Bed rings

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Bed rings
Coats of arms from bed rings before the incorporation
Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 14 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 33"  E
Height : 350-549 m above sea level NN
Area : 10.86 km²
Residents : 8967  (Oct. 31, 2014)
Population density : 826 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1959
Postal code : 73529
Area code : 07171
map
Location of Bettringen in Schwäbisch Gmünd
Bed rings, seen from the south
Bed rings, seen from the south

With almost 9,000 inhabitants, Bettringen is the largest district of Schwäbisch Gmünd . The community consisting of Oberbettringen and Unterbettringen was incorporated on April 1, 1959 and forms the second oldest district of Schwäbisch Gmünd after Rehnenhof-Wetzgau. Until 1934 the community was called Oberbettringen, which also includes Unterbettringen. On April 16, 1934, the local council decided to rename.

geography

The two districts of Bettringen are separated by the Strümpfelbach. Oberbettringen (407 m above sea level) is north of the Strümpfelbach, while Unterbettringen (350 m above sea level) is mostly south. The highest point is located near the Lindenhof , at 549 m above sea level. The marking of Oberbettringen is 588 hectares, that of Unterbettringen 498 hectares.

The north-south extension of Betttringen is 3.9 km, the east-west axis 4.7 km.

From Bettringen you have a good view of the Drei Kaiserberge , the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd and the surrounding area thanks to its high location .

Surrounding villages

With the exception of Waldstetten, all of the villages bordering on Bettringen are part of Schwäbisch Gmünd or Schwäbisch Gmünd itself.

history

The Rechberg seen from Bettringen
The former Bettringer town hall

The place name Bettringen is derived from the nickname Bathari and is one of the patronymic ingen names.

The first mention of Bettringen ( Beteringen ) comes from the year 1218. In the (today heavily damaged) Red Book of the Lorch Monastery (around 1500) a document is handed down that certifies a donation from serfs by a noble woman Hadewig von Bettringen.

The names Oberbettringen and Unterbettringen have only been documented since the 15th century, previously only bed rings were mentioned. The bigger place was Oberbettringen. In the 15th century Oberbettringen and Unterbettringen appear as independent communities. In the early modern era, both belonged to the land area of ​​the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd , to the bailiwick of Bettringen, whose seat was in the "Bettringer Tower", the permanent house of the noble family named after Bettringen. The Bettringer Tower had to give way to the new construction of the Oberbettringer parish church in 1813.

The transfer of rights to the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd or to the Hospital of the Holy Spirit ruled by the imperial city can only be verified for Oberbettringen. In 1464 Jörg von Horkheim sold the rulership of Oberbettringen along with some goods and rights to the hospital. Half of the village rulership and associated rights appear for the first time in 1437 as a fiefdom of the Counts of Helfenstein . In 1437, Melchior von Horkheim, as the representative of the children of his deceased cousin Claus von Horkheim, Count Friedrich von Helfenstein, issued a certificate of the enfeoffment. Before that, the lords of Bettringen and after them the Gmünder family Schätzer were presumably local lords in Oberbettringen.

In 1870 the parish village of Ober-Bettringen with 508 inhabitants and the hamlet of Unter-Bettringen with 305 inhabitants (as well as the farms Bergwiesen-Schafhaus with 3 inhabitants and Lindenhof with 13 inhabitants) belonged to the municipality of Ober-Bettringen.

The Lindenhof (1439 Hof zum Gruntlach ) has only been called Lindenhof since the 16th century. From 1916 to 1934 the city of Stuttgart was the owner, from 1934 the German Reich . The courtyard buildings and 60 hectares of land were retained by the community.

Lords of bed rings

The Lords of Bettringen are documented in a few documents (1218, 1307, 1319, 1324, 1347) from 1218 to 1347. The fact that they were actually resident in the Bettringer Tower can be seen from the document from 1347 in which they exchanged a property that was adjacent to their "berfrit" (keep) in Bettringen.

Bettringen Castle

It is not known to whom the former castle complex , which is verifiable north of Bettringen am Klostersturz , belonged. In retrospect, it was claimed by the Wolf von Wolfstal family as the (fictional) ancestral seat at the end of the 15th century.

A castle called Bettringen appears in the sources of the 14th century. In 1365 a "castle" (in the sense of: dominion) was sold by the Lords of Rechberg , to which not a single farm in Ober- or Unterbettringen belonged. With the exception of the separate property in Weiler in the mountains , the "Castle Bettringen" of the documents of 1365 and 1379 corresponds to the 1476 Rechbergischen Amt Bargau. In 1980 Klaus Graf therefore put forward the thesis that “Burg Bettringen” in the 14th century actually meant Castle Bargau . Strobel accepted this assumption.

Incorporation

The incorporation of Betttringen into the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd took place before the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg . It was a voluntary incorporation. Bettringen was the second municipality after Wetzgau to submit to the administration of Schwäbisch Gmünd.

politics

Local council election 2014
Turnout: 40.3%
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51.8%
25.2%
23.1%

Mayor of Bettringen is city councilor Brigitte Weiß ( CDU ).

Local council

The local council is composed as follows (as of May 2014): CDU 8 seats, SPD 4 seats, The Greens 4 seats. The district of Bettringen is represented by 7 city councilors in the municipal council of Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Religions

Catholics

The Catholic parish of St. Cyriakus in Bettringen is part and parish seat of the pastoral care unit Unterm Bernhardus in the dean's office in Ostalb and has around 5000 members.

From Tuesday to Sunday there is a daily service in at least one of the three churches in the district, St. Cyriakus , St. Ottilia or the Church of the Resurrection of Christ . Catholic and ecumenical services are also held on the Lindenfeld and in the Riedäcker meeting place. In the 14th century there was also a St. Mauritius church in Bettringen.

Felix Chapel

The Felix chapel at the Lindenhof

The Felix Chapel was built in 1713 and is located near the Haus Lindenhof Foundation . In 1780, the celebration of Holy Mass was allowed in the chapel dedicated to St. Felix . After being used by the Hardt barracks and as a goose stable, the chapel was consecrated again in 1980. The re-consecration was accompanied by the resumption of the Ösch processional tradition. In front of the west gable of the chapel is a sandstone cross from the 16th century. In the chapel there is a baroque Felix wooden figure and a neo-Gothic wooden cross, as well as a sandstone baptismal font from the 18th century.

Protestants

After 1945, mainly due to the influx of expellees, many Protestants settled in what was originally a predominantly Catholic bed ring.

Peace community

The Friedenskirche was founded in 1961, seven years later the Evangelical Reconciliation Church was inaugurated on the Lindenfeld. 1986 the community center Arche in the construction area Bettringen-Nordwest, which belongs to the peace church community Schwäbisch Gmünd . The parish was founded in 1971 and belongs to the Schwäbisch Gmünd church district.

Baptists / ev. Free Church

The Protestant Baptist Congregation Schwäbisch Gmünd maintains divine services in Bettringen and also has its administrative headquarters here.

Ecumenism

The ecumenical life of the Catholic and Protestant congregations is diverse. Several actions are carried out together. The highlight is the annual Pentecost service, which is held alternately by Catholics and Protestants.

Culture

societies

There is a flourishing club life in Bettringen. In addition to the sports club , SG Bettringen 1885 e. V. , which comprises eight departments (football, chess, athletics, tennis, table tennis, fitness-health gymnastics, volleyball and handball, which has been in a syndicate with Tv Bargau since 2019), the Musikverein Bettringen 1900 e. V. and the riding and driving association as well as the small animal breeding association , there is the German Red Cross local association Bettringen , the Liederkranz Bettringen e. V. 1870 , Schlaraffia Gaudia mundi , KunstContraNot e. V. There are also church associations or associations that belong to the parishes ( church choir , altar boys , "KJG", etc.) and many other associations.

A specialty in Bettringen are the peers' associations (AGV). In general, the peer groups are organized centrally in Schwäbisch Gmünd for all parts of the city.

The clubs regularly organize a wide variety of cultural activities, which are often organized and carried out in cooperation with each other and with the city and the locality. B. the annual Corpus Christi festival, which is carried and organized by the church and associations.

coat of arms

With a decree of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior of November 29, 1957, the municipality of Bettringen was awarded as a coat of arms : In a split shield in front in silver (white) a red lion turned to the right, behind in red a silver (white) double cross . While the double cross is reminiscent of the Gmünder Spital , the lion refers to the Lords of Rechberg .

Like all coats of arms and flags of the formerly independent municipalities, the Bettringer coat of arms as an official symbol ceased to exist with the incorporation.

economy

Bettringen has employees in all economic sectors, from agriculture to industry and handicrafts to services and research. Big employers are the Barmer Ersatzkasse , which has one of the two head office locations in Bettringen; the Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH (to 30 January 2015: ZF Lenksysteme GmbH), which maintains one of their major works in the industrial area Gügling and Erhard & Söhne and voestalpine Automotive Components Schwabisch Gmund .

Infrastructure

Bettringen is in the transport system of Schwäbisch Gmünd involved and with the lines 1, 2 and 3 of the bus Gmünd , inter alia with the surrounding cities and towns Heubach , Lauterstein and Waldstetten connected and the Schwäbisch Gmünd city center.

Part of the Faith Paths, a regional project of the cities and communities of Schwäbisch Gmünd , Göppingen , Heubach , Lauterstein , Waldstetten , Ottenbach , Bartholomä and Essingen runs through Bettringen .

Bettringen is a district of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the Stuttgart metropolitan region .

Districts

Bed rings can be divided into several districts. In addition to Oberbettringen, Oberbettringen also includes the Hirschfeld residential area and the Northwest construction area. The residential area Riedäcker, the residential area Lindenfeld, the residential area Kirchäcker and the Lindenhof belong to Unterbetttringen.

Bettringen Northwest construction area

The " skyline " of Schwäbisch Gmünd is largely shaped by the high-rise buildings in the building area between the western outskirts of Bettringen and the Hardt barracks . The development work began in 1968. By 1974 1010 apartments had been completed.

Gügling and Schwedenschanze industrial park

The Gügling business park is the largest contiguous business park in East Württemberg. The nearby Schwedenschanze could be rediscovered in aerial photographs. Presumably it is a prehistoric and early historical object possibly of Roman origin, rather not a Celtic quadrangular hill .

Riedäcker residential area

South of the residential area In the suburbs , the Riedäcker residential area was built with the Riedäcker senior citizens' meeting place , in which the Catholic and Protestant parishes alternately celebrate their services on Fridays .

Panorama of the “ skyline ” from the northwest, in the foreground the residential area Riedäcker

education

schools

The place has two school centers. The Strümpfelbach school center with the Scheffold-Gymnasium , the Adalbert-Stifter-Realschule and the Waldorf School in Unterbettringen. Furthermore, there is a district vocational school center of the Ostalb district with three high schools, a vocational college, a vocational school and other commercial schools in Oberbettringen. In addition, the place has a primary and technical secondary school, the Uhland school and the Martinus school of the Haus Lindenhof Foundation, a special education and advice center with a focus on mental, physical and motor development, which maintains cooperative forms of organization in some state regular schools .

Facilities

House Lindenhof

In 1974 the foundation stone was laid for the large Catholic institution for the disabled and the elderly, Stiftung Haus Lindenhof . Today the foundation is a regionally operating company with around 1500 employees, which looks after around 2000 people in its facilities.

The Bettringer outdoor pool

The Bettringer outdoor pool has an unheated swimming pool with separate non-swimmer and swimmer areas, a diving board and several diving blocks, a beach volleyball court, an open-air chess field, several lawns and a children's pool, as well as a kiosk and a bar. The changing rooms are covered. For a long time there was negotiation about the closure of the pool , which was carried out by committed citizens, the youth committee of the parish of St. Cyriakus and now by the Förderverein Freibad Bettringen e. V. was averted.

Oderstrasse 8

The youth center Oderstraße 8 is a youth center in Bettringen, which is run by the Catholic St. Cyriakus Community and the Protestant Peace Community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities

Trivia

The local nickname for the citizens of Bettring is "Halbhierige" (German: "half-brained").

literature

  • Description of the Oberamt Gmünd . Stuttgart 1870, pp. 391-398.
  • Bed rings. A home book. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1999, ISBN 3-927654-74-4 .
  • Klaus Graf: Wolfstal Castle, Bettringen Castle and Bargau Castle. In: Unicorn Yearbook. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1980.
  • Lutz Reichardt: Place name book of the Ostalb district. Part I: A – L. Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-015351-X .
  • Richard Strobel: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Vol. 4, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-06381-1 .
  • Erik Yama Tienne: bed rings . 2011, ISBN 978-613-8-90944-6 .

Web links

Commons : Bed Rings  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Reichardt: Place name book of the Ostalb district. Part I: AL. Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-015351-X , pp. 64-66.
  2. ^ Klaus Graf: Heimatbuch Bettringen 1999, p. 54.
  3. Klaus Graf: Wolfstal Castle, Bettringen Castle and Bargau Castle. In: Unicorn Yearbook. Schwäbisch Gmünd 1980, pp. 204-215.
  4. ^ Richard Strobel: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Vol. 4, Munich 2003, pp. 280-302.
  5. ^ History of the Bettringen district
  6. Municipal council election 2014 Schwäbisch Gmünd Preliminary final result
  7. ^ Associations, projects and initiatives in bed rings
  8. ↑ Ways of Faith
  9. ^ Page of the Haus Lindenhof Foundation
  10. Oderstrasse 8 on the homepage of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd