Dornhan is a town in the
district of Rottweil, in
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 ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated in the eastern
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...
, 14 km southeast of
Freudenstadt
Freudenstadt ( Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the eas ...
.
Geography
Position
Dornhan is situated on a plateau in the
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...
foothills above the valleys of
Neckar
The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ...
and
Glatt.
Nearest bigger towns are
Freudenstadt
Freudenstadt ( Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the eas ...
in the northwest,
Rottweil
Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years.
Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...
and
Oberndorf am Neckar
Oberndorf am Neckar (; Swabian: ''Oberndorf am Näggô'') is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, north of Rottweil. It historically was and currently is a major center of t ...
in the southeast and
Horb am Neckar
Horb am Neckar is a town in the southwest of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river, between Offenburg to the west (about away) and Tübingen to the east (about away). It has around 25,000 inhabitants, of whom ...
in the northeast. The city area lies in 450 to 685 m above sea level.
neighbouring communities
Dornhan borders in the east on
Sulz am Neckar
Sulz am Neckar is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, 22 km north of Rottweil, and 19 km southeast of Freudenstadt.
Sulz am Neckar came in the possession of the Hohe ...
, in the south on Oberndorf (both county of Rottweil), in the west on
Alpirsbach
Alpirsbach () is a town in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest on the Kinzig river, south of Freudenstadt.
Because of the local brewery “Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu“, the monastery ...
and
Loßburg
Loßburg is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography
Kinzig
The source of the Kinzig is located on the Gemarkung of Loßburg. Municipal Structure
The town of Loßburg consists o ...
and in the north on
Glatten
Glatten is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Geography
Geographical location
The state-approved health resort Glatten is located about ten kilometers southeast of the county town of Freudenstadt, ...
and
Schopfloch
Schopfloch is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in t ...
(all
Freudenstadt (district)
Freudenstadt is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rastatt, Calw, Tübingen, Zollernalbkreis, Rottweil and the Ortenaukreis.
History
The district was created ...
).
Municipal Structure
To the city of Dornhan with the districts
Bettenhausen, Busenweiler, Dornhan,
Fürnsal, Leinstetten, Marschalkenzimmer and Weiden belong 15 villages, hamlets, farms and houses besides the city of Dornhan. The Busenweiler district includes the village Busenweiler and the hamlet Aischfeld. To the district Dornhan belong the town Dornhan, the hamlets Dobel and Gundelshausen, the farms Friedrichshof and Oberhart and the residential areas Brandeck and Braunhalden. The Fürnsal district includes the village of Fürnsal and the Fürnsaler Sägmühle residential area. The Leinstetten district includes the village Leinstetten and the hamlet Kaltenhof. Only the villages of the same name belong to the districts Bettenhausen, Marschalkenzimmer and Weiden. In the district Dornhan lies the
Burgstall
A ''burgstall'' is a German term referring to a castle of which so little is left that its appearance cannot effectively be reconstructed. of
Brandeck Castle and in the district of Leinstetten lies the ruins of the castle
Lichtenfels.
History
Dornhan was first mentioned in a document as "Turnheim" in 777, but the exact date of its becoming a town is unknown, although it is certain that the place has been called "civitas" (town) since 1276.
The town of Dornhan originally belonged to the
Grafen von Sulz.
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Given name
* Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate
* Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark
* Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–19 ...
. (Ed.): ''Handbook of Historical Sites
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Germany vol. 6, Baden-Württemberg'' (= ''Kröner's pocket edition.'' Vol. 276). 2. improved and extended edition, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, , p. 151 1095 the
Alpirsbach Monastery
Alpirsbach Abbey (''Kloster Alpirsbach'') is a former Benedictine monastery and later Protestant seminary located at Alpirsbach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The monastery was established in the late 11th century and possessed considerable free ...
received estates located in Dornhan by donation.
The monastery gained more and more influence in Dornhan in the course of time and maintained a nursing home to administer the property. The abbot of Alpirsbach monastery had a court held in Dornhan three times a year, either personally or through a deputy.
However, the monastery was only responsible for cases with lower jurisdiction, the
high jurisdiction
High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judicial power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents.
Low just ...
was the responsibility of the
dukes of Teck
Duke of Teck is a title which was created twice in Germanic lands. It was first borne from 1187 to 1439 by the head of a cadet line of the German ducal House of Zähringen, known as the "first House of Teck". The ''caput'' of his territory was Te ...
, who held the hereditary
bailiwick
A bailiwick () is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ. The bailiwick is probably modelled on th ...
rights of the monastery. Because of his high debts, Duke Friedrich von Teck ceded the bailiwick rights to Count
Eberhard den Greiner in 1380 and thus to
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...
.
From this time on, a Württemberg sheriff exercised the sovereign rights.
With the reformation of the Alpirsbach monastery in 1534, Dornhan finally fell to Württemberg and was since then the seat of a Württemberg bailiff as the office of Dornhan until 1807.
In 1807 Dornhan came to the
Oberamt Sulz, in 1808 to the Oberamt Alpirsbach and in 1810 again to the Oberamt Sulz.
During the administrative reform in during the NS period in Württemberg Dornhan came to the
district of Horb in 1938. After the Second World War, the town of Dornhan fell into the
French occupation zone
The French occupation zone in Germany (, ) was one of the Allied-occupied areas in Germany after World War II.
Background
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta C ...
and thus came to the newly founded state
Württemberg-Hohenzollern
Württemberg-Hohenzollern (french: Wurtemberg-Hohenzollern ) was a West German state created in 1945 as part of the French post-World War II occupation zone. Its capital was Tübingen. In 1952, it was merged into the newly founded state of Bad ...
in 1947, which was absorbed into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
In 1973, the
District Reform in Baden-Württemberg took place, in which Dornhan became part of the district of Rottweil.
Today's town was newly formed on 1 March 1972 by merging the town of Dornhan with the communities of Bettenhausen, Fürnsal, Leinstetten and Marschalkenzimmer. On 1 April 1974, the previously independent community of Busenweiler was incorporated. The incorporation of Weiden took place on 1 January 1975.
Politics
City council
The
municipal elections on 26 May 2019 yielded the following result with a turnout of 61.6% (2014: 51.1%):
Mayor
On November 7, 2004, Markus Huber was elected mayor as of February 1, 2005 with 74 percent of the vote. The previous incumbent Günter Wößner (1973–2005) did not run for office in the election. Wößner's predecessor was Erich Blocher.
The next mayoral election took place on 11 November 2012, in which Markus Huber was the only candidate to receive 98% of the votes, making him mayor of Dornhan for another term of office.
Town twinning
Since 1994, Dornhan has maintained partnership relations with the
French community
Pont-de-Vaux
Pont-de-Vaux () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Ain department
*List of medieval bridges in France
The list of medieval bridges in France comprises all bridges built between 500 ...
in the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...
region.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
In the Zitzmannsbrunnenbach Valley (also known as Bettenhauser Valley) between Dornhan and
Bettenhausen is the so-called Wasserhäusle, a fully preserved pumping station dating from 1889, which was the origin and part of Dornhan's water supply.
In
Bettenhausen there is also a portrait of the risen Christ in the church of St. Konrad, which
Hans Marx von Bubenhofen donated in 1596. The alliance coat of arms of the founder couple and the coats of arms of their ancestors provide the frame for the painting.
The ruins of Lichtenfels Castle, Brandeck Castle and
Leinstetten Castle are located on the municipal boundary mark.
In Leinstetten, the minstrel monument commemorates Count Albrecht von Hohenberg (Haigerloch), who fell in the battle of Leinstetten on 17 April 1298.
Albrecht von Hohenberg is depicted in the
Codex Manesse
The Codex Manesse (also Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift or Pariser Handschrift) is a ''Liederhandschrift'' (manuscript containing songs), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German ''Minnesang'' poetry, written and illustrat ...
in battle. There the only two verses handed down by him are preserved. The grave of Count Albrecht II of Hohenberg and his second wife Margareta of Fürstenberg is in
Kirchberg Monastery Kirchberg (German for "Church Hill") commonly refers to:
*Kirchberg, Luxembourg, a quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
**Court of Justice of the European Union (metonym)
Kirchberg may also refer to:
Austria
*Kirchberg am Wagram, a town in Low ...
near
Sulz am Neckar
Sulz am Neckar is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, 22 km north of Rottweil, and 19 km southeast of Freudenstadt.
Sulz am Neckar came in the possession of the Hohe ...
.
In the district of Weiden there is a church from the 15th century and the birthplace of
Hermann Römpp as well as the primary school, which is already over 100 years old.
Economy and Infrastructure
Education
In the Dornhans school centre there is a
primary school and a
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
. In the districts Leinstetten, Marschalkenzimmer and Weiden there is one primary school each.
Gymnasium and secondary schools are available in the nearby towns of Oberndorf and Sulz.
Electricity supply
In the district of Bettenhausen im Glatttal there is a
hydroelectric power plant
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
fed from the Heimbach reservoir at
Loßburg-Sterneck, which was originally also operated as a
pumped storage power plant.
Notable people born in Dornhan
*
Johann Gottlob Christoph von Seeger (1767–1835), Württemberg senior official, member of the state parliament
* Wilhelm Friedrich Wagner (1802–1882), merchant in Odessa
*
Edmund von Sigel (1805–1866), Protestant theologian,
General Superintendent of Heilbronn
*
John Buehler, former Johann Bühler (1831–1899), Director of the State Bank of Chicago and Senator of the State of Illinois
*
Hans Holzwarth
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* Hans (name), a masculine given name
* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...
(1877–1953), gas turbine inventor
*
Hermann Römpp (1901–1964), born in Weiden, chemist and scientific author
*
Anton Reinhardt (1927–1945), born in Weiden, victim of the NS regime
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* Klaus Graf
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(* 1969), racing driver
References
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