Forest (Hohenzollern)

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Sigmaringen
Height :	657 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.87 km 2
Residents:	2680 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	61 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88639
Area code :	07578
License plate :	SIG
Community key :	08 4 37 118
Community structure:	10 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Von-Weckenstein-Str. 19 88639 forest
Website :	www.wald-hohenzollern.de
Mayor :	Joachim Grüner
Location of the community of Wald in the district of Sigmaringen

Aerial photo (2008)

Wald is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the district of Sigmaringen .

geography

Geographical location

Wald is located 20 kilometers north of Lake Constance in the terminal moraine landscape of the last Ice Ages south of the Swabian Alb , around eight kilometers from the cities of Messkirch and Pfullendorf . The lowest point of the municipality is north of the Walbertsweiler district at 628 meters above sea level. NN , the highest at 689 meters above sea level. NN in the district of Rothenlachen . The municipal area covers around 4,387 hectares (as of December 31, 2014). The municipality is mainly drained by the Ringgenbach , the Kehlbach , the Lindenbach, the Riedlebach and the Burraubach . The dammed Riedlebach feeds the pond belonging to the monastery in the center of the village.

Neighboring communities

	Messkirch	Krauchenwies
Sauldorf
Hohenfels	Herdwangen-Schönach	Pfullendorf

Community structure

The community consists of the core town of Wald and the districts of Glashütte , Hippetsweiler , Kappel , Reischach , Riedetsweiler , Rothenlachen , Ruhestetten , Sentenhart and Walbertsweiler .

Some sub-municipalities still have spatially separate living spaces with their own names, which, however, usually have only a few inhabitants. These are Allmannshofen, Binderhöfe, Bohlerhöfe, Burraumühle, Lochberg, Oberkappel and Steckeln.

coat of arms	District	Population (as of December 31, 2014)	Area (as of December 31, 2014)
	Forest (core town)	1000	827.47 ha
	Glassworks	107	178.66 ha
	Hippetsweiler	182	348.73 ha
	Chapel	111	334.66 ha
	Reischach	68	217.61 ha
	Riedetsweiler	85	203.61 ha
	Rothenlachen	43	217.26 ha
	Resting	177	643.29 ha
	Sentenhart	353	575.80 ha
	Walbertsweiler	643	839.57 hectares

history

South view of the forest monastery with the monastery pond

Monastery church complex (picture around 1685)

Traces of settlement were found in the area from prehistoric times. Remains of pile dwellings from the Neolithic were found in the Egelseemoor near the Ruhestetten district . Finds of stone axes and vessels in the Glashütte district also suggest that as early as the end of the third millennium BC BC and in the late Neolithic period people lived in this area. Early Celtic burial mounds in the vicinity of Rothenlachen, which were excavated in the 19th century, date from the late Hallstatt period .

The place was in the early Middle Ages in the area of ​​the Goldineshuntare , then in the Gau Ratoldesbuch, later in the county of Sigmaringen .

The village was first mentioned when the Staufer King Philip of Swabia sold the Vogtei Wald for 30 marks and the Vogtei Hippetsweiler to the von Fronhofen brothers. This undated sale must have taken place in 1208 at the latest, because that was the year the king died. Soon afterwards the brothers sold the forest to the Lords of Balbe, who in turn sold it to the imperial ministerial Burkhard von Weckenstein for 55 marks . He founded the Wald monastery here in 1212 for his two sisters Judinta and Ita .

In 1783, Wald became a province of Upper Austria .

The history of the village ran parallel to that of the monastery. Until that year, the monastic rule, which was under the aegis of the Salem Imperial Abbey , also included the towns of Walbertsweiler, Kappel, Glashütte, Otterswang , Reischach, Gaisweiler , Weihwang , Tautenbronn , Hippetsweiler, Riedetsweiler, Rothenlachen and Ruhestetten. During the secularization due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the monastery was dissolved in 1806 and its territory fell to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . The monastic community existed until the beginning of the 1850s and lived on the Prince's pensions.

Immediately after the principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen took possession of the dominion of the Wald monastery, a princely upper office was established in Wald with its seat in the monastery buildings. When the principality fell to Prussia as Hohenzollernsche Land in 1850 , the Hohenzollern Oberamt Wald became Prussian until it was abolished in 1861. In 1862 it was incorporated into the Sigmaringen Oberamt , which in 1925 became the Sigmaringen district .

During the time of National Socialism , one of five camps of the female Reich Labor Service (RAD) was located in Wald in the then Prussian-Hohenzollern district of Sigmaringen. Part of the monastery building was made available for this purpose from 1938. After the Second World War , the French occupation forces set up a camp there for displaced persons in 1945.

Incorporations

In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , nine surrounding municipalities were incorporated into Wald. So on January 1, 1971 Hippetsweiler, Riedetsweiler and Rothenlachen came to the community. Reischach followed on June 1, 1972, and Sentenhart, formerly in Baden, on January 1, 1973 . The series of incorporations was completed on January 1, 1975 with the incorporation of Glashütte, Kappel, Ruhestetten and Walbertsweiler.

religion

The majority of the population of the community is Roman Catholic, as in all places that were formerly part of Hohenzollern.

Evangelical Christians in Wald belong to the Evangelical Church Community of Ostrach-Wald in the church district of Balingen . A curiosity, because the municipality of Pfullendorf lies between the political municipality of Wald and Ostrach . The structure of the Evangelical Church Community reflects the turmoil of the political landscape in southern Germany before the establishment of the German Empire. The free imperial city of Pfullendorf was added to Baden in 1805 and is therefore today part of the Evangelical Church in Baden . The Evangelical Church in Hohenzollern joined the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in 1950 . The structure of new Protestant parishes in Upper Swabia in the 1950s, as in Ostrach, followed the pattern. Due to the refugees from the east, the number of Protestant Christians in small congregations became large enough to form their own congregations. Ostrach and Wald, historically part of Hohenzollern, therefore came together as one parish. There is no Evangelical church building of its own in Wald. Divine service is celebrated in the chapter house of the Catholic monastery church of St. Bernhard.

politics

Municipal council

Wald town hall (former school building)

The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following result with a turnout of 63.7% (2009: 64.0%):

Party / list	Share of votes	Seats	comparison
CDU	37.2%	5	(2009: 42.2%, 6 seats)
Independent list	51.7%	7th	(2009: 41.0%, 6 seats)
Free voters	11.1%	2	(2009: 16.9%, 2 seats)

The fake sub-district election was abolished for the municipal council election in 2009.

mayor

Joachim Grüner has been mayor of the municipality since June 1, 2020. In the first ballot he prevailed with 87.2% of the votes against two competitors and succeeded Werner Müller, who had previously been mayor for 27 years.

• Georg Koch (Sigmaringen-Gammertingen district electoral community)
• Franz Sales Koch (Hohenzollerischer Bauernbund / Battle Front Black-White-Red)
• until 1969: Josef Kaiser
• 1969–1993: Arthur Zeh
• 1993–2020: Werner Müller (CDU)
• since 2020: Joachim Grüner

coat of arms

The community has adopted the coat of arms of the Cistercian monastery in Wald, founded by Burkart von Weckenstein. In a split shield in front in black a double row of red and silver slanting bar (coat of arms of the Cistercian order), in the back in silver on a green three-mountain a red diamond ( talking coat of arms of the founder). In order not to violate the heraldic color rule, the colors of the donor's coat of arms were reversed.

Community partnerships

The community of Wald maintains partnership relationships with the community of Wald in the district of Cham , Bavaria , and the community of Wald in the canton of Zurich , Switzerland .

Culture and sights

The community of Wald, together with the town of Pfullendorf and the communities of Illmensee , Ostrach and Wilhelmsdorf, forms the “Northern Lake Constance” holiday region, which was founded in 1999.

Forest is the destination of the Beuron Way of St. James , which begins in Tübingen. The village is also on the Oberschwäbische Barockstraße and Hohenzollernstraße tourist routes .

Buildings

• Wald Monastery : The Cistercian monastery was founded in 1212 by the Staufer Reich Ministerial Burkard von Weckenstein for his sisters Judintha and Ita, but was almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The current building and the monastery church are Baroque buildings from the second half of the 17th century. Today, the Kloster Wald home school is attached to the Benedictine convent of St. Lioba , which unites the girls' boarding school, grammar school and training workshops. A viewing is therefore not possible. The convent hall has a stucco ceiling and ceiling frescoes.

St. Bernhard monastery church

• St. Bernhard monastery church : The monastery church, which was built in the 13th century as a three-aisled Gothic church, was redesigned from 1696 to 1698 by Jos Beer from Vorarlberg as a single-aisled baroque rococo church with a nun's gallery that extends far into the nave and the beautiful wrought iron lattice on its parapet . The Upper Swabian organ builder Johann Georg Aichgasser added a splendid organ in 1751 , which is the only one that he has completely preserved. The Aichgasser organ with its 1180 organ pipes was renovated in 1926, 1956 and most recently in 2008/09. The organ has doors on the richly gilded organ front. On the organ are a jubilant chorus of angels with backenaufplusternden angel current Petern and two kettle drums beating Engelsputto . They are framed by three wood-carved cartouches of the coats of arms of the monastery founder, the order and a coat of arms of the abbess Maria Dioskora von Thurn and Valsassina adorned with the golden imperial eagle. She once had the church decorated with the airy, light rococo style and the baroque style surrounded by putti. The stucco work is done by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann . The Gothic crucifix is ​​dated to 1150. It can be visited.
• In Wald there is also the cemetery chapel and the wayside chapel with a crucifixion group.

• In the district of Kappel there is the St. Martin chapel from 1716. Its renaissance altar dates back to 1568. The equipment still includes valuable figures.
• The chapel of St. Agatha from the 18th century is located in Reischach.
• The Sentenhart Church of St. Remigius with its staggered church tower was probably built as a fortified church around 1300. The nave is a later new building.
• The St. Gallus Church in Walbertsweiler is a modern, functional building with a simple interior from 1961, after the tower of the previous church collapsed.
• There are two listed chapels in the Hippetsweiler district: The St. Wolfgang Chapel (Pfullendorfer Straße 21) from 1620 (a plastered solid building with a polygonal apse and roof turret) and the Marien Gedächtniskapelle (Pfullendorfer Straße 49) from 1947 (a path chapel / chapel shrine at Landesstraße 212 between Hippetsweiler and Gaisweiler; plastered solid construction).
• There are large chapels in Riedetsweiler (St. Antonius), in Rothenlachen (Marienkapelle), in Glashütte (St. Josef) and in Ruhestetten (Dreifaltigkeitskapelle).
  

  The Ten Villages Hall
• Ten Villages Hall: A multi-purpose hall that is used for festive events and school sports and was named after the ten villages , i.e. forest itself and the nine districts.
• Field crosses: More than 50 field crosses are known in the community of Wald.

nature

Weiherwanderweg

In and around Wald there were once 14 fish ponds, which were created in connection with the strict fasting requirement of the Cistercian women in the 13th and 14th centuries. All of the ponds in the forest were connected to one another and could thus be regulated. From these ponds the nuns obtained the fish for their livelihood. Based on the recommendation of a commission from Upper Austria, these ponds were drained for (fishing) economic reasons and converted into litter meadows in the 18th and 19th centuries - only two ponds remained. In connection with the 800-year anniversary of the village, the five-kilometer-long pond hiking trail was laid out in 2008 , which connects the former ponds in the vicinity as a circular route. The path leads from the monastery pond to the remaining wall of the grid pond at Anneneschstraße and over the Schafbrühl pond to the former Breitenweiher between Langgaß and Süßlöchle.

Tanzlinde

Dancing linden tree in forest

On November 8, 2008, a 35-year-old and more than seven-meter-high dancing linden tree was planted on the festival meadow and blessed by the local pastor. In the anniversary year of “800 years of the forest”, a rust-free “history urn” with events from the history of the community was dug into the root ball and an information board on the nationwide history of Tanzlinden was unveiled. With good care of the branches that support the dance floor, it could be a good 50 years before this dance floor can be danced on. During the time of the monastery there was a court linden tree in Wald for the execution of sentences; it is recorded in the monastery plan from 1680.

Sports

In winter, the forest trail, which is around five kilometers long, is prepared for cross-country skiing in the municipality . It runs across the meadows to the cemetery, past the Riedle to the Walbertsweiler sports field and in a large loop along the forest back to the cemetery. Entry points are at the Sägeweg, at the cemetery (parking), in the Riedle and at the sports field in Walbertsweiler (parking). Small bridges are laid over streams and ditches.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The public transport system is the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located in honeycomb 448. The L 195 and L 212 lead through the community.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Josef Kaiser, former mayor of Wald, was made an honorary citizen in June 1969.
• Theodor Zeller (born July 12, 1917 in the Walder district of Riedetsweiler), professor and pastor i. R., at the golden jubilee of the priesthood in June 1998, he was awarded the honorary citizenship of Wald by Mayor Werner Müller.
• Sr. Wiltrud Müller, OSB , long-time superior of the monastery of the Sisters of Saint Lioba. On the occasion of her golden religious professorship in 1998, she was given honorary citizenship for her services in the general renovation of the monastery.
• Frieder Grupp, long-time rector of the neighborhood secondary and technical secondary school in Wald. For decades he was the deputy mayor and district councilor and made a contribution to the creation of the community of Wald in the community reform. In addition, he was chairman of TSV Wald for many years and has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit .

Personalities who have worked on site

• Sister Superior Sophia OSB, b. Natalie Princess von Kotschoubey (1899–1979), founder of the Kloster Wald home school, from 1979 holder of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit
• Sister Michaele Csordás OSB, convent superior in Kloster Wald, since 2009 holder of the Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Sr. Michaele Csordás, OSB: The Forest Monastery ; in: Edwin Ernst Weber (Hrsg.): Monasteries in the district of Sigmaringen in the past and present . Local history series of publications from the district of Sigmaringen, Volume 9. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2005, pp. 550–592, ISBN 3-89870-190-5 .
• Wald community (ed.): 800 years of forest . Meßkirch 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023978-6 .
• Walther Genzmer (Ed.): The art monuments of Hohenzollern . tape 2 ; Sigmaringen district. W. Speemann, Stuttgart 1948.
• Maren Kuhn-Rehfus : The Cistercian convent forest (= Germania Sacra , new part 30, the dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Constance, volume 3 ). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1992. ISBN 3-11-013449-7 .

Remarks

1. ↑ District area 43,867,285 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} The districts and figures, data, facts on the website of the municipality of Wald
3. ^ Südkurier dated February 9, 2008
4. ↑ Alfred Th. Heim: Life with spiritual and secular masters . In: Südkurier of August 27, 2005
5. ↑ ^{a b} Wald (old community / suburb) on the pages of www.leo-bw.de (regional information system for Baden-Württemberg)
6. ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: Sophie Scholl in the Reichsarbeitsdienstlager Schloss Krauchenwies . In: Denkstättenkuratorium NS-Documentation Oberschwaben (ed.): Places of thought on Upper Swabian paths of remembrance in the districts of Lake Constance and Sigmaringen . 2012. p. 30
7. ^ 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 f. and 550 .
8. ↑ Volker Knab: The community is small and yet lively. Evangelical Christians in Ostrach and Wald form a unit . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from September 9, 2011
9. ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Statistical Office  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Together for tourism . In: Südkurier of December 5, 2011
11. ↑ ^{a b} On the Jakobsweg from Gammertingen to Pfullendorf . Pp. 52-59. In: Wanderbar ... the most beautiful routes. Experience the Sigmaringen district . Sigmaringen district office, Schönebeck printing company, Meßkirch 2004.
12. ^ Karl-Heinz Fahlbusch: Jewel of the Baroque. Renovation of the Aichgasser organ in the monastery church . In: Südkurier of April 24, 2009
13. ↑ St. Wolfgang (Pfullendorfer Straße 21, Wald)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   on the pages of www.leo-bw.de (regional information system for Baden-Württemberg)
14. ↑ Marien Gedächtniskapelle (Pfullendorfer Straße 49, Wald)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   on the pages of www.leo-bw.de (regional information system for Baden-Württemberg)
15. ↑ Sandra Häusler (saw): Tradition promotes tourism . In: Südkurier of December 23, 2011
16. ↑ Albverein wanders around the monastery in the forest . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from August 4, 2015
17. ↑ Falko Hahn: A good 100 guests at a planting campaign for the Walder Tanzlinde. In 50 years she will wear the dancers . In: Südkurier of November 10, 2008
18. ↑ Falko Hahn: Tree is being planted. Tanzlinde: Big setting action on Saturday on the festival meadow . In: Südkurier of November 7, 2008
19. ↑ Ski areas in our region . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from December 4, 2010

Web links

Commons : Wald (Hohenzollern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality