Wangen (Öhningen)

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Cheeks
community Öhningen
Former municipal coat of arms of Wangen
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 398 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 940
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 78337
Area code : 07735
Wangen am Untersee
Wangen am Untersee

Wangen , also Wangen am See (Untersee) or Wangen bei Radolfzell , is a district of the municipality of Öhningen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany close to the border with Switzerland .

Geographical location

The place is on the Untersee of Lake Constance .

history

The synagogue of Wangen (destroyed in 1938), east view. Contemporary postcard for the centenary of its inauguration, around 1927.
Guest house in Wangen

In the Wangen Bay there are pile dwellings from the 3rd millennium BC. BC ( Neolithic ) has been archaeologically proven. They were discovered around 1850 by Kaspar Löhle from Wangen, as the first pile dwellings on Lake Constance. Investigations and excavations by today's State Office for Monument Preservation provided evidence that there were settlements of both the Pfyn culture (3900 to 3500 BC) and the Horgen culture (3400 to 2800 BC) here. The reference in the Won "dorsal horn" is since 27 June 2011 part of the UNESCO World Heritage Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps .

Wangen was first mentioned in a document in 1155.

With the settlement of the first Jews in the 17th century , Wangen became a Christian-Jewish rural community. Their first synagogue was probably built in the 18th century; replaced by the larger building in the immediate vicinity of the lake, inaugurated in 1826. Above the village, the Jewish community laid out its own cemetery in 1827 , which was expanded in 1889 and surrounded with a wall in 1901. During the Kristallnacht 1938 from that in Radolfzell stationed SS - Verfügungstruppe 1827 inaugurated III./"Germania " Synagogue of cheeks destroyed. As part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign , on October 20, 1940, all Jews who remained on the Höri and in Hegau were captured by members of the Radolfzeller SS, local police and the Constance Gestapo and deported to the unoccupied part of France to the internment camp Gurs .

The independent municipality cheeks joined in 1975 with the new municipality Öhningen Öhningen together, which also tracks joined. In 1986 Wangen was awarded the title of Recognized Tourist Location .

coat of arms

The arms of the formerly independent municipality of Wangen shows divided blade up in a gold border Red Leopard , down from silver and blue [in twelve places] geschacht .

education

There is a primary school in Wangen .

museum

Reconstruction of stilt house

The Fischerhaus museum and a replica pile dwelling house provide an overview of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “ Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps ” and fossil finds in Öhningen.

The discovery of a petrified giant salamander Andrias Scheuchzeri from Öhningen went down in the history of paleontology because the Zurich city doctor Johann Jakob Scheuchzer misinterpreted it in 1726 as the skeletal remains of a person who drowned in the biblical flood.

Personalities

Sons among daughters of the place

Personalities who have or are still working on site

  • Hans Godeck (1872–1960), theater actor, lived in Wangen since the mid-1930s.
  • Ernst Bacmeister (1874–1971), freelance writer, poet and playwright, lived in Wangen from 1913 until his death.
  • Eugen Segewitz (1885–1952), painter, studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, lived from 1920 to 1930 in Marbach Castle near Wangen and from 1930 until his death in Wangen.
  • Hans Leip (1893–1983), writer, poet (including by Lili Marleen ) and painter, lived in Wangen in the 1950s.
  • Erich Bloch (1897–1994), lawyer, writer and journalist, lived in Wangen from 1922 to 1929
  • Jean Paul Schmitz (1899–1970), painter, lived from 1949 until his death as one of the " Höri painters" in Wangen.
  • Hugo Boeschenstein (1900–1983), Swiss-German graphic artist, lived in Wangen from 1925 to at least 1937 and was an active member of the NSDAP during the National Socialist era .
  • Bruno Epple (born 1931), writer and painter, lives in Wangen

literature

  • Herbert Berner (Ed.): Öhningen 1988. Contributions to the history of Öhningen, rails and cheeks , Singen 1988, ISBN 3-921413-85-0 .
  • Peter Greis: From the old days. Öhningen, Schienen, Wangen , Konstanz 1991, ISBN 3-87685-133-5 .

Web links

Commons : Cheeks  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Vorarlberger Landesmuseum Bregenz, in: Listed! Finds of pile dwellings on the Untersee In: Südkurier from September 9, 2011
  2. ↑ On the Jewish history of Wangen cf. Helmut Fidler: Jewish life on Lake Constance . Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7193-1392-0 , pp. 243-254; see. also: Alemannia Judaica : Text and picture information on Jewish life in Wangen up to its extinction in 1938/40.
  3. ↑ Cf. on this Manfred Bosch : "Hitler was gone and we were there" - Manfred Bosch in conversation with Hannelore König . In: Hegau-Geschichtsverein eV (Ed.): Hegau. Journal of history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , vol. 64, Singen, 2007, pp. 239-310.
  4. ^ 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. 520 .
  5. ^ Museum Fischerhaus: The pile dwellings of Wangen and the petrifications of the Öhninger layers