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Argenbühl

Field	Value
image_coa	Argenbuehl Wappen.svg
image_skyline	Ratzenried Castle.jpg
image_caption	Ratzenried village in Argenbühl, including the castle of Ratzenried and the tower of the main church
coordinates
image_plan	Argenbühl in RV.svg
state	Baden-Württemberg
region	Tübingen
district	Ravensburg
elevation	681
area	76.37
postal_code	88260
area_code	07566
licence	RV
Gemeindeschlüssel	08 4 36 094
website	www.argenbuehl.de
mayor	Roland Sauter
leader_term	2023–31

Argenbühl is a municipality in the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

No actual town or urban settlement is called Argenbühl; rather, the municipality is an administrative amalgamation of several neighbouring villages with different names. The municipal administrative headquarters are located in the village of Eisenharz, with local branch offices also in the villages of Christazhofen, Eglofs, and Ratzenried.

Geographically, it lies in the western part of the Prealpine region of the Allgäu, which in turn is part of the larger geographical region of Swabia in southern Germany. Argenbühl borders the municipalities of Kißlegg and Leutkirch im Allgäu to the north, Wangen im Allgäu to the west, Isny im Allgäu to the east, and the Bavarian municipalities of Hergatz, Heimenkirch, Röthenbach (Allgäu), and Gestratz to the south.

The name comes from the Argen River, whose two main constituent streams delimit part of the municipality's borders, and Bühl, which is a Southern German word for "hill", reflecting the municipality's hilly landscape.

Geography

Argenbühl lies at an altitude from 662 to 761 m (2172 to 2497 ft) AMSL, between the cities of Wangen and Isny.

The municipality includes the following settlements (2006 population data):

Christazhofen (943 inhabitants, 15.44 km2 / 5.96 mi2)
Eglofs (1496 inhabitants, 23.40 km2 / 9.03 mi2)
Eisenharz (1446 inhabitants, 13.38 km2 / 5.17 mi2)
Göttlishofen (490 inhabitants, 7.22 km2 / 2.79 mi2)
Ratzenried (1171 inhabitants, 13.77 km2 / 5.32 mi2)
Siggen (171 inhabitants, 3.17 km2 / 1.22 mi2)

History

The municipality of Argenbühl has existed since 1 January 1972, when the previously independent municipalities of Christazhofen, Eglofs, Eisenharz, Göttlishofen, Ratzenried, and Siggen were merged into the present one. Their history is told in great detail in the Description of the Wangen Administrative District (Beschreibung des Oberamts Wangen), published in 1841. In 1810, all the above-mentioned communities came under the jurisdiction of the Wangen district, which in 1973 became part of the Ravensburg district.

[[File:Wappen Ratzenried.png	50px	Ratzenried]]

Religion

Argenbühl has six Roman Catholic parishes. The region's few Lutheran followers attend their church in nearby Wangen im Allgäu.

Politics

Municipal council

The election for the municipal council (Gemeinderat) on 7 June 2009 had the following results:

CDU 68.6% - 12 seats (-1)
Independent 31.4% - 5 seats (+2)

Sister towns

ITA Capannoli, Italy
POL Cieszanów, Poland
Saxony Berbisdorf (part of Radeburg, Saxony), Germany

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

The municipality is linked by bus lines to neighbouring cities, such as Leutkirch, Isny, and Wangen. The lines are operated by the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Local Transport Administration (Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund), popularly known as bodo. In the past, a stop of the Kißlegg–Hergatz railway branch was in Ratzenried.

Education

Eglofs and Ratzenried have each an elementary and a general secondary school (Hauptschule) that also works as a Werkrealschule. In Christazhofen and Eisenharz are only elementary schools. Four kindergartens also are in the municipality.

Culture and sights

Museums

The village of Ratzenried has a local history museum, while Eglofs hosts the Allgäu-Swabian Music Archive (Allgäu-Schwäbische Musikarchiv). In 2009, a museum was also opened in Eisenharz, with exhibits about the history of the place and the local dairy industry of the Wunderlich and Nestlé companies.

Notable buildings

The Eglofs Baroque church is part of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route (Oberschwäbische Barockstraße).
The castle at Ratzenried is the administrative headquarters of the Humboldt-Institut language school conglomerate.
The Round Chapel of Eisenharz is a medieval chapel that is the destination of a yearly Boxing Day Catholic procession.

Notable people

Gebhard of Razenried (1583–1652), Jesuit priest, and rector of the Eichstätt Jesuit College from 1621–1631 and 1637 of the Augsburg college
Konstantin Rösch (1869–1944), theologian
Anton Kulmus (1900-1989), developer and manufacturer of agricultural vehicles
Anton Morent (1924–2006), transportation entrepreneur
Helmut Maucher (1927-2018), former CEO of Nestlé

References

[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/wahl/buergermeisterwahl-argenbuehl-2023/ Bürgermeisterwahl Argenbühl 2023], Staatsanzeiger. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
"Luftkurort Argenbühl im Allgäu - Rathaus".
""Bühl" at Beolingus - TU Chemnitz - German/English Dictionary".
Prof. Pauly. (1841). "Beschreibung des Oberamts Wangen". J. G. Cotta.
(May 2022). "Ergebnis Gemeinderatswahl 2009 Argenbühl".
""Sonne" ist ein gemütliches Plätzchen - der Online-Dienst für die Region - Startseite - schwaebische.de".
Franz Sales Romstöck: ''Zur Statistik des Jesuiten-Collegiums in Eichstätt''. Eichstätt, 1902, S. 8; Bernhard Duhr: ''Geschichte der Jesuiten in den Ländern deutscher Zunge''. 2. Bd., 1. Teil, Freiburg i. Br. 1913, S. 228, 239, 610.

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