Niederstotzingen

Niederstotzingen is a small town in the district of Heidenheim in Baden- Württemberg.

• 2.1 religions
• 2.2 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 partnerships

• 4.1 traffic
• 4.2 Established businesses
• 4.3 Education

• 5.1 Structures
• 5.2 Natural Monuments
• 5.3 Sport and Leisure

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Niederstotzingen is located on the southeastern edge of the Swabian Alb, between the Danube valley and the Lone valley, in 450-542 meters above sea level; to the south lies the Swabian Danube moss.

Neighboring communities

Niederstotzingen borders in the north on the town Giengen, to the east by Sontheim, to the south by the Bavarian town of Günzburg, in the west on Asselfingen in Alb- Donau-Kreis and the city Herbrechtingen.

Boroughs

The city Niederstotzingen consists of the districts ( residential districts within the meaning of Baden-Württemberg municipal code ) Niederstotzingen ( Residential District I), Oberstotzingen ( Residential District II), Stetten ( Residential District III), Lontal ( Residential District IV) ( with the hamlet of repentance village). The official designation of the districts is done by preceding the name of the city and, separated by a hyphen, readjusted the name of the city. In Stetten district is the town Outbound Kaltenburg.

History

The district of Niederstotzingen has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic, as finds from the nearby bird stove cave show.

From Celtic times the remains of a Viereckschanze and from the Roman period came the remains of a villa rustica between Niederstotzingen and Sontheim above the old Danube north road that led from Steingädele to Regensburg.

During construction work in the south of the city, a small burial ground from the second half of the 7th century was discovered in 1962, on which some Alamannic nobles were buried along with their animals and extremely valuable adjuncts.

The name Stotzingin appeared in 1143 for the first time on a document; on his interpretation of science is not sure to this day. After the place named in the High Middle Ages, the lower nobility of Stotzingen, which still flourishes today and sat in Niederstotzingen itself up to 1330. The rule later passed to the Lords of Riedheim. Emperor Charles IV allowed William of Riedheim 1366 Niederstotzingen expand to the city and to fasten; the municipal law, the place has retained to this day (with a brief interruption in the 19th century).

By 1400, the Lords of Leimberg acquired the right to rule from which they went on the Erbweg over to the Knights of Westernach 50 years later. These exchanged Niederstotzingen 1457 a with the gentlemen of the Stain against their rule Konzenberg. The Stains built the rule in the ensuing centuries more and more of, inter alia, acquired important privileges such as exemption from foreign courts and determined a development led to the free imperial knights brought about. 1550 did the heirs of Bernhard vom Stain a momentous step and shared the rule into two parts: the " burg connected forensic " (after the earlier seat of the local government, the " castle ", named ) and the " steinhausische " half ( named after the "Stone House " a younger seat of power ). 1565 led by Heinrich Stain, his day an important man of war, in his part of the city the Reformation, while his brother with the " steinhausischen " half of the old religion remained loyal. Thus the subjection was split over the centuries and the low Stotz Inger church used simultaneously until 1960.

After the death of the childless Henry Stain from 1605 be Niederstotzingen Inger part fell to his cousin Leopold Charles, who was already sitting on the adjacent Bächingen. This split in 1624 his Niederstotzingen Inger half among his sons once more, so that now reigned within the narrow walls Niederstotzingens three closer or more distantly related men: There were now next to each other, the Catholic " steinhausische ", the " burg connected forensic " and the new " freihausische " rule ( named after another mansion in the city).

During the " steinhausische " part was sold in 1661 to the monastery Kaisheim, became the youngest member of the " freihausische ", " burg connected Cartesian " with the back to the childless death of its last owner in 1799 under the hand of the now to the Count Ascended Karl Leopold of Stain united. As well as the 1809, died without leaving descendants, he bequeathed his possessions ( next Niederstotzingen also Riedhausen ) and his newly built castle to his nephew Joseph Alexander Graf von Maldeghem. To date, castle Niederstotzingen is in the hands of this family that could extend their possessions by the purchase of the adjacent property Oberstotzingen and Stetten considerably over time.

Religions

The majority of the village is a Catholic denomination (half of Niederstotzingen, Oberstotzingen, Stetten, Lontal ), while the Protestant church was built in 1565. Furthermore, there's a New Apostolic Church.

Incorporations

March 1, 1972: Oberstotzingen, Stetten ob Lontal

Stetten ob Lontal

Policy

Parish council

The council are after the local elections of 7 June 2009, in addition to the mayor as chairman, 21 members.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In green a silver drinking Stotzen with silver fittings and left abgebrachtem silver ring. "

Partnerships

Niederstotzingen maintains partnership relations with Stotzing in Burgenland in Austria since 1983 and Bages near Perpignan in France since 1992.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The city is connected via the seven kilometers away, driveway Niederstotzingen the Federal Highway 7 ( Flensburg- Füssen) to the national road network. State and county roads provide the connection to the neighboring villages.

Niederstotzingen is located on the Brenz Railway ( Aalen - Heidenheim - Ulm) and belongs to the Heidenheim Tarifverbund. Two bus lines get public transport (PT ) with neighboring municipalities and cities.

Established businesses

The garden tool manufacturer Gardena AG operates in Niederstotzingen a metal processing plant.

Education

The city has three kindergartens in Niederstotzingen and one each in Oberstotzingen and Stetten. In Niederstotzingen there is a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule. The former primary school in Oberstotzingen was rebuilt in 2008 for the children's home Oberstotzingen "Villa Kaleido " or newly built. The Children's House has been in operation since 12 January 2009. Junior high school and high school located in Langenau Herbrechtingen and Giengen. Another elementary and secondary school located in Sontheim.

Culture and sights

Structures

• Castle Niederstotzingen, classicist building from 1780, instead of the old castle ( " Castle "), built by the Earl of Stain. Although the castle, which is in the possession of the Count's Maldeghem'schen administration, 1843 to an " indivisible and inalienable ancestral home " - a Fideikommiss - was merged, it is now to be sold.
• Castle Oberstotzingen, built in the 16th century by the Bavarian nobility Jarsdorf from Jahrndorf. In 1942, it served as a forced retirement home for Jewish seniors. Today, Schlosshotel.
• Baroque Church of St. Martin in Oberstotzingen, 1761 rebuilt on Roman wall ruins.
• St. Andrew's Church in Niederstotzingen
• Schloss Stetten, built in 1583 by the family of Riedheim 1712 baroque transformed by Valerian burner.
• Baroque pilgrimage church in Stetten, completed in 1733, with a copy of the Black Madonna of Einsiedeln.
• Castle Kaltenburg in the Lone Valley

Natural Monuments

The 1931 discovered Vogelherdhöhle cave in the Lone Valley (5 km northwest of Niederstotzingen ), site of the famous Lonetalpferds, is known due to the archaeological findings beyond the region. She was a resting place and shelter for the people of glacial 35,000 years ago.

Sport and Leisure

In 1967, a small swimming pool was opened, which was closed in June 2011.

There are twelve sports clubs, 19 other teams and seven other associations.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Christoph Friedrich Haug (1761-1829), professor at the Stuttgart School and Karl laureate in Stuttgart
• Rudolf Friedrich Heinrich von Magenau (1767-1848), priest and writer
• Jacob Friedrich von Magenau (1796-1857), Württemberg Rollmaus
• Doris Koch ( born 1960 ), a visual artist and cultural theorist
• Andreas Merkle (born 1962 ), former German professional footballer