Wolfegg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wolfegg (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Height :	672 m above sea level NHN
Area :	39.49 km 2
Residents:	3776 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88364
Area code :	07527
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 085
Address of the municipal administration:	Rötenbacher Strasse 11 88364 Wolfegg
Website :	www.wolfegg.de
Mayor :	Peter Müller ( CDU )
Location of the community Wolfegg in the district of Ravensburg

Wolfegg Castle and Parish Church

Wolfegg is a municipality and a climatic health resort in the Upper Swabian district of Ravensburg in the south of Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

About 3700 inhabitants live in the municipal area, which extends over 39.49 km² .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Wolfegg is located in Upper Swabia at the transition to the Westallgäu in the immediate vicinity of the two health resorts Bad Waldsee and Bad Wurzach . Their area extends to the eastern edge of the Altdorf Forest at 539 to 731  m above sea level. NN . The Wolfegger Ach , a tributary of the Schussen, flows through Wolfegg .

Neighboring communities

The following communities border Wolfegg: in the north the town of Bad Waldsee , in the east the town of Bad Wurzach and the community Kißlegg , in the southwest the community Vogt and in the west the communities Schlier and Bergatreute .

Community structure

In addition to the eponymous core town, the municipality Wolfegg includes the four sub-towns Alttann, Wassers, Molpertshaus (with the Roßberg depot) and Rötenbach.

history

Wolfegg, copper engraving by Merian, 1643

Rötenbach as the oldest suburb was first mentioned in a document in 861. Alttann follows in 1179. Molpertshaus (1258) and Wolfegg itself (1275) are mentioned for the first time in the 13th century. Molpertshaus fell to the Rot monastery in 1362 . In the Thirty Years War the Swedes burn Wolfegg down.
see also Hohentann ruins , Neutann Castle

For centuries, the community shared the history of Wolfegg Castle, seat of the princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldsee from the Waldburg family . After the mediation due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Wolfegg came to the Kingdom of Württemberg , where it was assigned to the Oberamt Waldsee .

Religions

Like the rest of the surrounding area, Wolfegg is Roman Catholic. The parish is the seat of the parish of St. Katharina in Wolfegg, the parish of St. Nikolaus in Alttann, the parish of St. Katharina in Molpertshaus and the parish of St. Jakobus Maior in Rötenbach. All parishes belong to the Deanery Waldsee.

The Protestant parish Alttann, which was only founded in 1888, includes the political communities Wolfegg and Bergatreute and some small peripheral areas of the surrounding communities. The diaspora community is part of the Ravensburg deanery and has 860 members (as of 2004).

politics

Municipal council

Wolfegg town hall

Wolfegg's municipal council has a total of 16 seats. After the election on May 25, 2014, the municipal council has a total of 13 seats. 4 seats for the Citizens' Association (BWV), 6 seats for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and 3 seats for the Independent Voters Community (UWG).

mayor

Mayor of the community is Peter Müller. He was elected on December 3, 2006 with 55.6 percent of the votes cast in the first ballot. He took office on February 15, 2007. He was re-elected on November 30, 2014.

coat of arms

Blazon : In silver on a golden three-mountain, a striding, red-tongued black wolf.

Partnerships

Wolfegg cultivates partnership relationships

• Colico on Lake Como ( Italy ) since 1986
• Rüthi , Canton of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ) since 2003

Culture and sights

Wolfegg is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road .

Museums

• Farmhouse Museum Wolfegg : The open-air museum of the Ravensburg district with 15 historical buildings provides insights into the living, living and working conditions of the rural population.
• Auto Museum Wolfegg : In approximately 3000 square meters of exhibition area on two historical buildings of the Wolfsegger castle distribute around 80 are automobiles and 40 motorized two-wheelers issued every decade. The focus of the exhibition is on vehicles from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The vehicle exhibition is also supplemented by a collection of various everyday objects from this period. The museum also presents the world's largest collection of unicycle trailers . The predecessor of this museum was the Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum, which comprised around 200 motorized vehicles and existed from 1973 to 2016. The unique collection of Fritz B.Busch was integrated into the Auto & Tractor Museum in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen on Lake Constance in 2017 .

music

Three concert cycles take place in Wolfegg every year:

• The International Wolfegger Concerts take place on the last weekend in June . The artistic director is the conductor Manfred Honeck . The venues are Wolfegg Castle, the parish church and the old parish.
• Wolfegg has been the venue for the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival since 1984 . Every year in September up to three concerts take place: in the castle, in the parish church and in the old parish. In addition to the orchestra of the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival, well-known soloists and chamber ensembles also perform regularly.
• The winter music takes place every year from December 31st through January 6th. Chamber music is presented in changing formations around the Beethoven Trio Ravensburg .

Buildings

View into the choir dome of the parish church of St. Katharina

• Wolfegg Castle
• The parish church of St. Katharina is one of the most magnificent baroque churches in Upper Swabia. It was built from 1733 to 1736 by Johann Georg Fischer , the furnishings come from Johannes Schütz (plasterer of the Wessobrunn school ), Franz Anton Erler ( frescoes based on designs by Franz Joseph Spiegler ) and Caspar de Crayer (altarpieces from 1660). The baroque organ is the only surviving work by Jacob Hör, a student of Joseph Gabler . From Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, the Wolfegger Lent Cloth from 1620 is on display in the church.
• The parish church of St. Jakobus Maior in the suburb of Rötenbach. On the ceiling fresco from 1944 by August Braun , an artist from Wangen im Allgäu, Adolf Hitler is said to be depicted with glasses.

Sports

The Bad Waldsee Motorsport Club organizes grass track races in Wolfegg.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Alttann and Wolfegg stops and the depot in the Roßberg district are on the Herbertingen – Isny ​​railway line . In Roßberg the Roßbergbahn branches off to Bad Wurzach . On this route only goods traffic and excursion traffic is operated on certain Sundays in summer.

Established businesses

• Klenk Holz AG, Wolfegg branch

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee (1833–1906), registrar in the Kingdom of Württemberg
• Bertha Akermann-Hasslacher (1840–1904), writer
• Josef W. Janker (1922–2010), writer

Other people associated with Wolfegg

• Fritz B. Busch (1922–2010), car journalist, founded the automobile museum in Wolfegger Castle in 1973

literature

• Fritz B. Busch: His cars, his stories ... and his museum . Schrader, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-87262-5 .
• Hermann Dettmer (Ed.): The Wolfegg Farmhouse Museum. Rural buildings in southern Upper Swabia and western Allgäu . Eppe, Bergatreute 1987, ISBN 3-89089-006-7 .
• Otto Schmid: St. Katharina Wolfegg. A baroque jewel tells . Eppe, Bergatreute 1993, ISBN 3-89089-028-8 .
• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Wolfegg community . In: Description of the Oberamt Waldsee . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1834 ( full text at Wikisource )
• Joseph Vochezer : Contributions to the history of individual parishes. Röthenbach, Landkapitels Waldsee . In: Diöcesan-Archiv von Schwaben , 12th year 1894, p. 80 ( digitized version )

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Wolfegg  - travel guide

Wikisource: Wolfegg in the description of the Oberamt Waldsee from 1834  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Wolfegg Farmhouse Museum . In: Bad weather tips . Special issue of the Bodensee Ferienzeitung. Edition 2/2009. Südkurier GmbH Medienhaus, Konstanz 2009, p. 12.
3. ^ In the Oberland 2008: (Journal of the district of Ravensburg) Hitler meets Rötenbach (PDF file; 778 kB) Issue 2, 2008