Abstatt
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Municipalities of Germany
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in the district of Heilbronn
Heilbronn (district)
Heilbronn is a district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Neckar-Odenwald, Hohenlohe, Schwäbisch Hall, Rems-Murr, Ludwigsburg, Enz, Karlsruhe and Rhein-Neckar...
in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
in southern Germany
Germany
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Geography
Abstatt is situated in the south of the district of Heilbronn at the Schozach river. HeilbronnHeilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
is about 10 km to the northwest.
Neighbouring municipalities
Neighbouring towns and villages of Abstatt are (clockwise from the west): IlsfeldIlsfeld
Ilsfeld is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Ilsfeld is twinned with Ottery St Mary , Auenstein and Moşna ....
, Untergruppenbach
Untergruppenbach
Untergruppenbach is a municipality near Heilbronn, a city in the northern half of the German state Baden-Württemberg.There are a total of 7,600 inhabitants living in six villages that form the municipality of Untergruppenbach. Approximately 5,100 live in Untergruppenbach, Donnbronn and...
, Lauffen am Neckar
Lauffen
Lauffen am Neckar is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Neckar, 9 km southwest of Heilbronn...
(exclave town forest Etzlenswenden) and Beilstein
Beilstein (Württemberg)
Beilstein is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 14 km southeast of Heilbronn. Beilstein is on the Württemberg wine route .- Geography :...
, which all belong to the district of Heilbronn. Abstatt has combined with Beilstein, Ilsfeld and Untergruppenbach to form a joint association of administrations called Schozach-Bottwartal.
Municipal structure
There are no further villages belonging to Abstatt, but there are two hamlets called Happenbach and Vohenlohe.History
Abstatt was first mentioned documentary in 1293. In 1510 Abstatt came to Württemberg. The villages Happenbach and Vohenlohe were even administrated by Abstatt since the 18th century. In 1938 the municipality came to the district of Heilbronn which was founded this year.Until the World War II
World War II
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the municipality was characterized agri-culturally, later it developed into a residential area nearby Heilbronn
Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
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District council
Following the municipal election of 13 June 2004, the district council of Abstatt has 14 seats. The election result is as follows:| party | amount | seats | ||
| CDU Christian Democratic Union (Germany) The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum... |
46.9% | (+5.3) | 7 | (=) |
| FW Abstatt | 28.7% | (−9.8) | 4 | (−2) |
| SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany The Social Democratic Party of Germany is a social-democratic political party in Germany... |
24.4% | (+4.5) | 3 | (=) |
The mayor is also a member of the district council and its chairman.
Arms and flag
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
: Within a split sign in front in red a golden abbot stick, in the background in gold a red lion. The municipal flag is red and white.
A seal of Abstatt from 1628 belonging to the Löwenstein County, contains the arms of Löwenstein
Löwenstein
Löwenstein is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was first mentioned in 1123. The castle of Löwenstein served as a residence for the counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim. In 1634 the castle was destroyed by the imperial forces....
: a lion. In 1907 the municipality asked for a new arms suggestion from the archive direction of Württemberg. Then the direction suggested the today's seal. Since it first was rejected as the conventional seal the direction made a second suggestion. However, the municipality decided to take the previous suggestion. The flag was given by the district of Heilbronn on September 5, 1980.
Twin municipality
There's a relationship with LéhonLéhon
Léhon is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Bretagne in northwestern France.-External links:* *...
in the French
France
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Département Côtes-d'Armor
Côtes-d'Armor
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Notable Buildings
- The Wildeck Castle near Vohenlohe was built in the 12th century and contains a wine-growing school today.
- The Protestant parish church St. Stephan was built in 1766 in rococoRococoRococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
style upon the remmants of an older Gothic construction.
- In Happenbach there's the renovated historical school house containing the today's citizen's forum. An old baking house reminds on this old rural infrastructure. Besides there's a village square with a fountain.
Wine
Abstatt is a wine-growing village whose area belongs to the Schozach valley in the wine-grwoing area Württemberg. There's a varietal named after a part of the municipality called Happenbach.Transportation
Abstatt is situated on the A 81Bundesautobahn 81
is a motorway in Germany. It branches off the A 3 at the Würzburg-West triangle and ends near the border to Switzerland.The oldest part of the A 81 between the Weinsberg intersection near Heilbronn and the Leonberg triangle near Stuttgart was finished in the years 1938 to 1940...
between the exits for Ilsfeld and Heilbronn/Untergruppenbach.
Local businesses
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
is represented by a development area employing 2,350 people (June 2007). There's also the subsidiary company Bosch Engineering GmbH. Abstatt is the main site of the SAP system house Steeb Anwendungssysteme GmbH belonging to SAP AG
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...
. Steeb cares about the middle classes in SAP.
The international plate label Massacre Records
Massacre Records
Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. The label is specialized on bands of the harder varieties of metal...
is also in Abstatt.
Media
The Heilbronner Stimme informs about happenings in Abstatt within its edition SO, South-East.Public institutions
Around the Wildeck Castle the Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg carries on ecological viticultureViticulture
Viticulture is the science, production and study of grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the vineyard. When the grapes are used for winemaking, it is also known as viniculture...
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Born in Abstatt
- Josef Bick (1880–1952), philologist, general director of the Austrian national library and prisoner of the KZ Dachau
Connected with Abstatt
- Alexander Bertsch (* 1940), author; lives in Abstatt
- Wolfgang Bebbel (* 1943), politician; 1980–1996 member of the district council of Abstatt
- Ingo Rust (* 1978), politician; voted to be the youngest member ever of the district council in 1999
External links
- www.abstatt.de (in German)