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Birch tree
Ruppertshofen municipality
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 55"  E
Height : 441 m
Area : 2.48 km²
Residents : 280
Population density : 113 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 73577
Area code : 07176

Birkenlohe (also called Birkenlooch or Birkenlauch until the 19th century) is a village in the municipality of Ruppertshofen in the Ostalb district in eastern Baden-Württemberg . With 280 inhabitants it is the second largest suburb after Ruppertshofen.

The Haldenhaus, Hofstatt and Jakobsberg residential areas belong to the Birkenlohe district.

geography

View from the north on Birkenlohe

Birkenlohe is located in the valley of the "Gschwender" Rot , which runs roughly southwards , the valley of which is part of the Hinterer Welzheimer Wald sub- area of the Welzheimer Wald , while the heights in the west form the easternmost and Spraitbacher of the Welzheim-Alfdorfer plates in the Welzheimer forest and to the east Frickenhofer Höhe in the foothills of the eastern Swabian Alb borders. Both plateaus lie in the Lias , while the valley is cut into the Keuper .

From the west-north-west flows through the village of the Schlechtbach , opposite it from the north-east the Lindenbächle flows into the Rot. Birkenlohe is located in a water protection area around Gschwend on the upper Rot.

history

The part of the name “ -lohe ” in the place name indicates that Birkenlohe could have originated around 1000 AD. Birkenlohe was first mentioned in a document in 1360. The place was owned by Heinrich von Rechberg zu Heuchlingen. At that time, the count sold the large and small tithe of Birkenlohe to the Gotteszell monastery . A few years later he earned half of his tithing again. Until 1586 the Counts of Rechberg and the Gotteszell Monastery were the landlords of Birkenlohe. The Limpurg taverns came into the possession of the entire village through purchase or exchange . Until the dissolution of the manors in 1806, Birkenlohe was then in their possession. In 1806 Birkenlohe became a part of Ruppertshofen.

In volume 2 of Heinrich Perscher's history and description of the imperial county Limpurg, which belongs to the Franconian district, it says about Birkenlohe:

... b) Birkenlohe, commonly known as Birkenlooch or Birkenlauch, 1 hour northwest of R. (Ruppertshofen) on the Schlechtbach, which falls into the Roth here. Heinrich von Rechberg zu Heuchlingen, at that time the master of the place, sells the monastery of Gotteszell with the church set from Spreitbach and Zimmerbach also the big and small tithes of Birkenlauch, Hönig, Vorder- and Hinter-Linthal etc. in 1360, but later acquires half again of the local tithe. In 1586 Limpurg bought 8 local goods from Rechberg with Eschach, ie the whole town. The sawmill was built in 1601. In 1741 Limpurg had 10 subjects in 10 residential buildings; 1785 but 120 inhabitants. At that time there were 3 lakes near the place, some of which were converted into meadows in 1774; one was 798, one of the other 330 square rods. About the somnambule born here, Marg. Weller, who was considered a prophetess in 1702, see Prescher II, 121 ...

On the night of July 27th to 28th, 2000, the production halls of the Grau window factory burned down to the ground.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Coming from Gschwend in the northwest, the K 3253 district road runs through Birkenlohe via Ruppertshofen to Leinzell . Lower-ranking streets lead to the residential areas in the area.

A FahrBus Gmünd line connects the place with Schwäbisch Gmünd and Gaildorf .

leisure

There is an archery course at Jakobsberg.

Personalities

  • Doris Jannausch (born August 30, 1925 in Teplitz-Schönau ; † December 10, 2017 in Birkenlohe) was a German writer, theater actress and cabaret artist and has published numerous children's books as well as cheerful adult novels. Doris Jannausch is the recipient of the literary prize Owl of the Month from Bulletin magazine. She lived in Ruppertshofen-Birkenlohe.
  • Margarethe Weller (1670–1731), became known as the Sontheim prophetess. She was the daughter of agricultural workers and was born in Birkenlohe. Later, when Margarethe had grown up, they moved to Obersontheim. Even in Birkenlohe, her parents noticed that she had "supernatural powers". She fell into ecstasy and then made incomprehensible statements about the future. Heinrich Prescher, pastor of Gschwend reported on this in detail:
But an even stranger woman was Margaretha Wellerin, born in Birkenlohe, from Obersontheim. Sometimes she was attacked by a very extraordinary sleep, which lasted ten days or more without interruption, and from which no one could wake her. Because she grew cold and would have been treated as a dead man had her sleep not been known from experience. In September 1702 she even began to be mute at times, which was an omen of the sleep that soon followed, which fell upon her, wherever she stood, on public roads, in waters and the like uncomfortable places. When she woke up again, she had seen all sorts of things in her delight, and knew a great deal about the future fate of the country. Since she loved quiet walk, she found a lot of credit among the people, and she was commonly called the Sontheim prophetess, or the dormouse. But no sooner had anyone started to use her Essentia dulcis than the gift of sleep and prophet was lost. She continued using that Arzney, and was free of all complaints the following year. 1 As suspicious as this process made her profession as a prophet, it was so useful to the Sontheim orphanage, which the Hällische Arzneyen earned all the more.
1 Judge's knowledge of man: p. 805. Müller's awakened faith. P. 48.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History and description of the Imperial Counties Limpurg, part of the Franconian district, Volume 2
  2. ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  3. ↑ Map of Birkenlohe and the surrounding area : State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
  4. ↑ a b Aloys Schymura: Ruppertshofen through the ages . Ruppertshofen municipality, 1995.
  5. ↑ Major fire near Grau in Birkenlohe Mutlangen volunteer fire brigade, accessed on November 20, 2018
  6. ↑ Jakobsberg archery course
  7. ↑ The Serious Smile at www.remszeitung.de, December 27, 2017, accessed on December 27, 2017
  8. ^ Newspaper for the Elegant World, 1819
  9. ^ Pastor Heinrich Prescher on Margarethe Weller

literature

  • Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg, as single sheet No. 7024 Gschwend