Beutau District

The Beutau was the suburb of poorer people, mostly winegrowers. They cultivated the patrician vineyards as tenants; their social position can be clearly seen in the many small, still-preserved houses. Only in the Obere Beutau are there a few stately town houses, whose owners were certainly not poor tenants or weavers, the second large group of residents. It is not for nothing that this alley used to be popularly known as “Herrenbeutau”.
What they have in common is the large cellar doors, which are now often bricked up, through which the wine barrels were brought up or lowered. The tenants had to deliver the ripe grapes to the vineyard owners' presses and received pressed wine as payment, which they were allowed to sell in their houses. This resulted in the Besenwirtschaften, one of which is located in the Middle Beutau.

The Beutau originally consisted of the Upper, Middle and Lower Beutau; Turmstrasse was only developed at the end of the 19th century. Today's Geiselbachstrasse was created in the 1930s by building over the Geiselbach.
The district indirectly owes its name, which is unique in Germany, to this: the water provided the energy for an oil mill, called "bytun mulin" (stamping mill) in the Middle Ages. The name Beutau therefore comes in the broader sense from "exploit, press".