Bisingen


Bisingen is a municipality in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

History

The towns of Bisingen,,, and were part of, a of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and, from 1850, the Kingdom of Prussia. The Oberamt was dissolved in 1925 and mixed with into the new. Over the 1930s, the population of Romani that had grown up in Steinhof to escape persecution in Württemberg was, despite the efforts of local lawyer Julius Klink, expelled. During the later part of World War II, from August 1944 to March 1945, operated at Bisingen. After the war, Bisingen began expanding dramatically. The town itself grew until the 1970s to the north and east, and politically over the same decade with the merging of Wessingen and Zimmern into Bisingen in 1972, followed by Thanheim in 1974. When, Hechingen's district was as a consequence dissolved, and Bisingen was assigned to the new Zollernalb district. Bisingen's industrial capacity began expanding in the 1980s, and this growth continued well into the 1990s.

Geography

Bisingen is physically located along the northern edge of the Swabian Jura, between the Hundsrücken and the Hohenzollern mountains. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a low of Normalnull on the Klingenbach to a high of NN at the top of the Zeller Horn.
Portions of the Federally-protected,, and nature reserves are located in Bisingen.

Political geography

The municipality of Bisingen covers of the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The abandoned villages of Hofen and Weiler are located within Bisingen. Weiler was first mentioned in 1328 as "Wiler hinter Zollern" and vanished by the 15th century; it likely belonged to the pilgrimage church.

Coat of arms

Bisingen's municipal coat of arms is divided party per pale into a red field on the left and a yellow one on the right. Inside the red portion is a yellow miter while in the yellow half is half of a red gear wheel. These are, respectively, references to the Lords of Bisingen and to Bisingen's industry. This pattern was first approved by the provisional government of Württemberg-Hohenzollern on 14 September 1953. The Zollernalb district office reapproved the pattern for municipal use on 30 June 1982.

Transportation

Bisingen is connected to Germany's network of highways by Bundesstraße 27 and to its railways by the Tübingen–Sigmaringen railway. Public transport is provided by the.