Berghülen

Berghülen is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.GeographyBerghülen is located 664–732 meters above sea level on the Swabian Jura about 20 km west of Ulm. The municipality borders to the west and north to the town of Laichingen and to their districts Machtolsheim and Suppingen, on the east to Blaustein and on the south to the town of Blaubeuren.Municipality arrangementTo the municipality includes besides the eponymous Berghülen the two districts •Bühlenhausen with 437 inhabitants, incorporation on 1 January 1972. •Treffensbuch with 83 residents, incorporation is not ascertainableHistoryThe written history of the municipality Berghülen began with the first written mention of the district Bühlenhausen in a deed of the monastery Ochsenhausen, which was given to St. Blaise Abbey, Black Forest in 1100. Berghülen itself was in 1304 first mentioned in the documents with the donation of Count Henry of Tübingen to the monastery Blaubeuren. 1447 came all subsites together with Blaubeuren to the former county of Württemberg. Both in the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 and in the Nine Years' War 1688-1697 under general Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac Berghülen was taken hard. In 1763 a large part of the town was burned down by carelessness. On January 1, 1972, the until then independent municipality Bühlenhausen was incorporated to Berghülen.