Meßkirch

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Meßkirch
Town
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Coat of arms
Location of Meßkirch within Sigmaringen district
Karte Messkirch.pngBingenMengenMengenScheerSchwenningenWald
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Meßkirch
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Meßkirch
Coordinates: 47°59′34″N9°6′45″E / 47.99278°N 9.11250°E / 47.99278; 9.11250
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Tübingen
District Sigmaringen
Subdivisions11
Government
 •  Mayor (2018–26) Arne Zwick [1]
Area
 • Total76.22 km2 (29.43 sq mi)
Elevation
616 m (2,021 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [2]
 • Total8,737
 • Density110/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
88601–88605
Dialling codes 07570, 07575, 07578
Vehicle registration SIG
Website www.messkirch.de
The Renaissance castle at Messkirch Messkirch Schloss 5.jpg
The Renaissance castle at Meßkirch

Meßkirch (German: [ˈmɛsˌkɪʁç] ⓘ ; Swabian: Mässkirch) is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Contents

The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's Zimmern Chronicle (1559–1566).

Geography

The municipality is composed of following villages and hamlets:

Coat of armsDistrictInhabitants (2010)Area
DEU Messkirch COA.svg Meßkirch (main locality)
with Igelswies Wappen Igelswies.png and
Schnerkingen		56602465 ha
Wappen Dietershofen.png Dietershofen♯
with Buffenhofen		147405 ha
Wappen Heudorf bei Messkirch.png Heudorf†338787 ha
Wappen Langenhart.png Langenhart235435 ha
Wappen Menningen bei Messkirch.png Menningen‡
with Leitishofen♯		458916 ha
Wappen Rengetsweiler.svg Rengetsweiler406505 ha
Wappen Ringgenbach.png Ringgenbach♯203499 ha
Wappen Rohrdorf bei Messkirch.png Rohrdorf8001611 ha

♯The Ringgenbach river flows through Dietershofen, then Ringgenbach, before its confluence into the Ablach east of Leitishofen

†Heudorf is a location on the Upper Swabian Baroque Route

‡Menningen-Leitishofen was formerly a stop on the extant Radolfzell–Mengen railway

Notable residents

Meßkirch is the birthplace of composer Conradin Kreutzer, archbishop Conrad Gröber, writer and Georg Büchner Prize winner Arnold Stadler and, most famously, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. Also included are the well-known brewers Johann Nepomuk Schalk and his sons Herrmann and Oscar who began the Schalk Brewery in Newark, New Jersey, the first to bring lager beer to New Jersey. The town's name is also connected with a Renaissance painter whose provisional name is Master of Meßkirch. His Adoration of the Magi can be seen in the church of St. Martin. Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547), the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich, was born in Meßkirch.

Culture

The Bodenseesender radio transmitter in the nearby village of Rohrdorf was turned off in February 2012.

History

In 1800, the city was the site of a battle of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Campus Galli

Campus Galli is a project to construct an authentic medieval town with a Carolingian monastery, that is located in woodlands near Meßkirch.

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References

Master of Messkirch: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1538 Meister von Messkirch Dreikonigsbild.jpg
Master of Meßkirch: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1538
  1. ↑ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 15 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022](CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.


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