Pfullendorf

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Pfullendorf
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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 15'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Sigmaringen
Height : 654 m above sea level NHN
Area : 90.56 km 2
Residents: 13,437 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 148 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 88630
Primaries : 07552, 07558Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : SIG
Community key : 08 4 37 088

City administration address : 		Am Kirchplatz 1
88630 Pfullendorf
Website : www.pfullendorf.de
Mayor : Thomas Kugler
Location of the city of Pfullendorf in the district of Sigmaringen
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View over the city to Lake Constance

Pfullendorf is the third largest city in the Baden-Württemberg district of Sigmaringen and a former free imperial city .

geography

location

Downtown view
View from the Upper Gate

The town of Pfullendorf is located on a topographical hillside, around 20 kilometers north of Lake Constance in the hilly terrain of the Linzgau .

The Pfullendorfer municipality lies on the European main watershed between the Rhine and the Danube . The watershed runs through Straß, south of the Pfullendorf suburb of Denkingen, to Aftholderberg on a moraine wall of the outer worm moraine . The watershed then crosses the Pfullendorf - Aach-Linz road and leaves the municipality north of Aach-Linz.

The Andelsbach flows from the Höchst ( 838  m above sea  level ) into the Ablach and from there into the Danube. The Linzer Aach flows into Lake Constance (Rhine).

geology

Pfullendorf is located on a molasse slope . The moraine landscape was created through different ice ages.

Neighboring communities

Spatial planning

Pfullendorf forms a middle center of the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia region . The central area comprises the southwestern municipalities of the Sigmaringen district, specifically the towns and municipalities (in alphabetical order) Herdwangen-Schönach, Illmensee, Leibertingen , Meßkirch , Pfullendorf, Sauldorf and Wald.

City structure

The town of Pfullendorf distinguishes between the core town of Pfullendorf (with the town of Pfullendorf, the hamlet of Brunnhausen , the Am Galgenbühl settlement , the courtyards Im Galgenteich, St. Ruhe, Schönbrunnerhof and Vorderstock and the houses Am Andelsbach, Maria Schrey and Theuerbach ) and the localities of Aach- Linz (with the place Aach-Linz, the village Sahlenbach , the hamlet Reute , the courtyards Mittlere Mühle, Schallerhof, Schlegelhof and Untere Mühle and the houses Auf der Haige, Buchschoren, Klein-Karlsruhe and Steinbruch ), Denkingen (with the villages Denkingen , Langgassen and Straß , the hamlets Andelsbach and Hilpensberg and the houses Forsthaus and Straßmühle ), Gaisweiler (with the village Gaisweiler, the hamlet Tautenbronn and the homestead Bethlehem ), Großstadelhofen (with the village Großstadelhofen, the hamlets Kleinstadelhofen , Sylvenstal and Wattenreute , the Egelsee and Krähenried farms and the Furtmühle house ), Mottschieß (with the village of Mottschieß ), Otterswang (with the village of Otterswang, the hamlets Litzelbach and Weihwang and the Hilarihof and Sägmühle ) and Zell am Andelsbach (with the villages of Zell am Andelsbach and Schwäblishausen ).

coat of arms district Residents
(as of May / June 2015) 		surface
Pfullendorf Pfullendorf (core town) 9709 ?
Aach-Linz Aach-Linz 1258 ?
Denkingen Denkingen 935 ?
Gaisweiler Gaisweiler 121 366 ha
Großstadelhofen Großstadelhofen 412 1003 ha
Mottschießen Mottschießen 131 155 ha
Otterswang Otterswang 195 529 ha
Zell am Andelsbach Zell am Andelsbach 251 ?

history

Early history

Traces of settlement were found in the area around Pfullendorf in prehistoric times. About one kilometer north of Ruhestetten , a suburb of the neighboring community of Wald and about five kilometers west of Pfullendorf, there is a burial mound in the forest . To the south of it in the Gewann Gertholz are the remains of a Viereckschanze on the road from Aach-Linz to Herdwangen . This hill from the late La Tène period probably dates from around 100 BC. And could be related to the late Latène Age scattered finds (possible settlement) in the Gewann Thiergarten . Also near Aach-Linz, in the Remser Holz forest , are the remains of a prehistoric rampart.

Roman wall remains of a Villa Rustica in the Gewann Maueräcker (Aach-Linz) indicate a later Gallo-Roman settlement. This Villa Rustica as well as the more distant ones in Mettenbuch and Burgweiler was possibly destroyed or abandoned by invading Germanic hordes in the late 3rd century AD.

middle Ages

The settlement of the upper Linzgau by the Alemanni settled here by the Franks did not take place until after 500 AD. The village of Pfullendorf (Dorf am Pfuhl = swamp) was probably founded in the 9th century AD. It is what is known today as the “suburb”. To the east and independently of this, citizens founded their settlement around the castle of Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf, built around 1150/55 on a molasse hill, under their protection, above the valley of today's town pond. It developed into a market settlement in the 12th century, the houses of which fell victim to a fire in 1219.

The Counts of Pfullendorf are first mentioned towards the end of the 11th century. Rudolf von Pfullendorf was probably the most powerful, but also the last of them; he owned land and property rights in Linzgau and around Lake Constance. He was the son-in-law of Duke Welf VI. His wife Elisabeth (* around 1130/35; † 1164/80) was a cousin of Duke Heinrich the Lion and Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . Because Rudolf did not have a male heir, he appointed Barbarossa as heir. Rudolf's daughter Ita (* 1150/52; † before 1191) was with Count Albrecht III. married by Habsburg , called "the rich". Via Ita von Pfullendorf, the later Habsburg kings and emperors descended cognatically (in a female line) from the Guelphs.

Peter Klink: Friedrich II., 2006 on the square in front of the Heimat- und Handwerkermuseum in Metzgergasse.

The burned down market settlement is said to have caused the Pfullendorfer local pastor Ulrich to petition King Friedrich II . Friedrich II. Elevated Pfullendorf to a royal Hohenstaufen city at a Reichstag in Frankfurt am Main at the end of April 1220, which was recorded on June 2, 1220 in Worms . Pfullendorf is one of the few towns whose original town census document has survived. Four city gates with defense towers and a city wall were built. After the Hohenstaufen family died out in 1268, King Rudolf von Habsburg drew the city directly to the empire in 1282 . From then until 1803 Pfullendorf was an imperial city . The city still has the imperial eagle in its coat of arms.

There were two convents for women in Pfullendorf. The pious women of the III. The Dominican Order of the Dominican Sisters received their hostel from the Dominicans from Constance as the first possession and original cell of their later expanded monastery in the city. This hostel was the former castle of the Counts of Pfullendorf, which after their extinction had come to their Ministerials von Ramsberg, who left them to the Dominicans from Constance in 1255. They were called "white nuns" after their dress, and so was the monastery. It was not until 1683 that the monastery received a church “Maria zu den Engeln”, so that the monastery was also called “Church of Mary the Angels”. The Franciscan Sisters, initially a pious women's community and since the 14th century the III. Belonging to the Order of St. Francis, in 1403 they had their own monastery next to the town church, which was extensively expanded in the middle of the town in the 18th century. It was called the "gray monastery" after the robes of these nuns.

In 1257, the Pfullendorfer Heilig-Geist-Spital is mentioned for the first time in a fiefdom letter from the “magister hospitalis” (hospital nurse) . It is one of the oldest hospitals in the Lake Constance area and was probably donated at the beginning of the 13th century shortly after the city was elevated to town. The first hospital building in the city center burned down in 1285, but was rebuilt immediately afterwards. Over the years the hospital received many buildings, forests, fields, rights and capital through pious foundations and inheritances, which enabled it to carry out its tasks in caring for the poor and sick. The hospital, which operated largely independently under the supervision of the Diocese of Constance, provided the otherwise little wealthy imperial town of Pfullendorf, as the largest landowner in the region, with the means to be able to act politically.

In 1434, Emperor Sigismund granted the imperial city the " High Jurisdiction ", the blood ban. Now Pfullendorf was no longer a prince and was only subject to the emperor and God. Its citizens lived from handicrafts, numerous markets and animal husbandry.

As early as 1383, the artisans had so much influence in the city that a guild constitution was passed. This transferred most of the power to the guilds . Pfullendorf governed itself with this "democratic" guild constitution. It provided for the annual election of a mayor. The exercising power was held by the “Small Council” of 17 members, which was also elected annually and chaired by the mayor. There was also the politically less influential “Grand Council” of 50 elected members. This guild constitution was valid until 1551 and again, albeit in a less pronounced form, from 1559 until the end of Pfullendorf's imperial city days in 1803.

In the 14th and 15th centuries Pfullendorf belonged to numerous city alliances that defended the freedoms of imperial cities against the princes. So Pfullendorf belonged z. B. 1431 and 1441 with Überlingen and Ravensburg to the federation of seaside cities . In 1492 Pfullendorf was z. B. Member of the Swabian Federation against Duke Albrecht of Bavaria . Pfullendorf provided four men, six horses, four wagons and eight tents for the campaign.

In the time of humanism around 1530, the Latin teacher Johann Susenbrot incorrectly identified Pfullendorf with the Roman place Juliomagus mentioned on the Tabula Peutingeriana , an ancient road map , whereupon this name was often used as the Latin name for Pfullendorf in the centuries to come.

During the time of the witch hunt in Pfullendorf, 15 women were beheaded in witch trials between 1598 and 1635.

Modern times

The imperial city of Pfullendorf on an old engraving

During the Thirty Years War , the plague broke out in Pfullendorf in September 1628 . 559 people were killed, more than a third of the population. As a result of this disaster, 40 long-established families disappeared forever and 144 houses were vacant. On July 6, 1632, the Swedes entered Pfullendorf with a thousand horsemen under the commandant Lieutenant Colonel Max von Rählingen, after the town had been fought for five hours and the Maria Schray pilgrimage church was set on fire. It burned down except for the Gothic choir.

During the War of the Spanish Succession , Pfullendorf was occupied by a Bavarian-French army in May 1704, but was not burned.

Especially in the 18th and 19th centuries there was an annual children's market in Pfullendorf for so-called " Swabian children ". These were children from what is now Vorarlberg , North and South Tyrol and Switzerland , who were sent from spring to autumn to tend cattle or to work mainly in agriculture in Swabia. There is a presumption that they brought the carnival custom of “speeding” to Pfullendorf. The Schneller, dressed as a carter from the 19th century, with his carbatsche has been accompanying the Pfullendorfer Fasnet since the middle of the 19th century.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 Pfullendorf, which from 1500 belonged to the Swabian Reichskreis , was mediatized like almost all other imperial cities . This resulted in the loss of the prominent position as an “imperial city”. Pfullendorf became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden and remained the official seat of a Baden district office until 1936. In 1806, the Grand Duchy of Baden also took over the supervision of the hospital, which subsequently had to sell many lands and other assets. Chronicler Johann Georg Heilig spoke of the “Baden yoke” in this context.

The old hospital building in the city center was sold (today it is home to the “Deutscher Kaiser” restaurant), and in 1845 a new hospital and hospital was opened on the foundations of a former monastery courtyard of the Salem Imperial Abbey at the Upper Gate. From 1858 to 1971 the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincenz von Paul took over the hospital operations, from 1963 in a newly built hospital. The hospital fund still exists today and supports people in need socially and sustainably. In addition to the hospital, he owns farm estates, the hospital forest as well as residential and commercial buildings. The hospital farms are "Wattenreute" (since 1880, 50.99 ha, district Großstadelhofen), "Lichtenegg" (since 1412, 67.6 ha, district Illmensee) and "Mariahilf" (since 1899, 68.55 ha, district Illmensee ).

From 1873 to 1875 Pfullendorf was connected to the railway network. This is where the Schwackenreute – Pfullendorf line of the Baden State Railways and the Altshausen – Pfullendorf line of the Württemberg State Railways met .

At the end of the First World War , 116 dead and missing were to be mourned in Pfullendorf. The Pfullendorfer emergency money introduced in 1917 was abolished in 1922.

In 1936, the Pfullendorf district office in Baden became part of the Überlingen district .

Pfullendorf was not a primary destination in World War II . The target of the Allied bombing raids at that time was Friedrichshafen with its armaments factories. On the return flight, however, the bombers repeatedly unloaded their explosive cargo over Pfullendorf. The first bombs fell on March 18, 1944, one afternoon when an airman dropped incendiary canisters and stick incendiary bombs . People were not injured in the attack, but four weeks later, on Good Friday, a dud exploded in the Fuchshalde, killing 13-year-old Alois Abberger. On February 23, 1945 at 8:30 a.m., Pfullendorf station was bombed. The cooperative warehouse was destroyed in the air raid, but none of the residents were killed. Fortunately, few people were killed in the four air strikes.

On April 22, 1945 at around 1 p.m., French troops coming from the direction of Gaisweiler marched into the city and thus sealed the end of World War II for Pfullendorf. The city was handed over without a fight under Mayor Hermann Duttlinger, which saved Pfullendorf major losses of human life and property. However, there came a time of looting, also excesses of violence and legal and illegal requisitions. The French occupying forces were billeted in houses. The supply situation for the population was inadequate for years, as evidenced by a note from June 1947, according to which the daily ration distributed was 810  kcal . But the people did not let themselves get down - as early as 1946 the “Adlersaal” was again the scene of many theater performances, concerts and film screenings. In the same year the French allowed that Fasnet could be celebrated again.

The Second World War killed 121 Pfullendorf residents and 65 men were missing. However, in 1950 the city had just 3,100 inhabitants.

The town of Pfullendorf became part of the Sigmaringen district in 1973 as part of the district reform. In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipalities Otterswang (on July 1, 1972), Denkingen, Großstadelhofen, Mottschieß and Zell am Andelsbach (on January 1, 1973) as well as Aach-Linz and Gaisweiler (on January 1, 1972) were reorganized 1975) incorporated into Pfullendorf.

From 1962 to 1997, 391,000 tons of crude oil and 116 million cubic meters of natural gas were produced at 18 production sites in Pfullendorf and its surroundings . The occurrence was limited to a seven-kilometer-long and about 600 to 2000-meter-wide sandstone formation that stretched from southwest to northeast.

The old Pfullendorf landfill has been completely backfilled, closed and renatured since 1983. The fenced-in landfill is in the so-called "aftercare phase", which means that the landfill is walked through and soil samples are taken at regular intervals. It can last between 30 and 100 years.

Population development

13,012 people live in the city of Pfullendorf and its districts (as of June 2015). 9,602 of them live in the city center, 64 in Am Andelsbach and 43 in Brunnhausen . In total: 9,709 inhabitants. It should be noted that Pfullendorf had 2,822 inhabitants in 1910, 2,990 in 1939 and 3,000 in 1950. The number of inhabitants has more than quadrupled, strengthened by foreign influx and the economic boom.

Religions

The population of Pfullendorf is predominantly of the Roman Catholic denomination . The pastoral care unit is part of the Archdiocese of Freiburg via the Sigmaringen-Meßkirch dean's office and the Bodensee-Hohenzollern region . There is also a Protestant parish in Pfullendorf . Its structure reflects the turmoil of the political landscape in southern Germany before the establishment of the German Reich. The free imperial city of Pfullendorf was added to Baden in 1805 and is therefore today part of the Evangelical Church in Baden . This belongs to the church district Überlingen-Stockach (named after the old Baden districts of Überlingen and Stockach).

There are also congregations of the Mennonites , the New Apostolic Church , the Seventh-day Adventists , Jehovah's Witnesses and Syriac congregations in the city with around 600 members (also known as Assyrians, Arameans or Chaldeans).

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 53.0% (+ 6.6):

Party / list Share of votes +/-% p Seats +/-
CDU 33.0% - 8.0 8th - 2nd
SPD 04.5% + 4.5 1 + 1
Free voters 62.5% * + 3.5 8th ± 0
Independent List (UL) 6th ± 0

* Voter associations are only recorded as a whole in the state statistics

mayor

On October 22nd, 2006 Thomas Kugler was elected mayor in the first ballot with 55.5 percent of the vote. He is the successor to Heiko Schmid, who moved to Biberach as district administrator . Kugler, who had previously been mayor of Sauldorf for 16 years , took office on January 13, 2007.

  • 1888–1908: Franz Xaver Vollmar
  • 1908–1933: Ernst Reinhard Vollmar, deposed by the National Socialists in 1933.
  • 1945–1948: Placidus Ott (CDU)
  • 1948–1956: Leo Frank (CDU)
  • 1956–1986: Hans Ruck
  • 1986–1994: Hartmuth Dinter (SPD)
  • 1994-2006: Heiko Schmid (FWV)
  • since 2007: Thomas Kugler (CDU)

Kugler was re-elected in October 2014 with 98.3% of the vote.

coat of arms

Coat of arms Pfullendorf.svg

Blazon : “A black eagle with red armor in gold” - as a symbol of the free imperial city.

In the city seal, which was possibly from the time before 1250 and was imprinted in 1271, the one-headed imperial eagle appears in the triangular shield, which was not changed in any of the later seals and coats of arms. In the larger seal, which has been in use since the 17th century, the Latin city name "Juliomagus" (= market place of Julius Caesar ) , which was used mainly in papal documents before 1618, stands  outside the shield with the eagle.

flag

The city flag is red and white because of the old imperial colors.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Marketplace around 1900

Pfullendorf is a stop on the Upper Swabian Baroque Street , the German Half-timbered Street and the Hohenzollern Street . A development that was only made possible by government-funded renovation programs in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2008 there has been an approximately nine-kilometer hiking trail that leads along the exposed Rhine-Danube watershed from Straß to Aftholderberg. The town of Pfullendorf, together with the municipalities of Illmensee, Ostrach, Wald and Wilhelmsdorf, forms the “Northern Lake Constance” holiday region, which was founded in 1999.

Museums

  • The local history and handicraft museum of the city of Pfullendorf shows a collection on local history, historical handicrafts and the Pfullendorf carnival. It is located in the Bindhaus at 8-10 Metzgergasse. The basis for today's museum was the apartment of the Probst family with the entire, if not entirely complete, inventory. In 1979/80 the expansion of this apartment into a museum began: Pupils from the Pfullendorf primary and secondary school restored the apartment - with the support of local craftsmen - and helped with the expansion into a museum until 1990. At the suggestion of Mayor Hans Ruck, the company was founded on 26. June 1986 the Heimat- und Museumsverein Pfullendorf (HMV) to give the local history a place in the consciousness of the city and its population. For many years, the focus of the association's activities was on collecting historical furnishings, objects and handicraft tools. The adult education center was originally located on the ground floor and the museum began with two living rooms and a bedroom, as they were furnished in the 19th century. After the adult education center left the rooms in the Bindhaus, they were redesigned and used for the museum. Another big step was the adjoining Rakuff barn: after the renovation of the old barn of the former “Bäckerstube” inn (opposite the museum), it belonged to the museum from 1993 onwards. Most of the old handicrafts are exhibited in this part of the museum today. Today the entire building and the barn can be viewed. The local history museum shows a room for weights and measures, an old shop, part of an old pharmacy, the history of Pfullendorf and its honorary citizens and a classroom on the ground floor. On the first floor the apartment of the Probst family (1860), an old kitchen, spinning wheels and other sewing utensils and a large glass showcase, on the upper floor carnival costumes from Pfullendorf and the suburbs, the vigilante group and the history of the Bundeswehr location Pfullendorf from 1959 to today. The collection of the handicraft museum shows typewriters, radios and phono devices, cameras, agriculture and old equipment of the fire brigade, a cooperage with large wine barrels and a schnapps distillery, an oil mill, printer and various handicrafts (hairdresser, blacksmith, locksmith, carpenter, shoemaker, saddler, Schneider, Wagner and Zimmermann). A special exhibit is the city's oldest executioner's sword from the 16th century, with which 34 people were executed, on loan from the Vollmar family, whose ancestors worked as executioners for 10 guilders for years.
  • The Old House, which was built in 1317 and is one of the oldest residential buildings in southern Germany, serves as a permanent exhibition of the city's history from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century and is a branch of the main museum of the Pfullendorf Local History and Museum Association. The development and history of the former imperial city of Pfullendorf is shown through panels and various objects as well as models. For a short time until 2006, the Old House was home to the Konrad Kujau Museum with works by the painter and forger Konrad Kujau .
  • Municipal gallery "Alter Löwen" : changing exhibitions of various mainly local artists. Large exhibitions with Friedensreich Hundertwasser (2008) and James Rizzi (2009); 2010 “PopArt Now” with the artists Herman Reichhold , Robin van Arsdol , Lisa Grubb and Tamir Shefer ; 2011 “Panic Painting - Original Works ” by Udo Lindenberg (Likörelle); 2013 “Gaymann's Komische Kunst” by Peter Gaymann; 2014 Janosch exhibition.
  • The Kunst & Werk gallery exhibits blacksmithing, paintings and sketches by Pfullendorf's art blacksmith Peter Klink.

Buildings

Sacred buildings
Pilgrimage church Maria Schray
  • The pilgrimage church Maria Schray can be dated before 1480. Maria Schray is kept in the Rococo style. The stucco is by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann , the plait style altars are by Fidelis Mock . The furnishings also include an early Baroque pilgrimage Madonna and a Winterhalter organ.
  • The St. Leonhard cemetery chapel was first mentioned in 1401 and probably dates from the 14th century. The historic Pfullendorfer Friedhof was built in 1551. On it are among other things the mausoleums of the Heilig family, as well as Amelie and August Ambros.
  • The Protestant Christ Church was inaugurated on June 12, 1910 by the Protestant parish and the last service was held in the old service room in the hospital. The plans came from the architect Dilger. The foundation stone was laid on July 5, 1909. However, it was not until 1933 that the Pfullendorf “diaspora cooperative” became an independent parish. In 1957 the church was enlarged and renovated in 2006/07 and an annex was added.
  • The Dieterich Bonhoeffer House was built in 1965. It is the community center of the Protestant parish and was also a soldiers' home until 1998 .
  • The St. Fidelis Church is located in Otterswang .
  • The church of St. Peter and Paul is in the Zell district .
  • The Church of St. John the Baptist is located in Denkingen.
  • The church of St. Martin in the district of Aach-Linz has a neo-baroque ceiling painting. The furnishings include a Weeping Madonna and a clay bust of the Master of Eriskirch .
  • The baroque St. George's Chapel is located in Straß .
  • The Martinskapelle is located in Großstadelhofen .
  • The St. Georgs Chapel is located in Brunnhausen .
  • Former Franciscan and Dominican convent.

Secular buildings

Many residential and commercial buildings in the old town are registered as cultural monuments of monument protection category 2:

town hall
  • The historic market square with a fountain is the heart of the former free imperial city, today's old town. Several listed buildings are grouped around it:
    • The historic town hall with its structural expansion was built in the years 1524/25 as an Alemannic half-timbered building with characteristic floor projections on the second and third floors. On the ground floor there was a Gret, an imperial warehouse and trading hall that became the Württ.-Bad in the post-war period. Aviation Association e. V. Fliegergruppe Pfullendorf served as an aircraft hangar and workshop room. It was redesigned and expanded in the early classicist style in 1785/86 by the Teutonic order builder Franz Anton Bagnato , then Pfullendorf's town planning director. The historic town hall has a unique cycle of glass paintings from the early renaissance by the glass painter Johann Christoph Stimmer the Elder. Ä. The front of the long building faces the market square with a representative balcony and triangular gable. The building was renovated in 1939, 1979 and most recently in 2005.
    • To the right of this is the Stadtkassenbau, a three-story building built in 1893, the facade of which is characterized by a stepped gable and sandstone cornices.
    • The two buildings are connected by a flat central building with a balcony parapet, which is now home to the citizens' office.
    • Opposite the town hall extension is a stone building with a stepped gable and two corner cores.
    • The old hospital (Am Alten Spital 1) has existed since the Middle Ages. Today it is a restaurant.
  • From the market square the main street leads to the upper town, which according to a controversial theory of the art blacksmith Peter Klink from Denkingen, is supposed to have been specifically created using a plan called a "sun scheme", which was based on the sun or the solstices:
    • The Krone, a handsome half-timbered building, is located in the main street .
    • The stone barn / Spitälische Zehntscheuer, a late Gothic building, was built entirely of stone in 1515 with the style-typical opening frame and monumental stepped gable as a grain barn of the Heilig-Geist-Spital. It has served as the city archive since 1980 and also houses the city library.
Old house
    • The core of the old house (Museumsgasse 1), also called Schoberhaus , consists of a stone aristocratic tower that was built directly onto the city wall in the early 14th century. An inscription on the arch of the former east portal indicates the year 1317. In the 15th century the famous Knights von Gremlich lived here. It was not until 1356 that the late Gothic tower was expanded into a town house by building a residential building in Alemannic high-rise construction around it. The cultural monument, which has been vacant for a long time, is one of the oldest preserved half-timbered houses in southern Germany. The building with its tower walls made of molasse blocks with loopholes was completely renovated in the 1990s in accordance with historical monuments and today serves as a branch of the main museum of the Pfullendorf local history and museum association.
    • The Gremlichhaus (Pfarrhofgasse 21) was first mentioned in connection with the Junkers von Gremlich in 1435 and was later acquired by the Schellenbergers and then by the Roßknecht family from Pfullendorf. From the 19th to the middle of the 20th century they operated the brewery and restaurant "Zum Löwen" (hence the name Alter Löwe ). In 1876 it was bought by the Pfullendorf Hospital Fund, which in 1911 sold it to the City of Pfullendorf. They used the building as a retirement home and school. In 1977 it was renovated. After renewed renovation and remodeling, the Alte Löwen now houses the city gallery. The listed building is now a three-story, massive and plastered building with a hipped roof. The original building is a tower house with an almost square floor plan of around 15 × 15 meters from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century (according to another view shortly after 1200), which however was enlarged in 1730 (according to another view between 1720 and 1745) on the right side and baroque.
    • The Salmannsweiler Hof from 1505 fell victim to secularization : from 1842 to 1848, parts of the monastic building of the Salem Imperial Abbey were demolished and rebuilt as a late-classicist hospital at the upper gate with late-Gothic stepped gables and arched niches. It served as a hospital until 1963 and has been used as a retirement home ever since. The hospital chapel survived in it.
    • The former Fecker-Haus (Hauptstrasse 2 / corner Pfarrhofgasse) is a listed residential building in the immediate vicinity of the Upper Gate. The cantilevered half-timbered building was built in 1716. The first resident was the lamb host Johann Georg Mayer. After several changes of ownership and renovation backlog, the building is now in a very desolate condition and is on the verge of decay.
    • The privately owned Putzmacherhaus is also a listed building.
  • The Bindhaus is located a little away from the market square in Metzgergasse . The half-timbered house was built in 1499, but it is quite possible that another building was on the foundation before. This is suggested by the typical Hohenstaufen humpback as they were used in the 11th to 13th centuries. It belonged to the Pfullendorfer Spital and originally served as a fruit chute (fruit store). There was a cooperage in the basement of the building, hence the name Bindhaus . In 1860 Rudolph Ferdinand I. Probst (1812–1896) bought the house and converted it into a bourgeois dwelling. The last owner was Antonia Probst, known by many as "braid aunt" because of her long braid decorated with bows. She was the daughter of Rudolph Ferdinand II. Probst (1844–1924). When she died in 1978, the city acquired the building in 1979. In front of the building is the sculpture Friedrich II, the founder of the city of Pfullendorf, made of forged steel by Peter Klink . It was inaugurated on June 3, 2006 and is 30 percent larger than life.
  • The way to the lower half of the old town leads through the street Am Alten Spital, it forms the southern extension of the main street and is shaped like it by restored half-timbered houses, for example the property "Am Alten Spital 4", a half-timbered building the year 1700.

Fortifications

Natural steep slopes protected the medieval market settlement around the fortress of Count Rudolf in the east and west, which was occupied around 1155. However, existing documents about the Hohenstaufen era show that Frederick II ordered that the city be fortified with gates and a wall ring. The original 1230 meter long city ​​wall of the surrounding city fortifications was repeatedly reinforced up to one and a half meters thick, runs conically, had loopholes and a wooden battlement. Today, at 696 meters, it is more than half preserved and more or less visible in many places.

Originally the medieval city fortifications had four city gates, only one of which has survived. Those who came from outside had to go through one of them. They were located at a distance of 380 meters from one to the other, were probably aligned with the position of the sun and were all secured by loopholes, drop bridges and portcullis:

  • The city was most strongly fortified in the north, as can be seen in the double gates of the Upper Gate with the city wall and watchtowers at the hospital and the former Königsbronn nursing yard. When exactly the Obere Tor was built is questionable: In 1280 the "Oberes Tor" was first mentioned as a border point in a dispute between Pfullendorf and the County of Sigmaringen, when the county claimed high authority rights up to the city walls (Oberes Tor). In 1239 a “Pfullendorfer Tor” appears for the first time. However, it was not until the city privilege of 1220 that the city was walled. The actual Upper Gate on the highest point of the Molasse slope, on which the city is located, was extended in 1505 to form a Gothic double gate system with a decorative gate to the north, which is separated from it by an artificially created moat. The double gate system is dominated by the 38 meter high observation tower with a wooden staircase and intermediate platforms, loopholes and a relay gable. In the interior of the tower, incised, sometimes mysterious signs and names were discovered. On the fourth floor are the two former prison cells, which have double heavy wooden doors and are hung with up to five locks. The French occupying forces brought the last prisoners up to the tower in 1945. After the tower had been closed to the public for five years for security reasons, the city replaced the rotten staircase and railing up to the second platform with a new one made of spruce wood in the early summer of 2014, and further up the well-preserved steps were redesigned. The front gate, a gatehouse with a half-timbered gable, is flanked on the sides by two half round towers with loopholes. Reliefs of a crucifixion group are located above the pointed arched gate and underneath the city coat of arms held by two “wild men”. The inner gatehouse shows itself with a stepped gable and two ogival entrance ports. The double gate system is dedicated to St. Nepomuk, the saint of the bridge. The only surviving city gate in the Sigmaringen district is listed and is considered the city's landmark.
  • The Engelinstor, also known as the “Vorstadttor”, took the place in the northwest between the former “Grüner Baum” hotel and the stately remains of the city wall opposite. It already existed under this name in 1337. In 1829 (according to other information, 1840) the tower, the civil and criminal prison located next to it and the adjoining residential building were demolished. The valuable building and quarry stones were supplied free of charge for the construction of the Linz schoolhouse.
  • The Gebsentors in the southeast was mentioned in a document in 1353 as the "Gepzen Gate" in a sale to the Königsbronn monastery . It was canceled in 1844. The demolition stones for the construction of the “Frieden” inn in Mottschiess were auctioned for 236 guilders.
  • The stone fountain gate , which in the lower town shortly before the former level crossing at Stadtgarten formed the entrance gate for the rural population who came to the town from the direction from Aftholderberg to Pfullendorf, was demolished in 1831. The demolition stones were installed in the old school in Aach-Linz.

  • Upper gate (north view)

  • Angel door; Oil painting by Matthäus Hofmann (1866–1929)

  • Gebsentor; Oil painting by Matthäus Hofmann (1866–1929)

  • Stone fountain gate; Oil painting by Matthäus Hofmann (1866–1929)

  • Lower round tower with city wall in the west

  • Powder tower with city wall in the east

basement, cellar

In the Rössle cellar

Is building history peculiarity of the old town, that all houses in the molasses -driven natural cellar have. These cellars and vaults were partially connected by corridors hundreds of meters long. The best known is the rock cellar , which was first mentioned in 1730, under today's Hotel "Adler"; it is open to the public. Other cellars are those on the old city wall, where the “Grünen Baum” brewery was once located, the beer cellar in Lammgasse, and below the “Am Härle” elementary school. Until the 1960s, they were tempered with ice that was obtained from so-called ice gallows in winter. However, the cellars under the "Buchenwasen" on today's Aftholderberger Straße are less well known. It is not known when the four interconnected cellars were dug into the slope, but they were no longer used as early as 1910. During the Second World War, the cellars were used as air raid shelter.

Stumbling blocks

Stumbling stone on the corner of Mühlensteigle / Zum Eichberg and a memorial stone in the old cemetery for Jan Kobus Stumbling stone on the corner of Mühlensteigle / Zum Eichberg and a memorial stone in the old cemetery for Jan Kobus
Stumbling stone on the corner of Mühlensteigle / Zum Eichberg and a memorial stone in the old cemetery for Jan Kobus

On April 8, 2005, Donata Höffer suggested that Gunter Demnig laid a stumbling block on the sidewalk at the corner of Mühlensteigle and Zum Eichberg to commemorate the fate of the murdered 23-year-old Polish slave laborer Jan Kobus. This was hanged on April 5, 1941 at this point, on a tree in what was then called “Sieben Linden” outside the city because of racial disgrace with a 20-year-old German. Both had worked on a farm in Ruschweiler and had entered into a love affair that resulted in a child. The execution took place in front of the eyes of the local Nazi formations, Pfullendorf citizens as well as hundreds of Polish prisoners of war and forced laborers from the area as a deterrent and under military guard. The pregnant woman had been transferred three months later and gave birth to her child in the Gestapo prison in Konstanz, where she had previously disclosed the father's name after many interrogations. After the war, former Polish forced laborers erected an obelisk-like black marble column designed by a Polish stonemason with an inscription in German, French and Polish. In the course of the structural development for the new residential area on Eichberg in 1962/1963, this memorial stone was moved to the old cemetery, where it is permanent against the wall, opposite the entrance to the hospital.

Natural monuments

  • The embankment between Pfullendorf and Aach – Linz, with its lean limestone grassland area (semi- dry grassland ), which is unique in the region, is a registered natural monument . In order to prevent the disappearance of rare animals and plants and thus to preserve an ecologically valuable terrain, there has been a maintenance obligation for around 25 years. This includes the mowing of the lawn after the vegetation phase and the removal and proper disposal of the clippings. The owners cannot be forced to do this, but they must not prevent the measures.

Parks

Seepark Linzgau

In the Seepark Linzgau

The Seepark Linzgau is located on the western outskirts of Pfullendorf. It was created in 2001 as part of the country's first green project "Nature in Town and Country" on the site that belonged to the old quarry pond. Peter Lenk contributed a fountain with Count Bernadotte as a motif. In the complex there are two children's playgrounds , the so-called sea ​​monster playground and the brook playground, a lido with sunbathing lawn and ball sports facilities. On the planet path , the solar system is shown on a scale of 1: 1.4 billion, here you can walk along the lake to the apiary, there is also a willow chapel. After the small state horticultural show in 2001, the Seepark located within the holiday region of Northern Lake Constance developed into a popular excursion destination.

The Pfullendorf water ski park , a water ski and wakeboard facility , has been in the Seepark since 2005 . In 2006 it hosted the German Wakeboard Championships.

In May 2007, “Germany's craziest adventure golf course” was opened by the non-profit employment project Werkstättle , which consists of 18 lavish adventure golf courses and two practice courses on artificial turf with lots of water and technical surprises on over 6400 m². The tracks are between ten and 30 meters long and have been awarded the “Germany - Land of Ideas” prize. In the 2009 season 45,000 visitors were counted.

Since July 2012 there is another attraction for all football fans. A football golf course with 30,000 square meters and 18 lanes with a length between 30 and 130 meters was opened. The soccer golf course is located directly at the parking lot west of the Seepark. The Jägerhof adventure park is also located there .

Since June 2015 there is a diving base with diving school and guided dives in the Seepark.

The Seepark is the territory of at least two or three of the six to eight beavers living in the city area .

City garden

City pond in the city garden

In the city center, Pfullendorf has a small city park called Stadtgarten . Here is the city lake, with a small island and fountain. It is a popular place to stay, especially older people appreciate the circular path and the many benches to relax. The city lake is home to a large colony of ducks. In the city garden there is also a memorial that commemorates the victims of violence, war and arbitrary rule.

music

There are church choirs in Pfullendorf, Aach-Linz, Denkingen, Otterswang and Zell, music associations in Pfullendorf (“Stadtmusik”), Aach-Linz, Denkingen and Otterswang, in Pfullendorf a trombone choir and the men's choir and in Aach-Linz an accordion orchestra.

Sports

SC Pfullendorf

The Pfullendorf sports club , which is known far beyond the city limits, played in the third-highest leagues for 21 years and in fourth-class for 16 years. The club celebrated its greatest success in 2000 under the coach of the time, Frank Wormuth , when he qualified for the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga as runner-up in the Regionalliga Süd . The promotion was missed after a 1: 1 at home against the later promoted LR Ahlen and a 1: 3 defeat at 1. FC Union Berlin . In addition, the club beat the then Bundesliga club Arminia Bielefeld 2-1 in the first round of the 2006/2007 DFB Cup and thus moved into the second round. The club currently plays in the sixth class association league South Baden .

Other football clubs

In the sub-community of Denkingen there is the “SV Denkingen 1969 e. V. ", who has played in the regional league for years and in Aach-Linz the" TSV Aach-Linz 1910 e. V. “with a wide range of sports and leisure activities.

German Alpine Association e. V., Pfullendorf Section

The second largest club in Pfullendorf after the gymnastics club is the Deutsche Alpenverein e. V., Pfullendorf Section with almost 1200 members (as of November 2009). In addition to the extensive annual program with hiking, mountaineering, ski mountaineering, cross-country skiing, ski and snowboard school and climbing, there is also a climbing tower with a bouldering wall in Tiefenthal.

With the Bergwald-Loipe , Pfullendorf has a circular course for classic technique with a length of four kilometers and a height difference of 40 meters and a rolled skating route for cross-country skiers who prefer the ice-skating step, 1.2 kilometers in length and around 25 meters Height difference. The entrance is on the outskirts of the city opposite the airfield restaurant, where you can also park.

water sports

  • Swimming club: The swimming club in Pfullendorf has training opportunities both in the indoor pool and in the forest pool.
  • Rowing club: Since 2001, rowing can be learned in the Seepark. The subsequently founded Pfullendorfer Ruderclub 2002 eV trains from spring to autumn mostly in the Seepark, during the winter months in a training room.
  • Bootschen: Jenische from Pfullendorf won the world's first Bootsch tournament in 2005 in Singen in a mixed team
  • Waterskipark Pfullendorf: waterskiing and wakeboarding facility in Seepark Linzgau

Other sports clubs

Furthermore, there is the TC Pfullendorf tennis club in Pfullendorf, as well as the TV Pfullendorf gymnastics club, founded in 1860, which is the largest club in town with almost 1,600 members.

Regular events

Fool figure "Hänsele" of the fool's guild Stegstrecker

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The city is not connected to any federal highway . On the L 194 between Pfullendorf and Aach-Linz, over 11,000 vehicles a day with a large proportion of transit cause a high level of traffic.

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

The city's train station, which opened on August 11, 1873, was on the Altshausen – Schwackenreute railway line . The line from Pfullendorf to Schwackenreute was closed in 1983, the one to Altshausen in 2004. Since 1971 there has been no more passenger traffic; Until 2002, the rails to Altshausen were still used for transports by large companies. On December 31, 2009, the 6.5 hectare railway wasteland was bought by the city for 2.4 million euros and redesigned. Since 2009, the city has acted as a railway infrastructure company for the reactivated Altshausen - Ostrach - Pfullendorf line, and since 2011 the route has been used again for leisure passenger transport: On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between May and October, the Radexpress trains run on the “robber railway” marketed Railway line. Freight traffic is also on the route again; in addition to the Pfullendorfer container terminal, there are loading points in Burgweiler, Ostrach and Altshausen. The former station reception building (Franz-Xaver-Heilig-Straße 2) from 1926, a listed, single-storey plastered building with a central projection and hipped roof, has housed a restaurant since 2018.

To the south of the city is the Pfullendorf airfield ( 47 ° 55 ′  N , 009 ° 15 ′  E ) at 702  m above sea level. NN . The public airfield in Pfullendorf (ICAO: EDTP) has been public since 1968 and has a 609 m long and 30 m wide runway made of grass. It is oriented almost exactly from north to south (01/19). ! 547.9088895509.2505565

media

The Pfullendorfer Anzeiger, printed by the List-Steiner family from 1881 to 1936, was the proclamation sheet for the city and the district of Pfullendorf, which appeared three times a week. During the National Socialist era, this body lost its independence in the course of the press synchronization. The Anzeiger took on the same function as the Südkurier , who took over regional reporting after the Second World War. In 1952, the master book and publishing house printer Ernst Anton Schmidt took over the closed printing company until 2008. Südkurier Medienhaus GmbH in Pfullendorf runs a local editorial office for its daily newspaper. The Schwäbische Zeitung was represented with an office and a local editorial office in Pfullendorf for around 20 years, which were closed at the end of 2017.

Established businesses

In 1876 the eleven breweries in Pfullendorf brewed a total of 8,370 hectoliters of beer, most of which was consumed in the brewery restaurants. The largest brewery was that of the “Grüner Baum” with an annual output of 227,000 liters, the smallest that of the “Mohren” with 32,000 liters. Many brewery families were related to each other, for example the families Roßknecht, Walter and Hübschle. The breweries and restaurants achieved the greatest turnover on market days, when visitors flocked from the countryside to the city. For this reason, the restaurants were mostly in the immediate vicinity of the market:

  • The Adler brewery had its business at Gebsentor (today: Hotel "Adler"). The associated malt tower in Roßmarktgasse was demolished years ago.
  • The “Zur Sonne” brewery was brewing right behind the Steinbrunnentor, of which only the restaurant is still standing today.
  • The brewery belonging to the former Hotel “Grüner Baum” was located at Engelinstor.
  • At the upper gate there were two breweries, outside the city the Mohren Brewery and inside the Löwen Brewery, today's Gremlichhaus.
  • The “German Emperor” brewed on the market square, the Rößlebrauerei on Heiligenbergerstraße and the lamb brewery up on Hauptstraße. The lamb brewery was the last operated brewery. It was closed from 1942 to 1950 and closed in 1968.
  • Outside the city walls were the breweries "Zum Weisse Ochsen" and "Zum Deutschen Haus". The dealers also had the opportunity to park their wagons here.

There was even a hop garden at the Mühlesteigle above the railway bridge.

The town was dominated by the farming community until the 1950s when municipal and hospital assets were used to locate industrial companies. Old Pfullendorfer families ran handicraft businesses in addition to agriculture. The total number of employees in Pfullendorf is 6,194 (as of November 2010). The middle center offers good qualities for the settlement and development of companies. The new industrial area "Mengener Straße" has 13 hectares. The largest local employers are:

  • Geberit : Geberit develops systems and products for bathrooms and sanitary ware. At the location located here in 1955, mainly exposed and concealed cisterns are made of plastic. In 2010, 1,460 employees worked in sales, production and logistics. In 2009, 25 million euros were invested in the construction of a European logistics center.
  • Alno AG : Originally the workshop of the cabinet maker Albert Nothdurft, today Alno AG employs around 750 people on site and manufactures kitchens that are exported all over the world. In the former model company, around 2,500 people were on wages in the heyday. After its bankruptcy, Alno, which at that time was still managed by Alno AG, ceased business operations in October 2017. In March 2018, Neue Alno GmbH , which emerged from the bankruptcy of Alno AG, resumed furniture production.
  • Kramer Allrad : The construction machinery manufacturer Kramer has been based in Pfullendorf since 2008 with a huge building complex costing around 30 million euros.
  • ESCAD: In 2005 the company settled in Pfullendorf. It is an engineering service provider for the automotive, aerospace and aerospace industries, and is active in automation technology, medical and solar technology . Escad employs around 600 people internationally.
  • Extra Games Entertainment GmbH: Extra Games, a slot machine operator in catering establishments and operator of around 250 amusement arcades throughout Germany (as of January 31, 2015), has its administrative headquarters in Pfullendorf. The company was taken over by the Austrian Novomatic in December 2005 .
  • Sparkasse Pfullendorf-Meßkirch : Pfullendorf is the head office of the bank with 15 branches.
  • Volksbank Pfullendorf eG: The city is the headquarters of the cooperative bank with five branches.

In 1952 the master book and publishing house printer Ernst Anton Schmidt (1920–2008) took over the closed printing works List in Pfullendorf and from the 1970s he published the local chronicles of Pfullendorf and other local historical works by Josef Groner . (See literature .) In 2000, Schmidt ceased publishing and printing.

The internationally active organ building company Glatter-Götz is based on site.

Another important mainstay for the city of Pfullendorf is tourism. Pfullendorf belongs to the "Northern Lake Constance" holiday region. In 2014 Pfullendorf and its suburbs recorded 24,619 overnight stays.

Public facilities

Manhole cover CANALIZATION PFULLENDORF in the city center

Healthcare

The Pfullendorf Hospital, which belongs to the Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen GmbH , which was founded in 1996, is assigned to the 1st level of care ( basic care hospital ). The Pfullendorf Hospital, a building from 1963, has been completely renovated in recent years. In contrast to the Sigmaringen District Hospital and the Bad Saulgau Hospital, the hospital does not belong to the Sigmaringen district, but to the Pfullendorf Spitalfonds. The so-called Betesda Chapel is located in the hospital .

barracks

The following units are housed in the Staufer barracks in Pfullendorf:

A total of around 1,000 soldiers and civilians are stationed or employed there. During the heyday, it was around 2000. At the Special Operations Training Center (until 2003: International Remote Spying School) soldiers from Germany - especially for the Rapid Forces Division (DSK) and the Special Forces Command (KSK) - and from eight other nations are trained.

Forest pool

The outdoor pool, known as the forest pool, has existed since 1884. Today it is a modern leisure facility.

education

The educational offer in Pfullendorf consists of the following institutions:

  • Elementary school at Härle
  • Elementary and secondary school in Sechslinden
  • Realschule zum Eichberg - with all-day offer
  • Staufer high school
  • Special school - with all-day offer. The official name was given on May 14, 2010. It was named after Kasimir Walchner .
  • Volkshochschule Pfullendorf

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Albert Nothdurft (1905–1997), founder of Alno AG (1927) and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. In 1957 he moved from Wangen near Göppingen to Pfullendorf and built production facilities for 300 employees.
  • Hans Ruck, lawyer, former mayor
  • Josef Schreck (1853–1931), general practitioner (1912), medical advisor and jester president
  • 1907: August Ambros (1829–1915), Grand Ducal Medical Councilor, Knight of the Zähringer Order of Lions, 1st class
  • 1921, July 20: Josef Thum (1858–1937), emigrant to America
  • 1933: Paul Heilig, entrepreneur and donor of a war memorial, more precisely the artificial stone extension around an already existing bronze monument in the Hurray Germania style (marble border).
  • 1961: Johann Schupp from Zell, pastor with a doctorate and local researcher
  • 1990: Josef Groner (1915–1997), Dominican, Catholic theologian and historian
  • 1994: Paul Kerle (1922–2011), long-time chairman of the Heimat- und Museumverein, honorary master of the Stegstrecker guild
  • 1995: Elmar Hettler (1921–2017), former parish priest
  • 1999: Sigurd Lange (1904–2000), painter and graphic artist
  • 2002: Hermann Löffler (1907–2008), city treasurer, municipality and district council (CDU / FW), manager of the St. Elisabeth welfare station and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit (1988)
  • 2002: Walter Ott (1924–2016), entrepreneur, chairman of the supervisory board, municipal and district council (CDU)
  • 2012: Hermann Billmann (* 1947), long-time Protestant pastor

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in the place

  • Otto I (around 1117–1183), Duke of Bavaria, died in Pfullendorf
  • Makeleta Stephan (* 1978), Tongan cross-country skier; lives in the Großstadelhofen district

literature

  • Kasimir Walchner: History of the city of Pfullendorf from the years 916 to 1811. Wallis, Konstanz 1825 ( digitized version ).
  • Johann Schupp: Memories of the City of Pfullendorf. Consecration for the 750th anniversary of the city's foundation. Karlsruhe 1967.
  • Johann Schupp: The formerly Free Imperial City of Pfullendorf and its families. City of Pfullendorf, Pfullendorf 1964.
  • Josef Groner : The Chronicles of the City of Pfullendorf. Schmidt, Pfullendorf 1982, DNB 840264747 .
  • Josef Groner: Pfullendorf in Linzgau. Thirty topics on the history of a formerly free imperial city. Schmidt, Pfullendorf 1988, DNB 948819596 .
  • Dagmar Zimdars u. a .: Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (= Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 533-537.
  • Charlotte Zoller: Close-up of Pfullendorf. Interesting and unique facts about the city and its inhabitants. André Heygster Cultural Office, Pfullendorf 2009, DNB 1126597007 .
  • Peter Schramm: Small history of the imperial city Pfullendorf. Bischoff Advertising & Communication, Pfullendorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043845-5 .

Web links

Commons : Pfullendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Pfullendorf  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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