Eppingen
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ' N , 8 ° 55' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Stuttgart | |
| County : | Heilbronn | |
| Height : | 199 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 88.59 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 21,819 (Dec 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 246 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 75031 | |
| Primaries : | 07262, 07260, 07138 | |
| License plate : | HN | |
| Community key : | 08 1 25 026 | |
| LOCODE : | DE EPI | |
| City structure: | Core city and 6 districts | |
City administration address : |
Marktplatz 1 75031 Eppingen |
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| Lord Mayor : | Klaus Holaschke ( independent ) | |
| Location of the city of Eppingen in the Heilbronn district | ||
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Eppingen is a city in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Heilbronn-Franken region . It is located about 22 kilometers west of Heilbronn and about 41 kilometers northeast of Karlsruhe and belongs to the central area Heilbronn within the regional center of the same name .
Eppingen is the second largest city in the district of Heilbronn after Neckarsulm and has been a major district town since January 1, 2002 .
geography
Geographical location
Eppingen lies on the Elsenz , a left tributary of the Neckar , and on the Hilsbach , which flows into the Elsenz in Eppingen.
The Eppinger district is divided into two different natural units : in the north-west the loess-covered , undulating hill country of the Eppinger Gäus and in the south-east the plateau-like forest area of the Eppinger Hardt . The Eppinger Gäu is a sub-unit of the Lein-Elsenz-Hügelland, which is part of the Kraichgau natural area . It is bounded in the northwest by the ridge of the Eichelberg, in the southeast the Eppinger Hardt, belonging to the natural area Stromberg and Heuchelberg , stands out with a clear step . There is no clear border in the west and east.
The Gaulandschaft is characterized as a fertile, loess-covered Muschelkalk - Keuper area. It is mainly used for agriculture , has few forests and belongs to the old settlement area .
Neighboring communities
The following towns and communities border the town of Eppingen ( clockwise , starting in the northeast): Ittlingen , Kirchardt , Gemmingen , Schwaigern , Brackenheim , Güglingen , Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld (all districts of Heilbronn ), Sulzfeld , Kraichtal and Östringen (all districts of Karlsruhe ) as well Sinsheim ( Rhein-Neckar district ). With the communities of Gemmingen and Ittlingen, Eppingen has become the administrative community of Eppingen-Gemmingen-Ittlingen .
City structure
| district | Incorporation | Residents | surface |
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| Eppingen | - | 11,140 | 32.95 km² |
| Adelshofen | July 1, 1971 | 1,423 | 6.89 km² |
| Elsenz | Dec. 1, 1971 | 1,858 | 11.52 km² |
| Kleingartach | Dec. 1, 1971 | 1,697 | 11.23 km² |
| Mühlbach | Nov 1, 1972 | 2,056 | 6.14 km² |
| Rich | Dec. 1, 1971 | 1,624 | 11.09 km² |
| Rohrbach | Dec. 1, 1971 | 1,723 | 8.76 km² |
The urban area of Eppingen consists of the core town of Eppingen and the districts of Adelshofen , Elsenz , Kleingartach , Mühlbach , Richen and Rohrbach .
Eppingen itself includes the Raußmühle and Rosalienhof farms and the Odenberg-Wolfmüller and Ottilienberg residential areas , the Dammhof and Adelshofen residential area (mill) to Adelshofen, the Kirschenhof farm to Kleingartach and the Eichbühlhöfe, Hemmichhof and Rosbachhof districts. Berenbach in the district of Elsenz and Luneburg in the district of Kleingartach have been lost and no longer exist today.
Division of space
According to data from the State Statistical Office , as of 2014.
history
Early history
The location of Eppingen at the confluence of the Hilsbach into the Elsenz favored an early settlement at that point. The oldest traces of settlement are found in the Vogelsberg Gewann from the time of the band ceramics around 5000 BC. In addition, around ten settlements from the Neolithic period are known in the Eppinger district . Finds from later epochs ( Bronze Age , Iron Age , La Tène Period , Hallstatt Period ) suggest a continuous settlement of the ancient settlement area. At the time of the Romans there was a villa rustica in Gewann Risselberg near the Roman road from Stettfeld to Kastell Böckingen .
The name ending -ingen indicates the founding of today's place at the time of the Great Migration , probably during the Alemannic or Franconian conquest in the early Middle Ages. Traces of early medieval settlement in the area of today's cemetery and the discovery of Franconian row graves near Pfaffenberg show a settlement between the 6th and 8th centuries.
The first written mention of Eppingen took place in 985, as a property in Epbingon by Otto III. was given to the diocese of Worms . In the 11th century Eppingen was in the Salian , in the 12th century in the Staufer possession. In 1188 Eppingen was mentioned as a fortified place ( burgus ) in the Seligenstadt Treaty .
From a document issued by Emperor Friedrich II in Apricena in 1234 , it can be deduced that Eppingen was handed over to Margrave Hermann V of Baden as a pledge before 1220 and was already a town ( civitas ) at that time . The oldest city privilege with which the city of Eppingen was granted the rights of the city of Heilbronn by Albrecht I dates back to 1303.
A local nobility of Eppingen is mentioned in the 12th and 13th centuries, but played no significant role in Eppingen itself, but is rather mentioned in connection with the Teutonic Order in East and West Prussia. Between 1295 and 1314, Eppingen was the widow's seat of Adelheid von Ochsenstein , the widow of Margrave Rudolf II , who also ruled the area at that time. In 1364 and 1413 there are reports of a castle or chateau in Eppingen, but there are no reports about this manor from later times.
The city of Eppingen was able to acquire the neighboring Nieder-Mühlbach in 1365 and Ober-Mühlbach in 1372. A Latin school was first mentioned in 1421 . In 1435 the foundation stone was laid for a new, larger parish church . In 1462, after the victory of the Electoral Palatinate over the Margraviate of Baden in the Battle of Seckenheim , the city of Eppingen fell to the Electoral Palatinate, where the city was assigned to the Oberamt Bretten . From 1469/70 the city was pledged to Hans the Rich and his sister Metz von Gemmingen , who donated the chapel on the Ottilienberg in 1473. The lords of Gemmingen remained in possession of the pledge until around 1520. Beginning with this time, the city experienced a boom, of which stately buildings still herald today. In 1564/65 the old university was the alternative quarter of the university of Heidelberg .
Although a lot of historical buildings have been preserved in Eppingen, the city certainly suffered from the wars of the 16th to 18th centuries. During the Peasants' War , the town was sacked by troops of the Swabian Federation , because the destruction of Steinsberg Castle under Anton Eisenhut had started from Eppingen . During the Thirty Years' War , in addition to various troop movements and looting, the Battle of Eppingen took place in 1645, after which the city was occupied by Bavarian troops. From 1693 the main camp of the German Imperial Army was located between Eppingen and Stebbach in the War of the Palatinate Succession . This was under the command of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden . From 1695 to 1697 the Eppinger Lines were built to ward off the French invasions.
The oldest settlement core of the city is the old town around Altstadtstraße and Kirchgasse, which was bordered to the east by the arch of Elsenz and was walled in the Middle Ages. By the 17th century, the suburb stretching south-west along Brettener Strasse had already emerged, which was also surrounded by a wall reinforced with towers and gates. Important entrances to the city were the nearby Obertor and Stadttor in the area of today's town hall and the nearby Pfeifferturm . The northern part of the old town is the Linsenviertel , a poor day laborer settlement with a hospital building.
19th to 21st century
In 1803, Eppingen fell to the state of Baden , where it became the seat of the Eppingen district office in 1813 . This gave the city an important central function for the surrounding towns. The following period was an epoch of urban development that allowed Eppingen to grow beyond the boundaries of its city walls and still shape it today. In 1823 the town hall was built in place of the wine press at the Obertor , and a little later the equally generously designed rural model houses on the three streets to Adelshofen, Bretten and Rappenau. From 1859 the city was expanded to the northwest to include the neoclassical school and administrative district along Kaiserstraße. With the Eppingen Agricultural School, the city had the second oldest agricultural school in Baden. At the end of the 19th century, Eppingen was connected to the railway network (1879 towards Karlsruhe, 1880 towards Heilbronn, 1899 towards Heidelberg).
As part of an administrative reorganization, the Eppingen district office was dissolved in 1924. The city was assigned to the district office of Sinsheim .
At the time of the Third Reich , Eppingen was considered a Nazi stronghold. For example, on March 13, 1933, just six weeks after Hitler's seizure of power , the local council made Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen of the city and the renaming of “Brettener Strasse” to “Adolf-Hitler-Strasse”. This was justified by the fact that almost two thirds of the citizens of Eppingen had voted for the NSDAP . In the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933, 1173 of the 1959 Eppingers voted National Socialist . In addition to Hitler, the first honorary citizens of the city were the Nazi politicians Walter Köhler and Robert Wagner . During World War II , shelling and air raids caused considerable damage to buildings, around 100 of Eppingen's buildings were completely damaged, and around 100 other buildings were damaged moderately to severely.
The " economic miracle " years of the post-war period also brought structural changes to the city of Eppingen through the development of new residential and commercial areas - and more " guest workers " and other immigrants came to the town. The largest groups of migrants today come from Turkey and Kazakhstan , the latter being predominantly ethnic German repatriates , and Eppingen is also home to one of the largest Portuguese communities in the region.
In 1971 and 1972, a total of six surrounding communities (five communities in the Sinsheim district and the town of Kleingartach, which had previously been part of the Heilbronn district) were incorporated into Eppingen. The enlarged town of Eppingen initially still belonged to the Sinsheim district , which was then dissolved as part of the district reform on January 1, 1973. Eppingen was assigned to the district of Heilbronn , which belongs to the administrative district of Stuttgart . The former Baden city of Eppingen is now administered from Stuttgart in Württemberg. However, this had no effect on the assignment of churches and sports clubs, for example, as these still belong to the “Baden” umbrella organizations (diocese, regional church, sports district).
In 2000 the population of the city of Eppingen exceeded the 20,000 limit. In 2001, the city administration applied for a major district town , which the state government of Baden-Württemberg decided with effect from January 1, 2002.
Religions
The area of the city of Eppingen belonged to the diocese of Speyer from the 11th century . When the Reformation was introduced in the Electoral Palatinate in 1555 , the Lutheran confession was able to prevail, but the reformed confession was introduced in 1562 by the sovereign . After that Eppingen was predominantly Protestant for a long time, but changed - depending on the sovereign ("cuius regio - eius religio") - a total of eleven times. However, since 1698 there were again Catholic clergy in Eppingen, after there had been a few Catholics before, but they were looked after by neighboring pastors.
In 1707 the parish church of Our Lady , the only parish church in the city, was divided. The Reformed received the nave , the Catholics the choir . Around 1750 there were also Lutherans again who could use the St. Peter's Chapel for their services. After the transition to Baden in 1821, the two Protestant communities united to form the Evangelical Protestant community of Eppingen, which became a member of the Evangelical Church in Baden . Eppingen became the seat of a deanery, which was later dissolved and then re-established as the Eppingen-Bad Rappenau church district. This merged on January 1, 2005 with the Sinsheim church district to form the Kraichgau church district . In 1878 the Protestant community of Eppingen built today's neo-Romanesque church on Kaiserstraße. Since then, the town church has belonged entirely to the Catholics. There are also Protestant parishes and churches in the Eppinger districts of Adelshofen, Elsenz, Kleingartach, Mühlbach and Richen. The parish in the Kleingartach district is the only one in the Eppingen city area to belong to the Evangelical Church in Württemberg ( Brackenheim deanery ). A free mission work within the regional church is the Adelshofen community with the Adelshofen life center and a theological seminar.
The Catholics of Eppingen continued to belong to the diocese of Speyer until 1810 and from 1810 to the general vicariate of Bruchsal, which was responsible for the entire right-bank area of the former bishoprics of Speyer, Mainz and Worms. In 1821 the Archbishopric of Freiburg was founded as a new diocese for the Grand Duchy of Baden , and in 1827 the first Archbishop took office. Since then, Eppingen and its entire surrounding area have belonged to this archdiocese. Until December 31, 2007, Eppingen was the seat of the Bretten deanery, to which 15 parishes belonged. Since 2008, Eppingen has been part of the Kraichgau dean's office based in Sinsheim. The parish of Our Lady Eppingen with the Filialgemeinde Mariäänen Mühlbach forms the pastoral care unit Eppingen with the parishes of St. Valentin Rohrbach, Mariä Birth Richen and St. Marien Gemmingen / Stebbach. The parish Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Elsenz forms with the Kraichtal parishes the pastoral care unit Kraichtal-Elsenz.
Since 1901 there has been a congregation of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Eppingen , which (since 1971) belongs to the Eppingen / Sinsheim parish. Since 1865, preachers of the then Evangelical Community had been active in Eppingen, first from Zabergäu and later from Bretten. The first chapel was built in Mühlbach in 1901, followed by the Peace Church in Eppingen in 1903. The Christ Church, consecrated in 1985, was built as a common church of the Evangelical Methodist Christians in Eppingen, Adelshofen, Mühlbach and Ochsenburg.
There is evidence of a Jewish community in Eppingen as early as the 14th century. A larger community was formed after the Thirty Years War and grew to ten families with a total of 54 people by 1736. In 1749 a Jewish school is mentioned for the first time, which was replaced in 1772 by a new building in Küfergasse 2 (today's Old Synagogue ). In 1818/19 a Jewish cemetery was set up on the summit of Hellberg . The largest expansion of the Jewish community was in 1839 with 222 people, but then fell sharply due to emigration and emigration. From 1827 the community was assigned to the Rabbinate Sinsheim , from 1877 to the Rabbinate Bretten . In 1872/73 a new synagogue was built on Kaiserstrasse . In 1875 147 people were counted, in 1900 there were 124 people, in 1925 71 and 1933 60. The new synagogue was burned down in 1938 and demolished in 1940. By 1940, most of Eppinger's Jews had emigrated or moved to larger cities. The last four Eppinger Jews fell victim to the deportation of German Jews in 1940/42 .
The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Eppingen. The Islamic-Turkish Association has been maintaining the Mevlana Mosque in the city since 2003 .
Incorporations
The following cities and communities were incorporated into Eppingen:
- July 1, 1971: Adelshofen
- December 1, 1971: Elsenz , Richen and Rohrbach am Gießhübel and the city of Kleingartach (Heilbronn district)
- November 1, 1972: Mühlbach (the place, originally consisting of Ober- and Niedermühlbach, had belonged to Eppingen since 1363/72 and only became an independent municipality after the transition to Baden at the beginning of the 19th century)
Even decades after the incorporation, a large part of the residents of the Elsenz district are striving to regain independence for Elsenz and consequently want to detach the place 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, as it was accused of running 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.
Population development
Population figures according to the respective area. The figures are estimates, census results (¹) or official updates from the respective statistical offices ( main residences only ). The sharp increase in the number of inhabitants between 1970 and 1975 is explained by the incorporation of six previously independent cities and municipalities.
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¹ census result
politics
Local council and local councils
The municipal council of the city of Eppingen has had a total of 29 members (+2) since the local elections on May 26, 2019 , who hold the title of city councilor . The choice led to the following result:
| Party / list | Share of votes | + / -% p | Seats | + / - |
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| CDU | 32.1% | - 7.2 | 9 | - 1 |
| SPD | 23.9% | - 4.4 | 7th | - 1 |
| FBW | 26.9% | + 6.1 | 8th | + 2 |
| GREEN | 17.0% | + 5.4 | 5 | + 2 |
| total | 100% | 29 |
Another member of the municipal council and its chairman is the mayor.
In each of the localities of Adelshofen, Elsenz, Kleingartach, Mühlbach, Richen and Rohrbach there is a local council with a mayor who is elected by the population entitled to vote at every local election . Furthermore, each district has an administrative office as a branch of the city administration.
mayor
At the head of the city of Eppingen stood the mayor , who was appointed by the sovereign. There was also a mayor elected by the citizens. There was also a council, which in the 18th century consisted of a town council and a lawyer school as well as six council members and a town clerk . In the 19th and 20th centuries, the mayor headed the city administration. Since the elevation to the major district town on January 1st, 2002, the mayor has been named mayor . He is supported by an alderman with the official title of mayor .
- City leaders since 1903
- 1903–1933: Albert Wirth (Mayor)
- 1933–1937: Karl Doll (Mayor)
- 1937–1945: Karl Zutavern (Mayor)
- 1945–1948: Jakob Dörr (Mayor)
- 1948–1966: Karl Thomä (Mayor)
- 1966–1980: Rüdiger Peuckert (Mayor)
- 1980–2004: Erich Pretz (Mayor, from January 1, 2002 Lord Mayor)
- since 2004: Klaus Holaschke (Lord Mayor)
badges and flags
The blazon of the Eppinger coat of arms reads: In a split shield in front in gold a red sloping bar, behind in black a red armored and red tongued golden eagle . The city flag is red and yellow.
The sloping beam, the coat of arms of Baden , can already be traced in an Eppinger seal from 1454 and was the sole coat of arms of Eppingen until the 19th century despite belonging to the Electoral Palatinate. Only in the second half of the 19th century did Eppingen use a different seal image for a short time. To distinguish it, the imperial eagle was later added as a symbol of the former imperial village of Eppingen in reverse imperial colors in the rear half of the shield. This coat of arms and the flag were awarded to the city of Eppingen on February 14, 1958 by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior.
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Town twinning
Eppingen has twinned cities with Wassy in France (since 1967), Epping in England (since 1981) and Szigetvár in Hungary (since 1992).
Culture and sights
Eppingen is located on the southernmost of the nine routes of the German half-timbered road , which leads past many sights.
Buildings
In the historic center of Eppingen, which since 1983 as a complete system is a listed building, many monuments have been preserved. The list of cultural monuments in Eppingen names many objects in the city area.
- The Pfeifferturm from the 13th century is one of the city's landmarks . The 22 m high tower, built on a square base area with an edge length of 6.90 m, stands on 2 m thick foundation walls that are thinned to 60 cm at the top. The tower was an official prison from 1829 to 1859.
- Catholic parish church of Our Lady , built on the highest point of the old town, contains wall paintings around 1320 in the tower chapel. The nave of the church dates back to 1435. The building was badly damaged by bombs on April 4, 1945 and restored after the war. From 1969 to 1974 a transept was added.
- The Katharinenkapelle was built next to the town church in 1450. The building was secularized and served as a school for a long time, but still has a late Gothic cross vault. Since 1991, the facade of the former chapel facing the church has adorned the 10 meter wide representation of a dance of death .
- Another historic church building on the outskirts of the old town is the old diaconate , which goes back to a St. Peter's chapel built around 1520 . a. as a stable, Lutheran church, school, kindergarten and office building is to be converted into a residential and commercial building.
- The old university from the 15th century initially served as a late medieval department store with a meat hall, official hall, granary and wine cellar. In the plague years of 1564/65 it housed a faculty of the University of Heidelberg as an alternative quarter . Later the building was a residential building, for a time in the 18th century maybe also a Jewish school , at least this term has been preserved for the building. The city of Eppingen acquired the building from the owners between 1965 and 1973 and extensively renovated it from 1984 to 1987. Today a museum has been set up there.
- The Eppinger town hall on the market square was built in the Weinbrenner style in 1824/25 according to plans by the Baden building councilor Karl August Schwarz by the Eppinger foreman Franz Auchter . A modern extension is attached to the southwest of the building.
- The school and administrative district was built from 1859 to 1910 in a neoclassical style. The ensemble of school buildings, the former district court and other public facilities is unique in southern Germany in this neoclassical form. The neighboring Evangelical Church , built from 1876 to 1878 according to plans by the Karlsruhe building inspector Ludwig Diemer , rounds off the ensemble. Below the church there was also the New Synagogue of the Jewish community until 1940 , which today is only remembered by memorial plaques.
Catholic city church
Protestant church
Former Katharinenkapelle
Old synagogue
So-called Old University
Former diaconate
Baumann's house
So-called Ratsschänke
- Many other half-timbered houses from different eras characterize the romantic old town of Eppingen. The Baumannsche house was built in 1582 and is praised for his skillful framework construction. The floating gable house around 1500 has a rare Alemannic half-timbered construction. The Ratsschänke and the bakery from the 15th century are among the oldest half-timbered houses in the Kraichgau. Other distinctive half-timbered houses are the Old Synagogue of the Jewish community , built in 1772, with a distinctive wedding stone and the Leiningensche Schlössle near the town church. At the three-style corner on the corner of Zunfthausgasse / Kettengasse, Alemannic, Franconian and Baroque half-timbered houses meet.
- The rural model farms in Adelshofener, Brettener and Rappenauer Strasse were built in the first half of the 19th century and, due to their size, construction and building arrangement, were considered exemplary for the redesign of settlements in rural Baden around 1830. Some of the buildings were built after being destroyed in the war in 1945 Reconstructions from 1947 to 1952.
- The Linsenviertel is a former day laborer settlement around the street of the same name north of the town church, whose poor houses and narrow streets have largely been preserved. The old hospital , which was built in the 18th century and was later used as a poor house and is now used as a residential building, is also located here.
- The brewhouse and the other buildings of the Palmbräu brewery near the town hall form a striking inner-city quarter from the recent past. A glazed front allows a view of the copper brew kettle from Rappenauer Strasse.
- The Eppinger Bahnhof was built in 1879. The historic building was used for its original purpose until recently, then put up for sale in 2012 and acquired by the city of Eppingen on January 1, 2013.
- The Mevlana Mosque in the industrial park has been built in recent years and is a new landmark on the southwestern outskirts.
- On the Ottilienberg there is a renewed pilgrimage church from the 15th century and the remains of other historical buildings.
Classicist town hall
Half-timbered building in Altstadtstrasse
Half-timbered building in St. Petersgasse
Model courtyards in Adelshofener Strasse
More model yards
Jewish Cemetery
Historic buildings on the Ottilienberg
theatre
The Badische Landesbühne regularly organizes a guest performance in the town hall once a month. The Babuschka Theater and (in the Elsenz district) the Papata Marionetten-Varieté-Theater are located on site .
Museums and memorials
The old university now houses the city and half-timbered museum. The Pfeifferturm is also a branch of the museum, as is the Steinhauermuseum in Mühlbach , the farmer's museum in Richen and the wine-growing room in Kleingartach . In Elsenz, Mühlbach and Rohrbach there are also home parlors. In the Raußmühle , a private folklore collection with a focus on folk magic and folk belief is shown. The Sack private museum in Eichgasse has a rich collection of historical everyday objects in three buildings, as well as trade and craft facilities.
Memorial plaques at the location of the former synagogue at Kaiserstraße 6 / corner Ludwig-Zorn-Straße remind of the destruction of the house of God during the November pogrom in 1938 and of the city's Jewish families who fell victim to the Shoah .
Monuments
In the Hardtwald remains of the soil monument Eppinger Linien from the 17th century can still be seen.
Sports
Sport plays a major role in Eppingen, which is evident in the lively club life. The range of popular sports is diverse, but Eppinger athletes also repeatedly achieve good performances on a national and international level. This includes the 1st team of the SC Eppingen chess club , which has played several times in the 1st Bundesliga . The local soccer club VfB Eppingen also became known nationwide, playing in the 1st Amateur League North Baden on October 26, 1974, surprisingly beating Hamburger SV , the Bundesliga leader at the time , 2-1 in the DFB Cup . In the 1980/81 season, the club played one year in the 2nd Bundesliga South .
The Eppingen cycling and roller skating club has been active in roller figure skating for many years and has achieved many national successes. The RRV has also been able to send athletes several times to international competitions such as the European Championships and the European Cup.
The gymnastics club 1865 is active in popular sport, with over 1700 members it is probably the largest sports club in the area and has its own gymnastics home. The TV Eppingen directed next to the popular race Ottilienberg running even a year from a national high jump meeting.
Regular events
Themed tours of Eppingen and its history are regularly offered under the name Halbe nach Fünf . The Old Town Festival takes place every two years in July. The Eppinger Heimattage takes place every ten years (most recently in 2010). They were held for the first time in 1938.
A Christmas market has been held every year since 1985 at the beginning of December.
The Eppinger Potato Market has been held every year in late summer since 1999. Around the market square, Eppinger restaurateurs offer a variety of potato dishes.
Every year during the carnival season, the so-called night parade took place from 2003 to 2018, in which a few dozen clubs and groups (2011: 71) with hundreds of people accompanying them (2009: approx. 1700) and several thousand visitors (2011: estimated 15,000 to 20,000) came to Eppingen. An incident occurred in February 2018 in which a participant was severely scalded and had to be treated in hospital for weeks. In response, the 2019 and 2020 relocations were canceled.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Eppingen can be reached via the federal motorway 6 Mannheim-Heilbronn (junction Sinsheim-Steinsfurt and Bad Rappenau). The B 293 Karlsruhe – Heilbronn has been running north around the city center as a bypass road since 1996.
Local public transport is mainly served by the S4 line of the Karlsruhe Karlsruhe – Bretten – Eppingen Stadtbahn, which opened on June 1, 1997, on the Kraichgau Railway , with the Eppingen West and Eppingen railway stations . On September 26, 1999 the line was extended as part of the Heilbronn Stadtbahn to Heilbronn main station and in 2004 to Heilbronn city center. Another extension to Öhringen was opened in December 2005. The route from Steinsfurt , which has a stop in Richen , also leads to Eppingen . This was integrated into the RheinNeckar S-Bahn in 2009 and is now served by the S5 line. The tariffs of the Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr (H3NV) and the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (KVV) apply on the S4 tram . The route from Sinsheim-Steinsfurt belongs to the Rhein-Neckar transport association (VRN). The Eppinger districts are accessible by a bus network.
Established businesses
The traditional Palmbräu brewery , founded in 1835, is located in Eppingen . The international mechanical engineering company Dieffenbacher , founded in 1873, manufactures press systems and production plants for industry. The Vöroka company specializes in roofing.
media
The daily newspaper “Kraichgau Voice”, published by the “ Heilbronner Voice ” publishing house, reports on local events in Eppingen . The Eppinger Zeitung was the predecessor of the “Kraichgau Voice” .
In addition, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) from Heidelberg, with its local editorial office in Sinsheim, reports in detail on local events in Eppingen and in Kraichgau.
Authorities and institutions
Eppingen had a notary's office until 2016 . The Eppingen police station is responsible for the Eppingen administrative community, the city of Bad Rappenau and the Kirchardt community . The former Eppingen Municipal Hospital was closed in 2004, and the building has housed a health center since 2006.
education
In Eppingen there is the Hartmanni -Gymnasium , the Selma-Rosenfeld Realschule , the Hellbergschule , a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule, as well as the primary school in Rot . In the Elsenz district there is the Kraichgauschule special needs school . There are further primary schools in the districts of Adelshofen, Elsenz, Kleingartach, Mühlbach, Richen (Burgbergschule) and Rohrbach.
The private Christian Heinrich Zeller School for Educational Aid of the Kleingartacher e. V. as well as the Arnold-Dannenmann -Akademie, an institute for education and training courses of the Christian Jugenddorfwerk Germany with a technical school for social pedagogy complete the school offer in Eppingen.
The theological seminar in the Adelshofen district offers a master's degree in practical theology.
The Eppingen City Library has a stock of 18,000 media.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
The city of Eppingen has granted the following people honorary citizenship:
- 1933: Adolf Hitler (withdrawn in 1946, see Hitler as an honorary citizen )
- 1933: Walter Köhler (withdrawn in 1946)
- 1933: Robert Wagner (withdrawn in 1946)
- 1994: Otto Bachmann
- 1995: Heinz Faller
- 1995: Alois Frank
- 1999: Reinhold Maier
- 2004: Erwin Keller
- 2009: Klaus Kirchgeßner
In addition, the city awards heraldic plates at irregular intervals to people who have made a contribution to Eppingen .
sons and daughters of the town
Sorted by year of birth
- Konrad Költer (around 1465 - unknown), Rector of the Heilbronn Latin School from 1492 to 1527
- Hartmannus Hartmanni (approx. 1472–1510), canon at the Heidelberg Church of the Holy Spirit and founder of a scholarship that ran until 1949
- Johann Pavonius (before 1505–1544), lawyer, rector of Heidelberg University
- Johan Maurits Mohr (1716–1775), German-Dutch clergyman and astronomer
- Leopold Regensburger (1834–1900), lawyer
- Hillel Sondheimer (1840–1899), rabbi and author
- Jakob Renz (1866–1951), local historian, mayor and honorary citizen of Mosbach
- Hermann Emil Kuenzer (1872–1946), Reich Commissioner
- Otto Vielhauer (1875–1958), politician, member of the state parliament
- Hermann Gebhard (1878–1928), farmer and politician, member of the state parliament
- Johannes Kleinheins (1879–1938), local poet
- Adolf Vielhauer (1880–1959), missionary and translator of the Bible into the Bali language
- Alfred Beck (1889–1957), born in Richen, veterinarian
- Selma Rosenfeld (1892–1984), teacher and professor
- Willy Schmelcher (1894–1974), Higher SS and Police Leader
- Fritz Luz (1905–1987), managing director and editor of the Eppinger Zeitung
- Max Bravmann (1909–1977), professor for Semitic philology
- Joachim Pöltl (* 1953), horn player and professor
- Rosemarie Wenner (* 1955), Bishop of the United Methodist Church for Germany
- Lars Eric Paulsen (* 1989), presenter and editor at Rocket Beans TV
Other people associated with the city
- Matthias Quad (1557–1613), writer and engraver, was an assistant teacher in Eppingen from 1612
- Klaus Zapf (1952–2014), moving company
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ As of December 31, 2014; Source: Website of the city of Eppingen
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↑ Source for the urban structure section:
Das Land 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. 70–75 as well as supplements in Vol. VIII, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-17-008113-6 , p. 661 - ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Eppingen.
- ^ Peter Koblank: Treaty of Seligenstadt 1188. on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
- ^ RI V, 1.1 n. 2060 , in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
- ^ Eppingen City Archives : A 1204; Reinhard K. Hauke: No industrial accident in history. A chapter from the Nazi era in Eppingen / Adolf Hitler honorary citizen of the city , in: Heilbronner Voice from July 19, 1983; Reinhard K. Hauke: Triumphal procession for honorary citizen Adolf Hitler. A “brown” chapter in Eppinger's history. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . July 20, 1983.
- ↑ https://results.zensus2011.de/#dynTable:statUnit=PERSON;absRel=ANZAHL;ags=081255004026;agsAxis=X
- ↑ http://www.stimme.de/sport/ueberregional/fussball-em/em2012/lokal/Portugiesen-fiere-mit-Korso-in-Eppingen;art57963,1870684
- ↑ About us ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dekanat-kraichgau.de (accessed on November 28, 2015)
- ↑ The district of Eppingen / Sinsheim and Christ Church Eppingen at emk-eppingen.de (accessed on April 26, 2009)
- ↑ a b c 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 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg - municipal council elections 2019. City of Eppingen , accessed on September 24, 2019
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↑ Source for the section coat of arms and flag:
Heinz Bardua: The district and community coat of arms in the Stuttgart administrative region . Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (district and municipality coat of arms in Baden-Württemberg, 1). P. 59 - ↑ Simon Gajer: The ensemble received . In: Heilbronn voice . December 18, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed February 1, 2009]).
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ http://www.stimme.de/kraichgau/nachrichten/sonstige-Der-Bahnhof-soll-wieder-zum-Erlebnis-haben;art1943,2686004
- ↑ Memorial sites for the victims of National Socialism. A documentation . Volume 1. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-89331-208-0 . P. 33
- ↑ Steffan Maurhoff: Eppingen completely in fools hands during the night parade . In: Kraichgau voice . February 28, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on May 15, 2018]).
- ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.eppingen-grosse-zuenfte-reagieren-empoert.e387c81d-8f43-44e9-bbff-f17803736860.html
- ↑ Alexander Hettich: Night parade is finally about to end. Heilbronner Voice , August 1, 2019, accessed on May 5, 2020 .
literature
- Badisches Städtebuch ; Volume IV 2nd volume from "German Town Book. Handbook of Urban History - On behalf of the Working Group of the Historical Commissions and with the support of the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Municipalities, edited by Erich Keyser, Stuttgart, 1959
- Half-timbered town of Eppingen , a tour through the half-timbered town, a short history of Eppingen, the half-timbered building and a description of the striking buildings and districts. Numerous color photos. First edition 1993, second edition 1997. Published by the city and half-timbered museum “Old University” in Eppingen. Verlag Alte Uni Eppingen.
- Karl Diefenbacher: Ortssippenbuch Eppingen in Kraichgau. Lahr-Dinglingen: Albert Köbele successor 1998, 2nd edition (= Badische Ortssippenbücher 109); Processed period 1640–1970
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