Deggenhausen is a town in the commune

Deggenhausertal Deggenhausertal is a municipality in the district of Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. __TOC__ Geography Deggenhausertal is located in two hilly valleys between the mountains of Gehrenberg and Höchsten. It is bordered to the west by ...

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. Deggenhausertal itself is a part of the district Bodenseekreis which is on the north shore of Lake Constanz.

Geography

Deggenhausen is located in valley, alongside the small river of the Deggenhauser Ach, about 8 km east southeast of

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. The municipality of Deggenhausen also includes the villages Ellenfurt and Obersiggingen.

History

Located northeast of the village was an eponymous castle, the ancestral home of the House of Deggenhausen which has been attested to the period 1137–1314. After the Deggenhausen family became extinct, the region passed to the Lords of Markdorf, who later sold it to the

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. In 1483 the prince-bishopric in turn sold the region to the Counts of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg.Deggenhausen
eggenhausertal.de After the extinction of the line Werdenberg-Heiligenberg-Sigmaringen-Trochtelfingen in 1534, Deggenhausen passed to the

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. In 1806 Fürstenberg was mediatised by the

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References

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