Bitz

Bitz (German pronunciation: [bɪts]) is a municipality in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bitz was a possession of the House of Lichtenstein until 1386. Bitz became an independent municipality within the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1832. It was assigned in 1806 to Oberamt Balingen, reorganized in 1938 as Landkreis Balingen. Bitz enjoyed large-scale industrial growth in the 1960s in every direction but south. In 1973, following Baden-Württemberg's district reforms in that year, Bitz was reassigned to the newly created Zollernalb district. Another period of expansion, this time residential, elapsed in the 1980s. 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 Kuppenalb and Upper Swabian Jura. Elevation above sea level in the municipal area ranges from a low of 775 meters (2,543 ft) Normalnull (NN) to a high of 928 meters (3,045 ft) NN.