Renquishausen

Renquishausen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden- Württemberg. The municipality Renquishausen apart from the village Renquishausen There are no other villages.

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Geography

Geographical location

Renquishausen is located in the Upper Danube Nature Park on the Big Heuberg, a plateau of the Swabian Alb, nestled between the Lippachtal the west and the Bäratal in the east, both of which are side valleys of the Danube valley.

Neighboring communities

The municipality is bordered to the north by King home, on the east by Bärenthal and on the southwest by Kolbingen.

Historical Geography

The municipality is located west of the Outbound Renquishausen location Hagen, followed by a field name indicates. There was the Kesselhaldenhof On the northern Gemarkungsgrenze against the Barental. In winter, the owner of carbonised wood to make charcoal. The only Einödbauernhof the community was abandoned around 1880.

History

In 1092 Renquishausen was first mentioned in a deed of the monastery Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest. In this document it says: A man named Harpreht gave to God and St. Georgen his property he owned in " Rentwigeshusen ", and the sixth part of the chapel in the same place.

The place name is composed of the personal names " Reginwic " and the Old High German word " hus" ( house).

The village belonged to the county about the rule Werenwag Hohenberg. With this it came in 1381 leading to Austria, where it remained until it became part of Württemberg in 1805.

Policy

The municipality is a member of the local government association Danube Heuberg based in Fridingen on the Danube.

Culture and sights

The municipality is the Tourist " Donaubergland " connected. Attractions in the municipality:

  • Church of St. Stephen. Built in 1827 The interior was redesigned from 1950 to 1952 and again in 1966 after the Second Vatican Council. Its present appearance owes simple the interior of the parish church of St. Stephen, the renovation and redesign in 1992. Every year at Thanksgiving is adorned interior of the church with a delicately shaped Thanksgiving carpet and the theme-related harvest altar.
  • Geiger wells and Hohenried well: cultural evidence of the once barren and waterless time on the Alb. The fountains run groundwater despite their altitude.
  • Mariengrotte: 1979 by Robert beetles and Heinrich Horn of natural stone, so called cat heads, built grotto dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
  • Stone Cross: sandstone cross, also called Schneider Kreuznach. The wayside cross dates from the 15th or 16th century, according to tradition, a penitential cross a tailor's apprentice, who is said to have killed another journeyman tailor at this place.
  • Judas Thaddeus Chapel: Built in 1987 on the felt. Around the chapel is surrounded by juniper bushes Stations of the Cross as well as a panorama of the Alps.

Economy and infrastructure

  • In Renquishausen there is a grocery store.
  • The municipality operates a wood stove bakery, which is still operated regularly twice a week. Community members can leave their weekly supply of bread baked in a wood oven here. The bakery also stands for the people of the circumcircle available.
  • A wind farm with four turbines of 500 kilowatts is operated by an operating company, a wind turbine from a private individual.
  • In the so-called Solarbundesliga Renquishausen occupied a top position (April 2007: 9th place among all cities and towns in Germany ).
  • In addition Renquishausen has one of the newest and largest biogas plants of the State of Baden- Wuerttemberg. Meanwhile be heated with the heat from the biogas plant some 120 buildings in Renquishausen. For this purpose, an operating company has been founded.

Education

At the site there is a branch of the primary school Wachtfels school in Kolbingen, grades one and two are taught here.

Personalities

  • Wenzeslaus Mattes (1815-1886), professor of theology at the seminary in Hildesheim
  • Benedicta floor (1878-1950), Abbess of St. Rochus in Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia)

Freeman

  • Joseph Stehle (1852-1932), for 50 years of continuous activity as council
  • Henry Horn, longtime chairman of the choral society, builder of Judas Thaddeus Chapel on the Fils
  • Paul Locherer, pastor
  • Georg Rack, Chair of the Culture Committee
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