Limpurger Land

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The Limpurger Land is a region in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg . It is the former domain of the Limpurg taverns . Some of the municipalities and a town in the region have joined forces to form the Limpurger Land municipal administration association.

Geographical location

Local government association Limpurger Land in the district of Schwäbisch Hall

The historic Limpurger Land is located in northeast Württemberg in the southwestern part of the Schwäbisch Hall district and in the western part of the Ostalb district , it is located around the upper Kocher , the lower Fichtenberger Rot and a middle section of the Bühler in and on the Swabian-Franconian forest mountains . The main town of the former county of Limpurg was the small town of Gaildorf near the confluence of the Rot in the Kocher, which is still the largest town in the region today. In addition to the town, the Limpurger Land mainly comprised the municipalities of Michelbach an der Bilz north and down the kocher from Gaildorf, Obersontheim in the Bühlertal in the northeast of it, Sulzbach-Laufen up the kocher in the southeast, Gschwend in the Welzheimer Wald and on the Frickenhofer Höhe in the south and Fichtenberg and further upstream Oberrot in the lower Rottal in the west, plus the former municipality of Untergröningen, which has risen in Abtsgmünd , to the southeast and upstream of Sulzbach-Laufen.

Only the town of Gaildorf and the municipalities of Oberrot, Fichtenberg and Sulzbach-Laufen belong to today's municipal administration association, i.e. only municipalities in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Kocher- and Rottal.

history

Gate to the eponymous castle Limpurg near Schwäbisch Hall

The Limpurger Land originated from Hohenstaufen ownership. Schenk Walter von Schüpf built Limpurg Castle above the town of Hall around 1215 . However, the taverns did not succeed in incorporating the rich salt town of Hall into their possession. So they got the land around Gaildorf. It includes a former Reichswald from the Kocher to the Leintal and an area of ​​free clearing farmers, called Waibelhaube. There were frequent arguments with Hall. This finally ended in 1541 with the sale of Limpurg Castle to Hall. Despite the disputes, the imperial city and the Limpurger taverns remained closely linked, because Hall needed the firewood from the Limpurger forests for the operation of his saltworks to boil down the salty brine used. It was floated in large logs from the forests of the taverns with an annual volume of up to 130,000 cubic meters on tributaries from this and on the Kocher to Schwäbisch Hall . There it was used for salt production as fuel for the salt works .

After converting to the Reformation , the location of the inns changed significantly. Because the later sons could no longer be compensated and cared for in the monastery, they now had to keep sharing their property. This weakened the economic strength of the Limpurger taverns and they had to look for a new livelihood. They found it in service as civil servants or officers. Nevertheless, new residences were built in Untergröningen (Untergröningen Castle ) in 1564 and in Michelbach an der Bilz in 1609 .

The next hard blow to the Limpurgers was the Thirty Years War . They were not part of the war themselves, but in 1645 the Swedes and French clashed with the Bavarians near Obersontheim. In 1645 the French general Turenne camped in Gaildorf.

Grave of Schenken Vollrath, sculpture of the deceased.

Wilhelm Heinrich, the last Gaildorf tavern, died in 1690. His relative and heir Count Vollrath from the line there died in Obersontheim in 1713. Both have magnificent graves in the churches of the respective place of death. After the death of the last tavern, Prussian soldiers occupied Gaildorf and made inheritance claims. After this dispute was settled, the ten remaining heir daughters married, which further splintered the inheritance. Descendants of these daughters appear on the pedigree of the German and European nobility .

Oberamt Gaildorf, essentially with the scope of the Limpurger Land and its seven parts of the country after the male line was extinguished

Württemberg gradually acquired shares in Limpurg. In 1806 the County of Limpurg came completely to the Kingdom of Württemberg due to the Rhine Confederation Act . Gaildorf became the seat of the Oberamt Gaildorf , which existed until 1938. This year, part of the (old) district of Hall was added. Since the district reform in 1973 , the Limpurger Land has been divided into the Schwäbisch Hall district and the Ostalb district (Gschwend, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen).

It was not until 1843 that the Oberamtsstadt Gaildorf (it was one of the last) got a post office and in 1879/80 a railway connection with the Murrtalbahn .

Residences of the Limpurg taverns in Limpurger Land

The residences of the Limpurgers were the Old Castle and the New Castle in Gaildorf as well as the Schmiedelfeld Castle above Sulzbach am Kocher . Schenk Erasmus built his castle in Obersontheim in the middle of the 16th century after he had sold the family castle.

traffic

Street

The Limpurger Land is crossed by the following federal highways:

There are also regular and on- call buses within the region .

The Idyllic Road also leads through the Limpurger Land .

rail

The Limpurger Land is on the Waiblingen – Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental railway line with the Gaildorf West and Fichtenberg stations . The Obere Kochertalbahn branched off at Gaildorf West station , on which operations were stopped towards the end of 2005 and the rails were largely dismantled in 2009.

landscape

More than half of the Limpurger Land is covered with forest.

The eastern Limpurger Land include a large part of the Limpurger Mountains with the 564.7  m above sea level. NHN high Altenberg on the eastern edge of the region, on which the Altenberg tower is over 600  m above sea level. NHN towers. The highest point in the Limpurger country is 585.2  m above sea level. NHN high Hagberg west of Gschwend on the edge of the Welzheimer forest; The 23 m high Hagbergturm stands on it . Other parts of the heights above the valleys belong to the south-eastern Mainhardt Forest .

Rivers

Hierarchically indented under the respective Vorföiter.

The digester, which ultimately receives the inflow, drains over the Neckar and then the Rhine into the North Sea .

economy

The first cold water sanatorium in Württemberg was founded in Gaildorf in 1839 . However, this failed just like a chemical factory in Gaildorf- Ottendorf . Even the connection to the railroad in 1879/80 did not bring any remarkable economic development. This did not begin until the 1930s, but only on a very modest level.

The timber industry in Limpurger Land processes timber from all over southern Germany . Resident wood processing companies are:

Other large companies are:

tourism

Kochertaldraisine

The tracks of the Oberen Kochertalbahn were not removed on the approx. 4 km long route between Laufen am Kocher and Untergröningen . Four bicycle trolleys operated here in the 2009 opening season . For the 2010 season it was upgraded to six draisines. This means that the railway has a total capacity of 28 people, and there is also a “wheelchair draisine” among the draisines.

Observation towers

Limpurger Land specialties

Limpurger beef

The Limpurger cattle , also called Leintäler, is the oldest cattle breed in Württemberg. The name goes back to the breeding areas in the Limpurger Land, but it is also grown in areas close to the Limpurger Land. The Limpurger cattle attracted attention in supraregional markets before. The reason for this is the fine bone structure and the special meat quality, which connoisseurs appreciate again today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holopack website , accessed June 17, 2013.
  2. ^ Thermo-Pack website , accessed June 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kocher-Plastik website , accessed June 17, 2013.
  4. ^ Website of the community Sulzbach-Laufen , accessed on June 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ Website of the Kochertaldraisine ( Memento of the original from July 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. , accessed June 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kochertalerlebnis.de
  6. ^ History of Limpurger Cattle , accessed June 17, 2013.