Tengen, Germany

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Tengen
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 47°48′52″N 8°39′33″E / 47.81444°N 8.65917°E / 47.81444; 8.65917Coordinates: 47°48′52″N 8°39′33″E / 47.81444°N 8.65917°E / 47.81444; 8.65917
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Konstanz
Government
• Mayor	Marian Schreier
Area
• Total	61.98 km2 (23.93 sq mi)
Elevation	614 m (2,014 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[1]
• Total	4,690
• Density	76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	78250
Dialling codes	07736
Vehicle registration	KN
Website	www.tengen.de

Lordship (County) of Tengen Herrschaft (Grafschaft) Tengen
11th century–1651
Status	County
Capital	Tengen
Government	County
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	before 1112 11th century
• Sold to Lords of     Klingenberg	1275
• Sold to Habsburgs	1305–87
• Fell to Teutonic Order	1488
• United with Nellenburg	1534
• Pawned to Auersperg	1651
• Auersperg & Tengen     mediatised to Baden	1806
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy of Swabia County of Auersperg

Tengen is a town in the district of Konstanz, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated near the border with Switzerland, 14 kilometres (9 miles) north of Schaffhausen.

Verenahof[]

Verenahof (also known as Büttenharter Hof or Verenahöfe) was a German exclave in Switzerland, administratively part of the German town of (which is now part of the town of Tengen). Geographically, it was separated from Wiechs am Randen by a 200–300-metre wide strip of Swiss territory.

By 1964 a treaty was concluded between Germany and Switzerland, which entered into force on 4 October 1967. The 43-hectare territory, containing three houses and eleven West German citizens, became part of Switzerland.^[2]

Mayors[]

From 1973 to 2015 Helmut Groß was the mayor of Tengen.^[3] His successor is Marian Schreier.^[4]

• 1973–2015: Helmut Groß (* 1948 in Crailsheim)
• since May 2015: Marian Schreier (* 1990 in Stuttgart; SPD)

Education[]

Tengen has a primary school (Grund- u. Werkrealschule Tengen) and a library/school library.^[5][6]

Sons and daughters of the town[]

• Leutnant Hermann Pfeiffer (1890 in Tengen – 1917 in France) was a World War I flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories
• Otto Sauter (born 1961), piccolo trumpeter, especially in baroque music

Tengen

See also[]

• Verenahof

References[]

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