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Stockach
Town
Coat of arms of Stockach
Coat of arms
Location of Stockach within Konstanz district
Lake ConstanceBodenseekreisWaldshut (district)Schwarzwald-Baar-KreisTuttlingen (district)Sigmaringen (district)AachAllensbachBodman-LudwigshafenBüsingen am HochrheinStockachEigeltingenEngenGaienhofenGailingen am HochrheinGottmadingenHilzingenHohenfelsKonstanzMainauMoosMühlhausen-EhingenMühlingenÖhningenOrsingen-NenzingenRadolfzellReichenauReichenauReichenauReichenauRielasingen-WorblingenSingenSteißlingenStockachTengenVolkertshausenSwitzerland
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionFreiburg
DistrictKonstanz
Subdivisions10
Government
 • MayorRainer Stolz
Area
 • Total
69.75 km2 (26.93 sq mi)
Elevation
491 m (1,611 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total
17,490
 • Density250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
78333
Dialling codes07771
Vehicle registrationKN
Websitewww.stockach.de

Stockach is a town in the district of Konstanz, in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Location

It is situated in the Hegau region, about 5 km northwest of Lake Constance, 13 km north of Radolfzell and 25 km northwest of Konstanz.

Stockach includes the central city and 10 villages:

  • Espasingen
  • Hindelwangen
  • Hoppetenzell
  • Mahlspüren im Hegau
  • Mahlspüren im Tal
  • Seelfingen
  • Raithaslach
  • Wahlwies (best village)
  • Winterspüren
  • Zizenhausen

History

Arms of the Counts of Nellenburg (extinct 1422)

The Counts of Nellenburg founded Stockach in the 13th century, the town receiving town privileges in 1283. In 1401 to the Landgraviate of Nellenburg owned the towns of Engen, Tengen, Radolfzell, Stockach, 125 villages, 9 abbeys and 4 mailing stations.

The Counts of Nellenburg became extinct in 1422 and their estates were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1465; hence Stockach was a part of Further Austria until 1805. In the Swabian War of 1499 the troops of the Three Leagues besieged the town but failed to capture it.

During the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria set fire to Stockach. During the French Revolutionary Wars of the Second Coalition two battles were fought here between the French First Republic and the Habsburg Monarchy in 1799 and 1800. In 1810 Stockach finally fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden.

Court of fools in Stockach
Aerial view

Politics

Parties in the Ratshaus

Party Percentage Seats Source
Christian Democratic Union 34.30% 11 [2]
Free Voters 33.38 10
Social Democratic Party 15.89 5
Green Party 9.40 3
Free Democratic Party 7.03 2

Twin towns

Stockach is twinned with:

Personality

Freeman

  • 1993 Franz Ziwey (born 1932), 24 years mayor of Stockach [3]

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Max Cramer (1859-1933), teacher and genealogist
  • Albert Gockel (1860-1927), physicist
  • Karl Friedrich Gegauf (1860-1926), born in Wahlwies, invented and built the first hemstitch sewing machine in the world and laid the foundation for the Bernina Internationalcompany
  • Andreas Renner (born 1959), politician (CDU) and former Minister of Social Affairs of Baden-Württemberg

Personalities who have worked locally

  • Anton Sohn (1769-1841), creator of the Zizenhausener terracottas lived and worked from 1799 until his death in the district Zizenhausen
  • Gustav Holtzrock (1869-1938), painter, lived and worked from 1919 until his death in Stockach
  • Marc Dumitru (born 1986), actor and performer in House of Anubis [4]

References

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Endgültiges Wahlergebnis". City of Stockach. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  3. ^ Jörg Braun (jöb): “Nur kein großes Aufheben”. In: Südkurier vom 16. Dezember 2002
  4. ^ Marc Dumitru. Website der AnubisPedia. Abgerufen am 13. März 2010.
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