Balingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ' N , 8 ° 51' E |
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State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
Administrative region : | Tübingen | |
County : | Zollernalb district | |
Height : | 517 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 90.34 km 2 | |
Residents: | 34,217 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
Population density : | 379 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postcodes : | 72334 (bulk receivers), 72336 | |
Primaries : | 07433, 07435 | |
License plate : | BL, HCH | |
Community key : | 08 4 17 002 | |
City structure: | Core city and 12 districts | |
City administration address : |
Färberstrasse 2 72334 (bulk recipient), 72336 Balingen |
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Lord Mayor : | Helmut Reitemann ( CDU ) | |
Location of the city of Balingen in the Zollernalb district | ||
Balingen is a city in the south of Baden-Württemberg , about 75 kilometers south-southwest of Stuttgart and 65 km north of Lake Constance. It is the district town and after Albstadt the second largest town in the Zollernalb district and forms a central center for the surrounding communities. The large district town (since January 1, 1974) has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the neighboring town of Geislingen .
geography
location
Balingen lies on the edge of the Swabian Alb in the Eyach valley , a tributary of the Neckar . South of the city are the so-called Balinger Mountains , including the Plettenberg , the Schafberg and the Lochen (with Lochenstein and Lochenhörnle). To the west of the city lies the Lias Plain of the Kleiner Heuberg .
Neighboring communities
The following cities and municipalities border the city of Balingen. They are named clockwise starting in the north and all belong to the Zollernalb district:
Grosselfingen , Bisingen , Albstadt , Meßstetten , Hausen am Tann , Dotternhausen , Dormettingen , Geislingen and Haigerloch .
City structure
The city consists of the core town and the districts Dürrwangen , Endingen , Engstlatt , Erzingen , Frommern , Heselwangen , Ostdorf , Roßwangen , Stockenhausen , Streichen , Weilstetten and Zillhausen , although most of these districts were only incorporated into Balingen as part of the community reform of the 1970s . Heselwangen was incorporated into Balingen in 1934 and Dürrwangen in 1937 after Frommern. Weilstetten is an amalgamation of the two former communities of Weilheim and Waldstetten, which was completed on October 1, 1936.
For the districts of nine were villages within the meaning of Baden-Württemberg municipal code set, that is, they have each one of the eligible voters in each local election to be elected Ortschaftsrat with a mayor as chairman. The number of members in the local council depends on the number of inhabitants of the locality and is between 7 and 13. In each of the localities there is a local administration, quasi a "town hall on site", the head of which is the mayor. The nine localities are: Endingen, Engstlatt, Erzingen, Frommern (with Dürrwangen and Stockenhausen), Heselwangen, Ostdorf, Streichen, Weilstetten (with Roßwangen) and Zillhausen.
Some parts of the city still have spatially separate residential areas with their own names, which, however, usually have only a few inhabitants, or residential areas with their own name whose names have emerged in the course of development and whose boundaries are usually not precisely defined. The following are to be mentioned in detail:
- in the core city: southern and northern suburbs, Hinter dem Heuberg with Manchuria, Am Lindle, Sichel, Auf der Au, Burgenwand, Neige, Längenfeld, Spitalwiese, Heinzlesrain, Binsenbol, Am Stettberg, Schmiden, Heimlicher Wasen, as well as those outside the closed settlement area lying: Holderhof, Reichenbacher Hof and Stadtmühle.
- in Endingen: Eckhaus, Galgenrain and Kutzmühle
- in Erzingen: Bronnhaupten
- in Frommern: saw and brickworks
- to Ostdorf: Böllatmühle, Gießmühle, Kaunter Gipsmühle, Obere Mühle, Wirtschaft zum Kühlen Grund
- to Weilstetten: Hotel Lochen
- to Zillhausen: Wannental
Spatial planning
Balingen forms a middle center within the Neckar-Alb region , whose middle area includes the towns and communities of Dautmergen , Dormettingen , Dotternhausen , Geislingen , Hausen am Tann , Ratshausen , Rosenfeld , Schömberg, Weilen unter den Ginnen and rooms under the castle .
history
Medieval city foundation
Balingen was first mentioned in 863 as Balginga . In the 12th century, various nobles acted as local lords of the small village. There was probably a castle too. Balingen belonged to the Haigerloch rule , which existed until 1162 , when it fell to the Counts of Hohenberg . In the first half of the 13th century, the transfer to the Counts of Zollern took place , who made the place the seat of the Schalksburg rulership . The city of Balingen was founded in 1255, about 200 meters upstream to the previous settlement in a headland between Eyach and Steinach . The latter was only diverted later in the course of the city fortifications. The new main arm formed the southern moat, the old course the western one. With the town charter, the settlement grew rapidly and received a wall.
Wuerttemberg official city
In 1403 Balingen was bought by Württemberg (see The saga of the Hirschgulden ); the city soon became the seat of an office. In the 15th century, the city was pledged several times, including to Count Hans von Werdenberg and the Lords of Bubenhofen . The bailiffs and senior bailiffs responsible for the city resided in the former Zollern Castle .
As in 1350, Balingen was ravaged by the plague between 1463 and 1465 . After it had subsided, the so-called Sebastian Brotherhood was founded in honor of the plague saint Sebastian , whose annual accounts (1468–1528) are in the city archives. In the 16th century the plague reappeared. In 1610/11 it must have killed around 400 residents. Reliable figures are not available. The Thirty Years War led to the renewed spread of the plague. In 1635 the death toll must have been even greater. Experience with the horrors of war led to the founding of a new brotherhood in 1673 . In it craftsmen came together. Your drawer can be viewed in the tithe barn today.
The rebels from poor Konrad took control of the city in 1514.
From 1598 to 1600 the mayor's widow Anna Murschel was involved in a witch trial.
After the fires in 1724 and 1809, the town was rebuilt with a regular floor plan.
Oberamtsstadt in the Württemberg royal period
In 1758 Balingen became the seat of an upper office, which was considerably enlarged in 1806 with the establishment of the Kingdom of Württemberg through the annexation of formerly Upper Austrian and knightly areas and the city of Ebingen .
From 1810 the Oberamt Balingen belonged to the Landvogtei on the upper Neckar and from 1818 to the Black Forest District . Since the 19th century the residents mainly operated jersey weaving and were active in the glove and shoe manufacture, others operated cattle trade. With the opening of the Balingen railway station on the Zollernalbbahn in 1874, it was connected to the rail network of the Württemberg State Railways .
41 people - 5 in Margrethausen , 15 in Laufen , 10 in Frommern and 11 in Balingen - were killed by the Eyach flood on June 4th and 5th, 1895. Huge amounts of water from a thunderstorm tore down railway tracks between the Frommern and Laufen stations before it reached Balingen, flooding fields, uprooting trees, bridges and weirs, but above all, mills.
Republic and time of National Socialism
Since 1918/19 the city was in the free state of Württemberg . During the administrative reforms in Württemberg during the Nazi era , the Oberamt Balingen was renamed the Balingen district in 1934 and transferred to the Balingen district in 1938 .
From 1944 to 1945, plants and satellite camps of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp ( Frommern and Erzingen concentration camps ) were operated in the districts of Frommern, Engstlatt and Erzingen in order to extract fuel from oil shale as part of the desert company .
Although Balingen had never been a center of Jewish faith, the general practitioner Dr. Alexander Bloch and the textile manufacturer Herbert Schatzki, who took over the jersey factory founded by Gottfried Reiber and Carl Roller in 1889 in Bahnhofstrasse in 1920. By 1927, the company was able to expand roughly threefold . After years of exclusion, both emigrated in 1937.
The cattle dealer Wilhelm Levi from Haigerloch , whose wife Bertha was born in Balingen, apparently operated cattle trade here. He was deported with his wife and daughter Senta. Bella Levi was shot dead on March 26, 1942 in a mass execution in Bikernieki . Senta died on August 23, 1944 in the Stutthof concentration camp .
post war period
After the Second World War, the city of Balingen was in the French occupation zone and in 1947 became part of the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which in 1952 became the administrative district of Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
As a result of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , Balingen became part of the newly formed Zollernalb district since 1973.
With the incorporation of various surrounding communities, Balingen's population exceeded 20,000 in 1973. Thereafter, the city administration applied for a major district town, which the state government of Baden-Württemberg decided with effect from January 1, 1974.
History of the districts
The Balingen districts have a different history, but almost all came to Württemberg via the Counts of Zollern in 1403. Here they belonged to the Office or Oberamt Balingen, from which the Balingen district emerged in 1934 . Only Roßwangen did not come to the Balingen district until 1938, previously the place belonged to the Rottweil District Office .
Incorporations
The following municipalities have been incorporated into the city of Balingen or merged with the city of Balingen:
- 1934: Heselwangen (because of this early integration, Heselwangen was not treated as a separate district. The first local council elections did not take place there until 2007.)
- January 1, 1971: deleted
- July 1, 1971: Ostdorf
- August 1, 1971: Endingen
- September 1, 1971: Erzingen
- January 1, 1973: Zillhausen
- October 1, 1973: Engstlatt
- January 1, 1975: New formation of the city of Balingen through merger with Frommern (with Dürrwangen incorporated in 1937 and Stockenhausen incorporated on January 1, 1971) and Weilstetten (with Roßwangen incorporated on July 1, 1971)
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices (main residences only). It should be noted that between July 1, 1971 and January 1, 1975 extensive incorporations took place, which resulted in the big leap in the population development.
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- Population of the individual districts
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Balingen | 11,647 | 14,216 | 14,295 | 14,193 |
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Dürrwangen | - 1 | - 1 | 1,489 | 1,496 |
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Endingen | 1,056 | 1,256 | 2,335 | 2,321 |
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Engstlatt | 1,334 | 1,493 | 1,855 | 1,874 |
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Erzingen | 625 | 633 | 792 | 803 |
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Pious | 2,889 | 3,493 | 4,431 | 4,425 |
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Heselwangen | - 2nd | - 2nd | 954 | 959 |
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East village | 1.109 | 1,235 | 1,570 | 1,526 |
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Rosswangen | 518 | 607 | 745 | 738 |
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Stockenhausen | 242 | 257 | 260 | 265 |
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To brush | 383 | 444 | 563 | 571 |
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Weilstetten | 1,949 | 2,453 | 3,669 | 3,695 |
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Zillhausen | 726 | 806 | 901 | 872 |
religion
The area of today's city of Balingen initially belonged to the diocese of Constance and was subordinate to the archdeaconate ante nemus sive nigrae silvae . As a result of belonging to Württemberg, the Reformation was introduced in most parts of the city in 1534 , so that they were predominantly Protestant for many centuries. Only Roßwangen remained Catholic because this place was administered by knighthood and the local lords did not carry out any Reformation. In all Protestant locations there is therefore a Protestant parish and a mostly old Protestant church. The first Balingen church was mentioned in 1255 and was dedicated to Our Lady. It was the parish church of the old village of Balingen and initially remained the parish church of the city after it was founded. But it was outside the city wall. The St. Nicholas chapel, mentioned in 1343 in today's city center, became in the 15th and 16th centuries. The present town church was built in the 17th century and elevated to a parish church in 1516. As a result, the previous church was used as a cemetery church. In 1547, Balingen became the seat of a superintendent , which later became the parish of Balingen . The superintendent was initially subordinate to the general superintendent (today prelature) Tübingen, later Bebenhausen, 1810 again Tübingen, 1823 Reutlingen, 1913 Ulm and since 1956 Reutlingen again.
As a result of the strong growth of the municipality of Balingen, further parishes were established in the 20th century. In 1954, the old cemetery church became a parish church again (parish Balingen Ost, to which the parishioners in Heselwangen now also belong) and in 1968 a new parish center with another parish was established in the Schmiden residential area. The three parishes now form the Evangelical Parish of Balingen in the Balingen deanery of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . The Protestant parishes in the districts of Dürrwangen (with Stockenhausen), Endingen, Engstlatt, Erzingen, Frommern, Heselwangen, Ostdorf, Streichen, Weilstetten and Zillhausen also belong to the Balingen dean's office.
In the 19th century, Catholics again moved to Balingen, and later also to the other Protestant districts. In 1899 the congregation was able to build its own Church of the Holy Spirit, which was elevated to a parish in 1918. The parish of Balingen also includes the Catholics of the Engstlatt and Ostdorf districts, but Engstlatt has had its own church, St. Johannes Apostel, since 1966. The Church of St. Paulus was built in Frommern in 1965, and was made a parish in 1970. The local community also includes the Catholics in Endingen, Stockenhausen, Streichen, Weilstetten and Zillhausen. The parishioners of Erzingen belong to the parish Dotternhausen. The Catholic Church in Roßwangen was built in 1948, incorporating parts of the previous church from 1668, but a church is mentioned there as early as 1275, which was consecrated to St. John the Baptist and St. Dionysius. All Catholic parishes in the city of Balingen are now part of pastoral care unit 3 of the Balingen dean's office in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .
Since 2012 the former infirmary chapel has been used as an Orthodox Church of the Russian tradition, St. Martin von Tours used it.
In addition to the two large churches, there are also parishes in Balingen that belong to free churches , including the Evangelical Methodist Church , two Evangelical Free Church communities (Kernstadt and Zillhausen) and the Church of God . The New Apostolic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses are also represented in Balingen.
politics
Municipal council
The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following result with a turnout of 54.5% (+ 9.3):
Party / list | Share of votes | +/-% p | Seats | +/- |
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CDU | 23.6% | - 6.3 | 8th | - 1 |
SPD | 19.2% | - 2.7 | 6th | - 1 |
FWG | 17.1% | - 1.1 | 5 | - 1 |
FDP | 19.1% | + 4.0 | 6th | + 1 |
Green | 21.0% | + 6.1 | 7th | + 2 |
mayor
A lordly mayor has stood at the head of the city of Balingen since the 14th century . There was also the lordly Vogt as head of the Balingen office. In the 16th century a subordinate took over the management of the city administration as the bailiff's representative. This later carried the official title of Oberamtmann. There was also a mayor since 1441 and two mayors since the 17th century. They belonged to the council, which was first mentioned in 1382. In the 17th century a town schoolteacher was chairman of the council. The main task of the council was to oversee the hallway.
Since 1935, the mayor of the official title since the survey to district town in 1974 was from the city mayor Mayor carries. Today the Lord Mayor is elected for a term of 8 years. He is chairman of the municipal council and head of the city administration. His general deputy is the 1st alderman with the official title "Mayor".
Helmut Reitemann (CDU) has been Lord Mayor of Balingen since 2007 .
badges and flags
Blazon : "Under a golden shield head, in it a black stag pole, square of silver and black."
The city colors of Balingen are black, white and yellow. The flag was adopted in 1922. The town, which was enlarged as part of the municipal reform, also adopted its old symbols of sovereignty. They were re-awarded on June 18, 1975 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior . |
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Reasons for the coat of arms: The fourth shield is the old city symbol when Balingen was still under the rule of the Zollern. After the city became part of Württemberg, its symbol, the stag pole, was added to the coat of arms. The current form of the coat of arms gradually gained acceptance from 1535. |
Town twinning
Since 1980, Balingen has been twinning with the French city of Royan in the Charente-Maritime department .
Culture and sights
Balingen is on Hohenzollernstrasse .
theatre
Theater guest performances, operas, operettas and musicals as well as concerts and other cultural events take place regularly in the Balingen town hall .
Museums
In Balingen there is a scale museum, a local history museum, the Friedrich-Eckenfelder-Galerie, in the district Endingen a local museum and in the district Ostdorf a farm museum. The House of Folk Art in the Dürrwangen district contains a costume museum, a furniture museum and a shepherd's horn museum.
Buildings
The landmark of the city is the Zollern Castle . Adjacent to this is the former tanners' quarter, which is also known as "Little Venice".
The late Gothic Protestant town church houses, among other things, the tomb of Friedrich von Zollern. She was in 15./16. Built in the 18th century from an old chapel of St. Nicholas. In the choir there is the archive drawer of the saints care , a wall cabinet with heavy iron fittings, dated to the year 1598. It was used for the safe storage of documents, stock books and annual accounts of the saints care. However, the cemetery church is even older . This was mentioned as early as 1255 and was dedicated to Our Lady . Other churches in the city center are the Catholic Heilig-Geist-Kirche from 1899 and the evangelical community center Schmiden from 1968.
Part of the old city wall (former camera office )
Cultural monument at Balingen station
Natural monuments
In the Zillhausen waterfall , the Büttenbach plunges a total of 26 meters into a gorge, 17 meters of which in free fall. The waterfall is accessible from a parking lot below Zillhausen via a staircase. A smaller waterfall is two kilometers south in the Wannental above Stockenhausen.
Sports
Balingen with its districts has over 70 sports clubs. The largest sports club in the city is TSG Balingen with a wide range of sports. The most successful sports club is HBW Balingen-Weilstetten , which played in the 1st handball league from 2006 to 2017. After 2 years in the 2nd handball Bundesliga, he was promoted to the HBL again in 2019 .
Important sports facilities are:
- Bizerba Arena, around 10,000 spectator seats, etc. a. TSG Balingen's game and competition venue
- Sparkassen-Arena , since 2006, over 2,300 spectator seats, u. a. Venue of HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
- Artificial ice rink
Regular events
Art exhibitions of supraregional importance take place in the town hall at regular intervals of several years.
The metal festival Bang Your Head , which takes place every year in mid-July at the Balingen exhibition center, has achieved international fame and brings up to 20,000 visitors from all over the world to Balingen.
The Evangelical parish of Erzingen-Schömberg has been organizing the Balinger Rock Festival every year since 1995 . This took place in Erzingen until 2009, since 2010 the one-day music event has been at the Volksbank fair. Every year around 1500 fans of Christian rock music travel from all over Germany and neighboring countries .
Since 1986 the international folk dance festival has taken place every May 1st on the village square in the suburb of Dürrwangen and in the town hall of Balingen.
The Balinger Volksfest on the Messeplatz has been taking place since 1992.
Economy and Infrastructure
Established businesses
- The Balingen warehouse of EDEKA Handelsgesellschaft Südwest mbH, the largest employer in the region
- Bizerba , manufacturer of scales, cash registers, price labeling and labeling systems
- Ceceba , manufacturer of day and nightwear for men
- Uhlsport , manufacturer of sporting goods
- Spitta-Verlag , specialist publisher for dentistry, dental technology and medicine
traffic
Public transport
The Zollernalbbahn , which runs from Tübingen via Hechingen , Balingen, Albstadt and Sigmaringen to Aulendorf, runs through Balingen . In addition, Balingen is on the Balingen-Schömberg railway line , which is only used for excursions and goods traffic. Balingen has a total of six train stations : Engstlatt, Balingen (Württ) , Balingen-Süd, Frommern, Endingen and Erzingen.
The Public transport is by the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau guaranteed (NALDO). The city is located in honeycomb 331. The city tariff 31 applies to the city itself.
Private transport
The federal road 27 runs through Balingen , which joins the federal road 463 north of the Engstlatt district to the south of Balingen over a length of around 10 km . The B 27 connects the city to the north with the greater Stuttgart area and to the south with Schaffhausen in Switzerland . The B 463 runs north-west via Haigerloch to the federal highway 81 (junction Empfingen ) and south-east via Albstadt to Sigmaringen.
media
The most important local newspapers are the Zollern-Alb-Kurier and the Schwarzwälder Bote . The regional TV station RTF.1 can be received via cable .
Authorities, courts and institutions
The district office of Zollernalbkreis is located in Balingen. There is also a tax office , an employment agency , a notary's office and a district court , which belongs to the regional court district of Hechingen and the higher regional court district of Stuttgart.
Balingen is also the seat of the Balingen church district of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg and the Balingen deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .
education
In addition to the Balingen grammar school and the secondary school in Balingen, the city has had the Sichelschule Balingen community school since the 2013/14 school year . In the district Frommern there since 2016/17 the Schulverbund Frommern consisting of the basic and Werkrealschule Frommern and secondary school Frommern . There is also the Lauwasenschule ( special school ) and the language healing school. There are six independent primary schools (Schmiden, Engstlatt, Endingen / Erzingen, Zillhausen / Streichen, Längenfeld, Weilstetten / Roßwangen).
There is also the Balingen Adult Education Center with its centers in Balingen and Weilstetten. The city of Balingen is the school sponsor for the elementary, secondary and technical schools, secondary schools, community schools, the school association and the grammar school.
The Zollernalbkreis is the sponsor of the Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Schule ( vocational schools ) as well as the language therapy school Balingen and the nursing school of the district clinic Balingen.
The evening secondary school in Balingen, the Free Waldorf School in Balingen in Frommern and the Plettenberg School of Physiotherapy Training Center in Zollernalbkreis in Engstlatt round off the city's range of schools.
Personalities
literature
- Royal statistical-topographical bureau (ed.): The Württemberg Oberamtsbeschreibung 1824–1886: Balingen . Reprint: Sanders Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-7644-0056-0 .
- Erich Keyser (Ed.): Württembergisches Städtebuch ; Volume IV Sub-volume Baden-Württemberg Volume 2 from the German city book. Urban History Handbook . Stuttgart, 1961.
- City administration Balingen (ed.): Balingen 1918–1948. Small town in change (= publications of the Balingen City Archives, Vol. 3), Balingen 1991, ISBN 3-927936-11-1 .
- City administration Balingen (ed.): 750 years city of Balingen (1255–2005) (= publications of the city archive Balingen, vol. 7 ), Balingen 2005, ISBN 3-00-017595-4 .
- Gerd Schneider: Balingen: Impressions of a city . H. Daniel, Balingen 2000, ISBN 3-927936-32-4 .
- Michael Grandt: Enterprise "Desert" - Hitler's last hope . Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-87407-508-7 .
- Immo Opfermann, Roger Orlik: Frommern oil slate factory - industrial report (1947) . Sp-Verlag, Albstadt 2002, ISBN 3-9807873-1-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Lorenz Hertle: The fight . In: Schwarzwälder Bote , Balingen, November 22, 2014.
- ^ Susanne Rueß: The exclusion of Jewish doctors in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, in: Exclusion - Robbery - Destruction. Nazi actors and "Volksgemeinschaft" against the Jews in Württemberg and Hohenzollern 1933 to 1945 . Ed .: Heinz Högerle, Peter Müller, Martin Ulmer. 2019, ISBN 978-3-945414-69-9 , pp. 86 f .
- ↑ Monika Schwedhelm: Industry in Balingen, in: 750 Years of the City of Balingen 1255-2005 (= Publications of the Balingen City Archives, Vol. 7) . Ed .: City administration Balingen. 2005, p. 249 .
- ↑ Margarete Steinhart: Balingen 1918-1948. Small town in transition (= Publications of the Balingen City Archives, Vol. 3) . Ed .: City administration Balingen. 1991, ISBN 3-927936-11-1 , pp. 199-205 .
- ↑ Gäu-Neckar-Alb Memorial Association (ed.): Gedenkstätten-Rundschau . No. 7 , November 2011, p. 11-12 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipal 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. 524 f .
- ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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 .
- ↑ https://www.statistik-bw.de/Wahlen/Kommunal/02045000.tab?R=GS417002 State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Municipal elections 2019: City of Balingen
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- ↑ town twinning
- ↑ Harald Müller-Baur: The Balinger Heiligenvogtei, in: 750 years city of Balingen . Ed .: City administration Balingen. 2005, ISBN 3-00-017595-4 , pp. 528 .
- ↑ www.balingen.de (PDF file; 187 kB)
- ↑ Lisa-Marie Grimmer, Ebru Özdemir: Teamcheck HBW Balingen-Weilstetten: The "Gauls" want to keep the class. In: swr.de. SWR Sport, August 22, 2019, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ festivalticker.de , seen February 20, 2016
- ↑ Homepage