Rottenacker
Rottenacker is a municipality in the Alb -Donau-Kreis in Baden- Württemberg.
The municipality belongs to the administrative community Munderkingen.
- 2.1 Traffic
- 3.1 The Separatists
- 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical Location
Rottenacker is on the edge of the Swabian Alb seven kilometers south-west of Ehingen (Donau) directly on the Danube.
Neighboring communities
The municipality is bordered to the north and east by the town of Ehingen, to the south Unterstadion and to the west by the city Munderkingen.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Rottenacker is located on the Donautalbahn from Donaueschingen to Ulm. Currently Rottenacker is not usually stop in passenger transport. Although a reconnection rotting Ackers at the rail passenger transport has long been under discussion, but will still wait.
History
The Separatists
In the late 18th century, the pietism radicals experienced another boom because many Pietists separated for religious reasons by the Church. In Württemberg, they were called Separatists in general. Since 1785 the linen weaver Johann Georg Rapp got out Iptingen on the leader of the separatists Württemberg and gathered about 2,000 followers and supporters. As Rapp in 1803 emigrated to the United States, the separatist group from Rottenacker took the lead role in the Württemberg radical Pietism. It was created in 1800 at the suggestion of the maid Barbara Grubenmann from depths in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, who was in Rottenacker. About 70 people separated themselves from the Church. From the beginning, political motives played an important role; so the separatists insulted the Elector Frederick of Württemberg and the manorial officials. In May 1804, the Elector 14 of the most radical men was arrested by a military command and bring the fort Hohenasperg, where some remained for years in captivity. Because some parents refused to send their children to school, they took away the children and brought them into the Stuttgart orphanage.
In 1811, some Separatists bought the Vogt House next to the church and lived together in a community of goods. Finally, a separatist group from Württemberg acquired in 1816 The castle farm in Brandenburg an der Iller Teodone with the aim to establish a radikalpietistische community. When King Frederick rejected the suggestion that the separatists emigrated to the United States and founded the settlement in Ohio Zoar. There they lived as " Zoar Society " in community of property together. In 1898, the Zoar Society had to be dissolved after a younger generation was no longer willing to give up private property.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Konrad Sam (* 1483 ), reformer. He was already in 1520 with Martin Luther in connection and was appointed by the City Council Ulm preacher 1524
- Franz Carl Hiemer (1768-1822), painter, librettist and actor.
- John Breimaier (1776-1834), religious separatist. He suggested in 1819 in Zoar, the introduction of common ownership to. An English newspaper report from 1845 about Zoar and comparable religious settlements in the United States impressed Friedrich Engels in advance of the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
- Christoph Diehm (1892-1960), SS Brigade Commander and Major General of the Waffen- SS and Police, NSDAP politicians, police chief and SS and Police Leader
- Gerhard Storz (1898-1983), educator, writer, literary critic and Minister of Culture of the State of Baden- Württemberg
- Martin Storz (1900-1995), farmer, civil servant and Member of Parliament