Balzheim

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '  N , 10 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Tübingen
County :	Alb-Danube district
Height :	529 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.58 km 2
Residents:	2056 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	117 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	88481, 89165
Area code :	07347
License plate :	UL
Community key :	08 4 25 140
Address of the municipal administration:	At Dorfplatz 8 88481 Balzheim
Website :	www.balzheim.de
Mayor :	Günter Herrmann
Location of the municipality of Balzheim in the Alb-Donau district

Balzheim is a municipality consisting of the parts of Upper and Lower Salzheim in the Alb-Danube district in Baden-Württemberg .

The community belongs to the community administration association Dietenheim with seat in Dietenheim .

geography

Geographical location

Balzheim is around 25 kilometers south of Ulm . The municipality is located in the Illertal and on the Iller , but has only a few hundred meters of the river bank, as the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria follows the course of the river before the regulation.

Neighboring communities

The community borders on the city of Dietenheim in the north, the districts of Herrenstetten and Untereichen in the Bavarian municipality of Altenstadt in the east, Kirchberg an der Iller and Gutenzell-Hürbel in the south and Wain in the west , all three in the Biberach district .

structure

The municipality consists of the two parts of the municipality, Unterbalzheim, to which, in addition to the village of Unterbalzheim, the farms Halbertshof and Mühle belong, and Oberbalzheim with only the village of Oberbalzheim.

history

middle Ages

Balzheim was first mentioned on June 2, 1087. The name is probably of older pagan origin and is said to go back to Baldur , the Germanic god of light.

In 1372 Ludwig Krafft bought the dominion of Balzheim from the Swabian noble family Freiberg . Later, Ober- as well as Unterbalzheim belonged to the Counts of Grüningen-Landau. Through sale and subsequent inheritance, the rule came to the Counts of Kirchberg , who sold it in 1490 to Walter Ehinger, the family of Ludwig Krafft's wife, who built a castle here until 1504.

Modern times

In the middle of the 17th century Protestant religious refugees from Carinthia , Austria , settled in Balzheim.

After the Ehinger von Balzheim went out in 1734, in 1740 Franz Gottlieb von Palm (1691–1749), who came from Esslingen am Neckar and worked as a banker in Vienna , acquired the Ober- and Unterbalzheim , Bodelshofen and Steinbach estates . In Esslingen he also had the Oberer Palmschen Bau built, today's New Town Hall .

Coat of arms Oberbalzheim

Coat of arms of Unterbalzheim

In 1954 the municipality of Oberbalzheim inherited a sum of 1.4 million DM from the formerly resident Imre Karl Michael Julius Freiherrn von Palm (1884-1949). To make this possible, a comparison was made between the von Palm and family in 1953 come to the community of Oberbalzheim. In 1972 the "Oberbalzheim Foundation - Imre Freiherr von Palm'sche Foundation" was established and it was ensured that the income from the foundation only benefits the people living in Oberbalzheim and is not used for the legal tasks of the community.

Today's municipality of Balzheim was created on July 1, 1974 through the merger of the two then independent municipalities of Unterbalzheim and Oberbalzheim, which before 1972 had belonged to the Biberach district.

Religions

1,100 people are today Evangelical Lutheran , while 600 people are Catholic.

Population development

Unterbalzheim around 1900

year	Population numbers
1880	975
1900	884
1925	995
1939	855
1950	1071
1961	1156
1970	1286
1980	1597
1990	1641
1995	1825
2000	2011
2005	2020
2010	1993
2015	2026

politics

Administrative association

The community belongs to the community administration association Dietenheim with seat in Dietenheim .

Municipal council

The municipal council in Balzheim has 10 members. It consists of the elected honorary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 25, 2014 led to the following official final result:

Parties and constituencies		% 2014	Seats 2014	% 2009	Seats 2009	Local election 2014  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 51.3% 48.7% BL FW
BL	Citizen List	51.3	5	not known	not known
FWV	Free electoral association	48.7	5	not known	not known
total		100.0	10	100.0	10
voter turnout		60.8%		60.4%

Economy and Infrastructure

Balzheim has over 500 jobs and is a small center for precision mechanics. The family company Gebrüder Otto is a major employer; it produces yarns and threads in Dietenheim and Unterbalzheim.

education

Balzheim has its own primary school , secondary schools can be attended in the neighboring communities. There is also a kindergarten in each of the two districts .

Culture and sights

• Imre Freiherr von Palm'sche Stiftung Oberbalzheim: Organization of concerts, readings, etc.

Buildings

• Upper Castle and Lower Castle in Oberbalzheim
• Trinity Church Oberbalzheim
• Mauritius Church in Unterbalzheim
• Foundation hall in Oberbalzheim
• Hans-Ehinger-Haus (parish hall of the Protestant parish of Balzheim) in Unterbalzheim
• Village community center in Unterbalzheim

Culinary specialties

A particular specialty is the Balzheimer sausage called "Balzheimer" . This is also called "Lutheran" in the region because it was brought to Balzheim by the Protestant religious refugees.

sons and daughters of the town

• Christian Wirth , called "Christian the Grausame", (1885–1944), German police officer, SS-Sturmbannführer , 1st commander of the Belzec extermination camp , significantly involved in the T4 campaign.

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  Balzheim, the Upper Castle with the Trinity Church

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  Balzheim, the lower castle

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  Unterbalzheim, former school

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  Unterbalzheim, view of the Illertal, on the right the Mauritius Church

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societies

The clubs in Balzheim play a strong role in public life and are also a meeting place for the Balzheim youth. These include the Balzheim sports club, the Balzheim shooting club, the Balzheim music club, the Balzheim sports fishing club, the Balzheim Theater Friends, the Kessler Hexa Balzheim and EC Jugendarbeit Balzheim.

literature

• Description of the Oberamt Laupheim . 1856
  • Ober-Balzheim ( Wikisource )
  • Unter-Balzheim ( Wikisource )

Web links

Commons : Balzheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Balzheim at LEO-BW
• Internet presence of the municipality of Balzheim
• Oberbalzheim Foundation
• Description of the Balzheimer Wurst or "Lutheran" ( Memento from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Gert Kollmer-von Oheimb-Loup :  Palm, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 19 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ↑ Dr. Imre Karl Michael Julius Freiherrn von Palm
4. ↑ Eßlinger Zeitung: The richest village in the country from December 18, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2014.
5. ↑ "The purpose of the foundation is to serve the general best of the people living in the former municipality of Oberbalzheim in material, intellectual and moral areas in addition to the tasks of the municipality". . Accessed on November 13, 2010. Excerpt from the foundation statutes from 1972
6. ↑ contribution . Retrieved on November 13, 2010. kirchenfernsehen.de - The video portal of the Protestant regional church in Württemberg.
7. ↑ Alfred Wiedemann: Lutheran sausages have been on the table in Balzheim for 360 years . In: Südwest Presse . February 20, 2017 ( swp.de [accessed July 18, 2017]).