Großer Heuberg

The Great Heuberg (usually just called " Heuberg " dialect " Haiberg " pronounced) is a sparsely populated plateau in the southwest of the Swabian Alb with a dimension of about 10 x 20 km. The largest and best-known surveys include Lemberg (1015 m above sea level. NN, the highest mountain of the Swabian Alb), Oberhohenberg (1011 m above sea level. NN ), Plettenberg (1002 m above sea level. NN ) and Trinity Mountain ( 983 m above sea level. NN ) and the glider Klippeneck mountain (980 m above sea level. NN ).

Nature

The karst plateau of Heuberg forms a substantial part of the Obere Donau Nature Park.

Geography and Geology

To the west of Heuberg is limited by the valleys of Faulenbach and Prim and the Baar plateau, to the north by the escarpment, to the east by the valleys of the Eyach and Schmiecha or in the narrower sense, without the " Hardt ", by the valleys of Schlichem and Bara. The southern border is the Danube, but extends the Badische Heuberg ( often called Hegaualb ) via the Danube beyond. Geologically, the area related to the more eastern Middle Flächenalb.

The following communities can be expected to Heuberg: Bärenthal, Böttingen, Bubsheim, Egesheim, Gosheim, Irndorf, piston rings, Königheim, Leibertingen, Mahlstetten, Meßstetten, Nusplingen, Oberheim, Deilingen, Reichenbach am Heuberg, Renquishausen, Schwenningen, Wehingen and Stetten am cold market. Smaller settlements on the Heuberg on Albrand belong to Spaichingen ( Dreifaltigkeitsberg ) Denkingen ( Klippeneck ), Riet -Weilheim ( Rußberg ) and Dürbheim ( Risiberg ).

Climate

The climate of the Great Heuberg is rough and cool. The rainfall is about 1000-1100 mm per year.

Dialect

The Heuberg is located on the border of Lower Alemannic -speaking countries to the Swabian (see: Heuberg Schwäbisch ).

History, Economy, Infrastructure and Transport

Finds of Stone Age objects in the " Beilstein cave " ( hence the name ) at Egesheim prove that even Stone Age people settled down here. From the later colonization of the area by the Celts and Alemanni testify over 1000 mounds and places of worship " idols altar " and " Heathen ".

The remoteness and inaccessibility of the Heuberg villages on the Swabian Alb, low fertility soils and existing until the 20th century water shortage meant that the Heuberg counted for centuries one of the poorest regions in Germany. With the expansion of the hole Passes 1849-1852 was first tried in the Kingdom of Württemberg, to connect the villages to the Heuberg Albvorland. Was yet in the 1930s Heuberg as a " disaster area ", for centuries it was a classic region of emigration. Due to the earlier precarious living conditions of the inhabitants were once considered indeed as backward, on the other hand as well as cunning and full of shrewdness.

Industrialization began in the western communities Heuberg hesitant until the construction of the Heuberg railway in the 1920s, such as branch offices of the harmonica manufacturer Hohner Trossinger. In sharp contrast, began in the period of the economic miracle by many start-ups and steady growth of micro-enterprises artisanal origin Positive economic development. A major role was played by the watch industry with the Hermle watchmaker.

The economic centers of Heuberg form Gosheim ( seat of the machine manufacturer Hermle AG) and Wehingen in the west and in the east Meßstetten. Of economic importance for the Western Heuberg today is the turning industry with approximately 200 facilities (for example, Anton Häring in Bubsheim ). This circumstance brought the Heuberg in the neighborhood the nickname screws Mountains.

The expansive Heuberg room is accessible by public transport, with the exception of the student movement a little, but the situation has been improved in recent years by buses to Ringzug west. Individual motorized transport is still dominant, companies provide their employees also often minibuses for carpools available.

Due to the low population density, especially smaller Heuberg communities by Deutsche Telekom are inadequately supplied with DSL lines, so the affected communities agreed in 2006, the broadband expansion with Kabel BW, which is now spreading on the Heuberg one for modern VDSL2 high-speed network of Telekom in the metropolitan areas evenly matched information infrastructure is available.

The concentration camp Heuberg

Still today in Stetten am cold market a signpost to the camp Heuberg in the existence of the first concentration camp in South West Germany. 1933 about 2,000 people were detained and harassed there temporarily. Following its dissolution, many Caught arrived in the concentration camp at Ulm, Oberer Kuhberg.

Others

The region coincides mostly with the tourism defined region of 10 thousand.