Dußlingen

Dußlingen
Dußlingen
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Dußlingen is located in Germany
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Coordinates 48.4507°N 9.0607°E / 48.4507°N 9.0607°E / 48.4507; 9.0607Coordinates: 48.4507°N 9.0607°E / 48.4507°N 9.0607°E / 48.4507; 9.0607
Administration
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Tübingen
District Tübingen
Mayor Thomas Hölsch
Basic statistics
Area 13.06 km2 (5.04 sq mi)
Elevation 379 m  (1243 ft)
Population 5,571 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 427 /km2 (1,105 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate
Postal code 72144
Area code 07072
Website www.dusslingen.de

Dußlingen is a municipality in the district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The village was named for the first time in the records as 'villa Tuzzilinga' in the year 888. By 1135 it was called Tuzzelingen, in 1216 it was called Tusselingen. The name itself comes from the personal name Tuzzilo, and the -ingen is an old Alemannic suffix. That Dußlingen goes "way back" is proven by artifacts that have been found from the stone age, the Hallstatt age, Latene period, and Roman era.

Like other villages in medieval times, the income from the church and from the farms was distributed to a series of nobles, typically as rewards or in payment for fealty and service. It is often difficult for us to understand these times because things were so different than they are today in terms of property ownership, political and church organization, and so on.

The Knights of Dußlingen were subjects of the Count of Tübingen, and seem to have flourished in the period from 1250 to 1400. They took on the family name of Herter (surnames just coming into vogue during that time), and passed the village property on from generation to generation. The Herters also performed the duties of pastor to the village. Apparently falling on hard time, Jacob Herter with his nephew Hans sold the village to Count Ludwig of Württemberg in 1446. However, Jacob's son Wilhelm ended up getting the property back as a fief because of his stature in the Württemberg court. When he died in 1477 in Basel, Switzerland, he was lauded as "brave Knight Wilhelm Herter of Tübingen, large of body, large of knowledge and wisdom and eloquence, mourned by all, by lordship and noblemen and common folk." The Herter family retained its fief until the death of their last male heir in 1614. (This is just prior to the time when the Dußlingen church records start.)

There used to be a castle in Dußlingen. A part of the wall which surrounded the old castle on the north edge of the village still remains today. It is incorporated into the foundation of the large old timber frame house that was formerly the mayor's house and town hall. Part of the castle moat is still visible today. Still remaining are enormous square foundation stones from the 13th century. A slight bend in the wall seems to point to a polygonal shape, similar to the old Castle of Kilchberg.

References

  1. ^ "Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. 31 December 2009. http://www.statistik-bw.de/Veroeffentl/Statistische_Berichte/3126_10001.pdf. 



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