Unterwachingen
Unterwachingen is a municipality in the Alb -Donau-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg.
The small village is today marked contrast from agriculture and belongs to the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Munderkingen to.
- 2.1 Coat of Arms
- 2.2 Mayor
- 3.1 Structures
Geography
Geographical Location
Unterwachingen lies on the southern edge of the Danube valley, about ten kilometers southwest of the city Ehingen (Donau), at 520 m altitude at Tobelbach, a small body of water that flows near Rottenacker into the Danube.
The 510-565 m high district covers 2.60 km ², of which 81 % of agricultural land and 15 % forest, which occupies the southern part of the township.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are Hausen am Bussen, Emerkingen and Uttenweiler ( with the Teilort Oberwachingen ).
History
In the 805 mentioned in a document place a church was in 1103, on the occasion of the consecration of the chapel Emerkingen called. Unterwachingen and neighboring Emerkingen formed at that time politically and ecclesiastically a unit. From the 12th and 13th centuries, long -lasting dispute between the Premonstratensian Marchtal and the Lords of Emerkingen to the right of patronage was the monastery emerged victorious. In the 14th and 15th centuries Marchtal acquired the worldly sovereign rights in the village. By 1900 Emerkingen belonged to the parish as a branch Unterwachingen.
The town suffered during the Thirty Years' War after the Swedish invasion in 1632 serious damage.
In the course of secularization Unterwachingen came in 1803 to the House of Thurn and Taxis, however, was only three years later annexed to the Kingdom of Württemberg, which the village allotted to the upper office Riedlingen. In its resolution 1938 it came to the district Ehingen, which rose in 1973 in the Alb- Donau district. At the time of incorporations, the small community was able to preserve its independence; she became a member of the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Munderkingen.
Coat of arms
Blazon: Shared by silver and red; above a reclining red double hook, diagonal crossed a silver key and a silver sword.
An old coat of arms is not known. Today was designed in the 1980s by the Central State Archive Stuttgart. It combines the double hook of the Lords of Emerkingen with the attributes of Saints Peter and Paul from the arms of the monastery Marchtal.
Mayor
Culture and sights
Structures
The parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian is a unitary, 1754-1756 created construction of the Rococo, where under the direction of architect Johann Caspar Bagnato worked for the following:
- As a painter of ceiling frescoes and altar leaves of Riedlinger Joseph Ignaz Wegscheider
- As the young plasterer Ticino Giuseppe Pozzi, of his father Francesco assisted at that time when working in the monastery Obermarchtal
The sculptures of the church patrons probably came from the workshop of Johann Joseph Christian.
Wegscheider and Pozzi led at the same time also the work in the Chapel of St. George in the near Dietershausen community Uttenweiler from.