Wald, Baden-Württemberg

Wald is a municipality in Baden -Württemberg and belongs to the district of Sigmaringen.

• 2.1 religions
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms
• 3.4 community partnerships

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Natural Monuments 4.2.1 Tanzlinde
• 4.2.2 Pond Trail

• 5.1 traffic

• 6.1 freeman
• 6.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Forest is located 20 kilometers north of Lake Constance in the south of the Swabian Alb upstream terminal moraine of the last ice ages, each about eight kilometers away from the cities and Meßkirch Pfullendorf. The lowest point of the municipality is located north of the hamlet Walbertsweiler at 628 meters above. NN, the highest 689 meters above sea level. NN in the district Rothenlachen. The district area covers approximately 4387 hectares [A 1] (as of December 31, 2010 ). The municipal area is mainly determined by the Ringgenbach, the Kehlbach, the Lindenbachstrasse, the Riedlebach and Burraubach dehydrated. The jammed Riedlebach feeds the monastery belonging to the pond in the center.

Neighboring communities

Community structure

The municipality consists of the nucleus and the forest districts Glashütte, Hippetsweiler, Kappel, Reischach, Riedetsweiler, Rothenlachen, Ruhestetten, Sentenhart and Walbertsweiler.

Some boroughs are still spatially separate living spaces with its own name, but these usually have few inhabitants. These are Allmannshofen, Binder yards, Bohlerhöfe, Burraumühle, Löcherberg, Oberkappel and Steckeln.

History

As early as the prehistoric and early historic times were found in the area traces of settlement. So found in Egelsee Moor at Walder district Ruhestetten remains of pile dwellings from the Neolithic period. Finds of stone axes and vessels at Walder district Glashütte can also suspect that towards the end of the third millennium BC, in the Late Neolithic in this area have lived people. Early Celtic grave mounds around Rothenlachen that have been excavated in the 19th century, date back to the late Hallstatt period.

The place was in the early Middle Ages in the area of ​​Goldineshuntare, then in the district Ratoldesbuch, later, in the county of Sigmaringen.

The first written mention of the village learned, as the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia sold the Bailiwick of forest for 30 marks and the Bailiwick Hippetsweiler to the brothers of Fronhofen. This undated sale has the latest in 1208 have taken place, the year of the king. Soon after, the brothers have sold forest to the Lords of Balbe, which in turn sold at a price of 55 marks to the imperial ministry officials Burkhard wake of stone. This founded in 1212 for his two sisters and Judinta Ita here the monastery forest.

1783 forest has been Further Austrian province.

The history of the village ran until the secularization due to the Imperial Diet in 1806 parallel to the conclusion of the monastery. At that time, the monastery was dissolved and the territory of the forest fell to the principality of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen and 1850 with this as Hohenzollern land to Prussia, where forest until 1869 the seat of the chief official district was forest. Since 1869 it belonged to the upper office and since 1925 to the district Sigmaringen.

In the era of National Socialism was in the forest is one of five camps of the female Reich Labor Service (RAD ) in the former Prussian Hohenzollern - Sigmaringen. For this part of the monastery building was made available from 1938. After the Second World War there taught the French occupation troops 1945, a camp for displaced persons.

Religions

The majority of the population of the municipality is Roman Catholic, as in all formerly belonging to the Hohenzollern places.

Evangelical Christians in the forest belong to the Evangelical Church of St. Ostrach forest in the church district Balingen. A curiosity, because between the political community forest and Ostrach lies the community Pfullendorf. In the structure of the Evangelical church, the disunity of the political landscape of the South German area before the founding of the German Reich reflects. The free imperial city Pfullendorf was slammed in 1805 bathing and today therefore belongs to the Evangelical Church in Baden. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hohenzollern castle in 1950 of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg. The structure of new Protestant churches in Upper Swabia in the 1950s as in Ostrach followed the pattern. Due to the refugees from the East, the number of evangelical Christians in small communities became large enough to form their own churches. Ostrach and forest, historically belonging to the Hohenzollern, therefore, came together as a church community. In the forest there is no separate Protestant church building. Mass is celebrated in the chapter house of the Catholic monastery church of St. Bernard.

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg nine surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with forest. It came on 1 January 1971, the municipalities Hippetsweiler, Riedetsweiler and Rothenlachen to the community. On June 1, followed in 1972 Reischach and January 1, 1973, the former municipality of Baden Sentenhart. The last incorporations were on 1 January 1975 Glassworks, Kappel, Ruhestetten and Walbertsweiler.

Policy

Parish council

The local elections in Baden- Württemberg in 2009 of 7 June 2009 resulted in a turnout of 64.0 % ( 1.5 ) to the following result:

The loggerhead part of site selection was abolished for local council elections in 2009.

Mayor

On April 26, 2009 Werner Müller received 54.2 percent of the absolute majority in the second ballot to his third term. In his second election in 2001, he had no rival candidate and united 97.8 percent of the votes. In his first candidacy in March 1993 he had prevailed in the first ballot against three competitors and succeeds Arthur Zeh, who was mayor for 24 years.

• Georg Koch ( District Electoral community - Sigmaringen Gammertingen )
• Franz Sales Koch ( Hohenzollern Bauernbund / battlefront black -white-red )
• To 1969: Josef Kaiser
• 1969-1993: Arthur Zeh
• 1993: Werner Müller ( CDU)

Coat of arms

The municipality has adopted the coat of arms donated by Burkart of Wake Stone Cistercian monastery forest. In split- front plate in black and a double row red and silver geschachter oblique beams (Coat of Arms of the Cistercian Order ), back in silver on green Dreienberg a red diamond ( canting arms of the founder ). In order not to violate the heraldic color rule, the colors of the coat of arms founders were reversed.

Community partnerships

The community forest maintains partnership relations with the community forest in the district of Cham, Bavaria, and community forest in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

Culture and sights

The community forest, together with the city and the communities Pfullendorf Illmensee, Ostrach and Wilhelm village the holiday region, founded in 1999 " Northern Lake ".

Forest is the destination of the Way of St. James Beuronese that begins in Tübingen. The village also lies on the scenic routes Upper Swabian Baroque Road and Hohenzollern street.

Worth seeing is a Celtic tree circle.

Structures

• Klosterwald: The Cistercian monastery was founded in 1212 by the Hohenstaufen Reichsministerialen Burkard of Wake Stone for his sisters Judintha and Italy, but almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. The present building and the baroque monastery church are from the second half of the 17th century. Today, the home school Klosterwald is connected to the Benedictine monastery of St. Leoba, the girls' boarding school, high school and training workshops together. Viewing is therefore not possible. The Convention hall bears a stucco ceiling and frescoed ceilings.

• Monastery Church of St. Bernard: The church, which was built in the 13th century as a three-nave Gothic church has been from 1696 to 1698 reshaped the Vorarlberg Jos Beer as single-nave Baroque Rococo church with far into reaching into the ship nuns' gallery and the beautiful wrought-iron grille on the parapet. The Oberschwaebischer organ builder Johann Georg Gasser Aich added in 1751 to the still a magnificent organ which will is still fully preserved as the only by him. The Aich Gasser organ with its 1180 pipes organ was renovated in 1926, 1956 and most recently in 2008 /09. The organ is provided with doors on richly gilded organ pipes. On the organ, there is a jubilant choir of angels with angel backenaufplusternden current Petern and two kettle-drums beating Engelsputto. You are surrounded by three wooden carved coat of arms cartridges of the monastery 's founder, of the Order and a decorated with the golden imperial eagle coat of arms of the Abbess Maria von Thurn und Dioskora Valsassina. Once you left the church with the light, airy Rococo and Baroque style played around by putti decorate. The original stucco designs of Johann Jacob Black man. The Gothic crucifix is ​​dated to the year 1150. It can be visited.
• Furthermore, there are in the forest cemetery chapel and the ways chapel with crucifixion group.
• In the district of Kappel, the Chapel of St. Martin is from the year 1716. Renaissance your altar is already dated the year 1568. Facilities also include valuable figures.
• In Reischach is the Chapel of St. Agatha from the 18th century.
• The Sentenharter St. Remigius church with its steeple -shaped scale is likely to be already emerged in 1300 as a fortified church. The nave is a later construction.
• The Church of St. Gallus in the district Walbertsweiler is a modern expedient construction with simple interiors of 1961, built after the tower of the original church had fallen.
• Width chapels there in Hippetsweiler (St. Wolfgang ), Riedetsweiler (St. Anthony ) in Rothenlachen ( Mary's Chapel ), in Glashütte (St. Joseph) and in Ruhestetten. The Ten villages Hall
• Ten villages Hall: A multi-purpose hall that is used for festival events and school sports and was named in reference to the tens of villages, ie forest itself and the nine districts.
• Field cross: In the communal forest over 50 field crosses are known.

Natural Monuments

Tanzlinde

On 8 November 2008, a 35 years old and more than seven meter high Tanzlinde was planted and blessed by the local priest on the festival grounds. For root ball was in the jubilee year "800 years of forest " a stainless " history urn " buried with enclosed therein events from the history of the church, revealing an information panel for Germany -wide history of dance Linden. Until these Tanzlinde was betanzbar, can go some 50 years into the country with good care of the dance floor -bearing branches. At the monastery there were times in the woods a court Linde for cases of penalties, it is held in the monastery plan of 1680.

Pond trail

In and around the forest were once 14 fish ponds that were created in connection with the strict fasting of the Cistercian nuns in the 13th and 14th centuries. All Walder ponds were interconnected and could thus be regulated. From these ponds the nuns won the fish for their livelihood. Following the recommendation of a front- Austrian Commission these ponds were drained out ( fishing ) economic reasons, and converted to wet meadows in the 18th and 19th centuries - only two ponds remained. In connection with the 800 -year-old Dorfjubläum the five-kilometer trail pond was created in 2008, which connects the former pond near town as a circuit.

Sports

In winter, about five kilometers long, Walder trail is groomed for cross-country skiing in the municipality. It runs on the Sägewiesen to the cemetery, vorabei on Riedle to the sports field Walbertsweiler and in a large loop along the wood back to the cemetery. Access points are at Sägeweg, the cemetery ( parking ), in Riedle and at the sports field in Walbertsweiler ( parking ). About streams and ditches small bridges are placed.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The public transport is guaranteed by the integrated transport system Neckar -Alb -Donau ( NALDO ). The municipality is located in the comb 448

Personalities

Freeman

• Josef Kaiser, former mayor of Forest was appointed in June 1969 as an honorary citizen.
• Theodore Zeller ( born July 12, 1917 at Walder district Riedetsweiler ), professor and pastor emeritus, the Golden anniversary as a priest in June 1998 him the honor civil rights were awarded by forest by Mayor Werner Müller.
• Sr. Wiltrud Mueller, OSB, longtime Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Leoba. On the occasion of their golden religious profession in 1998, she was awarded for her contribution in the general renovation of the monastery made ​​an honorary citizen.
• Frieder Grupp, longtime president of the neighborhood main and Werkrealschule forest. He was for decades vice mayor and county council and merits acquired in the creation of community forest at the municipal reform. He was also a long-time Chairman of the TSV forest and is a recipient of the Order of Merit.

Personalities who have worked on site

• Mother Superior Sophia OSB, born Natalie Princess of Kotschoubey (1899-1979), founder of the Home School Klosterwald, 1979 winner of the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg
• Sister Michaele Csordás OSB, convent Mother Superior in the monastery forest, since 2009 the bearer of Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg