Dietingen Explained

Image Coa:	Wappen Dietingen.png
Coordinates:	48.2056°N 8.6461°W
Image Plan:	Dietingen in RW.svg
State:	Baden-Württemberg
Region:	Freiburg
District:	Rottweil
Elevation:	575
Area:	42.25
Postal Code:	78661
Area Code:	0741 bzw. 07404
Licence:	RW
Gemeindeschlüssel:	08 3 25 011
Website:	www.dietingen.de
Mayor:	Frank Scholz^[1]
Leader Term:	2016 - 24

Dietingen is a municipality in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Geography

Dietingen is located in the Upper Neckar valley between the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura in 544–623 meters altitude, about five kilometers away from the town of Rottweil.

Neighboring communities

The municipality borders to Epfendorf, on the east to Rosenfeld and Zimmern unter der Burg in the Zollernalbkreis, in the south to the county town Rottweil and in the west to Villingendorf.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality Dietingen includes the formerly independent municipalities Böhringen, Gößlingen, Irslingen and Rotenzimmern.

• To Böhringen belonged the village Böhringen and residential spaces Böhringer mill and chapel courtyard.
• To Dietingen belonged before the local government reform in the 1970s the village Dietingen, the castle and farmstead Hohenstein, the farm Tierstein and the living space Hasler-Wasen.
• To Gößlingen belonged the village Gößlingen.
• To Irslingen belonged the village Irslingen, Häuser, chapel Maria Hochheim.

• To Rotenzimmern belonged the village Rotenzimmern and the Bettenberger Hof.

In the hamlet of Irslingen is situated Burgstall Tierstein respectively castle Wildeck.^[2]

Tourism

Tourist trains on weekends in the summer

About Schömberg and Balingen the station Rotenzimmern can be reached over a wheel hiking shuttle from Tübingen. (free bicycle transport on weekends and holidays in the summer).^[3] The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn reaches with coupled railcars from Tübingen to Kleinengstingen the Upper Danube Nature Park and continues by bus till the starting point of the Schlichem hiking trail in Tieringen. Since 2015 an early train allows full-day excursions.^[4] Less experienced hikers can divide the Schlichem hiking trail in stages.^[5]

Freeman

Franz Müller, mayor, received at its adoption in January 1968, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Notes and References

1. https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse
2. Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden. Band VI: Regierungsbezirk Freiburg Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, . S. 492–495
3. Web site: Rad-Wander-Shuttle / Radeln, Mountainbike & E-Bike / Erleben / Startseite / Startseite - Zollernalb Tourismus . 2016-07-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518101158/http://www.zollernalb.com/Startseite/Erleben/Radeln-Mountainbike-E-Bike/Rad-Wander-Shuttle . 2015-05-18 .

4. Rad Wander Shuttle. In: Schwarzwälder Bote. 24. April 2015.

5. Premiere. In: Schwarzwälder Bote. 28. April 2015.