Meßkirch

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

Meßkirch
Coat of arms
Location of Meßkirch within Sigmaringen district
Meßkirch
Meßkirch
Coordinates: 47°59′34″N 9°6′45″E
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionTübingen
DistrictSigmaringen
Subdivisions11
Government
 • MayorArne Zwick
Area
 • Total76.22 km2 (29.43 sq mi)
Elevation
616 m (2,021 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31)[1]
 • Total8,426
 • Density110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
88601–88605
Dialling codes07570, 07575, 07578
Vehicle registrationSIG
Websitewww.messkirch.de

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
Meßkirch (main locality)
with Igelswies and
Schnerkingen		56602465 ha
Dietershofen♯
with Buffenhofen		147405 ha
Heudorf†338787 ha
Langenhart235435 ha
Menningen‡
with Leitishofen♯		458916 ha
Rengetsweiler406505 ha
Ringgenbach♯203499 ha
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

The Renaissance castle at Meßkirch

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.

Master of Meßkirch: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1538

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 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.

References
  1. "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2019". Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). September 2020.


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