Adam Bürkle

Georg Adam Bürkle (born January 25, 1825 in Plattenhardt ; † August 13, 1896 in Stuttgart , Arkansas ) was a German emigrant , Protestant pastor and founder of the city of Stuttgart in Arkansas.

Bürkle was born in Plattenhardt, which now belongs to Filderstadt ( ⊙ ). As the son of a blacksmith, he grew up in modest circumstances. Bürkle worked in Erpfingen as a teacher and as a school assistant in Plattenhardt.

In the year 1852 the church book records Bürkle's emigration to the USA with his wife Barbara Roth and daughter Caroline . There he was temporarily resident and ministerial in Lancaster County , Pennsylvania , Lansing , Michigan and Woodville , Ohio .

With a friend, Bürkle started a trip to Arkansas in 1877, probably with the aim of establishing a colony and founding a new synod of his church. At Gum Pond , a pond overgrown with rubber trees, he found what he was looking for and bought land. He returned to Woodville and started there in 1878 with 65 people to Arkansas to a new home.

Bürkel's house in the new location became a meeting room and served as a church and post office. In 1880 Bürkle took up the post of postmaster, which required a name for the place. In memory of his old home, he named the place Stuttgart . When a railway line was built through the area in 1882, it did not run directly past the village. Bürkle then built a post office two miles from his house and lying on the rails. The building with the Stuttgart sign ensured the location of Stuttgart today .

Adam Bürkle died after a long illness in 1896. North Buerkle Street and South Buerkle Street remind of him in Stuttgart, Adam-Bürkle-Weg in Plattenhardt.

Web links

• Filderstadt's personalities - Adam Bürkle on filderstadt.de
• Georg Adam Bürkle on leo-bw.de