Bellamont

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Bellamont
Bellamont coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 26 ″  E
Height : 684 m
Residents : 700  (2011)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 88416
Area code : 07358

Bellamont is a district of the municipality Steinhausen an der Rottum in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia . It is the highest village in the Raumschaft to Ochsenhausen .

description

In 1275 the place was first mentioned in the Liber decimationis , the tithe book of the Diocese of Constance . The name is presumably derived from the Barons von Belmont , a noble family from Graubünden that had its seat here as a local nobility until the 16th century.

A plague epidemic in 1470 is said to have killed all of the town's residents. In 1595 the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen acquired the place after Jakob Truchseß von Waldburg had sold it in 1580 to a Jos Ludwig von Ratzenried . It was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

Bellamont has a kindergarten , a sports area and a gymnasium and festival hall. There is also a small playground in the parish garden. The primary school is located in Steinhausen , the secondary schools in Ochsenhausen .

Attractions

Wayside shrine at the entrance to Bellamont (2012)

The place Bellamont is surrounded in a semicircle by the Bellamonter Rottum, which flows into the Danube . The blacksmith pond is in the center of the village and the wood pond to the south on the boundary of the district. The baroque parish church of St. Blasius was built and furnished by the Ochsenhausen monastery between 1719 and 1725 . The church had to present on the basis Castle Bella Mont , also called Castle Bella Mont soft. In the church there are works by the artists Ivo Strigel , Nikolaus Weckmann and Johann Georg Bergmüller . Weckmann's figures could come from the high altar of St. Georg Ochsenhausen that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War.

literature

  • Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume 7: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4
  • Josef Fakler: "Bellamont in the mirror". From the history of the village of Bellamont in the Biberach / Riß district. Bellamont 1984

Web links

Commons : Bellamont  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Steinhausen in the description of the Oberamt Biberach from 1837  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steinhausen an der Rottum - Bellamont community. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .