Öhningen
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Öhningen | |
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Location of Öhningen within Konstanz district  | |
  Öhningen  Öhningen | |
| Coordinates:47°39′41″N8°53′19″E/ 47.66139°N 8.88861°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Konstanz |
| Government | |
| •Mayor(2022–30) | Andreas Schmid[1](CDU) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 28.20 km2(10.89 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 499 m (1,637 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 3,690 |
| • Density | 130/km2(340/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00(CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00(CEST) |
| Postal codes | 78337 |
| Dialling codes | 07735 |
| Vehicle registration | KN |
| Website | www.oehningen.de |
Öhningenis a municipality on the western edge ofLake Constancewhere it forms the border betweenSwitzerlandand the district ofKonstanz(or Constance) inBaden-WürttemberginGermany.
World Heritage Site
[edit]It is home to one or more prehistoricpile-dwelling(or stilt house) settlements that are part of thePrehistoric Pile dwellings around the AlpsUNESCOWorld Heritage Site.[3]
Palaeontology
[edit]The discovery of the fossilAndrias scheuchzeriin 1726 by the Zurich city physicianJohann Jakob Scheuchzerin Öhningen (Dutch: Oeningen) placed this town firmly in the history annals ofpalaeontologybecause Scheuchzer interpreted his find as the skeletal remains of a child who suffered the biblical deluge, and which he referred to asHomo diluvii.Later in the 1770s it was determined to be a fossilized lizard. It was finally identified as thegiant salamanderin 1811 byGeorge Cuvierafter he hacked gently away at the specimen to reveal the limbs. The site at Öhningen has also yielded a rich material of other fossils including many Miocene insects, of which the pioneer student wasOswald Heer.
Twin towns
[edit]Öhningen istwinnedwith:
Mérinchal,France, since 1984
Notable people
[edit]- Florian Schneider,(1947–2020) co-founder of electronic band Kraftwerk[4]
References
[edit]- ^Bürgermeisterwahl Öhningen 2022,Staatsanzeiger.
- ^"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.
- ^UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
- ^"Florian Schneider obituary".7 May 2020.
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