Hohenstadt (Abtsgmünd)
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Hohenstadt
Abtsgmünd municipality
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| Height : | 492 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 12.66 km² |
| Residents : | 767 (Jan 2012) |
| Population density : | 61 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | February 29, 1972 |
Hohenstadt is a district of the municipality Abtsgmünd in the Ostalbkreis in eastern Baden-Württemberg .
geography
Geographical location
The village of Hohenstadt is to the left above the Kocher Valley on the eastern edge of a northern foothill of the Frickenhofer Höhe , about 5 km west of Abtsgmünd and about 4 km southeast of Untergröningen . The associated smaller, with the exception of Reichertshofen in the Kochertal and Börrat on the southern edge of the northern branch of the Frickenhofer Höhe, even much smaller settlement areas are mostly in the Kocher Valley and on its slopes, a few further north in a clearing island on the lower ascent to the Frickenhofer Höhe, the most distant Rötenbach northeast in the valley of the right Kocher tributary Rötenbach .
Landscape image
On the flat plateau around the village of Hohenstadt, agriculture dominates with fields and meadows. There is forest on the steep slopes down into the Kocher Valley and to the southern Lein tributaries. In the flatter parts of the Kocher Valley, the landscape is open again, while the northern parts of the district beyond the Kocher in the north are largely covered by hillside forest.
structure
Hohenstadt includes the village of Hohenstadt, the hamlets of Börrat , Butzenberg, Christhäuser, Kocherhof, Köhrhof, Maisenhäuser, Reichertshofen, Rötenbach, Schafhäuser and Steinreute and the farms Bernhardtshof, Brastelhof, Fischhaus, Frauenhof and Sandhof.
history
In the High Middle Ages, the district of Hohenstadt was in the northeastern outskirts of the Duchy of Swabia . It was first mentioned around 1147 as Hummstat . After the Interregnum , Hohenstadt was owned by the Counts of Oettingen . Feudal people of the Oettinger on site were from 1361 to 1366 the lords of Westerstetten and 1376 to 1407 the lords of Wöllwarth . From 1408 Hohenstadt belonged to the gift of Georg von Schenkenstein and his descendants. In 1530 the place came into the possession of the family of the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden . In 1579 the Reformation followed, but in 1636 the return to the Catholic denomination took place. As a result of the mediatization of the Imperial Knighthood, Hohenstadt came to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 and became part of the Aalen Oberamt , which was transferred to the Aalen district in 1938 .
Incorporation
On February 29, 1972 Hohenstadt was incorporated into Abtsgmünd . In the course of the district reform , Abtsgmünd and Hohenstadt became part of the Ostalb district.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The village of Hohenstadt is located on the L 1080, the main traffic axis of the northern Frickenhofer plane, which connects Abtsgmünd in the east via Hohenstadt, Obergröningen and Eschach and the north-western tip of the plateau near Frickenhofen with Gschwend . From the village, the path of the short K 3327 leads down into the valley and joins the more important B 19 beyond a Kocher bridge at Reichertshofen , which leads on the very winding valley path along the upper Kocher from Aalen in the southeast to Schwäbisch Hall in the north-northwest.
Culture and sights
Hohenstadt castle and castle church stand side by side on the eastern edge of the village on the edge of the Jura above the Kocher valley. A few steps diagonally across the street is the hedge garden of Graf Adelmann's Hohenstadt Castle , one of the oldest gardens of its kind in Europe.
Sons and daughters
- Johann Christoph Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1640–1687), provost of the prince provost of Ellwangen
- Heinrich Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (1848–1920), born at Hohenstadt Castle, manor owner, member of the Reichstag
- Ernst Josef Beyerle (1881–1963), lawyer and CDU politician
Individual evidence
- ↑ residents as of January 2012. (No longer available online.) Municipality of Abtsgmünd, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved October 1, 2013 . 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.
- ^ 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. 445 .
- Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Wuerttemberg North, cut-out no.7025 and no.7125
