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Poking
Coat of arms of Pfohren
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 687 m above sea level NN
Area : 15.69 km²
Residents : 1542  (Oct. 1, 2014)
Population density : 98 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 78166
Area code : 0771
Church in Pfohren
Church in Pfohren

Pfohren is a village in Germany in Baden-Wuerttemberg , located in the Black Forest-Baar district and today part of the large district town of Donaueschingen . The place has about 1500 inhabitants.

geography

Geographically downstream from Donaueschingen, Pfohren is the first village on the young Danube after the confluence of the two source rivers Brigach and Breg , the so-called Danube confluence .

The following localities border the district Pfohren ( starting clockwise in the north): Aasen , Oberbaldingen , Unterbaldingen , Gutmadingen , Neudingen , Sumpfohren , Hüfingen , Allmendshofen and Donaueschingen.

history

Prehistory and early history

The Celtic settlement Pyrene , mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus , is said to refer to Pfohren. This would make Pfohren the oldest place in Germany mentioned in writing. Systematic archaeological excavations have not yet taken place in Pfohren. However, there are some scatter finds from the area of ​​the Pfohren district, such as a Celtic iron bar .

Early middle ages

With seven documents handed down in the St. Gallen Abbey Archives, Pfohren is the best documented place in the entire Baar for the Carolingian era . Pfohren was first mentioned in a document on June 4, 817 as a forrun in a diploma from Emperor Ludwig the Pious . Pfohren was the eponymous suburb of a Urmark . The old St. Michaelskirche, today's patronage is John the Baptist , is one of the original churches of the Baar.

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

In 1932, Department 2/263 "Heinrich von Fürstenberg" established a camp of the Reich Labor Service for vine drainage in Pfohren. After a short stopover in Donaueschingen, this labor camp was finally completely relocated to Hüfingen in 1935.

Incorporation

On January 1, 1972, Pfohren was incorporated into the city of Donaueschingen. The area of ​​the former municipality was 15.69 km². Since then, the boundaries of the municipality former forms a locality with Ortschaftsrat chaired by a Ortsvorstehers after Gemeindeordnung of Baden-Württemberg (§ 68 to 71).

coat of arms

The heraldic shield shows two obliquely crossed silver hunting spears overlaid by a gold-clad silver hunting horn on a red background, surrounded by a blue-silver cloud mist . The Wolkenfeh refers to the centuries-long local rule of the counts and later princes of Fürstenberg , the hunting attributes are symbolic of the local Fürstenberg hunting lodge, the Entenburg.

politics

List of bailiffs

  • 1496: Konrad Kuttler
  • 1509: Michael Fritschi
  • 1552–1585: Hans Fritschi
  • 1587: Jacob Münzer
  • 1648: Jacob Fritschi
  • 1663: Ottmar Engesser
  • 1668–1685: Jacob Fritschi
  • 1700–1715: Jacob Engesser
  • 1735: Gottlieb Engesser
  • 1742: Joseph Hirt
  • 1749: Christian Grieshaber
  • 1757: Hans Höfler
  • 1758: Christian Grieshaber
  • 1768: Johannes Höfler
  • 1774–1797: Johann Georg Seyfried
  • 1798: Othmar Engesser
  • 1809: Johann Fehrenbacher
  • 1830–1831: Johann Engesser

List of mayors

  • around 1832: Josef Betz
  • 1838–1848: Joseph Wiehl
  • 1848–1849: Johann Bausch
  • 1849–1852: Joseph Scherer
  • 1852–1864: Joseph Wiehl
  • 1865–1868: Adolf Welte
  • 1868–1883: Karl Hasenfratz
  • 1883–1913: Matthä Wolf
  • 1913–1923: Heinrich Swoon
  • 1923–1933: Xaver Wolf
  • 1933–1936: Martin Reichmann
  • 1936–1941: Franz Straub
  • 1941–1945: Hermann Engesser
  • 1945: Siegfried Sigg
  • 1945–1963: Franz Josef Engesser
  • 1963–1971: Karl Ohnmacht

List of mayors

  • 1972–1989: Karl Ohnmacht
  • 1990: Franz Scherer
  • 1991–2014: Gottfried Vetter
  • since 2014: Gerhard Feucht

Say

Church of St. John the Baptist in Pfohren
The duck castle

Around Entenburg Castle there is a legend that the spirit of the emperor Karl III, who was supposed to be choked to death in the Pfohrener reed, lies within its walls . as a so-called 'snooper' haunted.

traffic

In Pfohren there was a post station for the sections of the postal routes Hausach – Hornberg – Krummenschiltach – Villingen – Donaueschingen – Pfohren - Geisingen – Tuttlingen and Neustadt – Unadingen – Donaueschingen – Pfohren – Geisingen – Tuttlingen.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

  • Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community. Donaueschingen 2001, ISBN 3-00-008750-8 .
  • Thomas HT Wieners : Earthly goods for heavenly wages. The Pfohrener grants to the St. Gallen monastery in Franconian times , in: Almanach 2005. Heimatjahrbuch des Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, volume 29, pp. 160–163.
  • Thomas HT Wieners, Stephan Bäumle, Ernst Zimmermann (ed.): Otolf - Priest in Pfohren. 1150 years of the church in Pfohren. Festschrift for the 1150th anniversary of the first mention of a priest and the church in Pfohren. Hüfingen 2005, ISBN 3-00-016373-5 .
  • Thomas HT Wieners: Change on the Edge. A list of the festivals of saints from the 17th century as a source for the change of Pfohrener parish patronage , in: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar , Volume 52 (2009), pp. 159–166.
  • Thomas HT Wieners: Capellae regiae. Pfohren and Kirchdorf, two original churches of the Baar - Otolf and Ruotbert, two priests of the royal court chapel , in: Volkhard Huth , R. Johanna Regnath (ed.): The Baar as a royal landscape . Conference of the Alemannic Institute from 6. – 8. March 2008 in Donaueschingen (= publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br., Volume 77), Ostfildern 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-7995-0851-3 ), pp. 161–176.
  • Thomas HT Wieners: Pfohren - the oldest place in Germany mentioned in writing? On the localization of the mysterious settlement Pyrene in Herodotus Historien , in: Almanach 2011. Yearbook of the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, volume 35, pp. 184-188.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pfohren district on the official website of the city of Donaueschingen.
  2. ^ Ernst Zimmermann (ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baargemeinde , Donaueschingen 2001, p. 420.
  3. ↑ Overview plan of the district Pfohren , in: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baargemeinde , Donaueschingen 2001, p. 134f.
  4. ^ Friedrich Creuzer : Herodoti Musae , Vol. 4, Leipzig 1835, p. 556.
  5. ↑ Thomas HT Wieners: Pfohren - the oldest place in Germany mentioned in writing? To localize the mysterious Celtic settlement Pyrene in Herodots Historien , in: Almanach 2011. Yearbook of the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, Vol. 35, pp. 184-188.
  6. ↑ Joachim Sturm on the homepage of the Schwarzwald-Baar District District Office ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Thomas Wieners HT: Cheneinga marca & capella sancti Martini. The Urmark Klengen and the early church Kirchdorf in the mirror of the early medieval document tradition of the St. Gallen monastery , in: State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council (ed.): The Brigachtal in the early Middle Ages (= archaeological information from Baden-Württemberg, vol. 67), Weinstadt 2013 ( ISBN 978-3-942227-14-8 ), pp. 95-131, here p. 96.
  8. ↑ Michael Nick: Wine against slaves - The Celtic trade , in: Andrea Bräuning, Andreas Burkhardt, Rolf Dehn, Eckhard Deschler-Erb, Saskia Dornheim, Andrea Hagendorn, Christoph Huth, Michael Nick, Norbert Spichtig, Holger Wendling and Jean-Jacques Wolf : Celts on the Upper and Upper Rhine (= guide to archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 24), Konrad Theiss Verlag, Esslingen 2005, ISBN 3-8062-2034-4 , pp. 48–54, here Fig. 52, p 53.
  9. ↑ Thomas HT Wieners: Interest for Eternity. The donations in the Schwarzwald-Baar district to the St. Gallen monastery in Franconian times , in: Almanach 2006. Heimatjahrbuch des Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, F. 30, pp. 157–159, here p. 157.
  10. ↑ Peter Erhart: Lord and Neighbor. Relationships between the St. Gallen monastery and the Baar in the Carolingian era , in: Volkhard Huth, R. Johanna Regnath (ed.): Die Baar als Königslandschaft , Ostfildern 2010, pp. 127–160, here p. 151.
  11. ↑ Document book of the Abbey of Sanct Gallen , ed. v. Hermann Wartmann, Zurich 1863, Vol. 1, No. 226, pp. 227f.
  12. ↑ The Pfohrener handover documents to the St. Gallen monastery from the Carolingian era from the Middle Latin by Thomas HT Wieners, in: ders., Stephan Bäumle, Ernst Zimmermann: Otolf - Priester in Pfohren. 1150 years of the church in Pfohren. Festschrift for the 1150th anniversary of the first mention of a priest and the church in Pfohren . Hüfingen 2005, pp. 27–39, here p. 27f.
  13. ↑ Rüdiger Schell: The RAD camp of Dept. 2/263 "Heinrich von Fürstenberg" in Hüfingen and its checkered history , Hartung-Gorre-Verlag, Konstanz 2014, ISBN 978-3-86628-488-3 .
  14. ^ 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. 494 .
  15. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 213 ( digital copy [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
  16. ↑ Gottfried Vetter: The community. Commitment to the village community , in: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community . Donaueschingen 2001, pp. 19–24, here p. 22.
  17. ↑ Gottfried Vetter: The community. Commitment to the village community , in: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community . Donaueschingen 2001, pp. 19–24, here pp. 20f.
  18. ↑ a b Gottfried Vetter: The community. Commitment to the village community , in: Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Pfohren - The first village on the young Danube. From the history of a Baar community . Donaueschingen 2001, pp. 19–24, here p. 21.
  19. ↑ Melanie Löffler: Gerhard Feucht is the new mayor , in: Südkurier from July 25, 2014.
  20. ↑ Johannes Künzig : Black Forest say. P. 273, Diederichs Verlag, 1930.
  21. ↑ Walter Leibbrand: Postrouten (Postcourse) in Baden-Württemberg (1490-1803) , in: Historischer Atlas von Baden-Württemberg , published by the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg in conjunction with the State Surveying Office of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1972– 1988, here Map X, 2 (1979).

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