Belsen (Mössingen)
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Belsen
City of Mössingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 57 ″ E
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| Height : | 468 m |
| Residents : | 2303 (Jan 31, 2014) |
| Postal code : | 72116 |
| Area code : | 07473 |
Belsen is a district of Mössingen in the Tübingen district in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).
geography
Belsen is located southwest of the core city of Mössingen.
Neighboring places
The following places border on Belsen; their individual affiliation is mentioned in the respective articles. They are named starting clockwise in the north and belong to the Tübingen district or the Zollernalb district ¹. Ofterdingen , Mössingen, Talheim , Beuren¹ , Bodelshausen and Bad Sebastiansweiler .
history
Belsen is first mentioned in a document in 1342. During excavations at the Belsen Chapel , dated around 1150, archaeological finds were made that give reason to believe that the site is much older. The village belonged to the County of Zollern for a long time until in 1415 Count Friedrich von Zollern, known as the Öttinger , robbed it out of financial hardship, left it largely to the fire and then sold it to Württemberg . In the period that followed, seven farms are said to have belonged to the village. Gradually it developed from this first into a street village and then into a cluster village . After the permission of the real division in the 16th century, the slow economic decline of the village began. Many residents emigrated in the period that followed.
The village was economically and politically dependent on the neighboring village of Mössingen, which repeatedly led to tensions. As early as 1589, residents were required to have their own pastor, but the church was not separated until 1842, and there was not a separate pastor until 1866. A separate cemetery was also only approved late, in 1825. The newborns were baptized in the Mössingen church, from this the saying that is still used today arose that the Belsen people would have belonged "dead and alive to Mössingen" .
The economic boom did not come until the end of the 19th century. Industrial companies in the cities of Hechingen , Reutlingen and Tübingen increasingly offered jobs for the residents of Belsen and the region. The Zollernalbbahn was built from Tübingen to Hechingen in 1869 and facilitated traffic to distant workplaces. Eight years after the inauguration of the train station in Mössingen, Belsen also received its own breakpoint. A country post office already existed in 1863. Until the 1950s, the village expanded towards the railway line and made the change from a small-scale, commercial agricultural community to a modern residential community.
Recently , the two large new development areas Pfingstwasen and Öschle , which resulted in a large increase in population, have been built in Belsen .
A distinguishing feature of the place was the Belsener linden tree , an old summer linden tree on the road to Beuren , which fell victim to Hurricane Kyrill on January 18, 2007.
In the south of the district of Belsen there is a large late Celtic square hill , which has not been archaeologically developed.
Culture and sights
The village is dominated in the east by the Belsener Chapel , a small church from the 12th century. It was built on a Romanesque previous building and is the oldest sacred building in Mössingen. Enigmatic figures and the so-called sun hole are located in the west gable. The Belsener Chapel forms the center of the Belsener Friedhof , which was laid out in a semicircle around the chapel since 1826. It is the parish church of the Protestant local parish in the church district of Tübingen
traffic
Local public transport
The public transport is the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (naldo). The place is in the Mössingen urban traffic area, in honeycomb 113. The Bad Sebastiansweiler-Belsen stop is on the Zollernalbbahn .
Personalities
The painter, sculptor and glass artist Andreas Felger was born in Belsen in 1935.
Web links
- Official page on the website of the city of Mössingen
- Belsen's website
