Abstatt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '  N , 9 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Heilbronn
Local government association:	"Schozach-Bottwartal"
Height :	241 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.66 km 2
Residents:	4803 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	497 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74232
Area code :	07062
License plate :	HN
Community key :	08 1 25 001
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausstrasse 30 74232 Abstatt
Website :	www.abstatt.de
Mayor :	Klaus Zenth
Location of the municipality of Abstatt in the Heilbronn district

Abstatt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ). It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franken region and the edge zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart .

geography

Geographical location

Abstatt is located in the south of the Heilbronn district in the Schozach valley . The city of Heilbronn is about 10 kilometers to the north-west. Abstatt has a share in the natural areas of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains and Neckar Basin .

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Panorama from Abstatt

Neighboring communities

Neighboring cities and communities Abstatt are ( clockwise , starting in the west): Ilsfeld , Untergruppenbach , the city of Lauffen am Neckar (exclave Stadtwald Etzlensendung) and the city of Beilstein , all of which belong to the Heilbronn district. Together with Beilstein, Ilsfeld and Untergruppenbach, Abstatt forms the municipal administration association “Schozach-Bottwartal” , based in Ilsfeld.

Community structure

In addition to Abstatt itself, Abstatt also includes the hamlet of Happenbach , which formed its own sub-community until April 1, 1934 , and the residential areas Vohenlohe and Burg Wildeck .

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

When the Neckar-Limes was moved forward about 30 kilometers in the 2nd century AD, the region around what is now Abstatt became part of the Roman Empire. Archaeological finds testify to the Roman presence on site. The first documented mention of Abstatt comes from the year 1361. In 1490 the place was bought by Ludwig von Bayern-Pfalz , a son of Elector Friedrich I the Victorious of the Palatinate, who added it to the Löwenstein County , which he had already received in 1488 . In 1510 Abstatt became part of Württemberg . The place Vohenlohe and the Württemberg part of Happenbach were then co-administered from Abstatt. From 1806 Abstatt initially formed its own patrimonial office with Vohenlohe, Wildeck and Happenbach. Together with Vohenlohe and Wildeck, Abstatt came to the Oberamt Besigheim in 1810 , while Happenbach came to the Oberamt Heilbronn . In 1842 Abstatt, Vohenlohe and Wildeck also came to the Oberamt Heilbronn, which in 1938 became the district of Heilbronn.

In 1933 there were 833 inhabitants, in 1939 there were 807. Up to the Second World War the community was dominated by agriculture, later it became a typical residential area in the catchment area of Heilbronn .

politics

Abstatt Town Hall

mayor

• 1988–2011: Rüdiger Braun
• since September 2011: Klaus Zenth

Municipal council

The local council in Abstatt has 14 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The turnout was 65.15% (2014: 54.42%).

Municipal Council 2019
CDU	33.98%	5 seats	2014: 41.82%, 6 seats
SPD	11.38%	2 seats	2014: 25.37%, 3 seats
Free community of voters Abstatt	30.81%	4 seats	2014: 32.81%, 5 seats
FDP	13.42%	2 seats	2014: 0.0%, 0 seats
Open Green Citizens List (OGB)	10.41%	1 seat	2014: 0.0%, 0 seats

badges and flags

Abstatt's coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a split shield in front a golden abbot turned left in red, behind in gold a red lion. The flag of the municipality is red and white.

A seal from Abstatt from 1628, when the place belonged to the Counts of Löwenstein , contains the Löwenstein coat of arms: a crowned lion standing on a mountain of four . First turned to the right, the lion appears on seals from 1697 and 1768 turned to the left. At the beginning of the 20th century, only a lion rising to the left was left in the Abstatt mayor's office seal. In 1907, the community asked the Württemberg archives department for a proposal for a new coat of arms. Unaware of the old seals, the archive management suggested the current coat of arms: an abbot's staff to symbolize the place name, which is supposedly derived from abbot's place , and a lion because of the historical relationship with the County of Löwenstein. Since the abbot's staff was initially rejected by Abstatt as a denominational symbol, the management made a second suggestion, which included a black stag's pole as a symbol of connections to Württemberg in addition to the lion . On November 21, 1907, the municipality decided in favor of the original proposal. The flag was awarded to the community on September 5, 1980 by the district office of Heilbronn.

Partner communities

It has been in partnership with the town of Léhon (since 2018: part of Dinan ) in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany since 1981 . Founded in 1984, the partnership association, together with its counterpart in Léhon, has been supporting the sponsored community of Kahemba in the People's Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1989 .

Culture and sights

Wildeck Castle

One of the many cat figurines in Abstatt

Buildings

• The castle Wildeck at Vohenlohe (also Wildeck Castle) was built in the 12th century and now houses a Versuchsgut the Weinberger wine school .
• The Protestant St. Stephen's Church was built in late Baroque style in 1766 on the remains of an older, Gothic predecessor building and was rebuilt by Heinrich Dolmetsch in 1899 after a fire .
• The old town hall in Abstatt was built after 1750 on the site of an abandoned old castle as the official house of the Counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. After the mediatization of the imperial knighthood, the building served as a princely-Löwenstein patrimonial staff office, later as a rent office, and after 1868 as a forest office. The building came into the possession of the Abstatt municipality in 1906 and was then converted into the town hall. In the meantime it has been expanded with a modern extension.
• There are also several historic half-timbered houses in Abstatt . Building No. 22 in Auensteiner Straße is dated to the 15th or 16th century, No. 15 is another old half-timbered house that was converted to Baroque style in 1795.
• The sandstone tomb of Count Albrecht von Löwenstein (1536–1587) is located in the cemetery . The tomb was once in the church, was later moved next to the town hall in front of the gate of the Löwenstein office building and came to its present location in 1979 after restoration.

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  Parish Church of St. Stephan

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  Half-timbered house

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  Tomb of Albrecht von Löwenstein

Art and museums

Abstatt has a local museum. In the center of Abstatt, numerous large, differently brightly painted cat figures were permanently set up, the Rällinge . Rälling is the Utz name of the tailor and means something like "enterprising tomcat looking for a bride".

Judiciary

Abstatt is in the district of the Heilbronn District Court . Within the ordinary jurisdiction, the district court Heilbronn and the higher regional court Stuttgart are superordinate. For legal disputes from Abstatt, the Heilbronn Labor Court is responsible for labor jurisdiction and the Heilbronn Social Court for social jurisdiction; Abstatt also belongs to the district of the Stuttgart Administrative Court .

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Abstatt with vineyards in the foreground

Abstatt is a wine-growing place whose locations belong to the large Schozachtal area in the Württembergisch Unterland area of ​​the Württemberg wine-growing region . The Happenbach grape variety is named after the Happenbach district.

traffic

Abstatt is located directly on the A 81 motorway between the Ilsfeld and Heilbronn / Untergruppenbach junctions .

Established businesses

Robert Bosch GmbH has had a development site in Abstatt since 2004 , which after several expansions now employs 5800 people (as of October 2019). The Bosch subsidiary Bosch Engineering GmbH is also located there . Up until 2013, Abstatt was the headquarters of the SAP system house Steeb Application Systems GmbH, which was then part of SAP . Steeb looks after the SME business in the SAP environment. The Munzing Chemie GmbH is headquartered in Abstatt, as well as the international record label Massacre Records .

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Panorama of the Bosch location opened in 2004

media

The daily newspaper Heilbronner Voice reports on the events in Abstatt in its SO, Süd-Ost issue.

Public facilities

Around the Wildeck Castle, the State Training and Research Institute for Viticulture and Fruit Growing Weinsberg operates an experimental farm with ecological viticulture .

education

There is a primary school and a community library in Abstatt. In addition, the Unterland Adult Education Center in Abstatt has a branch.

Personalities

Treffz memorial plaque on the old town hall

Honorary citizen

• Rüdiger Braun (* 1953 or 1954), Mayor Abstatts from 1988 to 2011 (awarded in 2011)

Born in Abstatt

• Josef Bick (1880–1952), philologist, general director of the Austrian National Library and prisoner in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
• Willus Brenner (1902–1984), painter
• Eugen Härle (1911–2003), local politician, mayor of the communities of Ilsfeld and Schozach

Associated with Abstatt

• Alexander Bertsch (* 1940), writer; lives in Abstatt
• Wolfgang Bebber (* 1943), politician; 1980–1996 in the Abstatt municipal council
• Ingo Rust (* 1978), politician (SPD); was elected in 1999 as the youngest member of the Abstatt municipal council

A plaque on the town hall also reminds of those from Abstatt :

• Franz August Treffz (7 June 1770 - 4 June 1819), lieutenant captain in the Württemberg Cape Regiment , commander of Batavia
• Jetty Treffz (born July 1, 1818 - † April 8, 1878), opera singer and wife of Johann Strauss' son

literature

• Abstatt in the Schozachtal. Abstatt, Happenbach, Vohenlohe, Wildeck Castle. Abstatt municipality, Abstatt 2000.

Web links

Commons : Abstatt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Abstatt  - travel guide

Wikisource: Abstatt in the description of the Oberamt Heilbronn from 1865  - sources and full texts

• Abstatt at LEO-BW

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009
3. ↑ Sources for the section on community structure:
   Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . P. 94–95
   Abstatt im Schozachtal (see literature), p. 39
   Main statute of the Abstatt municipality of September 5, 2008, Section V., § 10 districts ( Memento of the original of April 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Abstatt.
5. ↑ Reinhard Wolters: The Romans in Germania. 7th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72954-6 , p. 71.
6. ^ Clause-Michael Hüssen: The Roman settlement in the area around Heilbronn. K. Theiss, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-8062-1493-2 , p. 184.
7. ↑ Information about the first mention and explanation of incorrect dating in the literature at LEO-BW
8. ↑ Communications of the Württemberg Stat. State Office No. 4/5 of December 10, 1940: Results of the population and occupational census on May 17, 1939
9. ^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
   Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 33
   Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 53
10. ↑ Sponsorship on the official church website , accessed on January 1, 2019
11. ^ Walter Grube: Baroque office houses in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 40/41.
12. ^ Hermann Ehmer: Count Albrecht von Löwenstein (1536–1587). Jerusalem pilgrim and war entrepreneur, diplomat and civil servant , in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte , 72nd year, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 153–197.
13. ↑ Der Rälling in Abstatt ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.buergerpark.abstatt.de (accessed on May 8, 2010) 
14. ↑ Bosch is not currently planning any job cuts in Abstatt , Heilbronner Demokratie, October 24, 2019
15. ↑ Manfred Stockburger: Steeb moves from Abstatt to the city. In: Heilbronner Voice of April 23, 2013
16. ↑ VHS Unterland branch offices .