Egesheim

Egesheim is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden- Württemberg, Germany.

• 3.1 Mayor

• 4.1 Natural Monuments

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Egesheim lies on the Great Heuberg in the southwest of the Swabian Alb in an altitude 700-930 meters above sea level. The southern arm of the Bara, the so-called Lower Bara, flows through the town. Two-thirds of the municipal area is covered by forest.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by Reichenbach am Heuberg, to the east by Nusplingen in Zollernalbkreis, on the southeast by Bärenthal, to the south by King home and on the west by Bubsheim.

Community structure

The municipality Egesheim the village and the hamlet Egesheim Barental include (Hammer). In the municipality the Outbound castle Granegg are (also Michel stone ) and the Outbound Aussiedlerhof Mauchenhof.

History

The community Egesheim is one of the oldest communities in the region, it was first mentioned in 770 in a donation document of the monastery of St. Gall. Various spiritual and secular dignitaries had owned the place. 1381 came to the village of Further Austria and remained there until it became part of Württemberg in 1805.

Policy

The community is a member of the local government association Heuberg based in Wehingen.

Mayor

The honorary mayor Josef bear is a full-time mayor of Wehingen.

Culture and sights

The municipality is the Tourist " Donaubergland " connected.

Natural Monuments

• The natural monument Beilstein cave at Egesheim was important Palaeolithic (10,000 BC) habitat in the area of the Great Heuberg. The name Beilstein cave is derived from the found in the cave stone Beilköpfen. By finds of stone, bone and ceramic devices use a could be detected by the Stone Age man to 2000 BC.
• Heathen, an early Celtic place of worship

Economy and infrastructure

The Heuberg web should reach Egesheim according to the original plan. The railway was built but then only up to almost three kilometers away Reichenbach am Heuberg and decommissioned in 1966.

From a poor agricultural community was an industrial and working-class community. Agriculture is now operated only as a sideline. Egesheim has a balanced commuter balance, that is, there are an equal number of workers from outside to work in the community as Egesheimer earn their living outside the community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• William Reiser, Bishop of Rottenburg (1835-1898)