Bethlehem (Pfullendorf)

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Bethlehem is a residential area of Gaisweiler , one of the seven localities of the city of Pfullendorf in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg , Germany .

Geographical location

The isolated hamlet with two farmsteads is located around one kilometer north of Gaisweiler , to whose boundary it belongs politically, although one of the residential buildings is located in the forest district of Reischach . Bethlehem is around 650  m above sea level. NN west of the wooded hill “Ochsenbühl” ( 661  m above sea level ), which merges into the Gewann “Bannholz”, an ice age moraine landscape with gravel and sand (the “Sander”).

history

The famous place name “Bethlehem” has the biblical Christmas story ( Lk 2.1–20  EU ) as its eponymous origin - according to tradition, the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank , which is today in the Palestinian Territory, is said to have been the birthplace of Jesus Christ . More than a dozen towns and districts around the world bear this name. The history of the present naming is uncertain, but anecdotally reported by the residents as follows:

Around 200 years ago, the carpenter Plepp from the neighboring community of Wald sent the carpenter Paul Talmann and his professional colleague Jakob Müller to the forest near Reischach, about three kilometers away . The win has always belonged to the former Cistercian convent of Wald and was called the "Holy Forest". Here they had to cut trees in winter and cut the trunks into beams in the summer months. This wood place was called “Zimmerplatz”, not least because Joseph , who was viewed by the population as the father of Jesus ( Jn 1.45  EU : “Jesus from Nazareth, the son of Joseph”), in Christian tradition as “the Carpenter "and is considered the patron saint of the carpentry trade.
Every evening the two men returned to their home village tired from the hard work. One day it occurred to one of them to build a house on the edge of the forest to save himself the daily hike from the village to the forest and back again. So Paul Talmann built a house with a cowshed and the wood yard to his living space. As was customary in farmhouses at that time, the bedroom was directly above the stable to benefit from the animal stable warmth. When Talmann brought his wife with him when they moved into the house, but the cows were often very restless, she was annoyed by the noise every night. One night she is said to have said to her husband: "It's like in Bethlehem here". She is also said to have said that she does not want to stay here. Jakob Müller had nothing to complain about in the farmhouse and took it over from Talmann, who built a second house in a different construction below the first.
Talmann's wife was satisfied now, but the small settlement still had no place name. In the old days the Bible was often the only book in a house. Those who could read were therefore often quite well versed in the content of the Holy Scriptures. The "White Women of Klosterwald", as the Cistercian women were called here, had a strong influence on religious life and Christian customs. So did the two pious carpenters. "Saint Joseph was a carpenter, we both are too, so this should be called Bethlehem". They asked the monastery to be allowed to name the settlement after the biblical place of birth of Jesus Christ. Since the maintenance of Christmas customs was always a special concern of the "white women" - as it is said in an old source, many families from the parishes and the courts of the surrounding area visited the great Epiphany and Herodes games of the Wald monastery during the Christmas season - this was it the suggestion for naming is just right and accept the name Bethlehem.
As it is said, the carpenters expressed their admiration for the patron saint by building a wooden cradle , which they set up at the entrance to the monastery church of St. Bernhard in Wald and in which everyone, when the bells rang for church service at Christmas, the Christ Child was allowed to weigh. Then they sang the familiar, beautiful Christmas carols together and in particular the song “ Born in Bethlehem ” from 1637.

The rule of the forest monastery was abolished in the secularization in 1806 and added to the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . On September 11, 1806, Bethlehem was assigned to the Hohenzollern Oberamt Wald via Gaisweiler . The principality became part of the Prussian Hohenzollern Lands in 1850 . In 1862 the Oberamt was transferred to the Oberamt Sigmaringen (from 1925 district Sigmaringen ). On January 1, 1969, Höfe Bethlehem came to the district of Überlingen via the then independent community of Gaisweiler , which, however, returned to the new district of Sigmaringen on January 1, 1973 during the district reform of 1973 . In the course of the municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg , Gaisweiler and thus also Bethlehem were incorporated into the city of Pfullendorf on January 1, 1975.

The Bethlehem residential area has nine residents in three families, two houses, a barn and a garage.

religion

Bethlehem belongs to the Catholic pastoral care unit Wald / Hohenzollern, which has its origins in the Wald monastery. The pastoral care unit is part of the Sigmaringen-Meßkirch dean's office .

Culture and sights

The stage Meßkirch –Pfullendorf of the Linzgauer Jakobsweg , a section of the Via Beuronensis , passes by. A hand-painted sign on the side of the road serves as a signpost. At the time of the monastic rule, the access from the Wald monastery (today's municipality of Wald ) to Bethlehem was named "Eselsweg".

Regular event

  • In addition to the regular St. James pilgrimage, hikes by the Swabian Alb Association , the Pfullendorf Tourist Information Center or the Pfullendorf Wednesday Hikers also lead to Bethlehem.
  • In the past, soldiers from the Colonel General von Fritsch barracks in Pfullendorf came to Bethlehem for Christmas in the woods .

traffic

The farms are on the connecting road from Gaisweiler (town of Pfullendorf) to Reischach (municipality of Wald).

Trivia

  • The Südwestfunk has already been to Bethlehem for television recordings several times .
  • Maria is the name of the oldest inhabitant of Bethlehem. She is not married to Josef, but to Stefan Schweikart, whose brother was named Josef.
  • The signpost for Bethlehem is firmly embedded in concrete to protect against thieving collectors.
  • The members of the family living here today, almost all of whom were “born in Bethlehem”, descend directly from one of these carpenters.
  • The boundary between the Walder suburb of Hippetsweiler and the Pfullendorfer suburb of Gaisweiler runs between the approximately 200-year-old house, which has since been expanded to include the new extension, and the Scheuer, 30 meters away . The district and state border between Überlingen and Sigmaringen, Baden and Hohenzollern used to be here.
  • For a long time, the residents drew their water from their own well.

literature

  • Notburg Geibel: Heavenly Square: Hegau - Linzgau - Lake Constance: Encounters in text and images . Gmeiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3899775104 .
  • Thomas Kapitel: Country and people in Baden-Württemberg . In: Schöne Schwaben , born in 2007
  • Gaisweiler: settlement Bethlehem Albert Waldenspul (1885–1979); Catholic pastor and local history researcher. Contributions to the history of Hohenzollern and the surrounding area

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to other information, "Thalmann" written

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Pfullendorf c) Gaisweiler . In: The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VII: Tübingen administrative region. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004807-4 . Pp. 834-841, here p. 836.
  2. ^ Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): From Easter places and Easter eggs . In: Südkurier of April 11, 2009
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Roland Groner: Near Pfullendorf: How the Swabian Bethlehem came into being ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 23, 2009
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): Where the star points to Bethlehem . In: Südkurier of December 21, 2011
  5. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Chapter: It's not far to Bethlehem. A hamlet between Pfullendorf and Wald has a holy name: Bethlehem has two houses, five inhabitants and a beautiful story ( memento of the original from January 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wochenblatt-online.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Wochenblatt , Bad Saulgau edition, December 21, 2006
  6. ↑ a b Matthias Huttner: “Born in Bethlehem”. A Christmas visit to the Swabian “Bethlehem” near Pfullendorf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.elk-wue.de   . In: Buntes aus der Landeskirche ed. v. Evangelical Church in Württemberg, December 20, 2011
  7. ^ Claudia Wagner: Enthusiastic visitors to the Pfullendorfer city stories . In: Südkurier of March 8, 2015
  8. ↑ (sk): In the sign of the shell . In: Südkurier of May 22, 2009
  9. ↑ Sandra Häusler (saw): Golden wedding in Bethlehem . In: Südkurier of October 2, 2009
  10. ↑ a b Kirsten Johanson (kaj): Gaisweiler-Tautenbronn: Hüben traffic noise, over there pure nature . In: Südkurier from June 30, 2015
  11. ↑ Thomas chapter: Bethlehem fürs'1D whole country  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wochenblatt-li.de   . In: Wochenblatt , Bad Saulgau edition, November 15, 2007
  12. ↑ Anthia Schmitt: Schweikarts celebrate Christmas modestly . In: Schwäbische Zeitung December 24, 2008

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '58.04 "  N , 9 ° 12' 24.16"  O