Betznau

Betznau Kressbronn municipality on Lake Constance Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 35 ′ 41 ″ E
Height :	427 (425-450) m above sea level NHN
Residents :	284 (Jan 31, 2011)
Postal code :	88079
Area code :	0 75 43
	Location of the district of Betznau in the Kressbronn municipality

Betznau is a municipality Kressbronn am Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg Bodenseekreis in Germany .

location

The district of Betznau is located in the southeast of the Lake Constance district, around two kilometers west of the center of Kressbronn on a terrace of the extended Argental at an altitude of 425 m above sea level. NHN between the other districts of Berg , Gießen , Linderhof , Kalkehren and Argen. On the eastern edge of the village, the terrain rises in stages over the Betzhofer Halde ( 440 m above sea level ) to the Drumlins Ettenberg , Lehensburg and Mühlenberg ( 503 m above sea level ).

The parcels of Bachtobel , Betznau , Brühl , Kornwinkel , Oberer Rain , Rain , Schinderloch , Stauden and Untere Au belong to Betznau .

The Betznauer Bach coming from Schleinsee via Nitzenweiler and through the Brühl flows below the Betzhofer Halde into and through the village. At the beginning of the 1990s, the streambed was partially exposed again as part of the village renovation.

history

Roman bath near Betznau

On the Lenensburg north of Betznau there was already a hilltop settlement in the Hallstatt period - the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area. The castle itself dates back to the late Merovingian-Carolingian period and should be identical to the Entinesburg mentioned in 769 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the prehistorian Gerhard Bersu uncovered a Roman bath ruin near Betznau .

A gentleman named Patacho is presumed to be the founder of Betznau, from 805 this name is mentioned repeatedly in the documents of the Argengau . Betznau could have been the Pacenhoven that was first mentioned as the place of issue of a certificate in 905/906.

1112 is a county Betznau , which probably was the center of the Argengaus and as Dingstätte had the same great importance mentioned. The hall name " Waibelhub " still indicates this former court place.

After Tettnang took over this function, the area fell to Count Hugo von Montfort at the end of the 12th century . Another mention follows in 1268: the St. Johann monastery in Konstanz acquires a farm with fruit trees in Bazenon . 1309 left Hugo III. his son and nephew, along with other lands, also people and goods in Betznau . The Counts of Montfort owned eight farms in Betznau in 1371. In 1515 Betznau is mentioned for the first time as belonging to the office of Hemigkofen and the parish church of St. Gallus in Gattnau .

Until 1934, Betznau belonged to the Hemigkofen mayor , which was then merged with Nonnenbach to form the Kressbronn community.

Population development

In the description of the Tettnang rule, published in 1515, Betznau was the first to have 39 houses; this corresponds to a population of around 200. In an inventory of the KK- Oberamt Tettnang carried out by Austria in 1789 , 44 houses with 47 families or 218 inhabitants are recorded. Today, as of January 2011, Betznau is the second largest district of the municipality of Kressbronn after Retterschen with 284 inhabitants .

Table: Population figures in Betznau (1515 to 2011)

year	1515	1789	1825	1838	1907	1910	1973	1994	2011
Residents	~ 200	218	~ 250	274	165	182	240	258	284

Culture

Attractions

In Betznau and the surrounding area, the former Lehensburg fortifications , the former “Zum Hirschen” inn (main building around 1700), the “Backhaus” from 1841 and the wayside shrine with the Holy Trinity (end of the 17th century) are listed as historical monuments. There is also a list of fourteen buildings that characterize the historic townscape of Betznau in a special way: farmhouses, residential houses, inn, farmyard and schoolhouse.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Kressbronn on Lake Constance

Sebastian Chapel

Chapel of St. Sebastian

Directly on the old country road from Lindau to Tettnang , near Linderhof, is what Count Johann III built in 1600 . Sebastian Chapel donated by Montfort . The year 1696 above the entrance portal indicates the time of renovation or expansion (tower extension). The equipment of the single-nave rectangular building with a retracted choir closed on three sides is rather simple. Perhaps because the chapel was repeatedly ravaged by art thieves. The ceiling painting with the holy family (H. Siebenrock, 1906) and the glass window picture in the center of the choir are eye-catchers. At the top of the tower two types of bells ring: the weather bell is dedicated to the Holy Trinity , the other - it was cast in 1617 - is dedicated to the two Saints Sebastian (= the Sublime) and Philip . The holy mass is of course very popular on Sebastian's day (January 20).

regional customs

Wine was already grown in Betznau many centuries ago . The local fool's guild , founded in 1994, took up viticulture as its theme and designed the figure of the vine woman. The aim of the vine women is to illustrate the hard, laborious manual work that had to be done before the wine in the barrel reached its maturity. The fool's cry of the vine women is “ Rebweib - Rätsch! "

literature

Sigbert Baumann, Lorenz L. Göser, Elmar L. Kuhn, Gerhard Schaugg, Walter Schmid, Ulrich Woyte, Stefan Weigele: Kressbronner Kirchenweg: The churches and chapels of Kressbronn . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-422-9 .

Web links

Commons : Betznau - collection of images, videos and audio files

Narrenverein Rebweiber Betznau e. V.

Individual evidence

↑ OAB Tettnang 1915, p. 115.
↑ StiASG , Urk. IV 452. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.
^ Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: List of cultural monuments. Part A 1: immovable architectural and art monuments including objects of medieval archeology.
↑ ^a ^b Martina Goerlich: Betznau - On the location and settlement history of a village. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 1994/95. Pp. 66-84.
↑ Helmut Hornikel: "Rebweiber" moved through the villages for the first time. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 1996/97. (= Volume 10), p. 32.
↑ History of the Rebweiber at www.rebweiber-betznau.de

[1] OAB Tettnang 1915, p. 115.

[2] StiASG , Urk. IV 452. Online at e-chartae , accessed on June 12, 2020.

[3] Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: List of cultural monuments. Part A 1: immovable architectural and art monuments including objects of medieval archeology.

[mgoe-4] Martina Goerlich: Betznau - On the location and settlement history of a village. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 1994/95. Pp. 66-84.

[5] Helmut Hornikel: "Rebweiber" moved through the villages for the first time. In: Kressbronner Jahrbuch 1996/97. (= Volume 10), p. 32.

[6] History of the Rebweiber at www.rebweiber-betznau.de