Buttenheim
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Location of Buttenheim within Bamberg district
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| Coordinates: 49°48′15″N 11°1′55″E / 49.80417°N 11.03194°ECoordinates: 49°48′15″N 11°1′55″E / 49.80417°N 11.03194°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Bavaria | |
| Admin. region | Oberfranken | |
| District | Bamberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Johann Kalb (CSU/NWG/ZWdG) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 30.03 km2 (11.59 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 273 m (896 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 3,549 | |
| • Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 96155 | |
| Dialling codes | 09545 | |
| Vehicle registration | BA | |
| Website | www.buttenheim.de | |
Buttenheim is a market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg and lies in the Regnitz Valley between Bamberg and Nuremberg.
Buttenheim is Levi Strauss’s birthplace; the future inventor of blue jeans emigrated from here to the United States in 1847.
The market community of Buttenheim has the following constituent communities:
Buttenheim – “Botho’s Home” – had its first documentary mention in 1017. It lies on the north-south Regnitz Valley transport axis and was probably founded about 550. During a river journey from Forchheim to Würzburg in 793, Charlemagne ordered churches to be built in the Regnitz area to convert the Slavs. It is assumed that one of Charlemagne’s 14 “Slavic Churches”, which were built about 800 in the Radenzgau (a county roughly corresponding to today’s Upper Franconia), stood in Buttenheim.
Until the mid-17th century, Buttenheim was the most important place between Bamberg and Forchheim. Through Buttenheim ran the old trade road from Regensburg to Bamberg/Hallstadt and on to Magdeburg. Furthermore, the Saxon Road, another old connection, this one east-west, ran from the Steigerwald forest by way of Hirschaid to “Franconian Switzerland”. Parts of that road are still used, having been incorporated into the modern road Staatsstraße 2260.
The Lords of Schlüsselberg, who had their first documentary mention in 1304, were resident in Buttenheim and until 1762 held an estate, the court and lordship over the village. These, however, later belonged to the Barons of Seefried. By the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806, the community passed to Bavaria.
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