Editing Schellenberg

{{about||people with the surname Schellenberg|Schellenberg (surname)|the medieval state|Lordship of Schellenberg|the mountain|Eschnerberg|the assault by British and Imperial forces during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]|Battle of Schellenberg}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Schellenberg
| settlement_type    = [[Municipalities of Liechtenstein|Municipality]]
| image_skyline      = Gasthaus Auf der Egg.Fresch.Schellenberg.jpg
| image_caption      = Schellenberg in early-June 2007
| imagesize          = 
| image_flag         = Flag of Schellenberg Liechtenstein-1.svg
| flag_size          = 30px
| image_shield       = Wappen Schellenberg.svg
| shield_size        = 100px
| image_map          = {{hidden|Location of Schellenberg|{{infobox mapframe|frame-width=250|frame-height=240}}}}
| image_map1         = Schellenberg in Liechtenstein.svg
| mapsize            = 150px
| map_caption1       = Schellenberg within Liechtenstein
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = {{Flag|Liechtenstein}}
| subdivision_type1  = [[Electoral district]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Unterland (electoral district)|Unterland]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[:Category:Villages in Liechtenstein|Villages]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Hinterschellenberg]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|47|14|0.98|N|9|32|53.01|E|region:LI-08|display=inline,title}}
| leader_party       = [[Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein)|VU]]
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = [[Dietmar Lampert]]
| area_total_km2     = 3.5
| population_total   = 1,107
| elevation_m        = 626
| population_density_km2 = {{#expr: 1029 / 3.5 }}
| population_as_of   = 31-12-2019
| population_footnotes = <ref name="auto">{{Cite web | url=https://www.llv.li/files/as/bevolkerungsstatistik-30-juni-2017.pdf | title=Bevölkerungsstatistik | language=de | trans-title=Population statistics | website=www.llv.li}}</ref>
| timezone           = CET
| utc_offset         = +1
| timezone_DST       = CEST
| utc_offset_DST     = +2
| postal_code_type   = [[Postal codes in Switzerland and Liechtenstein|Postal code]]
| postal_code        = 9488
| area_code          = 7011
| iso_code           = LI-08
| website            = [http://www.schellenberg.li www.schellenberg.li]
| footnotes          = 
}}
'''Schellenberg''' ({{IPA|de-CH|ˈʃɛlənˌbɛrɡ|-|De-Schellenberg.ogg}}; dialectal: ''Schällabärg'')<ref>{{cite web |title=Schellenberg |url=https://namenbuch.li/Ortsnamen/Schellenberg |website=Liechtensteiner Namenbuch |access-date=25 December 2024}}</ref> is a [[Municipalities of Liechtenstein|municipality]] in the lowland area of [[Liechtenstein]], on the banks of the [[Rhine]]. {{As of|2019}}, it has a population of 1,107<ref name="auto"/> and covers an area of {{convert|3.5|km2|abbr=on}}

==History==
===Early history===
{{see also|Lordship of Schellenberg}}
The area was first settled by [[Celts]], then by [[Rhaetia]]ns. [[Rome]] 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.<ref name=schellenberg>[http://www.schellenberg.li/files/medienarchiv/Schellenberg-history.pdf History of Schellenberg]</ref>

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 [[Austria]]n 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.<ref name=schellenberg/><ref>[http://states-world.com/state.php/1325 The Lordship of Schellenberg] on states-world.com</ref>

===World War II===
The Russian Monument, located in [[Hinterschellenberg]], in the municipality commemorates the asylum given to Russian soldiers during the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Monday |date=13 April 1953 |title=Last of the Wehrmacht |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818218,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222120252/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818218,00.html |archive-date=22 December 2008 |access-date=21 April 2023 |magazine=Time}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Tolstoy |first=Nikolai |title=The Secret Betrayal |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1977 |isbn=0-684-15635-0 |language=English}}</ref> Eventually, [[Argentina]] agreed to resettle the asylum seekers permanently.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Wanger |first=Harald |date=31 December 2011 |title=Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Liechtenstein,_Franz_Josef_II._von |access-date=15 June 2023 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref> In contrast, [[Operation Keelhaul|the British repatriated the Russians who fought on the German side to the USSR]].

== Administration ==
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 Liechtenstein local elections|2023]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Biedermann |first=Klaus |last2=Mayr |first2=Ulrike |date=2023 |title=Schellenberg (Gemeinde) |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Schellenberg_(Gemeinde)?marker=Schellenberg#Politische_Gemeinde.2C_Gemeindeboden |access-date=23 May 2024 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref>

=== List of mayors (1864–present) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+{{sronly|List of mayors (1864–present)}}
! scope="col" |Name
! scope="col" |Term
! colspan="2" scope="colgroup" |Party
! scope="col" |{{Abbreviation|Ref(s).|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" |Johann Hassler
|1864–1867
| style="background:{{party color|Independent politician}}" rowspan="10" |
| rowspan="10" |{{center|—}}
| rowspan="21" |{{centre|<ref name=":1" />}}
|-
!Josef Kaiser
|1867–1870
|-
!Meinrad Marxer
|1870–1873
|-
!Josef Kaiser
|1873–1876
|-
!Meinrad Marxer
|1876–1885
|-
!Elias Oehri
|1885–1888
|-
!Meinrad Marxer
|1888–1891
|-
!Matthäus Wohlwend
|1891–1894
|-
!Ludwig Elkuch
|1894–1909
|-
!Andreas Hassler
|1909–1915
|-
![[Karl Kaiser]]
|1915–1927
|{{Party name with color|Progressive Citizens' Party}}
|-
!Adolf Goop
|1927–1933
|{{Party name with color|Christian-Social People's Party (Liechtenstein)}}
|-
![[Philipp Elkuch]]
|1933–1945
|{{Party name with color|Progressive Citizens' Party}}
|-
!Urban Rederer
|1945–1954
|{{Party name with color|Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein)}}
|-
![[Georg Oehri]]
|1954–1960
|{{Party name with color|Progressive Citizens' Party|rowspan=2}}
|-
!Hugo Oehri
|1960–1972
|-
![[Hermann Hassler]]
|1972–1979
|{{Party name with color|Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein)}}
|-
!Edgar Elkuch
|1979–1987
|{{Party name with color|Progressive Citizens' Party}}
|-
!Walter Kieber
|1987–2003
|{{Party name with color|Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein)}}
|-
!Norman Wohlwend
|2003–2023
|{{Party name with color|Progressive Citizens' Party}}
|-
![[Dietmar Lampert]]
|2023–
|{{Party name with color|Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein)}}
|}

==Geography==
Schellenberg territory borders with the Liechtensteiner municipalities of [[Eschen]], [[Gamprin]], [[Mauren]] and [[Ruggell]]. It borders also with the [[Austria]]n municipality of [[Feldkirch, Vorarlberg|Feldkirch]], in the federal state of [[Vorarlberg]].<ref>{{OSM|r|1155946|Schellenberg}}</ref>

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

==Notable people==
* [[Gisela Biedermann]], physician and politician<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2017 |title=Biedermann, Gisela |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Biedermann,_Gisela |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Historical Encyclopedia of the Principality of Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref>
* [[Julia Hassler]], Olympic swimmer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/news/the-flagbearers-for-the-rio-2016-opening-ceremony |title=The Flagbearers for the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony |website=Olympic.org |date=2016-08-16 |access-date=2016-08-27 |archive-date=2019-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418151958/https://www.olympic.org/news/the-flagbearers-for-the-rio-2016-opening-ceremony |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Fabienne Wohlwend]], motor racing driver.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.volksblatt.li/Nachricht.aspx?src=vb&id=220853|title=Wohlwend hofft auf Startplatz in neuer Rennserie (in German)|publisher=[[Liechtensteiner Volksblatt|Volksblatt.li]]|accessdate=29 November 2018|archive-date=9 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009090127/https://www.volksblatt.li/Nachricht.aspx?src=vb&id=220853|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Schellenberg}}
*{{Wiktionary-inline|de:Schellenberg|Schellenberg}} {{in lang|de}}
* {{Official website|http://www.schellenberg.li}} {{in lang|de}}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.schellenberg.li/pdf/geschichte.pdf |title= History of Schellenberg |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081122111151/http://www.schellenberg.li/pdf/geschichte.pdf |archivedate= 2008-11-22 }}&nbsp;{{small|(548 [[KiB]])}} {{in lang|de}}

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