Berghausen (Pfinztal)
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Berghausen
municipality Pfinztal
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| Height : | 134 m |
| Residents : | 7072 (Jun. 2012) |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 76327 |
| Area code : | 0721 |
With over 7000 inhabitants, Berghausen is the most populous district of the Pfinztal municipality in the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg .
In the center of the village there is an education center with elementary, secondary, technical, secondary and grammar school. There are also several sports halls such as the Pfinztal, TSV and Julius Hirsch halls.
geography
Berghausen lies along the Pfinz and is surrounded by the four elevations Mickenloch, Heulenberg, Hopfenberg and Hummelberg.
Berghausen borders the localities of Söllingen , Wöschbach , Jöhlingen, Grötzingen and Durlach .
history
Finds of a skull and jaw parts of a person from the Paleolithic and stone tools and clay vessels from the Neolithic indicate an early settlement of the area.
Five Roman graves were found on the eastern edge of Berghausen in the Pfinz lowland. They had considerable grave goods, such as terra sigillata, and date from the turn of the 1st to the 2nd century AD. Seven Frankish stone box graves were found southwest of Berghausen .
The place was mentioned in a document for the first time in 771 when it was donated to the Lorsch Abbey and, as a result of the documentary mention, is the second oldest place in the Karlsruhe district after Bretten .
Berghausen is mentioned in the late 11th century in connection with the Hirsau monastery . According to this, the Gottesaue monastery owned a vineyard on the slope of the Hopfenberg as early as 1110 and by 1260 also rights such as patronage and the collection of taxes in the form of a tithe . In 1280 Berghausen is listed in the Weißenburg document book.
The lords of Gertringen got the village in the 14th century from the margraviate of Baden as a fief . There is evidence of local nobility from the middle of the 13th to the end of the 15th century, Messrs. Fry von Barghusen . The Berghausen moated castle was first mentioned around 1516 . However, little information is known about the inhabitants of the village. Most of the land was in the hands of the monasteries and the nobility. The population of Berghausen was one of the first to join the peasant revolts around 1525 .
After the division of the margraviate in 1535, Berghausen belonged to the margraviate of Baden-Durlach from now on . From 1650 to 1666 Conrad Heinrich von Selmnitz , the councilor of Margrave Friedrich VI. von Baden-Durlach , his residence in the castle. In the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689, the castle was apparently spared. The castle was located near today's Schlossgartenstrasse, east of the town between right Pfinzufer and Fischweier, surrounded by a moat and only accessible via a drawbridge - a stone bridge from 1748. In 1759, parts of the castle were already in disrepair. In 1761 the community acquired the castle from the then Margrave Carl Friedrich von Baden-Durlach , who later became the Grand Duke of Baden, and had it completely demolished. At the beginning of the 20th century, the location of the fish pond and the moat were still recognizable.
After the division ended, Berghausen belonged to the Margraviate of Baden from 1771, then to the Electorate of Baden and finally to the new Grand Duchy of Baden . There were uprisings among the Baden troops in Rastatt , Bruchsal and Karlsruhe . In 1848/1849, during the Baden Revolution , the place temporarily served as the headquarters of the rebels. The first railroad ran through Berghausen in 1859.
In 1918, after the last Grand Duke had abdicated, Berghausen belonged to the Free State of Baden and , during the Nazi era, to the Gau Baden . During the course of the Second World War, two thirds of all buildings were destroyed and four people were killed in a heavy air raid on the night of April 24th to 25th, 1944.
Berghausen has been part of Baden-Württemberg since 1952 . With the municipality reform, the place was incorporated into the newly founded municipality Pfinztal on January 1st, 1974 .
traffic
The existing road network of the municipality with the federal highways B 10 and B 293 , the district road 3541 and the two level crossings in Berghausen was overloaded by the rapidly increasing road traffic at the beginning of the 1980s. The traffic planning planned to pass under the level crossing in the direction of Jöhlingen and to open the intersection at the B 10 and B 293. This enabled both level crossings to be closed. This construction measure resulted in the demolition of various buildings, including the town hall.
The place is on the railway line Karlsruhe – Mühlacker and on the Kraichgaubahn (here the Hummelberg stop is on Berghausen district) from Karlsruhe to Heilbronn. On the Pfinztalbahn, the S5 trams run every ten minutes to Karlsruhe city center during the day, while the S4 on the Kraichgaubahn stops twice an hour in Berghausen. From Berghausen train station the shuttle bus route 151 also runs to Wöschbach.
economy
In addition to various industrial areas, Berghausen is also the headquarters of the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology . An industrial area for companies in the development sector was built adjacent to the site.
education
In 1953, the garden school was the first post-war school in Berghausen. Construction of the first section of the park school began in 1964. With the decision of the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of March 17, 1970, Berghausen was designated as the location of a so-called “large educational center” with a secondary school, a secondary school and a grammar school. All types of schools are represented in the Pfinztal Education Center in Berghausen. The Ludwig-Marum -Gymnasium and the Geschwister-Scholl- Realschule are named after victims of National Socialism . In the secondary school types, the education center has an all-day school including a cafeteria for catering for the students.
In addition to the municipal kindergarten "Rasselbande" and the day nurseries, there are other church childcare facilities in town.
The Pfinztaler youth center is also not far from the education center.
Churches and denominations
Several churches and denominations are represented in Berghausen: the Evangelical Church Congregation Berghausen-Wöschbach, the Catholic Parish Berghausen, the Liebenzeller Community Berghausen and the New Apostolic Church Congregation Berghausen. There are three church buildings in the center: the Protestant, Catholic and New Apostolic Church.
Public facilities
In addition to the education center, there are other meeting places such as the Pfinztalhalle, the TSV-Halle, the Selmnitzsaal, the Hopfenbergstadion and the Kulturhalle.
At the beginning of the new millennium, the “Europaplatz” was created in the center of the village, with a post office, local administration and other shops.
Attractions
Bertha Benz Memorial Route
Berghausen is on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route , which commemorates the first long-distance automobile journey in 1888, and led from Mannheim via Berghausen to Pforzheim and via Bretten back to Mannheim.
Martinskirche
The Martinskirche in Berghausen was originally a defense tower in the Romanesque style . The small, narrow window on the northeast side was added later in the late Gothic style, and the wall tabernacle (before 1356) inside the tower is from the same period . In 1754 the former pointed roof was given this shape. In 1862 the hollow bricks were replaced by black slate . When the church became too small in 1961 and also in need of renovation, the old nave was torn down . Some coins were found (the oldest from 1277) and old foundations and graves. The cover plate of a grave was made from the fragment of a Roman door threshold. The new floor plan of the church, an elongated hexagon, was designed by architect G. Einwächter, offers 660 seats and was handed over to its intended use in 1962.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the town of Berghausen has been used by the municipality of Berghausen since 1510. It was also awarded as a seal by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach. In the left half it shows the Baden coat of arms, the red sloping bar in the yellow field, in the right half the armored arm in silver, the hand in pink, which is holding a hanging red cloth. This right part recalls the local saint, St. Martin of Tours, who before entering the clergy as a knight cut his soldier's cloak with a sword and handed half of it to a cold poor.
societies
There are 33 clubs in Berghausen, including the CVJM Berghausen eV, the decision for Christ Berghausen, FC Viktoria Berghausen and the DRK -Ortsverein Berghausen eV
Personalities
- Kurt Emil Koch (born November 16, 1913 in Berghausen; † January 25, 1987), Protestant theologian and publicist
- Wolfgang Trust (born May 27, 1926 in Karlsruhe ; † April 14, 1986 in Baden-Baden ), graphic artist and sculptor
- Roland Geggus (born November 1, 1948 in Berghausen; † October 20, 2011 in Wöschbach ), basketball official, President of the German Basketball Federation
- Thomas Eisinger (born May 20, 1960 in Berghausen), evangelical theologian, religious educator
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 481 .
literature
- Hans Einwächter and Albert Zimmermann: Berghausen 771–1971 , Ludwigsburg 1971