Leingarten

Leingarten is a municipality within the district of Heilbronn Baden Wurttemberg which was created inside the path of the territorial reform on 1 January 1970 from the merger of the municipalities Grossgartach and Schluchtern. Already within the Old Neolithic extra than 7000 years in the past humans settled in modern Leingarten district. The Heilbronn physician Alfred Schlitz 1849 to 1915 located the Stone Age agreement of Grossgartach with numerous reveals from stone, bone and clay.

Because of the characteristic decorated pottery he coined the term Grossgartacher lifestyle. On the plateau of the Heuchelberg he examined burial mounds of string ceramics and within the lancers and within the timber ground, he uncovered Bronze Age dwellings. The discovery of a casting mildew for bronze pens and, most currently, the excavations in 2009 in the Kappmannsgrund development area also factor to settlements within the Bronze and Iron Ages. The nearly leveled overdue Celtic quadrilateral Rothe on the southwestern fringe of the village within the district Schluchtern delivered reveals from the 2^nd and 1^st .