Altenburg (Reutlingen)

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Altenburg
City of Reutlingen
Altenburg coat of arms before incorporation
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '51 "  N , 9 ° 10' 55"  E
Height : 306  (300-360)  m
Area : 2.61 km²
Residents : 1912  (Jan. 2019)
Population density : 733 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 72768
Area code : 07121

Altenburg is a district of Reutlingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg . District mayor is Frank Hofacker.

geography

Altenburg is located in the north of the city on the Neckar between Kirchentellinsfurt and Oferdingen . On the western edge of the town runs the federal highway 464 , which separates the town from the industrial area. There is a quarry pond in the north-east . District road 6727 runs through the village .

history

Roman traces

On the Madenburg (today's industrial area Mahden) to the west of the town there was a fairly extensive Roman settlement. While working in the fields, farmers repeatedly came across remnants of walls, Roman bricks and heating pipes. To the south of it ran a Roman road that ran from Kirchentellinsfurt via Altenburg to Oferdingen . An old military route to Gniebel and Walddorf went from the Madenburg . In recent times this system had been forgotten, although the description of the Tübingen Oberamt reported about it in 1867. The Villa Rustica complex was rediscovered during work on the B 464 . This proves the settlement at the time of the Romans .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

The church at the top of the north end of the village was built in 1654 on the site of a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas. Both bells were cast in Reutlingen in 1837 by Christian Adam Kurtz and son. An old solid wall runs around the church in the west; Traces of a ditch also indicate the local castle, which is said to have stood there before 1070. The names of the fields (Luckenäcker, Falltor) and the Siebenscheuer , which had to give way to the Protestant kindergarten in 1969 , also indicate the existence of a castle . Undoubtedly the place owes its name to this castle.

Altenburg belonged to the Counts of Achalm-Urach and formed a separate judicial district with Degerschlacht, Rommelsbach and Sickenhausen. The count brothers Kuno von Wülflingen and Liutold von Achalm-Urach wanted to found a monastery in the village around 1089 because they found the place "very pleasant and comfortable because of the grace of its location, the good pastures and the fish in the Neckar". However, concerns arose because of the mountainous location and the lack of spring water. The counts finally founded the monastery in Zwiefalten in 1089 . Altenburg and its St. Nicholas chapel with a mill belonged to his trousseau. In the course of time the monastery sold its farms, but it was not until 1730 that all monastic property was transferred to Württemberg by contract . The Johanniterkommende Dätzingen and Rohrdorf also had inclines in Altenburg, which were nationalized by Württemberg in 1809.

Most of Altenburg was passed to the Teufel family in Reutlingen at the beginning of the 15th century. On January 22nd, 1444, Hans Teufel sold Altenburg, Sickenhausen, Rommelsbach and Degerschlacht with “Vogtei, court, people, goods and favors, as he had inherited all of this from his father” for 2800  guilders to Count Ludwig von Württemberg . After the Reformation, Altenburg was assigned to the Tübingen office and became the seat of a sub-office. Until 1738 it was the upper school, after which it became a branch of Oferdingen and had to deliver the court there.

During the plague between 1609 and 1611, a total of 2,668 people died in the entire Tübingen office. At that time 55 people were abducted in Altenburg. During the Thirty Years War , the place shared the fate of its neighboring communities. The Nikolauskapelle was damaged after the battle of Nördlingen .

It was not until 1844 that Altenburg received its own parish administrator. In the same year the walled burial place was laid out east of the village. Until then, the dead were buried in the Oferdingen cemetery. In 1867 the village had 425 inhabitants. On January 1, 1972, Altenburg was incorporated into the city of Reutlingen as part of the municipal reform.

Others

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Panorama of Altenburg (seen from Sickenhausen ), in the background Pliezhausen and Mittelstadt

Web links

Wikisource: Altenburg in the description of the Oberamt Tübingen from 1867  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Living in Reutlingen - population. City of Reutlingen, accessed on February 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Description of the upper office in Tübingen. Issued by the Royal Bureau of Statistics and Topography. Stuttgart, H. Lindemann. 1867.
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 531 .