schraudolph, 1855

Personalities who are connected to the place

Prince Regent Monument (1912) in Oberstdorf

panorama

Climate table

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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.9 4.4 8.1 11.4 16.7 19.1 21.7 21.5 18.2 13.6 7.2 3.6 O 12.4
Min. Temperature (° C) −6.6 −6.1 −2.8 0.3 4.6 7.9 10.2 10.1 6.8 2.8 −2.4 −5.3 O 1.7
Precipitation ( mm ) 125.8 111.8 127.6 121.0 139.9 210.1 229.1 199.8 145.2 114.6 141.8 134.5 Σ 1,801.2
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.4 3.1 4.1 4.4 5.4 5.5 6.5 5.9 5.1 4.4 2.5 2.2 O 4.3
Rainy days ( d ) 12.0 10.9 13.3 13.9 14.7 17.1 15.9 15.0 12.1 10.8 12.0 12.8 Σ 160.5
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Web links

Commons : Oberstdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Oberstdorf  - travel guide
 Wikinews: Railway stations of the year 2006: Hamburg Dammtor and Oberstdorf  - message

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Zipfelbund (Oberstdorf, Sylt, Selfkant, Görlitz). In: zipfelbund.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Oberstdorf community in the local database of the Bavarian State Library Online . Bavarian State Library, accessed on August 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Compass hiking, bike and ski tour map: Sheet 03 Oberstdorf, Kleinwalsertal (1: 25,000). ISBN 978-3-8549-1231-6 (as of 2009)
  5. ^ German Weather Service: Climatic Information Oberstdorf. World Meteorological Organization, accessed January 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Birgit Gehlen: Stone Age finds in the eastern Allgäu , in: Hansjörg Küster : Vom Werden einer Kulturlandschaft , Weinheim 1988, pp. 195–209, here: pp. 199 f. ( academia.edu )
  7. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History , Vol. III, 2: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . Newly published by Andreas Kraus, CH Beck, Munich 2017, p. 130
  8. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbuch der Bavarian Geschichte , Vol. III, 2: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century , re-edited by Andreas Kraus, CH Beck, Munich 2017, p. 255
  9. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History , Vol. III, 2: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . Newly published by Andreas Kraus, CH Beck, Munich 2017, p. 268
  10. ↑ Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History , Vol. III, 2: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . Newly published by Andreas Kraus, CH Beck, Munich 2017, p. 265
  11. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 571 .
  12. ^ Karl Hofmann: Oberstdorf im Allgäu - A guide through place and landscape . 33rd edition. Verlag Karl Hofmann, Oberstdorf 1989, p. 52
  13. ↑ Congregational letter of the Evangelical Christ Church Community in Oberstdorf, 2008 edition
  14. ↑ Churches and chapels . In: oberstdorf.de, accessed on September 14, 2019
  15. ↑ The election supervisor of Markt Oberstdorf: Announcement of the result of the election of the market council on March 16, 2014 . In: amazonaws.com, accessed September 14, 2019
  16. ↑ Oberstdorf mayor. A look into the past. A list of the Oberstdorf mayors since 1795. (No longer available online.) In: oberstdorf.de. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015 ; accessed on September 14, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Mountain costume and heritage protection association Oberstdorf e. V. Wilde Mändle dance. In: trachtenverein-oberstdorf.de , accessed on September 14, 2019
  18. ^ Wilde Mändle dance. In: oberstdorf.de , accessed on September 14, 2019
  19. ↑ a b Riikka Rakic ​​/ FIS: Seven applications for 2018 and 2019 FIS World Championships. In: forum-nordicum.info , May 4, 2013 (English)
  20. ↑ Seefeld (AUT), Are (SWE), Oberstdorf (GER) and Park City (USA) win ( Memento from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: fis-ski.com , June 5, 2014, accessed June 5, 2014 (English)
  21. ↑ (sid): Oberstdorf is subject to Seefeld in the race for the Ski World Cup 2019. World Cup application. In: rp-online.de . June 5, 2014, accessed on September 14, 2019 ( SID message).
  22. ↑ Seefeld and Almaty are also competing for the 2019 World Cup. (No longer available online.) In: skispringen.com. March 5, 2016, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on September 14, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Brochure "Hydroelectric Power Plant Foldbach" (PDF; 7.6 MB) Energy from nature. Kraftwerkaltenbach GmbH & Co KG, September 19, 2011, p. 16 , accessed on August 3, 2015 : "In Oberstdorf there are currently 12 hydropower plants, of which 3 are small, 7 are small and 2 are medium-sized."
  24. ↑ Laurent O. Mies: Brochure "Hydroelectric Power Plant Foldbach". (PDF; 7.6 MB) Energy from nature. Kraftwerkaltenbach GmbH & Co KG, September 19, 2011, p. 1 , accessed on August 3, 2015 : "With the new power plant, electricity generation on site will be able to cover almost 50 percent of the consumption in Oberstdorf."
  25. ↑ Power generation. Ecological and economical power generation is in the foreground for the Oberstdorf energy supply. A large part of the electricity required is obtained from our own, renewable energy sources. (No longer available online.) In: oberstdorf.de. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015 ; accessed on September 14, 2019 : "By generating electricity with renewable energy such as hydropower and photovoltaics, about 50% of the electricity required in Oberstdorf is obtained."
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  27. ^ Allgäuer announcement sheet . September 11, 2009, p. 30: Citizen's Medal for Alfred Vogler
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