Bissingen on the Teck

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '  N , 9 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Esslingen
Height :	415 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.06 km 2
Residents:	3441 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	202 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73266
Area code :	07023
License plate :	ES, NT
Community key :	08 1 16 012
Address of the municipal administration:	Vordere Strasse 45 73266 Bissingen
Website :	www.bissingen-teck.de
Mayor :	Marcel Musolf
Location of the municipality of Bissingen an der Teck in the Esslingen district

Old Town Hall

New town hall with Marienkirche

Bissingen 1683/1685 in Kieser's forest inventory book

Bissingen an der Teck is a municipality in the Esslingen district . It belongs to the Stuttgart region (until 1992 the Middle Neckar region ) and the peripheral zone of the European metropolitan region of Stuttgart . Bissingen is part of the Swabian Alb biosphere area with a large part of its area (73.5%) .

geography

Geographical location

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Bissingen ad Teck as seen from the Hörnle lookout point

Bissingen itself lies at the foot of the Swabian Alb , the district of Ochsenwang on the Alb plateau. The municipality extends over an altitude of 384 m on the border with Nabern to 830 m in Brucker Hölzle, which is also the highest point in the Stuttgart administrative region.

structure

The municipality of Bissingen an der Teck consists of the core town of Bissingen and the district of Ochsenwang .

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities are Kirchheim unter Teck in the north, Weilheim an der Teck in the east, Neidlingen in the southeast, Lenningen in the south, Owen in the west and Dettingen unter Teck in the northwest (all Esslingen district).

Division of space

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

history

Early history

As one of the first places in the Esslingen district, Bissingen is mentioned in a document in 769 in the written records of the Lorsch Codex . From the 11th century to the middle of the 12th century, Bissingen belonged to the Zähring family , then to the dukes of Teck . The place came to Württemberg in 1326 with the acquisition of the Austrian half of the Teck rule.

Administrative history

Bissingen belonged to the Oberamt Kirchheim , which went up in 1938 in the Nürtingen district . In the course of the district reform in 1973, Bissingen came to the Esslingen district .

Incorporations

On January 1st, 1975 Ochsenwang was incorporated into Bissingen.

Population development

The population figures are census results (¹) or official updates from the State Statistical Office ( main residences only ).

Deadline	population
December 3, 1834¹	1,871
December 1, 1871¹	1,685
December 1, 1900¹	1,602
May 17, 1939¹	1,542
September 13, 1950¹	2,078
June 6, 1961¹	2.173
May 27, 1970¹	2,583
May 25, 1987¹	3,271
December 31, 1995	3,476
December 31, 2000	3,691
December 31, 2005	3,659
December 31, 2010	3,523
December 31, 2015	3,481

politics

Municipal council

In Bissingen, the municipal council is elected using the method of false suburbs . The number of local councils can change due to overhang mandates . The municipal council in Bissingen has 15 members after the last election (2014: 14). The local election on May 26, 2019 led to the following official final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 60 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 46.75% 53.25% FW UW Gains / losses compared to 2014  % p    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4   -6 -4.14  % p.p. +4.24  % p.p. FW UW
FWV	Free electoral association	46.75	7th	50.99	7th
UWV	Independent electoral association	53.25	8th	49.01	7th
total		100.0	15th	100.0	14th
voter turnout		69.99%		59.84%

mayor

In January 2011, the previous municipal treasurer Marcel Musolf was elected to succeed Wolfgang Kümmerle with 96% of the votes in the first ballot. Musolf was confirmed in office in January 2019 with 99.1% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon: In red on a green mountain a single-towered silver (white) castle (tower with conical roof on the left).

Since 1911, the municipality has been running the silver Teckturm on a green, wooded mountain as the local coat of arms in several different representations in the red shield. The municipality flag is white-red (silver-red). The coat of arms in its current form and the flag were awarded in 1975 by the Ministry of the Interior.

Culture and sights

Museums

Drawing by Margret Hofheinz-Döring (1979)

The Mörikehaus Ochsenwang is located in Ochsenwang .

Buildings

The Hahnenkamm castle ruins, southeast of Bissingen, were a satellite castle of the Teck.

The late Gothic St. Mary's Church (mentioned for the first time in 1275) houses a stone altar from 1542 with a richly decorated, baroque altar grille. The organ built by Johann Viktor Gruol in 1824 is a special gem .

music

Bissingen has a music association for brass music, divided into youth and regular bands. The “ Farrenstall ” at Pfarrstrasse 16 serves as its headquarters. On May 21, 2006, the music association won the state championship in the upper level at the regional music festival in Villingen-Schwenningen and vice federal champion in the upper level in May 2007 at the national competition in Würzburg. On May 16, 2010, at the 2010 Landesmusikfest in Metzingen, the title of "Upper State Champion" was successfully defended.

In addition to the aforementioned musical community, Bissingen also has a choral society. The MGV (male choir) is divided into a children's choir (the “Kibize”), a mixed choir (“Fresh Wind”) and a male choir.

Orchards as a defining landscape

Bissingen is located in the midst of extensive orchards . In order to maintain these biotopes, the Bissingen Fruit and Horticultural Association is committed to maintaining old trees to ensure that the landscape and varieties are preserved for future generations. This is done, among other things, by looking after the community's own orchards and setting up an old variety mother garden.

Natural monuments

The Randecker Maar in the district of Ochsenwang is a former volcanic vent of the Swabian volcano, which also created the conditions for the formation of the adjacent Schopfloch Moors .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Viktor Gruol the Younger (1807–1871), organ builder
• Christoph Ludwig Goll (1824–1897), organ builder
• Georg Ehni (1828–1904), member of the Reichstag
• Robert von Gaupp (1836–1908), State Councilor, Member of Parliament
• Friedrich Goll (1839–1911), organ builder
• Wilhelm Ederle (1901–1966), medic

Personalities who worked in Bissingen an der Teck

• Ignaz speckle (1754-1824), 1789-1795 manager of Pfleghofes of St. Peter in Bissingen, then the last abbot of the Benedictine - monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest
• Johann Viktor Gruol the Elder (1766–1836), organ builder
• Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), lived in Ochsenwang from 1832 to 1833
• Adolf Burkhardt (1929–2004), Lutheran clergyman and president of the International Christian Esperanto Federation , was pastor in Bissingen an der Teck between 1972 and 1991

literature

• Hans Schwenkel : Home book of the Nürtingen district. Volume 2. Würzburg 1953, pp. 155-176
• The Esslingen district. - Edited by the State Archives Baden-Württemberg i. V. with the district of Esslingen, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0842-1 , volume 1, page 361
• Manfred Keller, Alfred Hub: 1225 years - 769–1994 Bissingen - home between Teck and Breitenstein , first edition 1952, second edition 1972, third edition 1995

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Bissingen an der Teck.
3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 5), Certificate 3228, October 1, 769 - Reg. 433. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 124 , accessed on September 3, 2018 . 
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. 461 .
5. ↑ Election information for the municipal data center
6. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.klare-angelangel-fuer-marcel-musolf.7130a685-d508-431a-b124-6bf8205cd8c3.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ https://www.teckbote.de/nachrichten/lokalnachrichten-weilheim-und- Umgebung_artikel,-musolf-knackt-99prozentmarke-_arid, 224746.html
8. ^ Bissingen Music Association
9. ^ Bissingen fruit and horticultural association

Web links

Commons : Bissingen an der Teck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Bissingen an der Teck  - in the description of the Oberamt Kirchheim from 1842

• Community website
• Bissingen at leo-bw, the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg