Hütting is a parish village, part of the market municipality of

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, in the district of

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, in the region of

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Geography

Hütting is located north-east of the main town of

in the Wellheim Valley, in the middle of a hilly/rocky landscape of the Southern Franconian Mountains. The village is built at the foot of tall rock formations. The valley below is useful for agriculture and forestry.

History

There is archeological evidence of human habitation around Hütting going back to the late

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...

and

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. There are also remains of a Roman estate in the area. Hütting Castle was built in 1060 at the top of a high rock formation overlooking the village. The village and castle was first mentioned in a document in 1256 by the inhabitants of the castle, the Lechsgemünd Family, calling themselves the 'Lords of Hütting'. In 1342, Hütting Castle and the village fell to the

Wittelsbach The House of Wittelsbach () is a German dynasty, with branches that have ruled over territories including Bavaria, the Palatinate, Holland and Zeeland, Sweden (with Finland), Denmark, Norway, Hungary (with Romania), Bohemia, the Electorate o ...

family dynasty. For several hundred years, the Wittelsbach Dukes of Bavaria repeatedly used the castle as a pledge, (allowing other noble houses to live in the castle in return for performing various obligations). The castle was burned down during the 1420-1422 Bavarian War and then abandoned. The ruins of a tower are still visible today on Hütting's highest peak. Hütting bei Rennertshofen, Burgruine

The local village catholic church, St. Sixtus, was built during the second half of the 17th century in Baroque Revival architecture. Possibly there was an earlier church but it may have been destroyed during the

Thirty Years War The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an es ...

. Since the 19th century, the noble 'House von Redwitz' has been living in the Hütting area. Since the 1970s, Hütting has been under the jurisdiction of the district of

. A train line was built through Hütting in the 1990s. In 2017 Hütting celebrated 140 years of its Fire-Fighting Unit (Feurwehr).

References

Sources

*Statistisches Bundesamt (ed.): ''Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Namens-, Grenz- und Schlüsselnummernänderungen bei Gemeinden, Kreisen und Regierungsbezirken vom 27. 5. 1970 bis 31. 12. 1982''. W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart und Mainz 1983, , p. 602 *Adam Horn and Werner Meyer: ''Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, Regierungsbezirk Schwaben, Band V.'', Stadt und Landkreis Neuburg a. d. Donau. München 1958, pp. 513–517.

External links

Rennertshofen official website

Bavarikon.de (Ortsdatenbank der Bayerischen Landesbibliothek): Hütting
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