Dettighofen, Baden-Württemberg

Dettighofen is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden- Württemberg, Germany.

The municipality is a member of Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Jestetten based in Jestetten.

• 5.1 personalities associated with the community

Geography

Geographical Location

Dettighofen located in Unterklettgau on a ridge about 150 feet above the Upper Rhine, five kilometers away. The community is of their geographical location creates a special feature, it is together with the communities and Jestetten Lottstetten the so-called Jestetter Zipfel, which is enclosed in a length of 55 km from the Swiss border and directly accessible by road from Germany.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by Wilchingen in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, on the east by Jestetten, to the south by the two Swiss municipalities Rafz and Wil right bank of the Canton of Zurich and in the west on the community Unterklettgau.

Community structure

The municipality Dettighofen include the former municipalities Baltersweil and Berwangen. For the former municipality Baltersweil part of the village Baltersweil. For the former municipality Berwangen the village Berwangen and the houses are in moss ( Whether the vines ). The municipality Dettighofen within the borders of 1973 include the village Dettighofen, the hamlet Albführen, Eichberg ( rear and front ) and the homestead Häuserhof. The villages Reute and Kappel have been merged into Baltersweil. In the village of Dettighofen in the territorial status in 1973 is the deserted village of Hasle mill.

History

Dettighofen was first documented in 1272. At this time the village belonged to the monastery Rheinau, but this came in the 17th century in the possession of the city of Zurich.

About the Brümsi and Endingen came in 1419, the castle fief the castle White Castle and the Vogt right about Erzingen to the Im Thurn, it consisted of property and income from Dettighofen Eichberg Berwangen, Bühl and Geißlingen. The Im Thurn inherited the property through a subsidiary to the Humpbiß. The feud Zinse were sold on May 5, 1520 by 240 florins to the aldermen and mayor späterern Schaffhauser Conrad Mayer. About Johann Junker Stockar acquired pastor Hans Conrad Hauser 1712 Good back and brought it into the endowed by him Kaplaneilehen ein.Auch The monastery of St. Blaise had from 1357 a Kelnhof and goods in Dettighofen.

Baltersweil was first mentioned in the year 885 and was as much as Berwangen to the monastery of Reichenau. 1806 were all three villages to the newly created Grand Duchy of Baden.

Because of the complicated course of the border in this region, the area of Jestetter Strip in 1840 declared a duty-free area, which shortened the to be monitored limit of 55 km to 6 km. The scheme, which lasted until 1935, gave the inhabitants of the area a modest prosperity, they could offer their products but in Baden and Germany and Switzerland free of duty.

The church we see today was created as part of the Baden-Württemberg territorial reform on 1 January 1974 by the merger of the previously independent municipalities Baltersweil, Berwangen and Dettighofen.

• Coat of arms of the former municipalities

Berwangen

Dettighofen

Policy

The council is composed of 10 people. The seats are spread since the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, the Independent Civic Association with seven seats and the Alliance 90/The Greens with three seats. Mayor and additional as Chairman Member of the municipal council is Gerhard Riedmüller ( CDU).

Media

In Dettighofen the monopoly newspaper Südkurier is represented by its offshoot Alb- Bote. For this, the display leaves " WOM " and " Anzeigerhochhaus Rhine " come.

Personalities

Personalities associated with the community

• Franz Joseph Wuertenberger (1818-1889), local historian
• Thomas Wuertenberger ( geologist ) ( 1836-1903 ), geologist and entrepreneur
• Leopold Wuertenberger, (1846-1886), geologist
• Heinrich Wuertenberger, (1852-1926), farmer, gardener, local poet and Ökonomierat
• Wuertenberger Alexander (1854-1933), farmer, gardener and local poet
• Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) painter, sculptor, and set designer, lived in Eichberg