Courtship wood
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Courtship wood
Beuren municipality (near Nürtingen)
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| Height : | 430 m |
| Incorporation : | 1938 |
| Postal code : | 72660 |
| Area code : | 07025 |
Balzholz is a district of the municipality of Beuren in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Balzholz lies at the foot of the Hohenneuffen castle ruins , about a kilometer west of Beuren in the direction of Neuffen . Neighboring towns are Linsenhofen (municipality of Frickenhausen) in the north, Beuren in the east and Neuffen in the south and west.
history
Balzholz emerged as a late manorial clearing settlement in the Middle Ages on the original markings of the older Neuffen. The place name is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1298, but whether it is this balzholz is questionable from the content of the document. In 1400 the place itself is mentioned for the first time as wiler ze Balßholtz . For a long time Balzholz still belonged to the Neuffen court, as part of the Neuffen rule, the place passed to Württemberg in 1301 and then belonged to the old Württemberg office of Neuffen until its abolition in 1806. Balzholz also belonged ecclesiastically, which never had its own church or chapel to the city of Neuffen. It was not until 1521 that the parish was changed to Beuren.
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) only made itself felt in the Steinach Valley after the Nördlinger Battle in 1634. The infamous Butler dragoons and Croats plundered the villages. The plague raged, the population of Balzholz died or moved away. The place was uninhabited for a few years. It was not until 1693 that the place had a hundred inhabitants again.
In 1938 Balzholz was incorporated into Beuren.
politics
coat of arms
Blazon: On a golden shield above green ground an erect black fishhook between green beech trees. The coat of arms was adopted in 1930. It goes back to an old seal stick that showed a fishing rod. On a gold plate over green ground an erect black fishing hook between green beech trees. The fishing rod is supposed to be a reminder of the foot rods that were formerly laid out on Balzholzer mark to protect the Hohenneuffen fortress.
mayor
- 1792-1814 Johann Jacob Nething
- 1814–1828 Johann Jacob Blind
- 1829–1854 Carl Pfänder
- 1854–1873 Johann Martin Schnerring
- 1873–1905 Johann Caspar Feller
- 1905–1919 Johannes Häussler
- 1919–1938 Johannes Blutbacher
Population development
Until the incorporation in Beuren. The population figures are taken from the Beuren-Balzholz Ortssippenbuch.
| Deadline | population |
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| 1810 | 303 |
| 1835 | 393 |
| 1869 | 416 |
| 1901 | 337 |
| 1922 | 361 |
| 1936 | 332 |
Public facilities
In Balzholz there is the former town hall, which is no longer used by the public. The former wine press now serves as a warehouse. In 1984 a new bakery was built as part of a joint effort by the Balzholz residents , in which the population can make wood-fired bread in the traditional way.
traffic
The state road L 1210 runs through Balzholz from Kohlberg to Owen .
Sons and daughters of the church
- Gottlob Espenlaub (1900–1972), aviator and aircraft designer
literature
- Willi Knapp and Erich Knapp: Ortssippenbuch Beuren-Balzholz, German Ortssippenbuch, Series A - Volume 144. Self-published, Filderstadt 1988.
- Sönke Lorenz and Andreas Schmauder (eds.): Beuren and Balzholz - A community at the foot of the Swabian Alb. Markstein-Verlag, Filderstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935129-20-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wirtemberg document book . Volume XI, No. 5190. Stuttgart 1913, p. 181 ( digitized , online edition )