Dotternhausen

Dotternhausen is a municipality in Zollernalbkreis in Baden- Württemberg, Germany. The municipality Dotternhausen except the homonymous village There are no other villages.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Music
  • 4.2 Culture
  • 4.3 Structures
  • 4.4 Museums
  • 4.5 Natural Monuments
  • 4.6 Sport
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 freeman

Geography

Geographical location

Dotternhausen is located at 1002 m above sea level. NN high Plettenberg, the most prominent mountain on the western edge of the Swabian Alb. The municipality covers 10.02 km ² with an altitude 550-1002 m above sea level. NN.

The municipality is situated on the northern edge of the Upper Schlichemtals. The Schlichem runs along the southern border of the yolk Hausener mountian area. However, the location of flowing, partially verdolte Katzenbach runs to the northeast and empties into Balingen in the Eyach.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities yolk Stockhausen are (starting in the north):

Balingen ( districts Erzingen and Roßwangen ), Hausen am Tann, Ratshausen, Schomberg ( Zollernalbkreis ) and Dormettingen.

Historical Geography

To the east of the municipality Dotternhausen is the deserted village Degenhard. To Degenhard include Alemannic graves from the 7th century. 1409 a court is called, which is regarded as the last remnant of the hamlet. In the hallway Castle Barn in Plettenberg a medieval castle, the castle Plettenberg was. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it is called as Good Plaikten.

History

Dotternhausen was first mentioned in documents in 1064 ( Doderenhusen ), bequeathed as Emperor Henry IV several villages from the Habsburg to the monastery Ottmar home in Alsace by donation. The community was to the 19th century under the rule of Vorderösterreich and in 1805 was passed to Württemberg, where she was the Württemberg Oberamt Spaichingen, then the upper Rottweil belonging to 1842. In the district reform in 1938, the community was assigned to the district Balingen, which due to the merger with the county Hechingen merged in 1973 to Zollernalbkreis.

At the southern end of the Plett Bergs are still grave remains of the castle Plettenberg from the 12th century.

Religions

Yolk Stockhausen's inhabitants are predominantly Roman Catholic.

Population Development

Policy

Mayor

The mayor is elected for a term of eight years. Incumbent is February 1, 2005, Ms. Monique Adrian. It replaced Hartmut Steinach, which was not started after 16 years of choice. The current term of office of Monique Adrian ends on January 31, 2021.

Twinning

France: Val d' Oison

Culture and sights

Music

  • Office of the Youth Music School Zollernalb (founded in 1966)
  • Musikverein Dotternhausen (founded in 1879)
  • Liederkranz Dotternhausen (founded in 1844)

Culture

  • Narrenzunft Dotternhausen Association ( founded in 1938 ), Fools Figure: Moon swab
  • Swabian Albverein local group Dotternhausen Association ( founded in 1896 )

Structures

  • Castle Doternhausen the family of the Barons von Cotta from the 18th century
  • St. Martin's Church from 1886
  • St. Anne's Chapel
  • Ten sculptures from " Terra Movement " in the " street sculptures Dotternhausen "
  • On the belonging to Dotternhausen Plettenberg is since 1980 a 158 meter high telecommunications tower of the German Telekom AG in reinforced concrete (48 ° 13 ' 4 " N, 8 ° 48' 53 " O48.2177777777788.8147222222222 ).

Museums

The resident company Holcim (formerly Rohrbach cement) operates since 1990 a fossil museum under the name Werkforum with adjacent knock course. Accessible to everyone the place where the cement plant has some trucks dumped full oil shale, you can search for ammonites with hammer and chisel. The Fossil Museum houses more than 1,000 exhibits of Jurassic fossils of Westalb with a focus on marine reptiles, pterosaurs, crocodiles, fish, crinoids, ammonites and small fossils from the oil shales of the Lias epsilon.

Natural Monuments

The nature reserve " Plett cellar " is a former quarry below the Plettenberg Traufes.

Sports

Clubs:

  • Sports club Dotternhausen 1918 eV: two active football teams (district Zollern League and Local League B), gymnastics and athletics department with running club
  • Tennis Club Dotternhausen (founded in 1986)
  • Sports Fishing Association Dotternhausen (founded in 1981)
  • Chess community Dotternhausen ( founded in 1996 )

Sports Facilities:

  • Two sports courts ( artificial turf )
  • Large sports hall with visitors ranks and Sport Home
  • Three tennis courts

Economy and infrastructure

In Dotternhausen there are two large quarries and a large cement plant, the transport of the crushed limestone is done using the ropeway Dotternhausen - Plettenberg. It is regarded as a landmark in the community Dotternhausen. It crosses the B 27 and is known for her distinctive Loren car. 3,000 tons of limestone from the nearby Plettenberg being sent to work here every day.

The construction of the cement plant was financed during the "Third Reich" from funds of the economy Danks Württemberg Gauleiter Wilhelm Murr. As General Manager of former NSDAP Gauamtsleiter Rudolf Rohrbach was used, whose family owned the cement plant by 2004.

Traffic

On the western outskirts B 27, which connects to the north with Dotternhausen Balingen -Tübingen -Stuttgart and to the south with Rottweil - Villingen- Schwenningen Switzerland or Lake Constance runs. The A 81 (AS Rottweil ) is around 17 kilometers away.

Dotternhausen lies on the railway line Balingen- Schomberg, which is traveled by freight trains on weekdays and on Sundays during the summer months also of passenger trains ( cycling, hiking shuttles ). The nearest railway stations:

  • Balingen ( regional express trains, train to Tübingen and Sigmaringen ), eight kilometers
  • Rottweil ( intercity railway station, train connections to Stuttgart and Zurich ), 15 km

The public transport is guaranteed by the integrated transport system Neckar -Alb -Donau ( NALDO ). The municipality is located in the comb 334 bus lines:

  • Line 7440: Balingen- Schomberg - Rottweil (daily)
  • Line 15: Frommern - Roßwangen - Dotternhausen - Dormettingen - Dautmergen ( on school days )

Education

  • Primary and secondary school: Schlossbergschule Dotternhausen

Personalities

Freeman

  • Rudolf Rohrbach: Entrepreneur, founder of Rohrbach cement ( now Holcim )
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