Diefenbach (Sternenfels)
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Diefenbach
Community Sternenfels
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| Height : | 285 (250-415) m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 10.31 km² |
| Residents : | 2765 (Dec. 31, 2012) |
| Population density : | 268 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1974 |
| Postal code : | 75447 |
| Area code : | 07043 |
Diefenbach is a district of the municipality of Sternenfels in Baden-Württemberg , which was incorporated on January 1, 1974.
Location and geography
The clustered village of Diefenbach is located in the Stromberg , about three kilometers south of Sternenfels. After Pforzheim is 26 km, Karlsruhe km 40 and from Stuttgart km 50th
The Diefenbacher district has a size of 1031 hectares . This forms the present-day Sternenfels district. If the location has a height of about 285 m above sea level. NN , the district in the east reaches a height of about 415 m above sea level. NN , in the south on the Metter a height of about 250 m above sea level. NN . The source of the Metter is located northeast of Diefenbach . It flows south on the eastern outskirts of Diefenbach and takes in the Gießbach flowing through the village just below . The L 1134, which leads from Sternenfels to Zaisersweiher , runs through Diefenbach in a north-south direction . The state road connects the K 4516 to Freudenstein north of the village . The Freudenstein Tunnel , named after this place, runs a stretch in the west of the Diefenbacher district.
To the east of the Diefenbacher district are the two nature reserves, Füllmenbacher Hofberg and Diefenbacher Mettenberg . In addition, the district is completely in the Stromberg-Heuchelberg nature park .
history
Diefenbach is first mentioned in 1023 as Duiffenbach . In addition to the Burrainhof and Mettenbacher Mühle farms, the Füllmenbacher Hof also belonged to Diefenbach . The expansion settlement of the beginning High Middle Ages probably took place from Knittlingen . Several bishops had properties in Diefenbach. As a result, the Maulbronn and Herrenalb monasteries also appeared in Diefenbach. In 1326 a castle barracks belonging to the Lords of Wössingen is mentioned. A Heiligkreuz church is mentioned in 1420 when it was raised to a parish by a branch church in Knittlingen . A Protestant parish church is built in 1621 by the builder Heinrich Schickhardt . From 1807 the place belonged to the Oberamt Maulbronn , from 1938 to the district Vaihingen , which in turn became part of the Enzkreis in 1973. On January 1, 1974, Sternenfels and Diefenbach merged into one community.
coat of arms
Until it gave up its independence in 1974, the Diefenbach community had its own coat of arms. The blazon reads: In red over a lowered silver (white) wavy bar, a silver (white) vineyard shape with a golden (yellow) handle.
Buildings
The Protestant Holy Cross Church belonged to Maulbronn Monastery , was a branch of Knittlingen and was raised to its own parish in 1420. The choir tower with cross ribbed vault, pointed arch south window and sacrament house is early Gothic on Romanesque foundation walls. The present church was in 1621 on the orders of the Württemberg Duke Johann Friedrich and the monastery, designed by architect Henry Schickhardt expanded to the north and west, and by incorporating a large west gallery as a cross church with a simple truss - roof rebuilt practically remained only the tower and the south wall consist. The stalls were aligned with the pulpit on the new north wall and the church was designed in Renaissance style inside and outside with corresponding scrollwork around the windows and doors and on the tower, seven preserved wall paintings of originally twelve apostles and an artistically worked stone column as a central support of the west gallery. In order to create more seats, a new pulpit in rural Baroque style was placed on the south wall in 1771, the now free north wall and the choir with galleries as well as the choir with parterre stalls and after removal of the Gothic vault equipped with an organ gallery, whereby the transverse church Character was expressed even more clearly. The renovation in 1968 under architect Walter Schink from Stuttgart reversed these fixtures and moved the pulpit to its current location on the choir arch and the organ on its other side. In 1934 the artist Adolf Hess (1893–1953) from Bietigheim-Bissingen created two colored windows with the Saile glass painting workshop in Stuttgart ("Resurrection" in the east window of the tower, "Birth of Christ" originally in the west window, since the renovation in 1968 in the south window of the choir) .
Personalities
- August Schmidt (1840–1929): the geophysicist and meteorologist was born in the village in 1840 as the son of a teacher and worked after his studies in Stuttgart, Strasbourg and Paris, among others.
literature
- Burkhart Oertel : Ortssippenbuch Diefenbach, municipality of Sternenfels, Enzkreis, 1558-1945. Neubiberg: Self-published by the author 2000 (= Württembergische Ortssippenbücher 43)
Web links
- Diefenbach on leo-bw.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Sternenfels
- ↑ State Institute for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
- ^ 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. 490 .
- ^ Martin Moravek: The Evangelical Parish Church in Diefenbach near Maulbronn ; Illingen 1986
- ↑ Five plans by Heinrich Schickhardt 1619/1620, see [1] and [2] ff