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Öhningen is a town on the western edge of Lake Constance where it forms the border between Switzerland and the district of Konstanz (or Constance) in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Öhningen
Municipality
Location of Öhningen within Konstanz district
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Öhningen
Öhningen
Coordinates: 47°39′41″N 8°53′19″E
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionFreiburg
DistrictKonstanz
Government
  Mayor (201422) Andreas Schmid[1]
Area
  Total28.20 km2 (10.89 sq mi)
Elevation
499 m (1,637 ft)
Population
 (2020-12-31)[2]
  Total3,696
  Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
78337
Dialling codes07735
Vehicle registrationKN
Websitewww.oehningen.de

World heritage site


It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.[3]


Palaeontology


The discovery of the fossil Andrias scheuchzeri in 1726 by the Zurich city physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer in Öhningen (Dutch: Oeningen) placed this town firmly in the history annals of palaeontology because Scheuchzer interpreted his find as the skeletal remains of a child who suffered the biblical deluge, and which he referred to as Homo diluvii. Later in the 1770s it was determined to be a fossilized lizard and it was finally identified as the giant salamander in 1811 by George Cuvier after 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 was Oswald Heer.


Twin towns


Öhningen is twinned with:


Notable people



References


  1. Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 13 September 2021.
  2. "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2020" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2020] (CSV). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). June 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  3. UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
  4. "Florian Schneider obituary". 7 May 2020.



На других языках


- [en] Öhningen

[ru] Энинген

Энинген (нем. Öhningen) — коммуна в Германии, в земле Баден-Вюртемберг.



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