Adelberg is a

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in the district of

Göppingen Göppingen (; or ) is a town in southern Germany, part of the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the Goeppingen (district), district Göppingen. Göppingen is home to the toy company Märklin, and it is the birthplace ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...

in southern

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Geography

Adelberg lies in the

Schurwald The Schurwald is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, which at its highest point is 513.2 m above sea level. It is one of the most important Recreation areas for the Stuttgart area. Over the centuries, the vast forest ...

forest, at an altitude of around 334 to 473m.

Climate

The annual

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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 Uhingen is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. History Uhingen was a possession of the until 1332. Geography The city ('' Stadt'') of Uhingen is located on the north-west of the district of Göpping ...

History

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 Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, two other histo ...

, a

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of the

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. During the

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, 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 Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best know ...

(1584–1586). In 1807, the ''Klosteramt'' was subsumed into the larger administrative district, ''Oberamt'' of

Schorndorf Schorndorf () is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located approximately 26 km east of Stuttgart. Its train station is the terminus of the S2 line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. The town is also sometimes referred to as ' (''The Daimler T ...

. 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

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, 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 The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular in the Catholic Chur ...

canons of

Roggenburg Abbey Roggenburg Abbey (Kloster Roggenburg or Reichsstift Roggenburg) is a Premonstratensian canonry in Roggenburg, Germany, Roggenburg near Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, in operation between 1126 and 1802, and again from its re-foundation in 1986. Since 1992 it has ...

, and it came under the direct protection of

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (; ), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death in 1190. He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aa ...

by
charter of 1181
In the charter the emperor established that Adelberg Abbey would have no other

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than the lord of

Hohenstaufen The Hohenstaufen dynasty (, , ), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The dynast ...

. Also, the charter required that the

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of the abbey give a gold coin to the

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as a sign that the abbey must be protected and defended by the Pope. The first church in the village of Hundsholz was built in the 1490s. With the introduction of the

Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg Duke Ulrich of Württemberg (8 February 14876 November 1550) succeeded his kinsman Eberhard II as Duke of Württemberg in 1498. He was declared of age in 1503. His volatile personality made him infamous, being called the "Swabian Henry VIII" by ...

, the monastery was dissolved.

Population

Politics

Abensberg and the neighbouring municipalities of

Birenbach Birenbach is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History As a result of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, the properties of the abbeys of and Oberhof were seized by the Duchy of Württemberg. In 180 ...

Börtlingen Börtlingen is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Göppingen (district), Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Börtlingen belongs to the marginal zone of the metropolitan region of Stuttg ...

und

Rechberghausen Rechberghausen is a municipality in the Göppingen (district), district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Geographical location The community lies in on the foothills of the central Swabian Jura and on the edge ...

form the Gemeindeverwaltungsverband (joint administrative union) of Eastern

. 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. Wappen Adelberg

Heraldry

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: ''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

Adelberg is twinned with

Lichtensteig Lichtensteig is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. History Lichtensteig was founded by the counts of Toggenburg in the early 13th century, first mentioned in 1228 as ''Lie ...

in the

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Economy and infrastructure

Adelberg is part of the border zone of the

Stuttgart Metropolitan Region The Stuttgart Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan region in south-west Germany consisting of the cities and regions around Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Tübingen/Reutlingen. These cities are arranged into three agglomeration areas. The population of t ...

. It is the location of the headquarters of ERNI Electronics.

Transport

Adelberg is connected by the

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'' ) are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are road ...

1147 to nearby

and to Oberberken, part of the municipality of

. The No. 260 Bus (

–

), run by ''Regional Bus Stuttgart'', part of

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, runs through Adelberg. Between 1912 and 1962, the Hohenstaufen railway serviced the Adelberg-

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

*The church within the former Abbey compound contains altar paintings by

Bartholomäus Zeitblom Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450 – c. 1519) was a German painter, the chief master of the school of Ulm, where he is on official record from 1482 to 1518. Biography He was born in Nordlingen and was the pupil and son-in-law of Hans Schüc ...

Museums

*''Museum in der Klostervilla'' (Museum housed in the monastery house)

Regular events

*Adelberger History Afternoon *Open Air Festival in Adelberg Abbey

References

External links

* {{Authority control Göppingen (district)