Eppelheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ' N , 8 ° 38' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Karlsruhe | |
| County : | Rhein-Neckar district | |
| Height : | 110 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 5.7 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 15,177 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 2663 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 69214 | |
| Area code : | 06221 | |
| License plate : | HD | |
| Community key : | 08 2 26 018 | |
| LOCODE : | DE EPP | |
City administration address : |
Schulstrasse 2 69214 Eppelheim |
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| Mayoress : | Patricia Rebmann (independent) | |
| Location of the city of Eppelheim in the Rhein-Neckar district | ||
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Eppelheim ( ) is a town in the Rhein-Neckar district . It is located in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg and in the area of influence of the directly neighboring regional center of Heidelberg . It belongs to the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar .
geography
Location and neighboring communities
The municipality belongs to the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and is located on the Neckar alluvial cone in the Upper Rhine Plain , only a few kilometers southwest of the Odenwald elevations and directly on the federal motorway 5 , which separates Eppelheim from the Heidelberg district of Pfaffengrund.
The urban area is almost completely surrounded by the Heidelberg urban district , so Eppelheim borders the districts of Wieblingen in the north, Pfaffengrund in the east and Kirchheim in the south. In the west lies the municipality of Plankstadt, which belongs to the Rhein-Neckar district .
With Mannheim is located about 20 kilometers northwest another regional center of the Rhine-Neckar .
City structure
The homestead Birkighöfe belongs to the town of Eppelheim.
For reasons of orientation, various urban areas are often referred to according to their location in relation to Landesstrasse 543 (Hauptstrasse and Schwetzinger Strasse), which crosses the city from east to west , with the corresponding points of the compass (e.g. northeast Eppelheim), but there is no precise delimitation .
history
Archaeological finds from the Neolithic , the Bronze Age , the Iron Age , the Roman Age and the Early Middle Ages suggest that the present-day urban area was inhabited by humans from an early age. Eppelheim was first mentioned in a document in 770 in connection with a donation in the Lorsch Codex under the name Ebbelenheim .
From the 11th century, Eppelheim was a typical small village in the Electoral Palatinate . The power of the Count Palatine included blood jurisdiction , military sovereignty and tax law (the so-called signs of high authorities ). The Palatinate Central Court in Kirchheim was responsible . The lower authority was the village itself: this included the local court, which carried a seal from which the municipal coat of arms was developed in 1895.
The population remained below 150 until the 18th century. One reason for this was that Eppelheim was burned down by French troops on January 28, 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession .
As a result, Eppelheim was rebuilt and experienced a steady increase in population, in the 20th century even a population explosion. The population rose from 2,644 in 1905 to 13,904 in 1997.
1803 Eppelheim became Baden.
As part of a district and community area reform , the Rhein-Neckar district replaced the Heidelberg district on January 1, 1973 . As a result, Eppelheim, like the independent community of Ziegelhausen, was to become a district of Heidelberg , against which the residents vehemently and ultimately successfully defended themselves. The good infrastructure and the good economic situation of the community also contributed to the prevention of incorporation.
In 1998, Eppelheim was elevated to a town by the state of Baden-Württemberg.
In 2007, the suggestion of Mayor Mörlein received supraregional attention to pay the newly levied tuition fees from the students if they accept charitable work amounting to 60 hours per semester.
Population development
| year | 1439 | 1577 | 1692 | 1727 | 1785 | 1802 | 1905 | 1933 | 1939 | 1960 | 1970 | 1991 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
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| Residents | 55 | 100 | 63 | 127 | 434 | 502 | 2,644 | 4,062 | 4.141 | 7,330 | 11,731 | 13,605 | 13,360 | 13,927 | 14,461 | 15,014 | 15,177 |
coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms reads: In red, a blue orb with gold fittings and a gold clover leaf cross.
It was adopted in 1900 and goes back to a court seal from 1699 on which the eppelheim mark was depicted. Possibly it refers to the folk etymological interpretation of the place name of “Eppel” or “Apples”. A connection with the heart shield of the Electoral Palatinate, in which the imperial orb referred to the electoral dignity of the Count Palatine near Rhine , is improbable . The flag is yellow and red and was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior in 1959.
Religions
As in the whole of the Electoral Palatinate , the Reformation was introduced in Eppelheim by Elector Ottheinrich and Eppelheim was thus Protestant . The Eppelheimer Pauluskirche in the Hauptstrasse, inaugurated on March 22nd, 1812 belongs to the church district Südliche Kurpfalz of the Evangelical Church in Baden . The oldest part of today's church, the tower portal, dates from the 2nd half of the 15th century. In the church there is the Michael window created by Harry MacLean in 1953 as well as “Jesus, the Good Shepherd” and “Outpouring of the Holy Spirit”. The two pictures "The Creation" and "Feeding in the Desert" for the new parish hall were handed over in September 1993, just a few months before his death. The Protestant parish received the original drafts of these works on permanent loan .
In 1876, however, the Catholics also got a house of worship again, the Josephskirche . Today, however, this is only used occasionally, as the main church of the Catholic parish of St. Joseph is the Christ the King Church on Rudolf-Wild-Straße. Since 2006, the parish belonging to the Archdiocese of Freiburg with the parishes of St. Marien im Pfaffengrund and St. Bartholomäus in Wieblingen has formed the pastoral care unit Christophorus (formerly Heidelberg-West ) in the Dean's Office Heidelberg-Weinheim .
After the Second World War, the consecration of bells in 1948 by Pastors Gottlob Hees and Josef Ott was a milestone for the town and the two parishes. The two parishes had agreed on the sound of the bells.
In the total population, the Protestants continue to make up the majority with 5,187 citizens, while 4,537 are Catholic and 4,412 belong to other religions or are non-denominational.
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council of the city of Eppelheim consists of the mayor as chairman and 22 members; the mayor is entitled to vote.
The 2019 local elections led to the following result (in brackets: difference to 2014):
| City council election 2019 | |||||
| Political party | Share of votes | Seats | |||
| Green | 31.1% (+5.5) | 7 (+2) | |||
| CDU | 26.0% (−4.8) | 6 (−1) | |||
| SPD | 21.7% (−4.3) | 5 (−1) | |||
| Eppelheim list | 14.7% (+1.6) | 3 (± 0) | |||
| FDP | 6.4% (+1.9) | 1 (± 0) | |||
| Turnout: 59.3% (+10.3) | |||||
mayor
- 1919–1933: Andreas Jäger
- 1933–1934: Philipp Martin
- 1934–1941: Oskar Max Paul Huebner
- 1941–1945: Philipp Jakob Stephan
- 1945–1954: Andreas Jäger
- 1954–1978: Peter Böhm
- 1978–1994: Hugo Giese
- 1994–2017: Dieter Mörlein
- Since 2017: Patricia Rebmann
Dieter Mörlein's term of office ended on December 31, 2016. Patrica Popp (supported by the SPD) was elected as his successor in October 2016. Because of a lawsuit by a citizen of Eppelheim, she was unable to take office on January 1, 2017. Until the decision was made, Dieter Mörlein remained mayor with voting rights. The Administrative Court of Mannheim ruled on August 15, 2017 that Patrica Rebmann (née Popp, had in the meantime married the Bundestag member Stefan Rebmann ) can take up the mayor's office. On August 18, 2017, Rebmann took up her position in the Eppelheim town hall.
Town twinning
Eppelheim has been twinned with Wilthen in the Lausitz ( Saxony ) since 1989 and with Dammarie-les-Lys in France since October 3, 1996 .
There are friendly contacts with Vértesacsa in Hungary and Montebelluna in Italy .
Neighborhood association
Eppelheim belongs to the Heidelberg-Mannheim neighborhood association , whose task it is to draw up the regional zoning plan.
Sights and culture
Water tower
The Eppelheim water tower was completed in 1907 and, with its height of 47.6 meters (including the top) and the 220 cubic meter collecting container, is the symbol of the city even at the beginning of the 21st century . From 1902 to 1905, the sewerage system was also expanded and the waterworks with pumping station (today: Jugendtreff Altes Wasserwerk ) built, thereby replacing the well water supply.
The water tower was shut down on April 27, 1983 and renovated from August 31, 1993 to March 31, 1994 in time for the 100th anniversary. The German Hare Museum, donated by Josef Walch , has been located in the tower since 2009 .
In May 2014, the incumbent mayor Dieter Mörlein proposed in a letter to the Bavarian State Chancellery that Uli Hoeneß (former President FC Bayern Munich), who had been convicted of tax fraud, be released from his prison sentence and instead placed in the Eppelheim water tower for the duration of his detention.
Rhein-Neckar-Halle
The Rhein-Neckar-Halle was built in 1970 as a large sports hall. It can be divided into three halls, with an additional four bowling alleys and a body building room in the basement and rooms for a restaurant.
Eppelheim Field Cross
The Eppelheim field cross in the form of a bud cross was erected on the Allmendgartenbuckel in 1984 , donated by Günther and Kurt Fath and Linus Wiegand. Since 1984, ecumenical services on "Ascension of Christ" have been held here.
Squares and gardens
You won't find any larger green spaces or park-like facilities in Eppelheim. However, in addition to the art mile in Konrad-Adenauer-Ring, there are a few smaller squares and gardens:
- Hugo-Giese-Platz
- Gottlob-Hees-Platz
- Jakob-Neu-Garten
- Günther-Rühle-Platz
- Leonie-Wild-Platz
Hugo-Giese-Platz (formerly the market square)
Gottlob-Hees-Platz
Jakob-Neu-Garten
Günter-Rühle-Platz
Leonie-Wild-Platz
societies
The oldest Eppelheim association is the Eintracht choral society, which was founded in 1844. In addition to the volunteer fire brigade with marching band, the concert association and the zither association from 1924 can also look back on a long tradition .
The fruit and horticultural association was founded in 1884 on the initiative of the Eppelheim teacher and later honorary citizen Jakob Neu. In his memory, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the association, the Jakob-Neu-Garten was laid out in 1984 (corner of Grenzhöfer Strasse and Bürgermeister-Jäger-Strasse).
Sports
The gymnastics club in 1888 Eppelheim was founded by the later honorary citizen Jakob Neu, in 1908 the flag, which has disappeared since 1945, was consecrated. Later the split into the still existing Turnverein Eppelheim 1927 (TVE) and the Allgemeine Sportverein 1888 Eppelheim e. V (ASV). The shooting club was founded in 1910. The DSKC Eppelheim for women and the VKC Eppelheim for men have been German bowling team champions several times . Dieter Zieher, Theo Holzmann and Richard Pelikan became European cup winners and world champions in bowling and received the highest German sports award, the silver laurel leaf .
Regular events
- March: Mineral exchange of the Association of Friends of Mineralogy and Geology e. V. (VFMG)
- April: summer train
- 2nd weekend in July: City festival with a hay cart race
- 1st weekend in October: Kerwe with street party and hobby painting exhibition
- November 11th: Martin's parade
- 1st weekend in December: Eppelheim Christmas Village
Kindergartens and schools
In addition to the Teddybär day nursery, there are kindergartens in Eppelheim that are sponsored by local authorities and churches, specifically:
- municipal kindergartens Villa Kunterbunt and Kinderhaus Regenbogen
- Protestant kindergartens Sonnenblume , Scheffelstrasse and Friedrich-Froebel
- Catholic kindergartens St. Elisabeth and St. Luitgard
Kindergarten Villa Kunterbunt
Nursery sunflower
Kindergarten Scheffelstraße (100th anniversary in 2000)
Kindergarten St. Elisabeth (100th anniversary in 2006)
Kindergarten St. Luitgard
The following schools can be attended in the school town of Eppelheim:
- Theodor Heuss primary school
- Friedrich-Ebert-Schule (community school)
- Humboldt Realschule
- Dietrich-Bonhoeffer- Gymnasium , founded in 1975 (first Abitur on June 23, 1984)
- Käthe Kollwitz Special School
Side entrance to Theodor Heuss School
Friedrich Ebert School
Humboldt Realschule and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium
Käthe Kollwitz School
Economy and Infrastructure
Business and economy
In the region, Eppelheim is still known today as a bricklayer village, as an above-average number of Eppelheimers have been bricklayers since the end of the 19th century . In 1903 there were around 500 bricklayers, not least because of the building boom that began in neighboring Heidelberg in 1870.
As in the entire northern Baden region, tobacco was also grown in Eppelheim for centuries .
The largest employers in the city are the Rudolf-Wild-Werke in the south with around 1,400 jobs. In addition, the company is an important factor for the city budget due to its trade tax payments .
power supply
Eppelheim has been supplied with gas by the city of Heidelberg since 1908 and with electricity since 1922.
Since 1989 Stadtwerke Heidelberg has been supplying drinking water to Eppelheim as a supplement to its own waterworks. From 2002 the entire management of the Eppelheim drinking water supply was taken over from there, initially for three years.
traffic
Eppelheim located directly on the motorway 5 and this with both the junction Heidelberg / Schwetzingen and the junction Heidelberg Wieblingen the Bundesautobahn 656 connected.
The city is connected to the neighboring university city of Heidelberg and other local public transport by the heavily frequented Heidelberg tram line 22 of the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr . The dismantled further part of this tram route to Plankstadt and Schwetzingen is now operated as bus route 713 by the Rhein-Neckar bus service . The bus route 732, also operated by the BRN, operates exclusively within Eppelheim as a so-called city bus . Eppelheim is part of the tariff area of the Rhein-Neckar transport association .
The Heidelberg – Speyer railway , which was closed in 1967 and on which Eppelheim had had a train station since 1870, passed on the southern outskirts of the city . The Heidelberg-Mannheim railway passes northeast of Eppelheim and connects the city to the RheinNeckar S-Bahn via the Heidelberg Pfaffengrund / Wieblingen stop .
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1906: Jakob Neu (1836–1921), senior teacher from 1878 to 1907
- Andreas Jäger, Mayor 1919 to 1933 and from 1945 to 1954
- 1979: Rudolf Wild (1904–1995), entrepreneur, founder of Wild Werke
- Alois Berberich (1913–2000), Second Mayor
- 1997: Leonie Wild (1908–2005), co-founder of Wild Werke
- 2001: Inge Burck
- 2003: Hans Stephan, rector a. D.
- 2006: Hans-Peter Wild (* 1941), entrepreneur
Personalities who worked in Eppelheim
- Wolfgang Ketterle (* 1957), grew up in Eppelheim, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)
- Ernst Knoll (1940–1997), eight-time German champion and two-time Olympian in wrestling
- Wolfgang Ernst (* 1957), lawyer, Lord Mayor of Leimen (2000–2016), grew up in Eppelheim
sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Ludwig Böhme (1803–1869), senior bailiff and member of parliament
- Karl Friedrich Bender (1806–1869), theologian, educator , head of the educational institution for boys in Weinheim
- Jakob Ruppert (1896–1958), owner of a steel construction company and member of the state parliament
Others
The inhabitants of Eppelheim are jokingly called " stable bunnies ".
Eppelheim is the smallest city in Germany, which has a particularly high population density.
literature
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and districts Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description .
- Vol. 1: General part . Karlsruhe 1966
- Vol. 2: The city of Heidelberg and the municipalities of the district of Heidelberg . Karlsruhe 1968
- Hildegard Nobel: Eppelheim - history of a village in the Electoral Palatinate , Milte-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1969
- Hildegard Schaab: Eppelheim - from the Electoral Palatinate village to a modern large community. Milte-Verlag, Heidelberg 1971
- Various authors: Discover history - Eppelheim . Eppelheim 1993
- Hans Stephan: The Eppelheim School Community - Dedicated to the students and teachers in my home community . Published by the Eppelheim municipality, 1984
- Franz Sobkowiak, Lothar Wesch: Eppelheim near Heidelberg: Eppelheim families from 1650–1900 . (Volume 139 of series B of the German Ortssippenbücher and volume 79 of the Badische Ortssippenbücher), Eppelheim 1996
- Dieter Mörlein, Hans Stephan: Under the roofs of Eppelheim . Geiger-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-89570-354-0
- Hans Stephan: Eppelheim in Pictures 1900–2000 . Heidelberg 2000, publisher: City of Eppelheim
- Elisabeth Dalhaus, Winfried Wiegang: Christ the King Church Eppelheim . Heidelberg Reprographie Andreas Grosch GmbH, 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 363-364
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 2), Certificate 678, October 20, 770 - Reg. 570. In: Heidelberg historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 248 , accessed on February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ "Tuition Fees. Eppelheim attracts young academics ” , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 28, 2007, No. 50, p. 5
- ^ Herwig John, Gabriele Wüst: Wappenbuch Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, ISBN 3-929366-27-4 , p. 55
- ^ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg: Municipal elections 2019, City of Eppelheim ; City of Eppelheim: municipal council election 2019 ; accessed June 2, 2019.
- ↑ FOCUS Online: Karlsruhe: Dispute over election in Eppelheim: judgment on Tuesday . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).
- ↑ Eppelheim citizens and councilors criticized Mörlein’s decision to remain in office . ( rnz.de [accessed on March 11, 2018]).
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 16, 2017 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.
- ↑ Patricia Rebmann is from today as mayor of the town hall . ( rnz.de [accessed on August 18, 2017]).
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 21, 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.
- ↑ Water tower instead of prison: Dieter Mörlein wants to bring Hoeneß to the Palatinate , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of May 17, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.hvv-heidelberg.de/hvv/Presse/2001/dezember/18.html ( Memento from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ A short history of the town - From bricklayer village to town. In: eppelheim.de . City of Eppelheim, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Hans Stephan: Why the Eppelheimers are called "Stallhasen". (No longer available online.) In: eppelheim.de . City of Eppenheim, 2007, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Friederike Milbradt: Population density: The closest cities. In: Zeit Online . March 27, 2019, accessed June 3, 2020 .
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