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Dormettingen

German municipality

Field	Value
name	Dormettingen
type	Gemeinde
image_photo	KircheDormettingenWinter.JPG
image_caption	St. Matthew's Church, Dormettingen
image_coa	Wappen Dormettingen.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Dormettingen in BL.svg
state	Baden-Württemberg
region	Tübingen
district	Zollernalbkreis
elevation	644
area	6.55
mayor	Anton Müller
leader_term	2017–25
postal_code	72358
area_code	07427
licence	BL
Gemeindeschlüssel	08 4 17 015
website

Dormettingen is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

History

In 1805, Dormettingen, previously a possession of the County of Hohenberg and of Austria, became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg. It was assigned in 1810 to but in 1842 was reassigned to . When this district was dissolved in 1938, Dormettingen was assigned to . Dormettingen doubled in size after World War II thanks to growth periods from the 1960s to the 1990s. As part of the , Landkreis Balingen was dissolved, and Dormettingen was assigned to the newly created district of Zollernalb.

Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Dormettingen covers 6.55 km2 of the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, one of the Federal Republic of Germany's 16 States. It is physically located on the , a plateau above the Schlichem where oil shale can be found in the upper Liassic layers. The village of Dormettingen itself is found in a shallow trough, where it originated as a Haufendorf. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area varies from a low of 580 m Normalnull (NN) to a high of 1001 m NN.

The Federally-protected nature reserve is located inside Dormettingen's municipal area.

Coat of arms

Dormettingen's coat of arms shows two white rake upon a field of red. The pattern is derived from a 19th-century seal from the Schultheiß's office that also had a plowshare below the rakes. These items symbolize Dormettingen's agricultural history while its red-white tincture reference bot the County of Hohenberg and Austria. That tincture, and the exclusion of the plowshare, were decided when the Federal Ministry of the Interior first awarded a coat of arms to Dormettingen on 16 May 1950. A corresponding flag was issued by the Zollernalb district office on 23 August 1982.

Transportation

Dormettingen is connected to Germany's network of railways by the , which has a station in Dormettingen itself. Local public transportation is provided by the .

Citations

References

[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 15 September 2021.
"Dormettingen". [[Baden-Württemberg]].

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