Unterland (Württemberg)
In the northern part of Württemberg, the former Franconian area around Heilbronn is usually called the Unterland . In the Swabian Alb and in the Black Forest , on the other hand, underland, as in science, is understood to mean the lower areas of the south-west German layered plains cleared by the Neckar .
Location-dependent definitions
It is not precisely defined to which point the Heilbronner Unterland extends. In any case, it encompasses the entire Heilbronn basin and its most important side valleys, i.e. the area between Lauffen am Neckar in the south and Gundelsheim in the north and between Löwenstein in the east and Schwaigern in the west.
Depending on the perspective or location of the observer, the originally Franconian parts of the Ludwigsburg district north of the Asperg or the entire Neckar basin and the Stuttgart "Kessel" are counted as part of the lowlands. Because the name Unterland is originally derived from the administrative division in the Duchy of Württemberg, where some administrative branches were spatially divided into a land above the Steig (Oberland) and a land under the Steig (Unterland). The said Steig , which marked the transition, was the Alte Weinsteige in Stuttgart .
In his geographical standard work South Germany, however , Robert Gradmann (Stuttgart 1931) referred to the entire "Neckarland" as Unterland : "Within Württemberg [...] scientific linguistic usage has been applying the popularly rather indefinite and variously used term Unterland to the Neckarland in ours Senses and contrasts it with the Black Forest, the Alb and Upper Swabia. ”In these regions, the scientific definition of the Unterland is still popularly used today.
In the Stuttgart and Heilbronn area the term Unterland was only related to the area around Heilbronn. Today it is used, for example, in the names of Heilbronn events such as the long-standing Unterland-Schau or, until 2015, the Unterländer Volksfest . The Heilbronner Land tourism association, founded in 2006, markets part of the lowlands, namely the city and district of Heilbronn , in the area of tourism under the Heilbronner Land brand .
In viticulture, Württembergisch Unterland is the largest of a total of six areas in the Württemberg wine-growing region . This area also includes the north of the Ludwigsburg district.
The Unterland is also known through the song Drunten im Unterland ( Unterländers Heimweh ), the text of which Gottfried Weigle wrote in 1835, which was sung to a traditional Swabian melody and edited and distributed by Friedrich Silcher .
literature
- Christoph Borcherdt, Klaus Kulinat: Geographical regional studies of Baden-Württemberg. (Writings on political regional studies of Baden-Württemberg, Volume 8), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1983
- Johann Gottlieb Breyer : Elementa Iuris Publici Wirtembergici. 2nd ed., Cotta, Tübingen 1787 ( Digitalisat the SLUB Dresden )
- Dieter Buck: Destination Unterland. Silberburg-Verlag , Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-87407-735-4
- Robert Gradmann : Southern Germany. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt: Facsimile reprint d. 1st edition, Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1931
- Robert Gradmann: Franconia and Swabia. Spindler, Nuremberg 1926
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Gradmann: Franconia and Swabia . Spindler, Nuremberg 1926
- ^ Dieter Buck: excursion destination Unterland. Silberburg-Verlag , Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-87407-735-4 .
- ↑ Districts of the Württemberg Chess Federation , visited on October 8, 2012.
- ^ Johann Gottlieb Breyer: Elementa Iuris Publici Wirtembergici . 2nd ed. Cotta, Tübingen 1787, pp. 129-131.
- ↑ Weinland Württemberg (accessed on December 28, 2015)
- ↑ Works by "Weigle, Gottfried" (1816–1855) " , in: www.DeutschesLied.com
Web links
- Heilbronn City Archives on the term "Unterland"
- Down in the Unterland by Gottfried Weigle and Friedrich Silcher