Langenenslingen

Langenenslingen

Coat of arms
Langenenslingen

Coordinates: 48°8′52″N 9°22′45″E / 48.14778°N 9.37917°E / 48.14778; 9.37917Coordinates: 48°8′52″N 9°22′45″E / 48.14778°N 9.37917°E / 48.14778; 9.37917
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Tübingen
District Biberach
Government
 • Mayor Andreas Schneider
Area
 • Total 88.40 km2 (34.13 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
 • Total 3,464
 • Density 39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 88515
Dialling codes 07376
Vehicle registration BC
Website www.langenenslingen.de

Langenenslingen is a town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Langenenslingen is located on the northern edge of Upper Swabia in Old and Young Drift in the district Biberach.

History

Langenenslingen was first mentioned in a document in 935. It originally belonged to the county of Veringen. They sold it in 1291 to the House of Habsburg. In 1806 Langenenslingen fell to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, where it was assigned to Oberamt Sigmaringen, later Sigmaringen district. The place came already in 1945 to the newly formed country Württemberg-Hohenzollern and belongs since 1952 to the state of Baden-Württemberg. Since 1973 Langenenslingen belongs to Biberach district.

Langenenslingen in Biberach district

Incorporations

Districts

Andelfingen

The place Antolvinga was already mentioned in documents, when local goods from the Convent St. Gallen were transferred to the Bishop of Constance.

Billafingen

Alemannic grave finds indicate a settlement already in the 7th century. In the 13th century the city came as Pilofingen to the counts of Grüningen-Landau, later to Habsburg. In the district reform in 1973 the site was, although formerly belonging to Hohenzollern, assigned to the district of Biberach. The location was incorporated to Langenenslingen in 1975.

Dürrenwaldstetten

Dürrenwaldstetten is a village on the Swabian Jura, which belongs to the municipality Langenenslingen. Since 1975 it belongs to the district of Biberach. The village was first clearly identified in 1273 in a document of the monastery Heiligkreuztal. The parish map of Dürrenwaldstetten was first mentioned in 1275. The place was like many others not spared from the plague. She called in 1611/12 in Dürrenwaldstetten 95 and in 1635/36 43 victims. During the Thirty Years' War Dürrenwaldstetten was affected by Swedish troops. 1803, the monastery Zwiefalten was secularized and the monastery possessions came to Württemberg. The monastery parishes, including Dürrenwaldstetten came to the diocese of Constance. Dürrenwaldstetten came in 1809 to Oberamt Riedlingen.

Dürrenwaldstetten St Jakob

Dürrenwaldstetten was connected 1922 to the electric power grid of the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke (OEW, later EVS, now EnBW). The district of saulgau was resolved in 1972 as part of the district reform; Dürrenwaldstetten came to the district of Biberach. The until then independent municipality was dissolved in 1975 and became part of the municipality Langenenslingen. The village was dominated for a long time agricultural. Now almost all residents are employed outside of the village in the secondary and tertiary sectors.

Egelfingen

Egelfingen belonged to the Knights rule Unterwilflingen, they were vassals of the counts of Veringen. In 1487 the location was sold by the Counts of Hornstein to Hans Mulflingen. His heirs sold the place including the castle Schatzberg to the Schenk von Stauffenberg.

Emerfeld

St. Pancras church in Emerfeld See also: Castle Habsburg Emerfeld formerly belonged to the imperial rule Gundelfingen, later to the Prince of Fürstenberg. The church was consecrated in 1133 by the Bishop of Constance. For a long time iron ore was mined and smelted in the nearby Lauchert valley.

Langenenslingen-Emerfeld

Friedingen

Countess Sophia of Veringen gave in 1278 an estate from Friedingen to the monastery Heiligkreuztal. In 1286 Count Heinrich von Veringen sold all his possessions from Friedingen to the monastery Kreuztal for 130 silver marks. [2]

Ittenhausen

Ittenhausen once belonged to the counts of Veringen, after their extinction to the counts of Rechberg and in 1447 for a short time to the counts of Württemberg, who already sold it again in 1465. With the resolution of the monastery Zwiefalten in 1803 the place with 200 inhabitants fell to the duchy, later Kingdom of Württemberg. The highest elevation of the district with 801 metres is located in Ittenhausen.[3]

Unterwilflingen

Documented for the first time in 1086, Unterwilflingen once belonged to the counts of Veringen or the Count of Gruningen-Landau. Many of the local goods came by purchase or donation to the Kloster Heiligkreuztal. The writer Ernst Jünger had his residence in Unterwilflingen in the local Stauffenberg Forsthaus from 1951 until his death in 1998.

Mayor

The mayor of Langenenslingen is Andreas Schneider.

Crest

A divided blade up in red on green Dreiberg three golden deer feet, bottom in gold three red deer antler above the other. The upper half of the shield corresponds to the seal of the Heinrich von Enslingen from the year 1341. The deer antler in the lower half of the shield relate to the counts of Veringen as the place in the 14th century to the county Veringen belonged. The coat of arms was granted by the Home Office Württemberg-Hohenzollern on 28 January 1949.

Council

Mayor Schneider is the head of the council, which has besides him 19 members, including two women.

Community partnerships

Since 1997 there is a partnership with the Polish community Brzesko.

Economy and Infrastructure

Educational institutions

Langenenslingen has its own primary school.

Things

The town lies on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route.

Museums

In Stauffenberg Forsthaus in Unterwilflingen, a baroque building of 1728, lived from 1950 until his death in 1998 the writer Ernst Jünger. Through him the place was repeatedly visited by eminent personalities from politics and culture.

House where E. Jünger lived in Wilflingen

Some of the visitors: Theodor Heuss and Roman Herzog, French President François Mitterrand, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the poet Jorge Luis Borges and Heiner Müller came to disciples to Unterwilflingen. In 1999, the house was modeled by the Ernst-Jünger-Foundation to a museum and a memorial.

The owners of the castle Unterwilflingen are since 1464 the taverns of Stauffenberg. Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg built it in 1710 as a hunting lodge. The Reichstag Vice President Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg and his son Franz Schenk Freiherr von Stauffenberg established a private library, which now contains about 30,000 volumes. During World War II the castle served as a princely exile and home of the retired Ministers of Vichy France from Sigmaringen.

Buildings

The Old Castle, a Celtic hillfort, is probably an outside settlement of the Heuneburg built between the seventh and fifth centuries BC.

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Locher: Regesten zur Geschichte der Grafen zu Veringen. Sigmaringen 1872.
  3. ↑ Landesbeschreibungen des Staatsarchives Sigmaringen, Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in Verbindung mit dem Landkreis Biberach (Hrsg.): Der Landkreis Biberach Band II. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1990, S. 193
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