Adelmannsfelden

Sister cities

• Bagnara di Romagna

History

The municipality was first mentioned in the Ellwanger annals around 1118. At this time, a castle was built. The castle stood at the place where the Adelmannfelden Castle is located today. Descendants of the Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden family live in Adelmannsfelden Castle until today. The municipality was under changing clerical and secular rule until it became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806. Specifically, it was under the Oberamt of Aalen, which became the Landkreis Aalen (District of Aalen) during the district reforms in the NS era. Between 1945 and 1952, Adelmannsfelden belonged to the federal state of Württemberg-Baden, which was established in the US occupation zone. In 1952, it became part of the newly established federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The Landkreis Aalen was dissolved during the district reforms in 1973 and Adelmannsfelden now belongs to the district Ostalbkreis.

Geography

Adelmannsfelden is located in the Ellwangen Hills landscape in the Natural region Swabian-Franconian Forest. The municipality of Adelmannsfelden includes 18 villages, hamlets, yards and houses. There are four villages: Adelmannsfelden, Bühler, Haid and Stöcken. The three Hamlets are called Mittelwald, Ottenhof and Vorderwald. The yards include Dollishäusle, Eichhorn, Kuderberg, Mäder, Metzelgehren, Ölmühle, Papiermühle, Patrizenhaus and Wendenhof. The houses include Sägmühle and Schleifhäusle. Furthermore, the municipality includes the abandoned yards Altenwinden, Kunhof, Härzern, Limperg, Scheytenmühle, Breitengehren, Finkenhaus, Vorhardsweiler, Herzert, Herrenmühle and Rot diu Mul. ImageSize = width:600 height:150 PlotArea = width:90% height:66% bottom:25% left:5% DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:100 Legend = columns:2 columnwidth:250 left:12% top:95% TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:0 # The formatting blanks in the Colors-section are in fact   (U+00A0) Colors = id:Gesa value:white legend: 2290_ha Total_area id:Wald value:teal legend:1271_ha = 55,5_% Forested_area id:Land value:yelloworange legend: 828_ha = 36,2_% Agricultural_area id:Wass value:brightblue legend:  15_ha =  0,6_% Water_covered_area id:Erho value:green legend:  18_ha =  0,8_% Recreational_area id:Geba value:red legend:  89_ha =  3,9_% Building-_and_open_space id:Verk value:tan1 legend:  63_ha =  2,7_% Roads_and_traffic_area id:Sons value:purple legend:   6_ha =  0,3_% Miscellaneous_area PlotData = from:00.0 till:55.5 color:Wald from:55.5 till:92.1 color:Land from:92.1 till:92.7 color:Wass from:92.7 till:93.4 color:Erho from:93.4 till:96.9 color:Geba…

Most-observed species

• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,747
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  3,443
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,890
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,659
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,448
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow

  Passer montanus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,446
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,215
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,137

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2008-12-12
  2 km ESE of Nehren, Germany
• M 2.7 — 2008-07-09
  1 km WSW of Dußlingen, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-07-03
  2 km W of Dußlingen, Germany
• M 2.7 — 2008-06-14
  3 km S of Diedorf, Germany
• M 2.6 — 2008-02-05
  2 km SW of Dußlingen, Germany
• M 2.5 — 2008-02-01
  2 km WSW of Dußlingen, Germany