Weisenbach

This article deals with the community in Baden-Württemberg. For the German ice hockey player and coach see Heinz Weisenbach , for similar spellings in Weißenbach .

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '  N , 8 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Rastatt
Height :	228 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.07 km 2
Residents:	2450 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	270 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	76599
Area code :	07224
License plate :	RA, bra
Community key :	08 2 16 059
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 3 76599 Weisenbach
Website :	www.weisebach.de
Mayor :	Daniel Retsch
Location of the community of Weisenbach in the Rastatt district

View from the Hohlohturm into the Murgtal and Weisenbach

The center of Weisenbach with the parish church of St. Wendelin

Weisenbach is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the Rastatt district .

geography

Geographical location

The state-approved resort of Weisenbach is the smallest community in the Rastatt district and is located in the northern Black Forest in the deep valley of the Murg River in the middle between Rastatt and Freudenstadt . About two thirds of the municipal area are forested. Neighboring communities are Gernsbach in the north and Forbach in the south, both in the Rastatt district. In the west there is a short border to the city of Baden-Baden on the ridge at the Rote Lache pass . In the east, the Weisenbacher district on Hohloh extends to an altitude of about 982  m . The Murg reaches the municipality in the south at a height of about 220  m and leaves it in the north at about 180  m . The largest extension of the district in north-south direction is 3.7 km, in east-west direction 6.4 km.

Community structure

Au in the Murgtal

The community has existed in its current form since January 1, 1971. The Weisenbach community includes the villages Weisenbach, Au im Murgtal and the former Holtzmann factory settlement in Neudorf.

history

Weisenbach was first mentioned in 1336 in a document in the feudal book of the Speyer diocese . In the course of Baden-Württemberg's administrative reform , the then independent municipality of Au im Murgtal was incorporated into Weisenbach on January 1, 1971 . In 2001 the construction of the Birket construction area began .

politics

Administrative community

The community is a member of an agreed administrative community with the city of Gernsbach and Loffenau .

Municipal council

The local election on May 26, 2019 in Weisenbach led to the following official final result. The turnout was 69.9% (2014: 59.6%; 2009: 63.1%). The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Political party	be right	Seats	2014 result	Result 2009
CDU	48.4%	6th	53.9%, 6 seats	54.8%, 7 seats
Free Voters Association	51.6%	6th	46.1%, 6 seats	45.2%, 5 seats

mayor

On June 30th, Daniel Retsch was elected mayor. He is the successor to Toni Huber , who was mayor from December 1993 to May 2019. Gerhard Feist previously served as mayor for three terms.

Partnerships

Weisenbach maintains partnerships with the Saxon Kriebstein and the Italian San Costanzo (near Pesaro ).

Attractions

• St. Wendelinus Chapel on a ledge to the left of the Murg
• Catholic parish church St. Wendelinus, built in 1842/43 by the Weisenbach master builder Johann Belzer , neo-Gothic building to the right of the Murg, replaced a previous Baroque building.
• Tithe Barn (Heimatstube)

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  St. Wendelinus Chapel

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  Parish Church of St. Wendelinus

Economy and Infrastructure

Weisenbach train station

traffic

Weisenbach is connected to the rail network via the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn , which runs on the Murg Valley Railway. The federal highway 462 runs through the place.

Established businesses

The middle Murgtal with its formerly independent communities Bermersbach, Langenbrand, Au im Murgtal and Weisenbach was once the location of one of the largest paper manufacturers in Germany - E. Holtzmann & Cie. AG -Weisenbachfabrik with a total of five plants, three of them in the Murgtal, and over 5,500 employees. This paper company even had its own postal address “7566 Weisenbachfabrik” , as the extensive area of ​​the Murgtal plant extended over the boundaries of four municipalities at that time. After the company was taken over by the Finnish-Swedish paper group Stora Enso , the site and its factories were closed in 1995. The traditional company, which is more than 100 years old, was completely wound up, only the Wolfsheck plant , which is located on the boundary of the neighboring municipality of Forbach-Langenbrand, was retained as a Stora Enso production facility in the Murg Valley. However, Stora Enso sold this work to Arques Industries in 2006 for a symbolic sum of € . From September 1, 2006, this former Holtzmann production facility was managed by the company Salto Paper Papiermühle Wolfsheck , which was founded for this purpose . In July 2007, the plant was sold again to another strategic investor who shut it down in 2008.

What was left of the paper / cardboard processing area and at the core town exit of Weisenbach in the direction of Freudenstadt, directly on the B 462, is the manufacturer Katz GmbH & Co. KG , which emerged from the Katz International Coasters , in turn emerged from the external works of the former Gernsbacher Katz Werke AG - which is now the world's largest specialist manufacturer of drink coasters ( beer coasters ).

The cardboard and packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa Baden Packaging is also located with a so-called external plant . Although this part of the factory is located on the Weisenbach area due to the Weisenbach / Gernsbach municipal boundary, it is part of the Gernsbach main factory in terms of production technology.

The community acquired the Schlechtau part of the former Holtzmann site, which is located within the boundaries of the district, in order to set up an industrial area there. First of all, the community building yard was relocated there due to the better space and storage options.

After the closure of the paper mill as the most important employer in the middle Murg Valley, Weisenbach's character also changed to a residential community. Today, the vast majority of Weisenbach's residents earn their living outside the community.

education

With the Johann-Belzer-Schule , Weisenbach has a primary and secondary school with a technical secondary school . There is also a kindergarten in town.

Other infrastructure

A special technical feature in Weisenbach is a high-voltage line in a rare special design, the Hilpertsau-Weisenbach compact overhead line .

Personalities

• Eugen Holtzmann (1848–1901), paper manufacturer and councilor

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Belzer (1796–1868), master builder and building contractor
• Cornelius Krieg (1838–1911), pastoral theologian

literature

• Community Weisenbach (Hrsg.): Weisenbach - history of our community. 1986.
• State archives office Baden-Württemberg, district Rastatt and state media center Baden-Württemberg (ed.): District descriptions of the state of Baden-Württemberg - The district of Rastatt. Volume 2, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7995-1364-7 , pp. 530-545.

Web links

Commons : Weisenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the community of Weisenbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . P. 172
4. ^ 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. 500 .
5. ↑ http://www.weisebach.de/,Lde/weisebach_online/verwaltung/Weisenbach.html Portrait of Weisenbach
6. ↑ Overall result of the municipal council election on May 26, 2019. Accessed on July 9, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Mayoral election in Weisenbach. Retrieved July 9, 2019 . 
8. ^ Clemens Kieser, Karlfriedrich Ohr, Wolfgang Stopfel, Martin Walter: Art and cultural monuments in the Rastatt district and in Baden-Baden. Konrad-Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1599-5 , p. 336.
9. ↑ Arques AG: ARQUES sells Salto Paper AG to a strategic investor ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Starnberg, July 11, 2007)
10. ^ History of the Wolfsheck paper factory, Wolfsheck Business Park project group, accessed on February 18, 2011
11. ^ Badische Biographien , first part, Heidelberg 1875, p. 70 ( digitized version ).