Bernstadt (Alb)

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	551 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.95 km 2
Residents:	2257 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	162 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89182
Area code :	07348
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 019
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Schmiedgasse 5 ; 89182 Bernstadt
Website :	www.bernstadt-wuertt.de
Mayor :	Oliver Sühring
Location of the municipality of Bernstadt in the Alb-Donau district

Bernstadt is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Bernstadt lies on the old Roman road that led from Augsburg to Cannstatt , about ten kilometers north of Ulm .

The Butzenhöfe homestead is located in the municipality.

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north on Holzkirch and Neenstetten , in the east on the city of Langenau , in the south on Hörvelsingen and in the west on Beimerstetten and Breitingen .

history

St. Lambertus Church in Bernstadt

Tomb of a member of the Ulm patrician family Besserer von Thalfingen in the St. Lambertus Church

middle Ages

The lords of Berolfstat, who gave the municipality their name, were first mentioned in a document in 1209. The place must be older, however, as it has had its own pastoral office since 1195.

Religions

In 1484 the St. Lambert Church was built as a Catholic parish church. However , the place has been Protestant since the Reformation and the church is still used by the Protestant community today. The Catholic part of the population belongs to the parish of Dornstadt .

politics

Administrative association

Since 1972, Bernstadt has been part of the Langenau administrative association, to which various tasks of the member communities have been assigned as a special purpose association.

mayor

Theodor Ott was mayor of the municipality of Bernstadt since May 17, 1974. On January 7, 2005, Ott had a fatal accident. On April 3, 2005, Oliver Sühring, a graduate in administration, was elected as the new mayor with 70 percent of the vote. On April 14, 2013, Sühring was confirmed in office for a further eight years. His two deputies are Marc Reiser and Sabine Megnin.

Municipal council

The Bernstadt municipal council consists of 10 people. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the distribution of seats was as follows:

list	Seats	Share of votes	2014 result
Bernstadt voter community (BWG)	6th	61.3%	70.4%, 7 seats
Bernstadt lives (BL)	4th	38.7%	29.6%, 3 seats

Town twinning

A partnership with Bernstadt ad Eigen in Upper Lusatia in Saxony has existed since 1991 .

Economy and Infrastructure

education

A primary school has existed in Bernstadt since 1902. Secondary schools ( Hauptschule , Realschule , Gymnasium ) can be visited in Langenau.

Bernstadt also has a day-care center at two locations, which is owned by the civil parish and operated by the Diakonieverband Ulm.

Culture and sights

Museums

The local history museum has been located in the castle since 1982.

Buildings

Bernstadt Castle

The castle in Bernstadt was built in 1549 by Georg Besserer , a member of a patrician family from Ulm, as a country residence. After the castle was destroyed in 1688, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century. The castle later served as a school, kindergarten and housed people who were displaced after the Second World War. Today the Bernstadt Castle houses the municipal administration and the local history museum. Two restored stucco ceilings from the years 1720 to 1750 are particularly worth seeing.

literature

Ernst Bosch: Bernstadt - On the history of a Alb community . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Bernstatt in the description of the Oberamt Ulm from 1836 - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BW-1] State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).