Engen, Germany
Engen is a town in the district of Konstanz in Baden- Württemberg.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 2.2 religions
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 Town twinning
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Structures
- 4.3 Regular events
- 5.1 Economics
- 5.2 traffic
- 5.3 Formation
- 6.1 freeman
- 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
- 6.3 personalities who were active in the city
- 6.4 Literature
Geography
Geographical location
Engen is Hegau.
Boroughs
Gene consists of nine districts Engen, Anselfingen, wood room, barge, Welschingen, Biesendorf, Stetten, Bittel Brunn and Neuhausen with the city of Engen and 38 other villages, hamlets, farms and houses.
The neighborhoods are physically identical to the previously independent municipalities of the same name, with the exception of the construction areas Hugenberg I - III and Baumgarten, whose territories were formerly part of the district Anselfingen and now part of the district of Engen. The official designation of the districts is done by preceding the name of the city and connected by a hyphen, readjusted the name of the respective district. The city is divided into the three residential districts within the meaning of Baden-Württemberg municipal code residential district Engen, residential district Anselfingen, Neuhausen and Welschingen and residential district Stetten, wood room, barge, Bittel Brunn and Biesendorf. In Biesendorf district a village is set in the sense of Baden-Württemberg municipal code with private Ortschaftsrat and mayor as its chairman. In Anselfingen district lie the village of Hausen am leavened Ball Mountain and the ruins Hohenhewen. In Bargen district lies the deserted village Spitzach. In Biesendorf district lie the disposed towns and castles Postal, Griengen and Maggental. In Bittel Brunn district lie the deserted villages in Wasserburg and Weildorf. In Engen district lie the 1286, first mentioned in 1848 and proofed in Engen village Altdorf and the disposed villages Ernsthofen, Gottschalkshof, Krattenhofen and Pfaff meadows, however, is not proven with certainty as a settlement. In the Neuhausen district of the yard waste places are to Bybrugge and Glenderhof. North of Stetten are the ruins of the castle Neuhewen. In Welschingen district lie the towns dialed Postal, Crasingen and Im Thurn. In the district of room wood lying east of the village, the village Outbound Haginshof, to suggesting a field name.
History
Engen was first documented in the 11th century. It belonged to the Barons of Höwen (or Hewen ). In the city of Engen there was a medieval castle unknown location, the castle Neuhausen. In the 13th century Engen received its town charter.
From 1639 the town belonged to the Counts of Fürstenberg and thus the later Principality of Fürstenberg. In 1640, she was devastated by the Swedes and the French. see also: Outbound centimes, Burg Bourguillon.
In Engen a battle between the Austrians under Baron von Kray and the French under General Moreau was held on May 3, 1800 held during the Second Coalition War which ended with the retreat of the Austrians.
1806 Engen fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden. In 1807 the city was the seat of a civil magnificent office ( 1846: District Office Engen ). In 1936 she came to the district office Constance ( from 1939: Konstanz district ).
1988 took place in the home day Baden-Württemberg in Engen.
Incorporations
In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg, the following formerly independent municipalities were amalgamated to Engen:
Religions
Engen is the seat of the deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg Hegau.
Policy
Parish council
Since the local elections of 7 June 2009, the city council is composed as follows:
Coat of arms
Blazon: " Argent, a black five-pointed star. "
Twinning
- Pannonhalma (Hungary ), since 1998
- Trilport, ( Seine- et- Marne, France), since 2000
- Moneglia, Liguria near Genoa, since 2009
Culture and sights
Gene is located on the tourist route Roman road Neckar- Alb- Aare and the Black Forest Freiburg -Bodensee - transverse path, a long-distance hiking route. There is the old town garden with the War Memorial and the new city garden with a small lake.
Museums
- The Municipal Museum Engen Gallery is home to an archaeological collection, sacred and modern art, as well as cultural and historical exhibitions.
- The Ice Age Park Engen is a finished in spring 2003 reconstruction of a Stone Age camp on St. Peter's rock in " Brudertal ". A 1.5 -hour trail leads through the approximately three -acre site.
Structures
Engen has a renovated old town. Particularly worth seeing are the parish church of the Assumption (13th century, originally late Romanesque, Gothicised later Baroque style ) with the grave monuments of the Earls of Lupfen and Pappenheim, the Krenkinger castle and the city museum and gallery in the former convent of St. Wolfgang ( 1333-1803 ), among other finds from the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods in which can be seen from the Brudertal (such as the "Venus of Engen "). There are regular art exhibitions that have not infrequently regional impact. In the area of the marketplace especially large-scale facades in trompe l'oeil style fall on. All over the old town there are wells that have been designed by artists in a variety of styles and with different artistic statements. Along a marked and signposted circular route, visitors can visit this fountain stations on foot and at the same time visit the charming old town.
The Krenkinger Schlossle is probably a Stauffer period plant in origin and was built in 1200. After the fire of 1640 and renovations 1892/1893 to the Baden district office, the plant was greatly changed. In essence, it represents a double-leaf plant with a round stair tower
The building of the city pharmacy in Engen's suburb was built as a stately official residence. It has three floors with four axes created and hosts since 1827 the city pharmacy. Attention is paid to the vaulted cellar.
The community hall in the town hall of Engen Engen has for centuries been the venue citizen representation. The room was comfortably furnished with a wooden ceiling (1500/1520), a complex of graphitized furnace clay and cast iron plates of Lorenz Stapf from plug Born in Thurgau and religious paintings by Joseph Ignaz Wegschneider from Riedlingen and Conrad inches from Möhringen. The artist Hans Sauerbruch from Konstanz has outlined the maid room with scenes from the Engen's city life.
The former convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Wolfgang was given its present architectural expression only in the 18th century. 1802, the convent of the Congregation in Engen was abandoned.
The Wendelinskapelle is originally a late Gothic building from the 15th century. 1725 was a restoration in the Baroque style. The altar is in the center a representation of the Fatima Madonna. The Wendelinskapelle shows in the church several votive tablets.
Southwest on the edge of the Jura there is the basalt rock of the mountain Hohenhewen (or Hohenhöwen, 846 m) with the ruins Hohenhewen.
The Roman villa estate in the district Bargen Bargen is one of the ten best preserved Roman farms in Baden- Württemberg. Sets the medium system consisting of the main house, outbuildings, bathhouse and Temple of the local Black Forest Association. The first archaeological excavation was carried out by the former state archaeologist Paul Revellio over 80 years ago. It has its origins in the years 75 to 80 AD In the 2nd century AD He was then expanded to a 2.5- acre facility with stone buildings.
The district Bittel Brunn is worth seeing especially through some beautiful old half-timbered houses, the Bittel Brunner Schlossle and the Stone Age caves and rock Peter Gnirshöhle.
In Welschinger building area " Guuhaseln " an approximately 16 -acre surrounded with a moat and wooden wall Celtic settlement in 2008 was archaeologically investigated. Post and grave finds showed additional settlement outside the delimited area. Traces of settlement and the salvaged material found evidence of a multiphase probably Celtic settlement of the third and second century BC. Objects might also point to settlements which extend to about 1500 BC to the Bronze Age. In addition, a settlement area of the later Iron Age has already been excavated before. When Welschinger Gravel 2010, several Stone Age graves were discovered.
Regular events
The Narrenzunft Engen Engen operates in the long native Swabian- Alemannic carnival. The local fools figure Hansele dates from ancient times, the oldest surviving costume from the year 1850.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
Since the 1970s, some medium-sized enterprises were able to settle in Engen. To this end, the city developed the industrial area Grub.
Traffic
The train station is located at the Engen Gäubahn ( Stuttgart-Singen ) and the Black Forest Railway ( Offenburg Constance). The Seehas connects the city in half -hour intervals with singing, Radolfzell and Konstanz. In addition, two hourly Regional-Express, there are connections on the Gäubahn to Stuttgart and on the Black Forest Railway to Karlsruhe. The city belongs to the transport network hegau Lake Constance.
The Federal Highway 81 (Würzburg -Stuttgart- Singen) and the federal highways 31 ( Breisach -Lindau ) and 491 ( Tuttlingen ) Engen connect with the national road network.
Education
In the school year 2006/ 07 the school Engen newly established starts with three fifth grades. In the education center of the core city are out of high school, the Anne Frank -Realschule, a Werkrealschule and special education ( " Hewenschule " ) housed. Furthermore, still in the core city and in Welschingen each primary school. In addition, the site has seven kindergartens. In addition, there is still a youth seminar in the district Anselfingen.