Wangen in the Allgäu

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′  N , 9 ° 50 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Height :	556 m above sea level NHN
Area :	101.29 km 2
Residents:	26,905 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	266 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88239
Primaries :	07522, 07528, 07506
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 081
City structure:	Core city and 6 districts
City administration address :	Marktplatz 1 88239 Wangen im Allgäu
Website :	www.wangen.de
Lord Mayor :	Michael Lang (independent)
Location of the city of Wangen im Allgäu in the Ravensburg district

Downtown cheeks

Tavern sign at the Eselsmühle, today's city museum on Eselsberg

Old town of Wangen in the Allgäu from the west

The town of Wangen in the south east of Baden-Wuerttemberg ( West Allgäu ) has around 27,000 inhabitants and is after Ravensburg the second largest city of the district Ravensburg . The former imperial city of Wangen forms a central center for the surrounding communities. From 1938 to 1972 Wangen was the county seat of the same district . On January 1, 1973, it was incorporated into the Ravensburg district and Wangen was named a major district town . The city ​​has an agreed administrative community with the neighboring communities of Achberg and Amtzell .

geography

location

Wangen is located on the edge of the Westallgäu on the north or west bank of the Obere Argen along the gently rising valley slope in the drumlin landscape of the Westallgäu hill country . The Lower Argen flows in the northwest of Wangens and joins the Upper Argen to the southwest of the city (near Pflegelberg, locality Schomburg), about 9 km from the city center. The modern Wangen characterizes its historical city center despite numerous younger districts.

Neighboring communities

The following communities border the city (order clockwise , starting in the west): Amtzell , Vogt , Kißlegg and Argenbühl (all districts of Ravensburg), Weißensberg , Hergatz and Hergensweiler (all three districts of Lindau ), Achberg (district of Ravensburg) and Neukirch ( Lake Constance district ).

City structure

→ Main article : List of places in the city of Wangen im Allgäu

The urban area consists of the core city (approx. 16,500 inhabitants) and the former municipalities of Deuchelried , Karsee , Leupolz , Neuravensburg , Niederwangen and Schomburg , which were incorporated as part of the municipal reform of the 1970s .

The incorporated municipalities are now also villages within the meaning of Baden-Wuerttemberg Municipal Code, that is, they each have one of the eligible voters in each local election to be elected Ortschaftsrat with a mayor as chairman. In these localities there is a local administration, so to speak a town hall on site , the head of which is the mayor.

All districts and the core city still have many spatially separated residential areas with their own names, which often have few inhabitants, or residential areas whose names have emerged in the course of development and whose boundaries are usually not precisely defined.

Spatial planning

Wangen im Allgäu is a medium-sized center within the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia region, the main centers of which are the cities of Ravensburg, Weingarten and Friedrichshafen (in addition to functions). The central area of ​​Wangen includes the southeastern area of ​​the Ravensburg district, the communities of Achberg , Amtzell , Argenbühl , Kißlegg and the city of Wangen. In addition, there are links with the communities in the neighboring district of Lindau in Bavaria.

Protected areas

Within the city are currently ten nature reserves (Argen, Bimisdorfer Mösle , casting Moss , Hang source Moorbach wood , Hang Quellmoor Epplings , Karbachmoos , Krottental-Karbach , Neuravensburger Weiher , Rotasweiher-Degermoos and Teufelssee ) and seven protected landscapes (including young moraine landscape between Amtzell and Vogt and Karbachtal ) expelled. (As of April 1, 2010)

history

Cheeks in the Middle Ages

The settlement of Wangens probably goes back to an Alemannic or Frankish settlement from the time after the subjugation of the Alemanni by the Frankish king Clovis I (around 496). The place was first mentioned in a document from the St. Gallen monastery in 815 as Wangun . The free Alemanne Hadubert gave the Franconian imperial monastery a farm and a forest. The village of Hatzenweiler was first mentioned as Haddinwilare as early as 770, when a Hadupert, whose relationship with the Hadubert of the donation from 815 is unclear, and his mother Teotrada Hatzenweiler left the monastery of St. Gallen. In the 10th century, the local properties of the monastery were greatly expanded through donations, purchases and exchanges, and a Kellhof was built in Wangen by the 12th century in Niederdorf to manage the properties. There was also a Maierhof ; how long these farms existed together is unknown. From the 13th century there was the office of foreman ( magister operum ), who was responsible for the supervision of the construction industry and took over the duties of the Maier.

1123 was for the abbot Manegold of Böttstein-Mammern the castle Praßberg built with which he wanted to consolidate the Canton St. Gallen power over the areas north of Lake Constance, which is also the previously Gallic santa in a power struggle losing Heinrich von Twiel wanted to rule.

The abbot of St. Gallen probably built a market outside the Niederdorf in the second half of the 12th century, around which free merchants and craftsmen were settled and which formed the center of the later upper town , which was closed with gates until the 13th century and with Wall or rampart and ditch was surrounded.

It is not known exactly when the first church was built on the site of today's Catholic parish church of St. Martin, Gallus and Magnus . A period between the 8th century and 820 is assumed. A pastor was first mentioned in 1182.

The secular protective bailiff over the monastery was in the High Middle Ages with the Hohenstaufen . The city wall ring was probably built in the period 1210–1230; its existence is assured from the middle of the 13th century. Walls six to eight meters high and one meter thick were built from Argen pebbles, with a covered battlement on top. The four city gates, namely the Pfaffentor (Ratloch), the Sweglartor (Lindauer Tor), Kimpflertor (Ravensburger Tor) and the Schmiedgassertor (Leutkircher Tor, demolished around 1842) were built. King Friedrich II determined in a document in 1217 that the patronage of Wangen should remain in royal hands forever. At that time, Wangen apparently already had city rights. According to the Imperial Tax Register of 1241 , Wangen's annual tax to the King was 10  silver marks , and the largest payer, Frankfurt am Main , had to pay twenty-five times as much. In 1241 the Reichsvogtei Wangen was pledged to Schenk Rudolf von Tanne under Conrad IV. In 1267, during the period without a king, it was pledged to Berchtold von Falkenstein , Abbot of St. Gallen, which the Wangeners did not accept without objection.

Imperial city of Wangen

From October 15, 1281 under Rudolf von Habsburg , Wangen was again under the royal bailiwick, and on January 10, 1286 it was elevated to the status of an imperial city . The symbol of the eagle for the Hohenstaufen and the symbol of the lily for the Frankish empire illustrate this status in the city's coat of arms.

The streets of Ravensburg , Lindau , Leutkirch and Isny meet in Wangen . The developing long-distance trade across the Alps - initially through the Große Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft , later through Welser and Fugger - promoted the development of the city in the late Middle Ages. Around 1400 no further structural development was possible within the existing borders. Therefore , the agriculturally used special corridor between the city wall and Argen was walled as a lower town .

As early as the 14th century, the guilds gained great influence within the imperial city. The production and export of scythes and canvas in particular ensured a respectable foreign trade balance. During its heyday, the city acquired a considerable area of ​​land outside the city walls, which reached as far as the shores of Lake Constance and secured permanent and sustainable income regardless of the fluctuations in trade.

Wangen joined the Swabian League of Cities in 1349 , and in 1362 also the League of Sea Cities (Seebund), which continued to exist after the League of Cities was dissolved in 1379 and who captured Truchsess Johannes II von Waldburg in July 1389 after he had tried in vain to take the city . In memory of the attack and as thanks for being saved from danger, a procession was held around the city on January 1st every year until 1803. In the 15th century, Wangen was involved in a number of other wars and feuds with the Seebund . a. the Appenzell War (1401–1404) and the city battles against Duke Friedrich of Austria (1415) and Count Ulrich von Württemberg (1449).

In 1470 the Seebund was renewed, but in 1477 Wangen placed itself under the umbrella of the city of St. Gallen by contract . Under threat of imperial ban by Emperor Friedrich III. However, Wangen had to terminate the alliance with St. Gallen in 1488 and join the Swabian Confederation that existed until 1534 .

Cheeks in the early modern period

In 1552, Emperor Charles V dissolved the guilds and gave the city a new council and court constitution with full power for the city's patriciate .

Cheeks in the 17th century (engraving by Matthäus Merian )

In the Thirty Years' War , Wangen suffered from troops moving through and billeting from 1622, and from 1628 the plague raged. After 1631, after several Swedish raids, the majority of the residents temporarily fled to Bregenz . After the Swedes withdrew from the area in 1634, the plague again caused many deaths in 1635 and 1636. In 1646 and 1647 there were again fighting and looting in Wangen.

Until the end of the 18th century (partly until the end of the empire 1806), several districts of today's city belonged to Upper Austria ( Landvogtei Schwaben , Grafschaft Montfort , more details in the section on the history of the districts). Up until the 18th century, Neuravensburg was the administrative seat of all possessions of the St. Gallen Monastery north of Lake Constance.

Cheeks after mediatization

As part of the mediatization , Wangen lost its status as an imperial city in 1803 and initially became part of the Electorate of Bavaria (see District Court of Wangen ). After the boundary adjustment treaty of 1810 between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Württemberg , Wangen became the seat of the Württemberg Oberamt of the same name .

In 1880, with the construction of the Kißlegg railway line and the opening of the station , Wangen was connected to the Württemberg railway network .

In the early 1930s, according to the election results, Wangen was a stronghold of the Catholic Center Party . The mayor Fritz Geray, re-elected with 95% in 1932, and the local daily newspaper Argen-Bote opposed the propaganda directed against the Jewish population by the NSDAP local group, which appeared publicly from the end of the 1920s . Against this resistance succeeded the Nazis after they took power in Berlin , during the year 1933 using the DC circuit to take mayor's office and city council majority and bring the daily press under their control. Oppositionists were taken to the Heuberg concentration camp . The Jewish population of Wangen, which consisted of 11 to 14 people in 1933, emigrated in the years that followed, up to and including the November 1938 pogroms, with the exception of 2 people.

In 1934 the Oberamt Wangen was renamed the District of Wangen and in 1938 it was transformed into the enlarged district of Wangen in the course of the administrative reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg .

In 1936 the city name was officially set with Wangen im Allgäu .

In November 1944, a Volkssturm battalion was set up in Wangen . In April 1945, the latter received the order to defend the Wangen area along the Lower Argen north-west of Wangen , together with Wehrmacht units . In April 1945, the Reich Governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr , and other high-ranking officials from the NSDAP, SS and Gestapo and their entourage, fleeing from the approaching battle front, moved into quarters in and around Wangen. Their presence is attributed to the fact that the Volkssturm and Wehrmacht, despite recognizing the military hopelessness and despite requests from District Administrator Hermann Röger, prepared the defense and blew up several bridges, but were also able to prevent some bridges from being blown up. On April 28, most of the Nazi officials fled Wangen. On April 29, French troops from Niederwangen , located in the southwest, called the town hall in Wangen and asked for the town to be surrendered. This caused the Wehrmacht commander to desert, and Wangen was handed over without a fight on the same day.

After the Second World War, the city fell into the French zone of occupation and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947 , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

The district of Wangen (Kfz-Kennzeichen WG ) existed until its dissolution and integration into the district of Ravensburg on January 1, 1973. At the same time, the state government of Baden-Württemberg raised Wangen to the status of a major district town , as the population had exceeded the limit of 20,000.

At Whitsun in 1999, flooding flooded parts of the lower town and the eastern districts near the Argen for the first time in over 50 years. A flood protection program compatible with the landscape was then implemented with state subsidies. When Wangen was flooded again by the Upper Argen in 2005 , the flood protection measures had proven their worth.

History of the districts

Deuchelried church

• Deuchelried was first mentioned in 1307 as Tihtlerriet. It was owned by the St. Gallen Monastery. Later the Salem monastery owned. From the 14th century, the imperial city of Wangen acquired the area step by step and ran it as the judicial district of Deuchelried. However, Wangen was only able to gain full jurisdiction in 1767. Before that, parts of the area belonged to different rulers. In the 18th century the place was mostly owned by farmers. In 1802 the area with Wangen came to Bavaria and in 1810 to Württemberg. In 1820 the judicial district of Deuchelried became the municipality of the same name within the Oberamt Wangen.
  see also Oflings Castle , Praßberg ruins .

• Karsee was first mentioned in 1275 as Carse. In 1289 the Weingarten Monastery bought goods in Karsee, which at the time were fiefs of Count Rudolf von Montfort. The monastery there formed an office Karsee and had the lower jurisdiction. The high jurisdiction lay with the Landvogtei Swabia. In 1802 the Karsee office with Weingarten came to Nassau-Orange and 1806 to Württemberg. Karsee and its surrounding area then belonged to the municipality of Vogt in the Oberamt Wangen. In 1952, the village of Karsee was elevated to an independent municipality in the district of Wangen, along with some hamlets in the Vogt municipality and some hamlets in the neighboring municipality of Amtzell, which formed the municipality of Eggenreute until 1933. In detail, the municipality of Karsee from the municipality of Vogt included the residential areas Abraham, Aich, Baumann, Blaser, Bommen, Edengut, Endersen, Grub, Haag, Hartmannsberg, Karsee, Karsee-Berg, Kehlismoos, King, Oberholz, Riefen, Schweinberg, Spiegelhaus, Steißen, Unterholz, Untersteig and Zeihers and from the municipality of Amtzell the residential areas Albishaus, Böschlishaus, Brenner, Edenhaus, Eggenreute (until 1933 an independent municipality with some surrounding hamlets), Eggerts, Englisweiler, Felbers, Hochberg, Kohlhaus, Luß, Niederlehen, Oberhalden, Oberhof, Oberwies, Ruzenweiler, Siggenhaus, Sommers and Unteregg.

Leupolz around 1840

• Leupolz was first mentioned in 1229 as Lvpoltes, but there was in the 8th / 9th. In the 17th century, Lords of Lupoltes were ministerials of the St. Gallen monastery. In 1411 the Leupolz dominion was combined with the Praßberg dominion. The descendants of the Lords of Leupolz and Praßberg sold the area in 1721 to the Barons of Westernach , who sold it to the Truchsessen von Waldburg in 1749. Since then the area has belonged to the Vogtei Kißlegg. The high jurisdiction lay with the Landvogtei Swabia. In 1806 the area came to Württemberg. There were initially two communities, Leupolz and Praßberg, which were combined in 1819 to form the community of Praßberg. This was renamed Leupolz in 1883. Both settlements and their surrounding area belonged to the Oberamt Wangen. When it was incorporated into the city of Wangen in 1974, the residential areas of Bayums, Becken, Bertlings, Bietenweiler, Hub, Reute, Ried and Siggen were moved to Kißlegg.
  see also Leupolz Castle

Neuravensburg castle ruins

• Neuravensburg was first mentioned in 1271 as Nuwen Ravenspurg. There was an early medieval castle, Neuravensburg Castle , which was destroyed in 1525 and rebuilt in 1614/17. In 1836/40 it was partly demolished, today it only exists as a ruin. A town was built at the foot of the castle in the 13th century and was destroyed in 1272. Since 1432 the settlement appeared only as a patch. The rulership of the castle and the place was in the hands of the ministers of Ravensburg, who probably gave the castle and the place its name. Around 1270 the place fell to the monastery of St. Gallen, who pledged it to various rulers, most recently in 1586 to the city of Wangen. In 1608, the St. Gallen monastery acquired Neuravensburg back. From 1699 to 1772 the place was pledged to the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang. At the end of the 18th century the area became deserted and in 1803 came to the prince of Dietrichstein and 1806 to Württemberg. In 1810 it became a municipality in the Oberamt Wangen.

• Niederwangen was first mentioned in 856 as Nidironwangun. The municipal area was a main team of the imperial city of Wangen, which obtained the high and low jurisdiction from the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang. The imperial city acquired the rulership rights over the place Niederwangen (including church fiefdom ) in 1431 as a Nellenburg fiefdom . In 1465 the Landgraviate of Nellenburg fell to Habsburg. From then on the House of Austria lent the fiefdom to the city. The hamlets in the north and west of the Hauptmannschaft remained under the high jurisdiction of the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang until 1700. After that, they left the city's jurisdiction as pledge. In 1802 Niederwangen fell to Bavaria and in 1810 to Württemberg. In 1819 the community of Niederwangen was established in the Oberamt Wangen.

• Schomburg was first mentioned in 1229 as Scowenburc. It was the center of the knighthood of the same name. The feudal sovereignty lay with the monastery of St. Gallen, partly also with the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang. At the beginning of the 14th century the rule came to the counts, in 1408 to the Lindau family Siber, 1515 to the Augsburg family Rem, 1549 to the Humpis von Waltrams- Pfaffenweiler, 1638 to the lords of Freyberg. After 1659 the rulership fell to the Counts of Montfort-Tettnang, who expanded the castle into their summer residence in 1754. In the course of bankruptcy proceedings, the countshad to cedetheir property, including the Schomburg rule, to the House of Habsburg in1779. The castle was demolished in 1836, the rest burned down in 1899. After 1770 Schomburg was almost completely deserted, only Primisweiler and Haslach still existed as settlements. With the county of Tettnang , the area went to Bavaria in 1805 and to Württemberg in 1810, where it initially belonged to the Tettnang District Office as the municipality of Schomburg. It was not until 1938 that the community came to the district of Wangen. At that time, some hamlets in the neighboring community of Neukirch (Engelitz, Hagmühle, Haslachmühle, Lochmühle, Pflegelberg) were incorporated into Schomburg.

See also : Schomburg Castle  and Schomburg Castle

Incorporations

The following communities were incorporated into the city of Wangen im Allgäu.

• February 1, 1972: Deuchelried, Niederwangen and Schomburg (with Haslach and Primisweiler)
• May 1, 1972: Karsee and Neuravensburg
• June 1, 1973: Leupolz

Coats of arms of the incorporated communities

Deuchelried		Karsee		Leupolz		Neuravensburg		Niederwangen		Schomburg

Population development

Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ).

Year / date Residents 1300 about 700 1450 approx. 1,400 1522 approx. 1,500 1794 1,450 1823 1,308 1855 1.926 December 1, 1871 ¹ 2,357 December 1, 1880¹ 2,873 December 1, 1900 ¹ 3,848 December 1, 1910¹ 4,831 June 16, 1925 ¹ 5,837 June 16, 1933 ¹ 7.005 May 17, 1939 ¹ 8,045

date Residents September 13, 1950 ¹ 10,526 June 6, 1961 ¹ 13,317 May 27, 1970 ¹ 14,561 December 31, 1975 23,127 December 31, 1980 23,259 May 25, 1987 ¹ 23,588 December 31, 1990 24,589 December 31, 1995 25,721 December 31, 2000 26,254 December 30, 2005 27,108 December 31, 2010 27,461 May 9, 2011 ¹ 26,169 December 31, 2015 27.093

¹ census result

Religions

Parish Church of St. Martin

Nave with Gothic choir of St. Martin's Church

The area of ​​today's city of Wangen initially belonged to the diocese of Constance and was subordinate to the Archdiakonat Allgäu Landkapitel Lindau. The church and parish of St. Martin were mentioned as early as 1182. They belonged to the monastery of St. Gallen , chaplains and measurement pledges were donated. The Reformation only had a temporary impact, so Wangen remained a Catholic city for many centuries. The former Deanery Wangen, which was founded in the 19th century, was merged into a new dean's office, comprising almost all of Upper Swabia, the Deanery Allgäu-Oberschwaben . The current parish church of St. Martin was built in the 14th century, the choir is from 1386, the tower is late Romanesque. Six bells from the 20th and 21st centuries hang in the tower. The oldest, the so-called Ulrichsglöcklein (h´), dates from 1931, when Wangen bought seven new bells. Six had to be melted down for war purposes. Five new bells (gis'-fis'-e'-cis'-A °) come from the Johann Hahn bell foundry in Landshut and were cast in 1950. The bells are named Magnus, Martin, Peter and Paul, Maria and Christ the King. The Marienglocke broke in 2002 due to overload. It was replaced in 2005 by a bell cast by Christian Bachert with the same striking sound, which blends in well with the ringing. The old Marienglocke was placed in front of the main portal as a peace sign. The full chime that can be heard from afar is the largest in the area.

The parish of St. Martin also includes the hospital church of the former Hospital of the Holy Spirit, built in 1719/21, and the St. Rochus chapel from 1593 in the cemetery. A chapel had existed in the hospital since 1446. From 1640 there was a Guardian Angel Capuchin monastery outside the city gates. The monks initially lived in the Hinderofenhaus until they received their own monastery building in 1657. In 1803 and 1829 the monastery was closed. The associated church of St. Fidelis from 1655 has been profaned. The St. Wolfgang Chapel, which was built in 1613/17 and expanded in the 18th and 19th centuries and is used as a mortuary, stands on the new cemetery.

The Catholic community of St. Martin Wangen belonged to the diocese of Constance until 1802. Later she was placed under the Ordinariat Ellwangen, from which the newly founded Diocese Rottenburg (today Rottenburg-Stuttgart ) emerged in 1821/27 . After the Second World War , a second parish was established in the Waltersbühl district, St. Ulrich, with a church built in 1959. There are other Catholic parishes in the districts with St. Petrus in Deuchelried (choir of the church from 1465/67 with an older tower and new nave from 1965/66; parish vicariate since 1728 and parish since 1823), St. Stephanus in Haslach (built in 17th century, renewal in the 18th century; parish already mentioned in the 13th century), St. Kilian in Karsee (parish since the 13th century), St. Laurentius in Leupolz (built in 1400 with a ship from 1600, parish already in 1275 mentioned), St. Andreas in Niederwangen (built in 1444 with extensions in the 16th century; parish already mentioned in 1244), St. Clemens in Primisweiler (built in the 17th century, extended in 1831), St. Gallus in Roggenzell (built in 1841 with old Late Gothic tower) and St. Felix and Regula in Schwarzenbach (church from 1959; old church mentioned as early as 1275).

St. Roch Chapel

There are also other Catholic branch churches or chapels in some districts of Wangen, e.g. B. St. Nikolaus in Untermooweiler (built in 1312 and rebuilt in 1695), the Romanesque chapel of St. Konrad in Hiltensweiler and St. Nikolaus in Sattel (rebuilt in the 18th century).

The Catholic parishes of St. Martin Wangen, St. Ulrich Wangen, St. Petrus Deuchelried, St. Kilian Karsee, St. Laurentius Leupolz and St. Andreas Niederwangen belong to the pastoral care unit Wangen, the parishes of St. Stephanus Haslach, St. Clemens Primisweiler, St Gallus Roggenzell and St. Felix and Regula Schwarzenbach belong to the pastoral care unit An der Argen.

Protestant Christians also moved to Wangen in the 19th century. In 1850 a permanent parish administration was established. The community first met in a prayer room in the former Capuchin monastery. In 1888 its own parish was established and in 1893 its own church was consecrated. The community has belonged to the Evangelical Church in Württemberg since it was founded and is affiliated with the deanery and church district of Ravensburg . In 1960, a church with a community hall was built in-house in Amtzell, and in 1963 the Protestant parish of Wangen received a community center in the Wittwais district. All Protestants in the Wangen districts also belong to the Wangen parish.

In addition to the two large churches, there are also congregations in Wangen that belong to free churches , including a Methodist congregation and the Christian congregation Wangen e. V. The New Apostolic Church and the Christian Community are also represented in Wangen.

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result:

Town hall of Wangen im Allgäu

Local elections in Wangen 2019 Turnout: 61.0% (2014: 49.1%)  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 31.9% 30.7% 21.4% 11.5% 4.5% CDU GOL FW SPD FDP Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    8th    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6   -8th -10 -9.3  % p + 7.6  % p -0.4  % p -2.4  % p + 4.5  % p CDU GOL FW SPD FDP

Allocation of seats from 2019 in the municipal council of Wangen 4th 11 2 8th 12 4th 11 2 8th 12  A total of 37 seats SPD : 4 GOL : 11 FDP : 2 FW : 8 CDU : 12

mayor

At the head of the city of Wangen stood the bailiff and the council (first attested in 1306), who were appointed by the king or the Abbey of St. Gallen. The guild constitution was introduced around 1350. Then there was a mayor who was subordinate to the bailiff from 1384. Since 1551 there was again a new constitution with three mayors, two secret councilors and 13 councilors.

In 1803 the Bavarian administration and from 1810 the Württemberg administration was established. After that there was a city school and the council. Since 1935, the mayor of the official title since the survey to district town in 1973 was from the city mayor Mayor carries. Today the Lord Mayor is elected for a term of 8 years. He is chairman of the municipal council and head of the city administration. The mayor has an alderman as a full-time deputy who bears the official title of “mayor”. There are also volunteer deputies from the center of the municipal council.

The mayors and mayors since 1804:

1804–1810: Franz Josef von Bentele 1811–1819: Mathias Tschugg 1819–1826: Rudolf Salis 1826–1829: Martin Schnitzer 1829–1847: Christian Nepomuk Weber 1847–1859: Leopold Wocher 1860-1894: Jacob Trenkle 1894–1922: Rudolf Trenkle 1922–1933: Fritz Geray 1933: Gottlob Pfeiffer, acting

1933–1939: Friedrich Wilhelm Erbacher 1939: Heinrich Fischer, acting 1939–1942: Carl Speidel, on behalf of Heinrich Fischer 1942–1945: Max Steinegger, acting 1945: Karl Geiger, acting 1945: Franz Büchele, acting 1945–1946: Josef Max Kraus, acting 1945–1968: Wilhelm Uhl 1968–2001: Jörg Leist 2001 – today: Michael Lang

coat of arms

Blazon : Under a red shield head, inside three beardless silver male heads (cheeks) turned to the left side by side, split; in front in silver a half, red armored and red-tongued black eagle at the slit, behind in silver a blue heraldic lily.

The city flag is red and white.

A seal from 1312 already contains the symbols of today's city arms. The three heads are supposed to represent "cheeks" and thus be a talking coat of arms. The eagle refers to the former imperial city of Wangen, the lily possibly a sign of judgment. The colors have been in use since the 18th century.

Town twinning

Cheeks maintains since 1980 with La Garenne-Colombes in France and since 1988 with Prato in Italy , a city partnership .

Culture and sights

The printed Allgäu

At the Saumarkt

Despite the city fires of 1539, 1793 and 1858, which destroyed entire streets, the old town forms a picturesque, closed ensemble with buildings from the early Middle Ages to the late Baroque.

Museums

The local history museum in the Eselmühle was opened in 1974 in a former mill acquired by the city in 1969. The museum shows the original equipment of the traditional grinding mill "behind the running mill wheel". It also houses a collection on the history of the city of Wangen, a collection of mechanical musical instruments, a cheese-making museum, a museum for Carnival in Wangen and the German Eichendorff Museum with Gustav Freytag Museum.

theatre

For cultural events there is the Hägeschmiede with a multi-purpose hall for cabaret programs and a dance hall for ballet, as well as the town hall in Wangen for concerts, theater, meetings, lectures, dance balls and more.

Wangener talks

Since 1951, the city has organized the Wangen Talks annually in conjunction with the Wangen District and the Silesian Cultural Foundation at the end of September . They are an expression of the cooperation between formerly displaced persons and locals, of the "togetherness of mentally active, artistically sensitive Swabians and Silesians ", as the association writes. They want to encourage getting to know the neighboring peoples to the east and give impulses for the cultural life of Germany. The Eichendorff Literature Prize is awarded every year as part of these conferences .

Buildings

See also : List of cultural monuments in the old town of Wangen

Ravensburg Gate

Martinstor

Fidelisbäck

The parish church of St. Martin is one of the oldest architectural monuments in the city. Already in the 9th century there was a (albeit smaller) church at this point, which has undergone several extensions and renovations over the centuries. The church tower is built in irregular Romanesque boulders up to the bell . The eastern gable wall of the central nave also dates back to the Romanesque architectural style. The Gothic choir was built around 1386 . The naves got their current shape in the 15th century, and alterations were made in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. For the other churches in the city cf. Religions section.

At the end of Herrenstrasse is the Frauentor , now also known as the Ravensburger Tor, the city's landmark . The gate, first mentioned in 1472, presumably older, was given its present form in 1608. The building shows a uniform renaissance style with characteristic corner turrets. Further remnants of the city fortifications are the Martinstor or Lindauer Tor, which marks the entrance to the oldest part of the upper town, and the Pfaff tower, built in the 14th century.

The town hall was in the 15./16. Century (parts of it earlier) and rebuilt in 1719/21 baroque.

Also worth seeing is the Fidelisbäck , a more than 500 year old bakery with an adjoining dining room, especially because of the extensive facade paintings by Toni Schönecker . Two houses down you will find “the whale”, also a traditional wine tavern, now a coffee house. The representation of the Jonah story above the ground floor provided the house name in baroque times. A special feature of the city are the many fountains, some of which have been expanded and embellished in recent years with sculptures that are often tongue in cheek.

Also worth seeing are: Haus Sigerist (Herrenstrasse 15) as a Gothic stepped gable building. Ritterhaus (Herrenstrasse, today Stadtkasse) - a work of classicism by Franz Anton Bagnato . Kornhaus - today the city library and building authority.

A place suitable for open-air events can be found on the city wall next to the donkey mill built in the 16th century .

The sculpture of a high-heeled shoe made of brass, which - abandoned under the vault of the Pfaffentor - seems to have got stuck with its heel, represents the catchphrase: "You get stuck in cheeks." It is so beautiful there.

Club life

The MTG Wangen was founded in 1849 as the "Turnverein Wangen", which has been called the male gymnastics community of Wangen since 1887 . Today the association has over 3,400 members. The handball department is the largest department within MTG. In the 2007/08 season, the men's team was promoted to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg. The venue is the Argenhalle.

FC Wangen has an important sporting word to say in Württemberg. Founded in 1905, revived several times, it has been hard to imagine sporting events without it since the war. In 1968 the club failed as a Württemberg champion just on promotion to the second division. The FCW currently plays in the highest Wuerttemberg class, the Association League - today 6th class.

The Rad-Union Wangen, founded in 1913, is also one of the traditional associations in Wangen. The Goldenes Rad cycling criterion, which was carried out for the 80th time in 2013, is the oldest cycling criterion in Germany. For the 100th anniversary of the club, the Bund Deutscher Cyclists organized the German road championships in and around Wangen in 2013 together with the Rad-Union Wangen.

One of the most successful tennis clubs in Baden-Württemberg and one of the oldest clubs in the region is the Wangen tennis club, founded in 1903. Martin Wetzel (played in the 2nd Bundesliga in 2008), Carolin Wetzel, Lisa Klarmann, Clemens Hübner and Nico Huber are among the most successful players to emerge from the club.

The Tonne youth center was founded in 1971, opened on January 19, 1972 and entered into the city of Wangen's register of associations on February 12, 1972. It is one of the oldest youth centers in Germany. The bin is located in the basement and on the first floor of the building of the former secondary school at Lindauer Straße 2 (files from the First and Second World War were still stored there until then).

The first establishment of the DLRG local group took place in 1927 a. a. by the later board member of MTG Wangen, Fritz Hindelang; the re-establishment after the Second World War in 1953. The local group is active today with over 200 members in swimming and lifeguard training, in the water rescue service of the Ravensburg district and in disaster control and operates the water supervision in the Stefanshöhe open-air pool in Wangen and in the Argenbühler Moorbad Burg near Eglofs.

The Modellisenbahnfreunde Wangen e. V is based in the city, which built a true-to-scale model of the Wangen train station in the 1960s for an exhibition in the Wangen bathing rooms. There is also a model of the old goods shed that was demolished at the train station in early 2012. The association, which (as of 2012) has 42 members including a small youth group, has its domicile at the Isny ​​intersection below the Hölz ​​bakery.

Wangen is a stronghold of brass music , in all villages there is at least one band that provides musical accompaniment to church events in the village, plays traditional and modern brass music at festivals and gives symphonic brass music in concerts. The Stadtkapelle Wangen, which in addition to its concert activities also regularly takes part in competitions, won first place in its category at the German Orchestra Competition in 2012 and was therefore German champion.

Regular events

Spindelnarr and Aneweible the Narrenzunft Kuhschelle, 2014

The Swabian-Alemannic carnival is celebrated in Wangen . The driving force in the core city of Wangen is the Wangemer fool's guild, Kuhschelle white and red, with its fool figures Aneweible, Flachsnarr and Spindelnarr. She belongs to the Association of Swabian-Alemannic Fools' Guilds (VSAN). The fool's cry that can be heard during the carnival is: “Bell, bell - Schell au”. In addition to the Wangemer Narrenzunft Kuhschelle white-red there is also the Mühlenhexenzunft founded in 2002 in Wangen. Fasnet is also celebrated in the districts. a. from the Deuchelried Fool's Guild, the Haslach Fool's Guild, the Karsee Fool's Guild, the Leopolz Fool's Guild and the Neuravensburg Fool's Guild.

Before the start of the summer holidays, the children's and local festival takes place. The children's festival, which was first mentioned in a document in 1832, developed into a festival for adults after the Second World War. The program includes performances of a fairy tale by young people at the “Children's Festival Theater” as well as a parade with over 4,000 participants (including around 2,500 students) through the old town of Wangen. The festival is organized by the Children's Festival Commission Wangen e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wangen was a major center of the textile industry , for example with the Erba group, before this branch experienced its decline in Germany. Today there is a very lively mix of industries here. Sohler Ski was the only ski manufacturer in the Allgäu, based in Wangen.

As one of the centers of the dairy industry in the Allgäu, Wangen is the location of nationally known cheese dairies, e.g. B. the Allgäuer Emmental cheese dairy Leupolz and the cheese dairy Zurwies .

The weekly market, which has existed since at least the 13th century, also attracts visitors from the region. It takes place every Wednesday morning in the old town.

In Wangen, the prices for residential property and rents have risen above average in the past few years compared to other municipalities in the Westallgäu region.

traffic

Wangen is on the federal highway 96 Lindau– Memmingen , on the federal road 32 (Ravensburg – Wangen – Oberstaufen) and the former federal road 18 (Lindau – Wangen – Memmingen). The city center can be reached in just a few minutes via the Wangen-West and Wangen-Nord motorway exits. Another planned exit in the south of Wangen between the villages of Niederwangen and Primisweiler (exit Wangen-Süd) was never realized. However, there are voices from local politicians who want to put the topic of "Wangen-Süd" back on the agenda after the A96 has been completed. In the southern district of Neuravensburg there is a makeshift exit on the motorway coming from Lindau. Another motorway, the formerly planned and now rejected pre-alpine motorway A 98 , which was supposed to run via Kempten - Lindau, could have been reached in just a few minutes from Wangen in the direction of Hergatz.

railway station

The Wangen (Allgäu) train station is on the Kißlegg – Hergatz railway line . In the course of the electrification of the Munich – Lindau – Zurich railway, which runs via Wangen, the station area was rebuilt and modernized. Wangen is connected to Ravensburg and Tettnang by bus routes ; Six lines operate in city traffic. Wangen belongs to the Bodensee-Oberschwaben transport association ( bodo ).

The nearby airports in Friedrichshafen ( Friedrichshafen Airport ) and Memmingen (Memmingen Airport ), which are served by many airlines, can be reached by car in just under 45 and 30 minutes. With the completion of the A 96 towards Munich, the connection towards Memmingen has been improved.

Established businesses

The Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG has a plant with about 550 employees in cheeks. Electronic controls, display modules, drive systems and panels, and in earlier years also inverters for solar systems, are produced there. Noch GmbH & Co. KG manufactures model railway accessories in Wangen. The Waldner group of companies (laboratory equipment, etc.) employs around 1000 people in Wangen. Other companies with supraregional importance are: Bolz - Edel Spezialapparate- und Tankbau, Stahlbau Biedenkapp, Sohler-Neuenhauser Maschinenfabrik - extraction systems for the textile industry

media

The daily newspaper Schwäbische Zeitung and the regional television station Regio TV Bodensee report on local events in Wangen . The specialist publisher autentic.info gmbh is located in the village and publishes specialist magazines in the field of vision.

Authorities, courts and institutions

District Court building

Wangen is the seat of a tax office . There is also the District Court of Wangen , which belongs to the district of the Ravensburg Regional Court and the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court .

Educational institutions

In Wangen there is a general high school ( Rupert-Neß-Gymnasium ), a secondary school , a special school , two primary and secondary schools and six primary schools. The Free Waldorf School (with upper school level) , the Special School for Educational Aid Talander Schulgemeinschaft e. V. , the Heinrich Brügger School (hospital school) complement the range of general education schools.

The district of Ravensburg is the sponsor of the vocational school center Wangen (industrial, agricultural and commercial vocational school with a business high school and a technical high school ). Other professional educational institutions are the private geriatric nursing school St. Vinzenz, the state dairy teaching and research institute Dr.-Oskar-Farny-Institut and the nursing school at the Oberschwaben-Klinik Wangen.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Wangen has granted the following people honorary citizenship. The list is made chronologically after the award.

1839: Christoph von Zwerger, chief magistrate 1847: Leopold Wocher, legal counsel 1852: Bernhard Maurer, dean and pastor 1866: Alois Bendel, dean and pastor 1880: Xaver Dentler , mayor 1880: Otto Elben , editor 1880: Josef von Schlierholz, senior building officer 1886: Hermann Schmid, chaplain 1886: Ernst Stemmer, dean and pastor 1888: Hermann (von) Ehmann , building inspector 1902: Georg Mesmer, senior magistrate 1902: Prof. Andreas Bolter, secondary school teacher 1903: Anton Riedle, councilor 1905: Josef Schnitzer, local councilor 1913: Josef Walchner, local councilor

1915: Anton Vollmer, senior administrator 1917: Christian Fopp, Councilor of Commerce 1919: Rudolf Trenkle, Stadtschultheiß 1922: Karl Stoll, city caretaker 1925: Joseph Hehle , high school principal 1931: Carl Speidel (revoked in 1946) 1932: Dr. Kurt Teichert, State Economics Councilor 1946: August Braun, painter 1953: Hugo Mauch, trade school councilor 1954: Prof. Heinrich Brügger, director of the children's sanatorium 1956: Franz Walchner, publishing director 1963: Gaston Issenmann, director of the cotton mill 1971: Oskar Farny , German politician (center, later CDU) 2003: Walter Kasper , cardinal 2015: Jörg Leist , Lord Mayor

sons and daughters of the town

• Hans vom Staal (1419–1499), probably born in Wangen, later town clerk and diplomat in Switzerland
• Ulrich Rösch (1426–1491), 1463 to 1491 abbot of the St. Gallen monastery
• Johannes Susenbrot (1484/1485 – approx. 1542), humanistic Latin teacher and textbook author
• Johannes Gunckel (around 1486–1535), physicist and logician
• Constantin Steingaden (around 1618–1675), Franciscan priest and church musician
• Rupert Neß (1670–1740), also Rupert II., Abbot of the Ottobeuren monastery
• Joseph Thaddäus Sichelbein (* 1677), painter
• Ferdinand Anton Sichelbein (* 1678), painter
• Judas Thaddäus Sichelbein (1684–1758), painter and last born of the Sichelbein family of painters
• Franz Joseph Spiegler (1691–1757), painter
• Johann Evangelist Schmidt (1757–1804), piano and organ builder
• Josef Anton von Gegenbaur (1800–1876), painter
• Faustin Mennel (1824–1889), founder of the order of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
• Karl Etti (1825–1890), pharmacist
• Franz von Bagnato (1843-1896), politician
• Theodor Maßler (1844–1910), sculptor
• Ludwig Maurer (1873–1936), entrepreneur and inventor
• August Braun (1876–1956), church painter
• Franz Xaver Mehr (1896–1981), aircraft designer
• Helmut Stellrecht (1898–1987), National Socialist politician and propagandist
• Albert Hartmann (1899–1991), politician
• Fridolin Stier (1902–1981), Catholic theologian
• Hans Leibundgut (1909–1993), forest scientist
• Heribert Schek (* 1932), designer of off-road motorcycles, successful racing and rally driver and entrepreneur
• Roland Bader (* 1938), conductor
• Frank Natterer (* 1941), mathematician
• Karl Weber (* 1942), sports medicine specialist and former President of the German Tennis Association
• Joachim Wild (* 1942), historian and archivist
• Reinhard Scherer (* 1948), sculptor
• Claudia Scherer (* 1954), poet and author
• Ignaz Netzer (* 1956), blues guitarist, harmonica player, singer and songwriter
• Michael Kuhn (* 1962), detective, musician, composer and arranger
• Peter Bartodziej (* 1963), lawyer, civil servant in the Federal Chancellery and later in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
• Inge Kirsner (* 1963), Protestant theologian
• Bernhard Stengele (* 1963), actor, reciter and director
• Johannes Schneider (* 1964), Tibetologist, Indologist and university professor
• Christian Grünwald , (1964 *) chef with two stars in the Michelin guide awarded
• Patricia Watson-Miller (* 1965), motorcycle rally raid driver
• Markus Eller (* 1966), 57th Scheyerer Dept.
• Petra Krebs (* 1969), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
• Sigrid Wille (* 1969), cross-country skier
• Raimund Haser (* 1975), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
• Eva Weber (* 1977), Lord Mayor of the City of Augsburg
• Marc Biedenkapp (* 1980), football player
• Sarah Düster (* 1982), racing cyclist
• René Frank (* 1984), cook and pastry chef
• Heidi Roth (* 1984), ski jumper
• Patrick Mayer (* 1988), soccer player
• Dominik Nerz (* 1989), racing cyclist
• Alexander Turrek (* 1989), actor and voice actor
• Simon Nuber (* 1991), racing cyclist
• Michael Schweizer (* 1991), cyclocross and road cyclist
• Yannick Forstenhäusler (* 1991), sound engineer and voice actor
• Ivana Rudelić (* 1992), soccer player (including Bayern Munich )
• Isabella Schmid (* 1993), soccer player
• Hermann Keller (* 1993), racing cyclist
• Klaus Burkart (* 1993), model and LGBT activist
• Melanie Leupolz (* 1994), soccer player
• Janik Haberer (* 1994), soccer player
• Sonja Giraud (* 1995), soccer player
• Julian Zenger (* 1997), volleyball player

Other personalities

• Johann Andreas Rauch (1575–1632), painter and cartographer, lived in Wangen from 1601
• Louise Aston (1814–1871), suffragette and writer, died in Wangen
• Werner Fechner (1892–1973), painter and graphic artist, lived in Wangen from 1953
• Toni Schönecker (1893–1979), visual artist
• Heinrich Brügger (1895–1976), doctor, lived in Wangen
• Maria Innocentia Hummel OSF (1909–1946) German Franciscan , draftsman and painter; on the healing in 1945 in Wangen
• Julius Viel (1918–2002), Untersturmführer of the Waffen SS , lived in Wangen for decades
• Günter Höch (1921–2015), District and City Councilor in Wangen, MdL SPD 1965–1972
• Josef Dreier (* 1931), politician
• Walter Kasper (* 1933), retired Curia Cardinal, grew up in Wangen
• Nico Stehr (* 1942), cultural scientist and climate researcher at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, lives in Wangen
• Kristin Winter (* 1958), author and painter, lives in Wangen
• Christine Lehmann (* 1958), writer, lives in Wangen, among other places
• Matthäus Karrer (* 1968), auxiliary bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese, grew up in Deuchelried, a suburb of Wangen
• Christine Urspruch (* 1970), actress, lives in Wangen
• Robert Hartmann (* 1979), referee of the Bundesliga, lives in Wangen
• Festim Kryeziu (* 1991), boxer, lives in Wangen
• Aylin Bok (* 1996), handball player

Others

From 1943 to 1945, Wangen served as the backdrop for the Nazi propaganda film Quax in Fahrt (premiered in 1953 as Quax in Africa ) with Heinz Rühmann , a sequel to the film Quax, the Bruchpilot .

From April 14th to May 13th, 2004 a crime scene episode (“ Bienzle and the Sicilian ”, directed by Hartmut Griesmayr) was filmed in and around Wangen, among others.

The Wangener Juze Tonne e. V. is the oldest self-administered youth center in Germany.

The youth music school Württembergisches Allgäu , based in Wangen, is one of the largest music schools in Baden-Württemberg.

During the 2006 World Cup , the Togo national team moved into Wangen.

From June 21 to 23, 2013, the German road cycling championships took place in Wangen .

The state horticultural show of the state of Baden-Württemberg is to take place in Wangen in 2024 .

literature

• August Friedrich Pauly: Description of the Oberamt cheeks . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1841 ( full text at Wikisource ).
• Erich Keyser: German city book. Handbook of urban history - on behalf of the working group of historical commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities . Württemberg city book. tape IV . Stuttgart 1961.
• Albert Scheurle: Cheeks in the Allgäu. The development and growth of the city . Walchner KG, Wangen 1966.
• Karl Walchner: Old Wangen memories . Walchner KG, Wangen 1985.
• Helmut Mendler (Ed.): My home. The “big district town” of Wangen im Allgäu with its towns and coats of arms . City of Wange im Allgäu, Wangen 1992.
• Birgit Locher-Dodge: displaced years? Wangen im Allgäu 1933–1945 . Ed .: Old Town and Museum Association. Wangen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004991-6 .
• Otto Beck: Wangen im Allgäu. City history and sights. A companion for locals and holiday guests . II edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-1489-X .
• Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-872-2 .

Web links

Wikisource: Wangen im Allgäu  - Sources and full texts on the city's history

Commons : Wangen im Allgäu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Wangen im Allgäu  - travel guide

• Internet presence of the city of Wangen im Allgäu
• Wangen im Allgäu Link collection of the Association of Libraries of the Regio Bodensee
• The full bells of St. Martin's Church
• Franz Xaver Bishop: Cheeks in the Allgäu. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Information and video about Wangen im Allgäu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 39 ff.
3. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 44 f.
4. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 55.
5. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 45 according to Otto Beck: Kirchenführer Wangen im Allgäu. Catholic parish church of St. Martin, Gallus and Magnus , 3rd edition, 2009.
6. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 45.
7. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 70 f.
8. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 71.
9. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2015, p. 71 f.
10. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister : Neuravensburg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 22, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
11. ↑ Jan Fießinger, Steffen Beigang, Stefan Hermann: Memoria et Conscientia (first place entry in the youth competition Denktag of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2006)
12. ^ Gerhard Heimann: Small chronicle of the city of Wangen in the Allgäu. Part 2, 1900–1945. Wangen in the Allgäu. Year of publication unknown after 1992.
13. ^ Albert Scheurle: Wangen im Allgäu . Wangen, 3rd edition, 1975. pp. 171 ff.
14. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-872-2 , p. 671 .
15. ^ Rainer Jensch: City Chronicle Wangen im Allgäu . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-872-2 , p. 672 .
16. ^ Mark Hengerer / Elmar L. Kuhn (eds.): Adel im Wandel. Upper Swabia from the early modern era to the present . tape 1 . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, p. 213-228 .
17. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 536 .
18. ^ 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. 547 .
19. ↑ City of Wangen im Allgäu, results of the 2019 municipal council election , accessed on May 28, 2019
20. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Image bronze sculpture of high heeled shoe and slogan plate, blog entry Schwaben power Koch from October 28, 2011, accessed on September 25, 2013. 
21. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/home_artikel,-Portraet-Hinter-den-Fassaden-steckt-Geschichte-_arid,1457681.html Portrait: Behind the facades is history, Schwäbische.de of July 21, 2005, accessed on September 25, 2013.
22. ↑ http://www.schwaebische.de/region_artikel,-Riesenerfalt-Stadtkapelle-Wangen-ist-das-beste-Blasorchester-Deutschlands-_arid,5256881.html
23. ↑ wangen.de
24. ↑ Real estate market in Westallgäu 2015 ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.