Dormettingen
# Dormettingen

Dormettingen is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

## History

In 1805, Dormettingen, previously a possession of the County of Hohenberg and of Austria, became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg. It was assigned in 1810 to Oberamt Spaichingen [de] but in 1842 was reassigned to Oberamt Rottweil [de]. When this district was dissolved in 1938, Dormettingen was assigned to Landkreis Balingen [de]. Dormettingen doubled in size after World War II thanks to growth periods from the 1960s to the 1990s. As part of the 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform [de], Landkreis Balingen was dissolved, and Dormettingen was assigned to the newly-created district of Zollernalb.

## Geography

The municipality (Gemeinde) of Dormettingen covers 6.55 square kilometers (2.53 sq mi) of the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, one of the Federal Republic of Germany's 16 States. It is physically located on the Little Heuberg [de], a plateau above the Schlichem where oil shale can be found in the upper Liassic layers. The village of Dormettingen itself is found in a shallow trough, where it originated as a Haufendorf. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area varies from a low of 580 meters (1,900 ft) Normalnull (NN) to a high of 1,001 meters (3,284 ft) NN.

The Federally-protected Riedbach valley [de] nature reserve is located inside Dormettingen's municipal area.

## Coat of arms

Dormettingen's coat of arms shows two white rake upon a field of red. The pattern is derived from a 19th century seal from the Schultheiß's office that also had a plowshare below the rakes. These items symbolize Dormettingen's agricultural history while it's red-white tincture reference bot the County of Hohenberg and Austria. That tincture, and the exclusion of the plowshare, were decided when the Federal Ministry of the Interior first awarded a coat of arms to Dormettingen on 16 May 1950. A corresponding flag was issued by the Zollernalb district office on 23 August 1982.

## Transportation

Dormettingen is connected to Germany's network of railways by the Balingen–Rottweil line [de], which has a station in Dormettingen itself. Local public transportation is provided by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau [de].

## Citations

* ↑ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse, Staatsanzeiger, accessed 15 September 2021.
* ↑ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2021" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2021] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2022.
* 1 2 3 4 5 "Dormettingen". LEO-BW (in German). Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
