Bezgenriet

Bezgenriet City of Göppingen
Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 5 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	361 m above sea level NN
Area :	5.46 km²
Residents :	1572  (Oct 31, 2007)
Population density :	288 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1957
Postal code :	73035
Area code :	07161
Location of Bezgenriet in the urban area of ​​Göppingen

Bezgenriet (361 m above sea level) is the southernmost district of Göppingen . Bezgenriet was an independent municipality until 1957. The district of Bezgenriet includes the new Schopflenberg housing estate , which was created after the Second World War due to increased influx of refugees and displaced persons.

history

Written references to abandoned settlements on today's markings date from the Middle Ages : a place called Billizhausen is mentioned in 998 as an estate of Emperor Otto II . The estates of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest recorded an abandoned village with the name Schopfloch or Schopflenberg in 1142 , which passed to the Adelberg Monastery in 1331 . In 1110, Count Konrad von Württemberg donated parts of Pathicenriedt to the Blaubeuren monastery , marking the first documented mention of the later name Bezgenriets. 1477 came the place with the ownership rights to the office of Göppingen. On October 1, 1957, Bezgenriet was incorporated into Göppingen as a district.

traffic

Laurentiuskirche, drawing by Margret Hofheinz-Döring , 1976

Bezgenriet is connected to Hattenhofen and Schopflenberg to the west and Heiningen to the east via the K 1419 district road. The Staufer road runs through Bezgenriet and runs as state road L 1214 in one direction to Jebenhausen and in the other direction to Boll . The Aichelberg junction of the A 8 motorway is around 8 km away.

Several buses run through the village from / to Göppingen. The next train stations are in Göppingen and Faurndau.

The Göppingen-Bezgenriet special airfield is located southeast of the village .

Attractions

The Laurentiuskirche , built around 1405 by the Protestant parish, which belongs to the church district of Göppingen , is known for its frescoes for the Last Judgment . The frescoes were discovered during renovation work after the Second World War . The choir window was designed in 1960 by Adolf Valentin Saile with passion motifs and a representation of the patron saint Laurentius .

The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche is located in Schopflenberg .

literature

• The district of Göppingen. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-8062-0374-1 .

Web links

Wikisource: Municipality of Betzgenried in the description of the Oberamt Göppingen from 1844  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Festschrift: Dieter Kauß: 575 years of church and chaplaincy in Bezgenriet ; ed. Göppingen City Archives, Göppingen 1980
2. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Bezgenriet