Degernau (Wutöschingen)

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Degernau
community Wutoeschingen
Former municipal coat of arms of Degernau
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 59 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 393 m
Residents : 964  (June 30, 2011)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 79793
Area code : 07746

The village of Degernau is part of the municipality of Wutöschingen with 964 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011) in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Degernau is around 1.25 kilometers from the center of the core town of Wutöschingen. At the same time "Degernau" the name is a 10.0-hectare prescribed on April 18, 1953 Nature Preserve .

structure

Degernau includes the village of Degernau, the Vogelhof homestead (Vogelhöf) and the shadow mill residential area .

history

The dolmen on the road between Degernau and Erzingen

The demarcation was already a settlement area in prehistoric times, as testified by the Degernau dolmen on the road between Degernau and Erzingen and the Degernau menhir in the immediate vicinity .

The dolmen is located in the “Toter Mann” area, whose name, contrary to popular belief, could be traced back to Stone Age finds and not to a hermit who settled there and who, according to a “document from the early 18th century [...] on 21. June 1709 in the evening around the sixth hour […] lying dead on his straw mattress with a rope around his neck ”. According to the local researcher HW Mayer, the text of the document makes it clear that the hermit had already settled in a place known as the “dead man”.

Degernau was first mentioned in a document in 1112. In 1358 she was named Tegernouwe Wouttendal in a Swiss document . The place belonged to the Landgraviate of Klettgau and the Lordship of Schwarzenberg . Just like Horheim , Degernau is an old place of pilgrimage .

As part of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipality of Degernau was incorporated into Wutöschingen with effect from January 1, 1975.

Population development

Degernau had 353 inhabitants on June 6, 1961.

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the formerly independent municipality of Degernau shows three green fir trees in silver on a green three mountain topped with a shield split seven times in silver and blue. The coat of arms shown here is in the colors white and blue of the Schwarzenberg family .

Attractions

  • The Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary is located on the mountain above Degernau . It was built between 1712 and 1715. The previous church was built in 1275 with an extension in 1360.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 163a leads through the village.

Personalities

  • Sister Superior Josepha Meinrada (civil: Sabina Schneider; * 1831; † 1891), co-founder (1862) of the Marienburg Monastery , superior from 1867 to 1891. She was buried in Degernau, in 1949 transferred to the large cross in the monastery cemetery.
  • Fritz Burr (* before 1900; † 1949 in Degernau), engineer, founder (1902) of the aluminum works Wutöschingen (AWW)
  • Joseph Schneider, teacher and local history researcher

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures . In: Official Journal of the Municipality of Wutöschingen, 28/2011 (PDF file; 686 kB), from July 14, 2011, p. 2.
  2. ↑ See Wutöschingen administration area . In: The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg administrative region. ed. from D. Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 1046-1049.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Hugo Mayer (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch für den Amtsgebiet Waldshut , printed and published by R. Philipp, Waldshut (Baden) 1926, pages 174 and 176.
  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. 524 .

literature

  • Wutöschingen - then and now, The reading book: Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen, Schwerzen, Wutöschingen . Wutöschingen municipality (ed.), 2006.
  • Josef Schneider: From the history of our home village Degernau
  • Josef Schneider: Contributions from the history of Degernau (Waldshut district) , 1973

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