Running on the Eyach

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Running on the Eyach
City of Albstadt
Former municipal coat of arms of Laufen
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 614 m above sea level NN
Area : 10.04 km²
Residents : 1707  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 170 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : May 1st 1973
Incorporated into: Ebingen
Postal code : 72459
Area code : 07435
map
Location map of Laufen in the city of Albstadt
Running as seen from the Böllat
Run from Böllat seen from
Running from the Lochenhörnle (2019)
Laufen town center and Gallus Church

Laufen an der Eyach is a district of Albstadt in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg . It is located on the Swabian Alb , about halfway between Stuttgart and Lake Constance .

history

The place was first mentioned in 793, when goods or rights in "Luofo" were given to the St. Gallen monastery . The name of the village refers to the six meter high waterfall of the Eyach , called Eyachlauf -  running is an old expression for rapids . The place was probably originally just a small mill settlement in Burgfelden , which was only expanded into a farming settlement after 800 by the St. Gallen monastery. At first, the place grew only slowly. Before 1266 it belonged to the Counts of Zollern , came to Württemberg in 1403 and belonged to the Balingen district here . Between 1560 and 1630 there was a period of extremely strong growth. The Thirty Years War destroyed more than half of the village. See also the article on the ramparts Burg Gräbelesberg .

The paper mill , which was built in 1740, gave the economy a boost . The Laufen paper mill also supplied the Cotta publishing house, which had Goethe's works printed on it.

From 1806 the place, subordinate to the Oberamt Balingen , belonged to the newly established Kingdom of Württemberg and from 1919 to the national state of the same name .

In the 19th century, Laufen expanded significantly, not least due to the fact that it was incorporated into the Württemberg railway network in 1878 during the construction of the Zollernalbbahn . In 1895 there was a major flood disaster in the town when the Eyach overflowed its banks and killed 15 people.

Laufen came to the district in 1934 and to the district of Balingen in 1938 . On February 20, 1945, 19 people were killed in a heavy bomb attack. The formerly independent community voluntarily joined the large district town of Ebingen on May 1, 1973 and became part of the newly formed town of Albstadt on January 1, 1975 as part of the community reform .

The chapel of St. Gall, first mentioned in Laufen in 1451, was probably a foundation of the St. Gallen monastery and belonged to the parish of Burgfelden. After the Reformation , the chapel temporarily became the seat of its own Protestant parish, until the place was incorporated into the parish of Dürrwangen. In 1897 Laufen became its own parish again after a new church had been built in 1875.

Population development

year Residents
1961 1396
1970 1577
1971 1596

politics

mayor

Mayor

  • 1975-2004: Rudolf Schlegel
  • 2004–2012: Willi Beilharz
  • since 2012: Peter Landenberger

coat of arms

The blazon of the coat of arms of Laufen an der Eyach shows a black wavy bar with three green fir trees (two above, one below) in silver. The wavy bar stands for the river Eyach, the fir trees for the forestry operated on site. The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality on June 8, 1949.

Buildings

Gallus Church, Laufen

Laufen's landmark is the neo-Gothic Evangelical Gallus Church, which was built from 1873 to 1875.

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Oscar Fraas (1824–1897), archaeologist, 1850–1854 pastor in Laufen

Economy and Infrastructure

As already indicated in the Laufen coat of arms, forest management plays a major role here. In particular, these are the so-called Klenganstalten: These are companies that extract the seeds from the pine cones in order to then sell them to forest companies and tree nurseries.

traffic

Laufen is located on the Tübingen - Sigmaringen railway line, known as the Zollernalbbahn , and on the 463 federal road .

Say

The ghost of the Gräbelesberg

On the Gräbelesberg people meet a ghost with its head under its arm.

The ghost at the Hossinger ladder

At the Hossinger Leiter on Lauterbach, a ghost goes with the people to the place. The man is said to have killed his wife in a saw many years ago.

literature

  • Gustav Rieber: Running: Stories from the Eyachtalgemeinde . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 978-3892647928 .

Web links

Commons : Laufen (Albstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Laufen an der Eyach  - in the description of the Oberamt Balingen from 1880

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 540 .
  2. ↑ Sesame. In: Black Forest Messenger . January 16, 2012, accessed February 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Hagenloch teacher: Questionnaire on folklore tradition . State Office for Württ. Folklore, Laufen November 16, 1900.