Oggelshausen

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Oggelshausen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 39'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Biberach
Height : 594 m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.12 km 2
Residents: 956 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 73 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 88422, 88400
Area code : 07582
License plate : BC
Community key : 08 4 26 090
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Schulstrasse 5
88422 Oggelshausen
Website : www.oggelshausen.de
Mayor : Ralf Kriz
Location of the municipality of Oggelshausen in the Biberach district
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Oggelshausen Church

Oggelshausen is an Upper Swabian community directly on the Federsee in the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Oggelshausen was first mentioned in a document in 1084.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Oggelshausen has eight 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 65.9% (2014: 58.8%).

mayor

The mayor is elected for an eight-year term. The current incumbent Ralf Kriz was re-elected in September 2013 with 73.17% of the vote, his term of office ends on November 30, 2021.

  • 1984-2005: Alois Dangel
  • since 2005: Ralf Kriz

Culture and sights

Oggelshausen sculpture field: sculpture by Josef Nadj, 2000
  • Sculpture field: In 1969 and 1970 two international sculpture symposia with a total of 15 sculptors from five countries took place in Oggelshausen . The 15 stone sculptures they created can be viewed as the “Oggelshausen Sculpture Field”. At the "European Sculpture Symposium 2000" 10 new sculptures were added.

Buildings

  • Catholic parish church St. Laurentius and St. Agatha : Today's parish church was built in the years 1901–1902 according to plans by the church builder Ulrich Pohlhammer on the site of a more than 500-year-old predecessor church, which last had a baroque design. The tower from 1715 was preserved. The three-aisled basilica with retracted choir is kept entirely in the neo-Gothic style in accordance with the construction time. In 1914 it received a high-quality, all wall surfaces and the vaulted ceiling by the Bubenhofer company from Gossen near St. Gallen and the Eisele company from Alleshausen.
  • further cultural monuments are recorded in the list of cultural monuments in Oggelshausen .

literature

  • Johann Daniel Georg v. Memminger: Community of Oggelshausen , from description of the Riedlingen District Office . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1827 ( full text at Wikisource )

Web links

Commons : Oggelshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Oggelshausen  - in the description of the Oberamt Riedlingen from 1827

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
  3. ↑ Website of the pastoral care unit Federsee , building history and description of the Church of St. Laurentius and St. Agatha, accessed on March 24, 2019