Denzlingen
Encyclopedia
Denzlingen is a municipality
in the district of Emmendingen
, in Baden-Württemberg
, Germany
. It is situated 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Freiburg
.
(Oberrheinische Tiefebene) at the edge of the Black Forest
(Schwarzwald) between the river Elz in the north and the Glotter
which runs through the southern part of the town. The Glotter Valley (Glottertal) is to the east, and the Elz Valley (Elztal) to the northeast. The westernmost foothills of the Black Forest and the town of Freiamt
lie to the north. From northwest to southwest the Upper Rhine Valley allows a clear view of the Kaiserstuhl
hills and of the Vosges Mountains
on the French side of the Rhine. The Mauracher Berg is a small mountain in the north of the township with some interesting geological features.
, Sexau
and Waldkirch
in the district of Emmendingen, Glottertal
, Heuweiler
and Gundelfingen
in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
, and Vörstetten
in the district of Emmendingen.
. It was named after the Alemannic
tribal chief Denzilo who lived here in the 5th century. The first explicit mention of the town dates back to the year 984. Medieval Denzlingen consisted of two separate settlements, Niederdorf and Oberdorf (Lower Village and Upper Village), both on the Glotter and alongside an old road from Riegel to the Glottertal. The two settlements eventually grew together into one stretched-out town, which led to the sobriquet of Langendenzlingen, meaning "Long Denzlingen".
The town was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War
. The Thirty Years War veteran Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
described the battle between Imperial and Swedish troops at Denzlingen in the novel Simplicius Simplicissimus.
The town has grown rapidly since the 19th century, especially after being connected to the Baden
railroad system in 1845.
was consecrated in 1888. Today, the Catholic community meets in St. James Church, which was built in the years 1975 and 1976. Other religious denominations (mostly members of the New Apostolic Church
and Baptists) account for about 1% of the population, while 23% remain nondenominational.
As of 31 December of each year; source: Gemeinde Denzlingen, Zahlenspiegel
of Denzlingen is Or
a bend
gules
(the coat of arms of Baden
) impaling
Azure
a plowshare
argent
. The town's seal
shows the same, and dates to 1458.
Municipalities of Germany
Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...
in the district of Emmendingen
Emmendingen (district)
Emmendingen is a district in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Ortenaukreis, Schwarzwald-Baar, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and the district-free city Freiburg...
, in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is situated 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
.
Geography
Denzlingen is located in the Upper Rhine ValleyUpper Rhine
The Upper Rhine is the section of the Rhine in the Upper Rhine Plain between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany. The river is marked by Rhine-kilometers 170 to 529 ....
(Oberrheinische Tiefebene) at the edge of the Black Forest
Black Forest
The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres ....
(Schwarzwald) between the river Elz in the north and the Glotter
Glotter
Glotter is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.-See also:*List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg...
which runs through the southern part of the town. The Glotter Valley (Glottertal) is to the east, and the Elz Valley (Elztal) to the northeast. The westernmost foothills of the Black Forest and the town of Freiamt
Freiamt
Freiamt is a town in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
lie to the north. From northwest to southwest the Upper Rhine Valley allows a clear view of the Kaiserstuhl
Kaiserstuhl
The „Kaiserstuhl“ is a relatively low mountain range – a Mittelgebirge – with a maximal height of 556.6 m above sea level. It is of volcanic origin and located in the South West of Baden-Württemberg, Germany in the districts of Emmendingen and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald...
hills and of the Vosges Mountains
Vosges mountains
For the department of France of the same name, see Vosges.The Vosges are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany. They extend along the west side of the Rhine valley in a northnortheast direction, mainly from Belfort to Saverne...
on the French side of the Rhine. The Mauracher Berg is a small mountain in the north of the township with some interesting geological features.
Neighboring municipalities
Clockwise, starting in the north, Denzlingen is surrounded by EmmendingenEmmendingen
Emmendingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Emmendingen of Germany. It is located at the Elz River, north of Freiburg im Breisgau...
, Sexau
Sexau
Sexau is a village in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.-Geography:Sexau is at the beginning of the valley "Brettenbachtal". It is located on the crossing from the region of the Black Forest to the plains of the river Rhein ....
and Waldkirch
Waldkirch
Waldkirch is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as "the place of mechanical organs", where fairground organs are manufactured and played on the streets from well-known manufacturers, such as A. Ruth and Sohn, Bruder and Carl Frei .-Sights:* The Catholic Church St...
in the district of Emmendingen, Glottertal
Glottertal
Glottertal is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.-History:From 1567 till the Napoleonic Wars the area was part of Further Austria and therefore part of the Habsburg Monarchy...
, Heuweiler
Heuweiler
Heuweiler is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
and Gundelfingen
Gundelfingen
Gundelfingen im Breisgau is a municipality directly north of the city Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.Gundelfingen is one of the larger municipalities in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district...
in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald
Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is a district in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Emmendingen, Schwarzwald-Baar, Waldshut, Lörrach and the French départements of the Haut-Rhin and the Bas-Rhin. The district-free city of Freiburg is surrounded by the district...
, and Vörstetten
Vörstetten
Vörstetten is a town in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.-References:...
in the district of Emmendingen.
History
Denzlingen was already settled during the time of the Roman EmpireRoman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. It was named after the Alemannic
Alamanni
The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic tribes located around the upper Rhine river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Roman Emperor Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211 to 217 and claimed thereby to be...
tribal chief Denzilo who lived here in the 5th century. The first explicit mention of the town dates back to the year 984. Medieval Denzlingen consisted of two separate settlements, Niederdorf and Oberdorf (Lower Village and Upper Village), both on the Glotter and alongside an old road from Riegel to the Glottertal. The two settlements eventually grew together into one stretched-out town, which led to the sobriquet of Langendenzlingen, meaning "Long Denzlingen".
The town was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
. The Thirty Years War veteran Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a German author.-Biography:Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War...
described the battle between Imperial and Swedish troops at Denzlingen in the novel Simplicius Simplicissimus.
The town has grown rapidly since the 19th century, especially after being connected to the Baden
Baden
Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....
railroad system in 1845.
Religion
As a former part of the Margraviate Baden, Denzlingen was predominantly Protestant. Today, 34% of the residents are Protestant. As most of the people moving to Denzlingen were Roman Catholics, the balance shifted, and today 42% of the inhabitants are Catholic. The first Catholic church after the ReformationProtestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
was consecrated in 1888. Today, the Catholic community meets in St. James Church, which was built in the years 1975 and 1976. Other religious denominations (mostly members of the New Apostolic Church
New Apostolic Church
The New Apostolic Church is a chiliastic church, converted to Protestantism as a free church from the Catholic Apostolic Church. The church has existed since 1879 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands...
and Baptists) account for about 1% of the population, while 23% remain nondenominational.
Population
| Year | 1834 | 1910 | 1939 | 1950 | 1970 | 1990 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| Population | 1,207 | 1,865 | 2,488 | 2,937 | 6,458 | 11,567 | 13,457 | 13,517 | 13,557 |
As of 31 December of each year; source: Gemeinde Denzlingen, Zahlenspiegel
Civil parish
The last elections (June 7, 2009) led to the following allocation of seats:| CDU Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
25.3 % | -2.7 | 6 seats | ±0 |
| SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
19.7 % | -2.3 | 4 seats | -1 |
| FDP Free Democratic Party (Germany) The Free Democratic Party , abbreviated to FDP, is a centre-right classical liberal political party in Germany. It is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union in the German federal government... /DVP Democratic People's Party (Germany) Democratic People's Party was the name of two liberal parties in southern Germany. It is not to be confused with the Deutsche Volkspartei of 1918 which used the same abbreviation DVP.... |
16.8 % | -2.1 | 4 seats | ±0 |
| Die Grünen Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance '90/The Greens is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party and Alliance 90 in 1993. Its leaders are Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir... |
16.4 % | -0.7 | 4 seats | ±0 |
| FWG Free Voters Free Voters is a German concept in which an association of persons participates in an election without having the status of a registered political party. Usually it is a locally organized group of voters in the form of a registered association . In most cases, Free Voters are active only at the... |
12.0 % | -0.9 | 2 seats | -1 |
| Bürgeraktion Pro Storch | 9.8 % | n.a. | 2 seats | n.a |
Mayor
After the death of mayor Lothar Fischer in April 2009, Markus Hollemann (ÖDP) was elected as his successor on the 19th of June 2009.Coat of arms
The coat of armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
of Denzlingen is Or
Or (heraldry)
In heraldry, Or is the tincture of gold and, together with argent , belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a field of evenly spaced dots...
a bend
Bend (heraldry)
In heraldry, a bend is a coloured band running from the upper right corner of the shield to the lower left . Writers differ in how much of the field they say it covers, ranging from one-fifth up to one-third...
gules
Gules
In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation....
(the coat of arms of Baden
Coat of arms of Baden
The coat of arms of Baden comes from the personal arms of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, the traditional rulers of the region. Following the revolution and abolition of the Grand Duchy in 1918, the arms and griffin supporters were usurped from the Grand Dukes by the new republic to...
) impaling
Impalement (heraldry)
In heraldry, impalement is the combination of two coats of arms side-by-side in one shield or escutcheon to denote union, most often that of a husband and wife, but also for ecclesiastical use...
Azure
Azure
In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation....
a plowshare
Plowshare
In agriculture, a plowshare is a component of a plow . It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard which closely follows the coulter when plowing....
argent
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...
. The town's seal
Seal (contract law)
In the law, a seal affixed to a contract or other legal instrument has had special legal significance at various times in the jurisdictions that recognise it...
shows the same, and dates to 1458.
Twin cities
Denzlingen is twinned with three European cities:- In 1974 with the FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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External links
- http://www.denzlingen.de/ Town website