Rickenbach (Hotzenwald)

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Waldshut
Height :	696 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.65 km 2
Residents:	3983 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	115 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	79736
Area code :	07765
License plate :	WT
Community key :	08 3 37 090
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 7 79736 Rickenbach
Website :	www.rickenbach.de
Mayor :	Dietmar zapernick
Location of the municipality of Rickenbach in the district of Waldshut

Rickenbach is a municipality in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg . Rickenbach has been a climatic health resort since 2008 .

Rickenbach on an aerial photo from January 31, 2015

geography

Geographical location

The state-approved resort of Rickenbach is located in the Vorderen Hotzenwald on the southern edge of the Black Forest to the Upper Rhine . The hilly plateau is separated by the steep-walled valley that flows through the Murg river. Forests with a high proportion of spruce are interrupted by meadows, arable land and pastures. On a clear day you can see as far as the Alpine chain ( photo ). The municipal area is between 700 and 900 meters above sea level.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Herrischried , in the east on Görwihl and the city of Laufenburg , in the south on Murg and Bad Säckingen and in the west on the city of Wehr .

Community structure

Rickenbach consists of six formerly independent districts with a total of 13 villages:

• Altenschwand with glassworks and rope
• Bergalingen
• Hottingen
• Huts with Rüttehof
• Rickenbach
• Willaringen with Egg, Jungholz, Lehnhof, Schweikhof, Wieladingen and Wickartsmühle

history

Rickenbach and its districts can look back on a settlement history that mostly goes back to the second half of the 13th century.

The place Rickenbach was first mentioned in 1257 and developed into one of the most important places in the southwestern Hotzenwald. As a pastor , Rickenbach was the center of an extensive parish . Until the establishment of the state of Baden in 1805, the place belonged to the county of Hauenstein as a place of unification and court .

Altenschwand emerged as a scattered settlement and was first mentioned in a document around 1300. With its hamlet Glashütten it is one of the oldest glassmaking settlements in the Black Forest.

The Bergalingen district was probably settled as early as the Neolithic . The present village has its origins in the 13th century.

The first documentary references to the settlements of Hütten and Rüttehof, which emerged from individual farms, date from the same time , whereby Hütten was an independent municipality until 1973.

Hottingen, the chapel and the Gasthaus Sonne

A first reference to Hottingen can only be found in 1416.

To Willaringen count with the scattered settlements Egg, Jungholz, Schweikhof, Wieladingen and Wick Arts mill a number of quite different hamlets. Wieladingen, Schweikhof, Egg and Jungholz are the oldest documented settlements in the area. They emerged as clearing settlements of the monastery in Säckingen between the 8th and 10th centuries . Until the 14th century, the localities were administered by the knights of Wieladingen at the local castle . After the knight dynasty became impoverished and left the region, Willaringen came to the unification of Rickenbach with its hamlets .
See also Wieladingen castle ruins

Today's municipality was re-formed in the course of the municipal reform on January 1, 1975 by the union of the municipalities of Rickenbach, Bergalingen and Willaringen. Also on January 1, 1975, the previously independent municipality of Hottingen was incorporated into Rickenbach. Already on January 1, 1973, Altenschwand and Hütten were incorporated.

Coats of arms of the earlier municipalities

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  Rickenbach

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  Altenschwand

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  Hottingen

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  Willaringen

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  Bergalingen

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  Huts

politics

Administrative community

The community is a member of the agreed administrative community of the city of Bad Säckingen .

Municipal council

In Rickenbach, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection process . The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor and its chairman are entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result:

Political party	be right	Seats	2014 result
Free voters	39.0%	5	47.7% - 7 seats
CDU	26.5%	4th	33.2% - 5 seats
GREEN	14.1%	2	15.9% - 2 seats
We in Rickenbach (WiR)	20.4%	3	0% - 0 seats
LEFT	0%	0	3.2% - 0 seats

The turnout was 65.1% (2014: 57.2%).

mayor

From 1983 to April 2007 the CDU member Georg Keller was mayor . Keller has been President of the Black Forest Association since 2013 . Norbert Moosmann had been in office since May 1, 2007. However, there were frequent tensions between him and the local council. Since the summer of 2010, Moosmann was on sick leave for a few days due to accidents recognized by the Waldshut District Office. On March 1, 2012, the district office retired the mayor due to incapacity, which Moosmann accepted. In November 2012 he was convicted by the Waldshut-Tiengen district court of having faked an arson attack on themselves together with his partner. Neither the regional court nor the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) found a motive. Mr. Moosmann denies having committed the offense and tries by all legal means to get the proceedings to be resumed (StGB § 359). On March 17, 2013 Dietmar zapernick was elected as the new mayor with 50.05% of the valid votes cast. However, due to a complaint by a citizen because he was not admitted as a candidate for mayor, he was unable to take up the post and was therefore provisionally appointed administrator . After 552 days, the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg ended the legal dispute with a resolution of October 14, 2014 and declared zapernick the lawful mayor.

Community partnerships

Rickenbach has had a partnership with the French municipality of Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges since 1980 .

Culture and sights

Museums

Hottingen has had an energy museum since 2001. It is dedicated to domestic energy sources. The focus is on the use of hydropower . In addition, agricultural and domestic appliances powered by transmissions will be shown.

Buildings

Situated between Bergalingen and Jungholz high Rheinsender of Deutsche Telekom serves with its 184 meter high transmission mast of the distribution of television programs.

The Catholic parish church of St. Gordian and St. Epimach has stained glass windows by the artist Emil Wachter from 1986.

Sports

• A golf course (18 hole par 70) is located on the outskirts of Rickenbach towards Altenschwand
• A mini golf course is located at the Hirschgartenhüsli in the main town of Rickenbach near the golf course
• Four tennis courts are located within the golf course in Rickenbach
• A glider airfield is located in the Hütten district
• Many signposted hiking trails , such as the Murgtalpfad .
• FC Bergalingen sports field

Economy and Infrastructure

Kühmoos substation of the Schluchseewerk (large substation for 380 kV, 220 kV, 110 kV)

Personalities

• Johannes Thoma (1700–1753), Eggbauer (born in Egg)
• Eulogius Böhler (1861–1943), church painter and restorer (born in Bergalingen)

Web links

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

• Rickenbach (Baden)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Welcome to the website of the Rickenbach community. Rickenbach.de, accessed on January 11, 2019.
3. ^ Markgräflerland: The Baselstab in the municipal coat of arms, Baselbieter Heimatblätter 1979 2/3, by Günter Mattern
4. ^ 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. 501 and 523 .
5. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office, election results 2019
6. ^ Badische Zeitung November 28, 2012
7. ^ Roman Deininger: The strange case of the mayor of Rickenbach. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 13, 2012, accessed on November 13, 2012 . 
8. ^ The Moosmann case in retrospect, Justus Obermeyer, Südkurier, 2012-09-26 ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Federal Court of Justice. Retrieved November 21, 2017 . 
10. ↑ norbert-moosmann.de | Current. Retrieved on November 21, 2017 (German). 
11. ^ Badische Zeitung of April 30, 2013
12. ^ Badische Zeitung of October 18, 2014.
13. ↑ Welcome to the Rickenbach Energy Museum. From Energiemuseum-Rickenbach.de, accessed on January 20, 2019.