Stockach Explained

Type:Stadt
Image Coa:DEU Stockach COA.svg
Coordinates:47.8514°N 9.0114°W
Image Plan:Stockach in KN.svg
State:Baden-Württemberg
Region:Freiburg
District:Konstanz
Elevation:491
Area:69.75
Postal Code:78333
Area Code:07771
Licence:KN
Gemeindeschlüssel:08 3 35 079
Divisions:10
Website:www.stockach.de
Mayor:Susen Katter[1]
Leader Term:2023 - 31

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
  • Winterspüren
  • Zizenhausen

History

See also: County of Nellenburg. 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.

Politics

Parties in the Ratshaus

PartyPercentageSeatsSource
Christian Democratic Union34.30%11[2]
Free Voters33.3810
Social Democratic Party15.895
Green Party9.403
Free Democratic Party7.032

Twin towns

Stockach is twinned with:

Notable personalities

Notes and References

  1. https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/wahl/buergermeisterwahl-stockach-2023/ Bürgermeisterwahl Stockach 2023
  2. Web site: Endgültiges Wahlergebnis. City of Stockach. 20 April 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110722221358/http://www.stockach.de/Daten/wahldat/335079g.htm. 22 July 2011.
  3. Jörg Braun (jöb): "Nur kein großes Aufheben". In: Südkurier 16 December 2002.
  4. http://www.anubispedia.de/index.php?title=Marc_Dumitru Marc Dumitru