Cleversulzbach

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Cleversulzbach
Cleversulzbach coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 190 m
Area : 5.28 km²
Residents : 807  (2009)
Population density : 153 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Evangelical St. Jost Church and Mörike Museum in the old school building

Cleversulzbach is a district of the city of Neuenstadt am Kocher in Baden-Württemberg , which has around 800 inhabitants.

history

Cleversulzbach was first mentioned in 1262 as Glefer Sulzbach . The place had different owners in the late Middle Ages, including the Lords of Weinsberg , the Lichtenstern Monastery and the Wimpfen Monastery . In 1504 the place came to Württemberg. After 1806 Cleversulzbach belonged to the Upper Office Neckarsulm , after its dissolution in 1938 to the district of Heilbronn . In 1939 the place had 441 inhabitants, in 1961 there were 500. On January 1, 1972 Cleversulzbach was incorporated into Neuenstadt am Kocher.

On May 31, 2008 Cleversulzbach had 804 inhabitants.

Religions

From 1799 to 1805 Johann Gottlieb Frankh, the husband of Friedrich Schiller's sister Luise, was a pastor in Cleversulzbach.

From 1834 to 1843 Eduard Mörike held the parish office. In 1841 his mother Charlotte Mörike died here , who is buried in the cemetery next to Schiller's mother Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller, who died in 1802 . Mörike created a literary processing of his time in Cleversulzbach with his poem The old tower cock .

Cleversulzbach coat of arms

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Cleversulzbach shows a blue grape in gold between two facing blue haps .

Attractions

  • The Mörike Museum in the old school building by the church is a reminder of Eduard Mörike's time in Cleversulzbach. There is also a Mörike path with 15 stations in the village . Mörike and Friedrich Schiller's mothers are buried in the cemetery in Cleversulzbach.
  • The Protestant St. Jost Church goes back to a building from 1592, before Cleversulzbach belonged to the church of the abandoned place Helmbund . The choir dates from 1592, the nave of the church was renovated in 1960.
  • Rectory from 1755, described by Mörike as a haunted house
  • Town hall from 1874

Viticulture

The Cleversulzbach district is a wine-growing town whose locations belong to the large Salzberg area in the Württemberg lowlands of the Württemberg wine-growing region .

Sons and daughters

  • Eugen Kaiser (born October 28, 1879, † April 4, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ), trade union official and district administrator in the Hanau district 1923–33. After the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944 he was arrested and in the Dachau concentration camp abducted .

Individual evidence

  1. Communications of the Württemberg Stat. State Office No. 4/5 of December 10, 1940: Results of the population and occupational census on May 17, 1939
  2. ^ 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. 450 .
  3. Facts & Figures ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on neuestadt.de (accessed June 28, 2008)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neuenstadt.de
  4. Helmut Braun, Rudolf Schwan, Werner Uhlmann: To Cleversulzbach in the Unterland. Eduard Mörike's time in Cleversulzbach . Betulius Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-89511-083-3

Web links

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