Beutelsbach is a town district or ''
Stadtteil
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'' within the town of
Weinstadt
Weinstadt (meaning "Wine City") is a town in the Rems-Murr district, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Rems Valley approximately 15 km east of Stuttgart. Its population in 2012 was 25,998.
The town is compose ...
("Wine City") in
Rems-Murr
Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the dis ...
district,
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
,
Germany
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. The ''Stadtteil'' has a population of 8,464 (as of March 31, 2010)
and an elevation of 236 m above sea level.
History
Beutelsbach was first mentioned in 1080 and was one of the oldest properties of the
House of Württemberg
The House of Württemberg is a German dynasty and former royal family from Württemberg.
History County
The House probably originated in the vicinity of the Salian dynasty. Around 1080 the ancestors of modern Württemberg, which was then calle ...
. The first known ancestor of the Württemberg family was
Konrad von Württemberg, whose nephew Konrad (son of
Luitgard von Beutelsbach) further established the family. The Beutelsbach ''
Stift
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'' (or
college
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) was probably founded in the 11th century and then later expanded by
Count
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Ulrich I. of Württemberg. The
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in Beutelsbach was the burial site of the
House of Württemberg
The House of Württemberg is a German dynasty and former royal family from Württemberg.
History County
The House probably originated in the vicinity of the Salian dynasty. Around 1080 the ancestors of modern Württemberg, which was then calle ...
from that point until the ''Stift'' was destroyed in 1311 and moved to Stuttgart.
The
Poor Conrad
The Poor Conrad (german: Armer Konrad, also ''Armer Kunz'') was the name of several secret peasants' leagues, which in 1514 revolted against the rule of Duke Ulrich of Württemberg. The rebels adopted the term used by the nobility to mock them, m ...
peasant rebellion began in Beutelsbach in May 1514. Since 1989, an exhibit on peasant revolts in the former town hall has memorialized the peasant uprisings in 1514 and 1525.
In 1968, the remains of ''Burg Beutelsbach'' (Beutelsbach Castle) were discovered on ''Kappelberg'', a hill above the town.
From 1958 through 1976,
Stanford University in
California
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,
United States
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, maintained an "overseas campus" for Stanford undergraduates in Beutelsbach. The hilltop campus is now the Landgut Burg hotel and conference center.
The basic principles of the political education for Baden-Württemberg were established in Beutelsbach in 1976 as the ''Beutelsbacher Konsens'' ("
Beutelsbach Consensus"). Today, they are still important elements in the political discourse.
Governmental structure
The municipality of Beutelsbach included the village of Beutelsbach, the homestead Schönbühl, the estate Burg, and the settlement Benzach. It had an area of 7.69 km². It was known as Beutelsbach-bei-Stuttgart to distinguish it from
Beutelsbach in Bavaria.
The town belonged to ''Amt/Oberamt'' Schorndorf (an administrative district within Württemberg). After the dissolution of ''Oberamt'' Schorndorf in 1938, Beutelsbach joined the Waiblingen ''Kreis'' (district). In 1973 Waiblingen was merged with other adjacent districts to form the
Rems-Murr-Kreis
Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the d ...
, to which the area now belongs.
On January 1, 1975 the municipality of Beutelsbach united with the then-independent municipalities of
Endersbach,
Strümpfelbach,
Großheppach and
Schnait, to form a new municipality known as
Weinstadt
Weinstadt (meaning "Wine City") is a town in the Rems-Murr district, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Rems Valley approximately 15 km east of Stuttgart. Its population in 2012 was 25,998.
The town is compose ...
.
Economy
The
Remstalkellerei ("Rems Valley Winery") is headquartered in Beutelsbach. The Remstalkellerei is one of the largest wine producers in Germany with approximately 610 hectares of vineyards, which are managed by approximately 1,500 members.
Coat of arms
![Weinstadt-beutelsbach-wappen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Weinstadt-beutelsbach-wappen.png)
The
blazon
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of the former municipality's coat of arms reads: "Unter schwarzem Schildhaupt, darin ein liegender goldener Beutel, in Gold drei liegende schwarze Hirschstange" ("under a black banner, on which a golden pouch lies, with three black deer antlers horizontal in a field of gold").
The coat of arms was first displayed on the town hall gate archway in 1577 as a market town symbol.
Die Wappen der Weinstädter Teilorte (German)
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People
* The German theologian Otto Knoch died on November 17, 1993 in Beutelsbach.
References
Literature
* ''Der Rems-Murr-Kreis''. Konrad Theiss Verlag. Stuttgart 1980, .
External links
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