Bitz
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Bitz is a municipality in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
HistoryEdit
Bitz was a possession of the Template:Ill until 1386. Bitz became an independent municipality within the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1832. It was assigned in 1806 to Template:Ill, reorganized in 1938 as Template:Ill. Bitz enjoyed large-scale industrial growth in the 1960s in every direction but south. In 1973, following Template:Ill, Bitz was reassigned to the newly created Zollernalb district. Another period of expansion, this time residential, elapsed in the 1980s.<ref name=LEO-BW>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GeographyEdit
The municipality (Gemeinde) of Bitz is politically located in the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bitz is physically located in a depression of the Template:Ill and Template:Ill. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a low of Template:Convert Normalnull (NN) to a high of Template:Convert NN.<ref name=LEO-BW/>
Coat of armsEdit
Bitz's municipal coat of arms displays a white eagle's wing on a field of blue below a chief of yellow containing a black stag's antler. This pattern was awarded to the municipality of by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 17 April 1958. A flag was issued by the government of the provisional Württemberg-Hohenzollern on 8 May 1951. The first pattern was a seal from 1930 with two bobbins and two sewing needles. This was replaced on 14 March 1938 with a coat of arms displaying a silver loom with blue thread, which was approved by the local Reichsstatthalter, Wilhelm Murr. Both these patterns recalled Bitz's industrial history, but in 1958 the loom was replaced with the eagle wing to represent the House of Lichtenstein; the stag horn, references Württemberg.<ref name=LEO-BW/>
TransportationEdit
Bitz is connected to the network of German roadways by the L448. The Template:Ill is located about Template:Convert northwest of Bitz. Local public transport is provided by the Template:Ill.<ref name=LEO-BW/>
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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