Kleinbottwar

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Kleinbottwar
Kleinbottwar coat of arms
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 17 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : 211 m
Area : 4.65 km²
Residents : 1676  (Jan. 2017)
Population density : 360 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1971
Postal code : 71711
Area code : 07148
Kleinbottwar

Kleinbottwar is a 1971 incorporated district of Steinheim an der Murr in the Ludwigsburg district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Kleinbottwar belonged to different families of knights in the Middle Ages, it only came to Württemberg in 1805 .

Erwin Kreetz memorial plaque

On April 17, 1945, soldier Erwin Kreetz was executed as a deserter in the quarry on the road between Steinheim and Kleinbottwar . After he was told that his wife had been killed in a bombing raid in Berlin, he left his unit, was arrested a short time later and shot in the quarry three days before the American liberation. A memorial stone has been commemorating this since 1989.

On December 1, 1971, Kleinbottwar was incorporated into Steinheim.

coat of arms

The former municipal coat of arms of Kleinbottwars shows in black the golden mark in the form of a wagon wheel with a horizontal spoke (a golden rim with a golden spoke).

Attractions

  • The castle Schaubeck was first mentioned in 1272 and has long been the seat of the respective local lords. After numerous changes of ownership, the plant came to the Graf Adelmann family in 1914, who now run the Graf Adelmann winery there .
  • The St. George Church was built from 1491 on the initiative of the Lords of Plieningen and consecrated in 1500. The most important art treasure of the church is a late Gothic carved altar by Hans Leinberger around 1510/20. The church's other art treasures include a sacrament house and a baptismal font from the time the church was built, as well as historical Plieninger tombs from the 16th century. Under the choir there is also an old crypt in which the respective local lords were buried until around 1740.

  • Schaubeck Castle

  • George's Church

Personalities

  • Eduard Gottlob Zeller (1814–1908), theologian and philosopher, born in Kleinbottwar
  • Paul Aldinger (1869-1944), theologian and founder of the Hammonia colony, now Ibirama, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Supporters of the Confessing Church.
  • Eberhard Stilz (* 1949), lawyer and judge, President of the State Court for Baden-Württemberg

literature

  • Heinrich Meißner: The village of Kleinbottwar in old and new times , special print from the Württ. Yearbooks for Statistics and Regional Studies, Stuttgart 1896
  • Evangelical Church Community Kleinbottwar (Ed.): Pastor Dr. Paul Aldinger in Brazil and Kleinbottwar. A picture of his life on the occasion of his 120th birthday on August 23, 1989 by Barbara Hlauschka-Steffe and Gottfried Uber. 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schönberger, Klaus and Beck, Stefan: For me the war is over. Desertion, condemnation, etc. Execution d. Erwin Kreetz in Kleinbottwar in April 1945. Alexander Seitz History Workshop Marbach and surroundings, Marbach am Neckar 1987.
  2. ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 . P. 85
  3. ↑ Home book of the town of Steinheim an der Murr . City of Steinheim an der Murr, Steinheim an der Murr 1980. Page 2 (intent)

Web links

Commons : Kleinbottwar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Klein-Bottwar  - in the description of the Oberamt Marbach from 1866