Stemmer (Büsingen am Hochrhein)

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Municipality of Büsingen am Hochrhein
Stemmer coat of arms
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 8 ″  E
Residents : 350
Postal code : 78266 (Germany)
8238 (Switzerland)
Area code : 07734 (Germany)
0041 (Switzerland)

Stemmer , formerly Im Stemmer , is a district of the German community and exclave Büsingen am Hochrhein in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg . Stemmer lies in the west of the Büsingen enclave and borders directly on Schaffhausen on the other side of the state border.

geography

Büsingen is a German enclave within Swiss territory. To the west and north, Stemmer borders on the city of Schaffhausen , to the south on the Langwiesen district of the municipality of Feuerthalen in the district of Andelfingen , canton Zurich and the municipality of Schlatt in the district of Frauenfeld , canton Thurgau in Switzerland . Stemmer borders Büsingen to the east.

history

In the first decade of the 1900s, under the leadership of Pastor Heinrich Kallweit (1837–1915), around 200 Lithuanian- speaking Old Lutheran immigrants from the Memelland near Büsingen settled here, including in the “Stemmer”, and built houses and a church here. Because of the distance between the resulting district and the center of Büsingen and the lack of knowledge of German, the Memel countries lived largely in isolation and found it difficult to integrate. Before the First World War , many of them migrated further or back to the Baltic States, so that the Lutheran Free Church in Stemmer was soon dissolved, converted into residential units and finally demolished in the 1960s.

traffic

Stemmer is served by the Postbus from Switzerland, which connects it with the German villages Büsingen and Randegg , the Swiss villages Ramsen , Buch and Dörflingen and the city of Schaffhausen.

Südbadenbus connects Stemmer with the villages of Büsingen and Gailingen on the Upper Rhine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint on the Büsingen website, accessed on November 22, 2019
  2. ↑ There was also a piece of village history in the Schaffhauser Nachrichten of April 9, 2015, accessed on November 24, 2019 (pdf)