Inzigkofen is a municipality in the district of

Sigmaringen Sigmaringen (Swabian German, Swabian: ''Semmerenga'') is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen (district), Sigmaringen district. Sigmaringen is renowne ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. Historically, it is part of the

Swabia Swabia ; german: Schwaben , colloquially ''Schwabenland'' or ''Ländle''; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany. The name is ultimately derived from the medieval Duchy of ...

n north Alpine

foreland basin A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by crustal thickening associated with the evolution of a mountain belt causes the lithospher ...

. It consists of three districts: Within Engelswies is the now-abandoned Talsberg quarry, known for its

fossiliferous A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

layers, and the site of evidence of the oldest Eurasian

hominoid Apes (collectively Hominoidea ) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and as well as Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister g ...

s; a

molar tooth The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth. They are more developed in mammals. They are used primarily to grind food during chewing. The name ''molar'' derives from Latin, ''molaris dens'', meaning "millstone to ...

found there in June 1973 was reported in June 2011 to have been "dated with relative precision at 17 to 17.1 Ma" (million years ago).

Mayors

In November 2004 Bernd Gombold, was elected mayor with 96,8 % of the vote.Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): ''Kompliment vom Landrat.'' In: ''Südkurier'' vom 30. November 2004.Manfred Dieterle-Jöchle (dim): ''Zur Person.'' In: ''Südkurier'' vom 28. Mai 2005. * 1946–1949: Fridolin Oswald * 1949–1966: Johann Scherer * 1967–1972: Manfred Sailer * 1973–2005: Pius Widmer * since 2005: Bernd Gombold

References

Sigmaringen (district) Paleontological sites of Europe {{Sigmaringen-geo-stub