Attenweiler

Attenweiler is a municipality in the district of Biberach in Baden- Württemberg.

• 2.1 History Attenweilers
• 2.2 History Oggelsbeurens
• 2.3 History Rupert Hofens

• 5.1 Structures in Attenweiler
• 5.2 Structures in Oggelsbeuren
• 5.3 Structures in Rupertshofen

Geography

Attenweiler is around ten kilometers north-northwest of Biberach an der Riss in a softly undulating Altmoränenlandschaft, in which merges the terminal moraine of the Rißeiszeit in tertiary hill country.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into three districts:

• Attenweiler ( with Good Mayrhofen, Hausen o R., Rusenberg, Schammach )
• Oggelsbeuren ( with Aigen village, Ellighofen, Riedenhof, Willenhofen )
• Rupertshofen ( with Vogelhof )

History

Today's church was re- formed on 1 January 1975 by the Association of Municipalities Attenweiler, Oggelsbeuren and Rupertshofen.

History Attenweilers

The place Attenweiler was first mentioned in 1254 as the seat of local nobility. The Lords of Atinwilare are detected from 1254 to 1296. Between 1347 and 1531 the Heilig - Geist-Spital in Biberach an der Riss, the village acquired gradually almost completely. As in the joint city Biberach both denominations was also celebrated in 1548 Attenweiler from worship. In the course of mediatization 1803 Biberach to the Counts of Sternberg - Manderscheid, 1835 sold them the possession of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

Until after the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) the present district Rusenberg belonged to the Catholic Jakob Schenk von Stauffenberg, who in 1656 sold it to the Franciscan St. Oggelsbeuren because he was pulled due to an inheritance after Rißtissen.

History Oggelsbeurens

The village Oggelsbeuren north of Attenweiler location was first mentioned in 1275 as Oggelspurren, from the 16th century states often Oberspeiren. Church and parish were incorporated the pen Buchau before 1363. The place was owned by the Counts of Green Willingen- Landau, from the beginning of the 14th century part of the rule Warthausen and with this from 1331 in the possession of the House of Habsburg. Until 1446 the place shared alternating pledges waiting Stockhausen. As of 1446, the Lords of stone were invested with the place. Probably assumed this is the place in the 16th century the Knights of Canton Danube imperial knights. 1695 came, the place in possession of the pin Buchau, with the secularisation of 1803 to the princes of Thurn and Taxis. The sovereignty fell in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg, which administered the city from 1810 as part of the Oberamts Riedlingen. Until 1849 Oggelsbeuren was also under princely patrimonial administration of Thurn and Taxis.

History Rupert Hofens

Grave finds prove an Alemannic settlement in the early Middle Ages. The place Rupertshofen divided since the Middle Ages as part of the rule Warthausen the story of Oggelsbeuren. 1788 the parish Rupertshofen was founded, before she was a branch of the parish Oggelsbeuren. Since 1811 consisted own Schultheißerei in Rupertshofen. The hamlet Vogelhof was a meeting place of beggars, crooks or moving people in the 18th century.

Religions

In the village there is the Catholic parishes of St. Blaise in Attenweiler, St. John Baptist and St. Vitus in Oggelsbeuren in Rupertshofen that belong to the Deanery of the Diocese of Biberach Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

The Evangelical church Attenweiler belongs to the church district of Biberach the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg. In addition to the political community Attenweiler it includes Uttenweiler with Sauggart and awls, the districts Aßmannshardt and Alberweiler the municipality and the district Schemmerhofen Moosbeuren the community Oberstadion. The Evangelical church has 1,050 members (as of autumn 2004).

Economy and infrastructure

The community is dominated by agriculture and the crafts.

Culture and sights

Structures in Attenweiler

• Church of St. Blasius, built in 1722
• Renovated Evangelical Church, built in 1843 in the style of classicism, 1975
• Former rectory built in 1732 in the Baroque style

Structures in Oggelsbeuren

• Former monastery Oggelsbeuren: 1378 founded the Franciscan monastery. The monastery bought the estate in 1656 Rusenberg by Jakob Schenk von Stauffenberg, who was ansa vinegar in Rißtissen. 1787 the monastery was abolished; second settlement in 1854 by a Franciscan convent, who moved in 1859 to Kloster Sießen; 1860 home of the " Pius care ". Some of the buildings of the baroque house built in 1714 is obtained after a fire in 1953, the buildings have been restored.
• Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist, built in 1849 in place of a previous medieval building, renovated in 1974
• Chapel in Aigen village, built in 1870 in place of an older chapel

Structures in Rupertshofen

• St. Vitus parish church, built in 1810, renovated tower of 1863, 1977