Rottenacker

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	530 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.29 km 2
Residents:	2194 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	213 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	89616
Area code :	07393
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 104
Address of the municipal administration:	Bühlstrasse 7 89616 Rottenacker
Website :	www.rottenacker.de
Mayor :	Karl Hauler
Location of the Rottenacker community in the Alb-Donau district

Rottenacker is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district in Baden-Württemberg . The community belongs to the administrative community Munderkingen .

geography

Geographical location

Hydroelectric power station on the Danube

White storks settle in the Rottenacker chimney nest

Rottenacker is located on the edge of the Swabian Alb seven kilometers southwest of Ehingen (Danube) directly on the Danube .

Neighboring communities

The community borders the city of Ehingen to the north and east, Unterstadion to the south and the city of Munderkingen to the west .

history

Rottenacker was probably founded as a Franconian settlement in the 6th to 7th centuries and was first mentioned in 1085 as apud Rotenakere and 1116 as Rotinakkier , which, according to recent research, may mean “place where the community meets ”. Until the 14th century, the place was divided as an imperial fiefdom between Count von Berg and Count von Wartstein , whose dependent knight families handed over their property to the Blaubeuren monastery in the 14th century , making the place almost entirely theirs . In 1447 the place went to Württemberg, and from 1536 it was under the Württemberg monastery administration of Blaubeuren. Rottenacker farmers took part in the Peasants' War in 1525 in the Baltringer Haufen. During the Thirty Years War the place was badly destroyed, which is why it became extinct after 1634 and only four years later isolated families settled there again. From 1648, many Swiss moved to the place. In the 19th century there were waves of emigration to the Caucasus and North America; Between 1851 and 1854 alone, 28 families and 48 single people looked for a new home in North America. In 1806 Rottenacker was part of the newly formed Oberamt, which was transferred to the Ehingen district in 1938 .

The separatists

In the late 18th century Radical Pietism experienced a revival, as many Pietists left the Church for religious reasons. In Württemberg they were generally called separatists. Since 1785 the linen weaver Johann Georg Rapp from Iptingen rose to become the leader of the Württemberg separatists and gathered around 2,000 supporters. When Rapp emigrated to the United States in 1803, the separatist group from Rottenacker took on the leading role in Württemberg radical pietism. It was created in 1800 at the suggestion of the maid Barbara Grubenmann from Teufen in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden , who was staying in Rottenacker. About 70 people separated from the church. From the beginning, political motives played an important role; so the separatists insulted the Wuerttemberg elector Friedrich and the stately officials. In May 1804, the elector had 14 of the most radical men arrested by a military command and taken to Hohenasperg fortress , where some remained in captivity for years. Since some parents refused to send their children to school, the children were taken away and taken to the orphanage in Stuttgart.

In 1811 some separatists bought the Vogthaus next to the church and lived together in a community of property . Finally, in 1816, a separatist group from Württemberg acquired the Brandenburg estate near Dietenheim an der Iller with the aim of founding a radical pietist community. When King Frederick refused the request, the separatists emigrated to the United States and founded the Zoar settlement in Ohio . There they lived together as the "Zoar Society" in community of property. In 1898 the Zoar Society had to be dissolved after a new generation was no longer willing to give up private property.

mayor

Karl Hauler was re-elected for the second time in October 2016.

Municipal council

After the local elections in May 2014, the local council has ten members, two women and eight men.

traffic

Rottenacker is on the Ulm – Sigmaringen railway line . Since the timetable change on December 14, 2014, Rottenacker has been regularly served by regional trains again. The listed station building of the station, built in 1870, is empty and in need of renovation.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ulrich Tenngler (1447–1511), bailiff and author "Der Laienspiegel"
• Konrad Sam (around 1483–1533), reformer. He was already in contact with Martin Luther in 1520 and was appointed preacher by the Ulm City Council in 1524
• Franz Carl Hiemer (1768–1822), painter, librettist and actor.
• Johannes Breimaier (1776–1834), religious separatist. In 1819 he suggested the introduction of common property in Zoar. An English newspaper report from 1845 about Zoar and comparable religious community settlements in the USA impressed Friedrich Engels in the run-up to the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
• Friedrich von Grundler (1788–1869), German mechanical engineer, building officer
• Christoph Diehm (1892–1960), SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS and police, NSDAP politician, police president as well as SS and police leader
• Gerhard Storz (1898–1983), educator, writer, literary scholar and minister of culture for the state of Baden-Württemberg
• Martin Storz (1900–1995), farmer, administrative officer and 1953–1961 member of the state parliament (CDU)

literature

• Eberhard Fritz : Separatists in Rottenacker. A local group as the center of a "network" in the early 19th century. In: Leaves for Württemberg Church History 98/1998. Pp. 66-158.
• Eberhard Fritz : Roots of Zoar, Ohio, in early 19th century Württemberg: The Separatist group of Rottenacker and its Circle. Part one. Communal Societies 22/2002. p. 27-44. Part two. Communal Societies 23/2003. p. 29-44.

Web links

Commons : Rottenacker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Rottenacker in the description of the Oberamt Ehingen from 1826  - sources and full texts

• Rottenacker at LEO-BW
• Website of the Rottenacker community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ http://www.rottenacker.de/fileadmin/download/Geschichte_fuer_Internet_2013.pdf History of Rottenacker (PDF file)
3. ↑ Christian Buchholz: "... wants to lead a different life" Zoar - a radical-pietistic settlement of Württemberg emigrants in the USA . In: Swabian homeland . No. 2 , 2018, p. 177-184 .
4. ^ Eberhard Fritz : From Wuerttemberg to Zoar: Origins of a Separatist Community. In: American Communal Societies Quarterly, Vol 13 No. 1 (January 2019). p. 32-57.
5. ^ Rudolf Stumberger : The communist America. On the trail of utopian communities in the USA. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2015 ISBN 978-3-85476-647-6 (The Separatists von Zoar: pp. 138–162)
6. ↑ Auction catalog