Seitingen-Oberflacht

Seitingen- Oberflacht is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden- Württemberg. The municipality is a member of the Agreed administrative community of the city of Tuttlingen.

• 4.1 Museum
• 4.2 Structures

Geography

Seitingen- Oberflacht is located on the southwestern edge of the Swabian Alb approximately eight kilometers north- west of the county town of Tuttlingen. It is bordered to the north by Hausen ob Verena, to the east by Riet -Weilheim and worm Lingen, in the south of the county town of Tuttlingen, on the west by Talheim and to the northwest by Durchhausen and Gunningen.

The community Seitingen- Oberflacht consists of the formerly independent communities Seitingen and Oberflacht. For the former municipality Seitingen include the village Seitingen, the hamlet of Kirchberg and the courts Instead, Aumuehle and Bruckmühle. In the territory of the former municipality Seitingen the deserted village Dächen or thinking Mayrhofen is situated on an area name suggests. For the former municipality Oberflacht include the village Oberflacht and the house brick hut.

History

The parish was formed on 1 January 1975 by combining the two previously independent municipalities Seitingen and Oberflacht.

Policy

Coat of arms and flag

Oberflacht to 1977

News of Arms

The coat of arms and the flag of the municipality was awarded on March 9, 1977 by the District Office Tuttlingen.

Blazon: "In split- front plate in silver a continuous red cross, back in blue a golden lyre. "

As the community name from the name of both sub- species is composed, there is also the coat of arms from motives of the previous coat of arms. The red cross is the arms of the Bishopric of Constance. In mistook colors it made the front of the field since 1956, led by Seitingen municipality coat of arms, but has significance for the entire community in the new coat of arms. Both places were as part of the rule Konzenberg since 1300 the cathedral chapter and from 1600 to the secularization of the Cathedral Chapter of Konstanz. The lyre reminiscent of the Alemanni series burial ground in the district Oberflacht, meanwhile additions to such an instrument from the 6th - 7th Century was. The coat of arms of the former municipality in 1963 Oberflacht awarded.

The flag is yellow - blue.

Culture and sights

The municipality is the Tourist " Donaubergland " connected.

Museum

The large Alamannic cemetery of Oberflacht with a singer grave is one of the most important finds from the Alemanni time in Europe. In a small museum, some of the grave finds and other exhibits on the history of the Alemanni are to be visited.

Structures

In addition to the singer 's grave in Oberflacht of Kirchberg in Seitingen is worth seeing with its renovated baroque church and Eustace Chapel with murals from the 15th century in the interior.