Resting

Resting community forest
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	652 m above sea level NN
Area :	6.43 km²
Residents :	177  (December 31, 2014)
Population density :	28 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	88639
Area code :	07578

Ruhestetten is a suburb of the municipality of Wald in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

geography

Geographical location

The village of Ruhestetten is about six kilometers west of Pfullendorf , just behind the ridge of the terminal moraine of the Würm Ice Age . To the southeast of the village there is a moorland area where peat was extracted until the 20th century. Today it is designated as a nature reserve Ruhestetter Ried . The Egelseewiesen nature reserve is located north of the village.

Expansion of the area

The total area of ​​the Ruhestetten district is 643.29 hectares (as of December 31, 2014).

history

In the area around Ruhestetten, there was an early post-glacial settlement, favored by the geological and climatic conditions. Remains of pile dwellings from the Neolithic were found west of Ruhestetten in the Torfried Egelsee (Egelseemoor), which belongs to the source area of ​​the Ablach . About a kilometer north of Ruhestetten there is a burial mound in the forest . Only a few centuries younger are late Latène Age stray finds (possible settlement) near Aach-Linz in the “Thiergarten” area and the Viereckschanze south of it on the road from Aach-Linz to Herdwangen . Roman wall remains of a Villa Rustica in the "Maueräcker" area indicate a later Roman settlement. The Villa Rustica was probably destroyed by the Lentiens during the Alamanic conquest .

Ruhestetten was first mentioned in 1277 when the Lords of Laubeck gave a gift to the Wald monastery . The place was originally in Linzgau , even in later times the county of Heiligenberg claimed the high court and the forest ban. In 1460 Hans von Werdenberg ruled over the village, in 1458 the Wald monastery owned seven farms in the village and in 1474 the jurisdiction and rule of the village. Until 1600 it enforced the local corporation.

In the course of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the monastic hamlet of Ruhestetten was burned down and lay desolate for years.

In 1806 the village, like the entire forest territory, fell to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen through the secularization of the monastery due to the Imperial Deputation and in 1850 to Prussia as the Hohenzollern Land . From 1806, Ruhestetten belonged to the princely and from 1850 to 1862 to the Prussian Oberamt Wald , since then to the Oberamt and, since 1925, the Sigmaringen district . In the 13th century, the lords of Hohenfels and Counts of Nellenburg had ownership and rights in the place, and in the 14th century, lords of Hewen, von Hornstein and von Ramsberg . In 1873, Ruhestetten was connected to the Altshausen – Schwackenreute railway line , which was dismantled again in the 1980s.

The Ruhestettener Ortschronik reports from the year 1872: The village consists of 36 larger buildings with a public building, 23 private houses, eleven barns and a restaurant. 207 adults and 207 children lived there. There were 30 horses, 53 oxen, 102 cows, 37 calves, nine pigs and 65 beehives on site. 24 farmers, a blacksmith, three shoemakers, a weaver, a bricklayer, a tailor, a carpenter and a wagner worked in the village.

A few days before the end of the Second World War , French troops and a tank reached the village on April 22, 1945, after they had previously met the Volkssturm. They suspected Waffen SS units in the forest . Two Wehrmacht officers who came from Deutwang on a motorcycle were shot while they were fleeing. A stone cross reminds of this event with the inscription: "The officers Ferdinand Pledl, born on July 12, 1913, and Rudolf Friebus, born on May 18, 1920 - fell on April 22, 1945 - they were laid to rest here."

On January 1, 1975, Ruhestetten was incorporated into Wald.

Population development

was standing	Residents
Dec 31, 2010	174
Dec 31, 2014	177

coat of arms

In a split shield in front in black a double row of red and silver slanting bars , behind in silver a green leaf with two rafter-shaped stems, between which the field is red. The Cistercian bar is a reminder of the centuries-long rule of the Wald monastery. The back half of the shield contains the coat of arms of the Lords of Laubeck, who sold the goods to the Wald monastery in 1277 for the first time.

Culture

Since 1998, two artists have been running the project Neue Kunst am Ried with exhibitions in a converted farmhouse, building botany and sculptures that are embedded in the landscape of the Ruhestetter Ried on the eight hectare site.

Economy and Infrastructure

Ruhestetten was on the western part of the disused Altshausen – Schwackenreute railway line , which was opened by the Baden State Railways on August 11, 1873. In 1957 a stop was set up here. The German Federal Railways introduced on 26 September 1971, passenger traffic on the entire route, so that the route to a pure freight line was, this was discontinued on 29 May 1983 the western section between Schwacke Reute and Pfullendorf and dismantled this section.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ruhestetten on the website of the community of Wald
2. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: The prehistory and early history in the district of Sigmaringen . ed. from the district of Sigmaringen, department culture and archive, and Kulturforum district Sigmaringen eV 2009
3. ↑ Oscar Paret : The Stone Age Moordorf Egelsee near Ruhestetten . In: Zollerische Heimat. 5th year, No. 11/1936 . P. 65f.
4. ^ Hermman von Hövel: Burial mound finds at Rothenlachen, Ruhestetten, Kappel and Laiz . WBS. Issue 24. 1832. p. 234
5. ↑ See Maren Kuhn-Rehfus : The Cistercian Monastery of Wald (= Germania Sacra , New Volume 30, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Mainz. The Diocese of Constance, Volume 3 ). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1992. ISBN 3-11-013449-7 . P. 352.
6. ↑ Sandra Häusler (saw): Minutes that decide everything . In: Südkurier of May 8, 2010
7. ^ 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. 550 .
8. ↑ Information from Werner Müller, Mayor of the Wald community, dated January 11, 2011.

literature

• Wald community (ed.): 800 years of forest . Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023978-6 .
• Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 : Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.

Web links

• Ruhestetten on the website of the municipality of Wald