Lehrenstein field

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Heilbronn
Local government association:	"Room Weinsberg"
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.22 km 2
Residents:	2479 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	399 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	74251
Area code :	07134
License plate :	HN
Community key :	08 1 25 057
Address of the municipal administration:	Ellhofener Strasse 2 74251 Lehrensteinsfeld
Website :	www.lehrensteinsfeld.de
Mayor :	Bjorn Steinbach
Location of the municipality of Lehrensteinsfeld in the Heilbronn district

Lehrenstein field from the northeast

Lehrensteinsfeld is a municipality in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franken region and the edge zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . The parish is also popularly referred to as Lehremy .

geography

Geographical location

Lehrensteinsfeld is in the natural area Swabian-Franconian Forest to the east of the district Heilbronn in Ellbachtal, a tributary of the Sulmtals .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring towns and communities in Lehrensteinsfeld are ( clockwise , starting in the southwest): Heilbronn ( urban district ), Weinsberg , Ellhofen , Obersulm , Löwenstein and Untergruppenbach . Except for the city of Heilbronn, all of them belong to the Heilbronn district. Together with Eberstadt , Ellhofen and Weinsberg, Lehrensteinsfeld forms the municipal administration association "Raum Weinsberg" , based in Weinsberg.

Community structure

Lehrensteinsfeld consists of the two districts of Lehren (in the northwest) and Steinsfeld (in the southeast), which have grown together and have shared a common area for centuries.

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

The first written mention of the district of Lehren comes from the year 1257; Steinsfeld was first mentioned in 1384. Both villages already formed a common community at that time. In the 14th century they were owned by the von Weinsberg lords , who gave part of the goods and rights to the von Weiler noble family as a fief . Other neighboring nobles were also enfeoffed with rights, including the Lords of Michelfeld and the Lords of Gemmingen . In 1384 a Siegfried von Michelfeld built a house on the area of ​​an old castle. In 1465 a Dietrich von Weiler sold a quarter of the bailiwick and court to the Palatine doorkeeper Hans Heil. After the end of the Lords of Weinsberg around 1500, the place came to the Electoral Palatinate , whereby the feudal relationships initially remained. In the 16th century, Lehrensteinsfeld came to Württemberg , whereby the Gemmingen rights also continued to exist.

At least part of the village was owned by Philipp von Gemmingen in 1535 , who also had today's castle built in 1540. In 1591, through the marriage of Philipp Dietrich von Gemmingen to Barbara von Mentzingen, another part of the village became part of the Gemmingen. The Gemmingen were also able to increase their property and their rights on the site through acquisitions, but the property was split up through the division of inheritance and became unprofitable, so that the heirs Johann Leonhard von Mentzingen , Weiprecht von Gemmingen and Johann Schertel von Burtenbach acquired the castle and the village in 1649 sold the French Field Marshal Ludwig von Schmidberg , who had become wealthy during the Thirty Years' War . Here the castle and village were described as "free aristocracy".

Ludwig von Schmidberg tried to develop Lehrensteinsfeld into an independent knightly possession. Presumably he also settled new citizens, as the place, like all surrounding places, was heavily depopulated after the Thirty Years' War due to the effects of war and the plague. Schmidberg's high jurisdiction over the place was in 1650 and 1659 by the emperors Ferdinand III. and Leopold I. confirmed. A first village law was written in 1652 and had its final version in 1731. The death of Ludwig von Schmidberg in 1657 resulted in another division of the property among his descendants and relatives. When the von Schmidbergs in the male line died out in 1777, it fell to the heirs of Hygle, von Waldfells and von Kechler, who in 1788 sold it to Charlotte Ernestine von Schmidberg, the widow of Hans Weiprecht von Gemmingen . She bequeathed the estate and Schloss Lehrensteinsfeld to her niece Luise Freiin von Gemmingen, the wife of Baron Franz Göler von Ravensburg . The sons of both, Ferdinand and Karl Göler von Ravensburg, sold the property to Prince Karl von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein for 90,000 guilders as early as 1856. In 1887 Julius Dietzsch from Stuttgart acquired the castle and its possessions.

In 1805 the place fell to Württemberg and was added to the Oberamt Weinsberg , whereby the chivalric rights were revoked. The community succeeded in relieving the feudal burdens from 1831 to 1846. After the Weinsberg district office was dissolved in 1926, Lehrensteinsfeld became part of the district office and later district of Heilbronn. In 1939 there were 755 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 there were 919.

Religions

The Catholic Church of St. Lawrence

Lehrensteinsfeld has been predominantly Protestant since the Reformation . The place was initially a subsidiary of Sülzbach and in 1571 became an independent parish. The Protestant parish of Lehrensteinsfeld belongs to the Weinsberg-Neuenstadt church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

The Catholic parish in Wimmental is responsible for the approximately 400 Catholic Christians in Lehrensteinsfeld (as of 2002) . In 1979 the Catholic St. Laurentius Church in Lehrensteinsfeld was inaugurated.

There are isolated cases of Jews in Lehrensteinsfeld as early as the 16th century, the Jewish community of Lehrensteinsfeld then formed, especially in the Lehren district, from the 18th century. From 1832 to 1867 the place was the seat of the Lehrensteinsfeld district rabbinate . Like many other rural Jewish communities, the community experienced a gradual decline due to emigration and emigration from the second half of the 19th century and was extinguished in the course of the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era .

town hall

politics

Municipal council

According to the local elections on June 7, 2009, the Lehrensteinsfeld municipal council has ten members. The choice brought the following result:

• FWG 62.2% - 6 seats
• SPD 37.8% - 4 seats

Local election May 2014:

• FWV 61.7% - 6 seats
• SPD 38.3% - 4 seats

Another member of the council and its chairman is the mayor.

Lehrensteinsfeld's coat of arms

mayor

In September 2012 Björn Steinbach was confirmed for a second term with 99.6% of the votes.

badges and flags

The blazon of the Lehrensteinfeld coat of arms reads: In blue over two golden wavy bars a golden horseshoe. The flag of the municipality is yellow-blue.

The horseshoe as a rural symbol was the teaching of Steinfeld spot signs . It was on old district stones mapped and found herself at least since the 19th century in the municipality seal . The current coat of arms was adopted in 1959 and awarded to the community together with the flag on August 18, 1959 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. The corrugated beams are reminiscent of the von Schmidberg family, who owned Lehrensteinsfeld from 1649 to 1778.

Culture and sights

The defense tower

Buildings

Defense tower

The landmark and oldest building in the village is the Lehrensteinsfeld fortified tower from 1466, once a fortified tower and church tower of a former Laurentius church, the nave of which was demolished in 1969. The upper floors of the timber-framed tower were demolished in 1998 due to disrepair and rebuilt in a modified form in 2005/2006.

lock

The Lehrensteinsfeld Castle was built in the middle of the 16th century by the local rulers in the Renaissance style on the foundations of a medieval castle, to which the corner tower and cellar vault date back. The south facade was rebuilt in the classicism style in 1770 . In the north there is a 19th century park in the style of a landscape garden with an orangery . The current owner family purchased the property, which is now used as a winery, in 1887.

town hall

The half-timbered town hall was built in 1591 and was given its present form mainly in 1906. After various recent renovations, the inside of the town hall was fundamentally rebuilt in 1969/71, with the meeting room and the wedding room being created.

Churches

• The Protestant Christ Church was built in 1903 in the neo-Romanesque style according to plans by Heinrich Dolmetsch . A baroque crucifix and a baptismal font from 1759 were taken over from the old Laurentiuskirche, which was later demolished and which is reminiscent of the still-preserved fortified tower and whose ship was abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century due to its condition and demolished in 1969. The patronage rule of the Dietzsch family of Schloss Lehrensteinsfeld, which existed back then and until 1963, is expressed both in the patronage box opposite the pulpit and in some foundations (choir window, baptismal bell, main entrance door) for the new building. The beautiful church window in the choir, which shows the biblical scenes of the blessing of children, the wedding at Cana and the raising of Lazarus as well as Christ on top as the ruler of the world, was designed by the Stuttgart church painter Theodor Bauerle (1865-1914) and by the Munich court glass painting Gustav van Treeck running. Theodor Bauerle also provided the walls and ceilings in the nave and in the choir with stenciled "symbolic painting" typical of the time and with the medallions (Johannes, Paulus, Petrus) still preserved on the choir arch. The organ from 1903 was replaced in 1982 by master organ builder Tzschöckel. The three bells were cast in 1920 and 1949.
• The Catholic St. Laurentius Church was built in 1979 according to plans by Hugo Baum in place of a barrack building that had existed for around three decades.

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  Lehrensteinsfeld Castle

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  Late medieval castle tower

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  Orangery in the castle park

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  Christ Church

societies

In relation to the size of the community, there is a strong association. There is the sports club TSV Lehrensteinsfeld with the departments of gymnastics, football and volleyball / badminton, the tennis club Lehrensteinsfeld, the nationally known music club Eintracht Lehrensteinsfeld, the choral society Harmonie Lehrensteinsfeld, the fool's guild Sulmdäler Rumpelhäx , the hiking friends Lehrensteinsfeld, the fruit club Lehrensteinsfeld , the Schützengilde Lehrensteinsfeld , the Friends of Dorfkultur Lehrensteinsfeld and numerous other associations.

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Lehrensteinsfeld is a wine-growing whose layers to Großlage Salzberg in the range Württembergisch lower land of the wine region Württemberg belong. Rita Ostholt from Lehrenstein was the Württemberg wine queen in 1977 .

traffic

The community is located on the A 81 , the Weinsberg / Ellhofen junction is around 3 km away. The next train station is on the Crailsheim – Heilbronn railway in the neighboring community of Ellhofen.

Established businesses

One of the foundations of the municipality's economic existence is viticulture, which is operated by a winegrowers' cooperative founded in 1904 and by some small wineries. Mainly Riesling is grown , but also Müller-Thurgau , Pinot Noir , Black Riesling and other grape varieties. The largest local company with 140 employees (as of August 2007), 110 of them in Lehrensteinsfeld and 30 in Obersulm-Willsbach, is Hermann Schweikert GmbH , an automotive and agricultural machinery supplier that was founded in 1949 and specializes in toolmaking and sheet metal forming actuated.

media

The daily newspaper Heilbronner Voice reports on the events in Lehrensteinsfeld in its edition for the Weinsberger Tal (WT).

Education and Social

Lehrensteinsfeld has a primary school and two kindergartens .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Friedrich Hertlein (1865–1929), German archaeologist, prehistorian and educator
• Karl Knapp (1870–1955), senior administrator and district administrator in Württemberg
• Friedrich Rödinger (1800–1868), member of the state parliament, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly

Honorary citizen

• Carl Dietzsch (1886–1963), fruit grower and manor owner, councilor, parish council, honorary senator of the University of Hohenheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009
3. ^ Source for the section on community structure: Das Land Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . P. 149
4. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Lehrensteinsfeld.
5. ↑ To the possessions of the von Gemmingen in Lehrensteinsfeld: Reinhold Bührlen: Familienbuch von Gemmingen - history of the family von Gemmingen and their possessions . Hornberg 1977. p. 46
6. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 1: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in Northern Württemberg
7. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community in Lehrensteinsfeld
8. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church District Weinsberg-Neuenstadt
9. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/gemeinderat.php
10. ↑ http://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/weinsbergertal/Steinbach-mit-99-6-Prozent-im-Amt-bestaetigt;art1911,2573852
11. ^ Sources for the section coat of arms and flag:
    Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 92
    Eberhard Gönner: Book of arms of the city and district of Heilbronn with a territorial history of this area . Archive Directorate Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1965 (Publications of the State Archive Administration Baden-Württemberg, 9). P. 108
12. ↑ Ellen Pietrus: The new church buildings by Heinrich Dolmetsch - An architect in the Kingdom of Württemberg ; in: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series No. 40, year 2001, ed. Stadtarchiv Reutlingen and Reutlinger Geschichtsverein, 2001, pages 125–228
13. ↑ Otto Friedrich: Evangelical churches in the deanery Weinsberg - picture reading book ; ed. Ev. Dean's Office Weinsberg, 2003, page 24 f
14. ↑ Festschrift: 100 Years of Christ Church in Lehrensteinsfeld ; Ed .: Ev. Parish of Lehrensteinsfeld, Lehrensteinsfeld / Obersulm-Weiler 2002
15. ^ Municipality of Lehrensteinsfeld - Leisure & Tourism - Clubs & Associations. In: Web site of the municipality. Lehrensteinsfeld community, accessed on April 28, 2018 . 
16. ↑ http://tsv-lehrensteinsfeld.com/
17. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/tennisclub.php
18. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/musikverein.php
19. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/harmonie.php
20. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/wanderfreunde.php
21. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/landfrauen.php
22. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/obst-gartenbau.php
23. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/schuetzenverein.php
24. ↑ http://www.lehrensteinsfeld.de/dorfkultur.php
25. ↑ Source on the Schweikert company: Anja Krezer: Council sets the course for the largest company in town . In: Heilbronner Voice of August 18, 2007, p. 35
26. ↑ information according to Heilbronn city archive , collection of contemporary history, s. Database HEUSS, call number ZS-10999

literature

• W. Sailer: Municipality of Lehrensteinsfeld Ortschronik , Lehrensteinsfeld 1954

Web links

Commons : Lehrensteinsfeld  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lehrensteinsfeld  - travel guide

Wikisource: Lehrensteinsfeld in the description of the Oberamt Weinsberg from 1861