Schellenberg

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Field	Value
official_name	Schellenberg
settlement_type	Municipality
image_skyline	Gasthaus Auf der Egg.Fresch.Schellenberg.jpg
image_caption	Schellenberg in early-June 2007
image_flag	Flag of Schellenberg Liechtenstein-1.svg
flag_size	30px
image_shield	Wappen Schellenberg.svg
shield_size	100px
mapframe	yes
image_map1	Schellenberg in Liechtenstein.svg
mapsize	150px
map_caption1	Schellenberg within Liechtenstein
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Liechtenstein
subdivision_type1	Electoral district
subdivision_name1	Unterland
subdivision_type2	Villages
subdivision_name2	Hinterschellenberg
coordinates
leader_party	VU
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Dietmar Lampert
area_total_km2	3.5
population_total	1,107
elevation_m	626
population_density_km2
population_as_of	31-12-2019
population_footnotes
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	9488
area_code	7011
iso_code	LI-08
website	www.schellenberg.li
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History

Early history

The area was first settled by Celts, then by Rhaetians. Tiberius (sent by Augustus) conquered the area in 15 BC, and made it part of the province of Rhaetia. The Province later became a county (countship) under Charlemagne. The county was repeatedly divided among heirs.

The Lordship of Schellenberg was purchased by the Counts of Vaduz in 1437 and the two states have been united in fact ever since. After the Swabian War in 1499, both came under Austrian suzerainty. Different dynasties of counts bought and sold them, until their purchase in the early 18th century by the Liechtenstein dynasty, which had been granted princely status in 1706, but which needed to acquire a territory with imperial immediacy in order to vote in the Diet of the Princes of the Empire. The emperor formally united Vaduz and Schellenberg in 1719 as the Principality of Liechtenstein.

World War II

The Russian Monument, located in Hinterschellenberg, in the municipality commemorates the asylum given to Russian soldiers during the Second World War. Near the end of World War II, Liechtenstein granted asylum to approximately five hundred soldiers of the First Russian National Army, a collaborationist Russian force within the German Wehrmacht. This act was no small matter, as the country was poor and had difficulty feeding and caring for such a large group of refugees. Eventually, Argentina agreed to resettle the asylum seekers permanently. In contrast, the British repatriated the Russians who fought on the German side to the USSR.

Politics

Schellenberg is administered by the mayor and a 9-person municipal council, elected every four years since 1975. The incumbent mayor is Dietmar Lampert, since 2023.

Last election

Geography

Schellenberg territory borders with the Liechtensteiner municipalities of Eschen, Gamprin, Mauren and Ruggell. It borders also with the Austrian municipality of Feldkirch, in the federal state of Vorarlberg.

Transport

In Schellenberg there is a small road crossing to Austria, manned by Austrian and Swiss border guards.

Notable people

Gisela Biedermann (born 1948), physician and politician
Julia Hassler (born 1993), Olympic swimmer.
Fabienne Wohlwend (born 1997), motor racing driver.

References

"Bevölkerungsstatistik".
"Schellenberg".
[http://www.schellenberg.li/files/medienarchiv/Schellenberg-history.pdf History of Schellenberg]
[http://states-world.com/state.php/1325 The Lordship of Schellenberg] on states-world.com
Monday. (13 April 1953). "Last of the Wehrmacht".
Tolstoy, Nikolai. (1977). "The Secret Betrayal". Charles Scribner's Sons.
Wanger, Harald. (31 December 2011). "Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II".
Biedermann, Klaus. (2023). "Schellenberg (Gemeinde)".
{{OSM. r. 1155946. Schellenberg
(September 19, 2017). "Biedermann, Gisela".
(2016-08-16). "The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony".
"Wohlwend hofft auf Startplatz in neuer Rennserie (in German)". [[Liechtensteiner Volksblatt.

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