Schwende (Herdwangen-Schönach)

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Schwende
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 43"  E
Height : 640 m
Incorporation : 1924
Postal code : 88634
Area code : 07557

Schwende is a village in the municipality of Herdwangen-Schönach in the south of the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Schwende is located on the edge of the Waldhof forest area southeast of the Herdwangen suburb , which is also church and school oriented.

history

The place name, first mentioned in 1201 as Swendi , identifies the place as a clearing settlement .

Schwende originally belonged to the Lords of Bodman , but was left to the Petershausen Monastery in 1253 . A stately Kelhof of the Petershausen Monastery is mentioned in 1359. The local court was exercised at this court. During the Peasants' War , several residents of the small town were executed for refusing to fight against insurgent peasants and for inciting mutiny. Jacob Forster from Schwende was immediately executed in Sernatingen (today Ludwigshafen ) and two other Schwendemers, Jörg Hahn and Hans Kum, were sentenced to torture and death in Überlingen .

Schwende belonged to the Herdwangen rulership of the Petershausen Monastery and, like the rest of the Petershausen property, came to the Grand Duchy of Baden after secularization . A local community of its own within the integrated community of Herdwangen, Schwende resisted the loss of independence until 1924, until the district office decreed the incorporation to Herdwangen.

Together with Herdwangen, the town then became part of the Herdwangen-Schönach community during the 1974 community reform .

Attractions

St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian, interior view

literature

  • The state of Baden-Württemberg 7: Administrative region of Tübingen. Stuttgart 1978, 843.
  • Herdwangen-Schönach community (ed.): Herdwangen-Schönach. Homeland book on the history of the community and the northern Linzgau . Herdwangen-Schönach 1994.

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