Pfullingen

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Pfullingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E

Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region : Tübingen
County : Reutlingen
Height : 426 m above sea level NHN
Area : 30.13 km 2
Residents: 18,654 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 619 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 72793
Area code : 07121
License plate : RT
Community key : 08 4 15 059

City administration address : 		Marktplatz 5
72793 Pfullingen
Website : www.pfullingen.de
Mayor : Michael Schrenk (independent)
Location of the city of Pfullingen in the Reutlingen district
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Pfullingen is a small German town in Baden-Württemberg at the foot of the Swabian Alb . It belongs to the Neckar-Alb region and the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . It borders directly on the southeast of the district town of Reutlingen . Pfullingen is part of the Swabian Alb biosphere area with a large part of its area .

geography

View from the south of Pfullingen from the Schönberg tower

location

Pfullingen lies at the foot of the Swabian Alb in the Echaz valley . It is surrounded by the two conical elevations Achalm and the Georgenberg , as well as some mountains of the Albtrauf such as the Schönberg and the Ursulaberg .

Community structure

Apart from the core city of the same name , there are no other places in the city.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and communities border the city of Pfullingen, they are named starting in the north in clockwise direction and belong to the district of Reutlingen : Eningen unter Achalm , St. Johann , Lichtenstein , Sonnenbühl and Reutlingen .

history

Pfullinger market fountain in the city center, on the market square between the two town hall buildings; on the wall of the fountain there are stylized images of scenes from the Pfullinger sagas .
The Martinskirche , which is located in the city center and has been Protestant since the Reformation in the 16th century , named after " Saint Martin ", is the "original church" of Pfullichgau.

middle Ages

Pfullingen was first mentioned in a document in a deed of donation from King Otto I the Great from 937. The place was the main town of the Pfullichgau , which stretched through the entire valley of the Echaz . During the time of the tribal duchies Pfullingen belonged to the Duchy of Swabia .

Towards the end of the 14th century lost Pfullingen due to the cities wars have city status after the city of Reutlingen had been captured and destroyed.

The Poor Clare Monastery in Pfullingen was founded in 1250 by Miss Mechtild and Irmel. The emperors gave it privileges and freedoms. The monastery hofmeister (attested by name from 1294 to 1806) was also a staff officer who also administered the monastery-owned towns of Genkingen and Reicheneck . The Bailiwick had Wuerttemberg held under whose patronage the monastery was already 1,442th During the Reformation the monastery was dissolved and fell apart. In 1793 the ruins were completely removed. Today only the western part of the monastery church St. Cäcilia , the speech grille building and the administration building are left. The last nun, Anna Reischin, became a Protestant in 1590 and died in 1595.

see also Pfullingen Castle (Upper Castle) , Pfullingen Hunting Lodge (Lower Castle, Rempenburg )

Württemberg time

In 1487 the last local nobleman from Pfullingen, Caspar Remp, sold his farms including the castle and all goods to Count Eberhard V. With this, the place came completely to Württemberg. With the villages of Unter- and Oberhausen, Honau, Holzelfingen and Kleinengstingen , Pfullingen formed a sub-office and thus became part of the Urach office . The basement to Pfullingen was royal bailiff and had the Low justice held.

During the Thirty Years' War , Pfullingen was the administrative seat of the Achalm Pfandschaft from 1635 to 1648, with short interruptions, and was therefore part of Upper Austria . The place was subjected to the re-Catholicization, got a Catholic priest and the monastery was occupied by Söflinger Poor Clares . The Austrian managers had its seat in the castle by attacks of the commander of Württemberg fortress Hohentwiel , Konrad Widerholt was badly damaged. In one of these attacks, the Catholic priest was murdered and Pfullingen was plundered. With the Peace of Westphalia , Pfullingen came back to Württemberg. The monastery was evacuated.

In 1699 Pfullingen was given town charter again and was elevated to a monastery office. It was not until 1806 that the monastery office fell to the Oberamt Reutlingen when the new administrative structure in the Kingdom of Württemberg was implemented . In 1824 there were 3,435 inhabitants in the town of Pfullingen.

The water power of the Echaz favored industrialization very early . As early as 1830, 22 water engines were counted. The previously predominant agriculture fell sharply, and the viticulture, which was also operated, no longer exists today. In 1907 the aqueduct was built.

On June 2, 1892, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened an 11.03-kilometer standard-gauge branch line from Reutlingen Central Station via Pfullingen to Honau .

The administrative reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era led to membership in the new Reutlingen district in 1938 .

post war period

In 1945 Pfullingen became part of the French occupation zone and in 1947 it was assigned to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

Starting in 1963, they built the residential castle path , in 1966 was followed by the development of the Business Park Stage , 1967-1973 of the residential area Ahlsberg and 1980-1986 of the residential area Brühl / Kühnbach . In 1985 Pfullingen was the state winner in the Green in the City competition . The Sandwiesen industrial estate followed in 1988 and the Schlayer industrial estate in 2000 . In 1999 the Heimattage Baden-Württemberg took place in Pfullingen . In 2003 the B312 bypass was opened . In 2012 Pfullingen became a Fairtrade City.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The municipal council in Pfullingen has 22 members.

The local election on May 25, 2014 led to the following result.

Parties and constituencies %
2019 		Seats
2019 		%
2014 		Seats
2014 		%
2009 		Seats
2009
Local elections 2019
 %
30th
20th
10
0
27.3%
20.7%
21.4%
12.3%
18.3%
GAL
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.3  % p
-5.2  % p
-0.3  % p
-0.5  % p
+ 6.2  % p.p.
GAL
UWV Independent voter association Pfullingen 27.3 6th 27.6 6th 22.8 5
FW Free voter association Pfullingen 20.7 4th 25.9 5 27.3 6th
CDU Christian Democratic Union of Germany 21.4 5 21.7 5 25.9 6th
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany 12.3 3 12.8 3 12.2 3
GAL Green alternative list Pfullingen 18.3 4th 12.1 3 11.8 2
total 100 22nd 100 22nd 100 22nd
voter turnout 55.0% 44.8% 48.0%

mayor

The mayor is elected for an eight-year term. Since January 13, 2015, the incumbent has been Michael Schrenk, who was elected to succeed Rudolf Hess on October 19, 2014.

badges and flags

Blazon : "In blue under a black deer pole, a silver pillow with gold tassels on the four corners and a red push."

Since the beginning of the 15th century, Pfullingen had a seal that was first handed down in an imprint in 1501, which shows the "Pfulben" (= Pfühl, pillow) under the Württemberger stag bar, which is the name of the place; today one declares him with the special right of a spring market. Around 1600, the field color red is attested several times, and a little later the stag's pole was placed in a shield head. The city charter was not granted until 1699. After the field color blue, which was later used and the golden shield head was omitted, the current design of the coat of arms was determined in 1934. The background of the coat of arms is blue, the color of the Lords of Lichtenstein and the Rempen.

The city flag is blue-white-red.

Town twinning

Since 1985 there has been an official city ​​partnership with the French municipality of Passy, which has around 11,000 inhabitants . The very tourism-oriented municipality is located about 53 kilometers southeast of Geneva in the Haute-Savoie department with a view of Mont Blanc . Since 1973 there have been regular encounters between the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Pfullingen and the Lycée de Mont-Blanc in Passy. This extended to encounters between associations of both cities and finally ended in 1985 in an official city partnership, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010.

Since 2012 there has also been a town partnership with the Saxon community of Lichtenstein . It was signed in Lichtenstein on September 29, 2012 as part of a partnership celebration, to which some Pfullinger associations also traveled.

In addition, friendly relationships with the community of Großbreitenbach in Thuringia have been maintained for years .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Schönberg Tower

The Schönberg Tower ( 793  m above sea level ), also popularly known as " Pfullenger Onderhos " ( Pfullinger Unterhose ), is a landmark of the city that is visible from afar and is located in the southwest and was completed in 1906. The colloquial name of the Schönberg tower Pfullinger Unterhos became a reality with the largest underpants in the world: For the 100th birthday, the Schönberg tower was dressed in real underpants made of fabric on July 2, 2006, from which four weeks after the "Hos ra" (pants down) later on July 29, 2006 handbags were manufactured. The organizers had hoped for an entry in the Guinness Book of Records with the world's largest underpants, but this was rejected.

The Pfullinger Schlössle is a half-timbered building built around 1450.

Churches in Pfullingen are the monastery church of the former Poor Clare Monastery (13th century until the Reformation) and the St. Martin's Church in the late Gothic style, some of which has been preserved from 1463.

The Pfullinger Hallen with large-scale Art Nouveau paintings designed by the architect Theodor Fischer were donated to the city by Louis Laiblin on October 24, 1907. In addition to Adolf Hölzel , Urich Nitschke and others were also involved in its design .

The traditional costume and mill museum has been located in the Baumannschen Mühle, built in 1799, since 1988.

The mound house on the road in the direction of Gönningen was built in 1995 by the landscape gardener Hofmann GmbH & Co. , since 2005 an animal welfare center of the Federation against Abuse of Animals has been located in the building. V.

Parks and green spaces

  • Wedding meadow
  • Monastery garden
  • Klosterseeanlage
  • Park of the Villa Laiblin
  • Castle Park
  • City garden

Landscape and nature

Pfullingen has several excursion destinations and local recreation areas on the Albrand and on the Alb plateau, including some nature reserves with different biotopes. The most popular among them are:

  • Georgenberg
  • Wedding meadow
  • Pfullinger Berg
  • Schönberg (with Schönberg Tower)
  • Übersberg and Mädlesfels
  • Ursulaberg
  • Wackerstein: It is the highest point in Pfullingen at 825  m above sea level. NN and is a popular destination for hikers and climbers.
  • Tub

Due to the location on the Albtrauf, some of these locations are vantage points that offer an overview and overview of the landscape structure of the surrounding area.

Natural monuments

  • Kaltenbronnen globe flower meadow, 1.5 hectares (ha)
  • Schömberg mountain meadow, 4.7 ha
  • Globeflower meadow Ochsensteige, 0.3 ha
  • Wetlands Wolfsgrube, 3.8 ha
  • Echazwinkel wetland, 0.1 ha
  • Acid meadows wetland, 0.6 ha
  • Girls rock

Nature reserves

  • Ursulahochberg, 9.0 ha
  • Kugelberg, 26.7 ha
  • Kugelberg (urban nature reserve), 26.9 ha
  • Gielsberg mountain meadow ( Hochwiesen-Pfullinger Berg ), 68.0 ha
  • Echazaue

Landscape protection areas

  • Reutlinger and Uracher Alb, 52.0 ha
  • Georgenberg, 8.0 ha

Museums

Pfullingen has several museums that deal with regional cultural history:

  • The City History Museum moved there after the renovation of the castle in 1987. A permanent exhibition and an annually changing special exhibition are housed in the rooms of the Alemannic half-timbered building from the mid-15th century and the associated barn .
  • The costume and mill museum are housed in Baumann's mill .
    • In the costume museum, the Swabian Alb Association not only shows traditional costumes and accessories from the Kingdom of Württemberg and the surrounding area, but also furniture, household appliances and linen.
    • The mill museum with a functioning grain mill is located in the part of Baumann's mill facing the Echaz . In addition to the presentation of the mill technology, the museum also goes into the history of the use of hydropower and grain milling.
  • In the spring of 2010, the Neske Library, a permanent exhibition of works published by Neske Verlag, was opened in the former publishing house of Neske Verlag Pfullingen. The visitor also receives information about the respective author here.
  • In the wash house of the former Poor Clares monastery, a permanent exhibition was set up on the topic of “Poverty - Humility - Obedience, The World of the Pfullinger Poor Clares 1250–1649”.

music

  • Musikverein Stadtkapelle Pfullingen e. V., founded in 1903
  • Men's choir Eintracht Pfullingen 1904 e. V.
  • Liederkranz Pfullingen e. V., founded in 1837
  • Accordion orchestra in the Schwäbischer Albverein local group Pfullingen, founded in 1951
  • Martinskollegium Pfullingen (orchestra)
  • Choir and orchestra of the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium

Sports

Customs

In Pfullingen there is the custom of star dicing. On the day before Holy Three Kings, i.e. on January 5th, a pastry called a star is diced. See: Mutschel .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the autumn of 2009, the inner city play course, a play and theme park landscape intended for playing and exploring, was inaugurated in Pfullingen.

Pfullingen is the headquarters of the Prettl Group. Daimler-Benz AG and Bosch are also represented in the city.

Pfullinger Pfulben

In order to sustainably strengthen the economy, Pfullinger Pfulben was introduced on March 20, 2011 . This is a gift voucher (but it is also often referred to as Pfullinger currency), which can be used for payment at around 100 retailers, specialist shops, service providers, etc. The Pfullinger Pfulben cracked the 10,000 euro mark in the first seven weeks . A strong year later, in August 2012, there were 66,000 pfulbes in circulation.

traffic

The federal highway 312 , coming from the federal highway 8 at Stuttgart airport , leads past Pfullingen via Riedlingen and Biberach an der Riss to Memmingen . In December 2003, the bypassing of the local passage in the form of the 1180 m long Ursulaberg tunnel was opened to traffic.

Local public transport is guaranteed by the Neckar-Alb-Danube transport association (NALDO). The city is in honeycomb 220.

Until 1980 Pfullingen was connected to the Reutlingen – Schelklingen railway line . Today a bike path is laid out on the route. For several years, however, the Neckar-Alb regional light rail (lines S2 and S6) from Plochingen via Reutlingen and Pfullingen to Schelklingen has been under discussion. In addition, from 1916 to 1974 the Reutlingen tram connected the town with the district town.

Citizen bus

Since May 30, 2011, a citizens' bus has been operating from Monday to Friday, driven by volunteer drivers. With a route known as the 3-leaf clover , it connects the residential areas of the east and west cities on the mountain slopes with the city center. The Pfullinger Citizens 'Bus is supported by the Pfullinger Citizens ' Meeting , an association for civic engagement, as well as by the city administration and, thanks to the volunteer drivers, is supposed to cover its operating costs with the ticket revenues alone. First of all, a two-year trial run with a rental vehicle was started. The concept has proven itself; the vehicle was acquired by the city. In the first year of operation more than 6,000 passengers could be carried.

The public bus offers in Ebersbach an der Fils and Salach served as an example .

People mover

Pfullingen has become known in recent years through the installation of a prototype of the new pedestrian crossing system Peoplemover . The Pfullingen people mover is the only street-crossing elevator system in the world. People who want to cross the street are first lifted up in an elevator car in a tower that serves as a supporting pillar, then along a bridge horizontally across the street and finally back to the level of the street surface.

The people mover was developed by Schmid Maschinenbau, the supporting structure being planned by Knaack-Reich. The Pfullingen people mover, which can transport four people at once, went into operation on July 7, 2001. The construction has a span of 22.5 meters. In 2009, the system was shut down until further notice due to extremely high operating and maintenance costs.

In Germany there are two other elevator systems of this type that are used at train stations to cross tracks.

media

  • Echaz-Bote, local edition of the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger (GEA) (was the official gazette of the city of Pfullingen until December 31, 2015).
  • Pfullinger Zeitung (Reutlinger Nachrichten) (was the official gazette of the city of Pfullingen until December 31, 2015)
  • Pfullinger Journal
  • Official Gazette of the City of Pfullingen (since January 1, 2016)

Facilities

  • Baths
    • Outdoor pool (Schönbergbad)
    • Indoor swimming pool (Echazbad)
  • Sports facilities
    • Kurt App Sports Hall
    • Stadium on Schönberg
    • Eierbach sports ground
    • Schönberghalle
  • City library

education

Further training:

Primary schools:

  • Burgweg School (primary school)
  • Laiblin School (primary school)
  • Castle School (elementary and secondary school)
  • Uhlandschule (elementary and special school)

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Karl Adolf Laiblin, (born December 3, 1850 - † March 6, 1921), paper manufacturer and councilor
  • Louis Laiblin , (born June 4, 1861 - † February 10, 1927), patron, donated the Pfullinger Hallen
  • 1996: Erich Möck, (* 1921; † 2006), municipal councilor for 40 years
  • 2005: Theodor Götz, (* 1930; † 2008), a. a. Local councilor for 34 years, rector at the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium
  • 2015: Rudolf Heß (* 1948), Mayor 1984–2015

sons and daughters of the town

The playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) is considered to be the “almost son” of Pfullingen . It is proven that his parents married in Pfullingen in May 1897 and spent their wedding night in the station building, where the bride's father was station master at the time. Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg nine months later. In 1997/1998 he was honored under the motto “Bertolt Brecht - made in Pfullingen” with various on-site events on the occasion of his 100th year of birth and “conception”.

Personalities who have worked or are working on site

  • Ernst-Reinhard Beck (* 1945), senior director of studies and politician (CDU). 2002, 2005 and 2009 member of the Bundestag elected in the Reutlingen constituency .
  • Fritz Ketz (* 1903, † 1983), German painter and graphic artist, who dealt intensively with the landscape of the Pfullinger Alb in his work. He lived in Pfullingen from 1945 until his death in 1983.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Langbein (* 1870, † 1954) medical practitioner in Pfullingen, President of the Württemberg Medical Association

Trivia

In 1572 Hans Kilian from Pfullingen in Rottweil was executed by burning. On April 15, 2015, the city council of Rottweil passed a resolution on the socio-ethical and moral rehabilitation of the victims of the witch trials.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pfullingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Pfullingen  - travel guide
Wikisource: Pfullingen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Eberhard Fritz: The "Achalm Pfandschaft" owned by the Tyrolean line of the House of Habsburg. Expansion efforts in Upper Austria during the Thirty Years' War. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter. 49, 2010, pp. 239-348.
  3. ^ Description of the Oberamt Reutlingen by Professor Memminger, member of the Königl. Statistical-Topographical Bureau. Stuttgart and Tübingen, in the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1824.
  4. ↑ https://www.pfullingen.de/de/Unsere-Stadt/Das-ist-Pfullingen/Historisches/Zahlen-und-Daten history of Pfullingen
  5. ↑ Results of the 2019 municipal election, Pfullingen , accessed on September 13, 2019
  6. ↑ gea.de Pfullingen elects Schrenk in the mayoral election ; Article by Petra Schöbel in the Reutlinger Generalanzeiger from October 20, 2014 (www.gea.de)
  7. ↑ Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms. Volume VIII: Baden-Württemberg Page 85 . With drawings by Max Reinhart. Angelsachsen-Verlag Bremen, 1971.
  8. ↑ Gerald Mager: Paul Bonatz and the construction of the Johanniterschule in Rottweil, in: 100 Years of the Johanniterschule Rottweil 1906-2006 . Ed .: Johanniterschule Rottweil. 2006, p. 130 .
  9. ↑ http://www.wanderindex.de/wanderverbaende/hauptverband/eichendorffplakette.html
  10. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.wertgutscheinsystem-pfullingen-fuehrt-den-pfulben-ein.aea11949-dfd0-45a8-b317-a6a7a6b16a44.html
  11. ^ Break for the people mover , Tagblatt.de of May 27, 2009
  12. ↑ http://www.suedwest-aktiv.de/region/albbote/rundschau_von_der_alb/4236272/artikel.php
  13. ↑ Information on the marriage of Brecht's parents in Pfullingen on the official Pfullingen website
  14. ↑ NRWZ Verlag ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwz.de