Abtsgmünd

Abtsgmuend is a town at the confluence of flax and cooker in Ostalb in eastern Baden- Württemberg. The large area municipality comprises the main town Abtsgmuend and the five sub- locations Neubronn, Laubach, Untergröningen, chief town and Pommertsweiler and some other villages and hamlets. The community is a nationally recognized resort in the Swabian- Franconian Forest.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 community logo
  • 3.4 Partner community
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Established businesses
  • 5.3 educational institutions
  • 5.4 Social Institutions
  • 6.1 Culture
  • 6.2 Attractions
  • 6.3 Leisure
  • Born 7.1 In Abtsgmuend
  • 7.2 Connected to Abtsgmuend

Geography

Geographical location

Abtsgmuend has a share in the natural spaces Eastern Albvorland and the Swabian- Franconian Forest, both of which are part of the Swabian Keuper- Lias country. 71.6 km ² the community Abtsgmuend is behind the cities, the largest municipality in the Alb circle.

The main town Abtsgmuend lies at the mouth of the river Lein into the cooker. The Teilort Untergröningen located in two river bends to either side of the stove within 372 m above sea level. NN in the east of Baden- Württemberg.

Neighboring communities

Abtsgmuend bordered clockwise to the north by Adelmannsfelden, to the east by Neuler and a small exclave of Huettlingen, in the southeast of eels, to the south Heuchlingen, on the southwest by Schechingen and Obergröningen, on the west by Eschach (all Ostalb ) and on the northwest by Sulzbach Racing ( Schwäbisch Hall ).

Community structure

The municipality Abtsgmuend with the formerly independent communities of the High City, Laubach, Neubronn, Pommertsweiler and Untergröningen include a total of 75 villages, hamlets, farms and houses.

Outbound, which no longer exists villages are Wisemberg ( Bisems? ) Bläsihof and a castle in the municipality part Abtsgmuend, long pile in the municipal part Neubronn, Buelenberg, Otolfsweiler, Deschental and lower cave creek in the community part Pommertsweiler and Hurrenhof or stone Hoefle, mill, saw-mill on Ochsenbach, When Gschwendhof, stone heaps and pointed in the community part Untergröningen.

History

Abtsgmuend was probably founded by Ellwangen from. His name has become the place of the confluence of the flax into the cooker and his membership in the monastery Ellwangen ( The Gemunden the abbot, in distinction to other Gemunden - places ). This Abtsgmuend is a high probability of ellwangische founding by the 7th century. An accurate time is not known.

The monastery Ellwangen laid the place to secure its forest area to the south east at. In a goods classification of the monastery Ellwangen from the year 1136 Abtsgmuend is mentioned by the name Gemunden. In the 13th century, the name was changed to avoid confusion with the later Abtzgemunde free imperial city to avoid Gmünd. The name first appeared in 1251 in a charter of King Conrad IV.

The late Romanesque ground floor of the tower of the parish church, which was built around 1200, shows that the settlement was already in existence before.

From Abtsgmuend from the castle Wöllstein was applied to secure the rule against the taverns of Limpurg. The owners changed frequently, but the suzerainty of the prince provost Ellwangen remained. To manage a bailiff was used, who was sitting in Wöllstein. In 1609 Heuchlingen, Abtsgmuend and Wöllstein formed the ellwangische Office Heuchlingen in the seat of the bailiff in Abtsgmuend.

By belonging to the prince provost Ellwangen Abtsgmuend remained in the Reformation era Catholic, while the Kochertal from Schwäbisch Hall to Untergröningen in 1544 reformed by the reformer Johannes Brenz and was Protestant.

In the 17th century founded the prince provosts iron works. In Abtsgmuend originated in 1611 in the Altschmiede a blast furnace and later a forge. She went under during the Thirty Years' War, but was built in 1667 as iron hammer again. 1699 the factory was moved from the district Altschmiede to Neuschmiede. With the secularization it passed into possession of Württemberg and later in the Swabian smelters Wasseralfingen on.

Incorporations

In the course of municipal reform in Baden- Württemberg five formerly independent municipalities were amalgamated with Abtsgmuend. The size of the community and the population increased to more than double the original community Abtsgmuend.

Policy

Parish council

The council was last elected for five years at the local elections with fake part local election on June 7, 2009. It consists of 22 members (2004: 21 members). The choice was as follows:

The turnout was 50.1 %, which was 4.4 percentage points lower than in the local elections of 2004.

Coat of arms

Blazon: In split- front plate in red a thriving from the lower margin, the gap inverted with the crookedness silver Abtsstab, back in silver three red balls over each other.

By Abtsstab is remembered both the place name as well to the monastery and Prince Provost Ellwangen. The three red balls are taken from the coat of arms of the pecking Wöllstein who had their castle headquarters in Abtsgmuend.

The municipality flag is white and red.

Abtsgmuend took 1911-1917 to a seal image that crossed diagonally in a divided shield on a local view of a Abtsstab and a sword showed that were covered by a small sign. The small plate showed the Württemberg deer antler. A continuous fallen rafter bar stood for the rivers Kocher and flax.

On November 26, 1956, the municipality was awarded by the Ministry of Economy Baden -Württemberg which is now valid coat of arms and the flag.

Community logo

Since the mid- 1990s, the community has a community logo. On it, a green A for Abtsgmuend and as a cross of the letter A is shown the two rivers flax and Kocher, was first established at the mouth of Abtsgmuend in blue color.

Partner community

Since 2007 Abtsgmuend connects an official partnership with the Italian municipality of Castel Bolognese, Emilia- Romagna, Ravenna.

Justice

Abtsgmuend located in the district of the district court eels; that are arranged within the ordinary jurisdiction, the district court Ellwangen and the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart. The competent court of jurisdiction is the work Stuttgart labor court, that of social justice, the Social Court Ulm. In addition, the Stuttgart Administrative Court has jurisdiction for public disputes arising from Abtsgmuend.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Abtsgmuend is located on the main road 19 between Aalen and Schwäbisch Hall. The connection to the Federal Highway 7 West at Hausen is approximately 15 kilometers away. The district Untergröningen was the end point of the disused 2005 and 2009 largely dismantled Upper Kettle Valley Railway from Gaildorf.

Established businesses

The influential companies in the capital Abtsgmuend is the Kessler Co. GmbH & Co. KG, an existing special factory since 1950 with over 400 employees for the production of axles and transmissions for special vehicles.

In the suburb of Untergröningen the Holopack Packaging Technology GmbH operates, manufactures and packed in suitable containers, the products of the pharmaceutical industry.

Educational institutions

The Friedrich von Keller School Abtsgmuend has a primary, secondary and secondary school to which a branch office also Wasen school, a pure primary school belongs. Since 2010, moreover, the St. James High School ( sponsored by the foundation in Catholic Free School ) in operation. There are also primary schools in High Town, Pommertsweiler and Untergröningen. For the youngest inhabitants, there are four municipal and each one Roman Catholic and Protestant kindergarten.

Social institutions

  • Hall senior center garden of the Foundation Lindenhof - nursing home
  • Social station Abtsgmuend gGmbH - Outpatient Nursing

Culture and sights

Due to the various sub- sites, the total community Abtsgmuend a rich variety of different clubs and organizations.

Culture

  • Culture Club Schloss Laubach
  • Art in Untergröningen Castle - KISS

Attractions

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael Abtsgmuend is a neo-Gothic basilica with late Romanesque tower basement. Outside the church is erected since 1994 Rechenberg- cross; this dated to the year 1331 cross is the second oldest stone cross in Baden- Württemberg. It was probably created by a branch of the Counts von Rechenberg.

Portal of the Church

Rechenberg Cross

  • The tile rooms of the castle Hohen city was declared a monument Baden- Württemberg to the monument of February 2006.
  • The former tithe barn is now used as a library and an event center.
  • Castle and Sanctuary of the High City
  • Lustgarten High City, the oldest rear garden of Europe
  • Castle Untergröningen
  • Schloss Laubach
  • Castle Neubronn
  • Motte Leinroden

" Pleasure house " in the castle garden of Abtsgmuend - High City

Schloss Laubach

Leisure

  • Hammerschmiedesee Pommertsweiler
  • Laubbach Reservoir Abtsgmuend
  • Hiking trails in the valley of the blind red

Personalities

Born in Abtsgmuend

  • Conrad Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden (1462-1557), canon and humanist
  • Caspar Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden (1464-1532), humanist and canons
  • Johann Christoph Freiherr Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden (1640-1687), dean of the Duke Provost Ellwangen
  • Joseph Anselm Baron Adelmann of Adelmannsfelden (1728-1805), politician
  • Jacob salad (1766-1851), theologian and philosopher
  • Jacob Kull (1818-1880), draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer
  • Franz Xaver Room (1821-1883), painter
  • Franz Xaver von Funk (1840-1907), priest and professor of Patristic
  • Ferdinand Joseph Schliz (1778-1844) was born in Untergröningen, lawyer, Württemberg Rollmaus
  • Joseph Christian of Schliz (1781-1861), born in Untergröningen, Württemberg bailiff, Member of Parliament
  • Karl Allmendinger (1891-1965), General of the Army
  • Albert Schnez (1911-2007), General of the Bundeswehr
  • Erwin Holl ( b. 1957 ), painter and graphic artist

Connected to Abtsgmuend

  • Eduard Schweickhardt (1805-1868), economist and politician who served from 1826 to 1834 Cottage writers in Abtsgmuend
  • Alfred Bast ( born 1948 ), painter and artist; founded in 1995, the Art Monastery. in Abtsgmuend
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