Altheim (near Riedlingen)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	541 m above sea level NHN
Area :	23.74 km 2
Residents:	2111 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	89 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88499
Area code :	07371
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 008
Address of the municipal administration:	Donaustraße 1 88499 Altheim
Website :	www.gemeinde-altheim.de
Mayor :	Martin Rude
Location of the community Altheim in the district of Biberach

Altheim is a municipality in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg . It is located on the Danube , in the immediate vicinity of the city of Riedlingen .

Community structure

In addition to the eponymous district Altheim, the formerly independent communities Heiligkreuztal and Waldhausen , which were incorporated on July 1, 1974, also belong to the community .

history

Altheim was first mentioned in a document in 835. It was originally under the rule of the Counts of Veringen before it came into Habsburg possession around 1300 . Since the end of the 16th century, the village - still under Habsburg rule - was administered by the Waldburg Truchess , who sold it to the princes of Thurn und Taxis in 1786 along with many other localities . In 1806 Altheim came to the Kingdom of Württemberg as a result of the Rhine Confederation Act and the associated mediation . There it was added to the Oberamt Riedlingen . With the district reform in 1938, Altheim then became part of the Saulgau district . It has belonged to the Biberach district since 1973 .

See also : Burg Waldhausen (Altheim) , Bürgle (Burg Altheim) and Burgstall Altheim

In earlier times the people of Altheim were mocked as "sun and moon catchers", which encouraged the Swabian dialect poet Michel Buck from Ertingen to write his original poem D Sonn- und Mau'fanger around 1888 .

Religions

A church in Altheim was first mentioned in a document in 1227. It is the Catholic Saint Martins Church .

Incorporations

coat of arms

In the Altheim municipal archive there is a letter of coat of arms from Emperor Leopold I dated January 21, 1681 which, in addition to a picture, contains the following description of the coat of arms : A three-part shield, the middle part red or ruby, the upper part yellow or gold; At the bottom of the shield is a white or silver-colored brook or river next to a slightly elevated green shore or bank adjoining it, on this a beaver in its natural color, with its rear feet very upright and facing inwards, with a flapping tail, an open mouth and a red tongue ; holding the Austrian shield in the two front feet. The following words are written around the entire shield in Latin letters: Althaimb am Piberpach 1681.

The municipality still carries this coat of arms today.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

• The internationally renowned Häussler GmbH produces high-quality household machines in the south of the Heiligkreuztal district.

Leisure and sports facilities

• Danube cycle path, sports field, playground and Biberbach

Culture and sights

Altheim is on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road .

Buildings

St. Martin in Altheim

Ceramic vessels found in the Hohmichele burial mound

• Catholic parish church of St. Martin with frescoes by Franz Joseph Spiegler
• Hohmichele in the Heiligkreuztal district: burial mounds from the Hallstatt period, with a diameter of almost 80 m and a height of 14 m, one of the largest burial mounds in Central Europe,excavatedby Gustav Riek in1937/1938. 13 burials were found in the hill, of which numerous grave goods testify.
• Heiligkreuztal Monastery , a former women's monastery of the Cistercian order : Heiligkreuztal is the best preserved of the six Cistercian monasteries in Swabia. Pious women from Altheim, who were given the neighboring Gutwasserschaf (today Wasserschapfen)estate from the knight Konrad von Markdorf, were the founders of this monastery in 1227, were accepted into the Cistercian order in 1233, and in 1238 under the protection of the Salem monastery , church and monastery were consecrated in 1256 and expanded in late Gothic style from 1490 to 1551. The monastery came to Front Austria in 1611. The monastery buildings, which were restored from 1690 to 1752, were secularized in 1804and abandoned by the nuns in 1843. Since 1972, after restoration and expansion, they have been used as the Stefanus Bildungsstätte training institute .
• St. Oswald Chapel in the Waldhausen district

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ottmar Schneck (born June 29, 1960), economist, rector at the SRH Fernhochschule Riedlingen

literature

• Johann Daniel Georg v. Memminger: Altheim community , from description of the Riedlingen District Office . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1827 ( full text at Wikisource )

Web links

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

Wikisource: Altheim  - in the description of the Oberamt Riedlingen from 1827

• Altheim community
• Altheim 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. ^ 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. 544 .
3. ↑ Apart from the statement of the company boss, I can only report that I met and spoke to customers from the USA , Great Britain and Azerbaijan
4. ↑ http://www.backdorf.de
5. ↑ Brochure "Klosterstadt Heiligkreuzthal" from the Stefanus educational institution
6. ↑ same prospectus of the educational establishment