Schozach is a river in Germany . It is a right tributary of the Neckar in the southern part of the Heilbronn district of Baden-Württemberg . It has its source near the village Vorhof near Untergruppenbach in the Löwenstein Hills and flows through Oberheinriet , Unterheinriet , Abstatt , Auenstein [ de ] , Ilsfeld , Schozach and Talheim , and Heilbronn , before it flows into the Neckar near Sontheim, part of Heilbronn. The source is on 301m above sea level , the confluence at 154m above sea level.
24-632: Origin of the Schozach in the upper Dautenklinge in a northern tongue of forest meadows near Untergruppenbach atrium on about 305 m. Schellenrain from several sources at about 310 m. After the inflow of the Gruppenbach and the crossing under the A ;81 the river turns its flow direction from southwest to west. After the inlet of the Wässerung the river enters its narrow, meandering Muschelkalk blade at
48-522: A banker Charles Eugene had met in Paris, befriended the Duke and acted as the agent of his purchases in the city. Between 1751 and 1759 Karl Eugen was involved in an increasingly bitter struggle with his adviser, the eminent Liberal jurist Johann Jakob Moser who strongly opposed the Duke's absolutist tendencies. In 1759 Charles Eugene had Moser charged with authoring "a subversive writing" and cast into prison for
72-520: A decent burial. He was also well known for his extensive library, his extravagant interest in opera, and interest in large scale horticulture for the feeding of the masses. Charles Eugene made the first of his five trips to Paris and the Palace of Versailles in 1748 with his first wife. He used these trips to sightsee and acquire Parisian goods for Ludwigsburg Palace while touring the workshops those goods were manufactured in. From 1776 Etienne Sollicoffre,
96-588: A large number of palaces and bankrupted his lands through courtly extravagance, accepting huge French government loans in exchange for maintaining large numbers of support troops in Württemberg. He was an early patron of Friedrich Schiller . However, in 1780 he had him arrested for deserting his post as a regimental doctor in Stuttgart in order to attend the first performance of his play The Robbers in Mannheim. Schiller
120-474: A property located in the center of town where they can go to meet and spend time together. For local amusement, Untergruppenbach has a fine municipal swimming pool with heated facilities, as well as the TSV sports center, where any number of physical activities can be practiced, amongst them tennis and soccer. Hikers can find particular enjoyment in the surrounding Swabian-Frankish forest, and activities can be scheduled at
144-528: A series of wars, in 1504 the castle came into the possession of the Dukes of Württemberg . Some years later it was sold to Wolff Philipp of Huernheim , who restored it. In 1551 the famous renaissance merchant-banker Fugger family, of Augsburg , came to own the castle. It is under Count Fugger that the castle received its current appearance. Although the area was unaffected by the Thirty Years' War , during which it
168-512: A village settled by the Franconians in the 6th century. It was later named after a small fish, the Groppe or Koppe , which is mentioned as being present in a stream near the settlement. After some 700 years of independent rule, the village was sold to Ludwig II, Duke of Bavaria , from whence the orb in the village's coat of arms probably originates. In 1356 Burg Stettenfels is first mentioned. After
192-468: Is Joachim Weller. The municipality shares a strong sense of community, with a large number of leisure and sports associations, as well as a volunteer fire brigade. The municipality has a number of churches, amongst them the 100-year-old Johanneskirche. Protestants and Catholics make up the bulk of the community. The village youth in Untergruppenbach can partake in their own Jugendhaus , or Youth House,
216-520: Is a municipality near Heilbronn , a city in the northern half of the German state of 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 Obergruppenbach. An additional 2,500 live in Unterheinriet, Oberheinriet and Vorhof. Untergruppenbach's name roughly means "below
240-450: The Duchy of Wurttemberg . From the 17th century up to World War II the population of the municipality hardly changed, maintaining an average of 1,300. Only during the twentieth century did an immigration wave cause notable changes. The structure of the village has changed significantly. Up until the end of the 19th century the inhabitants were mainly farm workers or involved in craft making. In
264-698: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart ), in 1765 a public library in Ludwigsburg (now the Württembergische Landesbibliothek , Stuttgart), and he was responsible for the construction of a number of other key palaces and buildings in the area including the New Palace which still stands at the centre of the Schlossplatz , Solitude Palace , Einsiedel Palace and Castle Hohenheim . Charles Eugene
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#1732854696801288-458: The ' Groppe ' (a sort of small fish) stream", referring to a small stream that cuts across the valley in which Untergruppenbach and Obergruppenbach are located. The village is distinguished by Burg Stettenfels , a 16th-century castle/manor that stands out above the valley, from its lofty position atop a hill. Untergruppenbach is first mentioned in the Monastery of Hirsau , where reference is made to
312-664: The Lutz Siegel Hut, which is located within the forest at a short distance from Burg Stettenfels. The castle has a biergarten located on its foreground, open-air during the summer and enclosed in the colder months. Access to the city of Heilbronn can be achieved easily by autobahn or regular roads. There is regular bus service to and from the city. Nearby villages include Flein , Abstatt , Ilsfeld , Beilstein , Löwenstein , Talheim , Brackenheim and Auenstein . Karl Eugen, Duke of W%C3%BCrttemberg Charles Eugene (German: Carl Eugen ; 11 February 1728 – 24 October 1793)
336-411: The buildings. The tensions continued and apparently reached a breaking point in 1737, when there was a conflict between the villagers and the castle lord, which ended with violence and the death of two men, with several wounded. The Count fled with his son, and in the proceedings that followed they eventually sold their title to the castle to Duke Karl Eugen , and the village came under the jurisdiction of
360-471: The late 1800s, with better roads, some of the inhabitants began to work in the quarries and factories of the nearby city of Heilbronn, at one point one of the leading paper manufacturers in Germany. In 1971 the villages of Heinriet were added to the municipality of Untergruppenbach. Although the majority of Untergruppenbach's contemporary residents work in the district of Heilbronn, many are still employed within
384-788: The lower reaches and turns its flow direction from west to north-northwest. The Schozach after 25.6 km run about 400 km below the Neckar bridge of the Neckar valley road (K 9564) at house No. 32/1 of the Horkheimer road in Heilbronn - Sontheim at 154.0 m from the right into the Neckar . This article related to a river in Baden-Württemberg is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Untergruppenbach Untergruppenbach ( German: [ʊntɐˈɡʁʊpm̩bax] )
408-426: The municipality or in nearby villages. Viticulture plays a major part in contemporary Untergruppenbach, with the hill upon which Burg Stettenfels stands itself serving as a sloping vineyard. In terms of education, the municipality of Untergruppenbach counts a Hauptschule , two primary schools, two kindergartens, and a Volkshochschule amongst its educational institutions. There are four doctors and two dentists in
432-655: The municipality, as well as a pharmacy. Amongst the groups represented in the local politics one can find the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), the SPD (German Socialist Party), the Green Party , and the UWG (Independent Voter Community). In the last municipal elections voter turnout was of 58.06%, with the town turning out mainly in favor of the CDU and the independents. The current mayor of Untergruppenbach
456-601: The next five years. However, in 1764 Moser was released, due in part to the intercession of Friedrich the Great of Prussia, and was rehabilitated and restored to his position, rank and titles. Having accepted a subsidy from the French, in the Seven Years' War against Prussia , Charles Eugene advanced into Saxony . In 1761, Charles Eugen founded an Académie des Arts in Stuttgart (now
480-493: Was an area under Catholic rule, the plague year of 1635 seriously affected the population, with a significant death toll. In the following decades there were tensions between the inhabitants of the village, who were predominantly Protestant, and the village lords, who were Catholic. When Count Xavier Fugger attempted to build a Catholic church and a Capuchin monastery in 1735 the Duke of Wurttemberg intervened and sent troops to destroy
504-529: Was educated at the court of Frederick II of Prussia . He also studied keyboard with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the 1740s (Bach's "Württemberg" sonatas, published in 1744, were dedicated to Charles Eugene). In his early years he ruled with an iron fist. In 1744 he ordered that the corpse of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer , his father's financial advisor executed by the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, whose decaying corpse had been suspended in an iron cage by Stuttgart's Prag gallows for six years, be taken down and given
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#1732854696801528-482: Was known for his interest in agriculture and travel and is considered the inspiration behind today's Hohenheim university, part of which now occupies his former summer estate . His original botanical gardens form the basis for today's Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg and Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim , which still contain some of the specimens he planted. He was also involved in Aviculture . He built
552-729: Was sentenced to 14 days of imprisonment, and forbidden by Karl Eugen from publishing any further works. Hermann Sacher, writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia called Charles Eugene "a despot, spendthrift, and profligate". Charles Eugene ruled until his death in 1793, when he was succeeded by his younger brother. He died in Hohenheim . Charles Eugene married twice, first in Bayreuth on 26 September 1748 to Margravine Elisabeth Fredericka Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth with whom he had one daughter, Friederike Wilhelmine Augusta Luise Charlotte, who
576-451: Was the Duke of Württemberg , and the eldest son, and successor, of Charles Alexander ; his mother was Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis . Born in Brussels , he succeeded his father as ruler of Württemberg at the age of 9, but the real power was in the hands of Regents Carl Rudolf, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (1737–1738) and Carl Frederick von Württemberg-Oels (1738–1746). He
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