Adelberg

Adelberg

Church

Coat of arms
Adelberg

Coordinates: 48°45′43″N 9°35′59″E / 48.76194°N 9.59972°ECoordinates: 48°45′43″N 9°35′59″E / 48.76194°N 9.59972°E
Country Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Stuttgart
District Göppingen
Municipal assoc. Östlicher Schurwald
Government
 • Mayor Carmen Marquardt
Area
 • Total 9.49 km2 (3.66 sq mi)
Population (2012-12-31)[1]
 • Total 1,962
 • Density 210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 73099
Dialling codes 07166
Vehicle registration GP
Website www.adelberg.de

Adelberg is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

Geography

Adelberg lies in the Schurwald forest, at an altitude of around 334 to 473m.

Climate

The annual rainfall of 1045mm is within the top quarter of values recorded in Germany, with lower values registered in 87% of the country's weather stations. The driest month is February, while the most rainfall comes in June, with almost double the rainfall of February. Variability of precipitation is extremely strong, and only 18% of weather stations record higher seasonal variations.

Local subdivisions

The municipality of Adelberg is made up of the village of Adelberg, the neighbouring hamlet of Adelberg Abbey, and the houses, Herrenmühle, Mittelmühle und Zachersmühle. In 1971, the hamlet of Nassach was transferred to the municipality of Uhingen.

History

Hundsholz, 1685

The site on which Adelberg now stands was originally occupied by the village of Hundsholz (Dogwood), which is the source of the leaping dog on Adelberg's coat of arms. In 1178, Volknand von Staufen founded the Abbey of Adelberg, and gifted to it a part of the village of Hundsholz. After the demise of the von Staufens, both abbey and town came under the control of Württemberg, a State of the Holy Roman Empire. During the Reformation, Adelberg became a Klosteramt (an administrative division centering on the estates of a dissolved monastery), consisting of the former Abbey and the village of Hundsholz. In 1556, the monastery, along with twelve others in the region, were transformed into Protestant grammar schools under the direction of Christoph Binder. The school in Adelberg served this purpose until 1648, its most famous pupil being mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1584–1586). In 1807, the Klosteramt was subsumed into the larger administrative district, Oberamt of Schorndorf. In 1830, the village of Hundsholz bought out the property in the village which had previously belonged to the monastery, and the monastery itself. In 1843, the area of the monastery was formally incorporated into the village, which was renamed as Adelberg. The administrative reform of 1938 brought the municipality within the district of Göppingen. After the Second World War, the population rose steeply through the return of former expatriates.

Adelberg Abbey

In 1054, a small chapel was built on the site on which the abbey now stands. The monastery was itself established in 1178 by the Premonstratensian cannons of Roggenburg Abbey, and in 1181 came under the direct protection of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor. The first church in the village of Hundsholz was built in the 1490s. With the introduction of the Reformation by Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, the monastery was dissolved.

Population

Date Population
1525 250
1721 350
1769 403
1851 850
1907 808
1912 705
17 May 1939 761
1946 1112
13 September 1950 1223
27 May 1970 1505
31 December 1983 1646
31 December 2000 2041
31 December 2005 2042

Politics

Abensberg and the neighbouring municipalities of Birenbach, Börtlingen und Rechberghausen form the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband (joint administrative union) of Eastern Schurwald. A Gemeindeverwaltungsverband (GVV) is a voluntary association of municipalities within the same administrative district which pool their resources and public services in order to save money.

Mayor

The Mayor of Adelberg is Wolf-Dieter Hermann, who will be succeeded in June 2010 by Carmen Marquardt, who won 60.7% of the vote in the election on 15 March 2010.

Town council

Local elections were held on 7 June 2009 and ten members from a single list of candidates were elected. The most votes were received by Robert Tischer. The election turnout was 54%, 0.6% lower than in the 2004 municipal elections. The council consists of eight men and two women.

Heraldry

Blazon: Per fess Or and sable, a boar courant contourny and a dog courant counterchanged

The boar of the town's coat of arms is taken from the arms of the former Abbey of Adelberg, while the dog is a reference to the former name of the village, Hundsholz (literally, Dogwood). The village's colours are black and yellow.

The coat of arms and flag were officially conferred on 7 April 1959.

Twin towns & Other Adelbergs

Adelberg is twinned with Lichtensteig in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. There is also a luxury villa and rural property named Adelberg in the Victorian High Country (near Mansfield and Mount Buller) in Australia which shares the same name[2]

Economy and infrastructure

Adelberg is part of the border zone of the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region.

Transport

Adelberg is connected by the Landesstraße 1147 to nearby Rechberghausen and to Oberberken, part of the municipality of Schorndorf. The No. 260 Bus (Göppingen–Schorndorf), run by Regional Bus Stuttgart, part of Deutsche Bahn, runs through Adelberg. Between 1912 and 1962, the Hohenstaufen railway serviced the Adelberg-Börtlingen railway station, around four kilometres from the town.

Education

The town itself contains a primary school, while higher schools are situated in neighbouring towns.

Culture and sightseeing

Architecture

Museums

Regular events

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31.12.2012 (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 12 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Adelberg (Victoria, Australia) www.adelberg.com.au

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