Ellenberg (Württemberg)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ostalbkreis
Height :	574 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.2 km 2
Residents:	1734 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	73488
Primaries :	07962, 07961, 07964, 07965
License plate :	AA, GD
Community key :	08 1 36 018
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 25 73488 Ellenberg
Website :	www.ellenberg.de
Mayor :	Rainer Knecht ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ellenberg in the Ostalb district

Ellenberg is a municipality in the Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg with 20 districts, most of them small residential areas . Most of the inhabitants have the main town Ellenberg and the district of Breitenbach.

The community is a member of the agreed administrative community of the city of Ellwangen (Jagst) .

geography

Geographical location

Ellenberg is located at approximately half the straight line between Stuttgart and Nürnberg on the eastern edge of Virngrunds on the southern slope back to the top of the Northeast Hornbergs . The community has a share in the natural areas of the Eastern Alb foreland and the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains , both of which are part of the Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land , as well as the Middle Franconian Basin , a sub-area of ​​the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land . The European watershed runs through Ellenberg . At the eastern end of the village, the European watershed between the Danube and the Rhine is marked with a boulder.

Community structure

The village of Ellenberg, the hamlets of Althueb , Bautzenhof , Birnhäusle , Breitenbach , Eiberg , Georgenstadt , Gerhof , Häsle , Haselbach , Hintersteinbach , Kraßbronn, Muckental , Neuhueb , Rothof and Schmalenbach , the farms Schweizerhof and Zwiebelshof and the houses Dietlesmühle and Eiberger belong to Ellenberg Sägmühle , as well as the two places Huebberg and Ziegelhütte . In addition, the lost villages Vordersteinbach, Nytheim, Staudensägmühle, Geswende, Altengeswende, Niwengeswend, Butzenroden, Underburn bi dem Horn, Zem Brand, Absbach, zem Kapf, Heroltzberg, zem Hessen, Tiechenhart, zem Stainhaw, Zem Horn, Segmul am are located in the municipality obern newen weyer and segmul at the old wyer.

Kraßbronn

The district of Kraßbronn has twelve houses with 38 inhabitants (as of October 2019). The village sets up a maypole and a children's maypole every year. This place also has its own festival associated with a hobby soccer tournament that is held every July. Kraßbronn is about three kilometers south of Ellenberg.

Division of space

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

history

The community celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2000, as the first documentary mentions date back to 1300. Excavations, including in the church, suggest that settlements existed there before that. From 1806 Ellenberg belonged to the Oberamt Ellwangen . When this is resolved, the city came in 1938 County Aalen and has been part of the district reform in 1973 for Ostalbkreis .

Religions

Ellenberg is predominantly Roman Catholic . The few evangelical believers belong to the Wört parish . The parish church in Ellenberg is consecrated to the Sorrowful Mother of God . The baroque building contains a late Gothic Pietà from around 1500 as the most valuable work of art .

politics

mayor

In the mayoral election on March 8, 2009 with no opposing candidate, Rainer Knecht was confirmed for a third term with 99.13 percent of the valid votes cast and a voter turnout of 60.85 percent.

Municipal council

After the 2014 local elections, the local council has 12 members.

coat of arms

Blazon : In gold, a black elk head growing out of the edge of the shield and turned to the left .

In 1924, the community accepted a proposal from the Stuttgart Archives Directorate. The elk head refers to the place name as a talking coat of arms .

The municipal flag awarded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior on July 26, 1957 is blue and yellow. This color combination, which differs from the coat of arms, was determined by the municipality in order to distinguish its flag from the national flag .

Economy and Infrastructure

Ellenberg Church and School

education

In Ellenberg there is its own primary school with around 120 students. Secondary schools are mostly attended in Ellwangen . There is also a Roman Catholic kindergarten in the village .

Web links

Commons : Ellenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the community of Ellenberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Natural areas of Baden-Württemberg . State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2009.
3. ↑ [1]
4. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Stuttgart district, Franconian and East Württemberg regional associations. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 . Pp. 708-709.
5. ↑ Maps of the community of Ellenberg
6. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Ellenberg.
7. ↑ State Gazette No. 9 of March 13, 2009, page 12.
8. ↑ http://www.ellenberg.de/index.php/gemeinde/gemeinderat
9. ↑ Heinz Bardua: The communal coat of arms of the Ostalb district . Ostalb-Einhorn 10 (1983), pages 75-88.
10. ↑ Heinz Bardua: District and community arms in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1: The district and community coats of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.), Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 1987, 158 pages, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 .