Deißlingen is a municipality of the district of Rottweil of

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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History

In 1802-03, Deißlingen, a possession of the

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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 25,00 ...

, and Lauffen ob Rottweil, a property of Rottenmünster Abbey, were mediatized to the

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, later Kingdom, of Württemberg. Deißlingen was assigned to a newly organized Oberamt , and Lauffen to . Lauffen joined Deißlingen in Rottweil's jurisdiction on 27 October 1810. The district was reorganized on 1 October 1938 as

Landkreis Rottweil Rottweil is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald regional district. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Freudenst ...

, to which the two towns were still assigned. On 1 January 1974, Lauffen was incorporated into Deißlingen and a new municipality formed.

Geography

The municipality (''

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'') of Deißlingen covers of the Rottweil district of

, which assigns Deißlingen to the metropolitan area of Villingen-Schwenningen,

Tuttlingen Tuttlingen ( Alemannic: ''Duttlinga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, ''Möhringen'' and ''Eßlingen'' are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia ea ...

, and

. Deißlingen is physically located in a transitional landscape between the

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plateaus of the to the north, the

Swabian Jura The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...

to the east, and the Baar to the south. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) at the border with Tuttlingen district to a low of NN on the

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 Schwen ...

as it forms the border with Rottweil. The forested slopes of the Neckar and Mückenbach river valleys were declared in 1953. They were joined in 1990 by the .

Politics

Deißlingen has two boroughs (''Ortsteile''): Deißlingen and Lauffen.

Coat of arms

The municipal

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for Deißlingen shows a

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'' upon a field of

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, with a

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bar at the top containing a yellow stag antler, a clear reference to Württemberg. The wall anchor is a motif associated with Lauffen ob Rottweil's as early as 1780. This coat of arms is a combination of those of the towns of Deißlingen and Lauffen, with a change made to the chief to comply with the

rule of tincture The most basic rule of heraldic design is the rule of tincture: metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour ( Humphrey Llwyd, 1568). This means that the heraldic metals or and argent (gold and silver, represented by yellow and white) ...

. The Rottweil district office approved the official use of the coat of arms and issued a corresponding municipal flag on 10 December 1981.

References

External links

* (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Deisslingen Rottweil (district) Populated places on the Neckar basin Populated riverside places in Germany