Steinhausen on the Rottum

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Biberach
Height :	650 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.88 km 2
Residents:	2141 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	72 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	88416
Area code :	07352
License plate :	BC
Community key :	08 4 26 113
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Ehrensberger Strasse 13 88416 Steinhausen an der Rottum
Website :	www.steinhausen-rottum.de
Mayor :	Hans Peter Reck
Location of the community Steinhausen an der Rottum in the district of Biberach

Steinhausen an der Rottum from the southeast

Steinhausen an der Rottum is the highest community in the southeastern part of the Biberach district in Upper Swabia .

geography

Steinhausen an der Rottum is located 620 to 705 meters above sea level in Upper Swabia at the transition to the Vorallgäu, five kilometers from Ochsenhausen .

The community has two modern kindergartens, the municipal Catholic primary school in Steinhausen and the town hall, which was rebuilt in 1991 . Sports fields, gymnasiums, community halls and festival halls as well as a bathing pond complement the cultural and leisure offer and create the conditions for a lively life in civic and church clubs, especially in music bands and sports clubs.

Community structure

In addition to Steinhausen an der Rottum, the community itself consists of the suburbs Bellamont and Rottum.

The village of Steinhausen is located on the plateau on the left slope of the Lower Rottum valley , the village of Rottum in the Upper Rottum valley and on its slopes in an elevation that is untypical for a village and offers panoramic views from all sides. To the south of these villages lies Bellamont.

history

Steinhausen on the Rottum

In 1128 a place was first named Obrostetten , later as Oberstetten . A church and a parish are mentioned in 1275, but according to a church chronicle, the place was deserted by its residents at this time. The document says “locus desertus” , abandoned place (barren hill).

In today's district of Schloßberg there was a castle stable, the ancestral seat of the Lords of Oberstetten. In 1392 the castle stable "zem Stainhuse", the place, 10 courtyards and the church set were sold by the Lords of Mundeldingen to the Ochsenhausen monastery (in 1459 the parish was incorporated into the monastery). Also in 1392, according to a tradition, the parish church standing by the castle was demolished and replaced by the chapel "zum Steinhaus" in the open field, which was built by St. Mary was consecrated. A Pietà sculpture from 1350 was venerated there as early as the 14th century . 1672–1673 the parish church of the Ochsenhausen monastery was replaced by a baroque pilgrimage church.

In the course of secularization, Franz Georg Reichsgraf von Metternich-Winneburg-Beilstein took possession of the place and monastery on February 20, 1803 with a patent to all subjects. On June 30, 1803, Emperor Franz II granted the imperial count the personal prince dignity and elevated Ochsenhausen to a principality. In 1806 the area became part of Württemberg under state law . In 1809 the Schultheißenamt Steinhausen was formed. Until 1825, however, the princes of Metternich-Winneburg held the class rule.

In addition to numerous individual farmsteads, the Steinhausen district also includes the smaller villages Ehrensberg (first mentioned in 1252) and Englisweiler (first mentioned in 1316).

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  Steinhausen on the Rottum

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  The miraculous image in the parish and pilgrimage church Steinhausen an der Rottum, a Pietà from 1350.

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  Double hall church

Bellamont

Bellamont

Bellamont was first mentioned as Belmunt in 1258 . Local nobility is mentioned from 1258 to 1352. The (Rhaeto) Romanic name can be traced back to a high medieval name transfer from the homonymous noble seat in Graubünden. In 1275 a church and parish is named, which until 1470 was partially supplied from Ellwangen . From 1417 the place belonged to the rule Eberhardzell , which was later exercised by the Waldburg family . In 1580 Truchseß Jakob von Waldburg sold the place to Jos Ludwig von Ratzenried , in 1595 the imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen acquired the place (which had already acquired the first goods in the place in 1396/1397). In 1725 the monastery built a baroque parish church under Abbot Beda Werner , which was completed under Abbot Cölestin Frener . 1792-1793 the place was deserted , initially 16 individual farms were created. With the monastery office Ochsenhausen, the place like Steinhausen came to the Counts of Metternich-Winneburg and later to Württemberg. In 1809 a Bellamont mayor's office was established.

See also : Bellamont Castle

The hamlet of Badhaus was built on a sulfur-containing spring and has been in use since 1461 (as Schwaißbad and Klingelbad), and in 1529 a Tafern and a bath room are mentioned there.

The hamlet of Kemnat, which was already occupied in the Middle Ages (which initially belonged to the mayor's office in Horn-Fischbach, then to the municipality of Ummendorf) became part of the municipality of Bellamont in 1841.

Rottum

Rottum was first mentioned in 1182 as Rothemun . The village was initially owned by the Rot an der Rot monastery , and later by the Ochsenhausen monastery. In 1453 the church of St. Mauritius was built. In 1803 Rottum came to the Counts of Metternich-Winneburg with the monastery office in Ochsenhausen (and in 1806 to Württemberg). 1803-1804 the place was deserted.

In church terms, the Rottum was initially a branch parish of Ummendorf (near Biberach) . With the parish of Ummendorf, the branch community came from the Lords of Schellenberg to the Weissenau monastery near Ravensburg in 1373 , but in 1520 they gave it in exchange to the Ochsenhausen monastery, which already held the manor in the place. The parish of St. Mauritius has been independent since 1807.

Religions

St. Anne's Chapel

Like the surrounding area, the community is shaped by Roman Catholicism . There are three Catholic parishes in the municipality. All three parishes are assigned to the pastoral care unit of St. Benedict. St. Benedikt belongs to the Biberach Grand Deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

• Parish of the Assumption in Steinhausen
• Parish of St. Blaise in Bellamont
• Parish of St. Mauritius in Rottum

The Protestant residents belong to the Protestant parish of Erolzheim-Rot, which is part of the Biberach church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975, the two previously independent communities Bellamont and Rottum were incorporated into Steinhausen an der Rottum.

Population development

year	1871	1910	1939	1950	1961	1970	1975	1991	1995	2005	2010	2015	2016
Residents	1309	1729	1589	1660	1603	1639	1624	1719	1755	1925	1921	2003	2035

politics

Municipal council

The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 69.7% (2014: 62.7%):

CDU	52.3%	6 seats (2014: 52.8%, 6 seats)
Free voters	47.7%	6 seats (2014: 47.2%, 6 seats)

coat of arms

The “talking” coat of arms, awarded in 1969, recalls the origin of the community name, which probably goes back to a stately stone house.

Description of the coat of arms : In red a bricked silver stone house (gable side) rising from the lower edge with a round arched black gate and six notch-like windows .

The flag of the municipality is white and red.

Town twinning

The community has had a partnership with the French community of Chaponnay since 1984 .

Educational institutions

Steinhausen an der Rottum has its own primary school . In addition, Steinhausen and Bellamont each have their own kindergarten .

Buildings

• Steinhausen an der Rottum: Church of the Assumption of Mary , two-aisled Baroque pilgrimage church from 1672/73, with high altar and side altars from the Baroque era
• Steinhausen an der Rottum: St. Anna Chapel , built by the Ochsenhausen monastery in 1592, redesigned in Baroque style in 1753 (connected to an 18th century hermitage). The furnishings include a Madonna by an Ulm master (around 1475), an Anna Selbdritt group from around 1500 and baroque sculptures.
• Bellamont: Church of St. Blaise from 1725 (renovated from 1975), with important late Gothic figures of St. Maria, Peter and Paul from the Ochsenhauser high altar built between 1496 and 1499
• Rottum: Church of St. Mauritius , Gothic building, expanded in 1758 by the Ochsenhausen monastery and redesigned in Baroque style in the 19th century, renovated in 1974. The furnishings include baroque sculptures as well as a classical baptismal font and a pulpit from the same era. The monumental sculpture of Christ crucified (16th century) is said to come from the abbey refectory of the Ochsenhausen monastery.

There are two small chapels from the 19th century in Hirschbronn and Kemnat.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Moritz von Aberle (1819–1875), theologian, born in the Rottum district
• Jakob Fischer (1863–1943), discoverer of the Jakob Fischer apple variety
• Karl Hermann Schelkle (1908–1988), Roman Catholic priest and theologian

Trivia

In 1593 Martin Fritz from the Kemnat zu Steinhausen in Rottweil was executed by wheels and burned. On April 15, 2015, the city council of Rottweil passed a resolution on the socio-ethical and moral rehabilitation of the victims of the witch trials.

literature

• Otto Beck: Art and history in the Biberach district. A travel guide to cultural sites and sights in the middle of Upper Swabia . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-3707-4 , pp. 148-151.
• Josef Fakler: Bellamont in the mirror image. From the history of the village of Bellamont in the Biberach / Riß district . Bellamont 1984.
• Steinhausen on the Rottum . In: The district of Biberach . Volume 2. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-6186-2 , pp. 759-784.
• Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger: Description of the Oberamt Biberach . Cotta, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1837 ( full text at Wikisource )
• Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. Secularization in the German Southwest 1803. Articles. First part. Prehistory and course of secularization . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0212-2 .

Web links

Commons : Steinhausen an der Rottum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Steinhausen in the description of the Oberamt Biberach from 1837  - sources and full texts

• Steinhausen an der Rottum community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Steinhausen an der Rottum community - Steinhausen an der Rottum community. Retrieved June 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Volker Himmelein (ed.): Old monasteries, new masters. Secularization in the German Southwest 1803. Articles. First part. Prehistory and course of secularization , pp. 428/430
4. ^ 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. 545 .
5. ↑ NRWZ Verlag ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 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.