Riedlingen
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Location of Riedlingen within Biberach district  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°9′19″N 9°28′22″E / 48.15528°N 9.47278°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Tübingen |
| District | Biberach |
| Subdivisions | 7 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–29) | Marcus Schafft[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 64.97 km2 (25.09 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 540 m (1,770 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 11,029 |
| • Density | 170/km2 (440/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 88499 |
| Dialling codes | 07371 |
| Vehicle registration | BC |
| Website | www.riedlingen.de |
Riedlingen (German: [ˈʁiːtlɪŋən] ⓘ) is a town in the district (Kreis) of Biberach, Baden-Württemberg, in the south-west of Germany. It is one of the destinations of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. Riedlingen has approximately 11,000 inhabitants.
Geography
The town is situated on the river
Swabian Alps
.
Around Riedlingen there are seven villages which are part of the urban district. These are called Neufra, Daugendorf, Grüningen, Pflummern, Zwiefaltendorf, Zell and Bechingen.
History
Riedlingen is probably an Alemannic foundation. The first written reference dates back to 835. The medieval city was built 1247–1255, situated east of the hamlet of the Earl of Veringen. It was a typical town with its foundations kept in rectangular and square roads with the marketplace as the centre.
Even in the late 13th century the city was in possession of the
Counter Reformation. From 1654 to 1658 Riedlingen a Capuchin monastery was built. In 1680 the city was claimed by Austria
.
Culture
In Riedlingen there are many sports clubs, such as the
football club TSV Riedlingen which plays in the German "Kreisliga A". The carnival group called "Gole" has many followers. In the town centre there are several bakeries, cafes, and a cinema [1]
which acts as a theatre, stage and cafe within the same building.
The writer Ernst Jünger used to live close to Riedlingen in the Jünger-Haus Wilflingen.
Economy
The main employers in Riedlingen are the metalworking companies "Silit" and " Feinguss Blank".
Transportation
Train transportation is served by the Ulm–Sigmaringen railway.
Famous people from Riedlingen
In the history of the city of Riedlingen, eleven people have been honoured so far. Wilfried Steuer and Winfried Aßfalg are the current living honorary citizens.[3]
- 1914: Adolf Gröber (1854–1919), Member of the Reichstag and Landtag (Centre Party)
- 1917: Carl Buz (1853–1919), professor
- 1926: Franz Xaver Maier (1859–1931), mayor
- 1953: Theodor Selig (1874–1967), priest
- 1959: Josef Kohler (1879–1967), tax official
- 1964: Kilian Fischer (1886–1975), mayor
- 1967: Franz Zeller (1879–1953), teacher
- 1967: Odilo Burkart (1899–1979), general director
- 1981: Albert Burkart (1898–1982), painter
- 1992: Wilfried Steuer (born 1933), former district counsilior, politician (CDU) and former manager in the energy industry
- 2010: Winfried Aßfalg, museum director, author, photographer, local historian
Notable people
- Schweikhard of Helfenstein (1539–1599), president of the Reichskammergericht and there imperial governor of Tyrol, also author, publicist and promoter of the Catholic Reform
- Andreas von Jerin (1541–1596), Bishop of Breslau
- Agatha Mahler (born 1604), was the last woman executed in a witch-hunt
- Franz Joseph Christian (1739–1798), sculptor
- Joseph Anton Sauter (1742–1817), religious law expert and university teacher
- Conrad Graf (1782–1851), piano maker
- Frederick Miller (1824–1888), founder of the national brewer Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee
- Adolf Gröber (1854–1919), politician, leader of the Centre Party in the Reichstag
- Gustav Merk (1874–1954), Catholic priest and archivist
- Maria Caspar-Filser (1878–1968), painter
- Willy Missmahl (1885–1964), surgeon
- Wilhelm Broeckel (1887–1957), bank and association director
- Josef Keller (1887–1981), confectioner, considered one of the inventors of the Black Forest gateau
- Emil Münch (1891–1961), local politician, District Chief Executive in Tettnang (1947–1957)
- Albert Burkart (1898–1982), artist
- Ludwig Walz (1898–1989), mayor and Righteous Among the Nations
- concentration camps
- Hans-Peter Missmahl (1920–2008), internist
- of new sacred songs
- Niedersachsen
- Eugen Münch (born 1945), entrepreneur, founder of the Rhön-Klinikum
- Franz Schmidberger (born 1946), Catholic priest and Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan(born 1946), officer, former Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
- Peter Schneider (CDU) (born 1958), politician (CDU), Member of Parliament, President of the Savings Banks Association of Baden-Württemberg
- Wolfgang Amann (born 1959), mayor of Geislingen (1998–2014)
- Thomas Tress (born 1966), CEO of Borussia Dortmund, finance and organization
- Germanfootball player
Those associated with the city
- Kaspar of Carp to Pflummern and Talheim (1580), the feudal lord of Pflummern
- Richard Lohrmann (1896–1970), forester and conservationists, led from 1946 to 1961, the Forestry Office Riedlingen
- John Zwick (c. 1496–1542), pastor in Riedlingen 1522 Reformation attempt
- Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), writer, philosopher, officer and entomologist; died in the district hospital Riedlingen
References
- ^ Bürgermeisterwahl 2021, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 3 February 2022.
- Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ "A stroke of luck for Riedlingen". Honorary citizen Winfried Aßfalg, retrieved on 4 December 2010
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