Elsenz (Eppingen)

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Elsenz
City of Eppingen
Coat of arms of Elsenz
Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 229 m
Area : 11.52 km²
Residents : 1858  (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 161 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st December 1971
Area code : 07260
Through the town of Elsenz
Through the town of Elsenz

Elsenz is a village in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg , which has belonged to Eppingen since December 1, 1971 .

history

The village lies at the source of the Elsenz river of the same name and was first mentioned as an imperial property in 1137 , after which it was owned by imperial knights . The Electoral Palatinate acquired the place in 1365. When the Electoral Palatinate was divided, Elsenz fell to the Principality of Leiningen in 1803 , after which the Principality of Leiningen quickly became an independent municipality within the Grand Duchy of Baden in the Eppingen district . After a lightning strike in July 1905, several buildings in the center of the village were destroyed by flames. From 1924 affiliation to the Bruchsal district office , from 1936 to the Sinsheim district office . In 1939 there were 1257 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 there were 1320. On December 1, 1971, the municipality was incorporated into Eppingen and thus moved to the district of Heilbronn .

Even decades after the incorporation, a large part of the residents of the Elsenz suburb are striving to regain independence for Elsenz and consequently want to detach the village from Eppingen. Since supporters of this opinion were also represented in the Elsenz local council, there was a dispute between the Elsenz local council, on the one hand, and the Eppingen local council and the city administration, on the other hand, over the question of who should be the mayor of Elsenz, which was also noticed far beyond Eppingen should be chosen. The local council did not want to vote for the candidate proposed by the local council because he was accused of pursuing the destruction of the entire city. Instead, the local council elected another member of the local council to be the mayor, who did not want to accept the election.

Elsenz is still strongly characterized by agriculture, whereby traditionally tobacco is also grown. Today the place has about 1800 inhabitants. There are numerous historical properties in the village, but there is also a very high need for renovation.

coat of arms

Description : The coat of arms of Elsenz shows a naturally colored blue grape with green vine leaves on a silver shield.

Attractions

  • The Evangelical Parish Church was built in 1843 by a builder not known by name in the neo-Romanesque arched style.
  • The Catholic Dreifaltigkeitskirche is a neo-baroque building from 1912/13, which was built according to plans by the architect Johannes Schroth from Karlsruhe. A late Gothic Madonna around 1480 is part of the interior of the church.
  • Former town hall from 1873 with a distinctive wooden extension, today with a local history and tobacco museum .
  • The town center has many historic half-timbered houses, some from the 18th century, e.g. B. in Sinsheimer Straße 1
  • The Elsenzer See, the source of the river of the same name

  • Evangelical parish church

  • Trinity Catholic Church

Personalities

  • Johannes Müller (1865–1946), farmer and mayor of Elsenz from 1904 to 1933, was a member of Chamber II of the Baden Estates Assembly from 1913 to 1918

literature

  • Klaus Rössler: Ortssippenbuch Elsenz, district of Eppingen, district of Heilbronn, 1656–1925 . 2nd Edition. Cardamina-Verlag, Plaidt 2004 (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 83)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 29.
  2. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 2: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in North Baden
  3. ^ 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. 479 .
  4. ↑ Press release of the Greens parliamentary group in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from June 29, 2002 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Joachim Hennze : Churches in the district of Heilbronn . In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 978-3-928990-95-0 (Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian History, 35) (Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn, 17)
  6. ↑ Joachim Hennze: "Stylish but simple and worthy". Catholic churches in the Heilbronn area from the end of the Old Reich to the First World War . In: Heilbronnica. Contributions to the city and regional history . Volume 4. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2008, ISBN 978-3-940646-01-9 ( Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn . 19) ( Yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history . 36). Pp. 351-382

Web links

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