Böttingen

Böttingen
Böttingen
Coordinates
Administration
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Freiburg
District Tuttlingen
Mayor Gerhard Minder (CDU)
Basic statistics
Area 16.31 km2 (6.30 sq mi)
Elevation 915 m  (3002 ft)
Population 1,489 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 91 /km2 (236 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate TUT
Postal code 78583
Area code 07429
Website www.boettingen.de

Böttingen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. In recent decades it has developed from an agricultural village to an advanced industrial community.

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Geography

Böttingen sits on a plateau in the southwestern Swabian Alb in a long dry valley. At an elevation of 911 to 991 meters it was the highest village in the historical Kingdom of Württemberg.

The municipality borders Gosheim to the north, Bubsheim to the northeast, Königsheim to the east, Mahlstetten and Dürbheim to the south, and Balgheim and Denkingen to the West.

The municipality Böttingen consists of the village Böttingen and the Gehöft Allenspacher manor, as well as the abandoned villages Leineburg and Windingen.

History

The first written mention of Böttingen was in 802 and contained a land title grant by the Abbey of Saint Gall. Celtic and Alemanni grave finds as well as flint axes in a cave indicate an earlier Stone Age settlement. After 1253 the territory paid tribute and received protection from the Beuron Archabbey, after a change of ownership the Bishopric of Constance, and then the Herren von Enzberg, until it became part of Württemberg in 1805. The village had to pay interest and tithe as well as socage until 1848.

Politics

The community belongs to the Amt Spaichingen.

Sights

Notable residents

References