Meßkirch

Coat of arms

Meßkirch

Location of Meßkirch within Sigmaringen district

Coordinates: 47°59′34″N 9°6′45″E / 47.99278°N 9.11250°ECoordinates: 47°59′34″N 9°6′45″E / 47.99278°N 9.11250°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Arne Zwick

Area

• Total

76.22 km² (29.43 sq mi)

Population (2013-12-31)^[1]

• Total

8,149

• Density

110/km² (280/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

88601–88605

07570, 07575, 07578

SIG

Website

www.messkirch.de

Meßkirch is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's Zimmern Chronicle (1559–1566).

The municipality is composed of following villages and hamlets:

District	Inhabitants (2010)	Area
Meßkirch (main locality) with Igelswies and Schnerkingen	5660	2465 ha
Dietershofen with Buffenhofen	147	405 ha
Heudorf	338	787 ha
Langenhart	235	435 ha
Menningen with Leitishofen	458	916 ha
Rengetsweiler	406	505 ha
Ringgenbach	203	499 ha
Rohrdorf	800	1611 ha

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

↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2013 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2014.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meßkirch.

Swabian Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical	Augsburg Constance Ellwangen Kempten Abbey Lindau

Secular	Baden Buchau Heiligenberg Hohenzollern-Hechingen Klettgau Liechtenstein Tengen Waldburg Scheer Trauchburg Waldsee Wolfegg Wurzach Zeil Württemberg

Prelates	Baindt Buchau Elchingen Gengenbach Gutenzell Heggbach Irsee Kaisheim Mainau Marchtal Neresheim Ochsenhausen Petershausen Roggenburg Rot Rottenmünster Salmanweiler St. George's in Isny Schussenried Söflingen Ursberg Weingarten Weißenau Wettenhausen Zwiefalten

Counts Lords	Altshausen Baar Bondorf Eberstein Eglingen Eglofs Fugger Jakob Johann Markus Gundelfingen Gutenstein Hausen Heiligenberg Hohenems Hohengeroldseck Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Justingen Kinzigerthal Königsegg and Aulendorf Lustenau Meßkirch Mindelheim / Schwabegg Oberdischingen Öttingen Baldern Öttingen Wallerstein Rechberg Rothenfels and Stauffen Stühlingen and Hohenhöwen Tettnang / Langenargen Thannhausen Wiesensteig

Cities	Aalen Augsburg Biberach Bopfingen Buchau Buchhorn Dinkelsbühl Eßlingen Gengenbach Giengen Heilbronn Isny Kaufbeuren Kempten Leutkirch Lindau Memmingen Nördlingen Offenburg Pfullendorf Ravensburg Reutlingen Rottweil Schwäbisch Gmünd Schwäbisch Hall Überlingen Ulm Wangen Weil Wimpfen Zell

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories

Towns and municipalities in Sigmaringen

Bad Saulgau Beuron Bingen Gammertingen Herbertingen Herdwangen-Schönach Hettingen Hohentengen Illmensee Inzigkofen Krauchenwies Leibertingen Mengen Messkirch Neufra Ostrach Pfullendorf Sauldorf Scheer Schwenningen Sigmaringen Sigmaringendorf Stetten am kalten Markt Veringenstadt Wald

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 127565294 GND: 4038841-4 SUDOC: 112939260 BNF: cb12159525j (data)

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