Underwhelm

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Underwhelm
District town of Sigmaringen
Former municipality coat of arms of Unterschmeiner
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 31 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 600 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.9 km²
Residents : 263
Population density : 54 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 72488
Area code : 07571

Unterschmeien is a district of the Baden-Württemberg city ​​of Sigmaringen in the district of Sigmaringen ( Germany ).

history

The gypsy rock in the Schmeiental with its 10 meters wide, 2.4 meters high and only about 3 meters deep gypsy cave provided protection for Stone Age hunters, which was discovered during excavations in the cave's cultural layers. The finds reach back from the younger Paleolithic ( Upper Palaeolithic ) to the Mesolithic. Individual pieces from the Mesolithic / Neolithic (layer A) were found.

The name Schmeien first appeared in the course of a document mentioning Schmeien Castle in 1334 as a Hohenberg property. In 1339 Count Heinrich von Hohenberg sold his castle in Schmeien to Burkard and Johannes von Jungingen . The settlement split off around 1340 from the village of the same name near Schmeien Castle. In 1385 it was first referred to as Unter Smiche the village . The first mention is recorded in the Fürstenberg document book, Volume 6 and has the following wording:

“1385 Gutentag before St. Gallentag , on October 9th [!], Cunz von Rischach Count Rudolf von Hohenberg Schiltow receives the festivals and all goods that von Schiltow and von Jungingen have sold and Under-Schmiche the village as a right fief. "

The Counts of Hohenberg gave the place as a fief to the lords of Jungingen, then to those of Reischach . The latter sold it to the Counts of Werdenberg in 1418 . The castle was called the Burgstall in 1461 . As part of the Jungingen rule , after the Werdenbergs died out in 1534, the place came to the Counts of Fürstenberg .

In 1806, the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen gained sovereignty over Untermeien. After the abolition of the Fürstenberg patrimonial Obervogteiamt Jungnau in 1840, the place came to the princely and Prussian Oberamt Straßberg , which was incorporated into the Oberamt Sigmaringen in 1854 .

As part of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , the previously independent municipality of Unterschmeien was voluntarily incorporated into the district town of Sigmaringen with effect from January 1, 1972, following a resolution by the municipal council .

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the former community of Unterschmeien shows in a divided shield a silver wavy bar above in black and a three-lap black flag below in silver. The wave bar points to the Schmeie flowing through the village and makes the coat of arms “ talking ”. The flag commemorates the rule of the Counts of Werdenberg over the place from 1418 to 1534.

Culture and sights

Haule rock group in the Schmeie valley below the village

Buildings

  • The Church of St. Anna was built in 1733.
  • The castle Schmeien seen today only in faint traces 500 meters north of the village between the lower and Oberschmeien at 630  m above sea level. NN on a rock left above the Schmeie.

Natural monuments

  • The sinkhole Eulengrube and the Zigeunerfels are located on the Unterschmeier district . The latter rises in the lower Schmeiental about 800 meters southeast of the village at the confluence of a small side valley, made up of Upper Jurassic mass limestone at the level of the Lower and Upper Felsenkalk formations (ki2 and 3, formerly Weißjura delta and epsilon).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: The prehistory and early history in the district of Sigmaringen . ed. from the district of Sigmaringen, department culture and archive, and Kulturforum district Sigmaringen e. V. 2009
  2. ^ 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. 533 .
  3. ↑ Awarded on January 28, 1940 by the Ministry of the Interior in Württemberg - Hohenzollern No. IV 3012 / B / 13
  4. ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Wild caves, grottos, rock nests: 100 mysterious cavities between the Alb and the Danube . Oertel & Spörer, 2011, ISBN 3-88627-479-9 . Pp. 64-65.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Meyer: Wild caves, grottos, rock nests: 100 mysterious cavities between the Alb and the Danube . Oertel & Spörer, 2011, ISBN 3-88627-479-9 . Pp. 62-63.