Gutenzell-Hürbel

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '  N , 9 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	581 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.86 km 2
Residents:	1855 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88484
Primaries :	07352, 07353
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 135
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchberger Strasse 8 88484 Gutenzell-Hürbel
Website :	www.gutenzell-huerbel.de
Mayoress :	Monika Wieland
Location of the Gutenzell-Hürbel community in the Biberach district

Gutenzell-Hürbel is a municipality in the Upper Swabian district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

geography

Geographical location

Gutenzell-Hürbel is centrally located in Upper Swabia between Biberach an der Riss , Ulm and Memmingen, about six kilometers north-northeast of Ochsenhausen and is in the neighboring valleys of Rot and Rottum .

Community structure

The community consists of Gutenzell with the hamlets of Bollsberg, Dissenhausen, Niedernzell and Weitenbühl and the Gottesackerkapelle and Hardtacker houses. To Hürbel the village Hürbel , the hamlets Allmethofen, Freyberg, Simmisweiler and Zillishausen, the homestead Mittelweiler and the houses Mahlmühle, Reinhard and Sägmühle.

history

Gutenzell

The Reichsabbey Gutenzell ( Cistercian Sisters ) was founded in 1237, it was about the re-establishment of a previously existing monastery of unknown religious affiliation. It was in 1238 by Eberhard von Rohr village of Salem Abbey assumed.

In the 15th century the monastery became imperial . The village of Gutenzell was formed around the monastery. In 1803, the abbey was dissolved in the course of secularization and owned by the Counts of Toerring , in order to become part of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 . There it was subordinated to the Oberamt Biberach . In 1864 the empty convent was demolished with the exception of a few remains.
see also Gutenzell Castle

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  Gutenzell parish church (former monastery church with guest house)

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  Model of the monastery complex around 1700

Hürbel

Hürbel was first mentioned in a document in 1083. In the 13th century, the village passed to the Lords of Freyberg , who came from Graubünden and built the castle that still exists today in 1521. In 1806 Hürbel also fell to the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1816, Count Reuttner von Weyl acquired the castle and manor in Hürbel before it became a Württemberg state property in 1840.

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  Hürbel Castle

See also : Freyberg Castle

Community merger

The community Gutenzell-Hürbel was created on January 1, 1975 in the course of the community reform from the formerly independent communities Gutenzell and Hürbel .

politics

Municipal council

In Gutenzell-Hürbel, the municipal council is elected using the spurious selection of a part of town. The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . 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 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The turnout was 71.5% (2014: 64.4%).

Political party	be right	Seats	2014 result
Free voters	62.0%	8th	6 seats
CDU / Independent Citizens	38.0%	5	5 seats
Offensive Upper Swabia	0%	0	1 seat

coat of arms

Coats of arms of the districts, Gutenzell on the left, Hürbel on the right

The Gutenzell-Hürbel community is one of three communities in Baden-Württemberg that does not have its own coat of arms. Instead, the former municipal coats of arms of the two districts (Gutenzell left, Hürbel right) are used side by side.

Educational institutions

The community has its own primary school in Gutenzell and a Roman Catholic kindergarten each in Gutenzell and Hürbel.

Culture and sights

Gutenzell-Hürbel is located on the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse and on the Mühlenstrasse Oberschwaben .

Gutenzell

Parish Church of St. Kosmas and Damian

Parish Church of St. Kosmas and Damian

Nave from the north

Interior of the parish church

The monastery church of the former imperial abbey Gutenzell and today's parish church of St. Kosmas and Damian in Gutenzell is essentially medieval and was continuously rebuilt and refurbished until the baroque period . The last major renovation from 1755 to 1756 was carried out by the Wessobrunn plasterer Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder, including plans by Dominikus Zimmermann , whose daughter Maria Alexandra was prioress at the time and abbess of the monastery from 1759–1776 . The frescoes in the church were made by Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner , the pulpit (1756) by Stephan Luidl. Luidl also made the high altar (1762), probably based on a design by Dominikus Zimmermann.

Baroque nativity scene

Every year, from Christmas to Candlemas (February 2nd), a large baroque nativity scene is exhibited in the church , made by the Cistercian women between 1704 and 1750. The nativity scene, which consists of around 200 figures, shows seven scenes: the birth of Christ with the adoration of the shepherds , procession and arrival of the wise men from the east , flight to Egypt , the Bethlemite child murder , Jesus' presentation in the temple , the holy family in the Nazareth house and the wedding Kana .

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  Escape to Egypt

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  Child murder in Bethlehem

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  Presentation of Jesus in the temple

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  The wedding at Cana (detail)

Mill

In the former monastery district there is a mill from 1715.

Wendelinus ride

Since 1947, the Wendelinus ride has taken place every third Sunday in September from the parish church in Gutenzell to Niedernzell, to the Wendelinus chapel there. A corridor ride to the four crosses in Ösch has been documented since the 17th century, and since 1747 the ride has been to the Wendelinus Chapel in Niedernzell. After the secularization , the custom was forgotten. Local pastor Erwin Sontag revived this tradition in 1947 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the consecration of the Wendelinus Chapel.

Hürbel

• Old castle from 1521
• St. Alban's Church
• Old brick factory
• Historic sawmill Eiberle in Zillishausen with water wheel on the Rottum from 1845. One of the few fully functional, restored sawmills of this type in Upper Swabia and a station on Mühlenstraße Upper Swabia .

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  Hürbel

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  Forest house in Hürbel (birthplace of Eduard Fiechtner )

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  Castle of the Lords of Freyberg

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  Hürbel

Personalities

• Honor Funk (* 1930), member of the Bundestag
• Hans Graul (1909–1997), geographer and geologist

Sons and daughters of the church

• Eduard Fiechtner (1843–1922), mayor of Untertürkheim from 1879 to 1905 , made an honorary citizen there in 1904
• Alfred Steiner (* 1930), educator, member of the state parliament.

literature

• Otto Beck, Ludwig Haas (ed.): Gutenzell. History and works of art. Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the former women's cisterce. 1238-1988 . (= Great Art Guide; Vol. 155). Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0679-X .
• Otto Beck: Gutenzell . (= Art Guide; Vol. 627). 3. Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1992.
• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Biberach . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1837 ( full text at Wikisource ).

Web links

Commons : Gutenzell-Hürbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Gutenzell in the description of the Oberamt Biberach from 1837  - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Hürbel in the description of the Oberamt Biberach from 1837  - sources and full texts

• Community website
• Gutenzell baroque church
• Description of the former. Monastery church of St. Cosmas and Damian by Karl Linder

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 545 .
3. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2019 municipal council elections at the State Statistical Office
4. ↑ Pöllmann Ludwig: High point of centuries of admiration - The Gutenzeller Baroque Nativity in Heimatkundliche Blätter for the Biberach district ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. ; on p. 49; Retrieved December 23, 2013  
5. ↑ Wendelinusritt ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the pastoral care unit St. Scholastika Reinstetten, Gutenzell, Hürbel, Laubach; Retrieved November 16, 2012.