Apfelstetten

Apfelstetten City of Münsingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	729 m
Residents :	467
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	72525
Area code :	07381

Apfelstetten is a district of the city of Münsingen in the Reutlingen district in Baden-Württemberg.

geography

Geographical location, protected areas

The place lies on the Swabian Alb between Münsingen and Buttenhausen at the upper end of a dry valley going to the Great Lauter . The protected landscape area 4.15.134 Großes Lautertal surrounds half of the place in the west.

history

The place was created as an expansion settlement in the older expansion period. The village was first mentioned in 1384. It was initially owned by the von Hundersingen lords and passed to Württemberg in the 14th century. At the beginning of the 15th century, the place went together with Hundersingen to the Counts of Kirchberg , 1452 to the Speth , 1463 to the Truchsessen von Bichishausen and in 1510 again to Württemberg. In 1580, Apfelstetten and Hundersingen were put under a common court. In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , Apfelstetten was incorporated into Münsingen on January 1, 1974.

Attractions

• Evangelical Barbara Church , built at the end of the 17th century. The church was restored from 1969 to 1971, revealing two arched windows and wall paintings from the 14th century from the previous Romanesque building.

Personalities

• Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck (1912–1977), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, spent her retirement in Apfelstetten and died there too.
• Hans Georg Rupp (1907–1989), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , retired in Apfelstetten and died there too.

literature

• Gerhard Müller (Ed.): The Reutlingen district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-8062-0136-6 , p. 274

Web links

Commons : Apfelstetten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Apfelstetten in the description of the Oberamt Münsingen from 1825  - sources and full texts

• The Münsingen districts on the city homepage
• Location description at LeoBW

Individual evidence

1. ^ Description of the district on the website of the city of Münsingen