Kämpfelbach

This article deals with the Baden-Württemberg community in the Enzkreis. There is also the stream flowing through it, which the article Kämpfelbach (river) deals with.

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '  N , 8 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Karlsruhe
County :	Enzkreis
Height :	284 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.64 km 2
Residents:	6357 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	466 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	75236
Primaries :	07231 (Ersingen) , 07232 (Bilfingen)
License plate :	PF
Community key :	08 2 36 074
Address of the municipal administration:	Kelterstrasse 1 75236 Kämpfelbach
Website :	www.kaempfelbach.de
Mayor :	Udo Kleiner
Location of the municipality of Kämpfelbach in the Enzkreis

Kämpfelbach is a municipality in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg about seven kilometers from the city of Pforzheim . Kämpfelbach has a community partnership with Civitella in Val di Chiana in Tuscany.

Ersingen Alte Kelter is a listed building

geography

Location and natural space

The municipality of Kämpfelbach is located in the transition area between the Kraichgau hill country and the northern Black Forest . This terrain also forms the transition between red sandstone and limestone .

The Kämpfelbach water body gave the community its name. It rises in Ispringen and, after a total length of twelve kilometers, flows into the Pfinz near Remchingen -ingen .

Neighboring communities

Kämpfelbach borders on the communities of Ispringen , Eisingen , Königsbach-Stein , Remchingen (district Wilferdingen), Keltern (Dietlingen) and Pforzheim (Brötzingen).

Community structure

The municipality of Kämpfelbach consists of the two former municipalities of Bilfingen and Ersingen. The former Ersinger place "Sperlingshof, Kinderheim" belongs to Remchingen today. In addition, the Bohningen, Weilerle and Kloster deserts are located in the Ersingen area .

Ersingen View of the center of the Ameisenberg with the church in front of it, former Zehntscheuer (1598). School from 1829 until 1965.

history

Burial mounds from the Hallstatt period can be found in Gewann Rainwald, Ernstenfeld, Kühlloch and Bernel. These are dated to 900–500 BC. Dated.

The first documented mention was Bilfingen in 1193 and Ersingen in 1197. This happened in papal bulls , in which Celestine III. the Frauenalb monastery confirmed its freedoms and possessions in Ersingen and Bilfingen. The names of the villages Ersingen and Bilfingen are of Alemannic origin. The Alemanni settled in this area around 260 AD . They gave the settlements the names of their clan elders, adding the syllable -ingen. Bilfingen is probably named after a Binolf and Ersingen after an Ergeso.

Common history of the villages Ersingen and Bilfingen

Bilfingen 1900

The two villages have more in common than meets the eye. The villages of Ersingen and Bilfingen formed a market cooperative and a double village with a common administration as early as the Middle Ages . Both communities had a common town and market charter . They differed from the neighboring villages not only in their religious affiliation, but also in their rulers .

The plague

In 1357, 232 people died from the plague in the villages of Ersingen and Bilfingen. The survivors took a vow and have been celebrating Vow Day on September 7th every year since then. In 2007 the parish celebrated the 650th day of vows.

Territory affiliation and denomination in the old kingdom

The history of the villages is closely linked to that of the Frauenalb monastery . In 1248 the Ersingen church was incorporated into the Frauenalb monastery. As a result of further acquisitions, the monastery is almost owned by the entire Ersingen and Bilfingen district from 1517. The Catholic faith was imposed on the communities as the property of the monastery. This changed in 1598 when state patronage and patronage over the property of the monastery passed from the House of Baden-Baden to Margrave Ernst Friedrich von Baden-Durlach . According to the principle of cuius regio, eius religio , the residents had to convert to Calvinism . In the course of this, the Frauenalb monastery was also closed. When Margrave Wilhelm von Baden-Baden regained possession of the two villages in 1625, they became Catholic again. In 1631 the Frauenalb monastery was rebuilt. From that year until the secularization of 1803, the two villages were again owned by the Frauenalb monastery.

Ersingen former Johannes Baptistae Kirchenburg today Catholic parish church Christ the King with a square tower shaft before 1258

19th and early 20th centuries

With the secularisation of 1803 the villages were part of the electorate , and since 1806 the Grand Duchy of Baden and were since 1821 part of the Oberamts Pforzheim, Pforzheim since 1864 the district office and since June 25, 1939 the district Pforzheim .

post war period

In 1945 the localities became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which became part of the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. In 1973 the district reform in Baden-Württemberg took place , when the communities came to the Enzkreis.

Foundation of the Kämpfelbach community

In the course of the community reform in Baden-Württemberg, people remembered the common past. On July 1, 1974, the two previously independent municipalities of Bilfingen and Ersingen merged to form the new municipality of Kämpfelbach.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Kämpfelbach has 18 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result. The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.

Parties and constituencies		% 2019	Seats 2019	% 2014	Seats 2014	Local elections 2019  % 40 30th 20th 10 0 35.16% 32.28% 14.32% 18.25% FW CDU SPD MuU Gains and losses compared to 2014  % p    6th    4th    2    0   -2   -4 -0.04  % p -3.32  % p.p. -1.78  % p + 5.15  % p FW CDU SPD MuU
FW	Free voters Kämpfelbach	35.16	6th	35.2	6th
CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	32.28	6th	35.6	7th
SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	14.32	3	16.1	3
MuU	human and environment	18.25	3	13.1	3
total		100.0	18th	100.0	18th
voter turnout		67.64%		58.0%

mayor

Udo Kleiner has been the mayor of the community since October 23, 2006. He was re-elected in 2014 with 86% of the vote.

Local government association Kämpfelbachtal

Kämpfelbach belongs to the municipal administration association Kämpfelbachtal . This has its seat in the town hall in Königsbach-Stein (district Stein).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Kämpfelbach has been used in its current form since 1976. It is the form of a draft, revised by the General State Archives, that was presented in a competition. It shows a red oblique left bar in gold (yellow), covered with two golden lilies.

The shield goes back to the coat of arms of the House of Baden-Baden . The two lilies indicate the two districts of Ersingen and Bilfingen. The lilies could already be seen on the coat of arms of the Frauenalbian double village Ersingen-Bilfingen. The lilies probably go back to Katharina von Remchingen, an abbess of the Frauenalb monastery (term of office 1537 to 1550).

Coats of arms of the former municipalities:

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  Bilfingen

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  Sing out

Culture and sights

theatre

The Mäddich-Bühne association regularly puts on theater performances in dialect in spring . The pieces are written by Wolfgang Haberstroh, member of the amateur drama group and chairman, and performed in a restaurant in Bilfingen.

Museums

The Association of Heimatpflege und Kultur Kämpfelbach renovated the Zehntscheuer store (community center) in order to display exhibits that represent the history of the place and the region. The Kämpfelbach local history museum opened its doors in October 2005.

Ersingen Mount of Olives Group

Attractions

• The Mount of Olives group represents the passage in the Bible in which Jesus and his disciples pray in the garden of Gethsemane on the day before his crucifixion. The group of images was first mentioned in a document in 1664. According to the artistic form, this group was created in the late Gothic period around 1500, the artist is unknown.
• Pilgrimage Church of John the Baptist (Bilfingen) Cemetery chapel and former pilgrimage church. Romanesque tympanum (only preserved as an illustration). Choir tower late 15th century.
• Celtic burial mounds from the Hallstatt period in the areas of Rainwald, Ernstenfeld, Kühlloch and Bernel dated around 900 to 500 BC.
• Fallen Memorial Chapel at the end of Kirchgrundstr. in Bilfingen (built in 1936 by Roman August Burkhardt, merchant from Durlach, "dedicated to the memory and blessing of my hometown Bilfingen")
• The Hügelland hiking club distinguishes hiking trails in the municipality of Kämpfelbach.

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  Ersingen former Johannes Baptistae Church, statue Johannes d. Partly late Gothic wooden sculpture around 1510 from Upper Rhine provenance

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  Ersingen statue Saint Catherine with book (H 1.18 m) (around 1510/1520)

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  Ersingen Johannes Baptistae church before renovation in 1931

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  Bilfingen pilgrimage church John the Baptist south side Romanesque tympanum location scratched painted window soffit

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  Bilfingen pilgrimage church John the Baptist Plan of the construction phases

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  Johanneskirche Bilfingen cemetery chapel and former pilgrimage church south view

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  Johanneskirche Bilfingen cemetery chapel and former pilgrimage church Maialtar

Slamming the windows

Child slapping the target at the target area

The Scheibenschlagen is an old pagan custom, which is carried out in Ersingen on Carnival Sunday and Carnival Monday. Small wooden discs on hazelnut sticks are made to glow in the fire and then thrown over the disc bracket (launch pad) into the valley. Ersingen is the northernmost village that carries out this custom, which is particularly widespread in the Alemannic-speaking area. The field name “ Scheibenplatz”, which was first mentioned in a document in 1532 as “schyblechten bletz”, testifies to the long tradition of cutting discs in Ersingen . After the First World War , hitting the windows was temporarily prohibited. The Nazi regime, which was out to preserve the old Germanic traditions, reintroduced this custom, which was organized and carried out by the Hitler Youth . After the Second World War , slamming the disc was forgotten for a while until it was brought back to life by the Bat Carnival Society, founded in 1956.

Mardi Gras

• Narrenbund Kakadu Bilfingen eV
• KG bat
• Guild of fools “Schildwach-Hexen” Bilfingen e. V.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 570 runs through Kämpfelbach. South of the community runs the federal road 10 , which enables connection to the federal highway 8 .

Kämpfelbach is on the Karlsruhe – Mühlacker (–Stuttgart) railway . There are three stops in the municipality: Bilfingen, Ersingen and Ersingen West, which are served by the S 5 tram every 30 minutes.

Public facilities

• Kirchbergschule in the Ersingen district (elementary, secondary and technical secondary school)
• Catholic kindergarten St. Michael in the Ersingen district
• Gym and festival hall in Ersingen
• Indoor swimming pool in Ersingen
• Primary school in Bilfingen
• Catholic kindergarten in Bilfingen
• Catholic public library of the Holy Trinity Bilfingen

Personalities

• Balthasar Vielsack, also called "Schimmelisbalz" (an Ersinger). After Moscow was burned to the ground in 1812, Napoleon I's troops withdrew with losses . Balthasar Vielsack hid the flag of the Baden regiment under his clothes and thus saved it.
• Franz Schaidhammer (* 1950 in Ersingen), graduate in administration, from 2000 to 2015 Lord Mayor of the City of Wiesloch
• Sappho Çoban (* 1994 in Karlsruhe), U-20 judo European champion 2012 and U-21 judo world champion 2013

Honorary citizen

• Johann Alexander Frey (born November 23, 1876; † February 24, 1960) was mayor of the municipality of Ersingen from 1919 to 1937. The difficult years after the First World War (inflation, global economic crisis ) fell during his term of office . The rulers of the Nazi regime forced him out of office in 1937.
• Gustav Adolf Reiling (* February 2, 1899; † March 7, 1973) wrote the local history of the former Frauenalb villages of Ersingen and Bilfingen . He also researched the history of the Reiling family back to the 16th century.
• Bernhard Geier (born August 12, 1911, † December 18, 1981) was pastor in Ersingen from 1950 until his death in 1981.
• Ernst Korb (born December 7, 1941) was initially mayor of the community of Bilfingen and from 1974 to 1998 mayor of the community of Kämpfelbach.
• Alois Weber (born June 30, 1928, † January 20, 2009) was pastor of the Ersingen parish of Christ-König for over 20 years.

literature

• Rudolf Vögele: 1997 Ersingen, our home - part of its history. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89570-292-7 .
• Michael Mutschelknauß: Bilfingen - in words, pictures and numbers. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1994, ISBN 3-89264-896-4 .
• Gustav Adolf Reiling: History of the formerly women Albic villages Ersingen and Bilfingen. 1937.

Web links

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

• Kämpfelbach community
• Association of Heimatpflege und Kultur Kämpfelbach
• Local tour of Kämpfelbach-Ersingen. Wine once flowed abundantly in ten inns. Bathing radio
• Catholic parish church Christkönig in Kämpfelbach-Ersingen Bells with fig. And peal
• Information on Kämpfelbach in LEO-BW, the regional information system for Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Visit from Civitella from September 2-4, 2011
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume V: Karlsruhe District Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-17-002542-2 . Pp. 547-548
4. ^ 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 .
5. ↑ http://www.kaempfelbach.de/de/rathaus/archiv/udo-kleiner-erneut-zum-buergermeister-von-kaempfelbach-gewaehlt-id_694/
6. ↑ Ulrike Kalbaum: Romanesque lintels and tympana in southwest Germany: studies on their form, function and iconography. Waxmann Verlag, 2011, accessed on February 3, 2019 .