Saig

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Saig
Community Lenzkirch
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 33 "  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 43"  E
Height : 987 m
Area : 11.03 km²
Residents : 747  (Jun 30, 2013)
Population density : 68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st October 1974
Postal code : 79853
Area code : 07653
Look at Saig
Look at Saig

Saig is a climatic health resort in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district near Lake Titisee (approx. 1 km as the crow flies). The Streudorf is a part of the municipality of Lenzkirch with its own local council .

geography

Saig is located on a plateau and gentle slope south of the high ridge , which at 1196.9  m above sea level. NHN is not only the highest point in Saig, but the whole of Lenzkirch.

An earlier name of the village, Seigge , means watershed and refers to its location on the Rhine-Danube watershed .

history

The village is said to have been founded by the Schaffhausen monastery of Allerheiligen . At least confirmed Emperor Henry V in 1111 the monastery of his property in Seegga or sedge . In 1277 the Lords of Lupfen also owned Saig. The place always belonged to the rule Lenzkirch and thus mostly shared their fate. In 1491 , the rulership, including the Alt-Urach castle stable and a village called Gesserschweiler, was sold by the Blumeggern to Heinrich von Fürstenberg for 6000 Rhenish gold guilders . It remained there until it came to the Grand Duchy of Baden with most of the Principality of Fürstenberg in 1806 via the Rhine Confederation Act .

In the course of the siege of Freiburg in autumn 1713 , around 400 French penetrated as far as Holzschlag . As they retreated, they set fire to two houses in Mühlingen, the church, the rectory, the tavern and seven other farms in Saig. Saig was a place of pilgrimage until the end of the 18th century. A report from 1889 looks back on Saig's development into a much-visited climatic health resort in the course of the previous 15 years. In 1900 a major fire destroyed u. a. the rectory and the Johanneskapelle. On October 1st, 1974 Saig was incorporated into Lenzkirch.

Economy and Infrastructure

"Large Kuhberglift" ski lift in Saig

Saig lives mainly from tourism. The village, which has 747 residents and has its headquarters, has 258 other residents who have their second homes here, as well as several hotels, holiday apartments and guest houses with a total of around 700 guest beds. The Saiger Höhe is used for congresses and training camps.

There is a ski lift on Saiger Kuhberg . A toboggan run - illuminated in the evening - leads with a length of about 1800 meters down to the Titisee. There are also several cross-country trails.

Buildings

Town center: rectory, St. Johann church, Johanneskapelle, former town hall

In the center of the village there is an ensemble consisting of the parish church of St. Johann, the cemetery and the Johannes and the Mount of Olives chapels. The sacristy and tower of the church date from 1412, the tower and choir survived the destruction of 1713 before the church was rebuilt around 1770 in the Baroque style. In 1965 it was expanded. The Ölbergkapelle was built in 1728 and used as an ossuary . It is now used for laying out at funerals. It contains figures from a Mount of Olives group from 1675, which are attributed to Johann Conrad Winterhalder . The Johanneskapelle from 1410 was rebuilt slightly modified after the great fire of 1900. The Johannesbrunnen next to it was the destination of the pilgrims mentioned above. Also after the major fire, the parsonage was built according to the plans of Max Meckel (1901) and the town hall according to the plans of his son Carl Anton Meckel (1914).

At the summit of the Hochfirst you will find the serviced Hochfirsthaus and the Hochfirstturm , which is accessible for a fee , from which you have a view of the Alpine panorama from the Zugspitze to Mont Blanc when the weather permits .

Personalities

In addition to some personalities who were born or grew up in Saig, most of them came to relax in the place:

  • Karl Pearson (1857–1936), British mathematician, stayed in Saig in the 1880s
  • Amy Levy (1861-1889), British writer, visited Pearson
  • Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor, honorary citizen of Saig, buried here
  • Johanna Geissmar (1877–1942), doctor, lived in Saig from 1935 to 1940
  • Eduard Schalfejew (1888–1962), politician, patron of the parish church
  • Otto Faller (1889–1971), Jesuit Provincial, writer, was born in Saig
  • John Asdonk (1910-2003), physician, 1972 in Saig with its opened Vodder Dr.- clinic the world's first lymphological specialist hospital, the 1975 Feldberg clinic moved to Altglashuetten
  • Mara Scherzinger (* 1989), actress, grew up in Saig

In addition, several football clubs spend or have spent their training camps in Saig, such as Alemannia Aachen , FC Aarau and FC Basel . The AH team of the football department of SV Blankenloch 1911 from Stutensee was welcomed in 2012 for the 40th time.

Web links

Commons : Saig  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e Saig (old parish suburb) . leo-bw.de; accessed on March 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Local council . lenzkirch-schwarzwald.de; accessed on March 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  5. ↑ Ekkehard Liehl: The location of the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the administrative area of ​​the state and in the landscape structure in: District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (Ed.): Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Land from the Rhine via the Black Forest to the Baar , Karl Schillinger, Freiburg im Breisgau 1980, ISBN 3-921340-44-6 , p. 18.
  6. ↑ a b c d story of Saig . lenzkirch-schwarzwald.de, accessed on March 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch, Carl Borromäus Alois Fickler: History of the house and country Fürstenberg: from documents and the best sources, Volume 1 , Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1829, p. 393, full text in the Google book search.
  8. ↑ Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Swabia . Volume 2, Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1801, p. 977, full text in the Google book search.
  9. ↑ Local history . feuerwehr-saig.de, accessed on March 1, 2014.
  10. ↑ Friedrich von der Wengen: The siege of Freiburg im Breisgau 1713. Diary of the Austrian commander Field Marshal-Lieutenants Freiherrn von Harrsch , Eugen Stoll, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 118, archive.org .
  11. ↑ a b c Information boards on the buildings: Church , Johanneskapelle , Ölbergkapelle , 19 August 2011.
  12. ^ 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. 509 .
  13. ↑ My Saig . ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saig host community, saig.de, April 27, 2010; accessed on March 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saig.de
  14. ↑ Manfred Hermann : The sculptors Hauser in Kirchzarten, Schlettstadt and Freiburg / Br. 1611-1842. The work (part 1). In: Badische Heimat. 52, 1972, p. 19.
  15. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 372 .
  16. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 329 .
  17. ↑ Lucinda Matthews-Jones: Book review: Amy Levy's Fate: Death and the Statistician. (No longer available online.) In: Journal of Victorian Culture Online. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 15, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Inscription on wayside shrine by the church
  19. ↑ Kathrin Blum: St. Blasien: The Feldberg Clinic was a pioneer . Badische Zeitung, March 5, 2010, accessed on March 1, 2014.
  20. ↑ Ulrich Herpertz: Edema and Lymph Drainage: Diagnosis and Therapy of Edema Diseases , Schattauer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-7945-2703-8 , p. 270, preview in the Google book search.
  21. ↑ End of vacation: See you on the green meadow . ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Aachener Zeitung, June 20, 2001; accessed on March 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alemannia-aachen.de
  22. ^ Patrick Haller: Fanion team in the training camp in Lenzkirch . ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fcaarau.ch, June 26, 2013; accessed on March 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcaarau.ch
  23. ↑ Saig training camp . gallery.fcb.ch; accessed on March 1, 2014.
  24. ^ Lenzkirch: A holiday resort developed from the training camp . Badische Zeitung, November 2, 2012; accessed on March 1, 2014.