Bebenhausen

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Location of Bebenhausen in Tübingen

Bebenhausen ( by population ) is the smallest borough of the university town of Tübingen. The entire townscape ensemble is under protection.

Location

Bebenhausen is located three kilometers north of the city center of Tübingen on the regional road L1208 on the edge of a wide valley basin at the confluence of Goldersbach and Seebach. Bebenhausen is the only place within the nature park Schonbuch. South of Bebenhausen opened a geological trail on the mountain Kirn 1977 by the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, where the Keuper layers are explained on several boards and provide a good geological overview of the surrounding landscape.

The place is since 1974, with around 350 inhabitants, is a district of Tübingen.

The monastery is the public transport through bus 754 Tübingen Hauptbahnhof - Bebenhausen, French Horn - Dettenhausen - Walton and Weybridge - Holzgerlingen - Böblingen, line 826 Tübingen Hauptbahnhof - Bebenhausen, French Horn - Dettenhausen - Forest Book - Steinenbronn - Leinfelden and 828 Tübingen Hauptbahnhof - Bebenhausen, French horn - Dettenhausen - Forest Book - Steinenbronn - Real things - Stuttgart airport to reach. The buses run every hour.

History of the Monastery

See main article: Bebenhausen

The monastery Bebenhausen was probably founded around 1183 by Pfalzgraf Rudolf von Tübingen at the site of an older castle as a family grave and laying colonized by Premonstratensian canons. However, the Premonstratensian left the place again soon.

To 1189/90 were taken from the Cistercian monastery of Schönau, to continue the founding of a monastery. They settled in the commenced of the Premonstratensians buildings and built the monastery of delay. The strict rules of the Order, however, were violated, since the place was not in the necessary seclusion and Pfalzgraf Rudolf still wanted to be buried in its foundation. Here, however, had the monks from Schönau, the grave was laying the Heidelberg Palatine, already relevant experience.

At the end of the 13th century, the convent comprised more than 60 monks to 130 converse. Its economic power rose by numerous grants, so that it could in 1301 town and castle of Tübingen buy and hold for a short time. During the 14th century, the bailiwick came over the monastery to the Reich, with the sale of the reign of Tübingen by the Tübingen Palatine in 1342 but declined sovereign rights over the monastery of Tübingen in Württemberg, which these rights extended train to train and the old kingdom of freedom eventually eliminated. Since 1498 the abbot had a seat in the Württemberg Landtag.

After the introduction of the Reformation in 1535 by Duke Ulrich of Württemberg, the Convention has been sold, but could again return for a short time after the Peace of Augsburg. 1556 taught Duke Christoph of Württemberg in the monastery a Protestant monastery school under the direction of a Protestant abbot one. The Catholic Convention 1560 finally left the monastery. The school moved in 1753 to Tübingen to. However, the monastery remained as an independent economic area until 1807, were released as a school and monastery administration. The farm buildings took on the top Forestry Office Tübingen country, the monastery served as a royal hunting lodge. Here lived after his abdication as King, Duke Wilhelm of Württemberg and his wife.

1946-1952 was held in the Monastery of the parliament of the state of Württemberg- Hohenzollern.

History of the castle

King Frederick broke 1806 on the convent school and used Bebenhausen for princely Court hunting parties. To this end, he was converted into a hunting lodge, the former abbot's house of the monastery. Under his successor, William I. Bebenhausen fell into decay, only the third Württemberg King, Karl took Bebenhausen again as a hunting lodge by letting reconfigure the former guesthouse of the monastery. His successor, Wilhelm II had to follow more conversions and often stayed for hunting season in Bebenhausen.

King William II of Württemberg wrote in 1918 Bebenhausen his abdication and lived there until his death in 1921. His wife, Duchess Charlotte remained in Bebenhausen until her death in 1946.

From 1946 until the founding of the State of Baden -Württemberg in 1952 was Bebenhausen seat of the Landtag of Württemberg- Hohenzollern.

After renovation and restoration by the State Building Authority Reutlingen 1986, again appointed former royal social and residential areas were reopened as a museum.

Famous people

  • Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), theologian and 1650-1654 abbot of the Protestant monastery school
  • Eberhard Bidembach the Younger (1561-1591), Lutheran theologian
  • Karl Philipp Conz (1762-1827), poet and writer, student of the Protestant monastery school in Bebenhausen
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Knight (1775-1854), philosopher, student of the Protestant monastery school in Bebenhausen
  • Karl Friedrich Kiel Meyer (1765-1844), naturalist
  • Kiesinger (1904-1988), politician, spent his holidays and weekends in Bebenhausen
  • Hedwig Pfizenmayer, painter, lived there for several years
  • Sieburg Friedrich (1893-1964), novelist, lived by the war until 1946 there
  • Christiane Nüsslein -Volhard ( born 1942 ), Nobel Prize winner, lives there
  • Luise Walther, painter
  • King William II (1848-1921), the hunting lodge used in the place and lived after his abdication in 1918 until his death in 1921 here.
  • August hot Meyer (1897-1979), the former SS -Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen -SS, emerged after the end of WWII under quake in Hausen, where he lived until his death.
  • Gertrud Scholtz - Klink (1902-1999), Reich Women's Leader in the National Socialist German Reich

Others

According to Baedeker the monastic settlement Bebenhausen counts " the most beautiful and best preserved facilities of its kind in Germany ."

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