Pliensbach is a

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Zell unter Aichelberg Zell unter Aichelberg is a municipality in the district of Göppingen (district), Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geographical location Between Stuttgart and Ulm, on the western edge of the district Göppingen, lies the muni ...

in the

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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 ...

in central

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History

In 1452, Pliensbach came under the possession of

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. In September 1519, during the conflicts between Duke Ulrich and the

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, 14 buildings in Pliensbach were devastated. In 1628, the plague reached Pliensbach as well as the entire Zeller district, resulting in a total of 200 deaths in the villages of Zell, Pliensbach,

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, and Eckwälden.

Geography

Pliensbach is located in the central Alb foothills between the Albtrauf to the south and the lower course of the Fils river to the north, approximately half a kilometre east of the edge of Zell. It sits on the left bank of the main branch of the Butzbach, known locally as the Pliensbach, which drains northward into the Fils river, and after which the town is named. The village is situated at an elevation of around 375 metres above sea level. Pliensbach has about 130 inhabitants and has been politically associated with Zell unter Aichelberg since the formation of the Zeller district approximately 500 years ago

Geology

The town has lent its name to a chronostratigraphic stage of the

Jurassic period The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 143.1 Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the second and m ...

, known as the Pliensbachian. The earliest mentions of paleontological discoveries in the area date back to 1565 by Conrad Gesner and 1602 by Johannes Bauhinus.

References

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