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29-788: When the Rotis fonts were reissued under the Monotype Originals label, the fonts support include support of ISO Adobe 2 character set, OpenType features. The Rotis font names are capitalized. It includes 55 Roman, 56 Italic, 65 Bold fonts. It includes 45 Light, 46 Light Italic, 55 Roman, 56 Italic, 65 Bold, 75 Extra Bold fonts. It includes support of ISO Adobe 2, Adobe CE, Latin Extended characters. In addition, separate fonts for Greek and Cyrillic characters were also created. Greek and Cyrillic fonts support ISO Adobe 2 and Latin Extended characters, and support super/sub-script OpenType feature. Rotis II Sans

58-411: A hill above the village of Unterzeil. The Renaissance building can only be visited from the outside. The parish church of St. Maria, which belongs to the castle complex, is freely accessible. In 1598, Truchsess Froben von Waldburg-Zeil had the medieval Zeil Castle demolished and in 1599 began construction of the present Renaissance castle. Construction dragged on until his death in 1614. As a supporter of

87-458: A vacation park in Leutkirch. On September 27, 2009, a majority of Leutkirch residents voted in favor of the project in a referendum. At the end of 2015, it was announced that the financing of the 250 million euro project had been secured; approximately 1,000 vacation homes and a large covered center with stores, restaurants, entertainment facilities and a large bathing and spa area were to be built by

116-409: A while, the town continued to be ruled by a bailiff ( Landvogt ) appointed by the king. In 1311, there is mention for the first time of a town council ( Rat ) whose members are also the town judges. An elected bürgermeister (mayor) chaired the town council from the 15th century. A so-called Committee of Twenty, representing the guilds, was also part of the governing structure. Eventually, the town council

145-878: Is a version of Rotis Sans designed by Monotype Imaging senior designer Robin Nicholas, and freelance designer Alice Savoie. It expands the original with three extra font weights (Light, Semi Bold, and Black) and italics, along with revised letter spacing and kerning, a new set of numerals with similar height to the capitals. The family includes 14 fonts in seven weights, with complementary italics. OpenType features include access all alternates, case-sensitive forms, numerators/denominators, fractions, standard ligatures, localized forms (OpenType Pro fonts only), proportional/tabular figures, scientific inferiors, superscript/subscript, stylistic alternates, stylistic sets 1, 2 and 3 (OpenType Std fonts only). It supports ISO Adobe 2, Adobe CE, Latin Extended characters (OpenType Pro fonts only). The typeface

174-585: Is named after Rotis, a hamlet belonging to the German town of Leutkirch im Allgäu , where Otl Aicher lived. However, Aicher named the font "rotis", in minuscules , since Aicher thought of capital letters as a sign of hierarchy and oppression. When the fonts were reissued by Monotype Imaging in 2011, though, the font names were capitalized to "Rotis". This also affected fonts published by downstream foundries. Not all review of Rotis have been favourable. Prominent typeface designer Erik Spiekermann commented that "Rotis

203-420: Is not a typeface. It has some great letters, but they never come together to make words that don't look contrived or uncomfortable. It looks best on gravestones and similar large architectural applications." He has also joked that he wants the design on his gravestone. Leutkirch im Allg%C3%A4u Leutkirch im Allgäu is a former Free Imperial City located in south-eastern Baden-Württemberg , Germany. It

232-535: Is part of the district of Ravensburg , in the western Allgäu region and belongs to the administrative region ( Regierungsbezirk ) of Tübingen . According to the German Meteorological Service, Leutkirch is one of the sunniest cities in Germany. The name Leutkirch is derived from "Leutekirche" (English: Church of the people ), a catholic church in the town which is called "Sankt Martin" today. Since

261-630: The Kingdom of Württemberg in 1810. All of the countryside surrounding the Free Imperial City of Leutkirch except on the northwest was designated a Free Imperial Village possessing Imperial Immediacy . This territory was known as the Free Men of the Leutkircher Heath ( Freien auf Leutkircher Heide ). By 1800, the Free Men were only one of five Imperial villages still remaining. It shared the fate of

290-471: The Middle Ages whose office was akin to that of a bailiff . He was the most senior retainer ( Dienstmann ) of an Amt ; the administrative office of a territorial lord ( Landesherr ) created to manage the estates of manors ( Gutshöfe ), castles and villages. The estates were both administrative as well as juridical districts. The Amtmann was usually a member of the nobility or a cleric. In towns, he

319-527: The Thirty Years' War and the number of inhabitants fell drastically. The post-war period was not easy as well and the debt of the town continued to increase. However, difficult economic times did not prevent the town's rulers from having a new baroque town hall ( rathaus ) built in 1740. The stucco ceiling by Johannes Schütz remains one of the main attractions of the town. From the Peace of Westphalia onward, Leutkirch

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348-506: The 2011 census, 70.3% of Leutkirch residents were Catholic , 12.3% Protestant , 0.8% Orthodox, and the rest belonged to other religious communities or none at all. Hans-Jörg Henle has been the mayor of Leutkirch since 2008. He does not belong to any political party. In the 2021 state elections in Baden-Württemberg, the conservative Christian Democratic " CDU " was the most successful party in Leutkirch with 36.8% of votes. Second came

377-575: The Allgäu region although a grave dating from the migration period has been found in the Leutkirch area. The area was probably settled by Alemannic tribes before the establishment of the Danube-Iller-Rhine limes during the Roman period. The town was created with the merger of the villages of Ufhofen and Mittelhofen and vestiges of those settlements were found under the old church of St. Martin. First mention of

406-461: The Austrian state of Burgenland , Amtmann is the title of a municipal official. The feminine form, Amtfrau (e.g. Regierungsamtfrau - RAmtfr - or Zollamtfrau - ZAF ) has become widely accepted. For a time the word Amtmännin was also used instead of Amtfrau . This term was formerly the norm in several German states and the federal administration. It has however largely disappeared, albeit in

435-519: The City of Leutkirch and was occupied by Bavarian troops in 1803. The 2011 census determined that 1,438 people, or 6.6% of the residents in Leutkirch, do not hold German citizenship. Of these people, 1,307 come from other European countries, 93 from Asia, 15 from Africa and 23 from North and South America. The largest immigration groups come from Turkey (440 people), Italy (175), Kosovo (98), Austria (86) and Bosnia & Herzegovina (65). According to

464-621: The Counter-Reformation, Truchsess Froben had the church and monastery (Hauskloster) built first, and the castle after. He also ordered daily high mass, solemn praise of God and mass for the dead resting in the crypt . Amtmann The Amtmann or Ammann (in Switzerland ) was an official in German-speaking countries of Europe and in some of the Nordic countries from the time of

493-722: The Icelandic word ambátt , "female slave" and the Norwegian ambått "room maid", "maiden", emerged from the Celtic-Latin via Old German/Old Nordic. In Holstein during the Danish era (to 1864) the Amtmann was the senior official of a sovereign department ( landesherrliches Amt ). As head of the administration he was subordinate from 1546 to the ministry (German Chancellery) in Copenhagen. The Amtmann

522-775: The Imperial Diet ( Reichstag ). Like the majority of the other Free Imperial Cities, Leutkirch went through considerable internal strife during the Protestant Reformation. The town, officially Lutheran in 1546, adhered to the Augsburg Confession and later joined the Schmalkaldic League . There was a fierce dispute for several years between the Protestant magistrates of the town and the abbot of Weingarten Abbey for control over St. Martin’s parish church whose patron

551-531: The Middle Ages, elected by the citizens who was the leader of the executive of a canton ( Landammann ), a town ( Stadtammann ) or a parish ( Gemeindeammann ). Today in Germany, an Amtmann is the official title for an official ( Beamter ) of pay band ( Besoldungsordnung ) A 11 in the "upper service" level ( gehobener Dienst ) of the German Civil Service , corresponding to an Army Captain . In

580-515: The church is found in a document of the Abbey of St. Gall dating back to 766. After the line of the local lord became extinct, the area was awarded to the counts of Bregenz and of Montfort. In 1293, King Adolf of Nassau granted to Leutkirch the right to rule itself according to the Town Code of Lindau ( Rechte der Stadt Lindau ), thus effectively raising Leutkirch to the status of a Free Imperial City . For

609-405: The end of 2018. In the end, the concept was adapted and enlarged. The construction costs thus rose to about 350 million. Center Parcs Park Allgäu has been open to vacation guests since the end of October 2018. The Museum im Bock local history museum displays exhibits in relation to the town's and craftsmen's history. Schloss Zeil (Zeil Castle) is located five kilometers away from the core city on

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638-466: The green ecological " Die Grünen " with 28.5%, followed by the right-wing populist " AfD " with 9.4%. Leutkirch im Allgäu is twinned with: Leutkirch is located on the federal highway 96, which leads from Lindau to Munich. The B 465 completes the connection to the federal road network. The city is the initial point of the Leutkirch-Memmingen railway . The train station Leutkirch is located on

667-527: The municipal reform of 1972, the consolidated Leutkirch urban area comprises the town of Leutkirch im Allgäu itself and the former municipalities of Diepoldshofen, Friesenhofen, Gebrazhofen, Herlazhofen , Hofs, Reichenhofen, Winterstetten and Wuchzenhofen. Leutkirch is located in the south of Germany, in the southeast of the state of Baden-Württemberg on the border with Bavaria . The border with Austria and Lake Constance are about 40 km away. Very few protohistoric settlement remains have been found in

696-492: The railroad lines Herbertingen-Isny and Leutkirch- Memmingen . The town can be reached daily at two-hour intervals (in the morning and in the afternoon sometimes also hourly). The town is connected by several bus lines with Isny and Bad Wurzach, among others, and belongs to the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (bodo). The Leutkirch city bus operates within Leutkirch. Center Parcs Europe has opened

725-505: Was also a secular judge of the trial court ( erster Instanz ) and, together with the Propst or provost , made up the ecclesiastical court or consistory ( Konsistorium ). In a literary testimony to the office, Detlev von Liliencron wrote a ballad called "Pidder Lüng" in which there is an Amtmann of Tønder , called Henning Pogwisch. In Switzerland the Ammann ( Amtmann ) was an office, since

754-538: Was also often a member of the wealthy classes amongst the citizenship. He resided in an Amthaus or Amtshaus and collected taxes from the district ( Amtsbezirk ), administered justice and maintained law and order with a small, armed unit. Later, the word Beamter superseded the older word Amtmann and has come to mean "official" or "civil servant". The word Amtmann is derived from ambet-ambachtos - "one sent round", Celtic: Latin ambactus "envoy", "herold", "servant", French, ambassadeur , "ambassador". By contrast,

783-574: Was the abbot. A compromise was reached in 1562: the Catholics kept the parish church while the Protestants took over the hospital’s church, which was expanded in 1589 and is now known as Memorial Church. Catholics therefore maintained a foothold and some rights in the Protestant city. In 1577 Leutkirch joined other Lutheran Free Imperial Cities in signing the Formula of Concord . The town suffered heavily during

812-508: Was to be composed of a magistrate ( Amtmann ), two mayors, three secret councillors and nine councillors. The main industry of the town then was the linen trade and the main weaver guild had a membership of 200 at one time. Their linen production was exported to Italy and Spain mostly. Leutkirch became a member of the Swabian League in 1488 and gained a seat and vote both in the League and in

841-498: Was to remain one of the smallest and least conspicuous of the 50 Free Imperial Cities of the Empire. In the course of the mediatisation of 1802-03, Leutkirch was not spared the fate of the great majority of the 50 Free Imperial Cities of the moribund Holy Roman Empire and lost its independence. The town was first annexed to the Duchy (later Kingdom) of Bavaria in 1803 before becoming part of

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