Untersulmetingen

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Untersulmetingen
City of Laupheim
Former municipal coat of arms of Untersulmetingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 44 ″  E
Height : 497 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 2030  (Sep. 30, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 88471
Area code : 07392

Untersulmetingen is a district of Laupheim in the Biberach district in eastern Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The district includes the village of Untersulmetingen and the hamlets of Niederkirch and Westerflach and is largely west of the Riss , which flows into the Danube about nine kilometers north of the center of the village . The village of Untersulmetingen and the Niederkirch, which has grown together with it in the north, are on the west bank, Westerflach about one and a half kilometers west of the river on a flat hilly landscape. On the east bank opposite the village there is a more recent industrial park. The approximately 5 km long Schlaibach flows through the village into the Riss, at the center of the settlement of Niederkirch the Aischbach, with its longest upper course, is hardly longer .

Culture and sights

The village image is shaped by the St. Georg and Sebastian church, popularly known as Niederkirch , in the hamlet of Niederkirch, which has now grown together with the village, and the monumental castle in the center of the village with the St. Otmar chapel .

The Upper Swabian Way of St. James leads through the village from Ulm to Constance .

Panorama view of the Niederkirch
The Niederkirch

history

Sulmetingen was first mentioned in a document around 853. Between 1429 and 1442 it was divided into the two villages of Untersulmetingen and Obersulmetingen . Untersulmetingen, which had 2030 inhabitants in 2016, was formerly an independent municipality and was incorporated into Laupheim on January 1, 1972 . Carmen Böhringer has been Untersulmetingen's honorary mayor since 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. WUB I, No. 120, p. 140.
  2. ^ Website of the parish of Sulmetingen
  3. ^ 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. 525 .
  4. Romer stops, two women take over - 11/30/18. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .

literature

  • Hans Beth, history of Untersulmetingen, in: Laupheim. Published by the city of Laupheim in retrospect on 1200 years of Laupheim history 778–1978. Editing: Kurt Diemer, Weißenhorn (Anton H. Konrad) 1979, 397–424.

Web links

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Navigation bar Jakobsweg " Oberschwäbischer Jakobsweg "

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