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Pfullendorf is a small historic city in the district of Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen (district)

Sigmaringen is a district in the south of Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Reutlingen , Biberach , Ravensburg , Bodenseekreis, Constance and Zollernalbkreis....
 in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg

Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....
 in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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location is in the district of Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen (district)

Sigmaringen is a district in the south of Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Reutlingen , Biberach , Ravensburg , Bodenseekreis, Constance and Zollernalbkreis....
, 25 km north of Lake Constance
Lake Constance

Under the designation Lake Constance one summarizes the three independent Body of water Obersee , Untersee and Seerhein , lying in the northern Alps foreland....
 and south of the Danube
Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
 valley and therefore on the continental divide between the watersheds of the Rhine and the Danube. The area is known as the Linzgau
Linzgau

Linzgau is a region in southern Germany in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg north of Lake Constance and south of the Danube valley. It is bounded by Lake Constance on the south, the Hegau on the west, the Danube valley on the north, and the Schussen River on the east....
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The surrounding towns are Wald
Wald, Baden-Württemberg

Wald is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Herdwangen-Schönach
Herdwangen-Schönach

Herdwangen-Sch?nach is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.The municipality lies 15 kilometers north of the Bodensee, in the upper Linzgau, between the cities Pfullendorf in the north and ?berlingen in the south....
, Meßkirch
Meßkirch

Me?kirch is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.Me?kirch was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's Zimmern Chronicle ....
, Ostrach
Ostrach

Ostrach is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Illmensee
Illmensee

Ilmensee is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Krauchenwies
Krauchenwies

Krauchenwies is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Heiligenberg
Heiligenberg

Heiligenberg is a municipality and a village in the Bodensee district in Baden-W?rttemberg, about seven kilometres north of Salem, Baden-W?rttemberg, in Germany....
, and Deggenhausertal
Deggenhausertal

Deggenhausertal is a commune in the district of Bodensee in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.also see Untersiggingen a village of Deggenhausertal...
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lendorf was founded by the Alamanni
Alamanni

The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic languagess located around the upper Main river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211?17 and claimed thereby to be their defeater....
 tribe and named Dorf am Phoul (Pfuol), meaning village on the Phoul.






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Pfullendorf is a small historic city in the district of Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen (district)

Sigmaringen is a district in the south of Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Reutlingen , Biberach , Ravensburg , Bodenseekreis, Constance and Zollernalbkreis....
 in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg

Baden-W?rttemberg is one of the 16 States of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine?but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River ....
 in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
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Geography

Its location is in the district of Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen (district)

Sigmaringen is a district in the south of Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Reutlingen , Biberach , Ravensburg , Bodenseekreis, Constance and Zollernalbkreis....
, 25 km north of Lake Constance
Lake Constance

Under the designation Lake Constance one summarizes the three independent Body of water Obersee , Untersee and Seerhein , lying in the northern Alps foreland....
 and south of the Danube
Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
 valley and therefore on the continental divide between the watersheds of the Rhine and the Danube. The area is known as the Linzgau
Linzgau

Linzgau is a region in southern Germany in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg north of Lake Constance and south of the Danube valley. It is bounded by Lake Constance on the south, the Hegau on the west, the Danube valley on the north, and the Schussen River on the east....
.

The surrounding towns are Wald
Wald, Baden-Württemberg

Wald is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Herdwangen-Schönach
Herdwangen-Schönach

Herdwangen-Sch?nach is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.The municipality lies 15 kilometers north of the Bodensee, in the upper Linzgau, between the cities Pfullendorf in the north and ?berlingen in the south....
, Meßkirch
Meßkirch

Me?kirch is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.Me?kirch was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's Zimmern Chronicle ....
, Ostrach
Ostrach

Ostrach is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Illmensee
Illmensee

Ilmensee is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Krauchenwies
Krauchenwies

Krauchenwies is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany....
, Heiligenberg
Heiligenberg

Heiligenberg is a municipality and a village in the Bodensee district in Baden-W?rttemberg, about seven kilometres north of Salem, Baden-W?rttemberg, in Germany....
, and Deggenhausertal
Deggenhausertal

Deggenhausertal is a commune in the district of Bodensee in Baden-W?rttemberg in Germany.also see Untersiggingen a village of Deggenhausertal...
.

History

Pfullendorf was founded by the Alamanni
Alamanni

The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were originally an alliance of Germanic languagess located around the upper Main river . One of the earliest references to them is the cognomen Alamannicus assumed by Caracalla, who ruled the Roman Empire from 211?17 and claimed thereby to be their defeater....
 tribe and named Dorf am Phoul (Pfuol), meaning village on the Phoul. It was made a Free Imperial City
Free Imperial City

In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a List of states in the Holy Roman Empire and so were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops....
 in the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
 on June 2, 1220 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II , of the House of Hohenstaufen dynasty, was an Kingdom of Italy pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215....
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Starting in 1383, Pfullendorf governed itself with a democratic guild constitution, with annual election of the mayor. With brief interruptions, this guild constitution remained in force until 1803 and was a model for other cities.

At the Council of Constance in 1415, King Sigismund gave the city the right of higher judgment, that is, the right of execution. This meant that Pfullendorf was answerable only to God and the Emperor.

Although the Reformation
Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in Europe. It is thought to have begun in 1517 with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and may be considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648....
, the Peasants' War
Peasants' War

The Peasants' War was a popular revolt in late medieval Europe in the years 1524/1525. It consisted, like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, of a series of economic as well as religious revolts by peasants, townsfolk and nobility....
, the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
, the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
, and the plague
Black Death

The Black Death, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis , but recently attributed by some factors to other diseases....
 left their marks on the region, Pfullendorf was able to avoid major destruction.

In 1803, Pfullendorf became part of Baden
Baden

Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine River in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-W?rttemberg of Germany....
, and it remained an administrative center in the upper Linzgau until 1936. It then became part of the district of Überlingen
Überlingen

?berlingen is a city in the Bodensee district in Baden-W?rttemberg in southwestern Germany. It is located on the northwest shore of Lake Constance and has a population of just over 21,000....
, and belongs to the district of Sigmaringen
Sigmaringen

Sigmaringen is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen ....
 since 1973.

From 1972 to 1976, the neighboring villages of Aach-Linz, Denkingen, Gaisweiler, Tautenbronn, Großstadelhofen, Mottschieß, Otterswang, and Zell-Schwäblishausen became part of Pfullendorf.

Culture

The German Army's
German Army

The German Army is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Traditionally the German military forces have been composed of the Army, the Deutsche Marine, and an Luftwaffe after World War I....
 Special Operations Training Centre (Ausbildungszentrum für spezielle Operationen) is located in Pfullendorf, as was the NATO
NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949....
 International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol
Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol

Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, or LRRP , were special small four to six-man teams utilized in the Vietnam War on highly dangerous special operations missions deep into enemy territory....
 School following its move from Weingarten
Weingarten (Baden)

Weingarten is a municipality in the district of Karlsruhe in southwestern Germany, situated at the transition from the Kraichgau to the Rhine valley....
 to its closure in 1999. In 2001 the United States Army took command of the I-LRRP School in Pfullendorf and the name was changed to the International Special Training Centre (ISTC). ISTC is the International Wing (I-Wing) of the German Ausbildungszentrum Special Operations.

Twin towns

  • Allschwil
    Allschwil

    Allschwil is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the district of Arlesheim in the Cantons of Switzerland of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Its village center is listed as a Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance....
     in Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     since April 13, 1984
  • Saint-Jean-de-Braye
    Saint-Jean-de-Braye

    Saint-Jean-de-Braye is a Communes of France in the Loiret Departments of France in north-central France....
     in France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
     since May 1, 1987


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