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Bermatingen | |
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Location of Bermatingen within Bodenseekreis district  | |
 Location of Bermatingen | |
  Bermatingen  Bermatingen | |
| Coordinates:47°43′45″N09°21′00″E / 47.72917°N 9.35000°E /47.72917; 9.35000 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Tübingen |
| District | Bodenseekreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2017–25) | Martin Rupp[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 15.45 km2 (5.97 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 440 m (1,440 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 4,302 |
| • Density | 278.4/km2 (721.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 88697 |
| Dialling codes | 07544 |
| Vehicle registration | FN |
| Website | www.bermatingen.de |
Bermatingen is a commune in the district ofBodensee inBaden-Württemberg inGermany.
Bermatingen is located 4 km west ofMarkdorf in the valley of theSeefelder Aach. It is bordered to the north bySalem, the east byDeggenhausertal, the south byMarkdorf, and the west byMeersburg.
The commune comprises two municipalities: Bermatingen (with the villages ofAutenweiler andWiggenweiler), andAhausen. The two municipalities were joined into the same commune on 1 January 1973.
Alemannian farmers settled in the region in the 5th-7th Centuries. The first mention of Bermatingen is in 779 asPermodingas, in which Ato and his wife Herosta donated the village toSt Gall's Abbey in modernSwitzerland. A family of knights of Bermatingen are mentioned beginning in 1166, and they constructed a castle atBurg Bermatingen to the northeast of the town. The last mention of the family is in 1303. The village later passed to the ministerialis family of theSchenk von Ittendorf, who sold their rights to the town toSalem Abbey in 1390.
In 1525 during theGerman Peasants' War,Eitelhans Ziegelmüller, one of the peasant commanders, took Bermatingen and used it as a base to attack towns, castles and monasteries in the surrounding region as far asBuchhorn (modern Friedrichshafen). The peasants marched to battle atWeingarten by late April where they made peace with the forces of the Swabian League underGeorge III Truchsess of Waldburg-Zeil, agreeing to end the insurrection and returning property to its feudal owners in exchange for improved conditions and right to arbitration in disputes.
Bermatingen was devastated by a fire in 1590 and the Salem abbotPeter Müller directed the effort to reconstruct the town.
In theReichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, in which the principalities of the ecclesiastic rulers were dispersed to the counts and princes of the empire, Bermatingen with the rest of the territory of Salem Abbey was disbursed to theElectorate of Baden.
Ahausen was first mentioned in a donation on 10 May 752 asHahahusir to St Galls' Abbey. The village later passed to the Schenks von Ittendorf,Lindau Abbey, the Free City ofÜberlingen in 1434,Fahr Abbey in 1651, temporarily toWeingarten Abbey in 1693, and finally to thePrince-Bishopric of Constance later that year. The Prince-Bishopric administered Ahausen with neighbouring townIttendorf (inMarkdorf commune).
Ahausen passed to the Electorate of Baden in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803.
Ahausen was subject to the heavy flooding of the Seefelder Aach for much of its history. The last catastrophic flood was in 1906 before the construction of a dam and corrective works for the flow of the river.
| Bermatingen The first use of the bear as the symbol of the town dates from a private contract between two villagers in 1506. It is hypothesised the bear (German:bär) is a canting of the prefixPer, from the ancient name of the town (Permodingas). |
 | Ahausen The arms were adopted in 1902. The gold and green quarters are derived from the arms of the Lords ofEllerbach, which were proven as resident to the town in the 15th Century. The shell is in reference to St James' Chapel in the town. |
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