Stetten am kalten Markt

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Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Stetten am kalten Markt within Sigmaringen district

(2015–23) Maik Lehn^[1]Area

• Total56.47 km² (21.80 sq mi)Elevation

768 m (2,520 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total4,821 • Density85/km² (220/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

72506–72510

Dialling codes07573Vehicle registrationSIGWebsitewww.stetten-akm.de

Stetten am kalten Markt (Stetten a.k.M.) is a municipality in the Sigmaringen district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Towns

The towns of Nusplingen, Frohnstetten, Storzingen and Glashütte are part of Stetten am kalten Markt.

History

The area was documented early as being in the possession of the Reichenau monastery as "Stetten am kalten Markt." Within the Heuberg Training Area there is the legendary Dreibannmarke, also called the "Bahn", a 17th-century border, which today marks the border between three different municipalities, formerly in the three states of Württemberg, Baden, and Hohenzollern. The meadow at the Dreibannmarke served as a stopping place for traveling merchants, wagons and craftsmen. With care it is possible to identify traces of the border. After the inauguration of the firing ranges, a meadow in Meßstetten was allocated as a camping site at the edge of the restricted area. Until 1835 merchandise was smuggled over the customs borders guarded by local hunters. Coffee smuggler Haux had been killed on 21 July 1831 in Pfaffental.

On March 1, 1945, Air Force pilot second lieutenant Lothar Sieber died about 7 kilometers south of the Heuberg Military Training Area with the Heuberg barracks, the location of the first manned rocket flight in history. Sieber was piloting a one-man rocket of the type "Bachem Ba 349 Natter".

Mayors

1945–1957: Dominikus Gallus
1957–1966: Wilhelm Klek
1966–1991 Horst Lupfer
1991–2015: Gregor Hipp (CDU)
since 2015: Maik Lehn (independent)

Economics

Stetten is a large German Federal Armed Forces location; approximately 2,200 soldiers are stationed in the area, attached to the Heuberg troop exercise area. According to the city administration, about 1,300 people per annum are transferred to the master garrison in Stetten for military service. The troop exercise area was first set up after 1910. From 1945 to 1959 it was under the administration of the French armed forces (FFA). Even after administration of the facility was assumed by the German Federal Armed Forces, a section was reserved for the FFA until 1997.

Personalities

Michael Beck (born 1960; politician), mayor of Tuttlingen
Wolfgang Urban (born 1948), Deacon and Curator of the Museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Rottenburg am Neckar, Lecturer at the University of Tübingen

Stolpersteine

Salomon Leibowitsch (1885–1933),killed in Stetten on 9.09.1933 ^[3]

References

^ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 15 September 2021.
^ "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.
^ Stolperstein