Ostrach

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Ostrach
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Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Sigmaringen
Height : 611 m above sea level NHN
Area : 108.91 km 2
Residents: 6757 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 88356
Area code : 07585
License plate : SIG
Community key : 08 4 37 086
Community structure: 12 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Hauptstrasse 19
88356 Ostrach
Website : www.ostrach.de
Mayor : Christoph Schulz ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ostrach in the district of Sigmaringen
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Ostrach is the largest municipality in the district of Sigmaringen and is located on its southern edge in Upper Swabia . The Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse , the Hohenzollernstrasse and the Schwäbische Dichterstrasse run through Ostrach .

geography

Geographical location

Ostrach lies between the Danube and Lake Constance , Sigmaringen and Ravensburg , Bad Saulgau and Pfullendorf on the eponymous river , which here by a narrow point between two moraines move - as the car hard in the East - the Rhine glacier from the last ice flowing therethrough and the Burgweiler-Pfrunger Ried to Drained towards the Danube. The landscape is hilly and wooded. By gravel mining in two gravel pits are lakes north and south of the district emerged Jettkofen. The community covers around 10,893 hectares (as of December 31, 2010), with 757 hectares of settlement and traffic area.

Community structure

The municipality of Ostrach distinguishes between the main town of Ostrach (with the hamlet of Dichtenhausen ) and the towns of Burgweiler (with the sub-towns of Waldbeuren , Ochsenbach , Oberochsenbach , Zoznegg , Egelreute , Ulzhausen , Hahnennest , Mettenbuch and the farms of Freudenberg , Rothenbühl and Sturmberg ), Jettkofen , Kalkreute- Spöck (with the suburbs Kalkreute and Spöck as well as the farm Arnoldsberg ), Laubbach (with the suburbs Oberweiler and Unterweiler as well as the houses Laubbacher Mühle and the Wüstung Oberstirndorf ), Magenbuch-Lausheim (with the suburbs Magenbuch and Lausheim , the Junghof , the Weihermühle and the Sternberg desert ), Tafertsweiler (with the suburbs Bachhaupten , Eschendorf , Gunzenhausen and Wirnsweiler and the Birkweiler desert ), Wangen and Weithart (with the suburbs Eimühle , Einhart , Habsthal , Bernweiler and Levertsweiler and the Werlishausen desert ).

coat of arms Localities Population
(as of July 31, 2014) 		Area
(as of December 31, 2010)
Ostrach Ostrach (main town) 3559 0916 hectares  (ha)
Burgweiler Burgweiler 0960 2474 ha
Jettkofen Jettkofen 0253 0431 ha
KalkreuteSpöck Kalkreute-Spöck 0223 0779 ha
No coat of arms available Laubbach 0222 0853 ha
Stomach book Stomach book Lausheim 0262 1651 ha
Tafertsweiler Tafertsweiler 0292 1950 ha
Cheeks Cheeks 0139 0283 ha
No coat of arms available Far hard 0769 1555 ha

Protected areas

In the area of ​​the municipality of Ostrach there are currently three nature reserves , the Pfrunger-Burgweiler Ried , the Schwarze Moos and the Taubenried , three landscape protection areas , the typical Upper Swabian meltwater landscape Altshausen-Laubbach-Fleischwangen , the area around the Lausheimer Weiher and the Taubenried, and the bird sanctuary Pfrunger and Burgweiler Ried (as of March 2015).

history

Map with the "Description of the East Rachian District" (1697)
The territorial structure of the Ostrach area between 1815 and 1952

Until the 18th century

The oldest documented mention of Ostrach dates from the year 851, although metal finds from the Copper Age have already been found here . Several burial mounds from the Early Iron Age and Late Hallstatt Period can be found in the Ostrachtal , including the “Dreibühl” in Laubbacher Holz or in the Dachsbau forest near Tafertsweiler. In the time of the Roman Empire , the Roman road Altshausen – Ostrach – Wangen – Habsthal – Krauchenwies passed here. In addition, Roman remains were found near the elevated water tank.

In 1317 the municipality and the main town were divided between the county of Friedberg (east) and the county of Sigmaringen (west). The border was formed from the north by the Ostrach to the bridge (by the church) and from there to the road via Laubbach to Riedhausen. Beginning in the 13th century until 1324, the Ostrach-Burgweiler-Bachhaupten area gradually passed from the imperial estate to the ownership of the Salem monastery through piecewise sales . Later, Salem built up the Ostrach rule with the planned acquisition . The imperial abbey exercised local rule and jurisdiction. In 1637 Burgweiler and its immediate surroundings came to the Grafschaft Heiligenberg of the House of Fürstenberg and from there to Baden in 1806 .

On March 21, 1799, the Austrians and the French fought each other in the Battle of Ostrach .

19th century

Ostrach and Bachhaupten came to Thurn and Taxis in 1803 and to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1806 . Until 1862 it was the seat of the noble upper office of Ostrach , it also marked the southeasternmost point of the Hohenzollern Lands , apart from the Achberg exclave . Subsequently Ostrach came to the Oberamt Sigmaringen , since 1925 district Sigmaringen .

20th century

During the Second World War , Russian and French prisoners of war worked near Ostrach. Towards the end of the war, passenger trains were bombed in Burgweiler and shot at by low-level planes. The center politician and lawyer Reinhold Frank from Bachhaupten was arrested the day after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 and later executed. During the death marches from the camps of the "Desert" company in the direction of the Swabian Oberland and the Alps, a column of concentration camp prisoners was driven from Meßkirch via Wald and Aach-Linz to Ostrach and arrived there on April 22, 1945. Before arriving in Ostrach, two exhausted prisoners were shot in the forest near Buchschoren. At that time, the Ebersbach pastor noted in the parish chronicle: "Those who can no longer receive a shot in the neck - from." Witnesses from Denkingen confirmed this. In Ostrach, a column of emaciated, often sick prisoners was left behind, others had to march on. Those left behind were herded into a barn where they were to be killed. When French troops approached, the guards abandoned their plan and disappeared. The marching transports also broke up. Most of the prisoners were arrested on 22/23 Freed from French / Moroccan troops in the area of ​​Ostrach and Altshausen in April 1945. Several of the prisoners who remained in Ostrach were taken to the Elisabethen Hospital; some died there. A total of 13 people were buried in the Ostrach cemetery, two more in the forest between Ostrach and Pfullendorf. Ostrach became part of the French occupation zone ; a commandant's office was set up and responsibility was transferred to a Polish prisoner. Shortly afterwards there were isolated acts of revenge and unsolved murders in the municipality.

Incorporations

Ostrach in the "Dreiländerkreis" Sigmaringen

The new formation of the community Ostrach in the course of the community reform took place in stages. As early as January 1, 1969, the former Baden exclave Dichtenhausen was reassigned from Burgweiler to Ostrach. On December 1, 1971, Spöck and Wangen were incorporated into Ostrach, Magenbuch (with Lausheim) followed on April 1, 1972, Einhart, Habsthal (with Bernweiler), Laubbach (with Unterweiler and Oberweiler), Levertsweiler and Tafertsweiler (with Bachhaupten, Eschendorf and Gunzenhausen) on October 1, 1974. On January 1, 1975, Ostrach, Burgweiler (with Hahnennest, Mettenbuch, Ochsenbach, Oberochsenbach, Zoznegg, Waldbeuren, Ulzhausen, Egelreute) and Kalkreute merged to form the new municipality of Ostrach, Jettkofen was added. Finally, on January 1, 1978, the former Württemberg exclave Wirnsweiler was separated from Saulgau and reclassified to Ostrach. Ostrach is the only municipality in Baden-Württemberg that combines formerly independent municipalities from all three parts of the state ( Baden , Hohenzollern and Württemberg ). About a kilometer south of Laubbach was the triangle where the areas of Baden, Hohenzollern and Württemberg collided.

Population development

year 1961 1970 1991 1995 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Residents 4527 4839 5708 6486 6843 6850 6759 6750 6714 6719 6623 6588 6704 6751

Up to 2013 it is a question of population figures according to the respective territorial status. The figures are census results (1961 and 1970) as well as official updates from the Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office ( main residences only ). The information from 1961 and 1970 relate to today's municipal area.

religion

There are a total of seven Catholic parishes in the community of Ostrach. They belong to the Archdiocese of Freiburg, established in 1827 . Since 1990 they have all belonged to the Sigmaringen-Meßkirch Dean's Office . Seven of them form the pastoral care unit Ostrachtal. These are the parishes of Ostrach, Burgweiler, Einhart, Habsthal, Levertsweiler, Magenbuch and Tafertsweiler. These seven parishes still include numerous districts, some of which also have their own chapels. Some of the churches and chapels of the parishes and branches go back to very old times. In the last few years they have been - or are - fundamentally renovated and partially redesigned. The renovation and remodeling measures receive great support from the members of the parish. Full-time pastoral care takes place in the pastoral care unit Ostrachtal by a pastor, a priest and a parish officer. The pastoral care unit is divided into 27 districts. The parish council with 21 elected women and men from the entire pastoral care unit, together with the pastors, take care of the questions and the management of the parishes and pastoral care.

Evangelical Christians in Ostrach belong to the Evangelical Church Community of Ostrach -Wald in the church district of Balingen : a curiosity, because the community of Pfullendorf lies between the political communities of Ostrach and Wald . The structure of the Protestant parish reflects the turmoil of the political landscape in southern Germany before the establishment of the German Empire. The free imperial city of Pfullendorf was added to Baden in 1805 and is therefore today part of the Evangelical Church in Baden . The Evangelical Church in Hohenzollern joined the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in 1950 . In the Protestant parishes in Hohenzollern, the old Prussian form of worship continues to exist at the request of the parishes. The structure of the new Protestant parishes in Upper Swabia in the 1950s followed the same pattern as in Ostrach. Due to the refugees from the east, the number of Protestant Christians in small congregations became large enough to form their own congregations. Ostrach and Wald, historically part of Hohenzollern, therefore came together as one parish. There are also historical reasons why the church was built in Ostrach and not in the forest: Ostrach developed more strongly than forest in terms of population. 250 Protestant Christians in Wald are compared to 1000 in Ostrach.

politics

Municipal council

The 2019 local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 61.4% (+ 6.8%):

Party / list Share of votes +/- Seats +/-
CDU 35.1% - 6.3 6th - 1
SPD / Free Citizens 31.1% - 2.5 6th ± 0
FW 33.9% + 8.9 6th + 1

The bogus local election was abolished with the amendment of the main statute by the municipal council on July 28, 1998, i.e. the amendment to the statutes was to be applied for the first time for the next regular election of the municipal council, namely on October 24, 1999.

mayor

On April 22, 2007, Christoph Schulz was elected mayor of Ostrach with 57.7 percent in the first ballot. He replaced Herbert Barth in office. After 32 years of service, he did not run for election; it was officially adopted on July 7, 2007. Christoph Schulz was confirmed in office on July 12, 2015 and elected for a further eight years.

  • Karl Müller (Hohenz Center Party)
  • Emil Kerle
  • Gottfried Hartenfels (NSDAP)
  • Josef Locher (CDU)
  • Karl Reck (FWV)
  • Wilfried Walter (CDU)
  • 1975-2007: Herbert Barth (CDU)
  • since 2007: Christoph Schulz (CDU)

Former mayors of Einhart:

  • Josef Briem (CDU)

Former mayors of Kalkreute:

  • Kilian Söllner (CDU)

Former Mayors of Magenbuch:

  • Josef Kugler (Hohenzoller Farmers' Union)

Former mayors of Spöck:

  • Fritz Staiger (CDU)

coat of arms

Coat of arms Ostrach.svg

The coat of arms of Ostrach shows a split shield , above a slanted red spearhead in silver, below in black a double row of red and silver cut slanting bar.

The spearhead comes from the seal of the local nobleman Heinrich called Schwendi von Ostrach from the year 1309. The sloping bar ( Cistercian bar ) indicates that Ostrach belonged to the Salem monastery from the 13th to the 19th century.

As a result of the municipal reform in 1975, the previous Ostrach coat of arms was re-awarded to the coat of arms of the entire community and on April 18, 1978 by the Sigmaringen district office at the request of the Ostrach administration .

Town twinning

Since 1970 there has been an official partnership with Étréchy , a municipality 40 km south of Paris . The partnership was initiated in 1966 through a private friendship and since then has led to numerous encounters, visits and return visits by clubs and groups, as well as a youth exchange at the Europa Camp, together with Lydd , the English twin town of Etrechy. Even a Franco-German wedding was celebrated in these ranks. On the French side, around 15 members are represented in the partnership committee, while Ostrach currently has around twelve representatives. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary in 2010, the mayors Christoph Schulz (Ostrach) and Julien Bourgeois (Étréchy) signed renewal certificates.

Culture and sights

The municipality of Ostrach, together with the town of Pfullendorf and the municipalities of Illmensee, Wald and Wilhelmsdorf, forms the "Northern Lake Constance" holiday region, which was founded in 1999 and is part of the "Hohenzollern holiday region". This is where the Hohenzollernstrasse , the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse and the Schwäbische Dichterstrasse meet.

Museums and galleries

The office building
Landmark museum open-air facility

The community of Ostrach has a diverse museum and gallery landscape. The office building, which was built in 1586/87 as the administrative seat of the Salem monastery for the properties in the “Ob den Bergen” area, houses three museums: the Ostrach Local History Museum, the Folklore Museum and the Border Stone Museum.

  • Local history museum : The local history museum presents the history of the community in several sections. The " Battle of Ostrach " takes up the largest part . The causes, the course of action and the consequences of the battle in which the French revolutionary army met the coalition army under the leadership of Austria on March 21, 1799 are shown. You can see a diorama made up of 3,000 tin figures , original weapons, battle plans and images. The band of Franz Xaver Hohenleiter , known as “the Black Veri”, who wreaked havoc in 1818/19, is also “honored” in the museum. Thanks to the estate of the Gutmann photo studio, it is possible to show old photo equipment and images from the early days of photography. In the further expansion, the history of Ostrach under the rule of the Salem monastery is shown. A print of the "Big Map" from 1705 in original size of around 4 × 5 m can be seen.
  • Folklore Museum : On a private initiative, a folklore museum was created whose exhibition deals with folklore topics in the region between Lake Constance and the Unterland, for example in 2008 with a special exhibition on "sack painting".
  • Boundary Stone Museum Ostrach : The boundary stone museum shows how the “three-country community Ostrach” and its borders came about. Construction of a boundary stone, witnesses, maps and surveying equipment can be seen there. - To the east of the village of Burgweiler is the open-air facility of the Grenzsteinmuseum.

The Laubbach studio and gallery are located in the Laubbach suburb . For over 25 years, the painter and wood cutter Peter Weydemann has been showing exhibitions in his studio, with which he primarily presents contemporary representational art - graphics, drawings, paintings and sculptures.

In Tafertsweiler, a private collection housed in an old pigsty shows old agricultural and handicraft tools.

music

The Ostrach song manuscript from 1740, a handwritten record of art songs, was discovered in a farmhouse in the district of Bachhaupten . In the local history museum, the song manuscript is presented thematically.

Buildings

Castles

Castle near Burgweiler
  • Around 500 meters east of Burgweiler, a castle from the middle of the 11th century stood on an elevation. Apart from the tower hill and the filled-in trenches, nothing reminds of the former castle complex. Its builders were the nobles of Wilare (hamlet). Later owners were the barons of Gundelfingen. The Burgweiler Music Association has been maintaining and using the castle hill since 1969. The so-called castle festival traditionally takes place once a year at the castle near Burgweiler .
  • There are other castle sites in Ostrach's municipality : The high medieval castle site Arnoldsberg (400 meters north-west of Hof Arnoldsberg), the high medieval castle site Dichtenhausen Castle (location unknown today), the castle site Freudenberg (one kilometer north of the Hof Freudenberg near Ochsenbach), the high mediaeval castle site the Ortsburg Ostrach (location unknown today), the Waldburg castle (near Waldbeuren, exact location unknown today) and the castle Leiterberg castle (near Wangen).

Sacred buildings

St. Pankratius around 1920
The St. Pancras Church
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius , with its tower from 1569 with stepped gables, forms the landmark of Ostrach that can be seen from afar. The baroque choir was built by Michael Wiedemann , the neo-Gothic nave from 1897 to 1899. The church has two side altars with structure from 1638. In the south altar there is a painting of the Ascension of Christ from 1638, possibly by Zacharias Binder . Furthermore, two panels with holy bishops from the workshop of Bartholomäus Zeitblom and sculptures from the 17th to 18th centuries. The church has a sandstone sacrament house. When the organ was renovated in 1974, it was poorly executed because inferior materials were used.
  • The parish hall of the Roman Catholic parish was built in 1725. The building served as a barn until the 1920s. Later it was a youth home and a meeting place for the Kolping family and journeyman's associations. In the 1950s, the St. Pankratius kindergarten moved in. He stayed there until he moved to the neighboring new building in the early 1970s. In the course of time a wide variety of church groups were housed there. For example, there were youth rooms there, and the church choir is also at home there. A general renovation has been planned for the building, which was last renovated in the early 1980s. The building should be energetically optimized and adapted to current needs, barrier-free. The extension built at that time is to be demolished and replaced by a new, larger one.
  • The Holy Cross Chapel is located in the Elisabethenhaus nursing home in Ostrach . The house chapel was inaugurated in 1937 on the first floor of what was then the Elisabethen Hospital. 1978/79 was added to the Elisabethenheim; the chapel found its new location in the former kitchen. Even then, relics from the former parish church dominated the apse: patronage cross, altar and tabernacle. The Way of the Cross is based on the Oberammergau painting. The windows of the Ulm painter Wilhelm Geyer , one of the most important representatives of religious art of the 20th century, are special works of art . In 2010 the chapel was redesigned.
  • Evangelical Christ Church Ostrach
    For the Protestant parish, the Christ Church is located in Ostrach , Friedhofstrasse at the corner of Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse. It was only built with the rectory in the 1950s and was consecrated on March 11, 1956. The church was mostly built in-house by former refugees. The Evangelical Church Community also found great support from Catholic fellow Christians. In 2001 the church was expanded into a small community center with an extension.
  • The Catholic branch church St. Michael in the district of Bachhaupten was built in 1727/28 by Johann Georg Wiedemann , including the medieval basement tower. The hall church branches off with a retracted, semicircular closed choir. It shows forms of documentation from the early Rococo. The stucco marble altars are the work of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayr around 1727. In the high altar there is a figure of a Mater dolorosa made around 1620. In the southern side altar is a sheet showing Saint Wendelin, a work by Franz Joseph Spiegler from 1729. The pulpit is from 1727.
  • The three-aisled Burgweiler Church of St. Blasius was rebuilt in 1883. The Romanesque tower and the crypt from the 12th century were included in the construction.
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus in Einhart began in the 16th century and was redesigned in 1718. The choir is vaulted with a net and painted in 1524. It shows the twelve apostles. The furnishings include Gothic wooden figures, a bronze lecture cross with a body from around 1200, a cross from around 1525 and round medallions from the 17th century. The painted Way of the Cross is a work by Johann Nepomuk Meichsner from 1762.
  • The Habsthal Monastery is located in the Habsthal district : the Dominican Sisters of Mengen began building the monastery in 1259, and in 1681 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style. The St. Stephan monastery church dates from 1748 and has stucco work. The high altar sheet is by Zehnder, the stucco marble pulpit by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer , shell work, ceiling frescoes by Gottfried Bernhard Götz .
  • The St. Wolfgang chapel is located in Jettkofen .
  • The Marienkapelle in Laubbach was first mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century. It was probably rebuilt in post-Gothic form in 1602 by the Schussenried Abbey and has a neo-Gothic tower from 1868. Today it is a hall church with a west tower and a three-sided choir. The sculptures date from the 14th to 18th centuries.
  • The St. Rupert Catholic Chapel in Lausheim is a small, Romanesque building with a semicircular apse from the 12th century. The windows were enlarged in the 18th century. The furnishings include an altar from around 1700 and some sculptures from the 14th to 18th centuries, including a painting of Saint Ida of Toggenburg from 1797.
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Luzia in Levertsweiler shows itself as a hall church in neo-Gothic forms from the year 1840 according to plans by the Fürstlich Thurn- und Taxis foreman Baur from Buchau. However, it goes back to a St. Martin's church from the 13th century, which was built after a fire in 1278. The tower is from the 15th century. The furnishings include several high-quality Gothic Hulz sculptures: Saint Barbara and Katharina (both around 1500) and Martin and Wendelin (both around 1400).
  • The Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius in Magenbuch was mentioned in 1263 and rebuilt in 1725 by the local builder Lukas Schindler . Today it appears as a hall with a choir that has just closed. Altarmensa and tabernacle were built around 1500, the structure with paintings in the 17th century. The furnishings also include some sculptures from the 16th to 18th centuries. In the rectory there are two paintings depicting holy bishops from the school of Bartholomäus Zeitblom .
  • The parish church of St. Urban is located in the Tafertsweiler district.
  • The St. Michaels Chapel in the Wangen district is a Romanesque building from the 12th century. The bell, which was purchased in 1900, also called the weather bell , was rung when severe thunderstorms with storms and hail were approaching and called on the villagers to light the weather candle and to pray for God's protection for people, animals and the yard. Otherwise, the bell was rung by hand regularly three times a day. This situation changed during the tenure of pastor and chamberlain Georg Moser, who had an electrical bell system installed in 1963.

Industrial monuments

  • The former peat factory Ostrach is an industrial- historical factory area with ailing buildings on the edge of the municipality of Ostrach. The industrial building with historical character is to be renovated, restored and expanded. It is a so-called second building. The first building, which went into operation in 1897, was no longer sufficient for burning peat production by 1910. However, the peat briquette production in the second building had to be stopped after 1926, as hard coal and lignite had displaced the peat briquettes from the market. Until then, small farmers and artisans in particular had found extra income in the peat factory. The peat cut in the Pfrunger Ried, which was transported to the factory by narrow-gauge railway , was processed there. In the past, there have been plans to reactivate them with a view to tourism.
  • The former tannery is a two-story building that Emil Kerle, who was mayor of Ostrach before the Third Reich, had it built in the late 1930s. In the early years it was part of the “Gerberei Kerle”. After years of vacancy, it also shows itself to be a disintegrated testimony to once significant Ostrach craft history. However, in a prominent location on Sigmaringer Strasse in the middle of the center of Ostrach. In the only remaining building on the site, hides were processed into leather and stored: the basement contained the pits in which the fresh hides were soaked in salt. In the upper rooms the hides were hung up to dry and for further processing. During the time of National Socialism, Emil Kerle's profession as a tanner and leather dealer was fatal: he was accused of black trafficking in cowhides. After his arrest, he died in the Saulgau prison under unexplained circumstances.
  • An embankment about one kilometer long spans the Ostrach valley in the south of the village. The river itself is crossed with a striking lattice bridge.

Small monuments

At the end of 2008, 105 “sacred small buildings” (land crosses ) were counted in the Ostrach district . With more than 25 percent they appear more often than metal crosses.

Buchbühl Monument (2015)
  • Several memorials commemorate the battle of Ostrach in 1799:
    • The Buchbühl monument is a memorial that is visible from afar on the Buchbühl. It is nine meters high and measures five meters square. It was built in the anniversary year of 1899 to commemorate the soldiers who died in the battle.
    • On the road from Ostrach to Krauchenwies there is a wooden wayside shrine: the glazed picture on the stele shows a French and an Austrian infantryman. It was restored in 1963 and 1999.
    • Another wooden wayside shrine is located in the “Dreibühl” forest district on the Laubbach – Riedhausen route. It bears the carved inscription: “In memory of the Battle of Ostrach. During the vanguard fights on March 20, 1799 there were 16 fanz. and 3 Austrian soldiers killed ”. The old wayside shrine stood until 1945 and was rebuilt in 1992.
  • At the border of the formerly independent communities Levertsweiler and Habsthal is a sandstone cross, donated in 1905 and renovated in 200, with a gilded Christ body and inscription.
  • In Jettkofen there is a sandstone wayside cross that can be seen from afar. This landscape-defining small monument was erected in the 1880s as a memorial for those who died in the 1970s . After restoration was no longer an option, it was replaced by a new one in 2010 and consecrated by the church.
  • The former cemetery cross has been preserved in Bachhaupten: a forged metal cross on a stone base with climbing rose branches and a gold-plated Christ body.
  • The White Cross in Einhart is on the slope above the settlement. It is said to date from the time after the Thirty Years' War and protect against disease, plague and accidents.
  • A wayside shrine commemorates Hermann Klein from Ostrach, who was killed by a tree on October 30, 1881. It resulted from a wind break in a thunderstorm.
  • In Ostrach, on the L 194 in the direction of Pfullendorf, a very massive stone cross commemorates the death of an unknown prisoner who was killed here on April 22, 1945.
  • On the road between Tafertsweiler and Eschendorf there is a wooden cross with a cast body. The original cross, which has since been replaced, was donated in October 1912 by the spouses and hosts Konrad and Mathilda Heinzler because of misfortune and illness.
  • In Tiefenbacher Weg in Burgweiler, a restored picture showing a man striking someone kneeling in front of him reminds of a manslaughter in 1867: a farmer from Kalkreute was killed by his wife's lover on the way home. The perpetrator and wife were sentenced to death, but not executed. Both died in Hornstein prison .
  • In the Magenbuch there is the so-called French cross, a tufa atonement cross from 1565. A popular legend says that a French officer who is said to have died in the battle of Ostrach in 1799 is buried here.

There are also a number of boundary stones in the municipality:

  • A boundary stone of the Salem monastery is located in the Magenbuch forest near the Junghof. It formed the border to the city of Pfullendorf and shows itself with the coat of arms of the Cistercian.
  • Boundary stones of the house of Thurn and Taxis can be found between Ostrach and Mottschieß as well as in Tafertsweiler in the direction of Heratskirche '(border to the county of Friedberg-Scheer).

Others

  • Today's Landhotel Gasthaus Hirsch was already mentioned as "Obere Taferne" in the history books of the Salem Monastery. The current building dates from 1728. Since 1906, the “Hirsch” has been owned by the Ermler family from Pfullendorf, then Ermler / Riester. At the corner of the house there is a pub sign in the shape of a deer, it is the work of master blacksmith Peter Klink .
  • The official building from the Salem period, which was built in 1595 according to dendrochronological dating, is still preserved . Tithe cherries are still in Burgweiler, Habsthal, Magenbuch, Laubbach and Ostrach. The former Salem monastery courtyard in Bachhaupten was built around 1700. Within the old wall fence, it appears as a two-storey building under a crooked hip roof.
  • In 1992, a 40,000 year old and about 60 centimeter long mammoth tusk was found in the Müller gravel and gravel works in Ostrach.

Regular events

The fountain of the Bauzemecker guild

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Ostrach is part of the Neckar-Alb-Danube transport association (NALDO) and, since January 1, 2009, has also been part of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association (bodo).

Altshausen-Schwackenreute railway line

On August 15, 1875, Ostrach was connected to the railway via the Altshausen – Schwackenreute railway line, and there were stations in Ostrach and Burgweiler. Passenger traffic ceased on September 28, 1966. The last freight train ran on July 31, 2002.

In July 2009, the route between Altshausen and Pfullendorf was reactivated for freight traffic and special trains. Since 2010 there has been a regular special train between Pfullendorf and Aulendorf and back. In 2018, the Bodo -Radexpress Oberschwaben runs from May 1st to October 21st every Sunday and public holiday between Aulendorf, Altshausen, Ostrach, Burgweiler and Pfullendorf. Taking bicycles with you is free.

15 years after regular freight traffic between Altshausen and Pfullendorf was discontinued, freight trains are again running on the route. On April 8, 2017, a train with six empty wooden wagons drove to Burgweiler station and was loaded there with ten truckloads of logs. The fully loaded wagons left Burgweiler in the direction of Augsburg. In July 2017, another timber transport was driven from Burgweiler to Augsburg.

Citizen bus

The Ostracher Citizens' Bus complements local public transport and improves, among other things, the mobility of people with disabilities. It travels on five routes five days a week according to a fixed schedule between the center of Ostrach with eleven and the suburbs with a total of twenty stops. The citizen bus is financed by the municipality of Ostrach and operated by the citizen bus association as well as volunteer drivers and helpers.

education

The Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule , demolished in 2008, was a building steeped in history. The first part of the building was built in 1957/58 as a rural vocational school for boys and girls. On the advice of the agricultural school councilor Norbert Wahl, the facility was named after the freedom fighter Freiherr vom Stein . As part of the abolition of the vocational school and the development of the school system with a focus on secondary and secondary schools, another wing was added in 1966. In 1971, the school's use ended with the creation of the Ostrachtal School school center on Schlößlesstraße.

economy

Peat extraction in the 19th century was the first step towards industrialization. Gravel in wet and dry excavation using the latest technology has also been used for many decades. Today the Ostrach region and the surrounding area offers a variety of companies in both the high-tech and traditional sectors. The craft is strongly represented. Service companies from various industries such as engineering offices and media agencies are located here. Due to the proximity of well-known leisure vehicle manufacturers such as Hymer and Carthago Reisemobilbau , numerous suppliers are located in the municipality of Ostrach.

Another important mainstay for the municipality of Ostrach is tourism. Ostrach is part of the “Northern Lake Constance” holiday region. In 2014 Ostrach and its suburbs recorded 40,208 overnight stays, many of them in private holiday apartments.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Anneliese Drewing-Müller († 2007)
  • Herbert Barth (1943–2008), politician (CDU), mayor of Ostrach for 32 years, received the Federal Cross of Merit on March 10, 2008 and the Honorary Citizen's Medal on July 6, 2007.
  • Adolf Hitler (1889–1945). The local council “agreed” at the instigation of the local branch of the NSDAP to appoint the Reich Chancellor and Führer an honorary citizen of Ostrach. It was a diplomatic way of showing that the honor was not done on one's own initiative. This honorary citizenship expired in 1945.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Balthasar Puolamer (1615–1681), born in today's district of Bachhaupten, nineteenth abbot of the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen
  • Eduard Schmid (1861–1933), 1919–1924 Lord Mayor of Munich
  • Karl Ruggaber (1887–1936), born in today's Habsthal district, 1919–1933 member of the Württemberg state parliament (SPD)
  • Reinhold Frank (1896–1945), born in today's district of Bachhaupten, lawyer, resistance fighter against National Socialism, executed after the failed Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944
  • Hubert Locher (1926–2014), long-time radio director of Südwestfunk
  • Jo Bentfeld (* 1932), travel writer

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Lambert Bumiller (1852–1908), pastor, dean, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
  • Hanns Ludin (1905-1947), SA upper group leader and Nazi war criminals, in 1942 acquired the to Ostrach-Kalkreute counting Schlösslehof . Fled from Bratislava in 1945, his wife Erla Ludin and their six children moved into the Schlösslehof, which the family lived in and managed for several years.
  • Josef Briem (†), rural youth leader, farmers' association chairman, mayor and mayor of Einhart, from 1994 holder of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit.
  • Christian Sauter (* 1988), professional soccer player, played at FC Ostrach as a youth

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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