Scheppach (Bretzfeld)

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Scheppach
Bretzfeld municipality
Scheppach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 21 ″  E
Area : 6.46 km²
Residents : 982  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 152 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Area code : 07946
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Location of Scheppach in the municipality of Bretzfeld

Scheppach is a district of Bretzfeld in Hohenlohekreis in northern Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Scheppach is located in the southwest Hohenlohe district on the left bank of the Brettach valley, which widens towards the Hohenlohe plain . On the opposite bank lies the Bretzfeld district of Adolzfurt , with which Scheppach has grown together due to the recent expansion of the settlement.

Local division

The village of Scheppach and the hamlet of Hohenacker (also part of Adolzfurt) belong to the former community of Scheppach .

history

Water tank

Scheppach's first documentary mention as Schepach comes from the year 1257. Originally there were probably several smaller settlements, as the sources differentiate between Mittelscheppach and Nieder-Scheppach and there was probably also an Ober-Scheppach. Today's place emerged from the settlement called Nydern Scheppach in 1337 , while Mittelscheppach was abandoned in the 17th century and nothing is known about Ober-Scheppach, which is only vaguely suspected in the southern part of the district.

The place, which was probably founded in the 9th or 10th century, was presumably imperial property in the 12th century, the property initially belonged to the Lords of Weinsberg and their servants and fiefs. While in the course of time the Öhringen monastery , the Heilbronner Klarakloster, the Johanniterkommende in Hall , the Odenheim monastery and others acquired property in Scheppach and the property was thus constantly fragmented, the sovereignty came to the Lords of Weinsberg in 1407, the Scheppach with others Parts of their rule pledged to the Electoral Palatinate in 1423 . The place was devastated in 1445 during a feud between the House of Hohenlohe and the Lords of Berlichingen and a little later in 1449 in the war of cities. The Landshut War of Succession led to the transition of the place to Württemberg in 1504 . A mayor and judge were first mentioned in 1513.

Scheppach has always been a village characterized by agriculture and forestry , although intensive forestry did not begin until the 19th century, when the managed forest areas increased from 95 acres in 1769 to 714 acres in 1860. Viticulture was practiced in Scheppach from the 16th century to the 1950s. Trade and commerce were always only weakly represented in Scheppach, with industrial settlements only a few production sites of the Dynamit Nobel branch in the neighboring town of Adolzfurt to be mentioned.

At the turn of the 19th century, Scheppach had about 330 inhabitants. By 1861 the population grew to around 600 people, but then fell again to 385 people by 1939 due to emigration and emigration. After the Second World War, displaced persons from Hungary and Czechoslovakia made up around 20 percent of the population, which had grown to 568 people in 1950.

With the municipal reorganization of Württemberg at the beginning of the 19th century, Scheppach came to the Oberamt Weinsberg . When this was dissolved in 1926, it came to the Oberamt Öhringen (from 1938: Landkreis Öhringen ). The district reform in 1973 led to membership in the Hohenlohe district. On January 1, 1975, Adolzfurt , Bitzfeld , Bretzfeld , Dimbach , Geddelsbach , Scheppach, Schwabbach , Siebeneich , Unterheimbach and Waldbach merged to form the new municipality of Bretzfeld.

coat of arms

The blazon of the former municipal coat of arms reads: In red an oblique left golden rake, the handle covered with a golden sickle placed on a pole.

Attractions

The old schoolhouse from 1900 and the old wine press from 1865 still remind of the earlier community structure of Scheppach , and several historical courtyards have been preserved in the village. One of the landmarks of Scheppach is the water tower built in the 1970s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Status: December 31, 2018, annual report 2018 of the municipality of Bretzfeld (PDF) municipality of Bretzfeld. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume 4: Administrative region of Stuttgart, regional associations of Franconia and East Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , pp. 173-179.
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 466 .

literature

  • Karlheinz Englert: Scheppach. Impressions from the past and present. 1257-2007. (Published by the municipality of Bretzfeld-Scheppach). Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-184-7 .
  • Jürgen Hermann Rauser: Brettachtaler Heimatbuch. From the local history of the old communities Adolzfurt, Bitzfeld, Bretzfeld, Dimbach, Geddelsbach / Brettach, Rappach, Scheppach, Schwabbach, Siebeneich, Unterheimbach, Waldbach (= Hohenlohekreis local library. Vol. 14). Jahrbuch-Verlag, Weinsberg 1983.

Web links

Wikisource: Scheppach in the description of the Oberamt Weinsberg from 1861