Bodnegg

Bodnegg is a municipality with 98 hamlets and farms ( Vereinödung in the 18th century) in the district of Ravensburg in Baden- Württemberg.

  • 2.1 Religion
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 partnerships
  • 4.1 Education
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Club Life
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geographical location

Bodnegg is located at the junction of Upper Swabia to Westallgaeu in 519-700 meters altitude, is approximately 15 km from the district town of Ravensburg, Wangen im Allgäu and Tettnang away.

From Kirchberg (640 m above sea level. NN ) are the Lake and mountains both Switzerland (eg the Santis ), Austria (eg the High Freschen ) as the Bavarian Allgäu (eg the Hochgrat ) to see.

Neighboring municipalities in the district of Ravensburg, the city of Ravensburg, the municipalities Official Zell, green cabbage and Waldenburg; in Lake Constance Tettnang the city and the community Neukirch.

Reserves

In the municipality four nature reserves ( Auweiher, Duke pond, Pfaumoos, and Niggelmoos When the loop and moors at Englisreute ) and a conservation area ( young moraine landscape between office and cell Vogt ) are reported. (As of April 1, 2010)

History

Expressed about the origin of the name Bodnegg dialect " Burneck " or " Bunneck ", is puzzled. While the suffix " egg" is interpreted as a mountain ledge, climb around the first syllable of " Bod " several attempts at interpretation, to a derivation from the Celtic word " burren ", which means a small round hill.

In the 12th century, the monastery Weißenau has a " curtem in Bodnegge ", ie a farm in Bodnegg. 1357 sold Steward Eberhard III. of Waldburg few yards to the monastery vineyard. 1463, 1470 and 1486 acquired the monastery Weißenau many other goods, in 1473 his parish Bodnegg is incorporated.

In the Imperial Diet of 1803, the monastery secularized and falls to the Count of Sternberg - Manderscheid. Most goods, including the Bodnegg enure to the bailiwick of Swabia and thus to Austria, but already in 1806 the Kingdom of Württemberg brought by Napoleon Bonaparte. Bodnegg 1806 the Württemberg Oberamt Altdorf allocated in 1810 it comes to the newly founded Oberamt Ravensburg ( since 1934 district Ravensburg ).

The main town Bodnegg was to the 20th century only a small hamlet with 50 inhabitants, and was mainly used as a church center for many individual farms in the area. The population of the municipality is given in 1840 with 1408, 1910 counts 1660 inhabitants. Only in the second half of the 20th century the town developed by the construction of several new residential areas to a larger residential community.

Religion

Bodnegg is dominated Roman Catholic as the surrounding countryside. The community is home to the parish of St. Ulrich and Magnus in pastoral unit Vorallgäu ( with the parishes Grünkraut schlier and Unterankenreute ). Bodnegg formed part of the 2007 Dean's Office Allgaeu Upper Swabia.

The evangelical Christians in Bodnegg are members of the church community Atzenweiler that belongs to the deanery Ravensburg. The hamlets and mountain background Schmitten however belong to the Church community cheeks.

Policy

The municipality is a member of Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Gullen based in Grünkraut.

Parish council

The municipal elections of 13 June 2004 and of 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

Coat of arms

Blazon: Golden Three mountain on a blue background, above a silver sword with two obliquely crossed golden keys.

The symbols of the coat of arms, sword and key (attributes of Saints Peter and Paul) are also in the coat of arms of the former monastery Weißenau. They should point out that Bodnegg belonged to the monastery Weißenau from the 15th century. The three mountain points to the exposed position of the Church.

Partnerships

Bodnegg maintains an active partnership with the Swiss village of Vouvry. This partnership was initiated by the schools of the two communities to life in order to teach the students the education center Bodnegg the French language. Practice, this is implemented in the form of a student exchange program, students live with a host family the partner community in the frame on both the German and Swiss side three weeks. Meanwhile, the fact also at club and local political level, a keen mutual interest developed.

Economy and infrastructure

Education

  • Schools are at the all-day school founded in 1968, Johann Baptist von Hirscher training center about 900 (2009 /10) students in the types of school primary school, secondary school teaching with Werkrealschule and junior high school. The Linde independent school is a special school for children with severely elevated needs.
  • Kindergartens: St. Martin and St. Elisabeth church-sponsored.
  • Library: Public Community Library - Catholic Public Library - in the education center Bodnegg. Established as a parish library in 1949, the library is since 1968 under a three time sponsorship, which connects the public with the school use. As a library of basic services ( since 1974) comprises the stock currently around 9,000 titles. Since 2005, the library is housed in the pavilion building of the training center in new premises.

Culture and sights

Structures

Outstanding sights and landmarks of the community are the location on the Kirchberg highly visible Baroque parish church of St. Ulrich and Magnus and the associated parsonage.

In the municipality there are also two chapels:

  • Chapel of St. Mary and Wendelin in Upper Wagenbach, donated in 1866 by Theresia people with Baroque features pieces from the parish church Bodnegger
  • Chapel of St. Agatha in Hinterhargarten, built in the first half of the 19th century

In the center, the fountain with the " Bodnegger bread eater " on the proverbial Swabian avarice of Bodnegger and the corresponding fear of the neighboring communities, if at community festivals were approaching the Bodnegger and prefer to be paid for the bread it as a side dish was usually in vain without the " main dishes " (eg meat ) destroyed them.

Club Life

  • The association [ boku ] organizes an annual program for upscale entertainment in the theater, words and music.
  • The band Bodnegg is a traditional band with currently around 70 active musicians.
  • The Association for the Promotion of youth work in Bodnegg eV organized the summer vacation program with about 12 individual actions and a one-week cabin stay in the annual 80 children and young people go along.
  • The driving force of the Swabian- Alemannic carnival is the Narrenzunft Bodnegg with the fool figures " bread eaters" and " Brotweible ".

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788-1865), a Catholic moral theologian and catechist
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