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{{Expand German|topic=geo|date=February 2009|Meßkirch}}
{{Infobox German location
|type               = Stadt
|image_photo       = Ansicht Messkirch 2012.JPG
|image_coa            = DEU Meßkirch COA.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|47|59|34|N|9|6|45|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan          = Karte Meßkirch.png
|state        = Baden-Württemberg
|region  = Tübingen
|district         = Sigmaringen
|elevation              = 616
|area            = 76.22
|postal_code               = 88601–88605
|area_code           = 07570, 07575, 07578
|licence               = SIG
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 08 4 37 078
|divisions         = 11
|website           = [https://www.messkirch.de/ www.messkirch.de]
|mayor             = Arne Zwick<ref>[https://www.staatsanzeiger.de/staatsanzeiger/wahlen/buergermeisterwahlen/ Aktuelle Wahlergebnisse], Staatsanzeiger, accessed 15 September 2021.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2018&ndash;26
}}
[[File:Meßkirch Schloss 5.jpg|thumb|The Renaissance castle at Meßkirch]]
'''Meßkirch''' ({{IPA|de|ˈmɛsˌkɪʁç|lang|De-Meßkirch.ogg}}; [[Swabian German|Swabian]]: ''Mässkirch'') is a town in the district of [[Sigmaringen (district)|Sigmaringen]] in [[Baden-Württemberg]] in [[Germany]].
The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's ''[[Zimmern Chronicle]]'' (1559–1566).
== Geography ==
The municipality is composed of following villages and hamlets:
{| class="wikitable"
!Coat of arms || District || Inhabitants <small>(2010)</small> || Area
|-
|[[File:DEU Meßkirch COA.svg|30px|Messkirch]]  || Meßkirch (main locality) <br /><small>with Igelswies [[File:Wappen Igelswies.png|20px|Igelswies]] and</small><br /><small>Schnerkingen</small> || 5660  || 2465 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Dietershofen.png|30px|Dietershofen]] || Dietershofen♯<br /><small>with Buffenhofen</small> || 147 || 405 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Heudorf bei Messkirch.png|30px|Wappen Heudorf]] || Heudorf† || 338 || 787 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Langenhart.png|30px|Wappen Langenhart]] || Langenhart || 235 || 435 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Menningen bei Messkirch.png|30px|Wappen Menningen]] || Menningen‡<br /><small>with Leitishofen♯</small> || 458 || 916 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Rengetsweiler.svg|30px|Rengetsweiler]] || Rengetsweiler || 406 || 505 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Ringgenbach.png|30px|Ringgenbach]] || Ringgenbach♯ || 203 || 499 ha
|-
|[[File:Wappen Rohrdorf bei Messkirch.png|30px|Wappen Rohrdorf]] || Rohrdorf || 800 || 1611 ha
|}
♯The [[Ringgenbach]] river flows through Dietershofen, then Ringgenbach, before its confluence into the [[Ablach (Danube)|Ablach]] east of Leitishofen
†Heudorf is a location on the [[Upper Swabian Baroque Route]]
‡Menningen-Leitishofen was formerly a stop on the extant [[Radolfzell–Mengen railway]]
==Notable residents==
Meßkirch is the birthplace of composer [[Conradin Kreutzer]], archbishop [[Conrad Gröber]], writer and [[Georg Büchner Prize]] winner [[Arnold Stadler]] and, most famously, the philosopher [[Martin Heidegger]]. Also included are the well-known brewers Johann Nepomuk Schalk and his sons Herrmann and Oscar who began the Schalk Brewery in Newark, New Jersey, the first to bring lager beer to New Jersey.
The town's name is also connected with a Renaissance painter whose provisional name is [[Master of Meßkirch]]. His ''Adoration of the Magi'' can be seen in the church of St. Martin. [[Katharina von Zimmern]] (1478-1547), the last abbess of the [[Fraumünster Abbey]] in Zürich, was born in Meßkirch.
==Culture==
The ''[[Bodenseesender]]'' radio transmitter in the nearby village of Rohrdorf was turned off in February 2012.
==History==
In 1800, the city was the site of a [[Battle of Messkirch|battle]] of the [[French Revolutionary War]]s.
==Campus Galli==
[[Campus Galli]] is a project to construct an authentic medieval town with a [[Carolingian dynasty|Carolingian]] [[monastery]], that is located in woodlands near Meßkirch.
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==References==
[[File:Meister von Meßkirch Dreikönigsbild.jpg|thumb|Master of Meßkirch: Adoration of the Magi, {{Circa|1538}}]]
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==External links==
* {{Official website}} {{in lang|de}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071204122026/http://www.traebbe.de/ Old photos of Messkirch and of the Oldtimer car ''Veritas'']
* [https://www.schloss-messkirch.de/ Renaissance castle in Messkirch]
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