Hirrlingen

Sister cities

• Minerbio

History

The first written mention of Hirrlingen was on a document from the All Saints Monastery in Schaffhausen written in the year 1091. Around 1100, the Lords of Hirrlingen first appeared in historical sources. They lived and owned property or rights in and around Hirrlingen in the Duchy of Swabia. After the Lords of Hirrlingen went extinct, their property in Hirrlingen went to the Counts of Hohenberg in the 13th century who in turn enfeoffed the Lords of Ow. Through acquisitions made in the 15th and 16th century, the Ow established local lordship over Hirrlingen, which as a manor was part of the souvereignty of Further Austria. In 1557/1558, the Lords of Ow built the Hirrlingen castle, the St. Martin Church in 1606 and a St.-Sebastianus Brotherhood in the 18th century. In the 14th century, a women's monastery of the Dominican Order developed out of a community of religious women. The Bebenhausen Abbey also held some property in Hirrlingen for some time. In 1709, the line of the Lords of Hirrlingen died out. Between 1749 and 1790, the Counts of Attems ruled over Hirrlingen. In 1789, the Dominican Monastrary was secularized. In 1805, Hirrlingen went to the Electorate of Württemberg, which in 1806 turned into the Kingdom of Württemberg. When a was implemented in 1810, Hirrlingen was assigned to the so-called, an administrative unit. In 1821, the castle was sold to the Municipality of Hirrlingen and was subsequently used as a town hall. During the district reform in Württemberg in the Nazi era, the municipality became part of the district of Tübingen in 1938. In 1945, the village became part of the French occupation zone and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern, which merged with the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

Geography

Hirrlingen is located roughly nine kilometers south west of Rotteburg am Neckar and around nine kilometers north west of Hechingen at the border of the landscape conservation area Rammert above the Starzel. Parts of the environmental protection zones Kapfhalde and Espenloch-Hintere Halde are located within the municipality Hirrlingen. The total area of the municipality of Hirrlingen amounts to 1281hectare. The cities and municipalities listed below border the municipality Hirrlingen. They are listed in clockwise order beginning in the north. They belong to the district of Tübingen or the district Zollernalbkreis¹ respectively: Rottenburg am Neckar, Bodelshausen, Hechingen¹, Rangendingen¹ and Starzach. The municipality includes the village Hirrlingen and the Houses Obere Mühle and Untere Mühle, which translates to Upper Mill and Lower Mill. The municipality also includes several abandoned villages. Bossenhausen an abandoned village in the East of the municipality was first mentioned as Bossenhusen in 1289 and was likely already abandoned in 1289. In the first half of the 12th century, an Ortschaft called Marpach or Marbach was located in what is today the Flur Harbach. Starzach includes parts of the nature reserve of Espenloch-Hintere Halde as well as the landscape conservation areas Rauher Rammert and Katzenbachtal. Parts of the municipal area belong to the Special Areas of Conservation Rammert and Neckar and side valleys at Rottenburg.

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,710
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,642
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,525
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,277
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,863
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,781
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,766
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,574

Most recent

• M 3.4 — 2022-10-16
  Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
• M 4 — 2022-07-09
  2 km NNE of Grosselfingen, Germany
• M 4.1 — 2021-06-26
  2 km SE of Hœrdt, France
• M 3.1 — 2008-12-25
  3 km NNW of Saulgau, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-12-12
  2 km ESE of Nehren, Germany
• M 2.8 — 2008-11-25
  1 km S of Steinmauern, Germany