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Öhningen is a municipality on the western edge of Lake Constance where it forms the border between Switzerland and the district of Konstanz (or Constance) in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Öhningen | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Öhningen within Konstanz district  | |
  Öhningen  Öhningen | |
| Coordinates: 47°39′41″N 8°53′19″E / 47.66139°N 8.88861°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Konstanz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2022–30) | Andreas Schmid[1] (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.20 km2 (10.89 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 499 m (1,637 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 3,690 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 78337 |
| Dialling codes | 07735 |
| Vehicle registration | KN |
| Website | www.oehningen.de |
World Heritage Site
editIt is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.[3]
Palaeontology
editThe discovery of the fossil Andrias scheuchzeri in 1726 by the Zurich city physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in Öhningen placed this town firmly in the history annals of palaeontology because Scheuchzer interpreted his find as the skeletal remains of a child who suffered the biblical deluge, and which he referred to as Homo diluvii. Later in the 1770s it was determined to be a fossilized lizard. It was finally identified as the giant salamander in 1811 by George Cuvier after he hacked gently away at the specimen to reveal the limbs. The site at Öhningen has also yielded a rich material of other fossils including many Miocene insects, of which the pioneer student was Oswald Heer.
Twin towns
editÖhningen is twinned with:
Mérinchal, France, since 1984
Notable people
edit- Florian Schneider, (1947–2020) co-founder of electronic band Kraftwerk [4]
References
edit- ^ Bürgermeisterwahl Öhningen 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
- ^ "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.
- ^ UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
- ^ "Florian Schneider obituary". 7 May 2020.
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