Herbertingen
municipality in Germany
Herbertingen (Swabian: Herberdenga) is a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The municipality Herbertingen consists of the villages Herbertingen, Hundersingen, Marbach and Mieterkingen. Herbertingen is twinned with Saint-Paul-en-Jarez in France.
History
Geography
The community Herbertingen with its rolling hills and wide valleys is located on the northern edge of Upper Swabia. The landscape is formed by the ice masses and the meltwater of the Rhine glacier, which has been advancing from the Alps to Upper Swabia for more than 2 million years during several ice ages. The valleys of the Danube, Schwarzach and Krähenbach were carved into the molasse layers, colorful marls and glimmering fine sands, which form the core of the long hills between the valleys and their subsoil. The glacier of the penultimate, the crack ice age (200,000 to 130,000 years before today) crossed the territory of the community with repeated advances and left deep valleys and small lakes between steep hills with fat ground moraine on hills and slopes for agriculture and gravel for the gravel pits.
The glacier of the last, the Würm Ice Age (115,000 to 11,500 years before today) did not reach the municipality, but remained stuck south of Bad Saulgau. His melt waters filled the Schwarzachtal with gravel. The glacial landscape in front of the glacier's forehead was a deep frozen, almost treeless Arctic cold desert.
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