Lutheran mountains
The Lutheran Mountains are a landscape on the southern edge of the Swabian Alb , northwest of the large district town of Ehingen (Danube) . The Lutheran Mountains are part of the Middle Area Alb , they lie in the angle between the middle and lower Schmiechtal in the Alb-Danube District . The Upper Swabian Baroque Road leads east from Ehingen to Blaubeuren , the Swabian Poet Road west from Ehingen to Münsingen past the Lutheran Mountains.
The villages of Ennahofen , Grötzingen and Weilersteusslingen with Ermelau , which are part of the Allmendingen community, are located in the Lutheran Mountains . The two Schmiechtalorte Talsteusslingen with 20 inhabitants and Teuringshofen with 30 inhabitants, which belong to the town of Schelklingen, are also part of the area. Ennahofen is the highest at 750 m above sea level. d. M., a local lookout point on a hilltop with 755 m. The difference in altitude to the valley locations is around 150 meters.
The name Lutheran Mountains comes from the fact that Duke Ludwig von Württemberg introduced the Reformation here as a settled fiefdom in 1581 after the fall of the rule of Steusslingen , so that to this day a large part of the population is Protestant , while the surrounding towns remained Catholic .