Dauchingen (

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: ''Dauchinge'') is a municipality in the district of

Schwarzwald-Baar Schwarzwald-Baar () is a (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Constance, the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and the districts Waldshut, Br ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

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History

Some of the earliest evidence of human habitation of the area of Dauchingen are

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and suggest a ''

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'' from between the years 88 to 138 AD. The first settlements in the area however are

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and dates to 270 AD. The first documentation of a settlement at Dauchingen comes from 1092 and refers to it "Tuchingen", a property of

St. George's Abbey in the Black Forest St. George's Abbey in the Black Forest (Kloster Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald) was a Benedictine monastery in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald in the southern Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History Foundation to Reformation The monastery ...

. Ownership of Dauchingen passed to the Duchy of Zähringen, whose ruling house went extinct in 1218, and then to the , and then to County of Fürstenberg. In 1405, the Fürstenbergs renounced their claim to Dauchingen in favor of the

County of Zollern The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. T ...

. The town was sold in 1479 by Gregor von Roggwil of

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to the Free Imperial City of

Rottweil Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has over 25,000 ...

. In 1803, Rottweil was

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to the

Electorate of Württemberg The Electorate of Württemberg was a short-lived state of the Holy Roman Empire on the right bank of the Rhine. In 1803, the Imperial diet raised the Duchy of Württemberg to an Electorate, the highest form of a princedom in the Holy Roman Empire. ...

, and Dauchingen thus became a possession of Württemberg. The town was assigned in 1806 or 1808 to . In October 1810, the now

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg ( ) was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Electorate of Württemberg, which existed from 1803 to 1806. Geogr ...

ceded Dauchingen to the

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per the . Dauchingen was assigned to the district of Villingen. As part of the , that district was dissolved and replaced with the new

district, to which Dauchingen was assigned. The town of Dauchingen began a steady

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to the south in the latter half of the 1970s.

Geography

Dauchingen is a municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of the

district of

, one of the 16 states of the

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. The municipality lies at the northern edge of the district, along its border with

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. Inside Schwarzwald-Baar, Dauchingen borders

Villingen-Schwenningen Villingen-Schwenningen (; Low Alemannic: ''Villinge-Schwenninge'') is a city in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in southern Baden-Württemberg, in south-western Germany. It had 89,743 inhabitants as of September 2024. History In the Middle Ages, ...

. Dauchingen is physically located in the Baar region. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) to a low of NN.

Coat of arms

The

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for Dauchingen displays a

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, facing to the right and holding a

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plowshare in its forepaws, upon a

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. This pattern was derived from a town seal used in 1807 that showed the Zähringen Lion, holding the letter "D" in its paws. The present coat of arms was designed by the in 1902, but it was not selected by the municipal council until after 1945. The coat of arms received approval for official use by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which also issued an accompanying flag, on 18 August 1961.

Transportation

Dauchingen is connected to Germany's network of roadways by the

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and federal roadways and

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. It is also connected to Germany's railways by the Rottweil–Villingen railway, which passes through the municipality.

References

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* {{Authority control Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis Populated places on the Neckar basin Populated riverside places in Germany