Bartholomä

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ostalbkreis
Height :	641 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.75 km 2
Residents:	2030 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73566
Area code :	07173
License plate :	AA, GD
Community key :	08 1 36 007
LOCODE :	DE BV9
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Brunnenfeldstrasse 1 ; 73566 Bartholomä
Website :	www.bartholomae.de
Mayor :	Thomas Kuhn
Location of the municipality of Bartholomä in the Ostalb district

Bartholomä is a municipality in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

View from the Wirtsberg to Bartholomä

The state-approved resort of Bartholomä is located on the Albuch , part of the Swabian Alb .

Neighboring communities

The community borders the city of Heubach in the north, Essingen in the northeast, Königsbronn and Steinheim am Albuch in the southeast , both in the Heidenheim district , Böhmenkirch in the south and the city of Lauterstein , both in the Göppingen district , and Schwäbisch Gmünd in the west .

Community structure

The municipality of Bartholomä includes the village of Bartholomä, the hamlets of Äußerer Kitzinghof, Amalienhof, Hesselschwang, Hirschrain, Innerer Kitzinghof, Möhnhof and Rötenbach, the homestead Tannenhöfle and the Ziegelhütte house (Auf der Heide) as well as the villages of Bärenweiler, Engelboldweiler, Ulrichsweiler and Burg Michelstein .

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

There is hardly any other community in the Ostalb district that is so little known about the history, as hardly any documents have been preserved in the archives of the knightly lords, who have changed frequently since the 17th century . The first mention in 1365 as Laubenhart was only published in 1994. In 1365 Ulrich von Rechberg zu Gröningen and his sons sold an extensive rule, but explicitly excluded the church law (the right of patronage) ze Laubenhart . Until 1531 (or 1532?) Bartholomä, who gave up his old name Laubenhart in the 16th century in favor of the name after the church saint Bartholomäus (there is a Bartholomäus market to this day), was Rechbergisch . Until 1638 the lords of Woellwarth zu Lauterburg were the local lords.

In 1638 the Ulm patrician Hans Jakob Schad bought the manor. The von Wollmershausen family came to the von Holz zu Alfdorf family , who became sole owners in 1740. In 1806 the village came to Württemberg . It belonged to the Oberamt Gmünd , which later became the district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . When it was dissolved in 1973 , Bartholomä joined the new Ostalb district .

Religions

The Evangelical Bartholomew Church

The Catholic Church

The Lords of Woellwarth introduced the Reformation in Bartholomä in 1550 . The place was initially evangelical . After the widespread depopulation caused by the Thirty Years' War , Catholics began to move into the village from the 18th century. A Catholic church was built in 1839/1840. The Protestant parish of Bartholomä belongs to the Schwäbisch Gmünd church district.

politics

Administrative community

The community is a member of the Rosenstein administrative community based in Heubach .

Municipal council

Since the last local election on May 25, 2014, the municipal council has had ten members whose term of office is five years. The seats are distributed among the individual groups as follows (the changes relate to the result of the penultimate election in 2009):

City council since 2014
fraction	Election result	±	Strength	±
Independent citizen list	55.6%	+2.7 pp	6 seats	+1
Free electoral association	44.4%	−2.7 pp	4 seats	−1

The turnout was 59.3 percent, 1.7 percentage points lower than in 2009.

mayor

In June 2013 Thomas Kuhn was elected for a second term with 84.67 percent.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a silver knife with the edge turned to the left ".

The Bartholomäuskirche and the Bartholomäusmarkt gave the community their name. The knife as an attribute of the eponymous apostle indicates this in the coat of arms.

The municipality flag is white and red.

On March 2, 1957, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior awarded the municipality the coat of arms and flag that are valid today.

partnership

Bartholomä maintains a partnership with Casola Valsenio ( Province of Ravenna ) in Italy .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Bartholomä-Amalienhof airfield is located south-east of the village, adjacent to the Amalienhof holiday complex . The Heubach and Fellbach Fliegergruppen as well as the Stuttgart Academic Fliegergruppe are located here.

education

With the Laubenhartschule, Bartholomä has a primary school . Adult education courses are also offered on a regular basis.

telecommunications

Radio tower of the Bundeswehr north of Bartholomä

At 48 ° 46 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 27 ″ E there is a 61 m high, meanwhile decommissioned radio tower of the Bundeswehr. 48.774722222222 9.9575

energy

2016 was in the municipal area wind farm Lauterstein with three wind turbines of the type GE 2.75-120 put into operation 16 additional plants are due to the community Lauterstein .

Culture and sights

Easter fountain in front of the Hülbe in Bartholomä

Natural monuments

A special attraction is the sea of rocks in the Wental Valley with its unusual rock formations. The Weiherwiesen nature reserve is also worth seeing, as you can experience untouched nature and complete silence here.

Rose day

Since 1987, every second year at the end of August, around 100 carters with a total of over 250 horses have met for a unique event on Rosstag. On Rosstag in Bartholomä you can marvel at marvelous draft horses, beautifully designed wagons on historical topics and on the earlier agricultural and peasant as well as craft life. The highlight of the day is the parade with the proud horse and carts in and around the municipality of Bartholomä.

Ortneckname

The Bartholomeans used to bother tying brooms a lot. They had to take their nickname “Birke-Schnalzger” because they knew how to get their birch sticks in a strange way. The Bartholomeans climbed young birch trees, hung themselves on the peaks until the branches reached the ground - then they cut off the most beautiful ones, jumped down and let the trees "click" back again.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Theodor Wolf (1841-1924), botanist and geologist, namesake of the island of Wolf (Galápagos)
Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977), German terrorist, member of the Red Army faction

People who worked on site

Thomas Haller (* 1966), church music director, grew up in Bartholomä

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).

^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 726-728

↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Bartholomä.

↑ Location description on the municipality's website

↑ Heinz Bardua: The communal coat of arms of the Ostalb district . Ostalb-Einhorn 10 (1983), pages 75-88

↑ Heinz Bardua: District and community arms in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1: The district and community coats of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 1987, 158 pages, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8