Gaienhofen

Gaienhofen is a municipality in the district of Konstanz at Lake Constance in Baden- Württemberg.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 partnerships
  • 3.4 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 educational institutions
  • 5.1 Museums
  • 5.2 Structures
  • 5.3 ferry
  • 5.4 Nature
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.3 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Geographical location

Gaienhofen lies on the south and east side of the peninsula on the Hori submarine to the Swiss municipality of Steckborn and the ( German ) island of Reichenau.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered on the southwest by Oehningen, on the northwest by moss. The rest of the municipal boundary is the shore of the lower lake.

Community structure

The municipality Gaienhofen with since 1974 eingemeindeten, formerly independent communities Gundholzen, Hemmenhofen and horn are eight villages, hamlets, farms and houses.

The administrative headquarters is located in the district of Gaienhofen, as the seat of the local government association Hori, which includes the communities Gaienhofen, moss and Oehningen.

(For old coat of arms see also → List of coats of arms with the emblem of the Count Palatine of Tübingen)

As a symbol of the Hori applies the Church of horn with her old church cemetery. About the unique view of the parish church in Horn from the submarine to the tower of the cathedral of Constance the utterance of the Grand Duke of Baden Friedrich I. narrated: " If I had not Grand Duke of Baden, I wanted to be pastor of horn. "

History

On the boundaries of the municipality Gaienhofen there are several settlements from the Neolithic period, as for example in Hemmenhofen Won " In Leh " and Hornstaad, Won " dorsal horn ". The pile dwellings Hornstaad - Hornle IV are Stone Age lake dwellings from the period 3918-2690 BC studies in the years 1973 to 1993 provided important results on the economic, homebuilding, settlement patterns, social structure and trade relations. It is particularly noteworthy Hornstaad - Hornle IA on the banks of Hörispitze, which was examined over a large area in a more than ten years of excavation and is dated on dendrochronological investigations to around 3900 BC. The latter is since 2011 part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps. Finds and reconstructions are seen in Hermann Hesse Hori Museum Gaienhofen and the Archaeological State Museum Konstanz. In Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen we find the Hornstaad House as a replica for research purposes.

Was mentioned in documents for the first time Gaienhofen 1295th

Today's church was re- formed on 1 October 1974 Association of Municipalities Gaienhofen, Hemmenhofen and horn. Already on 1 January 1974 the municipality Gundholzen had been incorporated to Horn.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal elections on 7 June 2009 was as follows:

Mayor

Mayor of Gaienhofen is Uwe- Michael Eisch ( CDU).

Partnerships

  • France Saint -Georges -de- Royan in the Poitou -Charentes, France
  • Hungary on Lake Balaton, Hungary

Coat of arms

The old coat of arms of Gaienhofen shows in silver with a red cross, topped with a silver heart plate, in a red [ dreilatzige ] church banner with [ three] golden rings.

The new coat of arms shows in silver with a red cross, covered with a black heart shield, in a double row red and silver geschachter oblique beams.

Economy and infrastructure

Educational institutions

A local nursery is in the district of Horn.

There also the primary branch of the Hermann -Hesse- school is located. The secondary Hermann Hesse Werkrealschule located in the district Gaienhofen.

In Gaienhofen also the school center Gaienhofen Castle is - Evangelical School on Lake home. The former boarding school today comprises the Ambrose - Blarer High School with a general branch and a commercial high school and a junior high school.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • The Hermann Hesse Hori Museum is housed in two buildings in the old town center in Mauritiuskappelle: In the former school and town hall works are by artists who have lived and worked on the Hori. There is also a department to pile dwellings on the submarine. In the adjacent building, a 1783 first mentioned farmhouse, Hermann Hesse had rented in 1904 with his newly wedded wife Maria the living part. These rooms are open to the public. One can also find the desk that is Hessian for this apartment had built and which he had taken in his other residences Bern and Montagnola respectively. As for the device and store rooms, which were still used to Hesse's time by the owners, find annual exhibitions on topics related to the life of Hermann Hesse place - 2009, for example, is about the friendship of Hesse with the painter Cuno Amiet.
  • The Hermann -Hesse- house in Erlenloh settled Hesse 1907 build in the style of Reform Architecture at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the only house for Hesse has built. Attached to the house is a garden, the Hesse himself has created with his wife. Here the family lived until 1912 Hesse The house, which still contains a lot of original substance, has been carefully restored by the present owners. ; for 2005, the Heritage Award of Baden -Württemberg was awarded. In the house and garden there are regular guided tours, on request can be visited the house.
  • The painter Otto Dix was built in 1936 Hemmenhofen with the money his wife Martha a residential building, including studio, after he had in 1933 lost his professorship at the Dresden Art Academy and retired to Lake Constance. There he lived and worked until his death. The Otto - Dix- House is a memorial to the life and work of this important German painter; it is open to the public. The house is owned by the Dix- granddaughter Bettina. , 2009, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, known for his Dix collection, announced plans to take over the house to rehabilitate and to be operated with the help of the established in December 2009, the public Otto - Dix- House Foundation as an annexe of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The total cost is expected to 1.5 million euros. 15-16. June 2013 it was reopened as a branch of the Art Museum Stuttgart.
  • In the town there are several private studios and galleries.

Structures

  • Hermann -Hesse- house by Hermann Hesse Hori Museum
  • Hermann -Hesse- house in Erlenloh
  • Hermann Hesse statue of Friedhelm Zilly
  • Gaienhofen Castle
  • Evangelical Melanchtonkirche
  • Fountain of Peter Lenk with characters from the image big-city Triptych by Otto Dix
  • Ludwig Finckh - house
  • Otto Dix House
  • Catholic Church of St. Johann in Horn
  • Water Tower
  • Village fountain with sculpture group by Friedhelm Zilly in Gundholzen

Ferry service

In the " zig -zag " between the district of Horn, the Swiss village Berlingen, Gaienhofen and the Swiss city Steckborn runs on Sundays and holidays the Hori - ferry.

Nature

  • Vogelerkundungsweg NABU on the shores of Lake Constance

Personalities

Freeman

  • Laszlo Berkes, a former mayor of Balatonföldvár
  • Hermann Biechele, former member of the German Bundestag
  • Karl Bruttel, former mayor of the formerly independent municipality Gundholzen and after the municipal reform longtime council
  • Dominique Bussereau, agriculture ministers from France, former mayor of Saint -Georges -de- Royan
  • Anneliese Oerding

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Matthias Dinter, screenwriter, director and cartoonist, grew up in Gaienhofen
  • Johannes Matthias Michel, church musician and composer, grew up in Gaienhofen
  • Hermann Schnell, chemist, inventor of the polycarbonate, grew up in Gaienhofen

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Max Ackermann, painter, lived in Horn, painted in Hemmenhofen
  • Hermann Biechele, politician, lived in Gaienhofen
  • Paul Buck, pianist, Wagner specialist, lived in Horn and is buried there
  • Otto Dix, painter, lived in Hemmenhofen and is buried there
  • Hugo Erfurth, photographer, lived in Gaienhofen
  • Ludwig Finckh, writer, lived in Gaienhofen
  • Henry Hauber, painter, lived in Horn and is buried there
  • Erich Heckel, painter, lived in Hemmenhofen
  • Gertraud Herzger of Harlessem, painter, lived and worked in Gaienhofen
  • Walter Herzger, painter, lived and worked in Gaienhofen
  • Hermann Hesse, author, lived in Gaienhofen
  • Walter Kaesbach, art historian, lived in Hemmenhofen
  • Bodo Kirchhoff, writer, went to school in Gaienhofen
  • Karl Kling, racer, lived in Hemmenhofen
  • Helmuth Macke, a painter, lived in Hemmenhofen
  • Josef Michel, church musician and composer who lived and worked in Gaienhofen
  • Klaus nuns, writer, lived in Gaienhofen
  • Bertha von Petersenn, founder and director of the boarding school for girls castle home Gaienhofen
  • George of Petersenn, a professor at the Musikhochschule Berlin, taught music in the boarding school for girls castle Gaienhofen
  • Friedrich Rau, lawyer, former Member of Parliament, lived in Hemmenhofen
  • Christoph Theinert, musicians, worked in Gaienhofen, lives in Stuttgart
  • Rudolf Thome, director, went to school in Gaienhofen
  • Douglas Wolfsperger, director, went to school in Gaienhofen
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