Höchstädt an der Donau
Höchstädt an der Donau | |
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Location of Höchstädt an der Donau within Dillingen district | |
Schwaben | |
District | Dillingen |
Government | |
• Mayor (2018–24) | Gerrit Maneth[1] (FW) |
Area | |
• Total | 37.45 km2 (14.46 sq mi) |
Elevation | 416 m (1,365 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 7,014 |
• Density | 190/km2 (490/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 89420 |
Dialling codes | 09074 |
Vehicle registration | DLG |
Website | www.hoechstaedt.de |
Höchstädt an der Donau (Swabian: Hechstädt) is a town in the district of Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the banks of the Danube. It consists of the following suburbs: Höchstädt an der Donau, Deisenhofen, Oberglauheim, Schwennenbach and Sonderheim. The town is the seat of the municipal association Höchstädt an der Donau, which includes the towns Blindheim, Finningen, Lutzingen and Schwenningen.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, the wealthy mercantile family
In the early 18th century, the town was the site of two battles. The
The carnage of the Battle of Blenheim was so horrific (over 20,000 men had died by the end of the day) that farmers are said still to dig up skulls from the fields today, as described in the poem "After Blenheim", written by Robert Southey, which tells about children finding the skull of one of the[3]
Many thousand men said he
Were slain in that great victory
In June 1800, the armies of the
References
- Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, accessed 19 July 2021.
- ^ Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) (Hilfe dazu).
- ^ Robert Southey, Minor Poems: Battle of Blenheim. Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823, pp. 167-172, p. 168 cited.
- ^ "Höchstädt", History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Including Sketches of the Civil History of Great Britain and France, from the Revolutionary Movements, 1788, to the Restoration of a General Peace, 1815, Kuhl, France, 1820, p. 183.