Sigmaringen

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Sigmaringen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '  N , 9 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Sigmaringen
Height : 580 m above sea level NHN
Area : 92.84 km 2
Residents: 17,278 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 186 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 72488
Area code : 07571
License plate : SIG
Community key : 08 4 37 104
LOCODE : DE SMG
City structure: 6 districts

City administration address : 		Fürst-Wilhelm-Str. 15
72488 Sigmaringen
Website : www.sigmaringen.de
Mayor : Marcus Ehm ( CDU )
Location of the city of Sigmaringen in the district of Sigmaringen
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Sigmaringen is a Baden-Württemberg district town on the upper Danube and, after Bad Saulgau, the second largest city in the Sigmaringen district .

geography

Geographical location

Sigmaringen, view down the Danube
Sigmaringen Castle (2015)
View over the city center (2015)
Sigmaringen Castle (around 1900)

Sigmaringen is located in the Danube Valley on the Hohenzollernstrasse and Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse holiday routes on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb around 40 kilometers north of Lake Constance . The urban area is between 578 and 794 meters above sea level. Especially in the winter months, melting snow and frozen ground in combination with heavy rain events repeatedly cause floods and thus critical situations in the Danube Valley. The so-called 100-year high water mark at the level measuring point in front of the Nepomuk Bridge is 3.70 meters and was last reached during the flood of the century with the highest level on February 16, 1990. On January 26, 1995, 3.58 meters were measured there.

geology

Sigmaringen is geologically and hydrologically shaped by the Pleistocene Danube channels. The city itself lies in a widening of the Danube, which is bounded in the north by the Wittberg and in the south by a moraine . The castle is enthroned on a limestone plinth ( Lias ) that slopes steeply to the Danube , opposite the Mühlberg. The overall demarcation is characterized by different formation levels: For example at the Nollhof by lower freshwater molasses (Ulmer layers) , at Jungnau by cement marl and towards the Hanfertal by hanging bank limestone .

Sigmaringen is located at the exit of the 40 kilometer long Danube breakthrough through the Swabian Alb . Here the still narrow river dug its way in the course of the Alb and Alpine elevation . In the many bends in the river there, high rock walls made of Jurassic limestone are exposed and crowned by picturesque castles.

Expansion of the area

The core city has an area of ​​34.29 km², the total area extends over 92.85 km². Sigmaringen's landscape is characterized by the approximately 3000 hectare urban forest. 667 hectares of this are mixed spruce forest. The Stadtwald am Wittberg used to be park-like with few trees.

Neighboring communities

Sigmaringen borders in the north on Winterlingen ( Zollernalbkreis ) and Veringenstadt , in the east on Bingen , Sigmaringendorf and Scheer , in the south on Mengen , Krauchenwies , Inzigkofen and Meßkirch, and in the west on Leibertingen , Beuron and Stetten am kalten Markt (list clockwise ).

Spatial planning

Sigmaringen forms a middle center with partial function of an upper center of the region Bodensee-Oberschwaben with the upper center Friedrichshafen-Ravensburg-Weingarten. The central area comprises the northern municipalities of the Sigmaringen district, specifically the cities and municipalities (in alphabetical order) Beuron , Bingen , Gammertingen , Hettingen , Hohentengen , Inzigkofen , Krauchenwies , Mengen , Neufra , Scheer , Schwenningen , Sigmaringen, Sigmaringendorf , Stetten am kalten Market and Veringenstadt . The city is a shopping and school town for the surrounding communities and, as a district town, it is also the administrative center of the district. The university location also attracts numerous young people from all over the region and the country, for whom there is, however, a lack of sufficient jobs locally.

City structure

The city consists of the core city and the districts of Gutenstein , Jungnau , Laiz , Oberschmeien and Unterschmeien .

coat of arms District Residents Area
( ha )		 incorporated on
Sigmaringen Sigmaringen (core city) 11,758 3429 -
Gutenstein Gutenstein 512 1311 July 1, 1974
Jungnau Jungnau 740 2235 1st February 1974
Laiz Laiz 2856 979 1st January 1975
Oberschmeien Oberschmeien 434 1059 February 1, 1972
Underwhelm Underwhelm 263 490 January 1, 1972

history

Prehistory and early history

The history of settlements in the area of ​​today's city of Sigmaringen goes back to the Paleolithic . Unique pieces from the Mesolithic / Neolithic (layer A) were found on the gypsy rock in Schmeiental near Unterschmeien . As a settlement area of ​​the urn field culture , today's district of Laiz was from 1000 to 500 BC. Proven. From the Hallstatt period , for example, numerous Celtic burial mounds with richly painted and ornamented objects were discovered in Laiz. From around 50 to 80 AD, the Danube formed the border of the Roman Empire . At that time a Roman road led via Laiz from Lake Constance towards Winterlingen and Burladingen, another from the Singen area via Vilsingen towards Bingen, Scheer and Hundersingen. They went through the ford below the Danube weir in Laiz , where the remains of a wooden bridge were found during the Danube regulation in 1975. Finds and excavations of Roman estates in Laiz im Gewann "Bergöschle", in Inzigkofen im Gewann "Krummäcker" , in Sigmaringen im Gewann "Steinäcker" and "Wachtelhau" as well as the Roman estate in Laucherthal indicate the importance of Sigmaringen as an agricultural region in Roman times .

An early man’s burial ground lies in the southeast of today's city. This is evidence of the foundation of the " Sigmar " settlement . This probably took place in the 6th century. The sword scabbard by Gutenstein , which was found in the Gutenstein district , also dates from this early period .

middle Ages

In the 11th century, at the end of the early Middle Ages , the first castle complex was built on the rock that closed off the valley. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1077, when King Rudolf of Swabia besieged Sigmaringer Castle in vain. The city was officially founded in 1250.

The first pastor in Laiz was mentioned in 1231. In 1275, 15 parishes belonged to the Laiz deanery. Belonging to the parish of Laiz, the branches Sigmaringen, Brenzkofen, Gorheim, Hedingen, Bold (Paulterhof), Inzigkofen, Ober- and Unterschmeien are mentioned. In 1325 the city was given to Count Ulrich III. sold by Württemberg . 1415 received Friedrich VI. the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The Prussian royal and imperial family descends from him. In 1480 Sigmaringen received its own parish. The deceased, however, found their final resting place in the Laizer cemetery by the church until 1744.

In 1460 and 1500 the castle was converted into a chateau. Via the Counts of Werdenberg , Sigmaringen came to the Hohenzollern family in 1535 . Four years later there was a devastating castle fire. In 1540 Sigmaringen and Veringen finally went to the House of Hohenzollern via the “Pfullendorfer Treaty”, and Count Karl I of Hohenzollern moved into the castle.

Modern times

City map of Sigmaringen around 1809

In 1632 the Swedes occupied the castle during the Thirty Years War . After they had meanwhile been driven out by imperial troops, General Gustaf Horn conquered it again for the Swedes in 1633. The eastern part was destroyed by fire.

In 1535, Count Karl von Hohenzollern received the county of Sigmaringen as a fief . This made Sigmaringen the seat of a Zollern line. In the years 1801 to 1806 Amalie Zephyrine von Salm-Kyrburg , the wife of the Hereditary Prince Anton Aloys von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , who was living in Paris at the time , was able to mediate both thanks to her relationships with Joséphine de Beauharnais , the wife of Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte Turn away from Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as well as from Hohenzollern-Hechingen . In contrast to many other small principalities, the principality of Hohenzollern remained as a sovereign rule. From 1806 to 1849 Sigmaringen was the capital and residence of the sovereign Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . During this time, the city was expanded in a concise way. Carlsplatz, which was later renamed Leopoldplatz, and Karlstraße with the stately buildings are the outstanding parts of this urban development.

On June 4, 1817, the last public execution was carried out in Sigmaringen. The place of execution for those convicted of assassination and robbery was the "Galgenberg", the former parade ground of the Hohenzollern military on the heights above Laiz.

View of Sigmaringen around 1843
The Principality of Hohenzollern after 1849

As a result of the revolution in Sigmaringen of 1848, the princes of Hechingen and Sigmaringen renounced their rule in 1849, whereby both principalities fell to Prussia in 1850. They were combined to form the Sigmaringen administrative region, which was later referred to as the " Hohenzollernsche Lande ". From 1850 to 1945 Sigmaringen was the seat of the Prussian government for the Hohenzollern lands. Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the Prussian Prime Minister from 1858 to 1862. From 1873 to 1972 the city was also the seat of the Hohenzollern state municipal association .

City view from the west (around 1912)

In the First World War about 150 young men were out of town. A copper plaque in the town hall commemorated her. However, it was melted down in 1943 together with the copper town hall gutter. At the end of the war in 1918, the dynastic relationship between Prussia and Hohenzollern, which legitimized power, also broke away in Sigmaringen.

During the National Socialist era , Sigmaringen had its own Gestapo office, initially Prussian. Since 1937 it has been subordinate to the Stapo control center in Stuttgart .

Between 1934 and 1942, more than 100 allegedly “hereditary” men from all over Hohenzollern and neighboring towns were forcibly sterilized in what was then the Fürst-Carl-Landeskrankenhaus . On December 12, 1940, 71 mentally handicapped and mentally ill patients were the first victims of the National Socialist murders, known after 1945 as " Aktion T4 ". The deportation in gray buses led Sigmaringen, the only psychiatric facility in Hohenzollern, to the Grafeneck Castle killing center , where the men and women who were described as " unworthy of life " were murdered. After Grafeneck was closed in December 1940, another deportation took place on March 14, 1941 to the Hadamar Nazi killing center . A total of 91 of 213 patients were deported in the course of the Nazi murders and 90 of them were murdered.

From September 1944 to April 1945 Sigmaringen was the seat of the French Vichy government that fled along with hundreds of French people . Head of State Marshal Pétain and Prime Minister Pierre Laval refused to cooperate with the Nazis in Sigmaringen. The new seat of the Vichy government was the Sigmaringer Castle. Politicians, officials, soldiers and ambassadors to the Vichy regime were housed in Sigmaringen, including the representations of Germany, Japan and Italy. On April 22, 1945, Pétain and Laval fled Sigmaringen. In addition to 6,000 inhabitants at the time, there were 500 members of the Milice française and 700 French soldiers in the city. District manager Härlin ordered the demolition of the Danube bridges in Laiz and Sigmaringen on April 21, 1945 . The Danube bridge in Laiz as well as the saw bridge and the Laizer bridge in Sigmaringen were blown up (Härlin snuck out of town on the same day); the Nepomuk Bridge was not blown up. On April 22, 1945, Deputy Mayor Staudinger handed the city over to French troops.

After the end of the war in 1945/1946 Sigmaringen was home to 5,100 local residents as well as 1,200 evacuees, and 55 apartments and many public buildings were confiscated by the French occupying forces. The repatriation of the evacuees began in 1946, but the number of displaced persons rose between 1947 and 1951. In 1947, displaced persons from Danish camps came to the station barracks. They were registered, fed by the station mission and distributed to the localities by the resettlement office. A second wave of displaced persons came in 1949/1950 through resettlement from the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bavaria. In total, Sigmaringen took in 1200 displaced persons. The first houses for displaced persons were built in 1950, and help was provided for displaced persons to set up a business. This is how the Panhans, Braunstein and Schmidl companies came into being in 1951. Since then, the country teams have also enriched cultural life in the city.

When the state of Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1952, the name Hohenzollern was lost as the third part of the state in the state name. The relocation of the former Prussian regional council to Tübingen was compensated by the settlement of the administrative court, the state chemical investigation institute and the state archive . During the district reform in 1973 , Sigmaringen became the district town of the newly tailored district of Sigmaringen , in which the district of Saulgau was merged. In 1971 the university of applied sciences was established and in 1972 the education center of the federal finance administration ( customs school ) started operations. Today's district hospital was built from 1974 to 1979. The Bau training center also opened in 1979 .

In 1995 the Baden-Württemberg Home Days took place in Sigmaringen .

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform of Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipalities of Unterschmeien (January 1, 1972), Oberschmeien (February 1, 1972), Jungnau (February 1, 1974), Gutenstein (July 1, 1974) and Laiz (1. January 1975) incorporated into Sigmaringen.

The Baden part of Thiergarten on the right of the Danube also belonged to the community of Gutenstein . The Baden community was assigned to the community of Gutenstein in 1890. After hearing the residents, this and the Hohenzollern part of Thiergarten, which last belonged to the municipality of Inzigkofen , was reclassified to the municipality of Beuron on January 1, 1977 .

Population development

year Residents
1961 09,345
1970 11,115
1991 16,011
1995 16,876
2000 16,776
2005 16,666
2010 16,252
2011 15,189
2015 18,271
2018 17,278

In September 2011 the core city had a population of 11,758, the total population 16,252 people. Around 4,800 of them are over 65 years of age and 1,306 are foreigners. For every 1,000 inhabitants, the city recorded a migration loss of 85 people and a birth deficit of 45 children. Purchasing power is 23,819 euros per inhabitant (national average 27,075).

religion

The population of Sigmaringen and its surroundings was dominated by Catholics for centuries . With the transition of Hohenzollern to Prussia, however, the church landscape also changed from 1850 onwards. Most of the officials, judges and other civil servants sent were Protestant . An evangelical trend is also reported in the castle: Since Princess Josephine von Baden was Protestant, her husband, Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , employed a Protestant preacher and Protestant services had been celebrated in the castle chapel since 1840. In 1853 the Brandenburg pastor Ernst Jungck became the first evangelical pastor for the evangelicals in Hohenzollern with an official seat in Sigmaringen. In 1860 two Protestant parishes were established in Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen and Hechingen. In the Protestant parishes in Hohenzollern, the old Prussian form of worship continues to exist at the request of the parishes.

Today, in addition to the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant town parish ( Evangelical State Church in Württemberg ) with around 5000 members - it is responsible for all suburbs as well as Bingen, Krauchenwies, Inzigkofen and Sigmaringendorf - there is also the Protestant military parish in Sigmaringen, which has been in existence since 1964 , Mengen and Hohentengen stationed soldiers. A civil parish (Kreuzkirche) has developed at their church building on Binger Strasse. In 2008, the military and cruciform church comprised around 1000 people: in addition to around 600 Protestant soldiers and their relatives, around 400 civilian members came from Sigmaringen and the surrounding area.

Other Christian denominations in Sigmaringen are the Free Christian Community , Brethren , Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Apostolic Church .

The Merkez Camii of the Turkish-Islamic Union and the Islamic Information and Education Center in Sigmaringen are Islamic institutions.

politics

Local elections 2019
Turnout: 54.9% (2014: 45.3%)
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30th
20th
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33.7%
25.6%
24.5%
16.1%
n. k.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.4  % p
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+ 8.0  % p
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City council Sigmaringen
distribution of seats 2019
5
7th
7th
10
5 7th 7th 10 
A total of 29 seats

Municipal council

The municipal council election on May 26, 2019 led to the result shown in the following diagrams:

mayor

On July 1, 2018, Marcus Ehm was elected mayor in the first ballot with an absolute majority of 68.28 percent. The turnout was 44.75 percent. Ehm's inauguration took place on August 27, 2018.

  • 1900–1921: Anton Reiser
  • Egon Müller (Hohenz Center Party)
  • Franz Schiek (CDU)
  • 1968–1992: Rudolf Kuhn (independent)
  • 1992-2006: Wolfgang Gerstner (CDU)
  • 2006–2010: Daniel Rapp (CDU)
  • 2010-2018: Thomas Schärer (CDU)
  • since 2018: Marcus Ehm (CDU)

coat of arms

Coat of arms Sigmaringen.svg

The coat of arms of Sigmaringen shows a standing golden stag on a red background, at the top right there is a six-pointed golden star. The deer is the heraldic animal of the county of Sigmaringen and appears on a seal of the city from 1316. The later coats of arms and seals also show a standing or jumping deer. The stag was adopted in the coat of arms of the Sigmaringen district.

Town twinning

City partnerships exist with

Friendly relationships exist with

Culture and sights

Sigmaringen is on the western route of the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse and the Hohenzollernstrasse .

Museums

  • Local history museum in the round tower : The defense tower is part of the old city fortifications, which is associated with the first city expansion. It was built in 1600 as a two-storey roundabout on the corner of the city wall in Antonstrasse. It was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, and in 1737 the owner at the time built an octagonal floor with a tent roof on it. In 1970 it was bought by the court advisor, silver and goldsmith Georg Zimmerer (1891–1972) and in 1987 made the city its owner. He combined his donation with the condition to set up a local museum. Expanded into a local museum and exhibition space, it has since housed exhibits from the city's history. On June 16, 2005, a support association called Heimatverein Sigmaringen e. V. founded. Its facade is adorned with the coat of arms of the castle and the city.
  • The Museum Altes Wasserwerk is located in the former waterworks of the city of Sigmaringen on Gorheimer Straße. It describes the history of Sigmaringen's water supply. There are picture panels on selected topics related to water. As a special feature for technology enthusiasts, there is a guided tour as well as a functional demonstration of the large machines.
  • State Archives Sigmaringen : founded in 1865 as the Prussian State Archives. This is where the written records of the state middle and local authorities in the Tübingen administrative district from 1806 and the holdings of the central authorities of the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern from 1945 to 1952 are kept. The documents of the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, which were sovereign until 1850, and of the Prussian government district of Sigmaringen, which existed until 1945, are housed in the former royal palace. Photo collections document everyday history in the 20th century.
  • The old school cultural center is housed in a building that was used as a primary school until 1975. It was built between 1875 and 1879 according to plans by the royal building officer Josef Laur . It initially housed the Catholic denominational school, later the Protestant school also moved in. With a comprehensive renovation in 1988, the classicist building was expanded into an urban cultural center. The city music school and city library have been in the building since 1988. The Society for Art and Culture has exhibition rooms there.
  • The old slaughterhouse on Georg-Zimmerer-Straße in Sigmaringen houses the "Ateliers im Alten Schlachthof", which has made a name for itself since 1990 as a highly regarded cultural center with open offers in the event and exhibition area. The old slaughterhouse was built in the style of the industrial building of the founding years in the years 1884/85 under government building officer Wilhelm Friedrich Laur . The building complex consisted of the main building with slaughterhouses, two back buildings with stables, tripe laundry, outdoor bench, hospital barn and wood shed.
  • The former Laiz infirmary , in which leprosy sufferers were treated in the Middle Ages , now houses the collection of the artists Josef and Marianne Henselmann . The collection was previously in Munich. The museum is open every first Sunday of the month.
  • The Mattes Zündapp Museum in the former bottling plant of the Zoller-Hof Sigmaringen brewery houses the world's largest Zündapp collection with over 100 exhibits from the legendary Nuremberg brand Zündapp on around 700 square meters of exhibition space. This collection, unique in the world, shows the art of motorcycle construction down to the smallest detail and provides an overview of all the products that Zündapp has ever produced. The first and only Zündapp car ever built in series - the Janus - is also part of the comprehensive exhibition.
  • The Geiselhart Museum at the Nazareth House in Sigmaringen is dedicated to Thomas Geiselhart. It shows contemporary documents and exhibits that provide information about the work of Thomas Geiselhart. It is supervised by the Haus Nazareth Foundation.

Stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks for the Frank family

On May 16, 2012, Gunter Demnig laid six stumbling blocks in front of today's tax office . The residential and commercial building of the Jewish Frank family was located there. In Sigmaringen, unlike in other Baden-Württemberg cities, there was no Jewish community before the war, as only individuals and a few Jewish families settled here in the 19th and 20th centuries. The best-known family is that of the businessman and manufacturer Siegfried Frank. She originally came from Buttenhausen near Münsingen , fell victim to isolation and pillage during the Nazi era in the 1930s and fled to the USA in 1938.

Buildings

The cityscape is characterized by the Hohenzollern Castle and the many buildings from the princely residence period and the period that began after 1850 as the seat of government of the Hohenzollern Lands.

Core city

Sigmaringen Castle - northwest view
Sigmaringen Castle - French hall / dining room
Sigmaringen Castle

The Sigmaringen Castle (also Hohenzollern Castle ) shows with its current expansion the historical development from a medieval castle to a princely residential palace. It was built as a castle in 1077 and received its present form as the residential palace of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen only after its completion in 1908. It has been the seat of the counts and later princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen since 1535. The magnificent halls, richly furnished rooms, the princely collections, the largest private weapons collection in Europe with around 3,000 objects, precious tapestries and numerous hunting trophies are well worth seeing. It also has a stables and carriage museum, a museum for courtly driving culture with sleighs and sedan chairs.

Sacred buildings
Joseph Chapel
Evangelical town church Sigmaringen
  • The baroque parish church of St. Johann Evangelist , built below the castle by master mason Johann Martin Ilg from 1757 to 1763, is decorated with works by the artists of the time, including the stucco work by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann and the altar painting by the Sigmaringen-born painter Andreas Meinrad von Ow . It is also equipped with stucco altars by the altar builder Johann Michael Feichtmayr and works by the sculptor Johann Georg Weckenmann. Its origins go back to the castle chapel, first attested in 1247. Today's parish church is a new building in which only the north wall and the tower, which dates back to 1580, have been preserved. It served as the burial place of the Counts of Werdenberg and the Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (until 1844) and was rebuilt in 1583. It is considered to be one of the most remarkable baroque churches in the region. In 1856 the Fidelis Chapel was set up in the left aisle of the church . It shows a Mother of God on a crescent moon by Jörg Syrlin the Younger and an altar panel in the manner of Bartholomäus Zeitblom . The Fidelis Chapel is also equipped with the precious Fidelis shrine, the arm reliquary of Saint Fidelis and the Fidelis cradle, in which, according to old custom, children are placed shortly after their baptism.
  • The Hedinger Church was built between 1680 and 1682 as a monastery church of the former Dominican and later Franciscan monastery Hedingen . It is located on the southern outskirts of Sigmaringen at the end of Karlstrasse. In 1889 it received an Art Nouveau choir dome over the Hohenzollern Crypt, the burial place of the princely family of Hohenzollern. The Prison Christ Altar is by Franz Magnus Hops . A Rococo Lady Chapel from 1747 is attached to the nave . The church is only open at Christmas time.
  • The Josefskapelle is a chapel built by Prince Johann (1606–1638) in 1629 on the hill south of the town center by the well-known Renaissance master builder Hans Albertal from Dillingen. A renovation was carried out in 1660 by master Michael Beer from Au in the Bregenzerwald. The current baroque interior of the octagonal domed building was essentially created in 1739 under Prince Josef Friedrich (1715–1769). The stucco work was probably done by Nikolaus Schütz from Landsberg / Lech. The dome fresco depicting the apotheosis of Saint Joseph was painted by Josef Ignaz Wegschneider from Riedlingen. The altar comes from the hand of Johann Joseph Christian . The organ was decorated and set by Franz Magnus Hops. Today the Josefskapelle is classified as an architectural monument . It plays an important role in Sigmaringen's religious life. Until the 20th century, the faithful made a pilgrimage to her every year on St. Joseph's Day (March 19), where the craftsmen's fair was read. Since the renovation in 1975/79, devotions have taken place there again in the summer. In 2008 and 2009, the Princely House had trees felled on the Josefsberg so that the view of the Josefskapelle becomes more free.
  • The Herz-Jesu-Kirche Gorheim belongs to the building complex of the former Franciscan monastery Gorheim . It was built in 1911 in Art Nouveau style and has nave pillars.
  • The St. Gallus Church in Gutenstein was originally built in the 16th century. During the renovation in 1812, it received rich stucco decorations next to the baroque altars.
  • The neo-Gothic Evangelical City Church on Karlstrasse is one of the few public buildings that did not go back to the initiative of the Princely House. It was planned in 1857 by the Prussian senior building officer Friedrich August Stüler , a pupil of the Prussian master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel , and built in 1861/62 according to drawings by the superstructure inspector Theodor Keller. Stüler played a leading role in the reconstruction of Hohenzollern Castle. The church is adorned with a slim, almost free-standing church tower with an octagonal floor plan and is connected to the rectory with an arcade. On a trip to Italy, the architect was inspired by the free-standing bell towers, known as “campanile”, that are widespread there. The foundation stone was laid on April 18, 1861 and the inauguration ceremony took place on December 14, 1862. The choir windows are a donation from the then King Wilhelm I of Prussia from 1863; the Art Nouveau windows in the nave and in the rose window a donation from Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern from 1911. The baptismal font is a gift from the Hereditary Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern and his wife, the Infanta of Portugal. A starry sky by Stüler can be found above the altar. The finials on the gable and the artfully decorated branches on the church tower disappeared in 1962, as the sins of concrete architecture. Between 1999 and 2000 the interior of the church was renovated. In October 2009 the laborious work on sandstone cornices and window walls, which restored the original state, came to an end. It should be noted that the town church turned out to be smaller than originally planned by the architect Stüler, because it was planned according to Prussian standards ( Rheinfuß ) and built according to Swabian standards.
Others
Town Hall (main building)
Country house
former state hospital, today district office
  • The Sigmaringen town hall, the main building of which was built between 1925 and 1927 according to plans by the architect Friedrich Imbery from Sigmaringen, received an extension between 2003 and 2004. Sigmaringen received town charter around 1250, and the first town hall was built in 1454.
  • Leopoldplatz, a square outside the city wall at that time, was built under Prince Karl between 1840 and 1849 as a representative part of the government and administrative center of the principality. It was named Karlsplatz and was renamed Leopoldplatz in 1910 when the equestrian statue of Prince Leopold was erected. The palace-like facade of the Beck'schen Haus on the south side, later called "Deutsches Haus", opened the representative development of the edge of the square in 1840 after the city beautification commission had decided to create a square instead of the street. From 1844 the “Neue Prinzenbau” followed in the east and from 1846 the Ständehaus in the north. This outstanding historical ensemble from the first half of the 19th century is unique for Hohenzollern. Comparable plants in southern Germany exist and only existed in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich. Today Leopoldplatz is dominated by an equestrian statue of Prince Leopold by Johannes Boese (unveiled on September 22, 1910 in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II ). Next to it is contemporary art, life-size wooden figures by Manfred Martin , a wood sculptor from Tübingen who works with a chainsaw. After the revolution in 1849, when Otto Wirth read his proclamation against the Princely House there, the square with trees was reduced to its present size.
    • The Alte Prinzenbau , built by the princely building inspector Uhl between 1822 and 1825, was one of the first houses outside the city and was located in the Long Garden , which today extends as the Prinzengarten behind the buildings on Karlstrasse. It was the residence of the Princess Amalie Zephyrine . When the state of Baden-Württemberg bought the Prinzenbau from princely property in 1980, it was gutted for conversion to the modern Sigmaringen State Archive for the area of ​​the Tübingen administrative district . Today it serves as a warehouse building. In the former enrollment room, where people used to register to seek an audience with the prince, the coat of arms frieze indicates the importance of the house. The reading room is now housed in the princely study. Special statics were necessary for the long rows of shelves full of documents. The restoration workshop is located on the lower floors.
    • The Neue Prinzenbau was built from 1842 to 1847 according to the plans of the building inspector Bröm with neo-Gothic elements and one of the first hot water heating systems in Europe. The historic rooms from the 19th century provide an insight into the contemporary living culture of the princely family. After many extensive renovations, the building complex now also houses the State Archives. In addition to the showrooms (garden hall, mirror hall, black hall and former chapel with its wooden sculptures), the Prinzenbau houses historical documents. The Rhine Confederation Act of 1806 with the creation of the former German medium-sized states is jointly responsible for the current division of federal states. In total, the Sigmaringen State Archives hold over 19 kilometers of documents of historical value, including the royal certificates, hand-colored maps and photos on the history of southwest Germany. The well-air-conditioned storage rooms are usually not open to the public.
    • The Ständehaus was built in the years 1846 to 1948 according to the plans of the foreman Wilhelm Laur and was named after the Ständesaal and its originally planned purpose as a state parliament building. The constitution of 1833 provided for representation by the state. The building, which was completely renovated in 1999, houses the Hohenzollerische Landesbank Kreissparkasse Sigmaringen , which in 2009 looked back on 175 years of tradition.
    • The German House was a historic building, but the structure of the building was not a listed building. It rounded off the historical ensemble of Leopoldplatz. It was once the first hotel in town. High personalities such as the German Kaiser Wilhelm I made guest appearances here . In 1972 the house was still called Hotel d'Allemagne . After various uses, nothing was left of the old glory - it was classified as no longer worth preserving. GSW Gesellschaft für Siedlungs- und Wohnungsbau Baden-Württemberg mbH - VdK property developer - announced the demolition of the building in April 2009, which was carried out in 2011.
  • The Landeshaus in Antonstrasse is a neoclassical building that, with one interruption, was the seat of the Hohenzollern State Municipal Association, the Municipal Parliament and the State Committee until 1973 . The state committee was responsible, among other things, for poor affairs, road affairs, the Fürst-Carl-Krankenhaus, the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn and the cultural and economic maintenance.
  • The Fidelishaus is reminiscent of St. Fidelis von Sigmaringen , who, according to tradition, was born and raised here as Markus Roy (1578–1622). Saint Fidelis is the first martyr of the Capuchin order . The Fidelis worship developed, starting from Sigmaringen, throughout Hohenzollern and has persisted until the present. The house chapel houses the Fidelis pulpit from Seewis, which Pastor Thomas Geiselhart acquired in 1884 on his pilgrimage to the places where Saint Fidelis worked in Vorarlberg and Graubünden, as well as two captured Fidelis relics and several high-quality panel paintings from the 16th century. The Fidelishaus was used as a St. Fidelis boys' seminary , retirement home and finally as the seat of church offices.
  • Today's Bilharz pharmacy at the intersection of Antonstrasse and Josefinenstrasse is reminiscent of the house where the brothers Alfons (1836–1925) and Theodor Bilharz (1825–1862) were born, which stood on the same spot.
  • Court Theater : Thebuilding acquiredby Prince Anton Alois in 1826and converted into a theater offered space for 149 spectators at the time. Up until 1949, performances were held here with brief interruptions by the Princely Hohenzollern theater directors. Today it houses a cinema.
  • Buildings and institutions with a long tradition are the Hofkonditorei Café Seelos and the Hof-Apotheke .
  • The former Fürstlich Hohenzoller house and domain archive is located at Karlstrasse 32 , a building from 1873 in French Classicism. In the Vichy period, the building was the seat of the German Embassy in Paris under Ambassador Otto Abetz . The registered monument was renovated by the GSW and given a new use as a residential, office and practice building. The Princely House Archive is stored as a deposit in the Sigmaringen State Archive and is administered by it.
  • Suggenstein Castle, which has now been removed, was located above the Hedinger cemetery . It is historically connected to the Lords of Volkwein. In 1904 a building with a castle-like character was built on the approximately 3.2 hectare site, which is called Baelchenstein Castle or Baelchenstein Country House. A comprehensive general renovation took place in 2004/2005.
  • The "Zoller-Hof" brewery restaurant at Leopoldstrasse 42 was built in 1845 under Carl Fidelis Graf and served as a house brewery and horse station in front of the city walls of Sigmaringen for the Albaufstieg. Under Paul Graf, the brewery restaurant was rebuilt in 1934 and the entire brewery relocated to new buildings. In the Vichy period, the building was the seat of the Japanese embassy under Ambassador Takanobu Mitani ( Japanese 三 谷 隆 信 ). April 1945 was adopted.
  • The town hall was built in 1930 according to plans by the city architect Paul Kleck from 1928/29.
  • House Nazareth : On October 21, 1859 Pastor Thomas Geiselhart moved to "Bethlehem" after Holy Mass with six orphans and a compassionate sister of Saint Vincent de Paul , as he did to the "Fürst-Karl-Landesspital" which was rented for the orphans. Josef Mohr'sche Haus "called. After two years he bought the property of Josef Löhle on the Brunnenberg and named it "Nazareth". Today's “Haus Nazareth”, an archbishop's children's home with family-like living groups, was built in 1867. The youth welfare facility celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009. The former orphanage is closely linked to the history of Hohenzollern. With over 300 employees, the church institution is the largest youth welfare organization in the districts of Sigmaringen and Zollernalb. There is a chapel in the Nazareth house, which is also the last station on the Way of the Cross . The Jesuits had suggested building the Way of the Cross in 1850 during a popular mission in Sigmaringen. Geiselhart implemented the idea in 1868, commissioned the Sigmaringer Kreuzweg and financed it from donations from the Kreuzweg Fund. The stations of the Cross, built in tufa limestone with a profiled roof made of sandstone , were built in 1869 and have cast plaques with gilded representations.
  • The Eastern Cross , a memorial stone on the Brenzkofer Berg, is dedicated to the victims of the expulsion and was erected in 1976. An inscription provides further information: “Loyalty to the homeland. 1945–1948 Expulsion of Germans from the Baltic States, Danzig, Wartheland, East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Memelland, Silesia, Sudetenland, Galicia, Spiš, Buchenland, Bessarabia, Batschka, Banat, Transylvania, Syrmia, Swabian Turkey. “Two million fates stand behind these names.
  • The central building of the Sigmaringen district office was built between 1844 and 1847 as a state hospital. It was named Fürst-Carl-Landeskrankenhaus after its sponsor, Prince Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , and his portrait bust can still be seen in the stairwell. The donation boards in the original entrance area of ​​the former hospital, the central axis of the main building, show that this hospital building was not possible without the foundations of the then Hereditary Prince and later Prince Karl and other members of the House of Hohenzollern as well as other benefactors. The state hospital was then permanently expanded. Various outbuildings were built between 1857 and 1907. The institution was modernized medically in the 1920s. The post-war period followed until the administration of the hospital foundation was transferred to the Sigmaringen district in 1963. Thus, the old state hospital became a district hospital. This phase ended with the construction and commissioning of the new district hospital in 1979. In February 1981 the district council passed the resolution to convert the connected complex of the main and farm buildings into the seat of the district administration. For example, the former hospital chapel, which extends over two floors with a gallery, was painstakingly restored and is now used as a “small conference room”. Under the then District Administrator Dirk Gaerte , an extension was built, which was occupied in 2014.
  • A memorial stone created in 2005 on the grounds of today's district office commemorates the victims of the National Socialist murders, in particular the 90 murdered disabled and chronically ill psychiatric patients at what was then the Fürst-Carl-Landeskrankenhaus. The memorial stone was erected on December 12, 2005 to mark the 65th anniversary of the first transport. It is located near the Anna-Haus, today the nursing home of the Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen GmbH for chronically mentally ill people.
  • The railway bridge of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn in the Au is a construction spanning the Danube from 1907. The three-hinged arch bridge in rammed concrete was designed by the Hohenzollern master builder Max Leibbrand (1851–1925) and was carefully renovated in 2003 for 800,000 euros. The load-bearing behavior and the appearance of the 60-meter-long cultural monument have been preserved. The road runs twelve meters above the Danube in a circular curve.
  • The former switchman's house at Bahnhofstraße 1 is part of the listed station ensemble.

Gutenstein

Gorheim

Gorheim Monastery

The Gorheim Monastery, founded in the 14th century, is today a nationally known educational center.

Jungnau

Laiz

  • The choir of the pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul in Laiz dates from the 12th century. The consecration is dated in 1308. Paintings by the Strüb family from Veringenstadt ( Master of Veringen and Master of Sigmaringen ), the lively rococo altar of grace and the Gothic Vesper image make St. Peter and Paul appear as “cultural monuments of particular importance”. The town of Sigmaringen was formerly a parish here.
  • The Millennium Fountain in Laiz was designed by the sculptor Ursula Stock in 2000 .

Oberschmeien

Parish Church Oberschmeien
  • The choir and tower of the St. Georg church in the Oberschmeien district date from the 14th century, the nave from 1787 and the ceiling frescoes from the 15th century. The crucifix was created by Franz Magnus Hops.
  • To the north of Oberschmeien on the right side of the Schmei there are the ruins of the early medieval Weckenstein Castle built by Knight Burkard von Weckenstein .
  • The ruins of the former Schmeien Castle lie between Ober- and Untermeien .

Parks

The Prinzengarten , which lies between Karlstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse, was built as part of the hereditary prince's residence around 1845, following the city palace of the Hereditary Prince Karl Anton, the new prince's building, built in 1842–1848. Before that there were orchards and herb gardens for princely servants. It was only under the Hereditary Prince Leopold that the Prinzengarten found its recognizable shape through Heinrich Grube (1840–1907), who was trained in Berlin by the famous garden artists Legeler and Lenné, formerly director of the imperial gardens in Mexico and later gardening director in Aachen the mixed style typical of the time: the Prinzenbau is followed by regular, geometrically designed ground floor areas with flowering shrubs and trees, fountains and grottoes, and to the south the landscape park connects with main and side paths, some of which lead along the open spaces , partly cross these; There are groups of trees and bushes and an artificial pond in front of rocky areas. In detail, the garden has undergone changes to this day through new paths and new plantings as well as through expansions or loss of space. The Prinzengarten is part of a system of princely green spaces that formerly ran from Gorheim in the west via Brenzkoferberg and Mühlberg in the north, the palace complexes, the Hofgarten, the Prinzengarten and Leopoldplatz in the center, the Au in the east and south to the Josefsberg and the Buchhalde was enough. It has been open to the public since 1974 and has been part of the “ Grünprojekt Sigmaringen”, a small state horticultural show , since 2013 . For this purpose, in March and October 2007 the historical lines of sight in the park to the castle and the Prinzenbau were cut out again and green areas were created. This was a joint action by the Princely House, the city and the State Office for Monument Protection. The historical stock of trees and bushes was spared from the measures, so that the overall picture was preserved. The total costs for the green project are estimated at 5.5 million euros, with state subsidies amounting to 2.7 million euros. The city itself has to pay 2.8 million euros. Karlstraße is a former avenue that leads in an almost straight line from the castle to the former Hedingen monastery and on which many government and administrative buildings were later built. Because of the many people wearing tails and top hats, Karlstrasse was popularly known as the “cylinder lane”.

The Princely Park Inzigkofen should also be mentioned three kilometers up the Danube in the neighboring municipality of Inzigkofen . It is a 25-hectare landscape garden built between 1811 and 1829 in the Romantic style with culturally and historically significant garden architecture. His buildings such as the Devil's Bridge, the Hermitage or Känzele were integrated into the steep bank at the exit of the Danube gorge.

Natural monuments

  • Opposite the limestone base of the Schlossberg, which slopes steeply to the Danube , lies the Mühlberg with the Panthelstein . This was created in 1828 when Prince Anton Alois had a path built around the Mühlberg by blasting it in order to create the conditions for a hiking trail, the railway line and a road. A bronze roe buck adorns the Panthelstein. The animal sculpture is a foundation of the Prussian major and military area head Eugen Panthel and is reminiscent of a young buck who is said to have jumped from Mühlberg onto this rock after the construction of the railway bridge in 1828. The lookout point on the Mühlberg, which is exactly 600 meters high, offers a good view of the castle, the Danube and parts of the city.

Sports

The Turnerbund Sigmaringen is the largest sports club in the city with around 900 members and offers a wide range of popular sports, volleyball, basketball, handball, disabled sports and competitive gymnastics. Sigmaringen hosted the regional children's gymnastics festival in July 2015. The Sport-Club Sigmaringen is the oldest martial arts club in Sigmaringen and is involved in judo. In the individual championships, athletes were already represented at the German championship.

Regular events

  • In Sigmaringen there is a market three times a week: on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, traders set up their stands around the town hall. The providers are predominantly direct marketers .
  • Carnival with the historical bridal , which
    • at the Loizer Fasnet (Laizer Fasnacht) on the morning of Carnival Monday (Rose Monday),
    • at the Sigmaringer Fasnet takes place on Carnival Tuesday morning.
  • Sigmaringer City Festival in the last weekend in June
  • Promenade festival along the Danube on the first weekend in August
  • Sigmaringer Christmas market in the old town on the first weekend in December
  • Sigmaringen on Ice - ice rink on the town hall square
  • Landknechtlager: The festival refers to the conquest of the town and castle Sigmaringen during the Thirty Years' War by Swedish troops and the subsequent liberation by the imperial Wallenstein troops. The mercenary armies were camped in the "Laizer Weiden" at that time. That is why, every two years since 1968, the Laizer Landsknechten have celebrated a festival at the historic site with suitable clothing and utensils.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Jungnau district is part of the “Im Tal der Lauchert” holiday region.

traffic

Remains of the Danube bridge of the former Krauchenwies – Sigmaringen railway line

Three railway lines meet in Sigmaringen. Sigmaringen is in each end point of the railway line Ulm-sigmaringen , the zollernalb railway and railway Kleinengstingen-sigmaringen . A fourth line was the disused Krauchenwies – Sigmaringen railway , which connected to the Hegau-Ablachtal railway . The imposing Danube bridge between Sigmaringendorf and Sigmaringen has been preserved to this day.

The public transport system is the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau organized (NALDO). In 1992 Sigmaringen was one of the first small towns to have its own city bus system. With around 775,000 passengers a year, it is one of the most successful city bus networks in a small town in Germany. Even today, numerous delegations from other cities come every year to see the Sigmaringen city bus system.

At Sigmaringen the federal highway 32 from Hechingen to Ravensburg and the federal highway 313 from Reutlingen to Lake Constance cross .

Sigmaringen is located on several national and international long-distance cycle paths: on the Swabian Alb cycle path (leads from Lake Constance to Nördlingen across the entire Swabian Alb), on the Danube cycle path (leads from the source to the mouth of the Danube) and on the EuroVelo route EV 6 river route (runs from the Atlantic to the Black Sea)

tourism

Tourism is an important industry in the city. In 2009, 481,000 day visitors were recorded. The number of overnight stays in the city including districts rose from 73,810 in 2009 (2008: 60,674) to 75,300 in 2010. Around 10 percent of the guests are foreigners.

Established businesses

The Fürst von Hohenzollern group of companies is headquartered in Sigmaringen and is the second largest employer in the region after the Bundeswehr with around 3,000 employees. The SchwörerHaus KG maintains in Sigmaringen a branch for the Schwörer complete construction, industrial, commercial, steel construction and management. The headquarters of the Hohenzollerische Landesbank - Kreissparkasse Sigmaringen and Steidle GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1823, are located in Sigmaringen . Once one of the largest employers in the district, the company currently has 140 employees.

Public facilities

As an administrative town , Sigmaringen houses an administrative court , a district court belonging to the Hechingen regional court district , a state archive, a tax office , the education and science center of the Federal Finance Administration's Sigmaringen headquarters ( customs school ) and a chemical and veterinary examination office (CVUA, formerly the state chemical examination institute).

The former Nonnenhof barracks are located in the Sigmaringer district of Laiz, Gewann "Nonnenhof", as well as the Graf-Stauffenberg barracks of the Bundeswehr , in Sigmaringer Gewann "Ziegelholz": Sigmaringen was a division town with the staff of the 10th Panzer Division , the Command Support Battalion 291 and a training battery of the Artillery Battalion 295. The site was founded in 1959. It used to have twice as many soldiers and civilian employees as it does today. In the 2011 stationing concept , however, it was decided to liquidate the Sigmaringen Bundeswehr site, which should be completed by 2017 at the latest. In the forest between Jungnau and Bingen, the Bundeswehr maintained a restricted military area for about 30 years . At the beginning of the 1970s, the federal government took the land against the will of the then independent community of Jungnau by expropriating it. 30 years later, the federal government wanted to return it to the city of Sigmaringen. This waived because the fear of pollution was in the room. The 18 hectare site with 24 bunkers , in which the Bundeswehr had stored ammunition until 2000, was sold to a private entrepreneur in 2001. The suspicion of pollution was dispelled by expert reports, today the area is used commercially.

A memorial stone in a green area of ​​the village reminds of the namesake of the barracks.

The city is the seat of the dean's office Sigmaringen-Meßkirch of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

health care

District Hospital Sigmaringen

Sigmaringen is the seat of the Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen GmbH, whose shareholders are the Landkreis Sigmaringen and the Spitalfonds Pfullendorf. The GmbH is responsible for the Sigmaringen District Hospital, the Pfullendorf Hospital and the Bad Saulgau District Hospital as well as the Anna-Haus psychiatric nursing home in Sigmaringen.

education

As a school town, Sigmaringen offers a wide range of training opportunities:

University, technical college and adult education

Vocational training :

  • Bertha-Benz-Schule Sigmaringen, commercial, nutritional and social science school: Nutritional high school, social science high school, technical high school (IT / T / MT), technical school for social pedagogy, vocational college (wood / metal / electronics / etc.), Vocational school, year of career entry , Vocational preparation year, vocational college for nutrition and housekeeping, two-year housekeeping and socio-educational vocational school, two-year vocational school for health and care, housekeeping vocational school, agricultural vocational school
  • Ludwig-Erhard-Schule Commercial school: Business high school, commercial vocational college I and II with training company, business school, commercial vocational school
  • Albert Reis Technical College, Agricultural Entrepreneur School
  • Construction training center: one of four inter-company training centers of the non-profit vocational support company of the Baden-Württemberg construction industry

General education schools :

  • Hohenzollern-Gymnasium (HZG), founded in 1818, humanistic gymnasium with a natural science and musical element
  • Liebfrauenschule Sigmaringen (Lyceum, called "Lize" ) Catholic free school, grammar school and secondary school
  • Theodor-Heuss-Realschule (called "Theo" )
  • Evening middle school
  • Bilharz school, elementary and secondary school with Werkrealschule
  • Laiz primary school
  • Geschwister-Scholl-School (primary school)
  • Luise-Leininger-Schule (special needs education and advice center with a special focus on learning)
  • Sebastian-Ott-Schule (special education and advice center with a focus on emotional and social development)
  • Fidelis School (special education and advice center with a focus on intellectual development)

Broadcasting station

There are two radio stations in the urban area of ​​Sigmaringen: one is at Talwiese, where the SWR 4 program is broadcast, and the other in Franziskanerweg, which is used to broadcast the “Radio Seefunk” program. Both transmitter locations use free-standing concrete masts as antenna supports.

  • Transmission tower in Franziskanerweg for the distribution of the "Radio Seefunk" program

  • Transmission tower at the valley meadow for the distribution of the "SWR 4" program

From 1946 to 1964, the Südwestfunk operated a radio transmitter for medium wave on the grounds of the Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne at 48 ° 5 '27 "  N , 9 ° 14' 45"  O , with a 38-meter-high, braced transmission mast as a transmitting antenna used. With the commissioning of the Lake Constance transmitter near Meßkirch, the Sigmaringer transmitter became superfluous.

Leisure and sports facilities

In Sigmaringen there is the district sports hall with the Sandbühl stadium , a fitness trail and the high wire climbing adventure camp . Together with the Kneipp association, the municipal building authority maintains the Kneipp facility on the banks of the Danube. The freely accessible facility has an arm bath and a water treading basin. It is planted with over 50 different medicinal and aromatic plants and offers seating.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Ernst Behringer (* 1942), politician, honorary citizen since 2014
  • Rudolf Eisele, bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, as a doctor he was the first director of the Prince Karl Hospital, was a city councilor for a long time, was involved in voluntary princely organizations and looked after the "Round Tower" museum.
  • Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (1924–2010), head of the House of Hohenzollern since 1965, and since 1988 bearer of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
  • Luise Leininger (1899–1984), winner of the Federal Cross of Merit, was a housewife, city councilor and was involved in aid campaigns for the East in the 1950s.
  • Franz Keller, was the former rector of the Catholic school and a long-time city councilor. He left the State Archives a collection of sources on customs and personalities in the city.
  • Karola Knäpple, City Councilor and Deputy Mayor, has made great contributions to the city's senior citizens.
  • Rudolf Kuhn (1928-2010), former mayor of Sigmaringen, during whose term of office the incorporation of the districts, the construction of the outdoor swimming pool, the correction of the course of the Danube, the construction of the fire station, the rededication of the old school into a cultural center and the Schwabstrasse to the pedestrian zone . After his retirement due to old age, the local council made him an honorary citizen in 1992, after he had already been awarded the “Golden Medal of Merit of the City of Sigmaringen” in 1988.
  • Egon Müller, former mayor of Sigmaringen, who was forced out of office by the National Socialists and who came back to office in 1945 with the approval of the French allies. He plays an important political role as a co-founder of the CDU Württemberg-Hohenzollern.
  • Alfred Niklas, deputy mayor, was an interior decorator and dialect poet
  • Anton Reiser (1869–1923), mayor of Sigmaringen, senior bailiff and member of parliament
  • Franz B. Schiek, successor to Egon Müller as mayor, had the difficult task of solving the problem of the housing shortage. Under him the residential areas of Schafswiese, Ziegelacker and Hanfertal were created .
  • Carl Philipp Schwab († 1804), pastor, was born as the son of the wealthy Laizer Adlerwirt, Schwab twice, in 1769 and 1799, helped the city financially. He borrowed 6,000 guilders interest-free, only demanded moderate repayment installments and, on his death, released the city from the remaining debt in his will. The grave originally stood in the cemetery on the grounds of the German House. When this was dissolved during the city expansion, the city administration had the stone transferred to the Hedinger cemetery.
  • Caspar Teufel († April 16, 1881), travel secretary who toured Europe, America and the Orient, and hotelier (Bristol in Paris), received the city's letter of honor on December 27, 1877 because of his charities.
  • Georg Zimmerer, jeweler, moved his business to Zurich in the 1920s and became very wealthy. Zimmerer set up a foundation, bought and donated the “Round Tower” to the city.

The city of Sigmaringen keeps alive the memory of the merits of the honorary citizens by caring for eleven graves in the Hedinger Friedhof.

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Franz Xaver Mezler (1756–1812), physician, was the personal physician of the princes and head of the sanitary services in Sigmaringen, founder of the reading society
  • Johann Ferdinand Heyfelder (1798–1869), German surgeon and university professor, personal physician and medical advisor in Sigmaringen
  • Frederick Miller (1824–1888), master brewer in Sigmaringen and founder of the Miller Brewing Company , today part of the world's second largest brewery group SABMiller .
  • Franz Xaver Marmon (1832–1878), sculptor and altar builder, founder of the Marmon art workshop
  • Dionysius Schuler OFM (1854–1934), Catholic Franciscan , titular bishop, lived and died in Gorheim Monastery
  • Joseph Marmon (1858–1934), Catholic clergyman and pastor in Sigmaringen
  • Hermann Ott (1870–1934), city councilor in Sigmaringen
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), a pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic French writer, fled to Sigmaringen in 1944 because the Vichy government had also been housed there. Celine's novel D'un château l'autre , 1957 ( From one castle to another ) describes the conquest of the city and was filmed in 2006 under the title The Darkness .
  • Lucien Rebatet (1903–1972), pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic French writer, fled to Sigmaringen in 1944, as the Vichy government had also been housed there.
  • Franz Gog (1907–1980), member of the state parliament in Württemberg-Hohenzollern and later Baden-Württemberg, was a judge in Sigmaringen.
  • Manfred Stohrer (1918–1976), Protestant pastor from 1951 to 1976, raised a black mourning flag on the city church on the day when general conscription was reinstated in 1956.
  • Toni Berger (1921–2005), actor, began his career in autumn 1945 at the Sigmaringer Theater .
  • Gustl Bayrhammer (1922–1993), actor, began his career in the autumn of 1945 at the Sigmaringer Theater.
  • Hermann Schwörer (1922–2017), lawyer, entrepreneur and politician (CDU), since 1998 holder of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
  • Dietmar Schlee (1938–2002), politician (CDU), from 1989 holder of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
  • Karl Missel (1935–2014), headed the Archbishop's Student Home St. Fidelis in Sigmaringen for decades.
  • Wolfgang Kopp (* 1945), retired Brigadier General D. the Bundeswehr.
  • Karl-Hermann Kästner (* 1946), lawyer and professor at the University of Tübingen, was a judge at the Sigmaringen Administrative Court.
  • Winfried Kretschmann (* 1948), politician, Green Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, lives in the Laiz district
  • Franz-Christian Mattes (* 1948 or 1949) was President of the Sigmaringen Administrative Court
  • David Gilson (* 1953), British musician, conducts the Sigmaringer Stadtkapelle, among others
  • Daniel Rapp (* 1972), politician (CDU) and Lord Mayor of Ravensburg, was Mayor of Sigmaringen from July 2006 to May 2010.
  • Markolf Hoffmann (* 1975), writer, attended the Liebfrauenschule in Sigmaringen and graduated from high school there
  • Herbert Belstler , winner of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit since 1986
  • Georg Bensch , winner of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit since 1987
  • Eugen Buri (* 1911), President of the Sigmaringen Administrative Court ; since 1990 holder of the medal of merit of the state of Baden-Württemberg
  • Sister Vianney, b. Elisabeth Niess , winner of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit since 1984
  • Elisabeth Volk , winner of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit since 2005
  • Friedrich Imbery (1888–1962). Architect of the Sigmaringen town hall built between 1925 and 1927. During the construction of the Sigmaringer Stadthalle (1928–1930), he was in charge of the deputy city architect, Kleck, and together with the Stuttgart architect Hans Herkommer, he built the Archbishop's St. Fidelis student home. In addition to the schools in Balingen (1921–1923), Nürtingen (1928) and Onstmettingen (1931), he built numerous villas in and around Sigmaringen.

literature

  • Otto H. Becker: Sigmaringen in the 20th century. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-274-2 . (The archive images series)
  • Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 : Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.
  • Günter Schmitt : Sigmaringen. In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 41-62.

Web links

Commons : Sigmaringen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Sigmaringen  - travel guide

Individual evidence

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