Kirschenhardthof
Kirschenhardthof is a hamlet in the suburb of Erbstetten and belongs to the municipality of Burgstetten in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg .
geography
The hamlet is located on a plateau east of the Buchenbach Valley and south of Erbstetten.
history
In 1245 the Kirschenhardthof was mentioned in a document as Hart . Originally the hamlet belonged to the Hochberg rule . Due to this former affiliation, the place was an exclave of the Oberamt Waiblingen in the Oberamt Marbach until 1882 . In this year the hamlet was incorporated into Erbstetten . Ecclesiastically, the place had long been a branch of Erbstetten.
The small town gained special importance when the temple society under its founder Christoph Hoffmann acquired the property in 1856 in order to build a community settlement there. Several Templar families settled there and operated the agricultural goods there. On June 2, 1856, the foundation stone was laid for the religious community's first community building there, in whose assembly hall the various pioneering synods of the community were held. The Templars' settlement project in Palestine was also decided and planned on the Kirschenhardthof . In 1862 the then 132 inhabitants of Kirschenhardthof belonged almost without exception to the temple society. In 1873, when the majority of the supporters had already emigrated to Palestine, the properties on the Kirschenhardthof were sold and the headquarters there dissolved. The Templars set up a branch near Haifa called Neuhardthof as an agricultural colony with wineries and the large Struve soap factory. The former parish house of the Templars was later used as a Christian rest home and then until recently as a retirement home. In August 2013 the building was demolished.
Infrastructure
Kirschenhardthof has its own cemetery due to its special history as a former community of the Temple Society, whose members were excluded from the Evangelical Church . In the north-east of the old town center, the Hartweinberge residential area and the Hofstrasse industrial area were created around 1960 . The place also has a guesthouse with a broom farm.
literature
- Otto Ludwig: The Kirschenhardthof. A small place with a great history. Burgstetten 2003.
- Paul Sauer : The Holy Land called us. The temple society through the ages. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0448-9 , pp. 29-45.
- Alex Carmel : The settlements of the Württemberg Templars in Palestine 1868–1918. Your local political and international problems . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1973, 1997 2 , pp. 21-24, ISBN 978-3-17-016788-9 , ISBN 3-17-015361-7 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 22 ′ 11 ″ E