Bitch
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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ' N , 9 ° 5' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
| County : | Zollernalb district | |
| Height : | 884 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 8.82 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 3638 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 412 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 72475 | |
| Area code : | 07431 | |
| License plate : | BL, HCH | |
| Community key : | 08 4 17 010 | |
| LOCODE : | DE BQZ | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Hindenburgplatz 7 72475 Bitz |
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| Mayor : | Hubert Schiele ( FW ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Bitz in the Zollernalb district | ||
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Bitz is a municipality in the Zollernalbkreis in the administrative district of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ). Apart from the village of the same name, there are no other localities in the municipality of Bitz.
geography
Geographical location
The community is located on the plateau of the southwest Swabian Alb between 850 and 930 m above sea level. NN .
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geology
The geology of Bitz is essentially composed of rock from the Upper Jurassic .
Expansion of the municipal area
The district of Bitz covers 882 hectares .
Neighboring communities
The following cities and municipalities border the municipality of Bitz, they are named starting from the north in clockwise order : Burladingen , Neufra ( district Sigmaringen ), Winterlingen , Albstadt .
climate
The climate is typical for a town in the Swabian Alb. On March 1, 2005, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Baden-Württemberg of −36.1 ° C was recorded at the weather station at the neighboring Albstadt-Degerfeld airfield . With an average of 1887 hours of sunshine per year, Bitz is one of the sunniest places in Germany.
history
Early history
The area around today's Bitz was already a hunting and pasture area in the Stone Age , New Stone Age and Bronze Age . The first settlements date from the Hallstatt period, for example in the Gewann Kritter with ceramic finds and graves. They are related to a simultaneous necropolis on the Degerfeld around 1.5 kilometers northwest of the Kritter won .
In ancient times, coming from Laiz on the Danube via Winterlingen and further via Hermannsdorf, a Roman road led to the Burladingen fort on the so-called Alblimes . Finds of Roman gold coins on the Dorfhülbe near Hindenburgplatz are evidence of this time. The Romans used a water point next to the road. From the Latin name for cistern pucio (Italian: pozzo), not only the word puddle but also today's place name Bitz is derived .
260 n. Chr. Who came Alemanni in the area and settled in the area of today's Staigle- and Zeppelinstraße. Nothing is known about the name of the settlement at that time.
middle Ages
In the early Middle Ages , the lands around Bitz belonged to the Lichtenstein rule. They called their village Bütze . The residents of Bitz were first mentioned as Bützer in 1337 on a document from the Beuron monastery . On November 5, 1386, Schweickhardt von Lichtenstein sold Bitz for 210 pounds Heller (a silver coin that was not counted but weighed at the time) to the city of Ebingen .
Modern times
In the Thirty Years War Bitz was totally devastated, the few survivors moved to Ebingen in 1641 . In 1648 65 people began to rebuild the village.
The first private business came into being around 1750. Many stocking weavers worked for Ebinger Meister. Around 1779, Bitz was repeatedly affected by diseases, around nine to eleven people died of smallpox every year . In the year 1786 31 people died of "hot fever" ( sweat fever ), the chronicle notes "Those who escaped death were often terribly disfigured, blind, deaf or deprived of the use of their limbs" .
In 1806, the year Württemberg was elevated to a kingdom , Bitz came to the Oberamt Balingen together with Ebingen . On September 26, 1832, Bitz bought himself free from Ebingen for 23,000 guilders. The farmers went into debt, but now lived in an independent community . In 1878 a needle factory (later Groz-Beckert ) was founded in Bitz.
- 20th century
The administrative reform of 1938 led to membership in the Balingen district . In 1945, Bitz became part of the French occupation zone and thus came to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
The place grew during the 20th century. In 1971, 802 people found jobs in the needle factory. Through the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , the community came to the Zollernalbkreis in 1973. In 1975, Bitz was able to successfully defend itself against incorporation into Ebingen. The needle factory in Bitz closed in 1994. Many workers continued to be employed in Ebingen. A manufacturer of ergometers moved into the factory building .
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 25, 2014 in Bitz led to the following official final result:
| Political party | be right | Seats |
| Free Voters Bitz (FWB) | 45.1% | 6th |
| Bitzer Citizen (BB) | 54.9% | 8th |
The turnout was 46.3% (2009: 49.1%).
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coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms shows a lying black deer pole under a golden shield head , a silver swan wing on a blue background. The Lichtensteiners used the white swan wing on a blue background in their shield. It was integrated into the municipal coat of arms in 1958.
Culture and sights
Religions
- Evangelical Nikolauskirche
- Catholic Church of St. Michael
Museums
- Bitzer local history museum in the attic of the old school house
Natural monuments
- Hohler Fels (7720/02), also called Hohlefels, Hohlenfels, Hohlenfelsen, Hohlerfelsen, cave near Freudenweiler or marble cave, is a natural and soil monument.
- Luther oak
Sports
In Bitz there are sports and tennis facilities, a new two-tier sports hall, a new festival hall, a ski slope, a skater and ice rink, as well as an extensive cross-country ski run and signposted hiking and cycling trails.
Regular events
- Hobby artist exhibition
- May 1st: Festival with a maypole tradition
- Every four years the Schnoga Festival (most recently in July 2016), city festival
- Spring and winter concert by the Bitz e. V.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The state road 448 connects the community with Albstadt
The Albstadt-Degerfeld airfield is located directly to the northwest of the municipality, two kilometers from the town center .
The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The community is located on the honeycomb border 336/337.
Established businesses
As in the surrounding area, the textile industry dominates in Bitz, but there are also manufacturers of medical devices, electrotechnical products, plastics and metal processing. The largest resident company is Mey Herren Wash GmbH & Co. KG .
education
There is a public school in the community. This has been called the Lichtensteinschule Bitz since 2003 and is both elementary and secondary school as well as secondary school . In the summer of 2005 she received the primary school award with a focus on sports and exercise , which was confirmed in 2007 with the Roadwalker campaign . The fact that the school has both a modern sports hall and its own indoor swimming pool shows the commitment to sport. On June 7th, 2008, an additional movement area was inaugurated.
There is also a branch of the Albstadt Adult Education Center in Bitz .
Bitz maintains three kindergartens and a nursing home for the elderly as well as a community library.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Conrad Schick (1822–1901), architect, classical scholar, archaeologist, cartographer and evangelical missionary in Jerusalem
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Jürgen Hald, Erich Leib: At the end of the investigation of a Hallstatt period find in the "Kritter" hall near Bitz, Zollernalbkreis . P. 68ff. In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 1988 . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-8062-0583-3 .
- ^ Karl Theodor Zingeler : Find reports from Hohenzollern. B. Barrows. 3. Barrows near Hermannsdorf. In: Messages from the Association for History and Age Certification in Hohenzollern. 26th year 1892/93 . Liehnersche Hofdruckerei. Sigmaringen 1893. pp. 62–75, here p. 69.
- ↑ a b Scheu: Ortschronik von Bitz. Oberamt Balingen . 1910.
- ↑ Local election data 2014 of the State Statistical Office ( 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.
- ↑ Heinz Bardua: District and community arms in Baden-Württemberg . Volume 4: The district and community coats of arms in the Tübingen administrative region . Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0804-2 , 126 pp.
- ↑ Jürgen Scheff: Cave archaeological research on the Southwest Alb: 7th double grotto, 8th hollow rock, 9th summer church cave . In: Heimatkundliche Blätter Balingen , Volume 44, October 31, 1997, No. 10 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) ', p. 1095 f., Here p. 1095.
- ↑ Hiking trails in Bitz
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