Börslingen

Börslingen is a small municipality in the Alb -Donau-Kreis and with around 180 inhabitants, one of the smallest independent municipalities in Baden- Württemberg.

The municipality belongs to the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Langenau with headquarters in Langenau.

Location

It is located on 561 m height on the Low Alb, a plateau north of the Lonetals and about 15 kilometers north of Ulm, one of the 14 regional centers in the state.

Börslingen bordered to the north by Altheim ( Alb), to the east over the village and Nerenstetten, in the south on the town Langenau and to the west by Neenstetten.

Economy

The village is structured agricultural. In 2003, there were seven commercial farms and some part-time farmers who together managed about 440 hectares. Dairy farming is predominant. In the resort, an operation for industrial engraving and a restaurant is located.

Attractions

Center of the village is the Protestant Church St. Bernard. An old linden tree series accompanies the way to the south to Lone Valley.

History

Following successful field inspections of a volunteer employee of the State Office of Historic Monuments of Baden- Württemberg could be examined in the commune Börslingen by excavation team from the University of Tübingen under the direction of Prof. Dr. Harald Floss a new paleolithic reference. In two excavations that took place in autumn 2011 and in spring 2012, several settlement concentrations were exposed to several thousands findings, especially stone tools provided. The site was first committed at the time of the Neanderthals. This Börslingen is in the area of the Swabian Alb one of the earliest sites of human history. Also during the Aurignacian, so the same time almost 40,000 years ago, in the famous Vogelherdhöhle figures and the Lion Man emerged from the barn, the site was probably visited. Its importance is due to the place after all an incidence of so-called cherts, which were won by the prehistoric people at this point, and from which they made their tools and weapons tips. The special significance of the excavations is given by the fact that Börslingen after more than 150 years of research is the first secure the Paleolithic find spot in this area, which is not in caves, but in open countryside on the plateau of the Swabian Alb.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in Börslinger split plate left in red a silver church banner, right in silver a pile of them asked red double- sized wallet with dependent ends blue fiddling.

Gallery

Leaved lime series at Börslingen