Wolpertswende

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	Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Ravensburg
Local government association:	Fronreute-Wolpertswende
Height :	569 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.36 km 2
Residents:	4176 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	158 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88284
Area code :	07502
License plate :	RV, SLG , ÜB , WG
Community key :	08 4 36 087
Community structure:	9 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 4 88284 Wolpertswende
Website :	www.wolpertswende.de
Mayor :	Daniel Steiner ( CDU )
Location of the community Wolpertswende in the district of Ravensburg

Wolpertswende is a municipality in the Ravensburg district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located on the northwestern edge of the Altdorf Forest in the Schussental and around ten kilometers northwest of the large district towns of Ravensburg and Weingarten . The district of Wolpertswende is located on a hill from which one overlooks the Schussental.

Wolpertswende with the parish church of St. Gangolf

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities from the north are Aulendorf , Bad Waldsee , Baindt , Fronreute and Altshausen (all districts of Ravensburg).

Community structure

The community Wolpertswende consists of the eponymous district Wolpertswende and the largest district Mochenwangen from the other districts Bruggen, Haller, Hatzenturm, Niedersweiler, Moosehren, Segelbach, Steinhausen and Vorsee.

history

Casting crucible found at Schreckensee

Stone Age settlements at Schreckensee have been documented in today's municipal area . As at Illmensee and Federsee , objects from the so-called Pfyn-Altheimer group were found, which represent a spatial link between the Pfyn culture (Switzerland / Lake Constance) and the Altheim culture on the Iller.

The site is located on a peninsula in Schreckensee and contains the only comprehensive stratigraphy of Upper Swabia from the early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age ("Pfyn-Altheimer Group of Upper Swabia", " Horgen Culture ", " Goldberg III Group " and the Early Bronze Age ). The organic material found so far is in excellent condition.

The district of Segelbach was first mentioned in 809 and Wolpertswende itself in 934, when Saint Konrad , then Bishop of Constance , exchanged various possessions with his brother.

Around 1200 the area went to the Lords of Fronhofen . They sold Wolpertswende to the Ravensburger Heilig-Geist-Spital in the second half of the 14th century. During the Thirty Years War , Wolpertswende, which is conveniently located on an old Roman road, suffered severe damage - the population of the Vorsee district, for example, decreased from over 100 to 7 between 1618 and 1648. With the city of Ravensburg , the area around Wolpertswende and Mochenwangen became the new kingdom in 1810 Württemberg .

Gangolfskreuz (St. Gangolf Wolpertswende) detail

Religions

Like the rest of the surrounding area, Wolpertswende is Roman Catholic. The parish is the seat of the parish of St. Gangolf in Wolpertswende and the parish of the Birth of Mary in Mochenwangen, both of which belong to the Ravensburg deanery.

The evangelical parish of Mochenwangen, which became independent in 1973, encompasses the area of ​​the political communities of Wolpertswende and Fronreute . It belongs to the deanery in Ravensburg and has 613 parishioners in Wolpertswende and 625 parishioners in Fronreute (as of 2004).

politics

Wolpertswende, Gangolfkapelle

Wolpertswende, memorial stone with partner communities

Municipal council

After the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the local council consists of 14 members. Six representatives belong to the Open Citizens 'List , the Independent Voters' Association (UWV) has seven members and the group Humans, Environment, Nature has one member.

Administrative association

The community is the seat of the community administration association Fronreute-Wolpertswende .

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : A silver chapel in blue with a red tiled roof .

The "chapel" was established in 1930 by the Wolpertswender council as a coat of arms. It represents the baroque Gangolf chapel located a little below the village. The colors were determined in 1935. The historical relationships between the town and the Lords of Fronhofen and the imperial city of Ravensburg were not taken into account in the design of the coat of arms.

Partnerships

The community maintains partnership relationships with:

• Menaggio on Lake Como, Italy, since 1995
• Ciasna in Upper Silesia, Poland, since 1999

Culture and sights

Wolpertswende, interior of the parish church of St. Gangolf

Mochenwangen, Parish Church of the Birth of Mary

Mochenwangen, Parish Church of the Birth of Mary

Cultural Opportunities

The cultural advisory board “Old Church” organizes exhibitions, concerts, readings and theater performances for children in the Old Church in Mochenwangen.

The Wolpertswende and Mochenwangen music clubs play on secular and ecclesiastical occasions in and around the community.

The “Kakadu” fanfare parade is also active musically and with annual theater performances.

Sights in Wolpertswende

• Hatzenturm , 18 m high medieval residential tower of the Lords of Wolpertswende, built in 1128
• Gangolf Chapel , probably built in the Middle Ages, destroyed in the Thirty Years War, consecrated in its current form in 1705, with a baroque altar
• Parish church of St. Gangolf , with late Gothic wooden sculptures as well as historicist altars by Moriz Schlachter and the Romanesque Gangolf cross, which is considered the prototype of Romanesque bronze art in southern Germany. It was created around 1130.
• Rectory

Sights in Mochenwangen

• Parish Church of the Birth of Mary : The church, also known as the “Schussentaldom”, with a 40 m high tower is a well-preserved “total work of art” from late historicism. The parish church was built in the neo-Gothic style by Joseph Cades in 1903–1904 . The altars are by Theodor Schnell the Elder. J. , the pulpit and a relief of Mary above the “women's portal” by Moriz Schlachter . The painting by Anton Ettle from 1921 shows elements of Art Nouveau and Art Deco . The mosaic picture "The Inviting Christ" above the main entrance was made in 1914 by the Neubauer workshop in Innsbruck.
• Old church , built in 1719, redesigned several times, today a meeting place / event room
• Evangelical Church , built in 1891, in the immediate vicinity of the paper mill, in the park, graves of the Müller family
• Factory owner's villa on the site of the paper mill

Protected areas

• Mochenwanger forest, foothills of the Altdorf forest
• Lakes in the Blitzenreuter lake district , including the Vorsee municipal area
• Nature reserves " Dolpenried ", " Dornacher Ried with Häckler Ried, Häckler Weiher and Buchsee " and " Schreckensee "

Sports

The sports club SV Mochenwangen e. V. was founded in 1920. From 1996 to relegation in 2000, the club's soccer team played in the then fifth-highest German division, the Württemberg League ; currently (2013) she plays in the Bodensee district league.

The tennis club TC Mochenwangen e. V. has around 260 members and operates a club facility in Mochenwangen.

The RV Concordia Mochenwangen cycling club celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2014. He is active in the field of artificial cycling and also offers a show group and bike meet-ups.

The sports club SV Wolpertswende 1956 offers gymnastics, football and volleyball. The soccer team plays in the district league B (as of 2013).

In addition there is the table tennis club Wolpertswende-Mochenwangen.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Mochenwangen, manufacturer's villa

Mochenwangen paper mill

The Mochenwangen paper factory, founded in 1868, is located in Mochenwangen . From 1996 the factory was part of the Finnish group Myllykoski Corporation , since 2002 it belonged to Golzern Holding GmbH , which in turn sold it to the Polish company Arctic Paper in autumn 2008 .

The factory had around 190 employees in 2015 and produces 95,000 tons of paper per year on two paper machines . She supplied the paper for some volumes in the book series " Harry Potter ". At the end of 2015, however, the paper mill had to unexpectedly close after Arctic Paper could not decide to sell it to one of the numerous interested parties

education

The community is responsible for the Eugen-Bolz-Schule in Mochenwangen, a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule , with a branch in Wolpertswende. The school has around 200 students (as of the 2010/2011 school year). It is named after the Württemberg state president and resistance fighter Eugen Bolz .

traffic

Mochenwangen has an exit ( Baindt / Mochenwangen) on the four-lane section of federal highway 30 ( Friedrichshafen - Ulm ). The state road 284 leads from Mochenwangen through the Mochenwang forest to Aulendorf . The districts are connected with each other and with the neighboring communities by district roads.

Mochenwangen is on the Ulm - Friedrichshafen (- Lindau) southern railway . The section from Ravensburg to Biberach was inaugurated on May 26, 1849. The Mochenwangen station was closed on May 28, 1989 when the summer timetable ran out; with the expansion of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn / BOB (Friedrichshafen - Ravensburg) on ​​June 1, 1997 to Aulendorf station , a new stop was opened near the historic Mochenwang station building. A bus line connects the community with Ravensburg . The public transport by rail and road is in the tariff area of Upper Swabia Verkehrsverbunds offered (Bodo).

Tomb of Viktoria Hecht in the cemetery in Wolpertswende

Personalities

• Viktoria Hecht (1840–1890), called Viktörle . She allegedly wore the marks of Jesus for five years.

literature

• Dietrich Walcher: Wolpertswende. A community in the shadow of the big events . Oberschwäbische Verlagsanstalt, Ravensburg 1985

Web links

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

Wikisource: Wolpertswende in the description of the Oberamt Ravensburg from 1836  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the municipality
• Expert committee of the community Wolpertswende ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Anne-Christin Schöne: One last garden. The private cemetery of the manufacturer Richard Müller in Mochenwangen (Ravensburg district). In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 35th year 2006, issue 3, pp. 142 f. ( PDF ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
3. ↑ About us. Arctic Paper Mochenwangen, March 25, 2002, archived from the original on June 16, 2002 ; Retrieved July 29, 2015 . 
4. ^ History. Arctic Paper Mochenwangen, 2015, accessed July 29, 2015 . 
5. ↑ About us. Arctic Paper Mochenwangen, 2015, accessed July 29, 2015 .