Berglen

Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Rems-Murr district
Height :	308 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.87 km 2
Residents:	6387 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	247 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73663
Primaries :	07195, 07181, 07183
License plate :	WN, BK
Community key :	08 1 19 089
LOCODE :	DE GN5
Community structure:	9 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Beethovenstrasse 14-20 ; 73663 Berglen
Website :	www.berglen.de
Mayor :	Maximilian Friedrich
Location of the municipality of Berglen in the Rems-Murr district

Berglen is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg . The seat of the municipal administration is in Oppelsbohm.

geography

Geographical location

The large municipality of Berglen is located about 25 kilometers east of Stuttgart at an altitude of 300 to 450 meters in the Keuper hill landscape of Berglen , a western branch of the Welzheimer Forest between Schorndorf , Winnenden and Backnang . Most of the districts are located in the valley of the Buchenbach or on the valley slopes.

Community structure

Map of the municipality of Berglen

The municipality of Berglen with the districts Bretzenacker, Hößlinswart, Ödernhardt, Öschelbronn, Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach bei Winnenden, Rettersburg, Steinach, Vorderweißbuch consists of the following villages , hamlets and residential areas : Bretzenacker includes the village of Bretzenacker and the Volkhardsmühle residential area. The village of Hößlinswart belongs to Hößlinswart. The village of Ödernhardt and the hamlet of Erlenhof belong to Ödernhardt. The village of Öschelbronn and the hamlet of Stöckenhof belong to Öschelbronn. The village of Oppelsbohm (seat of the municipal administration) and the hamlet of Oberweiler belong to Oppelsbohm. Reichenbach bei Winnenden includes the village of Reichenbach and the hamlets of Lehnenberg and Spechtshof. The village of Rettersburg and the hamlets Drexelhof, Kieselhof and Linsenhof belong to Rettersburg. The village of Steinach and the hamlet of Kottweil belong to Steinach. The village of Vorderweißbuch and the hamlets of Birkenweißbuch and Streich belong to Vorderweißbuch.

Division of space

According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.

history

Berglen-Oppelsbohm

The municipality of Berglen was formed on April 1, 1972 through the merger of the previously politically independent municipalities of Bretzenacker, Ödernhardt, Öschelbronn (with Stöckenhof, which until December 31, 1971 largely belonged to the neighboring municipality of Bürg, which in turn became part of the City of Winnenden is), Oppelsbohm, Reichenbach bei Winnenden , Rettersburg, Steinach and Vorderweißbuch founded under the name Buchenberg . On December 27, 1972, the name was changed to Berglen . Hößlinswart was incorporated into Berglen on January 1, 1975.

Bretzenacker	Ödernhardt	Öschelbronn	Oppelsbohm	Reichenbach	Rettersburg	Steinach	Front white paper	Hösslinswart

Öschelbronn, Rettersburg, Oppelsbohm, Bretzenacker and Steinach were first mentioned in 1293 in a document from Lorch Monastery . These places came to Württemberg in 1325 with the rule of Winnenden . The other localities, belonging to the Adelberg Monastery Office , also fell to Württemberg during the Reformation around 1534.

With the new administrative structure in the Kingdom of Württemberg , which was founded in 1806 , Bretzenacker, Ödernhardt, Öschelbronn, Oppelsbohm, Rettersburg and Steinach (with Reichenbach ) were assigned to the Oberamt Waiblingen . The places Hößlinswart and Vorderweißbuch were subordinate to the Oberamt Schorndorf .

During the district reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , all nine municipalities came to the Waiblingen district in 1938 .

In 1945 the communities became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.

Oppelsbohm, the current administrative seat of the municipality of Berglen, grew in the post-war years through new development areas that arose at the northern and eastern exit of the town. In the 1970s and 1980s, a new residential area was added in the southwest of Oppelsbohm. Smaller new building areas also emerged in other districts.

As a result of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , the area of the new Berglen municipality became part of the Rems-Murr district on January 1, 1973.

religion

Hößlinswart community Berglen Rems-Murr-Kreis Evangelical Church

Christianity

Since the Reformation , the area of today's Berglen has been evangelical-Lutheran . There are Protestant churches in Oppelsbohm and Hößlinswart, and the municipality in Buoch is also responsible for some suburbs . The Catholics receive spiritual care from Winnenden. In addition to the two large official churches, there is also an Evangelical Free Church in the Federation of Evangelical Anabaptist Congregations and a New Apostolic Church in Steinach .

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 54.7% of the population in 2011 were mostly Protestant , 16.5% Roman Catholic and 28.8% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics and especially Protestants has fallen since then. As of August 2019, 48% of the residents were Protestant, 15% Catholic and 37% either belong to another religion or are non-denominational.

politics

town hall

mayor

Gerhard Schnabel, from 1964 to 1972 mayor of the former communities of Vorderweißbuch and Oppelsbohm. From 1972 to 1996 he was mayor of Berglen.
Wolfgang Schille, Mayor from 1996 to 2012.
Maximilian Friedrich has been mayor since September 13, 2012.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result:

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019 % 70 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 61.03% 24.66% 16.96% BWV FBB SPD-oLB Gains and losses compared to 2014 % p 6th 4th 2 0 -2 -4 + 4.19 % p -1.54 % p -2.79 % p BWV FBB SPD-oLB Template: election diagram / maintenance / new result not 100% Template: election diagram / maintenance / old result not 100%
BWV	Berglen civil voters' association	61.03	11	56.84	12
FBB	Free Citizens Berglen	24.66	4th	26.20	5
SPD-oLB	Social Democratic Party of Germany -open list Berglen	14.31	3	16.96	3
total		100.0	18th	100.0	20th
voter turnout		67.59%		57.14%

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold on a green three-mountain, a green cherry tree with nine leaves. One leaf symbolically stands for a sub-municipality of the entire municipality of Berglen.

Partnerships

Berglen has had a partnership with Krögis , today a part of Käbschützal in Saxony , since October 3rd, 1993 . There has also been a community partnership with Gaschurn in Austria since August 2016 .

education

With the neighborhood school In den Berglen, Berglen has a primary school with two outside classes in Steinach. Secondary schools can be attended in the neighboring cities. For the youngest residents of the community, there are five community kindergartens and a privately operated forest kindergarten .

Culture and sights

House in Berglen-Oppelsbohm

Museums

There is a local history museum in the Oppelsbohm district .

Regular events

The topping-out ceremony takes place annually in the Erlenhof district , organized by the Berglesbond local history association founded in 1992 .

Street festival by local clubs in the Hößlinswart district

Christmas market on the Saturday before the 3rd Advent in the Birkenweißbuch district

The Lindenfest takes place annually, usually in the first holiday weekend in the district of Birkenweißbuch, organized by the Musikverein Weißbuch.

The donkey race on the Hößlinswart sports field is organized annually on Whitsunday by the KTSV Hößlinswart.

The Bergles-Hock in Oppelsbohm is a joint village festival of associations, organizations and companies that takes place every two years.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Werner Hofmann (1920–2014), the former rector of the neighborhood school In den Berglen, is the author of the local history and several books on local history.
Gerhard Schnabel (* 1936) was mayor of the then independent municipalities of Vorderweißbuch and Oppelsbohm, administrative administrator of the newly founded municipality of Buchenberg and mayor of the municipality of Buchenberg and Berglen.
Klara Hofmann (* 1930) has worked in an exemplary manner for the Berglen population in an unselfish way and has done great services for the community of Berglen through her social, cultural and economic commitment.

Sons and daughters of the church

Friedrich von Klett (1781–1869), administrative officer and member of the state parliament
Johann Georg Hildt (1785–1863), master craftsman and architect
Georg Bernhard von Bilfinger (1798–1872), lawyer and politician
Hansel Mieth (1909–1998), German-American photojournalist
Jörg Hofmann (* 1955), trade unionist

People who have worked in the community

Otto Mörike (1897–1978), resistance fighter against National Socialism, was a Lutheran pastor in Oppelsbohm

Winkelhock 1985 Nürburgring

Manfred Winkelhock (1951–1985), racing driver, lived in the community until his death
Denis Scheck (* 1964), German literary critic, translator and journalist, grew up in Bretzenacker

Web links

Commons : Berglen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Berglen municipality

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume III: Stuttgart District, Middle Neckar Regional Association. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2 . Pp. 518-520.
↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Berglen.
^ 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. 459 and 464 .
↑ Berglen Religion , 2011 census
↑ Numbers & Data Berglen , accessed on April 22, 2020