Hockenheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ' N , 8 ° 33' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe | |
| County : | Rhein-Neckar district | |
| Height : | 102 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 34.84 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 21,779 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 625 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 68766 | |
| Area code : | 06205 | |
| License plate : | HD | |
| Community key : | 08 2 26 032 | |
| LOCODE : | DE HOC | |
City administration address : |
Rathausstrasse 1 68766 Hockenheim |
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| Lord Mayor : | Marcus Zeitler ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Hockenheim in the Rhein-Neckar district | ||
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Hockenheim (in Electoral Palatinate : Hoggene [ ˈhɔgənə ]) is a city in north-western Baden-Württemberg about 20 km south of Mannheim . It is one of the six largest cities in the Rhein-Neckar district and belongs to the central area Schwetzingen in the area of the regional center Mannheim. It belongs to the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar .
Hockenheim has been a major district town since January 1, 2001 . The city of Hockenheim has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the neighboring communities of Altlußheim , Neulußheim and Reilingen .
The city is known nationwide for the Hockenheimring motorsport racetrack .
geography
Location and natural space
Hockenheim is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on an old trade route from Frankfurt am Main to Basel . The Kraichbach flows through the urban area, dividing the urban area into a larger eastern and a smaller western area and flowing into the Rhine not far north of Hockenheim bei Ketsch .
The district is divided into two large natural areas. The Rheinaue in the west and the low terrace, some meters higher, in the east. The so-called Hockenheimer Rheinbogen straddles the districts of Ketsch, Hockenheim and Altlußheim. 30 areas with a total of 656 hectares are under nature protection . They are supplemented by an area three times as large, which is designated as a landscape protection area. The bend of the Rhine offers biologically diverse, secondary wetland biotopes, which serve as a retreat for endangered plant and animal species. It is also an internationally important resting and feeding area for hibernating bird species.
The municipal area extends over 3484 hectares. Of this, 28.2 percent are settlement and traffic areas, 47.5 percent are used for agriculture, 2.3 percent are water areas and 21.1 percent are forested.
Neighboring communities
The following communities border the city of Hockenheim. They are named clockwise starting in the north: Ketsch , Schwetzingen , Oftersheim , Leimen (only the exclave west of Sandhausen), Reilingen , Neulußheim and Altlußheim . In the west, the Rhine forms the natural border with Rhineland-Palatinate with the local city of Speyer and the local community of Otterstadt .
City structure
The town of Hockenheim includes the stations Talhaus and Wasserwerk, the Insultheimerhof farmstead and the houses “Herrenteich, Ziegelei” and “Ketschau, Ziegelei”. Westeheim is a desert area in the city.
The urban area forms a unit and is divided into five districts for statistical purposes only.
history
Early history
A brick kiln excavated in Hockenheim in 1984, in which there were stamped bricks from the Roman legio XIV Gemina Martia Victrix stationed in Mainz from 71 AD to 92 AD , indicates a settlement during this period.
Hockenheim was mentioned as Ochinheim in the Lorsch Codex in 769 as part of a deed of gift . There the place was then referred to in later records as Hochinheim , Hochkinheim and Hochenheim . Hockenheim's name often changed its shape in official documents, certificates and maps in the following centuries: Hocgenheim , Hokkinheim , Hokenheim , Hockenaw Heidelberger amps , Hochekein , Hogckna , Hockenau , Hockenaw , Hoggena and even Ockena . The name Hockenheim was first mentioned in 1238 .
In the Middle Ages, Hockenheim and Reilingen belonged to the rulership of Wersau Castle . Probably together with the donation of the Königswälder Lußhardt and Schwetzinger Hardt in the 11th century, the castle and the places came to the Bishop of Speyer , who appointed a ministerial family to manage it. The Schenken von Wersau sold the fiefdom to the Count Palatine near Rhine , which was confirmed in 1286 by the Speyer bishop Friedrich von Bolanden . The count palatine pledged the rule to various noble families. When the Palatinate was divided in 1410, Hockenheim fell to Pfalz-Mosbach and later to Pfalz-Veldenz . In 1460 the Speyer bishop redeemed the pledge again, but had to cede Hockenheim to the Electoral Palatinate two years later after the battle of Seckenheim , which integrated the place into the Kirchheimer Zent .
In the 17th century, Hockenheim was badly devastated by French troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1644 and in the Dutch War in 1674. The French also brought tobacco into the country. Previously, hop growing was the main area in the area.
19th and 20th centuries
In 1803 the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved and the community came to Baden and was assigned to the office of Schwetzingen.
The tobacco growing in the area in the 19th century led to the construction of the cigar industry from 1860. The community continued to grow, they eventually that with effect of 22 July 1895 by Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden , the town charter was awarded. Early 20th century the displaced asparagus growing the hops .
After the Schwetzingen district was dissolved, the young city came to the Mannheim district office in 1924, from which the Mannheim district emerged in 1938 . The Hockenheimring was opened with a race on May 29, 1932 .
Politically, since the establishment of the empire in 1871, the center has usually been the strongest party, which split in Hockenheim during the Weimar Republic into a center I, preferred by workers, and a bourgeois center II. From 1930 the National Socialists had a majority and in the Reichstag election in March 1933 the NSDAP received 47.1 percent of the vote.
In 1933 there were still 54 Jews. 13 of them fell victim to National Socialist persecution and the synagogue, which had existed since 1833, was burned down during the Reichspogromnacht in 1938.
After the Second World War , the decline of the cigar industry was heralded. In the meantime, however, the city had become known for the Hockenheimring. In the course of the district reform on January 1, 1973, the Mannheim district was dissolved and the city of Hockenheim was assigned to the newly formed Rhein-Neckar district .
In 1991, Hockenheim hosted the 11th Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show .
21st century
After exceeding the 20,000 population limit in 1999, the city applied for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg then decided with effect from January 1, 2001.
Incorporations
After the secularization of the Speyer Monastery in 1803, its areas on the right bank of the Rhine fell to Baden. The Insultheimerhof and the Angelhof as well as parts of the district of the city of Speyer were soon connected to Hockenheim. The state kept the Angelwald, the Biblis, the Talfeld and the Speyer green.
When the Rhine was straightened according to the plans of Tulla in the middle of the 19th century, the fishing forest and parts of the Hockenheim district became left bank of the Rhine and thus fell to Bavaria in accordance with a state treaty .
In 1889 the valley field was united with Hockenheim after a dispute with Ketsch. In 1929, the city received parts of the Biblis and the Speyer green and thus an area increase of 124 hectares. Another 688 hectares followed two years later when the Schwetzinger Hardt forest was divided .
Population development
Population numbers according to the respective area (only main residences).
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Religions
Hockenheim initially belonged to the Speyer diocese . As in the entire Electoral Palatinate , the Reformation was also introduced in Hockenheim . As early as 1545, Hockenheim had turned to Elector Friedrich II with the request to appoint a Protestant pastor. But it was not until 1556 that the Reformed Confession decreed by Elector Ottheinrich also came into force in Hockenheim . When the Church of St. Georg in Hockenheim was handed over to the Catholics in 1707 as part of the church division in the Electoral Palatinate, the Evangelicals from Hockenheim had to go to church in the neighboring town of Reilingen; until 1866, Hockenheim belonged to Reilingen as a subsidiary community . As early as 1757 they built a new church, the tower of which is said to have been an exact copy of the "old" tower of St. George. Hockenheim became an independent vicariate in 1866, and an independent parish again in 1869. The community was built between 1905 and 1907, the first church had become too small, a new, representative church, today's Protestant town church. The old church was converted into the parish hall, the Luther House; in the course of this reconstruction the tower was demolished. In the Lutherhaus, which was fundamentally renovated in 2007-2008, the congregation still has its congregation center, where the groups and circles meet regularly. If the community initially belonged to the Oberheidelberg church district, when it was divided it was assigned to the Schwetzingen church district. On December 31, 1968, the number of parishioners exceeded the 7000 mark, and from 1970 Hockenheim received a group pastoral office with two pastoral posts. Today the community belongs to the parish of the Southern Electoral Palatinate of the Evangelical Church in Baden .
The Catholics , who are represented in about the same number as the Protestants in Hockenheim today, received the Church of St. George in 1707, the only church in the city. The parish initially belonged to the Speyer diocese and became part of the newly founded Freiburg Archdiocese in 1821/1827 , where it was assigned to the deanery of Sankt Leon. In 1899 she moved to the dean's office in Philippsburg. In 1911 the parish built a new church , the previous church served as the parish hall. In 1960 the dean's office in Schwetzingen was re-established, to which the parish of St. Georg Hockenheim belonged from then on, but the dean's office was dissolved again in 1976. Since then, the parish has belonged to the Wiesloch dean's office . Together with the neighboring communities in Neulußheim and Reilingen, it forms the Hockenheim pastoral care unit.
In addition to the two large churches, there are also free churches and other Christian congregations in the city, namely a congregation of the Evangelical Methodist Church , which has held services in a building in Untere Mühlstrasse since the end of the 19th century and which was held in 1958/1959 Today's Christ Church, as well as the "Evangelical Community" , which became the Evangelical Community Association AB e. V. (AB Association).
There is also a New Apostolic Church in Hockenheim , which was built in 2002. The associated community was founded in 1951.
The Muslim community meets in the mosque in the valley house, which was built in 2000 . There is also a Turkish-Islamic Association in Hockenheim and the surrounding area
From 1510 there were a few Jews in Hockenheim. In the 19th century a larger congregation developed, which peaked around 1864 with 165 members. In the period that followed, emigration to larger cities began and in 1933 there were still 54 Jews. The only remaining structural evidence of the former Jewish community of Hockenheim is the Jewish cemetery , which was laid out in 1879 .
politics
From mayor to mayor
From the time it was first mentioned in a document in the middle of the 15th century until the early 19th century, the mayor (also Schulz, Vogt, Oberschultheiß) was the head of the community in Hockenheim. He was appointed by the sovereign for life and, with great powers, was the link between the authorities and the citizens. Most of the time, wealthy citizens who were respected in the community were selected, which is why well-known shield hosts and millers often held this office in Hockenheim .
Towards the end of the 18th century the first delicate signs of a democratic development became apparent, since from 1797 at the latest the local head was elected or at least proposed by the citizens, whereby the elector always reserved the right of confirmation. The mayor's salary was modest, but the incumbent was generally held in high regard in the village community and could be considered one of the first notables . In addition to the mayor at times there was the attorney's school (also Anwald (t) or Anwaldschultheiß), which appears several times in the local protocols as a candidate for the post of mayor and at the same time probably also performed the role of deputy and controller.
The mayor was responsible for the external and internal order in the community and he presided over the fortnightly sessions of the local court (at that time also the local council ). His primary duty was to announce the respective verdict at the annual meeting of the rug court held around Martini (later also around the turn of the year) and to pronounce the punishment provided for in the village rules in the event of convictions. These village judicial tasks existed until the early 19th century.
From 1810 the mayors carried the title Vogt and around 1832, towards the end of Johann Sigmund Piazolo's term of office, the official title changed to mayor .
In the Grand Duchy of Baden , from 1832 onwards, the mayors were no longer appointed, but were instead elected by municipal bodies ( small committee and large committee , later municipal council). Between 1870 and 1890, the male Hockenheimers, who had municipal citizenship and had paid their contribution, elected their mayor directly. From 1890 to 1933 the mayor was elected by the local council and a citizens' committee ( unified committee ) with initially 48 and later 60 members. The committee members had different voting weights (one to three votes), which were based on the level of the respective tax class, which basically corresponded to the Prussian three-class voting right .
Representative democracy was introduced with the Baden municipal code of 1921. The mayor has now been elected for nine years and the municipal council (8 councilors) and the citizens' assembly (68 citizens) each held office for four years. The mayor's extensive official powers included the chairmanship of both of the aforementioned bodies, the management of the city administration and the local police authority, as well as the right to make urgent decisions in all matters.
The democratic development at the local level was stopped abruptly on October 1, 1933, when Mayor Philip Klein was deposed by the NSDAP local group and at the same time the NSDAP local group leader Arthur Neuschäfer took over his office. The Rules January 30, 1935 German municipal code provided for the DC circuit of the communities with the objectives of governance. Therefore, the mayor was assigned a representative from the NSDAP who had a say in all important issues. In Hockenheim there was a case, which cannot be explained by the municipal regulations, that the mayor and the NSDAP representative ( local group leader ) were one and the same person.
After the capitulation in 1945 , the term of office of the NS mayor in Hockenheim was automatically ended. The two subsequent incumbents Ludwig Grein and Friedrich Speckert were appointed provisionally by the American and French military governments, respectively.
The first municipal council elections of the post-war period took place on December 31, 1945. This already revealed the basic political structure of Hockenheim, which has remained almost unchanged to this day. The mayor Franz Hund, initially appointed temporarily by the French allies, was democratically elected for six years in a popular election on February 1, 1948. The direct election process is still valid today, with the term of office now being extended to eight years.
With effect from January 1, 2001, Hockenheim was elevated to a major district town . At the same time, the mayor received the new title of Lord Mayor . According to the municipal code , his permanent representative is the first alderman with the official title of mayor .
List of community leaders
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Until 1711 and between 1753 and 1762 the terms of office have not been recorded. It is also no longer comprehensible whether there were possibly other mayors - especially in the period before 1444. The dates listed for this period only document the respective documentary mention.
Municipal council
The municipal council of the city of Hockenheim has 22 members who hold the title of “city council”. In addition, the mayor, who is entitled to vote, acts as chairman of the council.
The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
| Political party | be right | Seats |
| CDU | 26.8% (−0.7) | 6 (± 0) |
| FWV | 23.7% (+1.1) | 5 (± 0) |
| Green | 22.6% (+4.8) | 5 (+1) |
| SPD | 18.2% (−4.3) | 4 (−1) |
| FDP / LfH | 8.6% (-1.0) | 2 (± 0) |
| Turnout: 56.0% (+11.1) | ||
Finances
The budget of the city of Hockenheim in 2014 had a total volume of 65,241,500 euros. As one of the first municipalities in Germany, the city of Hockenheim has voluntarily introduced a so-called "sustainability statute" for the area of city finances, through which the city aims to reduce its debts and the resulting interest and repayment burdens. As a result, the sustainability statutes are intended to improve the financial options for future generations.
coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In a shield divided by black and blue, above a growing, red armored, red-tongued and red-crowned golden lion, below two diagonally crossed silver hook bars.
It goes back to a seal that has been in use since 1609. The Palatinate Lion is a reminder of the former belonging to the Electoral Palatinate. The two crossed hooks refer, based on a folk etymological derivation, speaking to the place name (crouch = hook). You can also find them on old boundary stones and a bell of the parish church from 1748. Around the time of the town's elevation in 1895, the town's seal and coat of arms, which is still valid today, was created.
Town twinning
Hockenheim has twinning partnerships with the following cities :
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Commercy in France , since 1970 -
Hohenstein-Ernstthal in Saxony , since 1990 -
Mooresville in North Carolina (USA) , since 2002
Culture and sights
Hockenheim is located on the Badische Spargelstraße and the Bertha Benz Memorial Route , both of which lead past many sights.
Museums
With the Tobacco Museum, Hockenheim has the first museum of its kind in Baden-Württemberg. It opened in 1984. Two years later, the Motor Sports Museum opened at the Hockenheimring , which depicts the history of the ring and shows more than 200 historic motorcycles and engines.
Memorials
A memorial plaque at the former location of the Ottostraße / corner Rathausstraße synagogue commemorates the destruction of the Jewish church by SA men during the November pogrom in 1938 .
At the Hockenheim-Ring a plaque on the fatally injured recalls Jim Clark .
music
There are several music associations in Hockenheim:
- The Eintracht men's choir has existed in Hockenheim since 1924. It is characterized by its high-quality choir but also by social events.
- The singing association Singerbund-Liederkranz 1862 Hockenheim .
- The choral society AGV Belcanto Hockenheim 1906 with the musical focus on pop, musical and film melodies.
- The HSV music band Blaue Husaren was founded in 1956. The Blue Hussars are characterized by their youth work. In addition to the large orchestra, there is a youth orchestra and, for beginners, the “Piccolo” orchestra.
- The men 's choir Liedertafel 1874 Hockenheim with around 200 active members in children's, youth, women's and men's choirs
- The fanfare procession of the racing city of Hockenheim has been a musical figurehead for the city for over 50 years.
- The orchestral association Stadtkapelle Hockenheim eV has existed since 1863 and, in recent years, has concentrated increasingly on symphonic brass music in addition to light music. The association is also a fire brigade chapel and supports the local volunteer fire brigade with relocations, public events or fire brigade parties. The town band has a youth department with groups and ensembles for different levels of ability, and it also offers instrumental lessons.
- The Hohner Accordion Orchestra Hockenheim was founded in 1955. With over 100 active members in three adult and three young orchestras. The association is characterized by its own training concepts and continuous care for young talent.
- The Chamber Orchestra Hockenheim eV was founded in 2007. It consists of around 30 active musicians. The focus of the orchestra is on the baroque and early classical periods, but it also plays romantic and contemporary repertoire. Joint work with choirs is also maintained.
- The Madrigalchor Hockenheim eV was founded in 1981 by Konrad Schillinger. Since 1996 it has been under the direction of Robert Sagasser. The choir currently consists of around 35 singers who are interested in the development and interpretation of challenging choral music. The choir's repertoire consists mainly of choral works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but literature from later epochs in music history is also compiled.
Buildings
The Güldene Engel is the oldest and most traditional half-timbered house in Hockenheim. It was built in 1690 by Johann Georg Engelhorn for his son Johann Jakob. From this family came Friedrich Engelhorn (founder of BASF ), Georg Engelhorn (founder of the Mannheim fashion house Engelhorn & Sturm ), Curt Engelhorn (former owner of the Mannheim company Boehringer ) and other respected citizens. The famous imperial general Prinz Eugen stopped at the Güldenen Engel for a few days and in 1766 the family of tightrope walkers gave a guest performance in the Engelhof that was highly regarded for Hockenheim and the surrounding area. Since 1980 the house has belonged to a Hockenheim architect who, after extensive restoration in 1986, set up a restaurant among other things.
The Hockenheim mills were destroyed on the instructions of the city in the 1960s; A simple block of flats was built in their place.
The water tower , built in Art Nouveau style and completed in 1910, is the city's landmark .
The Evangelical City Church was built in the early Art Nouveau style from 1906 by Hermann Behaghel in the city center on the market square.
The Catholic Church of St. George was built between 1910 and 1911 in Art Nouveau style and has a 64 meter high tower. The architect was Johannes Schroth .
The Old Catholic Church , which today serves as the parish hall, has a late Gothic choir tower from 1490 with an eight-sided bell chamber and a classicist hall from the years 1817–1819, which was designed by the Baden court building inspector and chief engineer Jacob Friedrich Dyckerhoff (1774–1845) in the so-called Weinbrenner style was built.
The Evangelical Methodist Christ Church was built in 1958/1959.
The New Apostolic Church is the youngest church in the city, which was built in 2002.
Parks
The largest park in Hockenheim is the Gartenschaupark , which runs along the Mannheim – Stuttgart railway line from the train station to the northern exit of the town. It was created on the occasion of the State Horticultural Show that took place in Hockenheim in 1991 . The garden show park also includes the spatially adjacent Stiegwiesenpark and the Ebertpark .
Sports
Motorsport
Hockenheim became known nationwide through the Hockenheimring , which opened in 1932 and is also used for Formula 1 races. The opening race on May 29, 1932 already counted 45,000 visitors. The racetrack was converted into the so-called Kurpfalzring for the first time in 1938. Unemployed people were used for the renovation as part of a job creation measure. The second renovation was triggered by the construction of the federal motorway 6 , which completely cut through the ring (city curve) leading to the houses. Within two years until 1965, the so-called Motodrom was created, in which the spectators, sitting on elevated stands, can see large parts of the race track.
In 2002, some renovation work began on the then 6.8 km long Hockenheimring, during which the route was also drastically changed. The driving surface was renewed, the spectator capacity expanded and the route of the Grand Prix course shortened to 4.5 km. In addition, a driving safety center was created, which is now operated by ADAC . The state of Baden-Württemberg contributed around 15 million euros to the cost of the measure; since then the racetrack has been called the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg . Further necessary renovation measures, in particular the long overdue improvements to the old driveways from the 1960s, but also the final structural work on the above-mentioned measures, are currently not feasible for financial reasons. Major motorsport events on the Hockenheimring are becoming increasingly rare.
Air sports
Auchtweid special airfield is located to the west of the urban area . This airfield was released for flight operations on June 14, 1952 by the Hockenheim Sports Aviation Club . Since then, numerous national and international glider competitions and flight days have been held there.
The Herrenteich airfield of the Schwetzingen glider club is also located on the Rhine near Ketsch . There is also an airfield for model airplanes in the Muldhäusl district .
Other sports and leisure facilities
- Aquadrom leisure pool
- Rudolph-Harbig-Sporthalle (500 spectators)
- DJK sports hall
- Waldstadion (approx. 6,000 spectators)
- Beach volleyball (in the garden show park)
- Jahnhalle
- Indoor tennis center and outdoor tennis courts
Regular events
- 3rd weekend in May: Street Festival Hockenheim May
- 1st Sunday in October: Hockenheimer Kerwe ( parish fair )
- November 1st Hockenheimring Race
- Weekend of the 1st Advent: Hockenheinmer Advent
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Hockenheim was traditionally shaped by agriculture and was once a tobacco stronghold. In 1907, 26 tobacco factories provided 1,400 jobs. The city countered the structural change that began after the Second World War by designating industrial areas. The US packaging manufacturer Sonoco (before October 31, 2014 Weidenhammer ) has one of its locations in Hockenheim. The Sparkasse Hockenheim founded in 1875 and the Volksbank Hockenheim founded in 1904 lost their independence and are now part of the Sparkasse Heidelberg and the Volksbank Kur- und Rheinpfalz . In 2003, the city's businesses provided around 6,408 jobs. The number of unemployed this year was around 800.
traffic
Highways
Hockenheim is on the A 6 federal motorways ( Saarbrücken - Waidhaus ) with the Hockenheim / Schwetzingen exit and the A 61 towards Kaldenkirchen , which begins at the Hockenheim triangle with the Hockenheim / Speyer junction, and on the A 5 , Hockenheim / Walldorf / Wiesloch junction.
Federal highways
The city is also on the B 39 ( Frankenstein - Mainhardt ).
Railway lines
The Hockenheim train station is on the Rheinbahn, which runs from Mannheim to Karlsruhe . Until the 1970s, there was also a freight station in the immediate vicinity of the passenger station .
In the Talhaus industrial area there is a freight transport connection via the Rheinbahn to Mannheim.
Historic railway line
From 1898 to the 1950s, Hockenheim had another passenger station in the Talhaus district ( Talhaus station ) and another freight station on the former Heidelberg – Speyer railway line . The passenger train was popularly known as the donkey train . Since the Speyer Rhine Bridge was blown up by retreating German troops towards the end of the Second World War , the section to Speyer had to be shut down, although trains via Hockenheim-Talhaus to the last station in front of the destroyed Rhine bridge ( Lußhof ) perverted. The short branch line from these tracks to the Talhaus industrial area still exists today, which has been preserved for the goods traffic of the companies located there and is still used today.
Bus routes
The Heidelberg – Speyer bus line also runs via Hockenheim. It runs every half hour and also opens up the industrial area. The city area is supplied with a half-hourly minibus line (called RingJet) on weekdays. Hockenheim is part of the tariff area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association .
media
The Hockenheimer daily reports on local events .
education
The city of Hockenheim is the sponsor of the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß - Gymnasium , the Theodor-Heuss - Realschule and the Gustav-Lesemann -Schule (special education and advisory center with a focus on learning). It also runs the Hubäcker School, the Pestalozzi School and the Hartmann Baumann School (named after the first schoolmaster in Hockenheim, who was mentioned in a document, who worked around 1600), three primary schools , including the Hartmann Baumann School includes a Werkrealschule . For the youngest residents there are three municipal, three Protestant , two Roman Catholic and two private kindergartens.
The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis supports the Louise-Otto-Peters- School, a domestic vocational school. Hockenheim also has a singing and music school as well as an adult education center and a city library.
The Karpow Chess Academy Hockenheim promotes chess in the Rhine-Neckar region and organizes chess tournaments. In addition to Dresden, Hockenheim is one of two bases that the German Chess Federation (DSB) has named the training base for the youth Olympic teams. Training measures of the DSB take place preferentially at these locations.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Hockenheim has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1958: Franz Hund, mayor
- 1978: Johannes Beykirch, Dean
- 1978: Kurt Buchter , mayor
- 1982: Ernst Christ, initiator of race track construction and co-founder of the Badischer Motorsport Club (BMC)
- 1994: Josef Hauck, deputy mayor
- 1994: Adolf Stier, City Councilor
- 1994: Arthur Weibel, deputy mayor
- 2004: Gustav Cabinet, Lord Mayor
sons and daughters of the town
Personalities who were born in Hockenheim:
- Johann Conrad Engelhorn (1769–1827), innkeeper, beer brewer, vinegar maker and founder of the Engelhorn line in Mannheim
- Johann Georg Fuchs (1769–1844), member of the state parliament
- Georg Engelhorn (1861–1946), co-founder of the famous Mannheim clothing store Engelhorn & Sturm
- Eduard Schopf (1893–1935) founded the coffee roasting company and the coffee mail order company Eduscho in Bremen in 1924
- Arthur Geiss (1903–1982), motorcycle racing driver in a DKW, world record holder, European champion and multiple German champion
- Kurt Buchter (1923–2011), Mayor of Hockenheim from 1958 to 1978
- Ottmar Ballweg (1928–2019), lawyer and philosopher
- Willi Ehringer (* 1928), jazz and entertainment musician
- Gerd Zimmermann (* 1947), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg
- Peter Weibel (1950–2017), racing cyclist and national trainer for German road cyclists
- Kurt Eigl (* 1954), professional footballer (Hamburger SV)
- Klaus Dieter Reichardt (* 1954), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag and Landtag in Baden-Württemberg
- Karl Klein (* 1956), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg
- Rainer Matsutani (* 1964), director
- Udo Ruggaber (* 1967), wrestler, four-time German champion
- Jochen Schmeckenbecher (* 1967), opera singer
- Georg Schwabenland (* 1967), wrestler, 1991 and 1992 European champion
- Werner Weißbrodt (1928–2017), professor of graphic design
People who worked in Hockenheim
- Philipp David Schwab (1806–1864) was a promoter and luminary of tobacco growing, as well as agricultural advisor to the Baden government and the Austrian Empire . Friends of the Schwab family included Prince Max von Baden and his father Prince Wilhelm von Baden . Schwab was a son-in-law of member of the state parliament Johann Georg Fuchs and mayor of Hockenheim from 1854 to 1857.
- Wilhelm Herz (1912–1998), motorcycle racer with DKW and NSU , world record holder, race director and president of the BMC Hockenheim, managing director of Hockenheim Ring GmbH
literature
- Ernst Brauch: The Hockenheimer Heimatbuch: From twelve centuries of Hockenheim's history . Self-published by the author, Hockenheim 1933.
- Ernst Brauch: Hockenheim - a city in transition and upheaval . Self-published by the author, Hockenheim 1965 (completely revised new version of the 1933 edition).
- Kurt Buchter : Hockenheim in space and time - deeper insights from a local politician . KF Schimper-Verlag, Schwetzingen 1995, ISBN 3-87742-096-6 .
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- ↑ Oldtimerfreunde Hoggene Kurpfalz eV (No longer available online.) City of Hockenheim, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg, status: December 31, 2004 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe district Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 , pp. 369-370.
- ^ Ulrich Brandl and Emmi Federhofer: Ton + Technik. Roman bricks. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 ( publications from the Limes Museum Aalen. No. 61)
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- ↑ Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and neighboring areas: Hockenheim
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- ^ Herwig John, Gabriele Wüst: Wappenbuch Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-27-4 , p. 68.
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