Schöntal
Schöntal | |
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 The Jagst flowing through Schöntal | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Schöntal within Hohenlohekreis district  | |
Hohenlohekreis | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 81.65 km2 (31.53 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 209 m (686 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 5,636 |
| • Density | 69/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 74214 |
| Dialling codes | 07943 |
| Vehicle registration | KÜN |
| Website | www |
Schöntal is a municipality in the district of Hohenlohe in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is principally known as the location of Schöntal Abbey.
Subdivisions
The munisipality consists of the following districts.[2]
- Aschhausen
- Berlichingen
- Bieringen
- Schöntal Abbey
- Marlach
- Oberkessach
- Sindeldorf
- Westernhausen
- Winzenhofen
History
Following the dissolution of
Ortsteile have been assigned to the Hohenlohe district. The Bundesautobahn 81, running through Schöntal, began operation in 1974.[3]
Geography
The municipality (Federal Republic of Germany. Schöntal is physically located on the Kocher-Jagst plain and Kessach plateau. It is bisected by the Jagst river, which also marks the lowest elevation in the municipality at 199.29 meters (653.8 ft) above sea level NN. The highest elevation, 399.51 meters (1,310.7 ft), is found in the east of the municipal area.[3]
Coat of arms
The municipal
crosier in gold crossed diagonally over a green field but behind the Zisterzienserbalken, a checkerboard-pattern red-and-white bar associated with the Cistercian Order. This pattern was issued by the Hohenlohe district government on 19 September 1978, but evolved from renditions of a pattern in 1972 that omitted the armored hand, a reference to Götz von Berlichingen, who is buried in Schöntal. The crosier and the bar references the Cistercians, whose iconography, most prominently Schöntal Abbey's church, had been used to identify Schöntal in postage stamps in the past.[3]
References
- Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- ^ "Ortsteile". Gemeinde Schöntal. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Schöntal". LEO-BW (in German). Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
External links
- Official website (in German)
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