Hohentengen (Upper Swabia)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '  N , 9 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Sigmaringen
Height :	594 m above sea level NHN
Area :	36.57 km 2
Residents:	4155 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	114 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88367
Primaries :	07572, 07586
License plate :	SIG
Community key :	08 4 37 053
Community structure:	8 sub-locations
Address of the municipal administration:	Beizkoferstraße 57 88367 Hohentengen
Website :	www.hohentengen-online.de
Mayor :	Peter Rainer
Location of the community of Hohentengen in the district of Sigmaringen

Hohentengen is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Hohentengen is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Sigmaringen in a glacial terminal moraine landscape at an altitude of 594  m above sea level. NN . The landscape and administrative area, the main town of which is Hohentengen, is called Göge . The municipal area covers around 3657 hectares (as of December 31, 2010).

Community structure

The municipality consists of the municipality parts Beizkofen (with the village Beizkofen, the homestead Ostrachmühle and the houses Riedsäge), Bremen , Eichen, Enzkofen (with the village Enzkofen and the homestead Notzenmühle), Günzkofen, Hohentengen (with the village Hohentengen and the homestead Riedmühle ), Ölkofen (with the village of Ölkofen and the hamlet of Hagelsburg), Ursendorf (with the village of Ursendorf and the hamlets of Altensweiler and Repperweiler), and Völlkofen (with the village of Völlkofen and the hamlet of Birkhöfe). The community of Hohentengen has a total of 4440 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010).

coat of arms	District	Population (as of December 31, 2010)	Area (as of December 31, 2010)
	Hohentengen with pickling furnace	2248	694 ha	6,938,183 m²
	Bremen	296	260 hectares	2,603,961 m²
	Oak trees	170	304 hectares	3,037,190 m²
	Enzkofen	216	185 ha	1,845,094 m²
	Günzkofen	258	335 ha	3,352,674 m²
	Oil stove	491	607 ha	6,070,994 m²
	Ursendorf thereof Altensweiler thereof Repperweiler	329 13 58	661 ha	6,607,144 m²
	Völlkofen	432	611 ha	6,113,137 m²

history

Hohentengen

Local history

The oldest archaeological find is the skeleton grave of Beizkofen from the Early Bronze Age .

Alemanni immigrated to the area in the 6th century and settled around the Kugelberg. The St. Michael's Church later emerged from what was probably a pagan place of worship. In 1250 the bailiff and patronage rights over the parish church of Hohentengen were granted to Count Wolfrad senior von Veringen . Around 1275 Hohentengen ( Diengen ) was one of the largest deaneries in the Diocese of Constance. It included Hohentengen, Mengen , Ennetach , Blochingen , Scheer , Bingen , Sigmaringendorf , Ablach , Krauchenwies , Rulfingen , Rosna , Habsthal, Levertsweiler, Hausen , Bittelschieß , Zell , Magenbuch, Einhart, Ostrach , Waldbeuren , Königseggwald , Hoßkirch , Bachhaupten and Friedberg . On May 19, 1282, Count Mangold von Nellenburg sold the Counties of Tiengewe and Ergewe ( Ertigau ) to King Rudolf von Habsburg . Hohentengen ( Diengen ) became the seat of its own office and seat of the high court. The Thingstätte the Göge was also in Hohentengen.

The name "Hohentengen" has undergone various changes over the centuries: Diengen (1272), Dyengen (1412), Hohentuengen (1469). In a document dated August 25, 1553, the patch is named as Hochendengen . This, in turn, is an -ingen- place and named after the clan of the Tuginge, who settled in a number of places.

In the 16th century the resistance of the peasants against the nobility increased, many peasants joined the Baltringer Haufen . In 1591 the "Hohentenger Rebellion" broke out in opposition to the peasant drudgery of the Waldburgian Truchsessen Christoph von Scheer . During the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) the area was not spared, around 1635 entire villages were empty.

In 1799, during the Battle of Ostrach , an eventful battle ensued for Hohentengen. Hohentengen was taken several times and lost again until the imperial Austrian troops finally forced the French to retreat by taking away the villages of Bremen and Enzkofen. Until 1806 the place belonged to Upper Austria . In the course of the reorganization of Europe by Napoleon , it came to the Kingdom of Württemberg . Since then, Hohentengen has belonged to the Saulgau District Office . The administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg led to membership in the Saulgau district in 1938 . In 1945 Hohentengen became part of the French zone of occupation and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

With the dissolution of the Saulgau district, Hohentengen came to the Sigmaringen district on January 1, 1973.

Incorporations

In the course of the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , Beizkofen (on January 1, 1970), Enzkofen, Ölkofen and Völlkofen (on January 1, 1973), Eichen and Günzkofen (on January 1, 1974) as well as Bremen and Ursendorf (on January 1 1975) incorporated into Hohentengen.

politics

Municipal council

The elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman with voting rights form the council . This is chosen in Hohentengen according to the procedure of the false partial location choice. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . In the current electoral term it has 18 members (2014–2019: 20). The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result with a turnout of 65.7% (2014: 55.5%):

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-	Seats	+/-
CDU	58.4%	- 0.8	11	- 1
Free voters	41.6%	+ 0.8	7th	- 1

There is no local constitution in the municipality of Hohentengen, i. In other words, there are no local councils, no mayor and no local administration. All communal matters are regulated by the local council.

mayor

On September 28, 2008, Peter Rainer was elected mayor of Hohentengen with an absolute majority of 72.1 percent of the votes cast in the first ballot. Predecessor Franz Ott retired after 16 years in office and was no longer available for election. Peter Rainer was officially committed to his post on December 8, 2008.

• Ottmar Strobel
• Harald Klein
• 1992–2008: Franz Ott (FWV)
• since 2008: Peter Rainer (CDU)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Hohentengen shows in black an upright, double-tailed, red-tongued golden lion, with the front paws a red label with a silver bar inside.

The coat of arms was awarded on November 6, 1682 by Emperor Leopold I to Ammann and the court of Hohentengen.

The lion is the heraldic animal of the Habsburg emperors, who were emperors of the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” from 1273 to 1806. The coat of arms that the lion holds is the Austrian shield with the colors red-white-red. The county of Friedberg-Scheer, to whose authority the Hohentengen office was subordinate, belonged to the Upper Austrian states until it fell to Württemberg in 1806.

The award of the coat of arms is related to the circumstances of the time. The feudal people of the Hohentengen office were constantly in dispute with their authorities in Scheer over unjustified taxes and measures against the feudal people (Hohentenger rebellion 1591). In their distress, they sent emissaries to the imperial court in Innsbruck, which was responsible for this room. Most recently they even went to the imperial court in Vienna to fight for their rights. The dispute lasted intermittently for around 120 years. Perhaps the emperor wanted to show his power to the Counts and Truchessen in Scheer by awarding this coat of arms. In any case, the officials in Scheer are said to have only grudgingly accepted the coat of arms. Whoever questioned this letter of arms had to pay a fine of 10 gold marks.

Community partnerships

Since 2001, the municipality of Hohentengen has maintained partnerships with the eleven independent municipalities of the Communauté de communes Cœur de Combrailles in France ( Ayat-sur-Sioule , Biollet , Châteauneuf-les-Bains , Charensat , Espinasse , Gouttières , Sainte-Christine , Saint-Gervais -d'Auvergne , Saint-Julien-la-Geneste , Saint-Priest-des-Champs and Sauret-Besserve ). It is maintained by the “Hohentengen Partnership Association” and, on the French side, by the “Comité de Jumelage”.

It goes back to a friendly relationship that has existed since 1965 between the two sports clubs AS Charensat and SV Hohentengen, which resulted in the establishment of a communal partnership between the municipalities of Charensat and Hohentengen in 1991. The two mayors at the time, Albert Besse (Charensat) and Klein (Hohentengen), signed the partnership certificate in a solemn act in Hohentengen. However, even years later, the citizens' meetings took place almost exclusively between the two sports clubs. One of the main reasons for this was the imbalance in the number of residents and thus also comparable club offers. Due to the incorporation, Hohentengen had around 4,000 inhabitants, Charensat only around 700 inhabitants. Mayor Franz Ott was looking for a way to put the partnership on a broader basis and found a majority approval among colleagues from the canton of Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne for his proposal to expand the partnership . After the local council of Hohentengen gave its approval, the expansion took place in 2001.

In summer 1991 a memorial plaque was erected at the school in Hohentengen on the occasion of the 25-year friendship.

Culture and sights

Hohentengen is part of the "Upper Swabian Danube" tourist region.

Buildings

• The church of St. Michael in Hohentengen originally dates from the 15th century. It was rebuilt by Gottlieb Pfeilsticker in 1848–1852 and is considered the most important church building of the middle of the century in Upper Swabia.
• The Lady Chapel is the oldest chapel in the area. It is of Gothic origin, was converted to Baroque style in 1784 and was formerly a pilgrimage church.
• The chapel in the Beizkofen district was built in 1728.
• The village chapel in Eichen, consecrated to Saint Wendelin, dates from 1732.
• The chapel in Enzkofen is expressionist style. It was designed by Otto Linder in 1926 .
• The neo-Gothic chapel in the Günzkofen district was built in 1877.
• The chapel in Völlkofen is also neo-Gothic.
• The Ursendorfer Chapel was built in 1900 with exposed brickwork.
• The St. Wendelin Chapel in Eichen has a massive wooden cross with the crucified Jesus in real size that was found in the Jägersee.
• In the sand pit in Ursendorf there are around 20 million year old shark teeth.

Sports

• There are numerous sports clubs in the municipality of Hohentengen: the sports club Hohentengen, the sports club Ölkofen, the tennis club Hohentengen, the recreational sports club Göge-Hohentengen, the cycling friends Göge, the Gögemer fishing club, Tae Kwon Do Mengen-Hohentengen and kickboxing Hohentengen.

music

The Hohentengen music association was founded in 1819 as the Beizkofer brass company, and there is also a children's and youth choir, the Völlkofen Schalmeienkapelle, the Bremen musicians' train, the Enzkofen fanfare train and the Ölkofen music train.

Regular events

• Hohentengen is a stronghold of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival. Highlights of the Gögemer Fasnet are the house carnival at Gompigen Donnschdig with the town hall tower, the kindergarten and school exemption and in the evening the Hemadglonker parade, which also takes place in every other Gögedorf, as well as the traditional large carnival parade on Carnival Sunday with many motif wagons in which local politics is poked fun at , with many thousands of Hästrägers and just as many spectators from all over the region. Every year the parade is organized by a different fool's association from the Göge, all of which appear as Göge fools.
• Every two years in July, the street festival organized by the clubs takes place in Oberdorf.
• Every year, the music association's wine festival takes place in the Göge-Halle. In October the hall is adorned with autumn decorations to form a vine arbor.
• The St. Leonhardiritt is an annual riding procession that leads from Ölkofen via Beizkofen to Hohentengen and back to Ölkofen. The custom can be traced back to the 17th century. Since 1935 the ride has always taken place around November 6th, the feast of Saint Leonhard . The inauguration of the Ölkofer Chapel in honor of Saint Leonhard was the occasion for the first Leonhardiritt. For this reason, the Leonhardiritt , as it is also called, is now an integral part of the Ölkofer Kapellenpatrozinum.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The airfield quantity Hohentengen (ICAO EDTM) is an important infrastructure element for the region. The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO).

armed forces

The Oberschwaben-Kaserne Mengen / Hohentengen was closed in 2012 as part of the Bundeswehr reform and the location with previously 820 posts was given up.

education

Until 2010, Hohentengen maintained a primary and secondary school, the so-called Göge School . Since the closure of the secondary school in the 2010/2011 school year, the school has been a pure elementary school .

Sons and daughters of the village

• Josef Anton Mesmer (1747–1827), church painter
• Horst Kiesecker (1934–2020), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
• Klaus Burger (* 1958), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, grew up in Hohentengen and lives there with his family

Honorary citizen of the community

• Johann Sauter (* 1939) has made a name for himself through his voluntary work in numerous associations and at municipal events around the community of Hohentengen. He became the first honorary citizen of the community in 2016.

Remarks

1. ↑ District area 36,568,377 m²

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Information from Helga Binder, Mayor's Office of the municipality of Hohentengen, from February 16, 2011.
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 795-882.
4. ↑ Sebastian Locher: Regesten on the history of the counts of Veringen. Sigmaringen 1872.
5. ↑ Hohenzollerischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Mitteilungen, Volumes 1-4 . 1868. p. 41.
6. ↑ Hohenzollerischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Mitteilungen, Volumes 1-4 . 1868. pp. 73f.
7. ^ Wilhelm Schneider: Work on Alemannic Early History: Work on Church History, Part 1 . W. Schneider (self-published), 1975. p. 167.
8. ↑ Robert Kretzschmar: Princely Thurn and Taxis Archive Obermarchtal, Grafschaft Friedberg-Scheer: Urkundenregesten 1304-1802 . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1993. p. 284. ISBN 3-17-011199-X
9. ^ Wilhelm Schneider: Work on Alemannic Early History, Volume 5-6 . W. Schneider (self-published), 1975. p. 409.
10. ^ Moriz Angeli: Archduke Carl of Austria as General and Army Organizer, Volume 2 . Verlag W. Braumüller, 1896. P. 72.
11. ^ Eduard Duller: Archduke Carl von Oesterreich . 2nd edition 1859, Verlag G. Heckenast.
12. ^ 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 and 549 .
13. ↑ hohentengen-online.de: election results of the 2019 municipal council elections , accessed on October 10, 2019.
14. ↑ The shining winner is Peter…. Rainer . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of September 29, 2008.
15. ^ Karlheinz Fahlbusch: New boss in the Göge . In: Südkurier of December 10, 2008.
16. ↑ (wb): The ten-year existence of the partnership is the highlight of the year. Hohentengener celebrate long-term friendship with the “Cœur de Combrailles” region in France . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from November 14, 2011.
17. ↑ Volcanoes and warmth inspire . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 16, 2008.
18. ^ Dieter Blersch: Partnership with AS Charensat , March 30, 2010; Retrieved November 14, 2011.
19. ^ Hans Bleicher: Chronicle of the partnership , March 30, 2010; Retrieved November 14, 2011.
20. ↑ A warm invitation to all citizens. 10 years of partnership with the municipalities of Coeur de Combrailles - Sunday 4th September 2011 will be celebrated in France -. In: Official Journal of the municipality of Hohentengen . 2011, No. 28, of July 15, 2011.
21. ↑ Vera Romeu (from right): Birth: The new region is called Upper Swabian Danube. Sigmaringendorf, Krauchenwies, Mengen, Scheer, Hohentengen and Herbertingen are to merge. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 19, 2011.
22. ↑ Blutreitergruppe and Gutenzell and Beuren . In: Bulletin of the municipality of Ertingen with the sub-municipalities of Binzwangen and Erisdorf. Edition 45. 46th year . dated November 5, 2009.
23. ↑ wb: anniversary. Ölkofen celebrates 75 years of Leonhardiritt . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from October 20, 2010.
24. ↑ wb: tradition. 75 years of Leonhardiritt in Ölkofen are celebrated . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from November 3, 2010.
25. ^ School information on the homepage of the municipality of Hohentengen
26. ↑ "13 teachers say goodbye to the Göge-Schule" - report of the Schwäbische Zeitung Sigmaringen from July 29, 2010 on the closure of the secondary school in Hohentengen
27. ↑ Johann Sauter becomes the first honorary citizen. Schwäbische Zeitung Sigmaringen, September 12, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2016 . 

literature

• Josef Kurth: The parish of Hohentengen (Göge) . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, 1939

Web links

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

Wikisource: Hohentengen in the description of the Saulgau Oberamts from 1829  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality
• Pictures and films from the Göge and Hohentengen