Essingen (Württemberg)

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 10 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Stuttgart
County :	Ostalbkreis
Height :	508 m above sea level NHN
Area :	58.5 km 2
Residents:	6352 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	73457, 73563, 73566
Area code :	07365
License plate :	AA, GD
Community key :	08 1 36 021
Community structure:	7 sub-locations
Address of the municipal administration:	Rathausgasse 9 73457 Essingen
Website :	www.essingen.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Hofer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Essingen in the Ostalb district

Essingen is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and is located in the Ostalbkreis on the western edge of the district town of Aalen .

geography

Geographical location

Kolbenberg (552 m) in the north of Essingen, photographed from the west

Rems origin

Essingen is located in the northeast of the Swabian Alb at an altitude of 465 to 755 meters. The main town is in the Remstal on the Albtrauf . Large parts of the municipality, including the Lauterburg suburb, are located on the Albuch .

The striking Kolbenberg rises to the north. The Rems rises in the south of the municipality .

Neighboring communities

The community borders in the north and east on the district town of Aalen, in the south-east on the city of Oberkochen , in the south on Königsbronn and Steinheim am Albuch , both in the district of Heidenheim , in the south-west on Bartholomä and in the west on the city of Heubach and Mögglingen .

Community structure

The municipality of Essingen with the formerly independent municipality of Lauterburg includes 22 villages, hamlets, farms and houses.

The municipality of Essingen in the territory of 1970 includes the village of Essingen, the hamlets of Birkenteich, Forst and Hermannsfeld, Hohenroden Castle and Homestead, the Birkhof, Blümle, Dauerwang, Lauchkling, Lix, Oberkolbenhof, Ölmühle, Schelhoppen, Schnaitberg, Sixenhof, divingweiler and Teußenberg farms , Unterkolbenhof, Zollhaus and Zollhof and the abandoned villages Dörrhaus, Streichhof, Prennhof, Schönburr, Albstetten, Schwarzweiler, Wetigsweiler, Falkenberg (?), Schwägelhof and Baierhof.

The village of Lauterburg belongs to the former municipality of Lauterburg.

Division of space

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

history

middle Ages

The name of the community was first mentioned in a document around 1090 when Count Werner von Grüningen donated it to Hirsau Monastery . The current district of Lauterburg was first mentioned in 1128. In 1215 Essingen fell to the Hohenstaufen family . Lauterburg came to the Counts of Oettingen in 1276 and Essingen in 1345 at the latest . Already in 1358 the area came to the Württemberger , but in 1410 they pledged it to the barons of Woellwarth and left it as a fief in 1479.

Modern times

In the 16th century, the Barons von Woellwarth , who were enrolled in the knightly canton of Kocher , gradually acquired the goods of other landlords in the area and gained high jurisdiction in 1542 and customs sovereignty in 1548. In 1697 the Counts of Degenfeld bought part of Essingen from the Barons von Woellwarth.

As part of the Rhine Confederation Act , the area then went to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 and was assigned to the Oberamt Aalen . After Lauterburg initially belonged to the municipality of Essingen, it formed an independent municipality since 1820.

During the district reform in Württemberg during the Nazi era , Essingen came to the Aalen district in 1938 . In 1945 the place became part of the American zone of occupation and thus belonged to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Baden , which was incorporated into the current state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952. In the course of the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , the municipality came to the new Ostalbkreis in 1973 .

On December 1, 1971, the previously independent community of Lauterburg was incorporated.

Religions

The barons of Woellwarth introduced the Reformation after 1555 . Since then Essingen has been predominantly evangelical . Today, however, there is also a Roman Catholic Church and a New Apostolic congregation.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council election on May 26, 2019 led to the following result (with changes to the 2014 election):

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
Free electoral association	50.0%	+ 7.6	9	+ 1
CDU / Free Citizens Essingen	35.5%	+ 0.5	6th	± 0
SPD	14.5%	- 8.2	3	- 1

mayor

Wolfgang Hofer (* 1963) has been the mayor since 1997. In May 2013 he started his third term.

Administrative community

The community is a member of the agreed administrative community of the city of Aalen.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, the round black frame above a forge, on the grate of which a red flame blazes." The municipality flag is red and yellow.

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms , speaking in the sense of folk etymology, shows a forge as a name reference to the community. The Esse is first depicted in 1646 on a seal from the Essingen market. In 1930, the municipality included a naturalistic representation of the forge from this historical seal image in its official stamp, while the Stuttgart archive department suggested the Württemberg colors black and gold as the municipality's coat of arms colors. In 1948 the representation was adjusted. On March 12, 1979, the municipality was given the coat of arms and flag that is valid today from the Ostalbkreis district office.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Evangelical Quirinuskirche - late Gothic hall church (construction of the nave from 1512 to 1517) with 3/8 choir. Medieval defense tower from the 13th century.
• Lady Chapel with late Gothic wall paintings
• Essingen Castle (built around 1555 by Hans Konrad von Woellwarth-Lauterburg) is located in the center of Essingen. The registered cultural monument was the seat of the barons of Woellwarth-Lauterburg and is privately owned. The palace park is open to the public.

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  Evangelical Quirinus Church

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  Wall paintings in the Lady Chapel

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  Essingen Castle

Remstal Garden Show 2019

“Striking stairs” in the old quarry at the Rems origin

From May 10 to October 20, 2019, a green project of the state of Baden-Württemberg took place in Remstal , in which Essingen is also participating. This Remstal garden show 2019 is one of the "small" garden shows that alternate annually with the state garden shows.

In this context, the palace park was upgraded with a new palace pond and the "Remsterassen" were created to the west of the park. The area around the Rems origin has been redesigned. Essingen took part in the “16 stations”, the architecture project of the garden show, with the “distinctive staircase” in the old quarry opposite the Rems spring, which leads to a hiking trail.

Regular events

The Essingen Easter market has been taking place since the 15th century.

societies

The Essingen branch of the Swabian Alb Association was awarded the Eichendorff badge in 2000.

Natural monuments

→ List of natural monuments in Essingen

Economy and Infrastructure

Essingen train station

traffic

Essingen is connected to the national road network by federal road 29 ( Waiblingen - Nördlingen ). The next motorway connection is junction 115 (Aalen / Oberkochen) of federal motorway 7 , approx. 17 km away via the B29 towards Aalen and the L1084.

Essingen train station is located on the Remsbahn , 600 meters north of the settlement area. The last passenger train stopped there on May 28, 1989, but freight trains continue to serve the local scrap recycling company Scholz and a transshipment station owned by Scholz on a daily basis . The next train station with passenger traffic is the train station Aalen at a distance of approx. 7 km. The IC  61 (Karlsruhe - Nuremberg) and regional trains to Ulm, Stuttgart, Crailsheim and Donauwörth run here. A depot of the Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland was built directly to the east of the reception building from 2018 to 2019 , in which the company's multiple units are serviced. It was put into operation in 2019.

The public transport bus lines can be used at the tariffs of the OstalbMobil transport cooperation as well as at the tariffs of the respective transport company.

Long-distance cycle routes

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . It follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Established businesses

Essingen is the headquarters of Scholz Holding , a scrap recycling group that employs over 6,000 people worldwide.

education

With the Park School , Essingen has a primary and secondary school with a Werkrealschule , which was converted into a community school in the 2012/13 school year . There are also two municipal, three Protestant and one Roman Catholic kindergarten .

energy

In Essingen there has been a wind farm southeast of Lauterburg since 2006 , which consists of 5 wind turbines of the type REPower MM92 with a hub height of 100 meters and a rotor diameter of 92 meters.

Personalities

Sons of the community

• Johann Caspar Sahlfelder (1782–1860), General Staff Doctor in the Kingdom of Saxony
• Karl Wolfgang Christoph Schüz (1811–1875), political scientist
• Balthas Bäuerle (1812–1891), mayor in Essingen and member of the state parliament 1845–1848
• Georg von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg (1836–1919), manor owner, member of the state and Reichstag
• Hermann Plock (1858–1920), painter

People in connection with Essingen

• Uwe Bialon (* 1963), professional footballer, DFB junior national player

literature

Wikisource: Essingen in the description of the Oberamt Aalen from 1854  - sources and full texts

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the municipality of Essingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Profile on the website of the CDU district parliamentary group in East Alb
3. ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume IV: Administrative region of Stuttgart, regional associations of Franconia and East Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1 , pp. 672-674
4. ↑ State Statistical Office, area since 1988 according to actual use for Essingen.
5. ^ 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. 445 .
6. ↑ Torsten Krannich u. a .: Evangelicals on the Eastern Alb. A journey through the history of the Reformation of the Aalen deanery, in: Evangelical church buildings in the Aalen deanery . Ed .: Evangelical Church District Aalen. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2016, p. 183-187 .
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Results of the 2019 municipal council elections: Essingen , accessed on January 5, 2020
8. ↑ Klemens Stadler: German coat of arms, Volume 8: The municipal coat of arms of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Bremen 1971, Angelsachsen-Verlag, p. 39
9. ↑ Heinz Bardua: The communal coat of arms of the Ostalb district . Ostalb-Einhorn 10 (1983), pp. 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, ISBN 3-8062-0801-8 (158 pages)
11. ↑ Evangelical church district Aalen (ed.): Evangelical church buildings in the deanery Aalen . einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2016, ISBN 978-3-95747-042-3 , p. 54-57 .
12. ↑ Janine Butenuth, Karl Fiedler, Helmut F. Reichwald: "There is a ship loaded right uf sin highest port ...". The late Gothic wall paintings of the Marienkapelle in Essingen. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 34th year 2005, issue 4, pp. 185–198 ( PDF ( Memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
13. ↑ Claudia Bell: Feeling strengthened for Fellbach and the Rems Valley. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. October 21, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Architecture with 16 stations on remstal.de. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
15. ↑ The Eichendorff badge was given in sheets of the Swabian Alb Association, issue 2/2001, p. 26
16. ↑ eisenbahnfotograf.de: DB 362
17. ↑ Get off again in Essingen , Gmünder Tagespost , article from August 25, 2014
18. ↑ "Parkschule Essingen has been a community school since September 2012" on the Parkschule Essingen website, accessed on November 16, 2012
19. ↑ Lauterburg (near Essingen) , windparkwaldhausen.de, accessed April 4, 2011
20. ^ Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 22 .