Eriskirch is a municipality in the Bodensee district of

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History

Eriskirch was a possession of the Free City of (now

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) until it was annexed by the Electorate of Bavaria in 1803. In 1810, it was ceded to the

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, whose government assigned the municipality to . That district was reformed in 1938 as , under whose jurisdiction Eriskirch remained. As part of the , Eriskirch was reassigned to the newly organized Bodensee district.

Geography

The municipality ('' Gemeinde'') of Eriskirch is found in the Bodensee district of

, one of the 16 States of the Federal Republic of Germany. Eriskirch lies at the southeast edge of the district, on the shores of

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, whose most characterizes the municipal area's landscape. The shore of Lake Constance within Eriskirch's municipal area is covered by an alluvial forest. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a high of

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(NN) to a low of NN by Lake Constance. A portion of the Federally protected

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is located in Eriskirch's municipal area.

Politics

Eriskirch has one borough, Eriskirch, and 16 villages: Braitenrain, Dillmannshof, Gmünd, Hofstatt, Knöbelhof, Langenacker, Mariabrunn, Moos, Oberbaumgarten, Röcken, Schlatt, Schoppenhof, Schussenreute, Unterbaumgarten, Wolfzennen, and Ziegelhaus. In addition, the abandoned villages of Adelshofen, Mönchloh, and Vogelsang are located in the municipal area.

Coat of arms

Eriskirch's

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is divided in half ''party per pale'' into a left,

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and a right,

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half. In the blue field is a '' fleur de lis'', adopted as a municipal motif around 1936. Opposite it is a church, with

white White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

walls and a blue roof, referring to the name of the municipality. This coat of arms was awarded by the provisional post-World War II

Württemberg-Hohenzollern Württemberg-Hohenzollern was a West Germany, West German state created in 1945 as part of the French Allied Occupation Zones in Germany, post-World War II occupation zone. Its capital was Tübingen. In 1952, it was merged into the newly founded ...

government on 30 June 1952 and again by the Bodensee district office on 10 April 1981. Accompanying the second awarding was a municipal flag.

References

External links

* (in German) {{Authority control Bodenseekreis