| Image Coa: | Wappen Berghuelen.svg |
| Coordinates: | 48.4639°N 9.7614°W |
| Image Plan: | Berghülen in UL.svg |
| State: | Baden-Württemberg |
| Region: | Tübingen |
| District: | Alb-Donau-Kreis |
| Elevation: | 693 |
| Area: | 26.13 |
| Postal Code: | 89180 |
| Area Code: | 07344 |
| Licence: | UL |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 08 4 25 017 |
| Divisions: | 3 |
| Website: | www.berghuelen.de |
| Mayor: | Bernd Mangold[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2022 - 30 |
Berghülen (pronounced as /de/) is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
Berghülen is located 664m-732mm (2,178feet-2,402feetm) above sea level on the Swabian Jura about 20km (10miles) 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.
Besides the eponymous Berghülen, the municipality includes the two districts:
The 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 burnt down by carelessness.[4] On 1 January 1972, the until then independent municipality Bühlenhausen was incorporated to Berghülen.
The council in Berghülen has 10 members. The local elections on 25 May 2014 led to the following official results. The council consists of the elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
The award of arms was on November 17, 1938, by the Reichsstatthalter Wilhelm Murr.Blazon : "In a divided by wave section of gold and blue shield above a black deer rack, below a floating golden three mountain."In the upper half of the shield recalls the black Württemberg deer that Berghülen became part of Württemberg by merging together with the current district Bühlenhausen in 1447. The lower half of the shield makes the coat of arms "talking", the three mountains are for the first, the shaft section and the color blue for the second part of the municipality name (hüle = village pond, livestock watering).
The right to use a coat of arms was awarded to the former community Bühlenhausen on 30 July 1953, by the Regierungspräsidium Nordwürttemberg(Administration of North Württemberg). Blazon: "In divided blade, top in gold a horizontal black deer rack, below in red a silver lying wolf rod."The Bühlenhausen emblem symbolises the black deer rack belonging to Altwürttemberg (Old Württemberg). The lying double hook, goes back to an old spot signs and the colours silver and red in the lower panel indicate the counts of Helfenstein.
The largest employer in Berghülen is the fruit juice manufacturer Albi in Bühlenhausen.[5]
In Berghülen there is a primary and secondary school with Werkrealschule. More schools are available in Blaubeuren, in Laichingen, Gerhausen and in Ulm.
The largest sports club in the municipality is the gymnastics and sports club. It was founded on 7 November 1931 and includes nearly 800 members in seven departments. These are: volleyball, football, chess, skiing, tennis, table tennis and gymnastics. [12] In addition, there is yet another sports club, the shooting club Berghülen 1923.
There are the following additional clubs and associations: Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland abbreviation BUND (Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation Germany), volunteer fire department, singing club, youth club, rural women, rural youth, trombones club, Swabian Jura Club, VdK (social association Germany VdK Germany).[13]
As part of the new Wendlingen-Ulm high-speed railway is considered the establishment of a new station Merklingen (Swabian Jura). Berghülen would finance part of the costs of the station.