The best cycling routes around Freudental

The landscape is very beautiful and peaceful.

in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ludwigsburg district, Baden-Württemberg. - in the upper "Hauptstr." / "Hillerplatz" The urban planning of the Hillerplatz was intended to fulfill 2 important tasks: - Completion/replacement of the "Obertorturm" demolished in 1824 and - the connection with the rather heterogeneous buildings around the square to form a cohesive ensemble. - here you can find, among other things, 3 horse sculptures by "Jürgen Goertz" - the well-known sculpture "Turm der grauen Pferde" - approx. 11 m high - made of aluminum - largely ground, but also partly polished, gilded or treated with black paint - 4 horses stacked on top of each other and each halved in size, as an allusion to the Bietigheim Horse Market - the stacked round arch arcades are a homage to the railway viaduct of Bietigheim-Bissingen, built by Karl von Etzel - the relief medallions on the flanks of the horses show female portraits and represent the old continents (Africa, Europe, America and Asia) the other two horse sculptures also come from Jürgen Goertz - made of aluminum - on the pavilion, you can also discover a horse by Jürgen Goertz

View of the sunny Michaelsberg

Delicious strawberries and super asparagus

Super delicious homemade ice cream

The hall church was built in 1686/87. It consists of a nave and a choir tower in the east, which was extended in 1687 with an octagonal timber-framed storey to house the clock tower and the belfry for the three church bells. The tower is topped by a bell dome crowned with a lantern. The interior of the nave, with galleries built along the long sides, is spanned by a flat ceiling. It is opened to the choir, i.e., the ground floor of the choir tower, by a chancel arch. The organ is a special feature. It formerly stood in the Order Chapel of Ludwigsburg Palace, later in the chapel of Stuttgart-Hohenheim Palace. King Frederick of Württemberg donated the organ to the church. It is probably the only surviving Württemberg court organ. Based on its gilded decorations, it is assumed to have been built in the Baroque period.

Adjacent to a pilgrimage chapel "Zu unserer lieben Frau" (Our Lady), already existing in 1449 on the "Frauenberg," a ridge southwest of Bönnigheim, the monastery was founded in 1477 by resolution of the Provincial Chapter in Bamberg as a Franciscan Observant Cella on the fiefdom of Archbishop Dietrich of Mainz. The initiative for this may have originated from a visitation of the monasteries in Heilbronn and Leonberg conducted the previous year by Vicar Johannes Philippi. It is likely that the Cella, planned not as a convent but as a "residence," was at least initially dependent on the convent in Heilbronn. The monastery family comprised around twelve brothers; their names between 1486 and 1543 are recorded in the chapter tablets and an obituary. The superiors initially called themselves vicars, possibly because of their dependence on Heilbronn, and from 1501 onward, they were called "presidents." The monastery was run by the Franciscan provincial chapter of Strasbourg from 1478 to 1543. With the introduction of the Reformation following the Peasants' War in 1525, the monastery's religious life was restricted, and its continued existence was limited to the lifetime of the monks present. In 1540, the last monk left the monastery. Two years later, Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz handed the abandoned complex over to the care of the city. The monastery fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1792. Few fragments of architecture and furnishings have survived. A brief archaeological investigation, including surveying of the preserved foundations, was carried out during the land consolidation of 1974/76. The foundations of the choir, now in an idyllic location, were consolidated and are accessible.

Erligheim's Protestant St. John's Church was built in 1480 to enlarge a smaller chapel first mentioned in 1291. The church received its present form in 1740.