Rohrdorf (Messkirch)

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Rohrdorf
City of Messkirch
Former municipality coat of arms of Rohrdorf
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 650 m above sea level NN
Area : 16.11 km²
Residents : 795  (December 31, 2012)
Population density : 49 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1974
Postal code : 88605
Area code : 07575

Rohrdorf is a district of the city of Meßkirch with 795 inhabitants (male 392, female 403 [as of December 31, 2012]) in the district of Sigmaringen ( Baden-Württemberg ).

geography

The village is located southwest of Sigmaringen on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb . The municipal area covers around 1611 hectares (as of December 31, 2010).

history

Rohrdorf 1576

There are traces of both the Celts and the Roman times in the area . The village is mentioned for the first time in 930 in a document from the St. Gallen Monastery . The local nobility is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1092, until 1210 the counts (after them the Truchsessen ) of Rohrdorf ruled , whose ancestral castle was Benzenberg Castle (also Benzenburg). A ruin of the castle can still be found today.

The village was incorporated into the city of Meßkirch on January 1, 1974 on the occasion of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg .

politics

Since the incorporation , Rohrdorf has had a mayor and a local council who represent the interests of the place.

Former mayor

  • Karl Rebholz

Culture and sights

Buildings

St. Peter and Paul Church
  • The ruin of Benzenberg was once the mighty seat of power of the Counts of Rohrdorf. After the razing for the Meßkirch bedroom lock, there are only a few remains of the wall next to a large mound of rubble.
  • The Feldherrenhügel commemorates the battle of Meßkirch on May 5th, 1800 with its refuge with information boards , a decisive battle for later Germany. If the visibility is good, you can see the Alpine chain from the Zugspitze to the foothills of the Mont-Blanc massif.
  • Until 2013, a white and red transmitter mast that was recognizable from afar was a noticeable landmark and also the tallest structure in the Sigmaringen district. The Bodenseesender was built in 1964 transmitter of SWR for medium wave . The frequency 666 kHz was used to broadcast the SWR cont.ra program . The system, which previously consisted of four masts, was rebuilt several times. The last remaining 244 m high transmission mast was decommissioned in 2012 and blown up on October 10, 2013.
  • The Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul was built between 1712 and 1715 as a baroque church, presumably by the court architect Johann Georg Brix . The nave was 16 m long and 9.20 m wide. The tower (a defense tower ) is 32 m high. From 1935 to 1936 the church was lengthened by 10 m and widened by 2.60 m. A massive column entrance with a wide stone staircase was added to the southern part. An air raid shelter was built under this new building . The altar , created around 1722, comes from the Franciscan convent church in Unlingen. In 1939 the church received an organ with electro-pneumatic membrane drawers II / 12 + 2 transmissions from M. Welte & Sons . It was renovated in 1993 by the Harald Rapp organ building workshop and has been preserved in its original form.

Regular events

One of the regular events in Rohrdorf since 2007 has been the annual Rohrdorf Summer Festival in the Mette of the former community-owned sand pit.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The village is in honeycomb 443.

annotation

  1. ↑ District area 16,112,147 m²

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics 2012 ( memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the city of Messkirch; Retrieved January 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.messkirch.de
  2. ↑ Information from Martin Stehmer, Ordnungsamt der Stadt Meßkirch, dated January 12, 2011.
  3. ^ 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. 549 .
  4. ↑ Werner Fischer (wf): Once . In: Südkurier from December 31, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Albverein Stetten akM Hikers explore Rohrdorf's history . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of March 17, 2009
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqOZQLCJZw SWR report from the demolition on October 10, 2013 in YOUTUBE
  7. ^ St. Peter and Paul Rohrdorf on the private website of Brita Schmidt Essbach; accessed on March 11, 2015
  8. ↑ Sandpit Festival. Rohrdorfer celebrate despite the bad weather . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from June 15, 2010

literature

  • Salomon Rordorf-Gwalter: Messages about the Ro (h) rdorf gender. Printed as a manuscript for the family . Zurich 1892–1920.
  • Ernst Löhle: Our home in Rohrdorf near Meßkirch. The village story . Verlag Friedrich Georg Aker, Meßkirch 1962.